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• documentary On the Road: The Novel that Changed My Life

  7:00pm BBC Radio 2

  After Vic Reeves read Kerouac's On the Road he grew a goatee, bought sandals and a beret, and hitched a lift from a lorry driver at Scotch Corner - to find "it". Vic the beatnik! The very thought!

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• music and arts BBC Proms 2008

  7:00pm BBC Radio 3

  Conductor Leonard Slatkin returns to the Proms with a programme that includes the world premiere of Chen Yi's Olympic Fire, composed to mark today's opening of the Beijing Games.

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• drama The Friday Play: One Chord Wonders

  9:00pm BBC Radio 4

  Concluding the tremendous five-part anthology of tales by Frank Cottrell Boyce about the impact of punk. Tonight, it's March 1977 and punk rock is reaching Surrey.

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