TODAY’S RADIO

In Search Of Eden

1.45PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★ A death pit thought to be 7,000 years old – containing the skeletal remains of 34 men, women and children – was discovered in Talheim, Germany, in 1983. None of the skeletons has defensive wounds, indicating that the victims were fleeing at the time of death. It is one of the earliest pieces of evidence of organised violence to have been found in Europe. The neuroscientist Paul Howard-Jones visits the death pit, and hears theories about this grim discovery.

Tom Wrigglesworth’s Hang-Ups

6.30PM, RADIO 4 ★★★ In the third of this series, the Yorkshire-born comedian Tom Wrigglesworth makes his weekly call to his parents. The senior Wriggles-worths are in a state of panic as the council is coming round to check that Grandma

Bob Harris Country

7PM, RADIO 2 ★★★★ San Diego singer Eve Selis has a strong husky voice, and she knows how to tell the story of a song. She joins Bob for a studio session.

In Business

8.30PM, RADIO 4 ★★★ Infertile couples will pay thousands of pounds in the hope of having a baby, and there is no guarantee that the treatments they have paid so much for will work. Matthew Gwyther looks at the booming, international, multibillion-pound baby-making business.

BBC Proms 2016

10.15PM, RADIO 3 ★★★★ This late-night concert, given by the Academy of Ancient Music, is full of joyful choral music by Handel, and includes one of English music’s saddest songs – When I Am Laid In Earth, by Purcell.

The Record Producers

1AM, BBC 6 MUSIC ★★★★ Andy Peebles celebrates the hit-making skills of Jerome Leiber and Mike Stoller, whose songs include Is That All There Is? and Hound Dog.

Tom Wrigglesworth (6.30pm, R4) Wrigglesworth is being looked after properly. As ever, this series is full of great writing, but recording the show with a semi-hysterical studio audience does this kind of quiet observational humour no favours.