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■ IN 80 NOT OUT: THE SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN (RADIO 4, 10.45AM, 7.45PM), the last of a week-long series of short plays performed by veteran actors, Sian Phillips delivers a monologue by Stephen Wyatt about a woman who works as a volunteer in a local art gallery, where she becomes obsessed by a painting.

■ IN THE Sixties, Joan Baez and Bob Dylan (pictured) ruled the world of folk music and protest songs. The pair would turn up at civil rights marches and protest rallies, and seemed to be the prophets of changing times. Then, Bob headed off in other directions, leaving Joan holding the banner. Tomorrow will be Joan’s 80th birthday, and Radio 4 Extra marks the day with TAKE TWO (RADIO 4 EXTRA, 2.30PM), a look back at Bob and Joan’s musical

collaborat­ion as well as their doomed romance.

■ MORE and more of us have headed to green spaces during the Covid-19 crisis. Walks in parks, along river banks or out in the open countrysid­e seemed to make us feel better. This week’s CROWDSCIEN­CE (BBC WORLD SERVICE, 8.30PM) reports from Milan in Italy, where they are steaming ahead on a project to plant three million trees, create 20 new parks and grow a forest up the side of an apartment block in the hopes of improving residents’ physical and mental health.

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