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TIME FLIES, 11AM, RADIO 4

FROM the outside, the red brick house on the A556 looks fairly normal — apart from a notice saying Cuckooland. Once inside the door, though, the full impact of the name strikes home. There are cuckoo clocks everywhere, crammed onto windowsills, reaching up to the ceilings and filling the place with whirring and cuckooing. As the clocks cuckoo away, we hear from Manchester brothers Roman and Maz Piekarski, who have devoted their lives to finding and repairing them — their collection of more than 700 is believed to be the largest in the world — but now fear their museum is winding down.

THE Nazi Party tried to lure Marlene Dietrich (pictured) back to Germany, hoping to make her a figurehead for the Third Reich. She made her feelings about Hitler very clear, applied for U.S. citizenship, and threw herself into the fight against Fascism. Marlene’s difficult relationship with her homeland is explored in tonight’s edition of THE ESSAY: DIETRICH IN FIVE SONGS (10.45PM, RADIO 3).