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The award-winning Spit It Out collective builds connections and provides a platform for discussions around mental health, trauma, consent, and healing though creativity. Cathy Macdonald is joined by founding members, filmmaker Lea Luiz De Oliveira, and rapper and spoken word artist Bee Asha Singh, to explore how art creates space where difficult conversations can be held.

Reporter Bob Dickson heads to Edinburgh’s water ways to see how the purchase of a canal barge is allowing Polwarth Church to help the community around them, including those facing challenges in their lives.

When they start small and grow into something bigger how can companies keep their values in sight? Cathy talks to Mark Logan, former COO of Skyscanner and now Professor in Practice at the University of Glasgow’s School of Computing Science, and Lucy Wren, Chief Executive of Carr Gomm, a leading social care and community development charity.

A new study has suggested political trolling is twice as popular as positivity. What is it about negativity that draws us in - especially online? Michael Brady, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, Idrees Ahmad, journalist and Communications lecturer at the University of Stirling, and physician, theologian and Benedictine nun Sister Teresa Forcades delve deeper into the subject of what the human negativity bias means for our interaction with others.

Sister Teresa Forcades reviews ‘Rebel Hearts’, a documentary exploring the story of a trailblazing group of nuns in 1960s Los Angeles whose struggle for social justice brought them into conflict with the Catholic Church.

Glaswegian multi-instrumentalist Kapil Seshasayee calls himself a protest singer. He tells Cathy why he tackles subjects like casteism and nationalism in his music.