RADIO CHOICE

‘THE heart is gone from us; we are older, we are duller.’ Many parents of teenagers preparing for college will know how Pam Ayres felt when she wrote her poem about her son leaving for university. AYRES ON THE AIR (RADIO 4 EXTRA, 7AM, 5PM) features the poem in Pam’s selection of verse, stories and sketches on the subject of home.

MANY Dutch people took Jewish children into their homes during the Nazi occupation and saved those children from the death camps. It was a desperately dangerous thing to do, particularly as many other Dutch people had no qualms about helping the Nazis to round up the Jews. Bart van Es heard how some of his family had taken a Jewish girl into their home, putting their lives on the line. THE CUT OUT GIRL (RADIO 4, 9.45AM (FM), 12.30AM) is

his account of his search for the story and the girl.

PAUL MERTON, Gyles Brandreth, Tony Hawks and Zoe Lyons try to keep up a monologue for 60 seconds

as the veteran panel show JUST A MINUTE (RADIO 4,

6.30PM) — with veteran host Nicholas Parsons (pictured) — returns for an 82nd series.

A MIDDLE-AGED man drives through snow and ice, and takes the ferry across a wintry sea, heading towards a room that holds a tragedy. Richard Orr reads David Park’s story TRAVELLING IN A STRANGE LAND (RADIO 4, 10.45PM), about fatherhood and loss.