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Radio 3 in Concert RADIO 3, 7.30PM

Jaqueline Du Pré, one of the great cellists of the 20th century, died 30 years ago this month after a long struggle with multiple sclerosis. Today, at London’s Royal Festival Hall, Du Pré’s widower Daniel Barenboim conducts the West-eastern Divan Orchestra through a pair of cello-led pieces, in a tribute concert that promises to be both poignant and musically invigorating. On the programme are Strauss’s mischievous tone poem, Don Quixote, in which the cello plays the lead role, and Tchaikovsky’s rousing Symphony No. 5.

Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time

RADIO 4, 1.45PM

Readers, TV viewers and radio listeners may all be at least glancingly acquainted with Anthony Powell’s sprawling comic masterpiece about English life – which has been re-printed, adapted, filmed and broadcast numerous times since its publication in the mid-20th century. This outstanding five-part biography lifts the lid on its creator, finding tragedy and comedy in almost equal measure. It’s written by the Whitbread Prize-winning Hilary Spurling, abridged for radio by Sara Davies, and read by Hattie Morahan.