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From Our Home Correspondent: 30/10/2016

30/10/2016

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Home Correspondent, 30/10/2016

Faith and politics, Hebridean Brexit, drag kings and gypsies and God feature this month.

Martin Bashir on faith and politics in the US and the UK, Torcuil Crichton on the Hebrides and Brexit, Caroline Davies on drag kings and Alex Strangwayes-Booth on gypsies and God.

In a programme which considers issues, ideas and people outside the mainstream, Martin Bashir discusses the role of faith in politics in the United States and Britain and why the divergent attitudes that used to exist in the two countries on the subject may be about to converge. Torcuil Crichton looks at the issues raised by Brexit from the perspective of those living and working in his native Western Isles. Alex Strangwayes-Booth, who's spent much time recently observing gypsies and travellers in the north-east of England, reports on their growing engagement with the Pentecostalist Life and Light movement and why this transformation has been happening. After the recent killings carried out by a small number of mental health patients, Michael Buchanan ponders the findings of the reviews into these cases and what they reveal about the balance to be struck between the care of psychiatric patients and respect for their rights and the protection of the public. And, in an era of blurred gender identities, Caroline Davies reports on the women who choose to perform as theatrical stereotypes of men: the burgeoning number of drag kings in the UK.

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