RADIO CHOICE

THEY called him the Great Defender, and he is the only England captain to have lifted the World Cup. Bobby Charlton, Martin Peters and Jimmy Armfield are among the contributors to CAPTAIN FANTASTIC — BOBBY MOORE (RADIO 4 EXTRA, 6.30AM, 1.30PM, 8.30PM), repeated to mark 25 years since the death of the man described by England manager Alf Ramsey as ‘my captain, my leader, my right-hand man’.

CHARLES PARIS, ‘one of the finest lesser-known actors of his generation’, cannot sing or dance and has no circus skills; consequently, he gets few job offers these days. Then, he lands a part in a revived Seventies farce and a job reading an audiobook. Bill Nighy returns in a fourpart series of A CHARLES PARIS MYSTERY

(RADIO 4, 11.30AM), where the gags and Radio 4 in-jokes provide stylish camouflage for a daft plot.

GREGORY PORTER (pictured), the U.S.-born jazz

singer, is rightly popular on these shores, and has graced the Glastonbury stage, Jools Holland’s show and Strictly Come Dancing. On FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT (RADIO 2,

8PM), he and guests Imelda May and Tony Momrell will be backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra for a selection of hits from Nat King Cole’s repertoire, plus songs by Ray Charles. and Hoagy Carmichael.