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powerful man, still casting a shadow over America 50 years after his death. In The Essay:

Journeys to the Grave (Radio 3, 10.45pm), five writers visit the resting places of their literary

heroes.
Tuesday

Black Girl Songbook (Podcast)

Danyel Smith takes a deep dive into the lives of black women in the music industry each week;

recent subjects include Jennifer Hudson, Donna Summer and Billie Holiday. Livvy Haydock

investigates sibling sexual abuse in File on 4 (Radio 4, 8pm). People Fixing the World (BBC
World Service, 3pm) looks at programmes teaching children to read in South Africa and

America.
Wednesday

Free Thinking (Radio 3, 10pm)
Celebrating tomorrow’s Bloomsday by talking to Cleo Hanaway-Oakley, whose research

contends that understanding James Joyce’s eye troubles offers a different way of reading his

book Ulysses. No-Platformed (Radio 4, 11pm) is a new sitcom set in a railway station by the

team behind The Skewer, starring Geoff McGivern, Tim Downie and Alexandra Mardell, plus

special guests.
Thursday

Deep Dive into Queer Country (BBC Sounds)

Shana Goldin-Perschbacher, looks at pioneers of queer country music, such as Patrick Haggerty

and his band Lavender Country, who produced what’s thought to be the first gay country LP
(released in 1973). Assignment (BBC World Service, 8pm) reports from Brozec, a village in

Poland that has become the unexpected hub for tons of seeds destined for Ukraine.
Friday

Dead Ringers (Radio 4, 6.30pm)
The reliably funny sketch show returns, with Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Lewis McLeod, Debra

Stevenson and Duncan Wisbey. Persona — The French Deception (Wondery podcast) tells the

story of Gilbert Chikli, a fraudster who conned some of the world’s most powerful people, but

who became a Robin Hood-like hero. In Concert (Radio 3, 7.30pm) is live from Aldeburgh

Festival.
Saturday