RADIO CHOICE

ALFIE MOORE’S series IT’S A FAIR COP (RADIO 4, 11.30AM) makes a welcome return. Drawing on his years as a police officer with the Humberside force, Alfie gets a studio audience making decisions about a real crime. As they tussle with moral and legal dilemmas, Alfie recalls odd things that have happened to him in the line of duty. This morning, he remembers a robbery chase with his police dog, Zeus.

THE phenomenal Conchita Wurst (pictured) took to the stage of the London Palladium earlier this year. Conchita — who won the Eurovision Song Contest for Austria in 2014 — was backed by the BBC Concert Orchestra and her own rock band for an outpouring of diva songs, getting a standing ovation for Prince’s Purple Rain. The whole glittering shindig — as we’ll hear on

FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT (RADIO 2, 8PM)

came to a glorious finale with a full-on rendition of Conchita’s Eurovision hit, Rise Like A Phoenix.

IF YOU do the same commute in your car day in, day out, the chances are that you will, one day, arrive at your destination and your memory of parts of the route will be a blank. Geoff Marsh presents

CROWDSCIENCE: WHY DO DRIVERS ZONE OUT? (BBC WORLD SERVICE, 8.30PM),

looking at what’s happening to the brain when this happens, and reveals how drivers can learn to refocus.