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• 19 May 2013

  Sun, 19 May 13

  Duration:
  44 mins
  
  Available:
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  Oxford grooming case; Canterbury crisis; Vatican art Kevin Bocquet reports on shifting Muslim opinion over issues surrounding sexual grooming; Trevor Barnes reports on Canterbury Cathedral’s funding crisis; Artist Lawrence Carroll on the Vatican’s first entry into the Venice Biennale.

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• 12 MAY 13

  Sun, 12 May 13

  Duration:
  44 mins
  
  Available:
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  Edward Stourton talks to the Rt Revd. Paul Butler, Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham about the latest abuse scandal to hit the Church of England. Around 800 Italian laymen massacred by Ottoman Turks during the siege of the Italian City of Otranto in 1480 will be canonised this weekend by Pope Francis. Edward talks to Toufik Kacimi, a President of the Christian Muslim Forum and Head of Muslim Welfare House, a charity and community centre and Vatican Expert, Philippa Hitchen. Almost 6 months on from the Sandy Hook school shootings in the United States, Matt Wells travels to Newtown for an event aimed at helping the community's spiritual healing. Former Labour Minister Frank Field has accused Bishops who sit in the House of Lords of playing 'gesture politics', happy to criticise Government policies, but rarely turning up to vote, but does he have a point? As the votes come in on the Pakistan elections we'll look at what the future holds for a country blighted by sectarian violence.

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• 05 MAY 13 Ireland Abortion law; Reading graveyards; Church of England clerical abuse report

  Sun, 5 May 13

  Duration:
  44 mins
  
  Available:
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  The BBC’s Diarmaid Fleming talks to Edward Stourton about the battle lines between the Irish government and the Catholic Church on changes to abortion law. Edward Stourton meets Peter Stanford at a cemetery to hear about his new book How to Read a Graveyard. The final stage of the Church of England’s report into the child abuse in the diocese of Chichester concluded this week. The Bishop charged with writing the report, John Gladwin, and Anne Lawrence, a barrister who used to chair the group Minister and Clergy Abuse Survivors, discuss where this leaves the safeguarding of children within the Church.

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• 28 Apr 13 Samira Ahmed presents

  Sun, 28 Apr 13

  Duration:
  44 mins
  
  Available:
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  A friend of the kidnapped Syrian bishops talks to Samira Ahmed. Newly published letters of Charles Wesley shed new light on the founders of Methodism. Archbishop Romero of San Salvador – murdered by a government dead squad in 1980 – is heading for canonisation. What progress towards integrated schools to heal Northern Ireland’s sectarian divide? The massacre-site of Wounded Knee, sacred to the Sioux, is threatened by a property deal.

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• Sun 21 Apr 13: Exorcism, Muslim History and Archbishop Vincent Nichols

  Sun, 21 Apr 13

  Duration:
  44 mins
  
  Available:
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  This week the General Medical Council disciplined a GP who, it was told, had taken a patient to a church to be exorcised. Could it ever be right for a doctor to encourage a patient to undergo exorcism and what place does religion have in the consulting room? Edward Stourton discusses with Dr Rob Waller an NHS consultant psychiatrist and Professor Michael King, Director of Mental Health Sciences at University College London. Should Islam play a greater role in the history curriculum? The Education Secretary's new proposals for the national history curriculum have upset the Muslim Council of Britain. Trevor Barnes reports. And Edward talks to Archbishop Vincent Nichols, just back from Rome, about the impact the new Pope has made since his election.

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