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This episode includes: the impact of a ‘no deal’ Brexit is dissected by international law specialist Kirsteen Shields from Edinburgh University's New Global Academy of Agriculture and Food Security, then analysed by Vicky Pryce, chief economic adviser at the Centre for Economics and Business Research, and the journalist and political commentator and editor of Scot-Buzz, Bill Jamieson; Malachi O’Doherty considers a year of upheaval in Northern Irish politics; the abiding influence on Christmas of horror writer M.R. James is discussed by actor Robert Lloyd-Parry, while Steve Owens, astronomer at Glasgow Science Centre, discusses the importance of the Apollo 8 space mission 50 years on. In the Long Interview, Bill Whiteford speaks to Adrian Turpin, the artistic director of Wigton Book Festival, and the Â鶹Éç’s Ian Hamilton presents a special report on the rise and fall of the high street icon Woolworths, 10 years on from its collapse.