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Mark Beaumont joins Cathy to talk about his life on and off the saddle, from being home-schooled on a Perthshire farm to a record-breaking endurance cyclist who's circumnavigated the globe twice.

Lent starts this Wednesday and for millions of Christians it's a time to abstain and reassess. But modern life has created complicated temptations. Luke Devlin, member of a Catholic Worker apostolate in Glasgow, plans to give up the digital world for 40 days and nights.

A society's sense of self and identity is rooted in its cultural heritage, but what happens when that heritage is damaged or destroyed by conflict? Noorah Al-Gailani, Curator of Islamic Civilisations at Glasgow Museums, is newly returned from Basra in Iraq and tells Cathy about the cultural rebuilding underway.

With a fresh round of power sharing talks at Stormont, where is Northern Ireland in the peace process that began almost 20 years ago? Monica McWilliams, Professor of Women's Studies at University of Ulster, and a former Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission; and Peter Osborne, chair of Northern Ireland's Community Relations Council, discuss how much peace has been built on in the last two decades.

Last Tuesday marked the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act - the law that gave many women the right to vote. One of the lesser known figures in the struggle was Princess Sophia Duleep Singh, a Sikh Princess from a lost kingdom in India. Cathy finds out her story with 大象传媒 presenter, Anita Anand.

Matt Hopwood walked 500 miles from Lindisfarne to the Isle of Lewis, and along the way he collected stories, and specifically love stories. He's published them in a new book 'A Human Love Story - Journeys to the Heart'.