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Lisa talks to poet, writer and activist Meena Kandasamy who's work deals with the caste system, violence against women and religious intolerance in India. And at the age of 30 has just published her first novel.

It's not clever and it's not funny, but it seems sexism is still alive and kicking. Laura Bates has published a book documenting the internet project 'Everyday Sexism' she set up two years ago asking women to post their stories. And as her book documents, the response was phenomenal.

On the day two very different past Pontiffs are canonized in Rome, it's a reason for Catholics around the world to celebrate. But why such a rush to sanctify Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II? Lisa is joined by journalist Stephen McGinty and Mary Cullen, Editor of Open House to find out more.

A few short years ago if someone had mentioned mindfulness you'd have wondered what they were talking about. But its popularity has exploded, with mindful meditation classes springing up everywhere.Our reporter Anna Magnusson visits the Vajrayana Kadampa Buddhist Centre in Glasgow to try mindful meditation for the first time. Lisa is joined in discussion with Isabella Goldie, Director of the Mental Health Foundation in Scotland, and Mark Williams, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford, and co-author of the hugely popular 'Mindfulness - Finding Peace in a Frantic World', to discover why mindfulness has become so popular and what it's benefits are.