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Cathy Macdonald speaks to eminent scientist Sir Paul Nurse about winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine, his work in the field of genetics and his own extraordinary personal family story.

Author Leila Aboulela discusses her latest book of short stories, 'Elsewhere, 主播大秀', which encompasses themes of romance, the preconceptions around faith and Islam, and the loneliness and longing of the immigrant.

Just a couple of decades ago faith leaders were central to key life rituals, such as weddings, christenings and funerals. The Guardian's Harriet Sherwood, and author Richard Holloway, explore what happens to those rituals in the absence of religion. And Kerry Adair, who marked the birth of her first child with a 'naming ceremony', gives us her take on curating and personalising such events.

Award winning Iraqi poet Dunya Mikhail shares an incredible and harrowing real-life tale of a beekeeper who puts his life in danger to help Yazidi women captured by IS extremists - the subject of her book 'The Beekeeper of Sinjar'.

And the newly-released film 'Apostasy' gives an insight into the lives and faith of 3 women who are Jehovah's Witnesses. Filmmaker Daniel Kokotajlo, who himself grew up as a Jehovah's Witness, discusses this deeply personal project and his journey from faith to doubt.