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A chance to hear Sally’s recent conversation with neurosurgeon Henry Marsh from the Edinburgh International Book Festival. He talks about the challenges of finding himself moving from the role of doctor to patient after a recent diagnosis of prostate cancer.

In our occasional series on where we draw inspiration from in our lives, narrative video games designer Cara Ellison recalls the classic film Bladerunner, released 40 years ago, and a particular piece of music from it that forms the backdrop to her creative life.

As part of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Scotland’s celebration of 100 Years of Scottish Stories, listener David Service looks back at a particularly memorable family holiday to Millport.

The hugely successful screenwriter, Abi Morgan, on her partner Jacob’s sudden illness and their journey through it together, documented in her new book ‘This Is Not A Pity Memoir’.

Glasgow's museums have returned seven artefacts to India, in Scotland's largest repatriation of items ever from a single collection.
Head of Museums and collections for Glasgow Life, Duncan Dornan, talks to Sally about how this repatriation came about.

In another special recording from the Edinburgh International Book Festival this year, a glimpse into the world of forensic detective work with psychiatrist Dr Gwen Adshead and forensic scientist Professor Angela Gallop.

A recent law change in Ireland has allowed people who were either given up for adoption, or who adopted a child themselves, to trace their parents or children. Sally hears two personal adoption stories, from adoption rights activist in Ireland Susan Lohan, whose birth mother was forced to give her up; and Jeannot Farmer from Glasgow who was forced to give up her baby in 1979, when she was in her early twenties.