RADIO CHOICE

JAKE BUGG (pictured) had a big hit with his selftitled debut album in 2012, and has been pretty much on the road or in the studio since then. Jake joins KEN BRUCE (RADIO 2, 9.30AM) all this week to talk about his life and to choose his Tracks Of My Years. He opens his selection with music by Ray Charles and Jefferson Airplane.

‘CAN I speak to the late Michael Palin?’ Michael himself recalls his friendship with Spike Milligan, and the comedian’s unnerving way of starting a phone conversation. In this two-part series, SPIKE MILLIGAN: INSIDE OUT (RADIO 4, 11.30AM) Michael marks the 100th anniversary of Spike’s birth by joining Spike’s daughter, Jane, to play previously unaired interviews and vintage Goon Show recordings.

THE WOLVERHAMPTON TRANSPORT COMMITTEE, in 1967, sent a Sikh bus driver home from work for wearing a turban. Other bus companies in the UK had no problems with employees wearing turbans, and a local newspaper survey found that passengers had no objections. Despite this, a bitter dispute, lasting from 1967-69, broke out between the Sikh staff and their employers. In THE TURBAN BUS DISPUTE (RADIO 4, 8PM) Sathnam Sanghera returns to his home of Wolverhampton to hear first-hand accounts of the dispute . . .