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On All Things Considered this week (Sunday 29 July at 8.31am, repeated on Wednesday 1 August at 6.32pm ), Roy Jenkins and a panel of guests discuss what lessons might be learned from the story of Shambo.

The plight of the sacred bullock infected with TB has attracted worldwide attention, and protestors from various countries travelled to the religious community in Skanda Vale, Carmarthenshire to join the unsuccessful last ditch bid to save him.

Over the past three months, the case of Shambo has raised big moral issues - about the sanctity or otherwise of animal life, about religious freedom, about the boundaries of legitimate protest: how can such issues be resolved?

Joining Roy to discuss these issues are: Brother Alex, one of the monks at the Community of the Many Names of God at Skanda Vale, Akhandadhi das, Hindu theologian and teacher based near Brecon; Rev Jeremy Martineau, chair of the Farm Crisis Network in West Wales; and Rabbi Dan Cohn Sherbok, Professor of Judaism at Lampeter University.