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THEY’VE got ants in their pants in South Korea. South Koreans just can’t seem to take it easy — ever. They work and study longer hours than any other nation, sleep far less, and have worryingly high rates of suicide and depression. Se-Woong Koo reports for

CROSSING CONTINENTS (RADIO 4, 11AM)

from the restless streets of the capital, Seoul, where sleep clinics and sleep cafes have become big business, and Buddhist monks are turning their temples into sleep retreats.

JEAN RHYS’S 1939 novel Good Morning, Midnight tells of a heartbroken woman who’s given a fur coat and a one-way ticket to Paris by a friend. Against a soundscape of songs of heartbreak, Josie Long shares favourite passages from this strange and wonderful work, taking us

SIMON LE BON (pictured) and the rest of Duran Duran are the first act in a very long time to be on stage in the small but perfect BBC Radio Theatre, playing to a select audience of lucky fans. They go back to the early days for this evening’s RADIO 2 IN CONCERT (7PM), playing some of their many hits and giving us tracks from their new album, Future Past, released 40 years after their first. into a world of gigolos, artists and mysterious exiles. THE EXPLODING LIBRARY (RADIO 4, 11.30AM) is a finely crafted piece of radio.

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