RADIO CHOICE

IT’S 2020, and a muchloved Pope — who worked hard to reform the Catholic Church — has died. Cardinals from around the world gather for the funeral and begin the search for the new Pontiff. Will he be a liberal English Cardinal, or an African counter-reformist? Mark Lawson’s absorbing play HOLY FATHER (RADIO 4, 2.15PM) follows a symbolic struggle for the soul of Catholicism.

GEORGE GERSHWIN came back to America after a trip to Paris with a selection of French taxi horns. They were to be used by the orchestra in the debut of a new piece he was working on — An American In Paris. This bright, bustling work, written in 1928, opens tonight’s concert from the BBC PROMS 2018 (RADIO 3, 7.30PM). The Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt (pictured), who spent

some years making music in Paris, is at the keyboard.

YOU may be feeling drained having done your bit to support, encourage and calm your children through the ordeal of exams, telling them that good results could mean, in the end, a good job. Will it all have been in vain? Will a robot be able to do a better job? Sathnam Sanghera asks HOW DO OUR KIDS BEAT THE ROBOTS? (RADIO 4,

9PM), considering what the future job market might look like and what skills will be needed in a world of robots, algorithms and high-speed computers.