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Documentary WORLD SERVICE, 11.30AM

How many of us vaguely remember taking a grade one music exam as a child, playing an instrument that, as adults, we could barely even hold the right way up? Graded music exams run by British music schools are taken by children around the world, and this documentary gently suggests that their global dominance could be one of the last vestiges of the British Empire, with a classical British musical education seen in many countries as aspirational. It could be time to dig out that trumpet after all.

Drama: Synonymous RADIO 4FM, 2.15PM

The Scottish playwright DC Jackson has had many a sparkling hit play at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe written in his distinctively upfront, uncompromising comic style, and was also one of the writers for the original and compelling Channel 4 comedy drama series about university students, Fresh Meat. He and the Northern Irish playwright David Ireland have together written this afternoon’s quick-fire comic play about a reality TV star and a literary novelist, starring Amelia Bullmore

(Happy Valley) and Jaime Winstone.