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Cathy Macdonald shares a special Edinburgh International Book Festival conversation with a man who has spent his career risking his life in order to save the lives of others, the front-line trauma surgeon Dr David Nott.

As the State of Alabama celebrates its bicentennial, Edinburgh-based mezzo soprano Andrea Baker visits Tuscaloosa to find out how they’ve established a constructive dialogue about the city’s history from slavery through civil rights to the present day.

The concept of creating so-called designer babies is an ethical debate that provokes the strongest of feelings. Tom Shakespeare, Professor of Disability Research at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Bioethicist Dr Emily Postan from the University of Edinburgh, explore the ethical minefield that arises from genetically modifying human embryos.

Travelling back to darker times with Witch Hunt, 91Èȱ¬ Radio Scotland’s podcast, and one of its presenters Dr Louise Yeoman explains the role religion played in the Scottish Witch Hunts of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Marianna Leite, human rights lawyer and Christian Aid’s Global Lead for Gender and Inequality based in Brazil, on how she challenges the power structures responsible for inequality.

And Panto season is upon us…writer, director and dame, Johnny McKnight, on how this old theatre tradition still has something new to offer.