Ethical Budgets, RE in Schools, The Pope’s Astronomer

As we digest this week’s budget, we discuss the ethics of what and who governments choose to spend our money on. Audrey talks to journalist Anne McElvoy, Dr Ciara Fitzpatrick from Ulster University and Agnes Lunny the CEO of Positive Futures. The uncertainty around what the Supreme Court decision on Religious Education will mean continues. Audrey talks to Naomi Green and Edwin Graham about their perspectives as Muslim and Bahai parents of children in the NI education system. And we talk to Brother Guy Consalmagno about his ten years as Director of the Vatican Observatory.

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Ethical Budgets, RE in Schools, The Pope’s Astronomer is an episode from Everyday Ethics by BBC.

This episode is 56:53 long.

This episode was published on Nov 30, 2025.

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