Susan jeffreys’ Radio Week

DERMOT O’LEARY

SATURDAY, 8AM, RADIO 2 HHHH Bruce Springsteen has been working away on a project, combining an album of new songs and a film about ‘The Boss’ talking about his inner battles. Bruce tells Dermot – a big Springsteen fan – about Western Stars on this morning’s show.

THE REPUBLICANS

SATURDAY, 2.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH This excellent drama series – which draws on first-hand accounts about Republican Presidents – comes to the Trump years, and finds the President in a bad mood on a Scottish golf course.

CMA COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2019

SATURDAY, 9PM, RADIO 2 HHHH Kristian Bush brings us the first in a four-part series of highlights from this year’s CMA festival. Kristian features songs from Rascal Flatts, Kelsea Ballerini and the Brothers Osborne.

NIGHTFALL

SUNDAY, 6PM, 12 MIDNIGHT, RADIO 4 EXTRA HHHH A good week for spine-chilling radio is made all the ghostlier with this supernatural drama, adapted from an Edith Wharton story, about a maid who takes a job in a haunted house.

STARVE ACRE

MONDAY-FRIDAY, 12.04PM, 10.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Grieving for their lost child, a husband and wife find that Starve Acre, their house on the edge of a Yorkshire moor, has become a place of strange noises and sinister goings-on in this chilling, week-long drama.

THE HAND DETECTIVES

MONDAY, 9PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

This documentary follows a breakthrough in forensic science when an infrared computer picture of a man’s hand and arm put the police on the trail of a child abuser.

FEAR IN THE FURROWS

THURSDAY, 11.30AM, RADIO 4 HHHH The wind howls, a branch taps at the window, and Simon Hollis takes us on an unsettling journey into the depths of the archives to find out why the country makes such a great setting for a horror film.