Good Morning Scotland: The Weekend Edition 18th/19th August, 2018

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This edition includes: After decades mired in international conflict Iraq and Afghanistan continue to reel from the effects of it. Foreign correspondent Simona Foltyn, Jawed Nader, director of British & Irish Agencies Afghanistan Group, and David Pratt, foreign editor of The Herald analyse the prospects for peace and recovery in the region. In our Long Interview, Bill Whiteford speaks to writer Rebecca Stott about growing up among the Exclusive Brethren; Isabel Fraser talks to the academic and writer Bonnie Greer about Aretha Franklin's role in the civil rights movement, and BBC reporter Phil Mercer looks at how Australian farmers are coping with a winter drought.