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THE affectionate comedy drama GOOD EVENING, 11.15AM, 9.15PM, RADIO 4 EXTRA), about the early days of the Beyond The Fringe team, stars Benedict Cumberbatch (pictured) as the comedian, pianist and film star Dudley Moore. The play, set in the Sixties, follows the fortunes of Dudley, Peter Cook (Rory Kinnear), Alan Bennett (Matt Addis) and Jonathan Miller (Jonathan Aris), as they go from being student entertainers to West End stars.

THE vast plains of Mongolia have, since the days of Genghis Khan, been home to a powerful style of singing and to songs with big themes. Under the Soviet regime, Mongolians had access to top-class music education and the promise of a career at the State Academic Theatre of Opera — factors that explain why Mongolian singers are

raising the roofs of opera houses the world over. The two-part series FROM THE STEPPES TO THE STAGE (11.30AM, RADIO 4), follows Kate Molleson to

Mongolia to hear some songs and singers of the steppes.

THE first electric cars went on the road in the 1830s, but didn’t really get going until the 1870s. The size and weight of the batteries prevented much further progress, but all that is changing. For this week’s IN BUSINESS (8.30PM, RADIO 4), Peter Morgan looks at recent developments that could mean electric cars are the vehicles of the future.