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After a long and successful career in public office, James Boyle speaks to Richard Holloway about his childhood in Glasgow, leading some of Scotland’s great institutions, and his time as head of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland and ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4.

Elizabeth Quigley reports on 100 years of Catholic schools in Scotland, and hears from Sir Tom Devine about the effect this had on Scottish society.

Christian Aid’s new Chief Executive, Amanda Khozi Mukwashi, shares her vision for the future of the organisation; and how to move forward after the controversy surrounding abuse by charities and Aid agencies.

Fergus McNeill, Professor of Criminology and Social Work at the University of Glasgow, gives an insight into an often misunderstood and invisible form of supervised punishment - the subject of his book, ‘Pervasive Punishment, Making Sense of Mass Supervision’. And singer-songwriter Jo Mango offers an artistic response to the experiences of those doing their sentences not in prison, but in the community.

Continuing to mark Prisoners Week, reporter Bob Dickson visits Perth Prison to find out about ‘The Journey to Freedom’ initiative which addresses one of the biggest challenges facing a prisoner on their release from jail – not to re-offend and end up back in custody.

And as Book Week Scotland begins, poet and chair of Wigtown Book Festival, Marjorie Lotfi Gill tells Richard about ‘Open Book’, and how reading aloud with others can benefit the mind and the soul.