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11AM, RADIO 4 (FM) HHHH Fake news has cost lives during the pandemic. Fozia Hayat, a Bradford-based doctor who has worked long, gruelling shifts on Covid wards, has been shocked by the disinformation and conspiracy theories circulating on social media, which many of her patients have believed. In this honest documentary, Fozia reports on the deadly delusions propagated in a city much afflicted by Covid-19.
ACTRESS
12.04PM (FM), 10.45PM, RADIO 4 HHH Katherine O’dell was a ‘star on stage, on screen and at the breakfast table’. Katherine was an Irish actress who found fame – as well a clutch of alcoholic companions – in Hollywood in the 1940s. In this ten-part series,
continuing daily, Anne Enright reads from her new novel, in which Katherine’s daughter reflects on how being the child of a fading star cast a shadow over her life.
JUST THE THREE OF US
2PM, RADIO 4 (FM) HHH Danielle (former Coronation Street star Michelle Keegan) has had a troubled relationship with her partner, Will. They have a child, and Will has maintained contact with them, but when that contact stops, it becomes all too clear just how dangerous Will is in today’s afternoon drama.
BIG DRUMS ON LITTLE CARRIACOU
6.30PM,
RADIO 4 EXTRA HHH
The Big Drum tradition still thrives on the lovely Caribbean island of Carriacou. The broadcaster and DJ Zakia Sewell returns to her grandparents’ home, and hears how this drumming, music and dance ritual – with its origins in West Africa, and brought over by the slaves forced to work on the island – has been passed on through the generations and how, more than 300 years on, it is still a vital part of Carriacou’s culture. SJ