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On today’s Calling All Pensioners at 1pm DAGE’s chairman Harry Haward highlights the help there is with accessing NHS services that are not free to use if you are not on means-tested benefits and not yet of state retirement age (or when of state retirement age, you are not eligible for Guaranteed Pension Credit). Harry refers to the help with prescription costs, dental costs, eye care costs, healthcare travel costs, wigs and fabric supports. As it currently stands, everyone over 60 can get free prescriptions, but not help with the other NHS health costs such as for dental and eye costs and healthcare travel. Plus an interview with Jane Keene, chair of JOY – Just Older Youth – a user-led group run by a dedicated team of volunteers which offers a series of weekday sessions
including seated exercises, line dancing, gentle circuits and singing. [Repeated Sunday 2pm.]

framework at 11pm presents the best from a world of field recordings, curated by Patrick McGinley. Tonight: works by Toy.Bizarre, Martin Clarke, Sala, Jonas Gustafsson, sounds from the Aporee Maps, and an intro recorded by Stéphane Marin. Image: Selárdalur, Martin Clarke, OEM 2014. [Repeated Tuesday 3am.]

From noon to 5pm Arifa Akbar, literary editor of The Independent and i newspapers presents Jerwood Fiction Uncovered FM. This special broadcast celebrates The Jerwood Fiction Uncovered Prize, awarded annually to eight British writers of outstanding works of fiction. Throughout the afternoon authors, publishers and booksellers will be discussing their own work, creative writing, reader engagement and international literature. Tune in for in-depth interviews with prize-winning authors Lesley Glaister, Evie Wyld, Gareth R Roberts, Ben Brooks, Bernardine Evaristo, Naomi Wood and Cynan Jones. Plus panel discussions with Jonathan Ruppin, web editor for Foyles; literary agent Julia Kingsford; books blogger Simon Savidge; Ted Hodkinson of the British Council; and authors Stuart Evers and Susanna Jones. The broadcast will also offer the opportunity to hear the four part radio play The Foil, commissioned for FU FM in 2012.