SUSAN JEFFREYS’ Radio Week

GRAHAM NORTON

SATURDAY, 9.30AM, VIRGIN RADIO

Lorraine Kelly joins Graham for a bit of gossip and some music; also on the show is author Jane Fallon, who’ll be talking about her latest book, Worst Idea Ever.

THE REUNION

SUNDAY, 11AM, RADIO 4

Kirsty Wark brings together members of the band Madness to look back over more than 40 hit-strewn years, a few fallings-out and plenty of fun and mischief.

ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD

SUNDAY, 3PM, RADIO 4

A tossed coin lands on heads 92 times in a row, leading two minor characters from Hamlet to realise that something is wrong. Toby Jones, Mathew Baynton and Andrew Buchan star in this two-part broadcast of Tom Stoppard’s unsettling 1966 drama.

THE KING’S PAINTER

MONDAY-FRIDAY, 9.45AM (FM), 12.30AM, RADIO 4

Hans Holbein’s paintings are full of mysteries and allusions. This five-part adaptation of Franny Moyle’s new book about the German painter who found fame at the court of Henry VIII shows that Holbein’s own life had its mysteries.

JO WHILEY

WEDNESDAY, 7PM, RADIO 2

Birdy, whose real name is the slightly more cumbersome Jasmine van den Bogaerde, gives us a live session of tracks from her new album, Young Heart.

KEN BRUCE

THURSDAY, 9.30AM, RADIO 2

Rory Charles Graham, better-known as Rag’n’bone Man, joins Ken from his home studio for a session of tracks from his new album, Life By Misadventure. A piece of technical wizardry has the BBC Concert Orchestra providing the backing.

THE THIRD CONSECUTIVE EVENT IN TALBOT LEIGH

THURSDAY, 2.15PM, RADIO 4

A couple, exhausted from caring for their newborn child, book themselves into a high-tech luxury home with a voice-operated smart speaker system – but soon, something much more worrying than their child’s crying disturbs their nights.