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BRENDA BOARDMAN, this week’s guest on THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC (RADIO 4, 9AM, 9.30PM), studies ways of making homes more energyefficient. Brenda — who works at Oxford’s Environmental Change Institute and is the author of Fuel Poverty: From Cold Homes to Affordable Warmth — tells Jim Al-Khalili (pictured) how she got her degree relatively late in life, and why she thinks that has helped her to take a pragmatic approach to her work.

TEN years ago, Peter Curran set out on a journey in an electric vehicle for a radio series. Now, he tops up his battery to travel from Lands’ End to John o’Groats to see how the technology has changed. During his ELECTRIC RIDE UK (RADIO 4, 11AM), Peter hears from

those pushing electric vehicles to the limit, including the McLaren racing team and a driver planning a poleto-pole electric route.

THE Tuscan town of Pieve Santo Stefan is a place of memories. The town keeps an evergrowing archive of journals from the Middle Ages to the present day. Residents, called ‘Story Eaters’, read the diaries to help to preserve accounts of lives that don’t get into history books. Oria O’Neill visits THE TOWN MADE OF STORIES (RADIO 4, 4PM) and delves into the past.