TODAY’S RADIO

Chris Evans

6.30AM, RADIO 2 Blues musician Seasick Steve is on this morning’s show, a cause for his many British fans to rejoice. Steve was born in California, and spent much of his youth living as a hobo, jumping freight trains and taking seasonal work. He became a session musician, then busked around Europe, before getting his big UK break in 2006 with a mesmerising performance on Jools Holland’s Hootenanny. Melanie C will also perform a live session, while John Bishop will be talking about his latest ventures.

Deborah Frances-White Rolls The Dice

11.30AM, RADIO 4 Writer and comedian Deborah Frances-White was adopted when she was ten days old. In this first show of a new series, she takes us on a journey in search of her birth father, and it’s both touching and funny.

John Bishop (6.30am, Radio 2) Julie

2.15PM, RADIO 4 It’s 1977 and, in an isolated farmhouse in Wales, chemist Richard Kemp is turning out large amounts of LSD; a fatal car accident puts the police on his trail. Alex Waldmann and Simon Armstrong star in this cracking drama based on the true story of Operation Julie.

In Tune

5PM, RADIO 3 Suzy Klein meets some of the participants in this evening’s Bowie 9.55PM, RADIO 3 Poet Edmund Blunden, who described himself as ‘a harmless young shepherd in a soldier’s coat’, served for long stretches on the Western Front during the First World War. Ian McMillan presents this programme of Blunden’s Great War poetry, which includes a recording of Blunden himself reading his chilling poem Concert Party.

World On 3

11PM, RADIO 3 Seasick Steve provided a bluesy start to the day on Chris Evans’s show this morning; now, Ragged Union will bring it to a bluesy close. The American bluegrass and blues band join presenter Kathryn Tickell for a live studio session tonight.

SJ