24/05/2015

Booker prize winning author Anne Enright joins Sally to talk about her latest book and early life growing up in Ireland, and how her formative years influenced her writings.

Matthew Zajac decided to record conversations with his father about his life in his native Poland during the war. It was the beginning of an unexpected journey, of families lost and found, and secrets revealed. He went on to capture the story in a play, "The Tailor of Inverness".

It's been a week of at times intense, at times moving, debate at the Kirk's General Assembly. Same-sex marriage made its appearance as did other contentious issues. Sally is joined by Rev Ian Galloway and Very Reverend Albert Bogle to reflect on the goings-on.

Thousands of refugees and migrants from Africa have ended up in Malta, often living in over-crowded and run-down camps, struggling for the basics. Sally talks to Reverend Kim Hurst, from Valletta, the island's capital, about what the St Andrews Scots Church there has been doing to help.

Reporter Bob Dickson discovers how 150 years since its creation, the Salvation Army came to have a presence in more than a hundred countries.

Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow had a mission: to get the world's poorest children to come to school by providing a meal. He created a charity called "Mary's Meals" that's now feeding over a million children across the world, in countries including Liberia, Kenya, Zambia, Haiti and India. And it all began in a humble shed...