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The Economy Debate: tax, spend and creating wealth
With Tim Allan, Professor Mairi Spowage and Chris Birt.

Politics Show: Ferry disruption and what the polls are really saying
Natalie Higgins and Phil Sim on the week’s political news.

Hunting gangsters – and how organised crime works
A former detective on gang boss Steven Lyons’s extradition.

Green hopeful calls for prisons to be abolished
Opponents say Kate Nevens’s idea is 'absolutely bonkers'.

Rape trials: a victim’s view
One woman's ordeal and her experience of the justice system.

Best of the Week: Gang arrests, ferry problems and 'food deserts'
The best bits from the past seven days of the BBC's Scottish news podcast.

A ‘food desert’ and the fight for a supermarket
Natalie reports on the people of Castlemilk’s long campaign.

Politics Show: Candidate controversies and North Sea debate
David Wallace Lockhart, Natalie Higgins and Phil Sim on the week’s political news.

Who's to blame for our ferry problems?
CalMac's CEO says the operator is enduring a 'firestorm' of disruption.

The questions raised by the Jordan Linden case
And how a pub tip-off led to confrontation ex-council leader's home.