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‘WHEN you hear my voice,’ says Ian Hislop (pictured), ‘you’ll know they couldn’t afford Neil MacGregor.’ Many of us will be glad that the budget for this tour round the British Museum was on the low side. Hislop brings wit and enthusiasm to this three-part series, I, OBJECT! (RADIO 4, 9AM) about objects of protest held in the museum. In this first programme, he looks at exhibits with hidden meanings, and explains why putting the number 45 on a teapot was an act of sedition.

TWO women who were bright schoolgirls share their own, odd experiences of school life. The journalist Datshiane Navanayagam had long periods of homelessness when she was a child, but still managed to get to

Cambridge. The crime writer Val McDermid was part of an educational experiment in the Sixties. They share their experiences on this

morning’s ONE TO ONE

(RADIO 4, 9.30AM) show. MAGGIE ROGERS learnt to play the harp at seven, then came the piano and guitar, and songwriting. She recorded her first album in a cupboard, earning a place on a course at New York University. Maggie’s song Alaska went viral and now she has several releases to her name, as she tells JO WHILEY & SIMON MAYO (RADIO 2, 5PM).