TODAY’S RADIO

Prisoner Soul

6.30AM, 1.30PM, 8.30PM, RADIO 4 EXTRA

In 1970, university music professor Harley Rex was recruited by the prison system in Huntsville, Texas, to run a music-making programme for inmates; during his tenure, a bespoke studio was built there. Here, Harley returns to Huntsville’s Wynne Unit with journalist Gary Younge. Harley talks about the music the prisoners made, and hears how this studio has fared over the years. Gary visits other US prisons where music was actively promoted in the 1960s and 1970s, hearing how prisoners formed bands and made records. The music was good, and some of the records have become collectors’ items.

Why Are We So Angry?

9.30AM, RADIO 4

In his thoughtful series on the rise of rage, Oliver Burkeman wonders why so many people who are in positions of political or economic power seem so often to be angry.

Lauren Laverne

10AM, BBC 6 MUSIC

Mattiel, a singer-songwriter from Atlanta, Georgia, sings big, bold music; her track Whites Of Their Eyes is a cracker. Mattiel joins Lauren in the studio this morning for a live session.

The Full Works Concert

8PM, CLASSIC FM

There was much sneering by music journalists when Prince Charles said he liked Leonard Cohen’s music.

The late Lennie is now seen, with good reason, as a bit of a genius, so all those muso hacks should eat their words. Cohen’s enduring hit Hallelujah, played by the young cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason, rounds off this concert celebrating the Prince of Wales’s 70th birthday. Highgrove Suite by Patrick Hawes and The Lochnagar Suite – a musical adaptation by Nigel Hess of a children’s book written by the Prince – are also on the bill.

In Youth We Trust

9PM, RADIO 2

As part of Prince Charles’s

70th birthday celebrations, Fiona Bruce looks at the way the Prince’s Trust has changed young people’s lives by offering training, support, mentoring and many other kinds of help for disadvantaged youngsters who are setting out on life’s road. SJ

Fiona Bruce (9pm, Radio 2)