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Writer and lay theologian, Jim Forest, speaks to Richard Holloway about dedicating his life to peace activism, being brought up in a Communist household during 1950s McCarthyism, and the many twists and turns in his faith journey.

Marking the 10th Anniversary of the Poverty Truth Commission in Scotland, looking at what it has achieved and its plans going forward, with Elaine Downie, co-ordinator of the Poverty Truth Commission, and Sadie Prior, Chair of Kinship Carers North.

As the fall out over sexual abuse in the Catholic Church deepens in the week after the Papal Summit on the issue, Father Tom Boyle, Parish Priest of St Mary’s in Greenock; Rosa Murray, an Edinburgh Parishioner, and Dublin City University’s Dr Niamh Middleton, look at ways in which the Church can move forward and the response from parishioners.

Polarising politics and extreme ideologies are contributing to an increasing sense of unrest in the world, but what factors might counter this? Richard discusses the topic with Paul Rogers, Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, ahead of his talk in Scotland on the Risks of Conflict and Options for Peace in the 2020s.

And Times columnist Melanie Reid, on how paralysis, after a serious riding accident, forced her to take a whole new look at life; the subject of her memoir, ‘The World I Fell Out Of’.