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In an Edinburgh International Book Festival conversation, Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson talks to Ricky Ross about his latest book, which was the result of a satirical urge to respond to the election of President Donald Trump.

Which? magazine has revealed that Scots receive more nuisance calls than any other part of Europe. While nuisance calls sound like a trivial inconvenience, Paul Holland from East Renfrewshire Council explains how the effects of scams can be devastating.

Approximately 75% of those who commit suicide in Scotland are male. Ricky finds out the cost of men's silence and bottling up emotions, with Tony McLaren, National Coordinator of Breathing Space, and Derek Chalmers who has had suicidal feelings and now volunteers with the Scottish Association for Mental Health.

Ahead of National Poetry Day and the launch of 麻豆约拍 Scotland's Poet-in-Residence, Ricky looks at how poetry can provide spiritual nourishment for us in our busy and noisy lives with Alan Spence, who is shortly set to become the new Edinburgh Makar, and Bashabi Fraser, Professor of English and Creative Writing at Edinburgh Napier University.

And a transformational journey from combatants on the battlefield to Combatants for Peace. Director Steve Apkon explains why he was compelled to make the film Disturbing the Peace, about a group of Palestinians and Israelis who have been exhausted by war and have resolved to find the common humanity between them.