On our View from Earth blog, “Sandra’s Diary” looks at celebrity and Passchendaele.
Andrew Barr goes on pilgrimage, to a wedding.
We bring you from 2004 a programme on “Women in Black”, bridging across Europe of the time.
In the news, services across Scotland and Europe marked the centenary of Passchendeale, one of the most horrendous battles of the first World War in which half a million soldiers were killed in the mud of Belgium.
In a water crisis in Italy which mirrors the horrendous fires in France, Pope Francis has ordered the fountains in Rome to be switched off in solidarity over the drought. Meantime, there are rumours that the previous Pope Benedict is behind the attacks on him by some Cardinals.
The Reverend George Cowie of Aberdeen has been installed in the Church of Scotland as one of the Queen’s personal chaplains.
A hitherto unknown painting by Michelangelo has been discovered in a house in New York where it had lived dangerously for some years.
