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05/05/2019

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Poet Imtiaz Dharker, true crime drama and unearthing an ancient religion at Lake Titicaca.

Poet Imtiaz Dharker talks about feeling at home in many countries,  why we find true crime drama so compelling and unearthing an ancient religion at Bolivia's Lake Titicaca.

She’s a poet who describes herself as “a Pakistani Scottish Calvinist Muslim, adopted by India and married into Wales”. Cathy is joined by Imtiaz Dharker and discovers that her love of poetry blossomed from an early age. 

The first chaplain to the sport of shinty has been announced at the Kyles Club on the Cowal peninsula. The pastoral care is particularly valued because of the high rates of suicide among young men in the Highlands. Reporter Kathleen Carragher went to Kyles to find out more about this unique appointment. 

Film and TV are fascinated by True Crime stories, but it’s with podcasts that our appetite for the genre seems to be limitless. So why do people find the subject so compelling?  Cathy talks to Dr Caroline Blyth, Senior Lecturer in Religious Studies at the University of Auckland, and Jennifer Tracey who works in BBC Podcast Development, and was behind the successful BBC Scotland podcast ‘The Doorstep Murder’.  

The Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival is currently underway; one of the films showing is the documentary ‘Irene’s Ghost’. Cathy is joined by the film maker Iain Cunningham to hear about his search to discover more about the mother he lost when he was a child, but whose absence was ever present. 

Results of an underwater excavation in Bolivia’s Lake Titicaca in 2013 have only just been revealed, with the objects discovered shedding new light on the religious and spiritual practices of the people who lived there, and how these practices played a significant role in the development of the Tiwanaku civilization. Dr Donna Yates, a Lecturer in Antiquities Trafficking and Art Crime at Glasgow University, who has been involved in previous archaeological digs in the Tiwanaku area, reveals some of the secrets of this mysterious civilization.

Dan Richards has travelled to some of the most isolated and wild places in the world to find the remotest of human shelters. He’s documented these unique journeys in his new book, ‘Outpost’.

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