TODAY’S RADIO

KEN BRUCE 9.30AM, RADIO 2 ★★★★

Ronan Keating is Ken Bruce’s guest each morning this week. The Irish singer-songwriter will pick his Tracks Of My Years and look back on his musical career, from being the youngest member of Boyzone and becoming a judge on Australia’s The X Factor to his 20 years as a top solo artist.

KLARA AND THE SUN 12.06PM, ★★★★

10.45PM, RADIO 4

Klara is an Artificial Friend. She has been made and reared to become a companion to one of the humans that she sees going past the window of the shop where she is on display. Klara is a highly sensitive, highly priced creation, so understands that she may have to wait some time before she is sold. Lydia

Wilson reads the first of this ten-part adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s eerie new novel.

THE CHRISTOPHER BOY’S COMMUNION 2.15PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

A young Jewish girl has been murdered, and her body has been mutilated. The victim’s boyfriend, a teenager with a devout Christian mother, is in prison for the crime. Desperate to save her son, the mother is prepared to lie, blackmail and bribe – and then tries to blame the girl for provoking her own death. Rebecca Pidgeon and Clark Gregg play the boy’s parents in the UK radio premiere of David Mamet’s disturbing new drama.

ROUND BRITAIN QUIZ 3PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

Grope your way out of the mental fog that has come upon so many of us in lockdown with the help of the new series of British radio’s longest-running quiz. Tom Sutcliffe puts the fiendish questions to homebased panellists, keeping a sharp lookout to make sure that there’s no cheating. SJ

Ronan Keating (9.30am, Radio 2)