Sunday Morning With Cathy Macdonald

My guest in the first hour of this week's Sunday Morning With is an extremely fascinating man; Paul Baker Hernandez. A former Trappist monk, he took his Chilean wife's family name to preserve the bloodline. He spent time in a monastery just outside Edinburgh and is also a gifted musician as well as a human rights and ecological activist. Currently living in Nicaragua, he dedicates his time to causes that are close to his heart. He built his own guitar - which he brought into the studio - and it didn't take much persuasion from me to get him to play it.

Did you know that October was Black History Month? With that in mind we'll be hearing about a new biography on another civil rights activist - the late Martin Luther King Jr.

Margaret Gillies Brown

Listener Margaret Gillies Brown talks about the time she spent as a young wife and mother in Alberta over 50 years ago.... and we're also asking whether the old fashioned art of "courting" is making a comeback, thereby challenging the role that digital technology plays in the dating game.

And with Spiritualism - the eighth largest religion in the world - attracting scepticism and interest in equal measure we hear both sides of the argument.

Just some of this week's moral and ethical debates - and a great mix of music - this Sunday morning. And if you'd like to get in touch, you can email me at sundaymorningwith@bbc.co.uk