RADIO CHOICE

RUMPOLE AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE (RADIO 4, 2.15PM) finds Horace Rumpole in another rather tricky position. He has a difficult case on his hands and feels emotionally pulled in two directions. Hilda (She Who Must Be Obeyed) is down in Cornwall and expects her husband to be at her side. Phillida, for whom Rumpole has pined for years, hopes he will come to her. Which road will the Old Bailey hack (played by Julian Rhind-Tutt, pictured) take?

THE Boston-based band Darlingside is made up of four musicians who sing in close harmony, often as not round the one microphone, to keep the sound tight. They play guitar, fiddle, banjo, mandolin and cello, and their music has a 21stcentury bluegrass sound. Don, Auyon, Dave and Harris are on THE FOLK SHOW

WITH MARK RADCLIFFE (RADIO 2, 7PM) for a live session. A class act, well worth catching. TONIGHT’S FREE THINKING (RADIO 3,

10PM) has three writers whose fiction is filled with witches, mermaids, selkies and other mythical beings from ancient folk tales, talking about their fascination with imaginary worlds. Madeline Miller, Zoe Gilbert and Kirsty Logan tell Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough about the lands just beyond the horizon of reality where their tales are set.