RADIO CHOICE

FICTIONAL dishes and drinks — such as Harry Potter’s butterbeer and Sansa Stark’s lemon cakes from Game Of Thrones — have become menu realities. Aleks Krotoski presents BUTTERBEER AND GROOTCAKES (11AM, RADIO 4), asking fans and food creators to join her in a feast of fictional food. Aleks hears how cooks turn fantasies into recipes, meets ‘jelly king’ Sam Bompas — who co-founded a culinary art studio — and hears how food can give a work of fiction extra flavour.

SHORT WORKS (3.45PM, RADIO 4) has Ian Sansom, creator of the Mobile Library Mystery series, reading his short story What Does The Fox Say?. A man is spending the day giving the garden a good going over, but finds, as he bends to the task, that his life could do with a bit of sorting out.

MAX BRUCH’S First Violin Concerto has brought listeners much joy since it was first performed in 1866, but it didn’t do much for poor old Bruch. It gave the composer an undeserved reputation as a one-hit wonder — and while he was living in poverty, he was cheated of the royalties due to him for the work. Nicola Benedetti’s (pictured) recording of the concerto opens a selection of some of Bruch’s finest music for THE FULL WORKS CONCERT (8PM, CLASSIC FM). To finish, Chloe Hanslip performs Bruch’s rhapsodic Adagio Appassionato.