Today’s radio

IGGY POP

7PM, BBC 6 MUSIC HHHH

The US rocker features tracks from a recent Kinks reissue, plus songs by Celeste, Suicide, Serge Gainsbourg and Starcrawler in his ‘the weekend starts here’ show.

FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT

8PM, RADIO 2 HHHHH

Carol Decker is a solo artiste in her own right, but is also the lead singer of T’pau. Carol is on the bill tonight for this fabulous concert of 1980s hits, recorded at the London Coliseum. Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, Johnny Hates Jazz and Jimmy Somerville are also on the show, while songs include Things Can Only Get Better, Never Can Say Goodbye, China In Your Hand, I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me, The

Carol Decker (8pm, Radio 2) Riddle, Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This and Don’t Leave Me This Way.

THE FULL WORKS CONCERT

8PM, CLASSIC FM HHHHH Karl Jenkins, one of the mostperformed living composers, has written a new work, Miserere, dedicated to all who have suffered during conflicts in the Middle East over the past 70 years. It will be performed tonight in this recording of its world premiere, an exclusive concert of work by Jenkins. The countertenor Iestyn Davies, cellist Abel Selaocoe, percussionist Zands Duggan and harpist Catrin Finch are among the performers.

THE FIGHT OF THE CENTURY

9PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

The 1938 boxing match between the black American Joe Louis and the German Max Schmeling, whose fans included Hitler and Goebbels, became the largest radio event in history. They had already fought in 1936, when Schmeling won. Their second fight, on the brink of the Second World War, was a very different matter. Bonnie Greer tells the story of a fight that was to become one of the most famous sporting contests of all time. SJ