Radio choice Charlotte Runcie

The Reith Lectures 2017 RADIO 4, 9.00AM

Rather more seemly, but just as thrilling, is the final instalment of Hilary Mantel’s Reith Lectures, which have all been utterly bewitching from start to finish. In this edition, recorded in Stratford-uponavon, she talks about how fiction changes when it is adapted for stage and screen, after her own novels, Wolf Hall and Bring

Up the Bodies, found significant acclaim in stage and television incarnations. Mantel argues that every medium finds something different in a story, and adaptation is always a new act of creation in itself.

Music to Strip to RADIO 4, 11.30AM

Apparently it’s never too early in the day for burlesque. This programme celebrates the modern music of contemporary striptease, and how the art form is adapting to changing tastes. A strip show in 2017 could take place to a soundtrack of techno, hip hop, post-punk or spoken word, rather than the distinctive jazz sounds of Sixties burlesque. Magnificently named guests, including Nasty Canasta, Aurora Galore, Fancy Feast and Darlinda Just Darlinda, discuss what makes the ideal soundtrack for modern stripping.