RADIO CHOICE

TWO weeks ago, Sarah Kendall began telling us the story of her life, weaving in the doomed Space Shuttle Challenger, Halley’s comet and her parents’ awful neighbours. Now, she delivers a monologue that takes us on a bizarre trip to a care home, where one of her grandmothers has ‘lost her footing in time and space’. SARAH KENDALL: AUSTRALIAN TRILOGY VOLUME 2 (RADIO 4, 6.30PM) is at once profound, funny, rude and delightful; even if you’ve missed the first two episodes, catch this because, as Sarah knows, the beginnings and ends of all good stories are one and the same.

OLIVIA CHANEY sings, composes and plays the guitar, piano and Indian harmonium. Earlier this year, Olivia performed a tribute to the late Nick Drake at the Radio 2 Folk

Awards in Belfast; tonight, she’s on THE FOLK SHOW WITH MARK RADCLIFFE (RADIO 2, 8PM) to play tracks from her latest album, Shelter.

CHRIS NEILL (pictured) tells us the story — with the aid of Martin Hyder, Isy Suttie and some BBC sound effects — of how he fell in love with Pierre-Claude, a character in his GCSE French textbook, and how this fictitious romance cast a shadow over his early love life. WOOF (RADIO 4, 11PM) is a nice enough comedy show, but not nearly as funny as the semihysterical studio audience would like us to think.