TODAY’S RADIO

Escaping America’s Most Hated Family

9.30AM, WORLD SERVICE

The Phelps clan have picketed military funerals, carrying placards with homophobic slogans. The children were expected to join in with ‘America’s most hated family’. Now, one of the younger generation, Libby, has escaped from a family life fuelled by hate; she lives with her husband and child, and actively campaigns for tolerance and LGBT rights. Libby talks to Colm Flynn about growing up in a hate cult.

Johnnie Walker’s Sounds Of The 70s

3PM, RADIO 2

Kiki Dee was performing with a local band in her home town of Bradford while she was a teenager. She worked as a backing singer for Dusty Springfield and other stars while pursuing her own career.

Kiki did backing vocals for Elton John before the two had a big hit together with Don’t Go Breaking My Heart. Kiki, the first white UK singer to be signed to Motown, joins Johnnie to look back on her career.

Charlotte Hawkins

3PM, CLASSIC FM

Crop failures, disease and poverty contributed to the depopulation of the remote Scottish archipelago of St Kilda, but the islands’ music lives on. The young British composer Rebecca Dale has been involved in a project of weaving recorded musical fragments into a new work called The Lost Songs Of St Kilda. Charlotte features Rebecca’s work on this album on today’s show.

In And Out Of The Kitchen

7.15PM, RADIO 4

This foodie-themed sitcom series, starring Miles Jupp as a celebrity cookery writer, gets a deserved repeat broadcast in this Sunday comedy spot.

A Play For The Heart

9PM, RADIO 3

William Shakespeare (Robert Lindsay) lies on his deathbed as a series of characters, some real and some conjured from his fevered imagination, visit him. Is the pale boy his long-dead son, Hamnet? What is it that the man with bloody hands has done? And what is it that all these people want? This atmospheric drama takes us through the last day of the great playwright’s life.

Robert Lindsay (9pm, Radio 3)