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She鈥檚 a poet who describes herself as 鈥渁 Pakistani Scottish Calvinist Muslim, adopted by India and married into Wales鈥�. Cathy is joined by Imtiaz Dharker and discovers that her love of poetry blossomed from an early age.

The first chaplain to the sport of shinty has been announced at the Kyles Club on the Cowal peninsula. The pastoral care is particularly valued because of the high rates of suicide among young men in the Highlands. Reporter Kathleen Carragher went to Kyles to find out more about this unique appointment.

Film and TV are fascinated by True Crime stories, but it鈥檚 with podcasts that our appetite for the genre seems to be limitless. So why do people find the subject so compelling? Cathy talks to Dr Caroline Blyth, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Auckland, and Jennifer Tracey who works in 大象传媒 Podcast Development, and was behind the successful 大象传媒 Scotland podcast 鈥楾he Doorstep Murder鈥�.

The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival is currently underway; one of the films showing is the documentary 鈥業rene鈥檚 Ghost鈥�. Cathy is joined by the film maker Iain Cunningham to hear about his search to discover more about the mother he lost when he was a child, but whose absence was ever present.

Results of an underwater excavation in Bolivia鈥檚 Lake Titicaca in 2013 have only just been revealed, with the objects discovered shedding new light on the religious and spiritual practices of the people who lived there, and how these practices played a significant role in the development of the Tiwanaku civilization. Dr Donna Yates, a Lecturer in Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime at Glasgow University, who has been involved in previous archaeological digs in the Tiwanaku area, reveals some of the secrets of this mysterious civilization.

Dan Richards has travelled to some of the most isolated and wild places in the world to find the remotest of human shelters. He鈥檚 documented these unique journeys in his new book, 鈥極utpost鈥�.