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24/04/2016

Cathy Mcdonald talks to Dr Susie Orbach, founder of the Woman's Therapy Centre in London and author of Fat Is a Feminist Issue, about her life and career.

Dr. Susie Orbach, the founder of the Woman's Therapy Centre in London and author of the ground-breaking 1978 best-seller ''Fat is a Feminist Issue", looks back over her life and career with Cathy Macdonald.

The Office of National Statistics have officially recognised the home production economy, saying it is worth Β£1 trillion. Emily Thomson, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Glasgow Caledonian University, and Canon Angus Ritchie of St George-in-the-East parish in London discuss how we value work, and if we give more importance to work that has a monetary figure attached to it.

The Ahmadiyya community have found themselves in the spotlight after the death of shopkeeper Asad Shah. Abdul Ghaffar Abid, regional president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Scotland, explains why they have launched a peace campaign and what they hope it will achieve.

German journalist, Jurgen Todenhofer, shares the story of his extraordinary journey into one of the world's worst danger zones. He explains what took him into the heartland of IS controlled Syria and Iraq.

In the early hours of the 26th April 1986, an accident at the Chernobyl power station in Soviet Ukraine caused a major explosion, releasing radioactive contamination into the atmosphere. Michael Lafferty, the Scottish coordinator of the Chernobyl Children's Lifeline charity, talks about his involvement 30 years on.

And why are British youth amongst the most troubled in the world? We look at the anxieties and pressures this smartphone generation face with Natasha Simmonds and Jamie Shaw from Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Scotland's 'Generation 2016' group, and parents Andrea McKinnon and Jackie Tolland.

1 hour, 55 minutes

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Sun 24 Apr 2016 10:00

Generation 2016

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  • Sun 24 Apr 2016 10:00