TODAY’S RADIO

Graham Norton

10AM, RADIO 2

Michael Kiwanuka is on Graham’s show this morning to talk about his current tour. Michael has notched up plenty of awards, supported Adele on tour, and had a big success with his album Love & Hate. Alison Moyet will also be on the show, with news of her upcoming world tour and her appearance at this year’s Isle of Wight Festival.

The Rosenthals: Eskimo Day

2.30PM, RADIO 4

Two youngsters, from very different backgrounds, are on their way to an interview for a place at a Cambridge college. The only thing they have in common is that their parents are a source of constant embarrassment to them. Hugh (Ben Miles) keeps giving his daughter useless interview advice. Shani (Pooky Quesnel) watches out for cracks in the pavement, lone magpies and other omens of ill luck that might stop her son making it to Cambridge. All of them are united in this warm, funny and beautifully observed drama, set in 1996 and written by the late Jack Rosenthal.

Saturday Night At The Movies

5PM, CLASSIC FM Andrew Collins plays music with a magic and fantasy theme today, and includes tracks from the Harry Potter, Narnia and Lord Of The Rings films, plus Danny Elfman’s score for Edward Scissorhands and music from Princess Mononoke.

50 Things That Made The Modern Economy: Cuneiform

8.50PM, WORLD SERVICE

The oldest writing ever discovered dates back more than 5,000 years to a settlement on the River Euphrates in what is now Iraq. The wedgeshaped figures cut into wet clay have an orderly, attractive appearance. Tim Hartford tells us about this early script, and gives us the disappointing news that cuneiform wasn’t used for great works – but for accounts.

Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz

12 MIDNIGHT, RADIO 3

Buck Clayton, Count Basie’s trumpet star, spent a chunk of his career in Shanghai with his dapper band, the Harlem Gentlemen. His career was cut short by essential lip surgery, but he left a body of recordings of great jam sessions, some of which feature on the show tonight. SJ

Ben Miles (2.30pm, Radio 4)