RADIO CHOICE

THIS morning, DJ Sara Cox (pictured) will pull on her legwarmers, get some Eighties music going and begin a 24-hour SOUNDS OF THE 80S DANCEATHON (RADIO 2, 9.30AM) boogie to raise money for Red Nose Day. With back-up from a troupe of celebrities, Sara will be dancing on until 9.30am tomorrow. Her fellow DJs on Radio 2 will be playing Eighties sounds to keep Sara strutting her stuff.

HOWARD CUNNELL was a damaged child who, when he grew up, destroyed relationships that were important to him. Becoming a father changed him as he learnt to love his daughter, Jay. Each morning this week, Howard will be reading from his recent memoir FATHERS AND SONS (RADIO 4, 9.45AM (FM), 12.30AM), and telling us about dealing with the news that Jay sees himself as a boy and a son.

MASTER SHARDLAKE, the hunchback lawyer, is heading to his chambers when he finds the corpse of a friend and colleague frozen into the waters of a fountain.

Justin Salinger stars in REVELATION (RADIO 4,

10.45AM, 7.45PM), an adaptation, full of mystery and authentic detail, of C.J. Sansom’s Tudor crime novel.

SHEILA HANCOCK does her best to speak without hesitation, repetition or deviation for JUST A MINUTE (RADIO 4, 6.30PM). Tom Allen goes for a personal best, and Paul Merton gives us some of his chat-up lines . . .