TODAY’S RADIO

PEOPLE FIXING THE WORLD 8.06AM, 3.06PM, 11.06PM, BBC WORLD SERVICE

Charlie Paton builds seawater greenhouses. He has designed and installed 20 hectares of these greenhouses in Australia, which produce tonnes of tomatoes. Charlie is now working on similar projects to bring food to droughtstricken parts of Africa. He explains how his low-cost desalination project could change the lives of people around the world.

THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC 9AM, 9.30PM, RADIO 4

A plant can send a murderer to jail. Dr Mark Spencer is a forensic botanist who gathers information from outdoor crime scenes. Mark can pinpoint how long a dead body has been in a location and can also, by

examining tiny traces of plants, link suspects to a scene of crime or to their victims. He gives insights into his work this morning.

AFTERNOON CONCERT 2PM, RADIO 3

Dorothy Howell’s music featured in Proms concerts in the 1920s – and was soon all but forgotten.

Then, in 2010, her symphonic poem Lamia was performed at the Proms, and again in 2019 – 100 years after its Proms premiere. Her work features in this concert, performed by the BBC Orchestras, that celebrates female composers.

SCENES FROM A ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE 2.15PM, RADIO 4

There’s something very wrong with David (David Sturzaker). He sleeps for long periods, rarely goes out, and seems unable to understand the outside world. On extended leave from his job as a fireman, he forgets to buy food for his children and, when he does manage to get out, he behaves bizarrely. David ends up in hospital – where the medics can’t believe what they see. A real gripper of a horror thriller. SJ

David Sturzaker (2.15pm, Radio 4)