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Sunday: Cathedral charging; Last Christians in Gaza; Muslim Comedian Ola Labib

14/06/2020

Cathedral charging; Last Christians in Gaza; Muslim Comedian Ola Labib

BBC Radio 4 - Sunday, Cathedral charging; Last Christians in Gaza; Muslim Comedian Ola Labib

Would it put off you visiting a cathedral if you had to pay to get in? Last Christians in Gaza on problems getting aid. Muslim comic Ola Labib on keeping her standup secret.

Sunday hears from George Antone from Catholic aid agency Caritas, a member of Holy Family Church in Gaza City. He's one of around 400 parishioners taking shelter in the church and tells us about problems finding food and receiving aid to keep going amidst the war.

Would an entry fee put you off visiting a cathedral? One in four now charge in England. William hears from listeners as well as the Very Revd Jo Kelly-Moore, Chair of the Association of English Cathedrals, and the Very Revd Dr Tim Stratford, Dean of Chester Cathedral, which is free to enter. 

Muslim comic Ola Labib talks about keeping her standup secret from her parents when she changed careers from pharmacy, and the things she won't do on stage because of her religion.

Hear about the beautiful tradition of Gaelic Psalm singing being preserved and presented in a new exhibition touring the Hebrides this year. Dr Frances Wilkins and Magidh Smith talk about Seinn Spioradail.

Does it matter if the future King, and therefore the future Supreme Governor of the Church of England, is not particularly "religious"?  A line from the new biography of the King speculating on the religious observance of the Prince of Wales has sent the tabloids into a spin. William asks political theologian Dr Jonathan Chaplin - when a head of state is given a constitutional role in an established church, does it matter if he, or she, has little or no personal faith?

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