TODAY’S RADIO

KEN BRUCE 9.30AM, RADIO 2 ★★★★

Michael Rosenberg sang in the band Passenger, and liked the name so much that he continued to call himself Passenger when the band split up and he went solo. Passenger, who has released 12 studio albums – and whose hits include Let Her Go – joins

Ken this morning for tracks from his recent hit album, Songs For The Drunk And Broken Hearted.

THE PERFORMER 2.15PM, RADIO 4 ★★★

Stephen Fry delivers this twopart monologue, concluding tomorrow, set in the world of British theatre in the 1950s and 1960s. A man looks back on life in his suburban family home – a home from which his father mysteriously disappeared.

One day, he gets a glimpse of his father in a cafe near the Old Vic theatre, and later discovers that his father is now living in Brighton, with another man.

THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT 8PM, CLASSIC FM ★★★

‘Hats off, gentlemen, a genius!’ said Schumann at the premiere of Chopin’s Variations On La Ci Darem La Mano. Chopin was just 17 when he wrote the piece – and Schumann proved to be absolutely right. The work, which translates as ‘There, we will give each other our hands’, is a variation on a duet from Mozart’s Don Giovanni. John Suchet includes a recording of Chopin’s youthful work on tonight’s show.

AMERICAN PSYCHO AT 30 11PM, RADIO 4 ★★★

Bret Easton Ellis’s novel about a banker who becomes a serial killer came out in 1991. American Psycho featured violent scenes and designer names, spawning many imitations and a few parodies. Octavia Bright talks to the author, and wonders why the book struck such a nerve – and if it was a prediction of Trump’s America.

Stephen Fry (2.15pm, Radio 4)