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Sunday Morning: with Connie McLaughlin

02/02/2020

with Connie McLaughlin

BBC Radio Scotland - Sunday Morning, with Connie McLaughlin

Losing our freedoms, the benefits of fasting, and how two GPs look at our spiritual health

How have we been affected by the loss of freedoms during the pandemic? Plus, Matthew Williams discusses his latest book, The Science of Hate.

Connie McLaughlin is joined by Professor Stephen Reicher, psychologist, and Dr Salma Siddique, anthropologist and psychotherapist, to explore how we have been affected by the loss of personal freedoms in the last year, and how much more we would be willing to give up in order to get back to some level of normality. 

Scottish seas cinematographer Mike Guest reviews the Bafta-winning My Octopus Teacher, a unique documentary about the friendship between a filmmaker and a wild octopus. 

As millions of Muslims around the world fast from sunrise to sunset, Connie looks at the spiritual benefits of the ancient ritual of fasting that is part of many world religions, with Salma Siddique and Zara Mohammed, the Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain. 
 
And Salma is joined by GPs Dr Alistair Appleby and Dr Punam Krishan to discuss how to think about and look at our health and wellbeing in a broader way, taking in the physical, mental and spiritual. 
 
Writer and broadcaster Anna Magnusson tells us why a certain piece of music has the power to transport her to another time and space. 
 
And Professor Matthew Williams shares how being physically attacked in his 20s led to a career in criminology and his latest book, The Science of Hate, that explains how prejudice and hate affect our brains.

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