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• New topical news programme with Richard Bacon
• One-off programmes with Jon Holmes and Helen & Olly

After 64 years on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ, Woman's Hour's is to finally get a cheeky younger brother. Men's Hour With Tim Samuels makes its debut on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 5 Live on Sunday 18 July, 7.30-8.30pm.

Hosted and created by award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tim Samuels, the six-part series will delve into unchartered emotional territory for men – bringing real candour to the challenges of relationships and life, alongside irreverent manly chatter. Less about leering at ladies and more concerned with how to maintain monogamy, this is the men's magazine women have been waiting for.

Other new offers on 5 Live this summer include Chart The Week, hosted by Richard Bacon; Mob Rule With Jon Holmes; and Web 2010 With Helen & Olly.

Each week, Men's Hour will feature guest interviews and regular features such as Questions You Daren't Ask Your Doctor and Midlife Music Crisis. Tim Samuels will be joined by leading males from the world of entertainment, sport, politics, media and an on-hand shrink as they leave their comfort zones behind them – familiar people talking about unfamiliar things.

Choreographer and star of Pineapple Dance Studio star Louie Spence will also be joining Tim as a regular weekly guest.

Tim Samuels says: "It's about capturing the spirit of when good mates sit around nowadays – amidst all the banter you can actually open up about what's on your mind without being ripped apart. We're celebrating modern man's mix of swagger and neurosis."

Men's Hour With Tim Samuels will be produced by Jon Holmes for Tonic Productions, in association with Fresh One Productions.

Jon Holmes also presents his own one-off programme on 5 Live, Jon Holmes' Mob Rule, on Sunday 25 July, 6.30-7.30pm. The 6 Music presenter dips a radio sieve in the stream of public consciousness from the Have Your Say and Comments pages on the worldwide web to pan for comedy gold.

Twitter, radio phone-ins, newspaper blogs and all manner of multi-platform outlets offer the general public opportunities to vent their views on global and local proceedings. Jon Holmes and guests will circle the globe, collecting the thoughts, hopes, dreams and completely odd offerings of the opinion-spewing public in a quest to find out whether the people really know best.

Another new addition to the weekend schedule is Chart The Week, a seven-part Sunday morning topical news series, hosted by Richard Bacon, from Sunday 18 July, 11am-12pm. Each week, Richard will be joined by a panel of special guests to dissect the 10 most talked about stories of the week.

Comedy podcasters and internet obsessives Olly Mann and Helen Zaltzman return to 5 Live to celebrate the greatest, funniest, most infectious, influential and stupid online events in news, sport and entertainment over the past six months.

Web 2010 With Helen & Olly, Sunday 4 July, 7.30-8.30pm, will reveal who's made the web headlines this year, who the internet has turned into a star and who it has humiliated, and how the World Cup was played out online.

You can listen to ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 5 Live and ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 5 Live Sports Extra via DAB radio, online at bbc.co.uk/5live, or via digital Freeview, Sky, Freesat, Virgin Media and 909 & 693AM.

Notes to Editors

Sunday 4 July, Web 2010 With Helen And Olly, 7.30-8.30pm (one-off), produced for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ by Somethin' Else.
Sunday 18 July, Chart The Week, 11am-12pm, produced for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ by TBI Media.
Sunday 18 July, Men's Hour With Tim Samuels, 7.30-8.30pm, produced for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ by Tonic Productions Fresh One Productions.
Sunday 25 July, Jon Holmes' Mob Rule, 6.30-7.30pm (one-off), produced for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ by Abundant.

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