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Sunday Morning: with Tony Kearney

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The delicate art of negotiation with Stephen Fulder.

How to start a conversation about your mental health; what the world of ecology looked like 50 years ago; the stories of two living organ donors.

The 4 Corners Festival in Belfast is celebrating ten years of bringing people from all parts of the city together. Tony talks to the founders, minister Rev Steve Stockman and Father Martin Magill.

With tensions growing at the Ukrainian border, how do you negotiate a peaceful outcome in situations where people are coming from very different standpoints? Tony is joined by Stephen Fulder, Buddhist teacher and peace activist, and Rev Steve Stockton. 

Becoming a living organ donor can transform someone else’s life. Tony hears from two people who have done just this, Church of Scotland Elder Maureen Jack, and microbiologist Tracey Jolliffe. 

50 years since The Centre for Human Ecology was founded in Edinburgh to highlight the precarious position the planet was in, Directors of the Centre, Luke Devlin and Anne Winther, explore what the world of ecology looked like in 1972 and how the debate has changed. 

This Thursday marks Time to Talk Day, encouraging people to come together to talk about their mental health.  Luke Devlin, and Ross Hyslop, counsellor and life coach, discuss the importance of making space for these conversations.

In our occasional series on inspiring moments in our lives, this week we’re discovering treasure. Dr Linden Bicket, Lecturer in Literature and Religion at The School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, recalls the first lockdown summer, and how a particular piece of music was the backdrop for a special time in her personal life.

Science writer David Robson’s new book, The Expectation Effect, argues that the brain is so powerful that mere expectation can boost or harm our health. Tony talks to David Robson about his research, and Luke Devlin about the challenges we face closing the gap between our reality and our expectations.

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