RADIO CHOICE

ANNA HURSEY is 11 years old and just 5ft 3in, but her youth and her size don’t stop her being a formidable table tennis player. Anna got bitten by the ping-pong bug on a visit to her mother’s homeland of China when she was five. She has been playing and training ever since, and hopes to compete in the 2020 Olympics. In THE UNTOLD (RADIO 4, 11AM) Grace Dent hears her story.

FOR 15 years and 33 episodes, Rumpole has fought a host of cases. But now, the end is nigh for John Mortimer’s wily criminal barrister. Julian Rhind-Tutt stars in these final three dramas, RUMPOLE AND THE GOLDEN THREAD (RADIO 4, 2.15PM), which find him in deep trouble in Africa with Her Majesty’s Civil Service.

DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH wrote his first Violin

Concerto just before he fell out of favour with Stalin. The composer kept this work under wraps until Stalin’s death; Vladimir Ashkenazy and the

Philharmonia Orchestra perform the piece tonight for RADIO 3 IN CONCERT (7.30PM) with violinist James Ehnes.

FOR KYLIE MINOGUE FROM A TO Z (RADIO 2,

10PM) Graham Norton welcomes Kylie (pictured) into the studio for the first of a three-part series about the Aussie superstar, who has sold more than 80 million records and has had seven UK number one hits.