today’s radio

KEN BRUCE

9.30AM, RADIO 2 HHHH When Beyonce joined Ken Bruce to talk about her career and to pick her Tracks Of My Years, she came up with a great list of songs. This week-long repeat of the series illustrates just what an eclectic taste the Houstonborn singer and actress has.

Her featured tracks include Anita Baker’s Sweet Love, Coldplay’s Viva La Vida and that sing-along favourite from The Eagles, Hotel California.

BRAIN OF BRITAIN

3PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

Get your teeth into a good quiz as Russell Davies hosts the fourth heat of this contest. Today’s brainteasers cover the Nobel Prize, an invention that revolutionised the clothing industry, and a painter

Beyonce (9.30am, Radio 2) who had an expletive added to his name for the title of a pop album.

NEVER TRUST A RABBIT

6.15PM, 12.15AM, RADIO 4

EXTRA HHHHH

Trapido, the world-famous magician, is working on a bold new illusion. It will take an immense amount of planning, a great deal of money, and an assistant who may not emerge unscathed from the event. Stephen Critchlow reads We Who Walk Through Walls, the first of five stories from Jeremy Dyson’s anthology Never Trust A Rabbit. Stop what you are doing, pin back your ears and listen as this tale, set on the borders of magic and the supernatural, draws you into its mysteries.

THE NHS FRONT LINE

9PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

John Wright is a clinician and epidemiologist, currently working with Bradford Royal Infirmary as the hospital fights Covid-19. In this latest of a series of reports, he talks to frontline staff on all levels about the personal and professional stress they are under, giving us a straightforward account of the situation so far. SJ