Today’s radio

COMPOSER OF THE WEEK

12 NOON, RADIO 3 ★★★★ James Price Johnson was a master of the stride piano, a style of playing that put a ragtime energy into jazz. Donald Macleod rounds off his week-long series on Johnson’s life with a selection of tracks that begins with Ruby Smith singing Hungry Blues, and ends with a stonkingly good Charleston that will set your feet dancing.

THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT

8PM, CLASSIC FM ★★★

The Pearl Fishers duet is, quite rightly, a much-loved work, written by Georges Bizet for tenor and baritone. John Suchet includes this meltingly beautiful piece in his show tonight, which has the star singers Bonaventura Bottone and Willard White as the pearl-fishing comrades.

Kim Wilde (8pm, Radio 2)

SOUNDS OF THE 80S

8PM, RADIO 2 ★★★

Kim Wilde is on today’s show as part of the celebrations for the singer’s 60th birthday on November 18. Kim had her first chart success in 1981 with Kids In America, following it up with a succession of hits, including Chequered Love and Never Trust

A Stranger. Kim, the daughter of veteran pop star Marty Wilde, has a second career as a highly successful landscape gardener, but the music always comes first. Tonight, she’ll share memories from her most successful decade with Gary Davies.

CROWDSCIENCE: HOW CAN I BEAT PAIN?

10.30PM, WORLD SERVICE ★★★ Pain is another world and, for those who live there, it’s a grim place of weariness and agony that sets sufferers apart from everyone else. Pain can be both mental and physical, but, as we hear in this programme, there are things that can be done to mitigate it. Marnie Chesterton hears from psychologists and neurologists about techniques to help those in pain to cope. SJ