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THE PEREGRINE
9.45AM (FM), 12.30AM, RADIO 4 HHHH
This is a book about obsession. J.A. Baker, a bespectacled, bookish-looking man, spent many winters observing peregrine falcons in the big skies over
Essex. From October 1962 to
April 1963, he kept a diary of their movements as they hunted for prey. Baker used this diary as the backbone for this masterpiece of nature writing. It is a powerful work in which the writer seems to shake off his human bonds and become one with the birds of prey. David Attenborough reads from a book that has inspired generations of readers.
OUT OF THE ORDINARY
11AM, RADIO 4 HHHH
This edition of Jolyon Jenkins’s riveting series, which reports from the margins of normal, takes us into the world of aliens and astronomy. As telescopes become more powerful, stranger things are seen in the heavens. In this report, Jolyon reports on some of the scientists who claim to have found evidence of alien civilisations – and realised they’d committed a form of career suicide.
THE CALL OF THE WILD
12.04PM, 10.45PM,
RADIO 4 HHHH
Jack London was 21 when he joined the Klondike Gold Rush, where the terrible conditions left him scarred for life. He found no gold, but he found his fortune. London used his Klondike experiences in the books that made him an international literary star. All this week, Kerry Shale reads from London’s bestseller about a stolen dog forced to survive as a sled dog in the Yukon.
RADIO 3 IN CONCERT
7.30PM, RADIO 3 HHHH Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony, which begins with a funeral march and ends in sublime hope, is performed by the Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra. Uplifting. SJ