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• drama The Seventh Dimension: Understand

  6:30pm/12:30am BBC Radio 7

  A coma patient undergoes a new medical procedure and regains consciousness to find he is cleverer than before in this electrifying four-part sci-fi thriller by Ted Chiang.

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• interests Thinking Allowed

  4:00pm BBC Radio 4

  Was Barack Obama better at using YouTube than Gordon Brown? Face it: yes. But are there differences in our political cultures that mean Britain can never duplicate America's new media success?

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• documentary The Herschel Space Telescope

  11:00am BBC Radio 4

  The second of two documentaries about the 20-year project to build and launch the biggest telescope into space culminates in liftoff and the tense wait to see if it works.

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