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Award-winning playwright and actor David Ireland shares his inspiring journey on faith and his National Theatre Scotland’s Production The Fifth Step, which is based in part on his own experiences.

BAFTA breakthrough filmmaker Daisy-May Hudson speaks to Cathy about her new feature, Lollipop. The film captures a raw, compassionate portrayal of motherhood, resilience and the social care system.

Dr Hyab Yohannes, an Eritrean academic researcher, and Professor Jonathan Morris, aka the coffee historian, explore the Eritrean coffee ceremony and the different coffee cultures ahead of Glasgow Science Festival.

Dr David Goodman, Ravi Ladva and Salma Siddique join Cathy for this week's Faith Forum.

Together, they discuss the activist Greta Thunberg's arrival in Gaza on a boat carrying humanitarian aid; the purpose of the mission - she said - was to raise awareness.

How do people find closure and move on after a challenge? The writer Salman Rushdie recently told an audience at the Hay Festival that he felt he had closure and had moved on. Our panellists will be looking at how challenging is it to do that if we've been through our own trauma or a loss.

And finally, the increasing influence of artificial intelligence in mental health therapy – it could revolutionise treatment in a field that is under-resourced and over-stretched. But can it ever replace that vital human connection?