Inheritance Radio 4, 9.30am

James Maw picks through the treasure trove that is the last will and testament in search of some of the stranger bequests that may have caused the recipient to think that, well, they never really liked the deceased anyway. But they’d be wrong — who, for example, would take a million pounds over the sheer quirky joy to be derived from being the owner of the very Archie Andrews that Peter Brough educated? As with the American Edgar Bergen’s Charlie McCarthy, Archie was a ventriloquist’s dummy who somehow became a radio star, where one would have thought that the ventriloquist’s USP — the not moving your lips thing — would have been somewhat redundant. This, though, was the 1950s, a more innocent era.

Who Likes Techno? Radio 4, 1.30pm

The obvious answer, of course, is various spotty Herberts in baseball caps and trackies who drive around the streets testing the power of their in-car speakers and the patience of the nation. But does this strange, distant, mutant relative of what we call music — technically defined as “percussive, synthetic sounds with strong melodies and bass lines, coupled with a regular 4/4 beat, usually in the 130-140 bpm range” — have anything to offer other than a reason for its adherents to consume vast quantities of drugs? Wow, that’s a toughie for various DJs, producers, journalists and fans (one of them that Tracey out of Big Brother, which figures) to answer.

Hancock’s Half Hour BBC 7, 8am, noon, 7pm

A bit of a rarity this, the rarely heard — and certainly never before on BBC7 — The Publicity Photograph, in which the Lad Himself decides he needs new mugshots to aid him in the pursuit of his non-existent career.

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