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TODAY’S RADIO
A PYROTECHNIC HISTORY OF HUMANITY 11AM, RADIO 4
★★★
ITM Power, located in a pristine building in Sheffield, specialises in clean fuel production. In this last of his series on how energy sources have driven human history, Justin Rowlatt looks at future fuels, and wonders if we can wean ourselves off fossil fuels before it’s too late.
39 WAYS TO SAVE THE PLANET 1.45PM, RADIO 4 ★★★
Bren Smith fished for cod off the Newfoundland coast, but came to realise he should farm fish, not hunt them. Now, after years of trial and error, he’s developed a system that yields thousands of tonnes of shellfish and bumper harvests of edible seaweed.
In the second of this week’s five
programmes, Bren tells Tom Heap about his planet-saving scheme.
MCLEVY 2.15PM, RADIO 4
★★★★ Mclevy (Brian Cox) keeps a tight rein on himself, but his desire for a decent cup of coffee often gets the better of him. The one person he can rely on for such a beverage is Jean Brash (Siobhan Redmond), but, given that she runs a high-class brothel, he can’t afford to be seen too often in her company. Suffering from caffeine withdrawal, Mclevy does what he can to keep crime off the streets of Victorian Edinburgh.
THE JUMP: HIV 9PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★
The origins of the HIV pandemic could date from the First World War. Allied troops invading the German colony of Cameroon forcibly recruited and armed local hunters. The war had caused food supplies to dwindle, and these newly armed recruits, who had rarely hunted chimpanzees, found them easy prey. Chris van Tulleken examines this theory in the last of his series on how human behaviour can cause pandemics.