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Remember the story of the hungry, over-confident tiger who invites itself in and eats and drinks everything in the house? Author and illustrator Judith Kerr is the creator of enduring children's classics like 'The Tiger who Came to Tea', and 'Mog the Cat'. But her life has also been informed by a displaced childhood, having fled pre-war Berlin with her parents. She joins Cathy to talk about her life and work.

How do you hold onto compassion and hope when your life has been dominated by themes of displacement and struggle? Writer Raja Shedhadeh still lives in the West Bank of his birth, and has never stopped searching for justice for his homeland, while also challenging how the language used to describe the tensions and conflict has changed over the decades. He joins Cathy to talk about his latest book, 'Language of War, Language of Peace - Palestine, Israel and the Search for Justice'.

In the company of Raja Shedhadeh and Alison Phipps, Professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies at the University of Glasgow, Cathy explores the power of language and how cycles of negative narratives of war and violence can be broken.

This week's Listening Project features best pals John Paul and Michael. They met through a project bringing people with learning difficulties together, and share the moment in each of their lives when they went out on their own without their parents for the first time.

The 54 miles from Selma to Montgomery, a seminal moment in the struggle for Civil Rights in America, will be walked again this week. Rev Dr Iain Whyte will be taking part, and Cathy spoke to him just before he flew out, and discovered how as a young theology student from Glasgow in the 60s he got a private audience with Martin Luther King.