Joining me on this week’s Sunday Morning programme, is a man whose life was completely turned around, thanks to a chance meeting with a ginger tom cat, he named Bob. James Bowen was a street-musician, struggling to cope with homelessness and former drug addiction – now his books charting his changed fortunes have become best-sellers, and there’s even talk of a film about it all.
In the second hour of the programme, I’ll be asking how we could radically change the future of Scotland – a subject covered in another book by writer Alf Young about a road journey both he and his son Ewan took, exploring inspirational community projects across Scotland.We’ll be celebrating a landmark anniversary for one broadcaster who’s 200th Thought for the Day can be heard this Wednesday on Radio Scotland, and finding out what keeps him keen.
Fifty years after the death of celebrated author C S Lewis – I’ll be finding out from biographer and fellow Oxford don, Dr Alister McGrath, why so many people still regard this former atheist as a Christian icon?
And well-known and much loved former broadcaster and priest – the late Father John Fitzsimmons is remembered as the outspoken priest who was a man of many parts…Plus another lovely listen, an excerpt from The Listening Project, all coming up in this weeks two hour show. Join me for all of that and some of my own favourite pieces of music to ease you into Sunday morning.
