TODAY’S RADIO

Radcliffe & Maconie

1PM, BBC 6 MUSIC Al Murray, the man behind the boorishly confident Pub Landlord, is today’s guest. Al doesn’t just do the comedy stuff – he presents history documentaries, plays the drums and stood last year as a candidate for Parliament. He’s currently at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and reports on the comedy scene there on today’s show.

Word Of Mouth

4PM, RADIO 4 ‘Conscious uncoupling’, ‘heading for Splitsville’, ‘matrimonial restructuring’ – Michael Rosen and Laura Wright look at the language of breaking up. They consider the words and phrases that 19th-century novelists and 21st-century celebs have used to describe the end of a relationship, then turn their attention to the vocabulary used to describe political partings of the ways.

Simon Mayo

5PM, RADIO 2 Nadiya Hussain, winner of 2015’s Great British Bake Off, joins Simon on today’s show. Nadiya has a book out called Bake Me A Story; through stories and recipes, it aims to get families cooking together.

Jamie Cullum

7PM, RADIO 2 Ben Folds, the US singer-songwriter and record producer, joins Jamie this evening. Ben’s songs often have a deceptively light and lyrical tune, with lyrics weighed down with dark emotions. He talks to Jamie about working with the instrumental group yMusic, and the influence jazz has had on his career.

File On 4

8PM, RADIO 4 ‘Legal highs’ are made from various chemicals and substances, including stimulants, depressants and opioids. They can be bought off the internet and, often as not, are made in laboratories in China. The laboratories can be slick and high-tech or dangerously filthy – and their products can be lethal. Danny Vincent investigates attempts to stop this deadly trade.

How Celtic Are We?

10PM, RADIO 3 There are five Celtic nations in the British Isles. Dai Smith looks at the genetics, language and culture linking these groups to find if Celtic identity is a myth or a reality.

Nadiya Hussain (5pm, Radio 2)