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Scottish author Janice Galloway made an immediate impact with her debut novel The Trick Is To Keep Breathing in 1989. Her life has been one of significant literary success but also personal troubles. She joins Cathy to discuss how her personal experiences have worked their way into her writing and how her difficult family history has helped shape her sense of the world.

Simon Amadeus Pillario is the man behind the Word for Word Bible Comics which produces historically accurate graphic novels of books from the Bible. He explains why he's taken the decision to tackle his first New Testament book with the Gospel According to Mark.

With elections taking place across Europe this year there has been a lot of focus on the rise of the politics of the Far Right. Cathy is joined by former white supremacist Arno Michaelis and Imam Yahya Barry to discuss how to respond to the rise of these extreme ideologies.

The emotion of grief is something that we'll all experience at some point in our lives but can we learn better ways of living with the effects? Psychotherapist Julia Samuels and Counsellor Tracy McNair of The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice in Glasgow outline strategies of how to cope with bereavement.

Archbishop Oscar Romero divided opinion both in the Catholic Church and in his native El Salvador because of his strongly voiced beliefs. To mark the centenary of his birth Cathy is joined by Julian Filochowski Chair of the Romero Trust to analyse the impact of his life, his work and his assassination in 1980.