RADIO CHOICE

IF YOU have a teenage lad festering in his bedroom while the summer holiday draws to an end, get him to listen to HOW NOT TO BE A BOY (RADIO 4, 9.45AM (FM), 12.30AM). The comedian Robert Webb (pictured) has written an honest, funny account of his childhood and teenage years. Robert talks about the tough front boys are expected to show to the world, and what happens when keeping up that facade becomes impossible.

DAMBUSTER George ‘Johnny’ Johnson meets Michael Buerk at the Sorpe Dam in Germany and recalls, with great clarity, insight and much selfeffacement, his part in the dangerous mission that struck a huge blow against the Nazis during World War II. For WHEN MICHAEL MET JOHNNY (RADIO 5 LIVE, 10AM) Johnny also

recalls the grief of sitting in the mess after the raid, and thinking of the comrades who would never return.

IN THE first of an enlightening new ten-part series STREETS APART:

A HISTORY OF SOCIAL HOUSING (RADIO 4 (FM), 1.45PM), broadcast every weekday for the next two weeks, the academic and cultural commentator Lynsey Hanley examines the history of social housing in Britain. And the first instalment couldn’t be more timely as she explores what the Grenfell Tower disaster means for both social housing and us as a society.