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Sunday: Handel's Messiah; RE and the Cartoon Row; Sikh Domestic Abuse

28/03/2021

Handel's Messiah; RE and the Cartoon Row; Sikh Domestic Abuse

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday, Handel's Messiah; RE and the Cartoon Row; Sikh Domestic Abuse

The English National Opera and BBC Two are going ahead with a full rendition of Handel's Messiah over Easter.  The soprano Nadine Benjamin and the conductor Laurence Cummings tell Emily Buchanan why this socially distanced performance means so much to them.

After a tense week in which a Batley school used an "inappropriate" image of the Prophet Mohammed, we discuss how you strike the balance between teaching controversial subjects and promoting respect and tolerance. Emily Buchanan is joined by teacher and campaigner Ayesha Ali-Khan and Andrew Copson, Chief executive of Humanists UK.

And the Sikh Women's Action Network, which helps Sikh survivors of domestic abuse, says calls during lockdown more than doubled. Emily Buchanan hears one survivor's story and talks to the co-founder and Executive Director of SWAN Sahdaish Pall about what they are doing to help.

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