RADIO CHOICE

Cyril, the dog with the gold tooth, is being taken for his usual saucer of beer in Edinburgh’s New Town by his owner, Angus (Crawford Logan). As ever, the pub is stuffed to the rafters with quirky characters, all doing their level best to outquirk each other. This rather twee new comedy drama series 44 SCOTLAND STREET (RADIO 4, 10.45AM (FM), 7.45PM) has been written and dramatised by the prolific Alexander McCall Smith, creator of The No 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series of novels.

MATTHEW KELLY plays the poet W.H. Auden, and David Yelland takes on the role of the composer Benjamin Britten in Alan Bennett’s play The Habit Of Art. They will be on tour from August 30, starting with a performance at York Theatre Royal. Matthew and

David join Katie Derham this afternoon on IN TUNE (RADIO 3, 5PM) to talk about the play.

‘IT WASN’T any coral reef! And it wasn’t Jack the Ripper! It was a shark.’ Brace yourselves. The sun is shining down on Cape Cod and the waves are breaking onto Amity Island. Some holiday-makers are sunbathing, and others dipping their toes in the blue sea; not all of them w ill have toes by the time Henry Goodman (pictured) has finished this two-weeklong narration of Peter Benchley’s classic novel JAWS (RADIO 4, 10.45PM).