Radio choice Charlotte Runcie

Friday Night Is Music Night

RADIO 2, 8.00PM

 Ken Bruce presents this dance-themed episode of Friday Night Is Music Night

live from the Chichester Festival Theatre. The concert has a selection of pieces designed for samba, waltzing and even clog dancing (have your clogs at the ready for Ferdinand Herold’s Clog Dance from La Fille mal Gardee). The programme also includes the Emperor Waltz by Johann Strauss and Gordon Langford’s medley of classic numbers from Irving Berlin’s Top Hat, in memory of the great toe-tappers Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

Podcast Radio Hour RADIO 4 EXTRA, 9.00PM

 Increasingly, some of the most exciting radio shows are not broadcast through conventional schedules, but are available to download instead. The BBC is now making many podcasts into series, and to mark the changing times, Amanda Litherland presents this new show in which she and a different guest each week pick some ones to recommend. In the first episode, Litherland and Deborah Frances White, host of The Guilty Feminist podcast, talk to Cariad Lloyd about Griefcast,a series in which comedians discuss death.