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Scotland’s Makar, Jackie Kay, and writer and consultant, Chris Creegan, join Cathy to reflect on the world we’re emerging into as lock down restrictions start to ease.

Jackie tells Cathy about her live streamed event, Makar to Makar, showcasing a dazzling line-up of established and new voices in music, performance and poetry.

Twenty-five years after Edinburgh’s first Pride March, Chris Creegan and Jackie Kay look at their own personal history with Pride, and how our understanding and marking of it has changed in that time.

Artist Samantha Clark shares her journey of emptying the family home in Glasgow after the death of her parents, and the memories and emotions the ritual brought up in her. It’s the subject of her book, ‘The Clearing’ .

Children’s lives have also been turned upside down by the Coronavirus pandemic, but they don’t always have the words to make sense of, or express, what they’re going through. The University of Edinburgh’s Rosa Murray, who advises teachers and local authorities on education, and Suzanne Zeedyk, developmental psychologist and founder of Connected Baby, discuss what children have lost out on and how we can help them move forward.

And we hear from Leeanne Coyle about having a new born baby in lock down, and her worries and hopes for baby Aoife’s future.