Radio choice Charlotte Runcie

Holding Back the Tide RADIO 4, 2.15PM

 This brisk new three-part drama is a tale of the clash between north and south, when a couple of Southerners who move to the seaside town of Breck Howe after inheriting a clifftop property find themselves grappling with local political tensions, unexpected tenants, coastal erosion, sewage treatment works and the Breck Howe Preservation Society. Things get even more chaotic when they make inroads into the processes of the less-thandemocratic local council. This comedy is written by Nick Warburton, and is directed by Sally Avens.

Friday Night Is Music Night

RADIO 2, 8.00PM

 Presented by Michael Brandon, tonight’s show indulges in the work of George Gershwin, 80 years on from his death from a brain tumour at the age of 38. Debbie Gravitte, Doug Labrecque, Rebecca Trehearn and Matt Ford sing their way through the glories of the Gershwin songbook, evoking all the drama of New York in the Twenties and Thirties, tackling som e of the composer’s best-known numbers including They Can’t Take That Away From Me, Let’s Call The Whole Thing Off and plenty more.