RADIO CHOICE

KEN BRUCE (RADIO 2, 9.30AM) welcomes Chris Rea to the Radio 2 Piano Room for a live performance this morning. Chris, who has been selling millions of records since the Seventies, had serious health problems a few years ago. He had pancreatic cancer and resolved, were he to recover, to return to his blues roots. Chris has made good that vow and will be singing tracks from his recent album, Road Songs For Lovers, in that distinctive husky voice of his.

TREVOR NELSON and his sisters grew up in London, but Trevor discovered that he had some half-siblings back in his father’s old home of St Lucia. For this week’s ONE TO ONE (RADIO 4, 9.30AM), the DJ talks to Adrienne, who has eight half-siblings. They share

their very different experiences of being part of a large family made up of siblings and half-siblings.

JOINING Harriett Gilbert to talk about their favourite

books in the first of a new series of A GOOD READ

(RADIO 4, 4.30PM) are a couple of journalists, Toby Young and Daily Mail columnist Sarah Vine (pictured). Their choices include John Preston’s A Very English Scandal, a true crime account of the scandalous private life of the former MP Jeremy Thorpe, and Lionel Davidson’s 1994 thriller Kolymsky Heights.