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Tony Kearney hears the remarkable story of how an Edinburgh priest, Father Ninian Doohan, undertook an eight-day trek to celebrate mass at Everest base camp - a staggering four vertical miles higher than Ben Nevis.

Excavation has begun at the site of the former Tuam Mother and Baby 蜜芽传媒 in County Galway to uncover the remains of nearly 800 children believed to be buried on the site. We hear from Dr Sarah-Anne Buckley, who has spent years documenting the voices of survivors and exploring Ireland鈥檚 institutional past.

Our This Spiritual Life guest this week is award-winning singer and musician Julie Fowlis. She shares with Tony how her upbringing, immersed in Gaelic music and its creative culture, shaped her life and how the success of her role in the Disney animation Brave won her a whole new audience.

Joining Tony to look back on some of the big talking points of the week are Ravi Ladva, a member of the Hindu community in Scotland, Rosa Murray, a practicing Catholic formerly at University of Edinburgh鈥檚 Institute for Education, and The Rev Oliver Brewer-Lennon, Rector of St Michael and All Saints Episcopal Church in Edinburgh.

After the fallout of the inquiry into the inappropriate behaviour of TV presenter Gregg Wallace, they鈥檒l be discussing how we justify our actions to ourselves and to others.

Following the recent story about a girl who felt censored during cultural awareness day at her school, how do we define our own culture?

And with the release of Justin Bieber鈥檚 new album, which references his deep Christian faith, our panel explore the long and fundamental relationship between music and religion.