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She’s one of America’s greatest living journalists and activists - Barbara Ehrenreich joins Richard to discuss her life and work and her new book Natural Causes about why we are so keen to evade death and not accept our own mortality.

Nae Pasaran is a new documentary that tells the story of the stand taken by a group of Scottish Rolls Royce workers against the military junta of Chile’s General Pinochet in 1970s. Richard talks to Director Felipe Bustos Sierra and worker Stuart Barrie about this powerful act of solidarity and the lasting effect it had back in Chile.

Investigative journalism has been transformed in the last few years by a shift to online open source and social media investigation. Associate Professor Eamonn O’Neill of Edinburgh Napier University and Dr Idrees Ahmad Lecturer in Digital Journalism at Stirling University join Richard to explore whether the rise of citizen journalism threatens or enhances traditional journalistic ethics.

For many years psychedelic drugs have been shrouded in suspicion and fear, and classified as illegal substances. But recent research has suggested they may have the potential to help those with mental health conditions or terminal illnesses. Richard talks to Michael Pollan, author of How To Change Your Mind – The New Science Of Psychedelics about the history of psychedelics and their medical potential.

In our occasional series of Inspirations, Director of the Edinburgh Students Arts Festival Briana Pegado describes why she is continually drawn back to one of the Capital’s most meditative spaces, the Water Of Leith.

With the annual ghoul and gluttony fest that is Halloween round the corner, Richard meets Jean Fowler, Honorary Pagan Chaplain at Edinburgh University, to discuss the true roots of this ancient festival and discover why there’s been a rise in neo-paganism.