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Richard Holloway is in conversation with one of Britain’s finest living poets, Wendy Cope, who reflects on having depression and how poetry helped her through it.

We take a visit to the Soul Food gathering at St Paul’s and St George’s church in Edinburgh. Against a backdrop of rising homelessness and isolation in Scotland, Soul Food aims to build friendship and community by bringing local and vulnerable people together around the dinner table.

As knife crime continues to dominate the headlines, Richard finds out what motivates someone to pick up a knife, with Brian who began carrying a blade at the age of twelve, and John Carnochan, a former police officer and one of the original architects of Scotland’s Violence Reduction Unit.

Wade Davis, Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, is a scientist, a scholar and a poet. He shares some stories of his world travels with Richard, and explains ‘Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in a Modern World’: the subject of a series of talks he’s delivered in Scotland.

What personality type are you? And why are some of us so keen to fit into a particular identity, or to be known as a certain type? A newly published book explores the fascinating history of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Richard speaks to its author Merve Emre , along with award-winning writer and broadcaster Robin Ince.