TODAY’S RADIO

U And Non-U: Does Anyone Still Care?

11AM, RADIO 4

In 1954, Alan S.C. Ross, a professor of linguistics, coined the terms ‘U’ and ‘non-U’. U stood for upper class, while non-U stood for the aspiring middle class. Ross compiled a list of words whose use defined which class you were in. The upper class said lavatory, looking glass and pudding, where the middle class would use the words toilet, mirror and dessert. William Hanson looks at the list, and attempts to update it for modern times.

Baldi

11.15AM, RADIO 4 EXTRA

David Threlfall (Frank Gallagher in Shameless) plays Paolo Baldi, a Franciscan priest solving murders in contemporary Dublin. In the first episode, a woman (played by Pauline McLynn, best-known as Father Ted’s housekeeper, Mrs Doyle) leads the priest to a house of clocks, where love, revenge and jealousy tick away – and time runs out for a retired watchmaker.

Radio 3 In Concert

7.30PM, RADIO 3

Gerald Finzi wrote his Cello Concerto in the last year of his life, and it received its first radio broadcast the night before he died. Despite this, there is a defiance to the work, as you can hear in this live concert from the Barbican, given by the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

Friday Night Is Music Night

8PM, RADIO 2

The titles alone of Harry Warren’s long list of hits are enough to get your toes tapping. He wrote more than 800 songs – including We’re In The Money, That’s Amore and Lullaby Of Broadway – and his work has been featured in more than

300 films; Harry also wrote a Latin Mass. Larry Blank conducts the

BBC Concert Orchestra and BBC Big Band in this celebration of the man behind the musical 42nd Street.

The Full Works Concert

8PM, CLASSIC FM

Catherine Bott includes Arvo Part’s haunting piece of minimal music, Spiegel Im Spiegel, in her selection of recorded music tonight. The title translates as Mirror In The Mirror, and reflects Catherine’s theme of works with a frequently repeated motif. Ravel’s Bolero, Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet and Schubert’s Eighth Symphony are also on the bill.

Catherine Bott (8pm, Classic FM)