Today’s radio

DERMOT O’LEARY

8AM, RADIO 2 HHHH

Bruce Springsteen has a barn ‘filled with the best kind of ghosts and spirits’. He has drawn upon these kindly beings for his latest project, Western Stars. It will be his 19th studio album, and comes with an accompanying documentary film, which has

‘The Boss’ talking about his inner destructive forces and how he uses music to deal with them. He tells Dermot O’leary – a big Springsteen fan – about Western Stars on this morning’s show.

THE REPUBLICANS

2.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

‘I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody,’ Donald Trump boasted at a 2016 campaign rally, ‘and I wouldn’t lose voters.’ This latest in a series

Bruce Springsteen (8am, Radio 2) of sharp, funny, yet chilling dramas about Republican Presidents – which draws on eyewitness accounts – takes us into the strange world of Trumpland.

CMA COUNTRY MUSIC FESTIVAL 2019

9PM, RADIO 2 HHHH

A high-spirited gal walks out on her man wearing the high heels that made her taller than him, and a hard-workin’ man burns his candle at both ends. Yes indeedy, we’re knee-deep in country music tropes as Kristian Bush brings us the first in a fourpart series of highlights from this year’s CMA festival in Nashville. Kristian features songs from Rascal Flatts, Kelsea Ballerini, Tanya Tucker and the Brothers Osborne.

GEOFFREY SMITH’S JAZZ

12 MIDNIGHT, RADIO 3 HHHH New converts to jazz – and their numbers grow all the time – plus old fans are in for a treat as Geoffrey winds up his series with all-time favourites from Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Miles Davis and Sonny Rollins. SUSAN JEFFREYS