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Radio 4,24 Nov 2024,44 mins

Gordon Brown on assisted dying, Pendle Witches, 'God's Astronomer'

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In an exclusive interview for 'Sunday', the former prime minister Gordon Brown speaks to Julie Etchingham about his opposition to assisted dying, ahead the MPs' vote this week. A campaign group called 'Justice for Witches' has gathered more than ten thousand signatures for a petition to Parliament asking for a royal pardon for the Pendle Witches - more than four hundred years on. And the Pope's astronomer Brother Guy Consolmagno has been delivering a lecture in Cambridge this week, hoping to lay to rest the perceived tension between science and faith. Producers: Dan Tierney and Katy Davis Editor: Chloe Walker

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