TODAY’S RADIO

Ken Bruce

9.30AM, RADIO 2 Joe Pasquale, the comedian, entertainer, ice dancer and former King of the Jungle, joins Ken all this week to choose some of the music that has meant a lot to him during his life. Joe’s first two Tracks Of My Years come from Billy Joel and Oasis.

Blood And Milk

10.45AM, 7.45PM, RADIO 4 Welsh dairies, with their clean, bright, tiled interiors and exteriors, were once dotted all over London. They were founded in the 1860s by enterprising Welsh families who kept cows near the shops, and supplied the capital with fresh milk. This potboiler of a drama – full of no-good boyos, reluctant brides and tarts with hearts of gold – follows the fortunes of spirited young Megan, who comes to London and finds that her wastrel brother is running the family business into the ground.

BBC Proms 2016

7.30PM, RADIO 3 Quincy Jones is one of the great musicians of our time – a conductor, arranger, producer and trumpet player, he’s no slouch when it comes to writing hit songs. Tonight’s concert from the Royal Albert Hall celebrates just some of the music Quincy has given us. The Dutch jazz band/orchestra Metropole Orkest will be joined by guest performers and Quincy himself.

The Full Works Concert

8PM, CLASSIC FM This concert by the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, recorded at the Walt Disney Hall, includes the piano piece Ravel wrote for Paul Wittgenstein after the pianist had an arm amputated in the First World War. Mussorgsky’s Pictures At An Exhibition and Rachmaninov’s The Isle Of The Dead are also on the bill.

Nell’s Angels

10PM, RADIO 2 Nell Bryden ends her series on female singer-songwriters with tracks from Beyonce and Missy Elliott.

Hersey’s Hiroshima

11PM, RADIO 4 Broadcaster Alistair Cooke called John Hersey’s chilling description of the bombing of Hiroshima, published in The New Yorker, as the greatest piece of journalism ever written. Peter Curran looks at the background to Hersey’s account.

Quincy Jones (7.30pm, Radio 3)