On our View from Earth blog this week, will mark the four hundredth anniversary of William Shakespeare with “Sandra’s Diary”. Andrew Barr is telling of dancing in Haddington and keeping fit with an historic garden. As controversy returns on the subject, we go back to a programme we first did in 2007. Scotland has a great deal to be guilty about. Gail goes back six years to tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico. In what he described as a humanitarian rather than political gesture, Pope Francis took back twelve Muslim refugees from Syria to the Vatican from the Greek island of Lesbos. The moderator of the Church of Scotland expressed his deep sympathy to the families of those lost in the sinking of the “Louisa” in the Western Isles< and paid tribute to the community. The Church of Scotland has been celebrating the ministry of the Very Reverend Dr James Martin over the past seventy years. He’s written thirty books, broadcast regularly and was chaplain to Motherwell football club.
