Radio Week

The War Of The Worlds

SATURDAY, 2.30PM, RADIO 4 The Red Planet is in the ascendant in the Radio 4 schedules this week. Dramas, stories and documentaries about Mars crop up all through the week, getting off to a good start with this adaptation of H.G. Wells’s science fiction classic about a Martian invasion of Earth.

Charlotte Green

SUNDAY, 3PM, CLASSIC FM Patrick Stewart, who has played all the major Shakespearean roles, and has made a bit of a speciality of intergalactic characters and superheroes, joins Charlotte to play some of his favourite classical music and to talk about Logan, the latest in the X-Men series of films.

Ken Bruce

MONDAY-FRIDAY, 9.30AM, RADIO 2 The comedian Barry Cryer, who has spent more than 50 years in the comedy game, is Ken’s guest all this week. Barry, a mainstay of the comedy panel show I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue, picks his Tracks Of My Years, and shares some of his many and funny showbiz memories.

Jo Whiley

TUESDAY, 8PM, RADIO 2 A great week for live music will be made all the better with a session from Elbow. The band will perform songs from their new album, Little Fictions. Despite the title, the album is full of songs with big themes and bags of emotion.

Lent Talks

WEDNESDAY, 8.45PM, RADIO 4 Key figures in events leading up to Christ’s Crucifixion seem to have been in the power of a force of destiny that robbed them of their free will. The psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose gives this fascinating talk about Jesus’s seemingly inevitable journey to the Cross.

Ramblings

THURSDAY, 3PM, RADIO 4 (FM) Clare Balding and a group of walkers visit two hillforts in Wales, and hears some interesting theories about these ancient remains.

Live From C2C: Country To Country

FRIDAY, 8PM, RADIO 2 The big C2C country music festival comes to the O2 in London. Jo Whiley and Bob Harris will do the presenting honours for this opening show starring Brad Paisley, Jennifer Nettles, Chris Young and other Nashville cats.

ARCHERS UPDATE

Two riders, cutting across the Ambridge countryside, are all but oblivious to what’s going on around them. They don’t notice that, thanks to Pip’s negligence, the Brookfield cows are all mixed up with the Bridge Farm Anguses. They don’t hear the sound of poor Kirsty finally blowing her top after coming back to work way too soon. The riders, one of them furious, one of them tight-lipped, don’t hear Harrison haranguing the halfhearted cricket team, or the massive row between Kirsty and Harrison in the tearoom. Even the trouble up at Grey Gables passes them by as they trot along the bridle path. Then, one of them, Miranda, gives the other rider, Lilian, such an earful that even the crows in the St Stephen’s graveyard fall silent.