RADIO CHOICE

HORSE STORY (RADIO 4, 9.30AM) joins Clare Balding at a stable in Brixton, South London. The Ebony Horse Club is for young people in challenging situations at school and at home, and Clare hears how riding and caring for horses has transformed lives. She then heads to Edgware, North London, where Jemma Hockley uses equine therapy to help those going through mental and social problems.

PERHAPS Franz Schubert knew that, like Mozart, his life would be short — he died in 1828, aged 31 — so he got down to composing when he was very young. Tonight’s all-Schubert edition of THE FULL WORKS CONCERT (CLASSIC FM, 8PM) opens with a joyous symphony that Schubert wrote in his teens, and closes with his mighty Symphony No 9.

JANICE LONG’S companion this week for A LONG

WALK WITH . . . (RADIO 2,

9PM) is Chris Difford, of the band Squeeze. The two take to the South-East London streets of Chris’s youth, but it’s so cold that they do most of the journey by car. Chris (pictured) recalls seeing someone playing a mandolin in a flowerbed. When he put an advert for musicians in a sweet shop window, that young man turned up; it was Glenn Tilbrook, and the rest is history. As the rain lashes down, Chris tells Janice about his and Glenn’s early days in music and about the inspiration for songs such as Up The Junction and Cool For Cats.