Radio choice

Street Art RADIO 4, 11.30AM

This is the first in a new highbrow, three-part series exploring the close relationship between visual art and place, as well as looking at artists who install their work in prominent places away from conventional galleries. In this first programme, Dr Cadence Kinsey,

Art Historian at The University of York, focuses on the work of Turner Prize winner Rachel Whiteread, who is working on a piece for the new US Embassy, and Heather Phillipson, who talks about making work for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square.

The Essay: All Miss Brodie’s Girls? RADIO 3, 10.45PM

Marking the centenary of the great novelist Muriel Spark’s birth this month are a series of programmes sprinkled across BBC radio. Her lasting influence, particularly on other Scottish female writers, is explored every evening this week on The Essay. Fellow female authors Ali Smith, Kate Clanchy, Janice Galloway, Val Mcdermid and Louise Welsh each give a personal take on why they think Spark’s writing is so special, how it has affected their work, and why she so deserves to be read and remembered.