with Tony Kearney

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This week Tony’s this Spiritual Life guest is the journalist and Loose Woman panellist Janet Street Porter who’ll be sharing stories from Fleet Street to the present day, and explaining why at the age of 80, she’s still out on tour. Journalist Ian Dunn joins to give the story of the monks on the island of Papa Stronsay on Orkney who’ve been excommunicated by Pope Leo. We hear from one more BBC Make A Difference nominee from the North East who gives up huge amounts of his time to volunteer for his local community. Dave Ironside can be found at his local community radio station, working as a befriender, and championing the local football team. In the second hour of the programme, Tony is joined by his faith forum panel ZARA MOHAMMED - A Scottish faith leader and former Secretary General of the Muslim Council of Britain; RUPA MOOKER - a lawyer and member of the Sikh community in Scotland and WILLIAM GIBSON - a Phd theology student and ministry assistant at Kelvinside Hillhead Parish Church in Glasgow. Together they’ll be pouring over the week’s headlines including the ongoing wildfires here in the UK and in central Europe and discussing if humanity needs to reassess its relationship with the natural world; plus: was the swimmer Adam Ramsey Peaty arrogant to express disappointment at coming third place at the Commonwealth Games? Arrogant, or just confident? And with the release of the new Spiderman movie, what does being a hero mean in 2026?