Radio choice

Plum House RADIO 4, 11.30AM

Ben Cottam and Paul Mckenna’s sitcom, which gently satirises the mores of a National Trust-like stately homes, returns for a second series. Miles Jupp, Simon Callow and Jane Horrocks are back as the management team behind the crumbling country pile which once belonged to an execrable 18th-century poet called George Pudding, and, for some reason, never attracts many visitors that visit its Lake District setting every year. This episode centres around the creation of a new audio tour of the house. But they can’t agree on who will star in the recording.

Radio 3 in Concert RADIO 3, 7.30PM

The virtuoso violinist Tamsin Little is the star of this evening’s concert, as the BBC Philharmonic performs Szymanowski’s Violin Concerto No 1, one of the world’s first modern violin concertos, written in 1916. The other part of the concert is Tchaikovsky’s theatrical Manfred Symphony, unnumbered but composed between his Fourth and Fifth symphonies and is based on Byron’s 1817 ghost story poem, Manfred. It is a work so long and complicated that it has historically been rarely performed, and still divides critics.