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Sunday Morning: With Cathy Macdonald

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With Cathy Macdonald

BBC Radio Scotland - Sunday Morning, With Cathy Macdonald

A more compassionate approach to prison and Rwanda in 2022

Cathy MacDonald discusses a project that aims to make the prison experience more compassionate and examines whether Rwanda is an appropriate location for asylum seekers

Does understanding childhood trauma offer the key to reforming Scotland’s justice system? Fritzi Horstman, founder of Compassion Prison Project, and Natalie Logan Maclean, of the SISCO, discuss how encouraging men and women behind bars to understand traumatic childhood experiences could transform our prisons.   

Cathy Macdonald speaks to Mariem Omari about her powerful play One Mississippi, which features in this month’s Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival line-up. The show tells the stories of four men, exploring how difficult early experiences have shaped their lives. 

With the UK government planning to relocate asylum seekers to Rwanda, Cathy finds out what life is like in the central African country. She is joined by Rwandan journalist Eleneus Akanga, who fled his homeland in 2007. 

Are science and faith natural enemies or can they be compatible in our belief systems? Rameez Mahmood, a computer science engineer and practising Muslim, and Engil John, a mechanical engineer who was raised by a Muslim father and a Christian mother discuss new research that suggests the younger generation are much more comfortable with their scientific and religious convictions than previous generations. 

We mark International Dawn Chorus Day, the worldwide celebration of nature's greatest symphony when people around the world rise early to enjoy the simple beauty of birdsong. 

In another of our 100 Scottish Stories, we hear from Mairi Graham and the role her father played in Glasgow's newspaper publishing history. 
 
Beltane Fire Festival returns to Edinburgh’s Calton Hill this weekend for the first time since 2019. The event’s founder, Angus Farquhar, and this year’s organiser, Tom Watton, discuss its ancient origins and why this pagan-inspired celebration remains important to so many people in our science-led modern world.

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