RADIO CHOICE

JANE HORROCKS (pictured), Miles Jupp and Simon Callow star in a promising opening episode of the new sitcom PLUM HOUSE (RADIO 4, 11.30AM), set in the crumbling home of an 18th-century poet called George Pudding.

RAMESH continues in his quest to bring cheap custard creams and cans of cola with Arabic writing on them to the customers of his Scots-Asian corner shop. In the opening episode of series six of this repeated sitcom FAGS, MAGS AND BAGS (RADIO 4, 6.30PM), Ramesh is caught up in the opening of a local food bank — and finds that many of the locals have robust ideas about who is and isn’t eligible to use a food bank. A funny, distinctive series.

SOME idyllic pastoral music will wend its way to your ears this late May

evening as Jane Jones takes us on a voyage through the counties and shires of Britain in THE FULL WORKS CONCERT (CLASSIC FM, 8PM). Vaughan Williams’s

Norfolk Rhapsody No 1, based on folk songs and sea shanties from that county, is on the bill, as well as Jon Lord’s Durham Concerto.

KATIE PUCKRIK concludes her documentary THE BIRTH OF SPARKS

(RADIO 2, 9PM) on the U.S. pop duo Ron and Russell Mael, who achieved a cult following after forming in the Sixties. She takes us through the ups and downs of a rather intriguing act . . .