Radio choice Charlotte Runcie

Three Men in a Boat

RADIO 4 EXTRA, 10.00AM

Does there exist a more perfect British summer book than Jerome K Jerome’s Three Men in a

Boat? Funny and idyllic, any excuse to revisit the story is a delight, not least in this 2013 dramatisation starring a trio of sharp comic actors, Hugh Dennis, Steve Punt and Julian Rhind-tutt, broadcast in two parts (concluding the same time tomorrow). The scene is Edwardian London, where three carefree young chaps decide to take their dog, Montmorency, on a boating expedition along the Thames – but, of course, things don’t quite go to plan.

BBC Proms 2018

RADIO 3, 7.30PM

 Wagner, Schubert, Zimmerman and Sibelius are all on the programme, which includes the Overture from The Mastersingers of Nuremberg, Schubert orch Liszt’s Fantasy in C, Wanderer, and Sibelius’s Symphony No 7 in C major. The BBC Philharmonic is joined by the French-canadian pianist Louis Lortie and soprano Elizabeth Watts, who may well be superhuman – she gave birth to twin girls last September and has maintained a glittering performance schedule since.