Radio Week

DERMOT O’LEARY

SATURDAY, 8AM, RADIO 2 HHHH Daniel Radcliffe will be appearing at London’s Old Vic in a stage adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s dark comedy Endgame. Daniel joins Dermot this morning to talk about this strange, surreal play.

ANIMAL FARM

SATURDAY, 2.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Tamsin Greig, Toby Jones and Nicky Henson are among the cast for this adaptation of George Orwell’s satire on lifeinthesovietunion.it’ssetonafarm where the animals have seized control – and where ‘All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.’

A SMALL TOWN MURDER

MONDAY-FRIDAY, 10.45AM, 7.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Strong plots and great acting by Meera Syal have distinguished this returning series of crime dramas set around the work of a police family liaison officer. Sadly, this will be the last series. Be sure not to miss it.

SOUL MUSIC

WEDNESDAY,

9AM, 9.30PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

Otis Redding was killed in a plane crash soon after recording (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay. We hear from some of the many people who have found strength and comfort from Otis’s posthumous hit.

D FOR DIAGNOSIS

WEDNESDAY, 9PM, RADIO 4 HHH New research suggests that physical illness, including inflammation of the body and brain, can be one of the causes of depression. Claudia Hammond reports on these findings in this last of a three-part series on mental illness.

FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT

FRIDAY, 8PM, RADIO 2 HHHH

John Sessions presents this concert from the Cheltenham Jazz Festival, celebrating London’s Soho and featuring that veteran jazz man Georgie Fame.

LAUREN LAVERNE

FRIDAY, 7.30AM, BBC 6 MUSIC HHHH Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe, aka the

Pet Shop Boys, have a new album out called Hotspot. The duo will be on Lauren’sshowwithmusicfromthealbum.