RADIO CHOICE

CHRIS EVANS (RADIO 2, 6.30AM) pitches up at Worthy Farm in Somerset for the start of this year’s Glastonbury Festival. He’ll be joined by the festival’s organiser, Emily Eavis, and will introduce live music from The Courteeners and a stripped-back performance by dance band Clean Bandit.

RADIO 3 IN CONCERT (7.30PM) brings us a selection of waltzes, mazurkas, peasant dances, sarabandes and other dances, performed by pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard at this year’s Aldeburgh Festival.

JOE STILGOE (pictured) and the BBC Big Band get the joint jumping on FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT (RADIO 2, 8PM) with a celebration of the music of the Three Louis. The Big Band plays some big hits from the Thirties, Forties and Fifties, recorded

by those kings of jump, swing and jive Louis Prima, Louis Jordan and Louis Armstrong. Numbers include Is You Is Or Is You Ain’t My Baby and Jeepers Creepers.

THE music continues in WORLD ON 3 (RADIO 3, 11PM) with a joyous roundup of international brass bands from Glastonbury Festival 2017. The Hot 8 Brass Band from New Orleans and Pat Thomas and his Kwashibu Area Band belt out some great sounds on the West Holts stage, and there’ll be a specially recorded session from the Rajasthan Heritage Brass Band.