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Sir Stephen Cleobury; Ampleforth College; Guru Nanak's poetry

Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme presented by Emily Buchanan.

Sir Stephen Cleobury 鈥 Director of Music at King鈥檚 College Cambridge 鈥 conducts his final Choral Evensong this Sunday. He talks to Emily about his 37 years at King's.

The spotlight is once again on Ampleforth College over safeguarding as the Independent Schools Inspectorate published a Progress Monitoring Report highlighting failures at the school. Head teacher Deirdre Rowe will be leaving after just ten months in post. The Tablet鈥檚 Liz Dodd explains why Ampleforth is 鈥渋n turmoil鈥.

Nazir Afzal, the former CPS prosecutor, talks to Emily about his role as a mediator at the Anderton Park [School] dispute about teaching LGBT rights and what the way forward should be.

In this celebratory year of the 550th birthday of Guru Nanak, Dr Jasjit Singh and Mahmood Awan discuss the impact of the Guru's poetry and writings on literature.

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Amanda Hancox
David Cook.

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Kevin Leighton

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  • Sun 7 Jul 2019 07:10

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