Today’s radio

THE INSIDE STORY OF ELECTION 19

11AM, RADIO 4 HHHH

Taking a detailed look at

Boris Johnson’s overwhelming majority in the 2019 general election, Anne Mcelvoy talks to ground troops and those in the higher echelons of the political parties about campaigns and tactics to assess to what extent it was a Brexit election. Pundits also share their thoughts on the Liberal Democrats’ dashed hopes, and on Jeremy Corbyn’s failure in former Labour strongholds.

A YEAR AT THE RACES

11.15AM, 9.15PM, RADIO 4 EXTRA HHHH ‘Marry me,’ Groucho Marx says in A Day At The Races, ‘and I’ll never look at another horse.’ Groucho plays a horse doctor posing as a

Toby Jones (11.15am, R4 Extra) real doctor in the classic 1937 Marx Brothers romp. In this comedy drama, Groucho (Toby Jones) is at the end of his career, and he’s spending a lot of time at the racetrack. Selma (Jenna Augen) – a starstruck fan who really is a horse doctor – is determined to get Groucho back in the comedy saddle in a fastpaced play by Neil Brand, liberally strewn with cracking one-liners.

THE CALIFORNIAN CENTURY

1.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHHH All this week, the film star Stanley Tucci will be telling the history of Los Angeles and the Golden State in the style of a movie script. Today, he gives us the story of dodgy William Mulholland and his cronies, who brought water to bone-dry LA – but at a terrible cost to others.

THE FULL WORKS CONCERT

8PM, CLASSIC FM HHH

Jane Jones picks some mighty works performed by the great orchestras of Germany and Austria. She closes the show with the late Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic for Mozart’s Symphony No 29. SJ