RADIO CHOICE

FOR this week’s FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT (RADIO 2, 8PM), Len Goodman (pictured) presents some of his favourite dance music from around the world. The former Strictly judge includes smooth waltzes, tangos, sambas and paso dobles in his selection.

YOU can hear some brilliant playing in THE FULL WORKS CONCERT (CLASSIC FM, 8PM), as Catherine Bott selects performances from the final of this year’s International Van Cliburn Piano Competition. This prestigious event from Fort Worth, Texas, is a wonderful showcase for solo players. Tonight, we will hear the winning performance — from Yekwon Sunwoo, of Dvorak’s Piano Quintet In A Major — plus work by Beethoven and Rachmaninov and a piece

by Phil Coulter, performed by Barry Douglas, called Home Away From Home.

OUR days, and the days of all living creatures and organisms, are numbered. The clock ticks, the sun rises and sets, our bodies age and, sooner or later, the end comes. Despite this, there are many thinkers and physicists who put forward the theory that time does not really exist. Anand Jagatia presents CROWDSCIENCE: DOES TIME REALLY EXIST? (BBC WORLD SERVICE, 8.30PM), looking into the mysteries of time and wondering what happens to time inside a black hole.