SUSAN JEFFREYS’ Radio Week

A Kestrel For A Knave

SATURDAY, 2.30PM, RADIO 4 (FM)

Barry Hines’s much-loved book about a bullied boy trapped in a miserable life, who finds freedom when he rears and trains a kestrel, has been dramatised and recorded on location. Genuinely moving.

Geoffrey Smith’s Jazz

SATURDAY,

12 MIDNIGHT, RADIO 3 Geoffrey marks the 89th birthday of Sonny Rollins, the greatest living jazz musician. Geoffrey marks the event with some archive recordings of Rollins’s Road Show performances.

The Sunscreen Song: The Class Of ’99 SUNDAY, 9PM, RADIO 2 Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen) was an oddball hit that first appeared on the album Something For Everybody. Lee Perry, who voiced the lyrics, tells the story of a track that meant a lot to many people.

Some Kind Of Man

TUESDAY, 11PM, RADIO 4

Peter Curran, the writer, broadcaster and humorist, takes us through the Belfast streets of his childhood, and recalls George Best, towelling trunks, polite gunmen at the front door and the laughter of girls.

BBC Proms 2019

WEDNESDAY,

7.30PM, RADIO 3

The period instrument group Dunedin Consort gives a concert of precise mathematical beauty with this Bach Prom from the Royal Albert Hall.

The Country Show

THURSDAY, 9PM, RADIO 2 Paul Sexton introduces an hour of music, including Americana, honkytonk, pop country and ‘countrypolitan’, recorded at this year’s three-day

Long Road Festival in Leicestershire.

The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show

FRIDAY, 6.30AM, RADIO 2 Westlife’s Shane, Kian, Nicky and Mark play a live studio set ahead of their appearance at Radio 2’s Live In Hyde Park on Sunday, September 15.