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Sunday Morning: In conversation with Harriet Harman

In conversation with Harriet Harman

19/02/2017

BBC Radio Scotland - Sunday Morning, In conversation with Harriet Harman

Cathy Macdonald talks to politican Harriet Harman.

Cathy Macdonald talks to politican Harriet Harman, the longest continuously serving woman MP in Britain, about her fight for women's rights and the highs and lows of her career.

Cathy talks to Harriet Harman who's been in British politics for almost 35 years - the longest continuous serving women MP. She gives her account of her fight for women's rights and the highs and lows of her political career. 

In the run up to Lent, the Archbishop of Canterbury is urging Christians to re-examine their relationship with money. So is it possible for us as individuals to develop a healthier approach to materialism? Cathy is joined by Claudia Hammond, psychologist and author of "Mind over Money" and Buddhist Nun, Gen Kelsang Lhamo of the Kadampa Meditation Centre in Edinburgh .

Crowd funding is becoming an increasingly popular method of paying for healthcare not available on the NHS. We meet the Robertson family from East Lothian who used it to pay for life changing treatment for their daughter and discuss the issue with NHS Chaplain Rev Bryan Vernon, senior lecturer in healthcare ethics at Newcastle University and Sheila McLean Professor Emeritus in ethics and law at Glasgow University. 

In 1977 the TV series Roots made a huge impact. Spanning generations the saga begins with young Kunta Kinte being sold into slavery . Forty years on the series has been remade. We ask if its narrative still relevant today. Cathy's joined by Dr. David Silkenat, Lecturer in American History at Edinburgh University and Sir Geoff Palmer, Professor Emeritus at Herriot Watt University

Beatrice Smith came to the UK as a young Rwandan refugee. Eighteen years later she decided to write about those early years after a car accident brought back the trauma she'd experienced as a child in Rwanda. Another catalyst was her daughter's questions about where her mum came from. She recounts it all in her book 'The Search for Home'.

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