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TODAY’S RADIO
Essential Classics
9AM, RADIO 3 Samantha Bond has starred in Shakespearean roles, was a mainstay of Downton Abbey, and played Miss Moneypenny in four James Bond films. She joins Rob Cowan all this week to play her favourite pieces of classical music.
The Matter Of The North
9AM, 9.30PM, RADIO 4 John Kay’s spinning frame, Richard Arkwright’s water frame and James Hargreaves’s spinning jenny were among the inventions that forced the pace of the Industrial Revolution in the UK. In this sixth of his fortnight-long series on the role of the north in the making of modern Britain, Melvyn Bragg takes a look at the men behind the machines.
Beryl Bainbridge: Love By All Sorts Of Means
9.45AM, RADIO 4 The writer Beryl Bainbridge grew up in Formby, where she was known by some as Batty Bainbridge. She was throughout her life a genuine eccentric and a hard worker. Brendan King worked for Beryl for 23 years, and this biography, read by James Fleet and Samantha Bond, gives us some insights into the life of the much-missed novelist.
In Search Of Eden
1.45PM, RADIO 4 Adam and Eve were thrown out of the Garden of Eden for eating the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Professor of neuroscience Paul Howard-Jones, whose father was a vicar, wonders if this story expresses a longing for humankind’s hunter-gatherer past. He explores that idea all week in his thought-provoking lectures.
The Electrical Venus
2.15PM, RADIO 4 It’s 1749, and Grainger’s travelling circus has a new act to add to its weird attractions. Punters roll up to kiss the lips of the Electrical Venus – and get quite a shock – in this drama by Julie Mayhew.
BBC Proms 2016
7.30PM, RADIO 3 Daniel Barenboim and his orchestra, the Staatskapelle Berlin, give the first of three concerts – over consecutive evenings – that pair a Mozart piano concerto with a Bruckner symphony.