TODAY’S RADIO

One To One

9.30AM, RADIO 4 Assessing mentally ill offenders is a complex business. The consultant forensic psychiatrist Sohom Das works with lawyers as an expert witness in very tricky cases. This morning, he talks to Alan Rusbridger about the effect life behind bars can have on the mind, and the challenge of dealing with cases where there are no easy solutions.

BBC Proms 2019

7PM, RADIO 3 Vaughan Williams took a sacred work, written by Thomas Tallis in 1567, and turned it into one of English music’s most sublime works. His Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis was performed for the first time in Gloucester Kevin Eldon (11pm, Radio 4)

Cathedral in 1910. It opens tonight’s concert, and will be followed by Elgar’s The Music Makers.

Free Thinking

9.30PM, RADIO 3 Medical professionals are in a caring profession, seeing people in great distress, yet they are meant to maintain a clinical distance to focus on the medical issues of each case. Aoife Abbey, a doctor whose book Seven Signs Of Life draws on her work in intensive care, shares her experiences with colleagues about professional detachment and emotional engagement.

Kevin Eldon Will See You Now

11PM, RADIO 4 Kevin Eldon, who had two small roles in Game Of Thrones – as well as notching up appearances in Big Train, Brass Eye and other TV comedy shows – throws open the doors of his mansion tonight. With the aid of Morwenna Banks and Miles Jupp, Kevin introduces us to his resident Italian genius and his pedantic sons, and gives us an earful of Britain’s noisiest toast. A bit ramshackle, but with plenty of good moments. SJ