TODAY’S RADIO

Saturday Breakfast With

Dermot

8AM, RADIO 2

Noel Gallagher released his third High Flying Birds album at the end of last year, and it went straight to number one. Called Who Built The Moon?, it includes some lush, layered tracks, and the singles Holy Mountain and It’s A Beautiful World. Noel joins Dermot O’Leary to talk about the album and his coming tour of North America and Europe, and to give us a couple of songs.

Graham Norton

10AM, RADIO 2

Ben Whishaw began the year in rehearsal at the Bridge Theatre for a production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Ben plays Brutus, David Morrissey is Mark Antony and David Calder is Caesar in a play – written more than 400 years ago – about seizing the reins of power from a man no longer considered by his cohorts fit to rule. Ben talks to Graham about the play and its 21st-century resonance. The writer Kay Mellor is also on the show, and there’s music from Paloma Faith.

Saturday Night At The Movies

5PM, CLASSIC FM

Will Carter Burwell’s highly acclaimed score for Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri get him an Oscar? Andrew Collins puts together a list of music nominees for the 90th Academy Awards.

The Medium Is The Message

8PM, RADIO 4

The Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan coined the phrase ‘the medium is the message’, and foresaw the arrival of the World Wide Web some 30 years before it happened. The Generation X author Douglas Coupland looks at the life and work of the man who predicted the huge changes that digital mass media would make to our lives.

The Vital Spark: The Driver’s Seat

9PM, RADIO 4

Lise, who has led a quiet life, gives up her dull job, starts dressing like a vamp, and sets off in search of ‘the one’. Written by Muriel Spark, who described this dark thriller as a ‘whydunit’, The Driver’s Seat was made into a film starring Elizabeth Taylor in 1974, with Andy Warhol making an appearance as an English lord. Shauna Macdonald takes the lead in this radio dramatisation by Beatrice Colin.

Ben Whishaw (10am, Radio 2)