RADIO CHOICE

CLARKE PETERS, who played the sage and steady detective Lester Freamon in the long-running TV series The Wire, joins KEN BRUCE (RADIO 2, 9.30AM) each morning this week. Clarke (pictured), whose stage work includes King Lear, Chicago and Guys And Dolls, also wrote and appeared in the hit show Five Guys Named Moe. All this week, he picks his Tracks Of My Years, opening the selection with hits by Marvin Gaye and Three Dog Night.

MARTIN BURTON collapsed in the middle of the night, and died shortly after of a brain haemorrhage. He was just 16 years old, and had a congenital condition. His grieving parents, Nigel and Sue, took a brave decision to agree that Martin’s organs would be donated. In THE BOY WHO GAVE HIS HEART AWAY (RADIO 4

EXTRA, 2.45PM) Cole Moreton follows up on the story, and hears how Martin’s shocking death has brought life to others.

SEASICK STEVE spent his early years travelling America like a hobo. His breakthrough album was I Started Out With Nothin And I Still Got Most Of It Left. It earned him many bucks, but he still dresses like a hobo. Lead Belly had a long-running battle with various managers, who wanted the blues singer to perform in prison stripes; he wanted to wear his best suit. THE ESSAY (RADIO 3, 10.45PM) ruminates on these and other matters.