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The moral response to the Renewable Heating Initiative. If you're in the scheme is it sinful to remain in it knowing now that it will be a significant drain on the public purse or should your primary ethical responsibility be your firm, your employees and your shareholders. We will be asking Reverend John Dunlop and the economist John Simpson for their views.

The nightmare of Aleppo - could the west have done more or is doing nothing sometimes the least worst option? It's been another gruesome week in Aleppo as government forces reclaimed nearly all the previously rebel-held parts of the city after a four-year battle, but the price has been one of huge casualties and great suffering. So could the situation have been prevented or would greater intervention by the west merely have served to make things even worse? The former British chancellor George Osborne expressed regret in the House of Commons this week that tougher action hadn't been taken in Syria. We'll hear from Gerard Russell who served as diplomat in the Middle East for 14 years.

The truth about history - is it just a hardback rewrite of some tall tabloid tales? Dr Eamon Phoenix, Professor John Brewer and Professor Catherine Clinton discuss just how much of history can be believed.

The mutiny of the cardinals - Pope Francis and his battle against the conservatives. It's been another year where there was hardly a week when he wasn't making headlines in what is being seen by many as the most progressive papacy in the last 50 years. However, he's not without his opponents, both in the wider church and much closer to the seat of power, in the Vatican itself, most notably on the issue of whether or not divorced or remarried Catholics should receive the Eucharist. Clifford Longley of the Tablet describes the tension in Rome.

200 years of history - Professor Brian Walker on his book exploring two centuries of life at St George's Parish Church in Belfast.

All You Need Is Love - Steve Turner examines the spiritual journey of The Beatles.

And the Swing Gals bring their very own festive singing treat to the Sunday Sequence studio.