SUSAN JEFFREYS’ Radio Week

DERMOT O’LEARY SATURDAY, 8AM, RADIO 2

HHHH Radio 2 is devoting all of today’s programmes to the theme Celebrating Women In Music. Emeli Sande, the award-winning singer-songwriter, joins Dermot to get the day off to a great start.

SUNDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT

SUNDAY, 7PM, RADIO 2 HHHH

Craig Revel Horwood presents a collection of rollicking hits, performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra, from stage and screen musicals such as Moulin Rouge, Guys

And Dolls and The Greatest Showman.

KEN BRUCE MONDAY-FRIDAY, 9.30AM, RADIO 2

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Natalie Imbruglia, who played Beth in Neighbours, tells Ken about having an international hit with Torn and how a stint in panto changed her life. Natalie also picks her Tracks Of My Years, including songs from Marvin Gaye and Radiohead.

RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT

TUESDAY, 1PM, RADIO 3 HHHH Kathryn Rudge sings The Fiddler Of Dooney, The Lowlands Of Holland, the Song Of Glen Dun and other melodious songs in this concert from Belfast.

WHAT’S FUNNY ABOUT

WEDNESDAY, 11.30AM, RADIO 4 HHHH John Cleese talks about the real-life inspiration behind the short-fused hotelier Basil Fawlty and why the sitcom Fawlty Towers was such a huge success.

LAURA BARTON’S NOTES ON MUSIC

THURSDAY, 11.30AM, RADIO 4 HHHH Laura Barton went to every gig of

Bon Iver’s 2008 UK tour, but one show stood out from all the others. Now, still obsessed by the American indie folk band, Laura finds a way to re-create that night.

THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT FRIDAY, 8PM, CLASSIC FM

HHHH Recovering from a near-death experience, Gustav Mahler wrote a symphony that begins with a funeral march and ends in serenity. John Suchet plays a 2001 recording by the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra of this sublime work.

ARCHERS UPDATE

Mooching around the byways of Ambridge these days, it’s difficult to know where you are. Old faces disappear without explanation, newcomers swarm in, forgotten returnees vie for attention, while lesser-known faces creep out of the woodwork. It’s all quite disturbing, but there may be a solution to the problem. A labour shortage at Bridge Farm brings fears that common scab might blight the carrots and E. coli flourish in the yoghurt. Perhaps some of these blow-ins could do a few shifts up there, leaving the rest of us to browse the sparsely stocked shelves of the village shop in peace? Meanwhile, Shula and Lilian form a worrying alliance, Adam springs a surprise on Ian, and Kenton worries about The Bull’s future.