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Kaye asks : 'How has male infertility affected you?'

Male infertility, screen time wars and tactile tartan.

As a leading fertility expert has said there is an urgent need to tackle a decline in male fertility and address the reliance on giving female partners expensive and invasive treatments to try to overcome the man’s lack of quality sperm. How has male infertility affected you?

Also on the programme…

DANNY O’SULLIVAN
We’ll speak to the Renfrew man who once spent up to £1000 a week on drugs. Danny O’Sullivan joins Kaye in PQ3 to explain how his life has changed since a selfie celebrating one year sober went viral.
 
TACTILE TARTAN
What does a tartan for the blind look and feel like? Hear from design student Ana Cuini who's created a ‘tactile tartan’ for the visually impaired. Kaye finds out more about the challenges of shopping with visual impairment from comedian Jamie Macdonald and BBC Producer Phil Sime.
 
PROPERTY SURGERY
Find out if the new V & A means a boost to house prices in Dundee plus - is it worth paying over the odds to live near a ‘good’ school? All that plus more on our regular property surgery with expert Brian Gilmour who’s standing by to answer audience queries too.

SURROGACY
After pop megastar Robbie Williams and actress wife Ayda Field announced they’ve become parents for a third time through a surrogate - what’s the reality of the process and how common is it? Mum of two Catherine Chapman tells Kaye why she chose to use a surrogate for her second child, Caroline Evans from Surrogacy UK will explain the main reasons a person chooses a surrogate plus solicitor Lynsey Brown  will outline the rules in Scotland.
 
LIVE AND LET (HAIR) DYE
After 76 year old Sir Paul McCartney unveiled his new natural hair colour on TV – is there a right time to stop dying your hair? Carol Gordon tells Kaye why she decided to ditch the dye in her forties plus hairdresser to the stars Taylor Ferguson reveals the dos and donts of dying your hair.
 
CAN YOU NAME THE PLACE?
Clue 1: Today we have an uplifting place-name.
Clue 2: It has smaller namesakes in Scotland, and a larger one in Canada.
Clue 3: It has also been compared to a city in Italy.
Clue 4: It is a good place for seeing the stars.
Clue 5: Another local place-name may refer to the moon.
Clue 6: One of Robert Burns' great-grandchildren was born here.

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