RADIO CHOICE

SCIENTISTS have grown a nose in a lab known as ‘the body parts store’ at UCL’s Department of Nanotechnology. Patients’ own stem cells can be used with synthetic materials to create different body parts. It’s also possible for new body parts to be created by using a 3-D printer. These breakthroughs offer hope to those who’ve been disfigured, have lost limbs or are incapacitated because some part of their body has just worn out. For PRINT ME A NEW BODY (RADIO 4, 11AM) Jolyon Jenkins, working methodically through his body, hears from scientists about what can and what can’t be replaced.

CHURCH bells and clock towers were once the only mechanical timekeepers available to British workers. Before the Industrial Revolution, working hours

were regulated by the seasons, but that all changed in a short space of time. In CLOCKING ON (RADIO 4, 4PM) Emma Griffin looks at the ways that new technologies changed — and continue to change — our working lives.

THE Brass Band of Battle Creek is a professional band based in Michigan. Top-rank musicians from Europe, Canada and the U.S. make up the band, which is considered by fellow brass players to be the bee’s knees. In LISTEN TO THE BAND (RADIO 2, 11.30PM) Frank Renton (pictured) features their new album.