Today’s radio

TRACKS: INDIGO

10.45AM, 7.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Tracks is an ongoing radio series of thrillers starring Romola Garai as Helen Ash. Helen is a doctor with a sharp bedside manner and a mysterious past. In this new, fourth series, Indigo, Helen is involved in a road accident, which seems to have wiped out some of her memory. Have sinister forces been at work? Continues daily.

STARVE ACRE

12.04PM, 10.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH This week-long drama, set in a chilly house called Starve Acre on the edge of a Yorkshire moor, tells of a couple who are distraught with grief after the death of their young son. The husband throws himself into the task of trying to find a mystical

Romola Garai (10.45am, Radio 4) oak tree, while the wife finds comfort in the company of a group of occultists called the Beacons. Both these attempts to escape their grief brings them to the realms of the sinister.

HAUNTED WOMEN

4PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

The ghostly theme continues in this look at 19th-century ghost and horror fiction. Stories of haunted houses and the restless dead were a mainstay of publishing houses and magazines in Britain and America, with women writers excelling at the genre. This programme delivers some spine-chilling examples, and asks why these women writers took such pride in scaring their readers witless.

THE HAND DETECTIVES

9PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

The police gave an infrared computer picture of a man’s hand and arm, taken in the middle of the night, to the forensic scientist Sue Black. They wanted to know if she could find any clues that would link this picture to a potential child abuser. This is the story of scientific and detection breakthrough. SJ