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TODAY’S RADIO
START THE WEEK 9AM, 9.30PM, RADIO 4
★ ★ ★ The Vikings got to North America, but don’t appear to have settled there. But what if they had? The writer Laurent Binet, in his new book Civilisations, plays around with the idea of a world where the Vikings dwelt in North America, and the Incas and Aztecs went to war over the colonisation of Europe. Laurent joins Andrew Marr to talk about the book.
THE GREAT POST OFFICE TRIAL 9.45AM (FM), 12.30AM, RADIO 4 ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
A pregnant woman was jailed for a crime she didn’t commit, while hard-working, blameless subpostmasters were found guilty of fraud because of computer errors beyond their control. This ten-part documentary series,
which follows the twists and turns of what has been described as one of the widest miscarriages of justice in UK legal history, tells of a dogged pursuit of the truth by Alan Bates, the founder of the Justice For Subpostmasters Alliance. It’s a story of bare-faced lies and far too many ruined lives that will command your attention.
GOING DARK 2PM, RADIO 4 ★ ★ ★ ★
The theatres are closed, the streets are empty and the death toll is rising by the day.
It’s 1642 and the plague has come to London, forcing a group of actor friends out of work and struggling to survive. Justin Salinger is among the cast for this new play by Marcella Evaristi, which just goes to show that the more things change, the more they stay the same.
THE WHY FACTOR
2.45PM, RADIO 4 ★ ★ ★
It takes a great deal of practice, slick technique and some very clever tricks to be a good magician; it also seems to require a certain frame of mind. Mike Williams takes a look at the psychology behind the magic.