QI's trademark blend of improving silliness is in full flow, as the teams absorb (or occasionally, recall) obscure facts on the subject in hand - inventions. It's a rich seam: jerry cans, electric jock straps ("Why have they gone out of fashion?" wonders Jeremy Clarkson), ear-dryers, windscreen wipers, and so on. In the section on the Slinky spring-toy, each panelist gets a mini-staircase and their own Slinky to experiment with, though Alan Davies is almost wilfully hopeless with his, and Sandi Toksvig wants to keep the staircase to reach shelves in her kitchen.

It's all as amiable and informative as ever: Toksvig tells us that it was a woman who invented both the windscreen wiper and the rear-view mirror. Clarkson has no comment.

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Recorded live at the Edinburgh fringe, the latest edition of the Amnesty podcast features standup from Eric Lampaert, Nish Kumar and an improvised rap from Abandoman. Plus chat, revelations and secrets from Sandi Toksvig, QI's creator John Lloyd and Lucy Porter. Hosted by Christian O'Connell.

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Looking forward to this year and showing her son around the city, Sandi Toksvig has a lot of happy memories of the Festivals.

Margaret (Jessica Hynes) sends Emmeline Pankhurst a "comical" poem, which prompts a visit from the suffragette leader, despite Pankhurst (Sandi Toksvig) concurring with Helen (Rebecca Front) that the poem is "not strictly speaking comical". Margaret claims that "it gets funnier", and Hynes here could almost be describing her own sitcom: this final episode is the best, with the group trying to impress their guest with a talent showcase, and Helen revealing the real reason behind her opposition to the cause.

This Suffragette comedy completes its short run. The fight for votes for women has only ever been a peg on which to hang an unthreatening, if rather well executed, 2D sitcom staffed with charming bumblers. It feels as if it's really about Suffragettes much less than, say, the stylistically similar Dad's Army was subtly and profoundly about the Second World War.

Not that "this isn't as good as Dad's Army" is any sort of criticism, but the rousing finale is flat and unearned after just three episodes. Before that, though, there's an injection of brio from Sandi Toksvig, delivering a riotous turn as Emmeline Pankhurst herself.

The News Quiz (Radio 4, 6.30pm) returns. I know there are people who will leap with joy at this news. Once I would have been among them. No longer. Even though producer Sam Bryant has brought back journalists (tonight Daniel Finkelstein of The Times) to pit wits against comedians Roisin Conaty, Phill Jupitus and Jeremy Hardy, the programme has grown so much coarser with the years that even Sandi Toksvig seems challenged when trying to enliven the murky script.

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Video: Sandi Toksvig on her new book and her play

Sandi Toksvig tells us about her new novel Valentine Grey and a play she has written called Bully Boy.

The book looks at how the character of Valentine Grey, goes to South Africa disguised as a man to fight in the Boer War.

Sandi says it is a classic story of a woman constrained by Victorian society.

Sandi has also written her own play about post-war trauma called Bully Boy.

The book Valentine Grey is out now and Bully Boy is on at St James Theatre in the West End until Saturday.

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