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TODAY’S RADIO
The Infinite Monkey Cage
9AM, 9.30PM, RADIO 4
Professor Brian Cox and comedian Robin Ince return with a new series of their fun science show, and in this opener, they’re celebrating the 100th episode – with the help of some famous faces from editions past. Brian Blessed, Dave Gorman, Shappi Khorsandi and Andy Hamilton, along with boffins Alice Roberts, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sue Black and Fay Dowker, talk about some of the big scientific discoveries that have been made since the show first went on air, back in 2009.
Jack & Millie
11.30AM, RADIO 4
Rebecca and Jeremy Front star in this comedy about an older couple who can cope with all of the fancy technology of the modern world, yet get deeply confused by its many absurdities. In this episode, a phone, a strudel and Franz Kafka make Jack and Millie’s day rather complicated.
The Folk Show With Mark Radcliffe
8PM, RADIO 2 There’s some toe-tapping live Scottish music on today’s show as Mark Radcliffe is joined by the fiddle players, accordionists and other musicians of the awardwinning band Skerryvore.
Science Stories
9PM, RADIO 4
Dressed in her bonnet and cape, and encumbered by a long dress and petticoats, Mary Anning chipped away on Dorset’s cliffs, searching for fossils. Mary wrote scholarly papers about her findings, but as she was from a poor family – and a woman – few of her fellow scientists took her seriously. Naomi Alderman tells the story of a determined 19thcentury female palaeontologist.
Bunk Bed
11PM, RADIO 4
This oddball comedy has, over the years, built up a loyal group of fans drawn in by its strange charm. The format couldn’t be more simple: two men, played by Patrick Marber and Peter Curran, lie in bunk beds in the dark, talking about whatever comes into their minds. We never know what has brought them to this dark room, or how long they’ve been there; all we hear are their musings. In this first of a new, four-part series, they wonder what kind of dinosaurs they would have been.