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Robert Peston, the 大象传媒's Economics Editor has for years now been explaining the intricacies of the global economic challenges to the rest of us. Here he talks to Ricky about the challenges he's faced in his own life and the pain of losing his wife to cancer.

John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at St Andrews University and writer and critic Stuart Kelly, consider why Roman Catholicism has inspired so many great works of art.

With so many leadership contests going on at the moment from the US presidential bids to a host of political parties across the UK - Bishop David Chillingworth, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church; Virginia Moffatt of Ekklesia - a think tank examining values and religion in public life and John Haldane, Professor of Philosophy at the University of St Andrews discuss what makes a good leader.

In his encyclical on climate change Pope Francis calls on the world's rich nations to begin paying their 'grave social debt' to the poor and take concrete steps on climate change. Professor John Haldane tells Ricky whether he thinks this call for action will make a difference.

Throughout Scotland thousands teenagers are getting ready to leave school for the last time and make their way in the world. For some young people - those with profound physical disabilities and learning challenges - leaving school won't be so straightforward as they become young adults. Our reporter Bob Dickson visits pupils at Braidburn School in Edinburgh and finds out about their hopes and fears for the future.

In his new book "Muslims in Scotland", Bashir Maan, chronicles Scotland's historic relationship with the Muslim community. He talks to Ricky about his own experiences and the changes he's seen since he arrived in Glasgow as a young man from Pakistan in the early 1950s.