TODAY’S RADIO

Essential Classics

9AM, RADIO 3 Eddie Izzard joins Rob Cowan each morning this week. Eddie – who says that he was taught the clarinet as a child by a Mrs Bad-crumble – picks more favourite pieces, and talks about the importance of music in his life.

An Infinite Monkey’s Guide To General Relativity

9AM, 9.30PM, RADIO 4 In November 1915, Albert Einstein submitted his General Theory Of Relativity to a scientific journal. The German mathematician David Hilbert also submitted an article on the subject in that same month. Brian Cox and a cluster of cosmologists take Robin Ince and us on a guided tour of the theory on its 100th anniversary.

Soul Music

11.30AM, RADIO 4 The creepy, compelling song Mack The Knife was written in 1928 by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, and was a lastminute addition to their Threepenny Opera. When the barrel organ that was to accompany it broke down, the theatre’s orchestra pitched in with a jazz accompaniment. Suzi Quatro and Lenny Kaye share memories of a song that has been in the repertoire of hundreds of singers, and was a number one for Bobby Darin in 1959.

Radio 3 In Concert

7.30PM, RADIO 3 The hallelujahs fill St David’s Hall, Cardiff, as Laurence Equilbey conducts the BBC National Chorus and Orchestra of Wales in this live performance of Handel’s joyful oratorio, Messiah.

Sinatra On Screen

10PM, RADIO 2 Angie Dickinson concludes her two-part series on Frank Sinatra’s film career with some of her own recollections of working with him on Ocean’s 11, in which she played his wife. Angie also hears from Shirley MacLaine and Debbie Reynolds about filming with Frank.

Eddie Izzard