On our View from Earth blog, we will mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Aberfan landslide. And the tragedy of human negligence.
Gemma of the Baptist Missionary Society will take us to the poverty stricken country of Bangladesh which is in the news at the moment with the cricket series with England.
Andrew Barr will reflect on his own journey into music and pay tribute to Bob Dylan and his award of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Gail will visit the dark screams of central Edinburgh and the dark shadow of the drone.
In the news, the shadow of the Kremlin has hung over the visit to Britain of the Russian patriarch due to his closeness to President Putin and his support for the bombing of Aleppo. He has re-dedicated a church in London and had meetings with the queen as head of the Church of England and Archbishop Welby of Canterbury.
