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Mel Giedroyc makes a splash with a wheelbarrow river race and introduces Carol Vorderman's Inheritance Tracks. Plus, there's the next part of Anne Fine's book Up On Cloud Nine.

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Wed 5 Dec 201216:00
BBC Radio 4 Extra

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Chapters

  • Keep It In The Family

    Fred MacAulay presents another edition of the 4 O’Clock Show quiz where adults and children join forces in a titanic test of general knowledge.

    Duration: 17:54

  • Wheelbarrow Races

    Storyteller and theatre director Chris Tally Evans pulls on his wellies and spends a lazy day watching the Wye Valley wheelbarrow championship.

    Duration: 05:33

  • Inheritance Tracks – Carol Vorderman

    The TV presenter discusses the song passed down to her and the one she would pass on to the next generation.

    Duration: 07:24

  • Musical Instrument Inventor

    Musician Terge Isungset chats to presenter Mark Lawson about creating instruments from ram’s horns and glacier ice.

    Duration: 08:02

  • Magical Mystery Tour – France

    Ex-Doctor Who, Tom Baker, visits the south of France to brush up on his French.

    Duration: 05:41

  • Up On Cloud Nine - Episode 8

    Nicholas Hoult reads the next part of Ann Fine’s story about a young boy called Stoli who’s recovering in hospital after apparently falling from a window.

    Duration: 09:13

Broadcast

  • Wed 5 Dec 201216:00
    BBC Radio 4 Extra