TODAY’S RADIO

The Sunday Hour

6AM, RADIO 2

Kate Bottley, the Gogglebox vicar with a taste for eccentric footwear, presents this morning’s edition of the religious programme. Kate will mark the end of Refugee Week, and look at what the

Bible has to say about exiles and those who find themselves

‘in tears amid the alien corn’.

The Food Programme

12.30PM, RADIO 4

Paula Wolfert once travelled the world, learning how to cook local dishes and writing bestselling cookery books. She spoke eight languages, won awards and influenced many great cooks. Then, in 2013, Paula realised she couldn’t remember how to cook an omelette, and had to accept that the symptoms she’d been ignoring were a sure sign of advancing Alzheimer’s. Sheila Dillon looks at Paula’s distinguished culinary

Johnnie Walker’s Sounds Of The 70s

1PM, RADIO 2

Charles Esten, the comedian, actor and singer, joins Johnnie to look back over some 1970s musical memories. Esten, who has appeared in Star Trek and ER – and plays Deacon in that marvellously overthe-top TV drama series Nashville – has just finished a UK tour.

From Our Home Correspondent

1.30PM, RADIO 4

Ed Smith, former cricketer and commentator, shares his experiences of cricket and captains as a new England Test captain steps up to the crease. We will also hear of a residential community with Quaker origins in Gloucestershire, and about coping with diabetes.

Geeking Glenn Gould

6.45PM, RADIO 3

As a baby, Glenn Gould would wiggle his fingers as if playing the piano. By the time he was three, he demonstrated that he had perfect pitch and a genius for music. Gould had a morbid fear of cold, looked liked a tramp and, throughout his odd life, would entrance as well as enrage people with his eccentric approach to music. James Rhodes goes to Toronto in search of Gould’s friends and family to hear memories of a strange yet talented man.

Rev Kate Bottley (6am, Radio 2) life and her research into fighting dementia through diet and cooking.