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Mishal Husain presents despatches from journalists and writers across the UK.

Mishal Husain presents a monthly series featuring despatches from journalists and writers across the UK on all aspects of life in contemporary Britain.

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From Our Home Correspondent: 28/01/2018

28/01/2018

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Featuring pieces on Down's syndrome, Bolton's shops, pioneering housing and yoga in jails.

Mishal Husain presents items on a 50-year-old housing scheme that has lessons for today, Bolton's shops, Anglicans and Down's syndrome, yoga in jail and the wobbly stiff upper lip.

Mishal Husain presents dispatches from journalists and writers around the United Kingdom that reflect the range of contemporary life in the country. 
In the latest programme, we hear from Chris Warburton on how Bolton in Greater Manchester is responding to the dramatically changing retail scene on its streets. 
The BBC's Religion Editor, Martin Bashir, draws on his own family's experience to consider the significance of the Church of England's intervention in the debate about pre-natal screening for Down's syndrome. 
Elizabeth Gowing reveals what one ex-offender has derived from his work with yoga and meditation - disciplines she has been struggling with - both out of gaol and while behind bars, and Martin Vennard explores a fifty year-old housing development with a new resident and the building's architect to see what ideas it may offer for tackling today's housing crisis. 
Finally, Felipe Fernández-Armesto - a globe-trotting historian with Spanish ancestry and impeccable British credentials - ponders the unravelling of the once tightly-furled British umbrella and the mores it represented.

Producer Simon Coates.

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