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While Phil England finishes his special on gas fracking, Climate Radio is happy to present in the Clear Spot at 8pm a special edition of Electric Politics from last October. George Kenney interviews Timothy Mitchell, author of Carbon Democracy (Verso) on the different impacts that coal and oil have had on politics; and what might be in store for us as we approach the end of oil. As Kenney explains: coal, because strikes could cut off its supply, made modern social democracy possible; oil, because its supply has been pretty much guaranteed, compromised democratic gains. Now that we’re running out of cheap carbon fuel what happens next? Dr Mitchell brings the problem into focus and explains how serious it is. [Repeated Tuesday 9am.]

From Baltimore USA, Dope Body are Paul’s live-in-session guests on Artrocker tonight at 5pm. Saturday is their latest 7 inch single. They play three UK shows London (at the Lexington tonight), Manchester (21 May) and Cardiff (22 May), promoting their album Natural History which is out on Drag City.

The Thread at 7pm is a wide-ranging discussion show with members of The London Consortium. Today’s show in the series devoted to Sin is entitle Wrath of the Dead, with Lauren Sapikowski, Alex Fitch, Jill Critchley and Richard Barnett. “The repressed and dead ideas, people and beliefs that we have long shut the door on, like any unspoken wrath, grows until we must one day face that wrath. It is a wrath of the mislaid, the forgotten and the gone, and yet it is a wrath against ourselves. Explore with us how the forgotten and the gone can reach into our lives, for better and for worse. What are the dangers of things forgotten and repressed?” [Repeated Sunday 2.30am.]