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Irish academic Emilie Pine on her powerful memoir Notes To Self

Is religion fair game for comedy, combating fake news on the internet and sharing painful memories on Holocaust Memorial Day

Addiction, feminism and infertility are some of the themes that emerge in Emilie Pine’s frank and honest memoir, ‘Notes to Self’. Emilie tells Cathy about the life events that have brought her to the point of sharing them with the world. 

Is religion fair game for comedy or is the risk of offence too great? James Cary, author of ‘The Sacred Art of Joking’, and Safeena Rashid, lawyer and budding stand-up comedian, discuss why religion is a definite no-go for some comedians, while for others it’s an easy target. 

It’s reported that as many as one million members of the Muslim Uighur community in China’s western region of Xinjiang are being held in internment camps. BBC’s Beijing Correspondent John Sudworth explains who Uighurs are, what’s happening, and why the Chinese State sees them as a threat. 

Mis-Info-Con-X holds its first event in Scotland, exploring misinformation and ‘information disorder’ on the internet and social media. Digital journalist and organiser of the event, Dr Jennifer Jones, and Alastair Brian, fact checker at The Ferret, look at the phenomenon of fake news, and why they feel the need to combat it.

Peace activist Jim Forest talks about receiving an unexpected package from the moon, in our occasional ‘Inspirations’ series looking at moments and things that inspire and sustain us.

Father and son Gustav and Fritz Kleinmann were Austrian Jews taken to Buchanwald concentration camp in 1939. They fought to stay together and survive the Holocaust. Their story is now told by author Jeremy Dronfield in ‘The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz’, written with the help of Gustav’s secret diary, and the testimony of the surviving son of the family, Kurt Kleinmann. Jeremy and Kurt share this remarkable story of survival with Cathy on Holocaust Memorial Day.

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