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These questions are debated in Heart and Soul – Muslim Scots, as the BBC World Service's Islamic affairs analyst Roger Hardy visits Glasgow to meet members of the city's long-standing Muslim community. Among them is the community's senior spokesman, Bashir Maan, the UK's first Muslim politician, who talks about his early days in the city during the 1950s, when he worked as a travelling salesman. Hardy also meets Kishwar Sultana and Javed Ali of the Andalus Centre, who bring a new approach to Islamic education, and Rizvan Mohammed, a scholar pondering the haggis question.

We're not sure of Pierre Levicky's views on haggis, but the exuberantly entrepreneurial French chef enjoyed a heady period as great chieftain of his Pierre Victoire chain of restaurants, which at its peak served affordable continental food at some 100 establishments from Edinburgh to Brussels, chalking up a turnover of more than 40 million before everything went poire-shaped. On Stark Talk, Levicky, recently returned to Edinburgh with his Chez Pierre restaurant, speaks to Edi Stark about his new determination to succeed.

A fall of an altogether darker nature was that of John Amery, the son of Winston Churchill's secretary of state for India, Leo Amery, and brother of Julian Amery, a Tory MP. A Fascist, John was charged with treason after the Second World War, during which he had made pro-Nazi broadcasts and tried to recruit British PoWs to fight for Germany. In Saturday Play: An English Tragedy, by Oscar-winning writer Ronald Harwood, Derek Jacobi plays Amery senior, desperately trying to save his son from the hangman's noose.

Heart and Soul – Muslim Scots

Wednesday, BBC World Service, 12:30pm

Stark Talk with Pierre Levicky

Wednesday, Radio Scotland, 11:30am

Saturday Play: An English Tragedy

Today, Radio 4, 2:30pm

This article was first published in the Scotsman, May 8, 2010