Susan jeffreys’ Radio Week

C2C: COUNTRY TO COUNTRY

SATURDAY, 8PM, RADIO 2 HHHHH Bob Harris and Ben Earle are at the O2 Arena for this live broadcast from the Country 2 Country music festival. Darius Rucker, Old Crow Medicine Show, Old Dominion and Runaway June are on the bill.

THE SHADOW OF A DOUBT

SUNDAY, 7.30PM, RADIO 3 HHHH Edith Wharton wrote novels and plays about class, sex, family politics, snobbery and money in 19th-century America. This is a long-lost play of hers about a nurse who marries above her station – and it’s full of bite and sharp observation.

THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT

MONDAY-FRIDAY, 12.04PM,

10.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHHH

Anton Lesser is the narrator for the final volume of Hilary Mantel’s account of the life of Thomas Cromwell, which takes him from the height of power to the executioner’s block on Tower Hill.

EDITH SITWELL IN SCARBOROUGH

TUESDAY, 2.15PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Glenda Jackson plays the eccentric writer Edith Sitwell in this equally eccentric drama that has elderly Edith wreaking revenge on her appalling, long-dead parents. An odd but intriguing listen.

THE BREAK

THURSDAY, 6.30PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Philip Jackson and Tom Palmer star in this repeat of a dry, sly sitcom about a burnt-out City boy trying to rebuild his life by relocating to a quiet seaside town.

ALFIE BROWN’S SCHOOL OF WRONG

THURSDAY, 11PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Alfie Brown, son of the Dead Ringers star Jan Ravens, talks to the political journalist Marie Le Conte about the secret workings of the British government.

HELP! MY HEAD’S IN WOOKEY HOLE

FRIDAY, 11.30AM, RADIO 4 HHHH Anneka Rice heard that her Madame Tussauds waxwork body had been melted down, but her waxwork head had been spa red. in this comedy monologue, she tells us about her head-hunting expedition.