today’s radio

START THE WEEK

9AM, 9.30PM, RADIO 4 HHH There’s a bit of our brain that responds to caring for plants. Working in a garden makes us feel better and, so studies show, prisoners given the opportunity to garden are less likely to reoffend. Sue Stuart-smith, a psychiatrist and keen gardener, talks to Andrew Marr about her book The Well Gardened Mind, and about how horticulture can help those going through a mental crisis.

THE RESTAURANT: A HISTORY OF EATING OUT

9.45AM (FM), 12.30AM, RADIO 4 HHHH Sitting at a table in a public place with a group of friends has been part of human history for hundreds of years. In this week-long series, Lesley Sharp reads from William

Richard III (2.15pm, Radio 4) Sitwell’s history of communal eating. We start in Pompeii, then hear about the demand for doner kebabs in the Ottoman Empire, in a series that seems like a report from a much-missed world.

RICHARD III REBOTHERED

2.15PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Richard III was buried in the grounds of a friary in Leicestershire but, somehow or other, his bones were found, in 2012, under the concrete of a car park. His reburial had the quality of a state funeral, with thousands lining the streets to see the longdead king pass. Many of the crowd would have known that Richard was one of the first victims of fake news, as this tongue-in-cheek drama, from the Penny Dreadfuls troupe, makes entertainingly clear.

THE VOICES OF

11.30PM, RADIO 4 HHH

Join the singer-songwriter and producer Alison Goldfrapp for this recorded overnight walk through a Hampshire wood. As the summer solstice dawns, she talks about her life and music in a programme that will take you away from your confines.