TODAY’S RADIO

Saturday Breakfast With Dermot

8AM, RADIO 2 Olly Murs, the 2009 X Factor runner-up, joins Dermot O’Leary for a chat about their respective careers. Olly took over from Dermot as The X Factor’s presenter for a brief and rather awkward stint before the job reverted to Dermot. Despite this, they remain friends, and Olly is now a coach on The Voice UK.

Graham Norton

10AM, RADIO 2 Bob Geldof is passionate to the point of obsession about W.B. Yeats and, a couple of years ago, co-wrote a documentary about the great Irish poet. Bob joins his fellow Irishman, Graham, this morning to talk about Yeats’s life and work. Kylie Minogue is in the studio to talk about her latest album, Golden, which features the single Dancing, while Tom Burke is also on the show with news of the new Cormoran Strike series.

And The Academy Award Goes To…

10.30AM, RADIO 4 Despite the rather disappointing-looking iceberg, the 1997 film Titanic won a record-equalling 11 Oscars at the 70th Academy Awards. It had been a gruelling film to make, with the director, James Cameron, earning the nickname of Captain Bligh for the tough treatment he dished out to the cast and crew. In the second programme of this series featuring the stories behind films that have won the Best Picture Oscar, Paul Gambaccini tells the inside story of an epic that was almost a disaster.

The Good Companions

2.30PM, RADIO 4 Sacked from his factory job, Jess Oakroyd turns his back on his old life and sets off to see the world. Fate brings him into the company of a touring troupe of entertainers who go by the name of The Dinky Doos. Ralph Ineson, Fenella Woolgar and Roy Hudd star in this dramatisation of J.B. Priestley’s rather dated novel.

Short Works

12.30AM, RADIO 4 The writer Alex Preston was a keen bird-watcher until he became a teenager. In the short story The Man Who Loved Birds, he writes of a man who goes on a journey in search of the lost birdsong of his youth.

Kylie Minogue (10am, Radio 2)