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04/06/2017

Two hours of music and conversation with a faith and ethical perspective, asking what the week's events say about values and beliefs.

He's a man with a mission, wildlife expert Chris Packham from Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's Springwatch speaks to Cathy Macdonald about his passion for conservation and living with autism.

The Guardian's TV critic Rebecca Nicholson and writer Gareth K Vile from The List explore the treatment of women in two new television dramas, 'The Handmaid's Tale' and 'Jamestown'; with one set in the future and the other in the past, both portray a deeply misogynist world where women are treated as commodities.

We all know change doesn't happen overnight, so when thinking about changes we want to make in our communities and in society can we really achieve much in the five year political cycle? Convener of the Church of Scotland's Church and Society Council, Reverend Richard Frazer, and Luke Devlin, Executive Director for the Centre for Human Ecology, discuss short-termism Vs long-termism in affecting real change.

With plans to re-open the murder case for San Salvador's Archbishop Oscar Romero who was murdered in 1980, there are concerns this will open old wounds in a country once divided by civil war. We look at how nations can put past hurts behind them and move forward, whilst still acknowledging the pain that's been suffered, with Oscar Guardiola-Rivera, Assistant Dean of the School of Law at Birkbeck University, and Luke Devlin.

In our occasional Inspirations series, Angus Farquhar, Creator Director of the public arts charity NVA, tells the story of a very small object that's had a very big impact on his daily life.

And Tamsin McVean tells us about the transforming powers of wild swimming, and how her daily swim in the sea has helped her to come to terms with years of pain and trauma.

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1 hour, 55 minutes