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HOW much pain or despair is too much? Joan Bakewell and a team of experts discuss the matter in the second episode of INSIDE THE ETHICS COMMITTEE (RADIO 4, 9AM). Drawing on a real-life case, they wonder how far a medical team should go to prevent a young woman from ending her life.

WE HAVE stand-up comedy, and the Japanese have sit-down comedy, known as rakugo. TIME NOODLES (RADIO 4, 11.30AM) reveals a comic tradition that has the performer delivering a monologue with hardly any gestures, using only a fan and a towel for props. It seems it’s had them rolling in the aisles in Japan for the past 400 years.

A VOLCANIC explosion, 60 million or so years ago, has given the landscape of north Antrim a unique and