TODAY’S RADIO

KEN BRUCE

9.30AM, RADIO 2 ★★★★

Ken gets ready for Eurovision 2021 and launches a Radio 2 listeners’ vote to discover favourite songs from the long – and not always that harmonious – history of the song contest.

PRISON BREAK

11AM, RADIO 4 ★★★

Rob Bevan worked for a film investment scheme that was investigated by HM Revenue & Customs. The firm promised tax breaks to attract wealthy investors, but falsified expenses to enable investors to claim tax repayments. Rob was sentenced to nine years in prison, and served just half of that. In this first of a five-part series, his wife, Josie, talks about the effect prison has on the convicted and their families.

COMPOSER OF THE WEEK

12 NOON, RADIO 3 ★★★★

As revolution broke out in Paris, Chopin arrived in Britain; he was weak, ill and in need of money. He taught piano, often to pupils who never paid, and gave concerts and private performances while his health deteriorated. In the

August of 1848, he arrived in Manchester to give a concert at the Gentlemen’s Concert Hall. The vast hall was filled with an audience of 1,200, but Chopin, in his weakened state, felt overpowered by the event. Donald Macleod concludes his week-long series on the great pianist and composer with this account of Chopin’s taxing and sometimes triumphant final tour.

SOUNDS OF THE 80S

8PM, RADIO 2 ★★★★

Marti Pellow, the former front man of Wet Wet Wet, is Gary Davies’s guest this evening. Marti, who has found further fame as a solo artist and on the West End and Broadway stage, recalls the early days on the road with the Scottish soft rock band, and how music changed their lives.

Marti Pellow (8pm, Radio 2)