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Cathy MacDonald talks to Debi Gliori, award-winning Scottish author and Illustrator in Residence at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, about her childhood and writing career.

Gareth K Vile, theatre editor of The List, gives us his thoughts on "The Christians"- a play which raises all sorts of questions about belief and expectations.

With a growing number of crises across the world, we'll be finding out how the humanitarian system is coping. Frances Guy, Head of Middle East Region, Christian Aid, and Simon O'Connell, Executive Director of Mercy Corps' European entity discuss if it's equipped to deal with complex, often protracted, emergencies.

In our occasional series exploring the Seven Deadly Sins, we take a look at Pride. William Tuladhar-Douglas, lecturer in Buddhism at Aberdeen University, and Philip Blackledge, rector of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Melrose, explore whether it really is the most dangerous of all the sins.

As part of an on-going series about the inspirational, Elliot Meadow, retired record producer, broadcaster and journalist, remembers the inspiring jazz impresario, the late Norman Granz.

And historian Bettany Hughes tells Cathy about her new series Genius of the Ancient World, in which she focuses on three trailblazers: Buddha, Socrates and Confucius.