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To mark Mental Health Awareness Week, Halina Rifai joins Cathy Macdonald to talk about the fourth series of her acclaimed mental health podcast, 'A Sonic Hug’, which features compelling stories about navigating various mental health challenges.

Hymns can evoke a sense of nostalgia and familiarity, but is there a danger we often turn to ones that are overly sentimental or lack depth? The former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams thinks so, even comparing them to baby food. Fiona Stewart, who runs a Christian Arts charity, talks about what’s in a Hymn.

Intellectual powerhouse and revolutionary Christian Dr Cornel West is one of America’s pre-eminent thinkers on matters of faith, hope, community, race, democracy and jazz music. He shares his spiritual life with Cathy, talking faith, philosophy and why he has put his name forward as a candidate for the forthcoming US Presidential elections.

Muslim Chaplain and Imam Shaykh Hassan Rabbani, theologian and writer Dr Eve Poole, and poet and conflict mediator Padraig O’Tuama, join Cathy to examine some of the week’s stories from a faith and ethical perspective.

In light of new SNP leader John Swinney’s comments that he has contributed to an atmosphere of political divisiveness in the past and going forward no longer wants to, the panel look at what it takes to pull back from a place of division. They also consider the impact of being exposed to anger over long periods of time on our body, mind and soul. And the panel discuss what a world without lying might look like, and how they would feel about giving up lying completely.