Nicola Benedetti, former child prodigy and now violin virtuoso, joins Colin MacKay to talk about her life to date and the music that's inspired her.

Colin MacKay talks to Major-General David McDowall, former head of the Army in Scotland and Northern England, about his beginnings in Stranraer and his rise to the top.

Colin MacKay talks to Baptist minister Paul Chapman about tackling the divisions within society, working with Martin Luther King Jr, and his work with Scotland's poor.

Colin Mackay explores the roots of the wanderlust that took writer Irma Kurtz from her native New Jersey to London and why, at the age of 73, she refuses to act her age. Show more

Colin MacKay takes his guests through the highs and lows of their lives.

Colin MacKay discovers why writer and activist Tariq Ali organised a strike in a small Himalayan village when he was 12 old.