RADIO CHOICE

11.00 The Charity Business. 11.30 A Charles Paris Mystery: Dead Room Farce. 12.00 News; (LW) Shipping

Forecast. 12.04 Home Front. 12.15 You and Yours. 12.56 Weather.

MANY autistic youngsters gain some inner peace — and a great deal of fun — from spending time with horses. In the last of her week-long series HORSE STORY (RADIO 4, 1.45PM), Clare Balding hears about the healing power of horses.

SEAN RAFFERTY is joined for this afternoon’s IN TUNE (RADIO 3, 5PM) 1.00 The World at One. 1.45 PICK Horse Story. 2.00 The Archers. 2.15 Drama: School Drama. 3.00 Gardeners’ Question

Time. 3.45 From Fact to Fiction. 4.00 Last Word. 4.30 Feedback. 4.55 The Listening Project. 5.00 PM; (LW) Shipping

Forecast. Then, the Santiago Quartet play classical music from South America.

THE glamour, the talent and the music of Queen are celebrated in FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT (RADIO 2, 8PM). The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music including the band’s first hit single, 1974’s Seven Seas Of Rhye, as well as The Show Must Go On, written with defiant poignancy by Freddie Mercury when his 5.57 Weather. 6.00 Six O’Clock News. 6.30 The Now Show. 7.00 The Archers. 7.15 Front Row. 7.45 A Small Town Murder.