RADIO CHOICE

THE Society of Strange and Ancient Instruments is a wonder to see and to hear. Its instruments include the viola da gamba, the clarsach, the nyckelharpa and the Hardanger fiddle. Members of the Society will be heading to Sean Rafferty’s studio to perform a session of ancient and modern music for this afternoon’s IN TUNE (RADIO 3, 5PM).

CATRIN FINCH held the post of harpist to the Prince of Wales, making her the first official royal harpist since the days of Queen Victoria. She is a fluent Welsh speaker, and her Welsh origins can be heard in the music she composes. Catrin has been working with the Senegalese musician Seckou Keita, a virtuoso on the kora (a traditional lute-harp); they released

a joint album in April called SOAR, and will be giving us a taste of it on THE FOLK SHOW WITH MARK RADCLIFFE (RADIO 2, 8PM).

MATT BERRY INTERVIEWS . . . (RADIO 4, 11PM),

a new, four-part series of a spoof archive recordings, begins with the comedian (pictured) interviewing the selfproclaimed psychic and spoon-bender Uri Geller. It’s 1974, just as Geller is becoming a household name around the world, and Berry visits Geller’s home to try to get a sense of the real man.