* This week's View from Earth blog mainly features the Reverend Clifford Hughes who died last week.
* Clifford was a remarkable Scottish singer with a reputation for both oratorios and popular secualr and religious Scottish music.
* He was a head-teacher in different schools in Scotland before training for the ministry.
* His ministry in St Mary's Haddington was cut short by losing his voice to cancer of the oesophagus and having to learn to speak again
through a stoma.
* We bring an adapted version of the tirbute programme we broadcast in 2001 with Laurence Twaddle speaking to him in the fourth of the
voices of his life.
* Clifford has since been honoured for his work in helping those who have difficulties speaking.
In the rest of the programme, we have the religous news headlines of the week, "Sandra's Diary" looking into history, with Christians and atheists alike, Andrew Barr speaking of "Away in a manger" at the
