SUSAN JEFFREYS’ Radio Week

DERMOT O’LEARY

SATURDAY, 8AM, RADIO 2 HHHH Joe Wicks, Britain’s favourite PE teacher, is on Dermot’s show this morning with some more ideas for getting us all feeling fitter and eating healthily.

THE GOLDILOCKS ZONE

SATURDAY, 3PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

In this ambitious drama, set in the future and spanning 50 years, a ‘Goldilocks’ planet is discovered – not too hot, not too cold, it’s ‘just right’ for life to flourish. There is, though, a very dark side to this discovery.

SUNDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT

SUNDAY, 7PM, RADIO 2 HHHH Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, Johnny Hates Jazz, Carol Decker and Jimmy Somerville give us some big 1980s hits in this concert, presented by Gary Davies, recorded at the London Coliseum.

GEORGE III

MONDAY-FRIDAY, 9.45AM (FM), 12.30AM, RADIO 4 HHHH George III is often portrayed as wellmeaning, but foolish. Ben Miller reads from Andrew Roberts’s book that shows George to have been a kind and intelligent man who suffered from a serious illness.

THE READER MONDAY-FRIDAY, 12.04PM, 10.45PM, RADIO 4

HHHH A teenage boy falls in love with an older woman in war-torn Germany.

She disappears and then, after the war, he sees her again – in the dock for war crimes. Rupert Wickham is the reader for the novel by Bernhard Schlink.

PEOPLE FIXING THE WORLD

TUESDAY, 8.06AM, 3.06PM, 10.06PM, BBC WORLD SERVICE HHHH

Robocop is currently on patrol in LA.

The bullet-shaped metal law enforcer has been on the beat since June 2019. Here, we learn how this piece of technology is doing in the fight against crime.

REBUS: FLESHMARKET CLOSE THURSDAY-FRIDAY, 10AM, 3PM, RADIO 4 EXTRA

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Two skeletons are discovered in a pub cellar, and an illegal immigrant is murdered. These two incidents send DI Rebus

(Ron Donachie) into some dark places as he follows up on the grim forensics.

ARCHERS UPDATE

How many of us have trained our field glasses on some twitching tussock, only to quickly swerve them away to avoid glimpsing something best left unseen? Yes indeed, bird-watching in Ambridge is not for the faint-hearted, as Jazzer and Jim find out to their cost when, in a bid to escape the tensions at No 6, they hie themselves to the bird hide and make a surprising discovery. Brian makes his own far from pleasant discovery when Stella gives him a large helping of the honest truth, while a worrying rumour reaches Lilian’s ears, Justin wines and dines a mystery guest, and there’s some behind-the-scenes scheming by Josh.