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TODAY’S RADIO
Ramblings
3PM, RADIO 4
The Doolough famine walk of 1849 was filled with pain and sorrow. Potato blight had spread across Ireland, destroying crops and bringing starvation. Hundreds of desperate people turned up at an agreed point to see if they were due poor relief; they were then told that they had to walk through the night to reach another inspection point. Many of the marchers were walking skeletons, and some died along the way. Clare Balding follows the famine walk, and hears a sad story.
Bob Harris Country
7PM, RADIO 2
Jennifer Nettles, the lead singer of Sugarland and a solo artiste in her own right, is on this evening’s show. She will be appearing at the O2 Arena in London next month, as part of the C2C: Country To Country festival. She joins Bob for a live session and to talk about her career.
The Full Works Concert
8PM, CLASSIC FM
The British soprano Catherine Bott selects some delightful and familiar works, recorded by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. The programme opens with Ralph Vaughan Williams’s English Folk Song Suite, followed by the mesmeric insistence of Ravel’s Bolero. William Alwyn’s Festival March closes the show in barnstorming style.
Free Thinking
10PM, RADIO 3
The citizens of Hull were bombarded by Royalists, and the land around the city was deliberately flooded during the Civil War. Matthew Sweet hears details of a play based on these events that opens next week at the Hull Truck Theatre.
Mark Steel: Who Do I Think I Am?
11PM, RADIO 4
Comedian Mark Steel was born to an unmarried teenage mother. He was adopted when he was ten days old. Mark grew up in a working-class family and had, despite the family often being short of money, a happy childhood. He didn’t worry about finding the identity of his biological parents until he had children of his own. In this stand-up show, Mark talks about setting out, late in life, to find his blood relatives. The truth about his background, as you’ll hear tonight, is truly extraordinary.