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Former British athletics coach Frank Dick has worked with some of the Britain's greatest Olympians including Daley Thompson, Sebastian Coe and Steve Ovett. He talks to Richard about the much anticipated Olympics in Rio, and the Olympic ban handed to Russian athletes.

For almost a hundred and forty years it's been providing support for railway workers and passengers, and now the Railway Mission has got its first chaplains' office in Scotland. Our reporter Bob Dickson finds out more about the Railway Mission and the vital work it does.

It's been 25 years since the Rodney King incident where white police officers beating up a black man led to rioting and deaths in Los Angeles, yet the race issue continues to dominate in America. We look at the rising tensions that have led to the Black Lives Matter campaign with Professor Greg Garrett, who teaches popular culture and theology at Baylor University in Texas; Andrea Baker, opera singer and presenter; and peace and human rights activist Reverend Iain Whyte.

And we explore some of the peace movements from the 20th Century, which was arguably the most violent period in human history. Feminist historian Dr Lesley Orr and Reverend Iain Whyte discuss whether war is sometimes the only way to bring peace or if violence always begets more violence.

At what moment will artificial intelligence overtake human beings in terms of knowledge and intelligence? Dr David Goodman, Member of the Jewish Reform Community, and Dr Idrees Ahmad, lecturer in Digital Journalism at Stirling University, look at the impact 'The Singularity' will have on our lives.