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Critically acclaimed cook and food-writer Lady Claire Macdonald shares her thoughts on life, faith, and running the internationally renowned Kinloch Lodge hotel and restaurant on Skye for forty years.

A website that connects married men and women to have extra marital affairs has become the second largest dating service in the world, and this year will be floated on the London stock market. But what does such a service say about marriage and its place in society today? Does it hold less value than it ever has? Christoph Kraemer, Director of International Affairs for Ashley Madison and psychotherapist Tony Novissimo from the London Therapy Foundation give their thoughts.

As we enter the final week of the election, how much will faith and core personal values influence our decision-making? Bishop David Chillingworth, Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church, Rev Fiona Lillie of the Church of Scotland and Simon Barrow, theologian and Co-Director of the religion and ethics think-tank Ekklesia discuss.

He's known as the Machine Gun Preacher who has been played by Gerard Butler in a Hollywood movie about his life, Sam Childers tells Cathy why he swapped drugs and violence to save child soldiers from the Lord's Resistance Army in Sudan and Uganda.

Performance poet, writer and performer Yusra Warsama explains why she was moved to develop a new play called 'Rites' which opens in Scotland this week, exploring the deep-rooted cultural practice of Female Genital Mutilation.

And after a week of devastation and chaos in Nepal we get a very personal response to the tragedy from Kathryn Mcintosh, a Buddhist nun who gave up her home and work in Scotland over a year ago to set up a hospital in the country.