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RAS PRINCE MONOLULU (pictured) was a tipster who was a regular on the racing scene and had a coup at the Derby in 1920 when he correctly tipped rank outsider Spion Kop as the winner. Monolulu — once famous for his cry, ‘I gotta a horse!’ — told many an exotic tale about his background. The comedian Stephen K. Amos tries to sift the facts from the fiction and get to the bottom of THE PRINCE
MONOLULU QUANDARY (RADIO 4, 11AM). OUR voices are as distinctive as our fingerprints, but the differences of intonation, pitch and timbre can be subtle. Rory Bremner, who’s no slouch when it comes to vocal subtleties, reports on THE RACE TO FINGERPRINT THE HUMAN VOICE (RADIO 4, 9PM); he hears about the emerging science of
A LONG WALK WITH . . . (RADIO 2, 10PM) joins Holly Johnson, the front man of Frankie Goes To Hollywood, as he takes Janice Long on a walk through his Liverpool past. Their journey begins at the church where Holly was a choirboy and continues through the streets where the young Holly used to deliver newspapers. The Everyman Theatre, Eric’s and the Cavern Club are also on the tour, and Holly shares memories and music along the way.