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Sunday Morning: with Cathy Macdonald and Tony Kearney

with Cathy Macdonald and Tony Kearney

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The best moments of the year with Cathy and Tony

The best conversations of the year, including Neil Oliver, Susan Morrison, the impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, and the divisive debate around transgender rights

Join Cathy Macdonald and Tony Kearney as they revisit some of their favourite moments of the Sunday Morning programme in 2020. A year that saw the world grapple with a pandemic; the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, and witnessed the divisive nature of the debate surrounding transgender rights. 

Archaeologist Neil Oliver talks about the roots of our beliefs and human interactions, and what they reveal that is still valuable in our lives now during this challenging year.

With the public death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in May, the world watched in shock. It brought thousands out into the streets with the Black Lives Matter protests. Briana Pegado, a young Black American woman, spoke frankly about why racism is not just a US problem. 

Independent scholar and author, Alastair McIntosh, and writer and Belfast community arts facilitator, Jan Carson, talked about how the past year has made them reassess their lives going forward to a world beyond the pandemic.

2020 saw clashes on social media of opposing views on transgender issues in the wake of comments by JK Rowling on safe spaces for women. Writer and transwoman, Jo Clifford, along with activist and member of the Iona Community, Kathy Galloway, came together to highlight the hurts on both sides of the divide and why it’s so important to have measured and compassionate debate.  

Comedian Susan Morrison spoke openly about her cancer diagnosis and subsequent treatment, and why she wanted to take the topic on stage.

In the aftermath of the death of George Floyd many different conversations began to open up. We invited three young black Scottish artists - writer and feminist blogger, Claire Heuchan, filmmaker, Stewart Kyasimire, and Dundee based artist, Sekai Mechache - to talk about their sense of belonging in Scotland and the racism they encountered growing up.  

Sabir Zazai was forced to leave his home in Afghanistan as a child; it took another decade before he arrived in the UK and put down roots. Now Chief Executive of the Scottish Refugee Council, he told us his story about being internally displaced in Afghanistan at the age of nine years old and the years that followed up to his arrival in the UK.

What’s it like to be a woman in a leadership role? It turned out to be a rich and fascinating topic of discussion with Kezia Dugdale, Director of the John Smith Centre for Public Service at the University of Glasgow and former leader of the Scottish Labour Party; Emma Jackson, National Director of Christians Against Poverty in Scotland; and Mairi Kidd, writer and head of Literature, languages and Publishing at Creative Scotland. 

Lockdown changed so much: how we worked, rested, how we lived. Could it be summed up in one object? Cathy and Tony asked that question of each other and also found out what opera singer, Andrea Baker, and Head of Christian Aid Scotland, Sally Foster-Fulton, named as theirs.

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