TODAY’S RADIO

Desert Island Discs

11.15AM, RADIO 4 (FM) Ed Sheeran should do all right on the BBC’s fabled desert island. He’s an independent-minded kind of man who built his career up from scratch by working hard and taking chances. In this first of a new series, Ed tells Kirsty Young about his life and his music, then chooses the book, luxury and eight discs that he would like with him when he’s marooned.

The Honeymoon: Donald Trump’s First 100 Days

1.30PM, RADIO 4 (FM) The first 100 days in office for an American President can be a bit of a honeymoon period. The shine’s still on the rhetoric, and all those election promises still seem feasible; then, reality kicks in. Here, Michael Goldfarb revisits some of the Trump supporters whom he met during Trump’s campaign, and asks how they feel about their candidate now.

Johnnie Walker’s Sounds Of The 70s

3PM, RADIO 2 The singer-songwriter and actress Charlie Dore joins Johnnie Walker to talk about her 1970s music memories and a career that started when she was a teenager with a bluegrass band, before she was signed up by Island Records in 1978.

The Choir

4PM, RADIO 3 Keeping your head on your shoulders if you worked for a Tudor monarch was no easy task. If you wrote church music, when a change of monarch could mean a change of religion, matters became even dicier. In this week’s edition of her regular programme, Sara MohrPietsch visits the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court, and hears how the Tudor composers Thomas Tallis, William Byrd and Thomas Morley survived and composed during those fractious times.

The Listening Service

5PM, RADIO 3 The players in Haydn’s orchestra had to spend an extended period at the summer palace of Prince Nikolaus Esterhazy. Haydn, as an appeal to the Prince to let the musicians return home, wrote the Farewell Symphony, during which players would leave, one by one, snuffing out the candles on their music stands as they left. Tom Service includes some of the symphony in this look at musical endings.

Ed Sheeran (11.15am, Radio 4)