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Following a somewhat circuitous route to faith, the journalist and writer Lauren Booth tells Ricky Ross what compelled her to turn her back on the party lifestyle and become a devout Muslim.

Tolerance, fear, connection to the land – these are some of the themes explored in a new production of The Yellow on the Broom, a stage adaptation of Betsy Whyte’s autobiography following the story of a young female traveller growing up in 1930's Scotland. Dundee Rep’s Artistic Director Andrew Panton, and Jess Smith, a writer, storyteller and traveller discuss why the story is as pertinent as ever.

A new documentary called ‘What Is Democracy?’ is due to be screened at the upcoming social action film festival Take One Action. With the rise of so-called strongman politics, political commentator Gerry Hassan and the University of Edinburgh’s Phillip Cook look at the current pressures and threats to liberal democracy.

In the third and final report from Alabama, Andrea Baker takes a walk around a new museum examining America’s history of slavery and lynching.

And as the subject of anti-Semitism continues to make the headlines, Joanna Hyman and Benny Goodman explore some of the issues Jewish people in Britain face; as reflected in the recent Ö÷²¥´óÐã television programme, ‘We Are British Jews’.