TODAY’S RADIO

Mae Martin’s Guide To

21st Century Addiction

11.30AM, RADIO 4

In the first of this two-part series, the stand-up comedian Mae Martin looks at the nature of addiction and recalls how, as a child and a teenager, she would become fixated on people or things. Drawing on these personal experiences, she looks at why people become caught up in an obsession or an addiction. Mae also explores the boundary between habit and addiction.

Simon Mayo

5PM, RADIO 2

Reggie Yates, the TV presenter and risk-taking documentarymaker – his credits include the eye-opening Extreme Russia, Extreme South Africa and The Insider for BBC3 – joins Simon this afternoon. Reggie will be talking about his debut book, Unseen, which follows his life behind the camera.

Andy Hamilton

Sort Of Remembers

6.30PM, RADIO 4

Andy Hamilton was born with, in his own words, ‘one and a half thumbs on one hand, and half a thumb on the other’. He spent long periods of his childhood in hospital, having operations attempting to correct this. Here, he looks at our attitude to the human body, and at the way his own body conspires against him.

Why I Changed My Mind

8.45PM, RADIO 4

Bill Browder was the biggest foreign investor in Russia, but a tragic death – and changing his mind about what truly matters to him – made him Vladimir Putin’s great enemy. Dominic Lawson interviews Bill to find out why he had such a change of heart.

George Michael: Red Line

10PM, RADIO 2

Shortly before he died on Christmas Day of 2016, George Michael gave an in-depth interview, full of asides and insights, to Kirsty Young. Extracts from the interview were to be used on the soundtrack for the film Freedom. When they had finished recording, George said to Kirsty: ‘You should turn this into a radio programme.’ There was actually so much good material that Kirsty has turned it into two programmes. The second goes out next Wednesday. SJ

George Michael (10pm, Radio 2)