today’s radio

A ROOM WITH A VIEW

10AM, 3PM, RADIO 4 EXTRA HHHH

Sheila Hancock plays Charlotte, a snobbish Edwardian lady who is down on her luck and reliant on the goodwill of her family, in this four-part adaptation of E.M. Forster’s classic romance. Charlotte is chaperoning her strong-willed young cousin, Lucy, on a trip to Florence, where the heat and excitement of Italy have a profound effect on Lucy.

LIFE, DEATH & THE FOGHORN

11.30AM, RADIO 4 (FM) HHH The sound of a foghorn, booming out through the mist, brought a sense of drama to our coastlines and rivers. Now, there are fewer than 20 foghorns left on the British Isles – maritime GPS has rendered them redundant. Rusty Schweickart (11pm, Radio 4) Jennifer Lucy Allan, a foghorn obsessive, presents this quirky tribute to a lost sound; she will be talking to sea captains, and to a renegade engineer who restores foghorns in secret.

MEET DAVID SEDARIS

6.30PM, RADIO 4 (FM) HHHH The Sedaris family had odd ideas about art, as young David discovered when he compared the stuff hanging on the walls of his childhood home with the pictures he saw in galleries. In this repeated selection of comic pieces, David looks back at the Sedaris ‘art’ collection.

THE INFINITE MONKEY CAGE

11PM, RADIO 4 HHH Manyofusearthlingshavehad all too clear a sense of what it must be like to be isolated from the rest of the world, trying to live in a confined space and coping with the great unknown. In this edition of the entertaining science show hosted by Brian Cox and Robin Ince, Apollo 9’s Rusty Schweickart and three other astronauts offer some advice, based on their experiences, on surviving isolation. SJ