04/09/2011

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The polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has been taken to hospital after falling into a coma in a Texas Jail. Edward finds out more about the beliefs of his ten thousand member sect from Professor Douglas Davies of Durham University. The Catholic Church's World Youth Day in Madrid attracted hundreds of thousands of young people including 21 year old Pascal from London who kept an audio diary for us. Its back to school time and this year sees the launch of Michael Gove's free schools. Kevin Bocquet investigates how the schools will work and why some people have moral objections. In the first of our series looking at a day in the life of different religious figures across the country we join the Bishop of Bradford Nick Baines as he takes up his new post. In Ireland, a consultation has begun on the future of primary education. At present the Catholic Church runs ninety three per cent of primary schools, but all sides agree that such a state of affairs is no longer tenable. Ruth McDonald reports. Events in the Middle East are moving fast but what happens next and what sort of governments will emerge and can liberal democracy work in a Muslim country? Edward discusses with Professors Tariq Ramadan and John Millbank. Archbishop Desmond Tutu is speaking at the One Young World Summit in Zurich this weekend but he took some time out to speak to our reporter Trevor Barnes.