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In a special Clear Spot at 8pm, the Cafe Calcio team of Chris Dixon, Amanda Jacks, Chris Roberts and David Stubbs examine the culture and politics of football in the days leading up to the World Cup Final. [Repeated Friday 9am.]

Six Pillars to Persia at 7.30pm is an English language show with Fari Bradley focused on traces of the Persian Empire and contemporary Iranian and Middle Eastern culture. On today’s show Fari looks at the work of abstract painter and influential scholar on Palestinian art Samia Halaby. Halaby was the first female full-time professor at the Yale School of Art who experimented with digital art as early as the 1980s. Her writings have been published in Leonardo, Journal of Arts, Sciences and Technology and Arab Studies Quarterly. Her independently published survey, Liberation Art of Palestine: Palestinian Paintings and Sculpture in the Second Half of the 20th Century, is considered a seminal text of Palestinian art history. Recorded in the UAE. [Repeated Sunday 6.30am.]

Vinyl Librarians Sophie Austin and Elly Rendall present highlights from the popular Vinyl Library in Stoke Newington at 6.30pm in the first programme of a new (self-explanatory) four part series. [Repeated Wednesday 4am.]