TODAY’S RADIO

INGENIOUS 9.30AM, RADIO 4

★★★★

Have you still got your ‘quarantine 14’, or have you managed to shift those unwanted extra pounds gained during lockdown?

Some people, to the irritation of many, never gained an inch over the past two, difficult years. Others, with a spot of dieting and exercise, got back into shape pretty quickly, but quite a few, however much they try, are struggling to get into their old clothes. Kat Arney finds out whether it’s a lack of willpower or your genes that’s determining the shape you’re in?

REWINDER 4PM, RADIO 4

★★★★

Judy Garland wasn’t born in a trunk, as the song has it, but in a rather nice white-painted

Judy Garland (4pm, Radio 4)

wooden house, in Grand Rapids, Minnesota. She was, though, born into showbusiness and, by the age of two, was on stage as part of her family’s vaudeville act. Greg James selects archive interviews with Judy, plus memories from her daughter Liza Minnelli, in this collection of archive footage.

THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT 8PM, CLASSIC FM ★★★

Classical music, like pop, has plenty of ‘one hit wonders’.

John Suchet celebrates some of these pieces that have eclipsed their composer’s other works. Humperdinck’s Hansel & Gretel Overture, Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Massenet’s Meditation are on the bill.

FREE THINKING 10PM, RADIO 3 ★★★★

On Sunday, we reached that magic moment when the hours of daylight and the hours of night were the same, all over the planet. This happens twice a year and triggers all kinds of celebration. At the Sage Gateshead, they held an After Dark Festival, and you can hear some of the mesmeric music from that event tonight. SJ