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Scottish born writer Aminatta Forna joins Cathy to talk about how her childhood in Sierra Leone has influenced her life and work.

In the week when millions of Christians around the world will give up chocolate, smoking, alcohol and a host of other temptations for the 40 days of Lent, Cathy is joined by religious historian Martin Palmer, and writer and Catholic Denis Rice to discuss if periods of self-sacrifice still have the power to change us.

Internationally renowned mezzo-soprano Andrea Baker usually occupies the world's greatest opera halls. This week she's playing an intimate concert in a Scottish church on the theme of slavery and song, subjects close to her heart.

On The Listening Project this week, father and daughter Alisdair and Eilidh, who tragically lost Roddy, their son and brother, just days before his 17th birthday, talk about the shock of the loss and the importance of having each other.

Most of us at some point in our lives will have experienced the pain of a broken heart, but when you've spent your entire life with someone, perhaps raising a family, getting old together - life without the other might feel unbearable. Numerous news stories have even emerged of one spouse dying very soon after the other, so is it possible to die of a broken heart? Cathy is joined by Lindsay Erwin, a Consultant Physician at the Dept of Medicine for the Elderly at the Vale of Leven Hospital, and Owain Jones, Minister at the United Church of Bute.