Susan jeffreys’ Radio Week

ARTHUR

SATURDAY, 2.45PM,

RADIO 4 HHHH

Ray Davies takes us on a walk down his memory lane for this drama – with songs – about growing up in post-war Britain. The music includes Waterloo Sunset,

The Village Green and Mr Churchill Says.

THE MICHAEL BALL SHOW

SUNDAY, 11AM, RADIO 2 HHHH Craig Revel Horwood, Strictly Come Dancing’s most perceptive judge, tells Michael about playing the Wicked Queen in Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs, while Beverley Knight sings tracks from her recent release, BK25.

VELVET BLACKOUT

MONDAY, 2.15PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

A young woman is rescued from a bombed building in this Second World War psycho-thriller, and she’s lost her memory. A doctor and a policeman who find her are convinced there is something more sinister about her condition than shock, and a strange story unfolds.

ZOE BALL

TUESDAY, 6.30AM, RADIO 2 HHHH Hollywood veterans Robert De Niro and Al Pacino join Zoe with news of their new film, The Irishman, a gangster drama from Martin Scorsese.

PET SOUNDS

TUESDAY, 7PM, CLASSIC FM HHH If your pets suffer from the noise of Bonfire Night, you might want to tune in to this mix of soothing music, which also features advice from the RSPCA.

RADIO 3 IN CONCERT

THURSDAY, 7.30PM, RADIO 3 HHHH The Titanic took the score of a brand-new violin concerto by the British composer Samuel Coleridge-taylor to the bottom of the sea. Coleridge-taylor rewrote the work from memory, and it’s performed here by Chineke!, an orchestra made up of musicians from diverse backgrounds.

STEVE WRIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON

FRIDAY, 2PM, RADIO 2 HHHH

If you listen carefully to cover compilation albums from the late 1960s and early 1970s, you might be able to pick out Elton John doing vocals. Elton joins Steve to talk about his early days in the music business.