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GREENLAND sharks swim slowly through the waters north of the Arctic Circle. They can measure up to 24ft in length, and can live for 200 years. Toxins in their systems enable these predators to live deep below the surface, and will give a powerful feeling of inebriation to anyone eating their flesh. Morten Stroksnes’s new book SHARK DRUNK (RADIO 4, 9.45AM (FM), 12.30AM) tells the true story of an obsessive hunt by two friends for this mysterious shark.

STEPHEN MANGAN and Claire Skinner (pictured) star as old friends Bill and Bella in this returning comedy drama LUNCH (RADIO 4, 10.45AM, 7.45PM). They have an arrangement to meet once a month for lunch, to talk about their lives. They would make an ideal couple,

but the timing is never right. In this opening episode, Bella has just returned from a honeymoon spent on safari, where things didn’t, as Bill is quietly pleased to learn, go well . . .

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS was a game old gal who packed music venues with her atrocious singing. Audiences came to hear her murdering the classics, but whether she was in on this musical joke remains a mystery. In his ongoing series, BRUNO TONIOLI AT THE OPERA (RADIO 2, 10PM) plays an extract of Florence screeching through the fiendishly difficult Queen Of The Night aria.