Today’s radio

SOUL MUSIC

9AM, 9.30PM, RADIO 4 HHHH When you hit a point in your life where everything seems to have come to an end, listen to Otis Redding singing (Sittin’ On) The Dock Of The Bay. The lyrics are about loneliness and failure, yet the mood is one of calm acceptance. Otis didn’t think the track was finished, but was killed in an air crash soon after recording it. The song, as you will hear in this programme about people whose lives have been changed by the track, is perfectly complete.

CONVERSATIONS FROM A LONG MARRIAGE

11.30AM, RADIO 4 HHHH

‘Why didn’t you ask me to dance?’ Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam play a long-married couple who get along very well, but have their squabbles. In the opening episode of this comedy, a night out with friends leads to a spot of bother.

THE FULL WORKS CONCERT

8PM, CLASSIC FM HHH

John Williams has taken the art of writing film music to a new level.

He is, after Walt Disney, the most Oscar-nominated individual in cinema history, and is considered, with good reason, to be the greatest film composer of all time. Jane Jones presents this selection of a few of Williams’s works, beginning with Harry’s Wondrous World from Harry Potter, and closing with Yo-yo Ma playing the theme from

Seven Years In Tibet.

D FOR DIAGNOSIS

9PM, RADIO 4 HHH

Depression can come in many forms, has roots in many causes, and can respond to a variety of treatments. In this last programme in a series on new research into mental health, we hear about the connection between depression and inflammation of the body and brain. SJ

Otis Redding (9am, Radio 4)