BRAIN OF BRITAIN 2006
Radio 4, 1.30pm
You would have thought that the award for this week’s most eagerly awaited returning panel/quiz show would go to The News Quiz, which reappears on Friday with a new presenter. But, no. Wherever aficionados of the quizzing art gather, even the mighty NQ has to bend the knee to this examination of knowledge so arcane that it exists only on some strange planet called Quizworld — as, of course, does its painfully polite host, Robert Robinson. Welcome back, good and faithful friend, and let genteel battle commence.
LIVES IN A LANDSCAPE
Radio 4, 11am
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The series that tells local stories about local people — it is a collaboration between Radio 4 and the local radio network — returns with another six stories about this wacky old island and its rich vein of eccentrics. Yes, it stereotypes us — but as fundamentally decent, gentle weirdos, and there is nothing wrong with that. First up, James Maw ventures tentatively into Throckmorton, a tiny village in Worcestershire whose main feature is a giant airfield. Who are the former soldiers laying down some rubber on the airstrip and why does the local church not have any electricity? Dare he ask?