Remembrance Sunday with Cathy Macdonald

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Sunday Morning: Remembrance Sunday with Cathy Macdonald

10/11/2019

BBC Radio Scotland - Sunday Morning, Remembrance Sunday with Cathy Macdonald

Remembering together those lost to war and the people who have been affected by conflict.

Actress, director and writer, Gerda Stevenson, meets writer and poet Kapka Kassabova, to reflect on the power of remembering and the importance of our sharing cultural memories.

Nicola Nash, part of the Ministry Of Defence’s Joint Casualty & Compassionate Centre, tells Cathy what happens to unknown soldiers whose bodies are found in former battlefields.

Lynne Gladstone-Millar discovered the Dreghorn trenches, the very trenches that her father trained in before going to fight in the Battle of the Somme. She explains why it’s important for them to be preserved.

Marking Remembrance Sunday with Bulgarian-born poet and writer, Kapka Kassabova, and Scottish actress, director and writer, Gerda Stevenson.  They share their thoughts on the power of remembering, the importance of sharing cultural memories and finding the right words to express them.

After we hold the national silence together at 11am, we hear stories about precious artefacts which contain our memories and prompt our reflections about conflict and war, with broadcaster Catrina Rose, journalist Bob Kernohan, and Yvonne McEwan, Professor of War and Conflict Studies at the University of Wolverhampton. 

And Bob Dickson visits a Falkirk school where he catches up with Poppy Scotland’s touring exhibition, Poppy Bud. He hears what remembrance means to young pupils.

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