TODAY’S RADIO

SCALA RADIO BOOK CLUB 10.30AM, SCALA RADIO

★★★

A girl has been murdered, and the new head of the local Pakistani police has been told to cover up her violent death. Aamina Ahmad joins Mark Forrest to talk about her debut novel,

The Return Of Faraz Ali. It’s set in the labyrinth of Lahore’s inner city in the late 1960s, where the truth is hard to find and danger lurks at every twist and turn.

CROSSING CONTINENTS 11AM, RADIO 4

★★★★

You need to be very careful if you are out for a stroll in the French countryside – some of the hunters over there can be trigger-happy. A young man was shot dead in his garden because a hunter mistook him for a wild boar, and a pensioner was killed

by a bullet while driving along a dual carriageway in Brittany. In the past 20 years, there have been 3,325 hunting accidents in France, 421 of which were lethal. Lucy Ash reports.

THE COUNTRY SHOW 9PM, RADIO 2

★★★★

As part of Radio 2’s celebration of the 1990s, Bob Harris goes back to the days when country music stopped being hokey and found a new audience. Tonight, he will be picking tracks from The Mavericks, Garth Brooks, Faith Hill and other 1990s stars.

THE LIKELY DADS 11PM, RADIO 4

★★★★★

The former Blue Peter presenter Tim Vincent knows there is a world of difference between entertaining children on TV and bringing them up in real life. Tim, who became the father of twin boys in 2018, is joined by comedians Russell Kane and Mick Ferry – also dads and regular panellists – to talk about parenting in the 21st century. In the first show of this new series, the tricky matter of discipline is under discussion. SJ

Tim Vincent (11pm, Radio 4)