TODAY’S RADIO

Fearne Cotton & Martin Kemp

10AM, RADIO 2 Fearne and Martin will be joined this morning by the woodsman, survival expert, author and TV personality Ray Mears. Ray will talk about his recent adventures, and share a few bushcraft tips.

A Journey Through English

10.30AM, RADIO 4 The rail route from Aberdeen to Penzance covers over 600 miles, and the English language goes through some remarkable changes along the way. In this programme, we hear some of the accents, phrases and vocabulary that add richness to the language.

Great Fire 350

3.30PM, RADIO 4 The Great Fire of London began 350 years ago. A sixth of London’s citizens were made homeless; the majority of them had to live in makeshift camps through the bitter winter of 1666-67. In this programme, we hear how Artichoke, a company that specialises in staging amazing events, will be marking the conflagration.

Alex James’s Date Night

7PM, CLASSIC FM In his regular show of musical anniversaries, the Blur bassist celebrates the birthdays of the soprano Angela Gheorgiu and the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

BBC Proms 2016

7.30PM, RADIO 3 Brahms wrote his Symphony No 2 while staying at an Austrian lakeside resort. The setting was idyllic and the music, which came easy to Brahms, reflects the composer’s surroundings. There are, however, some melancholic passages in the symphony, and Brahms remarked – perhaps as a joke – that musicians should play the piece as if ‘with a mourning ribbon around their arm’. Here, Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic through the work.

A Day In The Life

9PM, CLASSIC FM Anne-Marie Minhall continues with her enlightening series, taking us through a typical day in the life of a great composer. Tonight, she looks in the diary of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and traces the roots of some of the emotions that can be heard in his music.

Ray Mears (10am, Radio 2)