Today’s radio

TERROR IN THE SOUTH SEAS

10AM, 3PM, R4 EXTRA HHHH Robert Louis Stevenson spent the last four years of his life living on an island in Samoa. These were good years for the Scottish writer, though he produced some dark and disturbing work during that time. David Tennant stars in dramatisations of two tales that Stevenson set in the South Seas. The first is The Beach Of Falesa and the second is The Ebb Tide. Both, as you’ll hear this morning, have a vivid, nightmarish quality.

TOM ALLEN IS ACTUALLY NOT VERY NICE

6.30PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Down at the gym, according to comedian and The Apprentice: You’re Fired host Tom Allen, the cardio section is where you go for

David Tennant (11am, R4 Extra) a heart attack and the heavy weights area is where the big boys go to turn their arms into legs. Tom, who says he’s nice and polite on the surface, but nasty underneath, feels that his gym etiquette leaves much to be desired. How, he asks the studio audience in this first of a waspishly funny four-part series, could he improve his behaviour?

THE FULL WORKS CONCERT 8PM, CLASSIC FM

Host Catherine Bott takes us on a timely winter walk, beginning with Sibelius’s Karelia Suite – a work that weaves folk tunes and songs into a musical depiction of the snowy Finnish mountains.

IN BUSINESS

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8.30PM, RADIO 4 HHH Mobile phones are banned at the Long Pond in Eltham, south London, and conversation is actively encouraged. The Long Pond is a micropub, where the beer comes from casks and the premises are on the snug side. John Murphy visits the Long Pond and hears how, with pubs closing down all over the UK, such modest establishments are flourishing. SJ