TODAY’S RADIO

Chris Evans

6.30AM, RADIO 2

You’ve got one last chance, all you budding young writers, to enter this year’s 500 Words short story competition. Young hopefuls between five and 13 years old must get their original work of fiction – no more than 500 words long – to Chris Evans’s Radio 2 Breakfast Show by 7pm this evening. Chris will be giving out the details this morning, and the live final will take place on Friday, June 8, at Hampton Court Palace.

In Our Time

9AM, 9.30PM, RADIO 4

Rosalind Franklin was a chemist and X-ray specialist whose pioneering work was essential to the unlocking of the secrets of DNA. Her work went largely unacknowledged until after her death. Melvyn Bragg and a team of experts discuss the life of a scientist whose career was overshadowed by male chauvinism.

Ramblings

3PM, RADIO 4

In this second show of the new series, Clare Balding takes a night walk near Greens Norton in Northamptonshire. Clare is joined by Christina Edwards, who grew up in the area, and would often go for late-night walks with her dog when she was a teenager. Christina was in a poor state of health at the time due to anorexia, and these walks were something of an obsession. Christina, now happy and well, looks back at those dark times, and tells Clare how she found a way back to health and stability.

Bob Harris Country

7PM, RADIO 2

Kelsea Ballerini brought out her second studio album, Unapologetically, just before Christmas. The album picture shows Kelsea all dressed up like a wood fairy; the songs reflect the end of one romance and the start of another. Tennessee-born Kelsea joins Bob for a live session tonight.

Exposure

11PM, RADIO 3 Hebden Bridge is a little town of much charm that lies deep in a Yorkshire valley. It’s also a town that is full of talent and music-making. Verity Sharp visits Hebden Bridge’s Trades Club to hear experimental music sets from Andrew Liles, Magpahi and The Slowest Lift.

Clare Balding (3pm, Radio 4)