Today’s radio

KEN BRUCE

9.30AM, RADIO 2 HHHH Lauren Daigle, the American singer-songwriter whose work features regularly at the top end of the Billboard Christian album chart, joins Ken in the Radio 2 Piano Room for a live session of tracks from her Grammy-winning 2018 release, Look Up Child.

TUNNEL 29

1.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

In a tunnel the width of a coffin, a young man worms his way towards a faint light that, he hopes, is drawing him to freedom. In this first of a ten-part series, we hear how, in 1961, soldiers put up a barrier that separated East Berlin from western Europe. Phone lines were cut and rail lines were closed, and escape attempts to the West could be deadly. Told in semidramatised Lauren Daigle (9.30am, Radio 2) form, this gives a vivid account of a strange and surreal period in 20th-century Germany.

THE SECRET HISTORY OF GCHQ

8PM, RADIO 4 HHH

In this first of a two-part series, Gordon Corera tells the story of the government intelligence and security organisation that was founded 100 years ago. There is some interesting stuff here – including recollections by people who worked at the listening station in Scarborough during and after the Second World War – but the story of personality clashes, breakthroughs, secrets and codebreaking during the First World War doesn’t get enough attention.

RABBIT REMEMBERED

10.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Between 1960 and 1990, John Updike published four novels about American everyman Harry ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom; two of the books won the Pulitzer Prize. Every night this week, Toby Jones reads Updike’s postscript novella, first published in 2001, which follows Harry’s family ten years after his death. Tonight, they meet his illegitimate daughter.