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11.00 Crossing Continents. 11.30 Costume Drama: The Wonderful World of Cosplay. 12.00 News; (LW) Shipping

Forecast. 12.04 Home Front. 12.15 You and Yours. 12.57 Weather.

THIS WEEKEND around the UK, people will be dressing up as TV and film characters, and heading for a costumed get-together in a hall or a hotel. They will take the chance to be someone — or something — else for a few hours. In the sympathetic COSTUME DRAMA (RADIO 4, 11.30AM), Yasmeen Khan talks to some of these ‘cosplayers’, hearing about the skills involved 1.00 The World at One. 1.45 (FM) Streets Apart: A History of Social Housing. 2.00 The Archers. 2.15 Drama: Quill. 3.00 Open Country. 3.27 Radio 4 Appeal. 3.30 Open Book. 4.00 The Film Programme. 4.30 BBC Inside Science. 5.00 PM; (LW) Shipping

Forecast. in putting together the costumes and how being part of the cosplay world has helped many people to find friends and cope with troubles.

THE BRECKS is an area of heath, forest and farms that straddles the border between Norfolk and Suffolk. Neolithic farmers toiled away there, trying to get the poor soil to yield crops. Flint mining brought human settlements to these 5.57 Weather. 6.00 Six O’Clock News. 6.30 Chain Reaction. 7.00 The Archers. 7.15 Front Row. 7.45 Subterranean Homesick Blues. By A.L. Kennedy. 8.00 The Briefing Room.

lowlands, and Boudicca, with her Iceni army, rode out of this mysterious landscape, looking for Roman blood. Helen Mark visits this strange part of

Britain in OPEN COUNTRY

(RADIO 4, 3PM) to hear tales of the past and plans for the future.

SHARON HORGAN (pictured) tried her hand at a number of jobs while pursuing an acting career, getting her breakthrough with the TV series Pulling. Sharon wrote the series with Dennis Kelly, and the two of them share memories in the last CHAIN REACTION (RADIO 4, 6.30PM).