TODAY’S RADIO

WHITE MISCHIEF 11AM, RADIO 4

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A law passed in 1661 stated that slaves on the Caribbean island of Barbados could be treated as chattel – an item of property. This law allowed sugar plantation owners to work their African slaves to death. In this first of a new, three-part series, the writer Ekow Eshun considers the long-term effect of this brutal piece of legislation, which laid the foundations for the concept of white supremacy.

WHAT’S FUNNY ABOUT 11.30AM, RADIO 4

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The comedy sketch show Smack The Pony ran for three series, won a stack of awards and delivered a lot of laughs. Sally Phillips and Victoria Pile, who were involved in the show from the start, look

Sally Phillips (11.30am, Radio 4) back to 1999, when this femaleled comedy series began. The sketches were often surreal, and featured returning characters such as Irritating the Flatmate, the High-heeled Woman and the Ex. Sally and Victoria talk about why Smack The Pony was such a hit, and wonder if it’s time for a comeback.

THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT 8PM, CLASSIC FM

HHH According to one veteran pianist, it is best to perform Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No 3 when you are ‘still too young to know fear’. Tonight, Daniil Trifonov shows this fiendishly difficult piece who’s boss in John Suchet’s selection of music by Russian composers.

MASTERTAPES 11.30PM, RADIO 4

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Noel Gallagher left the hit band Oasis in 2009 to go in a different musical direction. Two years later, his new band, High Flying Birds, released an album with tracks that included Everybody’s On The Run and The Death Of You And Me. In this archive programme from 2014, Noel talks to John Wilson about the album and performs some of the tracks. SJ