TODAY’S RADIO

Keepsake For My Lover

11.30AM, RADIO 4

Voice recording booths invite you to ‘hear yourself as others hear you’ by entering a weird machine to cut a record. Once a staple of arcades and seaside resorts, the booths are back in fashion. Janine H. Jones crosses the Atlantic to meet the enthusiasts who have restored these booths – and to find out why people are using them to make permanent records of their own voices.

Afternoon On 3

2PM, RADIO 3

Today’s matinee is a performance of Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman, recorded at this year’s Bayreuth Festival and conducted by Axel Kober. Based on a myth from 17thcentury folklore, the story concerns a sailor who has been condemned for eternity to sail his ship. Only once every seven years is he allowed to come ashore to seek redemption by a faithful woman. The baritone John Lundgren plays the Dutchman, with Ricarda Merbeth as Senta, the young lady who may be the answer to his prayers.

The Casebook Of Max And Ivan

6.30PM, RADIO 4 Incompetent private detectives Max and Ivan – otherwise known as the critically acclaimed comedians and actors Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez – are back in a Halloween special of their gag-packed crime caper sitcom. A holiday with Ivan’s uncle on the remote Isle of Sudley seems to offer the perfect break. But things go awry as the boys get mixed up in a sinister underworld of murder and human sacrifice.

The Full Works Concert

8PM, CLASSIC FM

Tonight’s celebration of the Philharmonia Orchestra features works by Grieg and Boccherini, and concludes in a dazzling finale with violinist Maxim Vengerov playing Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole.

The Masterson Inheritance

11.30PM, RADIO 4 EXTRA

Paul Merton, Josie Lawrence and Caroline Quentin lead the cast of this improvised family saga, first broadcast in 1995. Each programme sees the fate of the bickering Masterson clan directed by the suggested whims of the audience, leading to some very strange but very funny plot developments.

Maxim Vengerov (8pm, Classic FM)