Radio choice Charlotte Runcie

Superfast Politics RADIO 4, 11.00AM

 What with snap general elections and Donald Trump’s Twitter-based statesmanship, politics has started working at breakneck speed. If you spend a day away from the internet it’s easy to miss out on some major international political development or other completely. Historian Rhys Jones argues that we seem to be in an era of politics on fast-forward, especially with the race to deliver Brexit against the clock happening in the face of significant obstacles. Should democracy rediscover the joy of slowness?

Friday Night Is Music Night

RADIO 2, 8.00PM

 While the new Star Wars film. The Last Jedi, about to hit the cinemas, this Friday Night Is Music Night concert from earlier this year is another welcome chance to celebrate the 85th birthday of the great composer John Williams. Williams, of course, wrote the Star

Wars theme along with the scores for more than 100 films, winning five Oscars along the way. Mark Kermode hosts this tribute concert, with the BBC Concert Orchestra and London Voices performing some of the most-famous Williams pieces.