TODAY’S RADIO

Ken Bruce

9.30AM, RADIO 2 Micky Dolenz was a child star long before he became one of The Monkees, and he has since been a TV and theatre director. He joins Ken this week to pick his Tracks Of My Years, starting with music from Chuck Berry and The Elegants.

A Casual Clearance

11AM, RADIO 4 Clearing out the home of a dead relative can be a sad business. Piles of papers, photographs, letters and treasures must be gone through – and sometimes, long-held secrets emerge. Clare Jenkins, who recently had to clear out her parents’ home, talks about the emotional business of what to keep and what to let go.

Britain’s Black Past

1.45PM, RADIO 4 Birds call from the salt marshes, and the wind blows across the remote grave of a young boy. Sunderland Point near Morecambe Bay was once a port for ships that carried slaves and cotton. In the first of her two-week series, Professor Gretchen Gerzina tells the sad story of a young black cabin boy who was abandoned on this coastline by his slaveowning master. Other forgotten black lives from 18th- and 19thcentury Britain will be remembered in the course of a fascinating series.

Euston To Whitechapel

2.15PM, RADIO 4 Nicola Baldwin’s drama is played out in real time, as a London cab driver picks up a passenger who looks like his estranged daughter and takes her from Euston to Whitechapel. Meanwhile, a young paramedic is making the same journey with an unconscious patient whose condition is rapidly deteriorating.

In Tune

5PM, RADIO 3 As part of the 70th anniversary celebrations on Radio 3, guitarist Craig Ogden plays live in the foyer of London’s Royal Festival Hall.

The Full Works Concert

8PM, CLASSIC FM To mark its 125th anniversary, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra has made some special recordings, which will feature each Monday until Christmas. First up is Hamish MacCunn’s 1887 work, The Land Of The Mountain And The Flood.

Micky Dolenz (9.30am, Radio 2)