Global environmental news with Alex Smith. This week: new science reveals megadrought could drive up to 100 million refugees out of North African Sahel - and Greenland melt is the cause! From France, and published in PNAS, Dr. Gilles Ramstein. Joanna Kerr, Executive Director of Greenpeace Canada on the Tar Sands and whether climate action is stalling. Then from Germany, activist Jorg Schellenberg explains why 2 old Belgian reactors send fear and protests into Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Belgium itself. The long human chain coming June 21st. Visit ecoshock.org/ for more information. Contact radio@ecoshock.org. [Repeated Monday 2am.]

A programme of multiple agendas presented by William English. This week: Paul Martin and avant-garde filmmaker Nicky Hamlyn comapre notes on their schooldays and play some related music by La Monte Young, The Who, Stockhausen, John Coltrane, the Pink Fairies and others. [Repeated Sunday 9am.]

Musician and vlogger Anne Gallien explores journeys in self-realisation. This week: Anne is en route to Glasgow to meet Madeleine Black - counsellor, mother, warrior of life - who became her own healer after being brutally raped at the age of 13 by two teenagers. Today, she is sharing her empowering and deeply moving journey of how she recovered from trauma, transforming fear into forgiveness as she discovers that her best revenge was to have the best life. Her book ‘Unbroken’ is now available on Amazon. [Repeated Monday 9am.]