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Sunday: Hawaii Fires; Jehovah's Witnesses; the Vicar of Moscow

14/06/2020

Hawaii Fires; Jehovah's Witnesses; the Vicar of Moscow

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday, Hawaii Fires; Jehovah's Witnesses; the Vicar of Moscow

The devastation of the spiritual and cultural heritage of the Hawaiian island of Maui; why a heavy metal band and a pipe organ made music together.

Most of the town of Lahaina, which served as the first capital of the former Kingdom of Hawaii has been destroyed, along with many of the sacred sites of Hawaii's indigenous religion as wildfires ripped through the region.  Mokihana Melendez, who teaches aspects of Hawaiian traditional culture, talks to William Crawley about the significance of the religious and cultural heritage that has been lost.

St Andrew's looks like a typical Victorian English parish church but it's only 10 minutes from the Kremlin.  Rev Malcolm Rogers talks about what like was like living in Russia during the ongoing Ukraine war.

After 9 years and a series of legal challenges the Charity Commission has finally published its report into the child protection and safeguarding policies of the Jehovah's Witnesses' Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Britain.  We hear why a former Elder is "shocked and disappointed".

As we mark the second anniversary of the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, a group of British Imams and scholars give a different picture of what life in Afghanistan is like - but are they right?

Heavy metal and pipe organs are not normally associated together but Mark Deeks, leader of the band 'Arth' and Leeds Diocesan organist David Pipe performed 'Organic Doom'. They told William Crawley how this unusual collaboration came about.

Producers:  Amanda Hancox and Peter Everett
Editor: Tim Pemberton

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