Take a troubled relationship... add renovations and then a dinner party with other couples - who are also surviving renos.... and you have a recipe for drama that the St. John's Players are taking on this week. We speak with some of the players in "Renovation For 6" ahead of the opening of their latest stage production. (Krissy Holmes with Amanda Vallis, Tolson Barrington and Fiona Anderson)

The Conservative MP for Coast of Bays-Central-Notre Dame claims there is rampant crime in rural Newfoundland. We hear from Clifford Small... and we also get reaction from the RCMP about his claims. (MP Clifford Small, CBC Radio Canada's Patrick Butler with RCMP corporal Jolene Garland, Patrick Butler with Clifford Small)

The death of a child in Ontario from rabies has public health on alert for bats and other potentially infected animals. An epidemiologist and cardiologist joins us to talk about rabies and what we can do to protect ourselves from it. (Krissy Holmes with Dr. Christopher Labos)

Delving deep into the mysterious world of mushrooms and lichens... we hear all about the 21st running of the mushroom and lichen foray happening this weekend in Salmonier Nature Park. (Krissy Holmes with Foray NL president Helen Spencer and Alfredo Justo, curator of Botany and Mycology at the New Brunswick Museum)

It started with nine short films... and one will be named the winner of CBC's Short Film Faceoff this weekend. We speak with the only filmmaker who made the cut from Atlantic Canada for her film "Bounce." (Krissy Holmes with Elizabeth Hicks)

We take a look at the disturbing Tony Humby-Bruce Escott sexual abuse case through the lens of a local lawyer who's spent years representing survivors of sexual and physical abuse. (Krissy Holmes with Geoff Budden)

We drop in on the second day of the Rocky Harbour Storytelling Festival and see if we can persuade one of their visiting performers to spin us a yarn. (Krissy Holmes with Karen Carroll)

A local musician divides her time between St. John's and Nashville, but we catch up with her in Colorado (where she's playing a songwriters festival) to chat about her brand new single "Southern Draw(l)." (Krissy Holmes with Paige Penney)

*Please note - there were some connection issues during the interview

Avalon Liberal MP Ken McDonald has voted against his own party again when on Wednesday he supported a Bloc Quebecois bill to hike Old Age Security. We find out more about his decision... and the broader implications of that Bloc bill for the governing Liberals. (Krissy Holmes with Ken McDonald)

As we age, our brains don’t quite work as well as they used to... but thanks to new research from Stanford University we might be able to unwind the clock. On The Go's science columnist takes a look at how to rejuvenate the grey matter. (Krissy Holmes with Dr. Torah Kachur)