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TODAY’S RADIO
It Sticks Out Half A Mile
8.30AM, 12.30PM, 7.30PM,
RADIO 4 EXTRA
First heard on BBC Radio 4 in 1981, this is the rarely aired radio sequel to Dad’s Army, created by Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles, who adapted Jimmy Perry and David Croft’s classic TV series. The pilot episode, set in 1948, involves the retired Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) deciding to renovate a pier in the fictional town of Frambourne-on-Sea. This was Lowe’s only appearance before his death; he was replaced as the bumbling captain by Bill Pertwee.
Fearne Cotton
9.30AM, RADIO 2
Don’t be surprised when you tune into Ken Bruce all this week to hear a rather excitable female voice in his place. That’s the sound of Fearne Cotton, the former Radio 1 stalwart, who has now graduated to Radio 2 after a successful stint covering Graham Norton earlier this year.
Keeping On Keeping On
9.45AM (FM), 12.30AM,
RADIO 4
Alan Bennett, with his unmistakable lilting Leeds accent, reads extracts from his diaries. He admits to not being a conscientious diarist – because most days, nothing of note happens – but the stories and details he has captured in a life well lived are all little gems. He begins on January 18, 2005, and lunch with Michael Palin and Barry Cryer…
The Pillow Book
10.45AM (FM), 7.45PM, RADIO 4 Ruth Gemmell is back as Lady Shonagon in a new, week-long series of the popular mystery thriller set in tenth-century Japan. The stories are inspired by the writings of Sei Shonagon – a poet and lady-in-waiting to the Empress of the tenth-century Japanese court. But here, the dramatist Robert Forrest has imagined Shonagon as a kind of amateur detective – medieval Japan’s answer to
Miss Marple, if you like.
CMA Music Festival 2016
10PM, RADIO 2
Kristian Bush, one half of the multimillion-selling duo Sugarland, presents the last of four programmes from the annual country music event held in Nashville, Tennessee. Among the stars being interviewed and performing on the final night are Little Big Town, Thomas Rhett and Brett Eldredge.