THIS WEEK’S RADIO PICKS

SUNDAY THE INIMITABLE JEEVES, RADIO 4 EXTRA, 8.30AM

A 1973 recording starring the incomparable Richard Briers and Michael Hordern in a P. G. Wodehouse tale (right) that finds the manservant suggesting that Wooster’s chum Bingo Little uses romance novels to persuade a disapproving uncle of his plan to woo a waitress.

DRAMA ON 3: IN THE NATIVE STATE BY TOM STOPPARD, RADIO 3, 7.30PM

Dame Peggy Ashcroft’s final dramatic role features in this play recording (first aired in 1991), which went on to become Stoppard’s stage drama Indian Ink. Felicity Kendal also stars, as a young poet with a racy reputation who travels to India in 1930, while Ashcroft plays her sister, 60 years later, in England, when she receives a visit from an Indian painter.

MONDAY 47 YEARS WITHOUT A CLUE – A TRIBUTE TO TIM BROOKE-TAYLOR, RADIO 4, 6.30PM

Fellow ex-Goodie Graeme Garden presents this tribute to the comedian, who recently died from coronavirus aged 79. There’s an emphasis on his huge contribution to I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue and some of its funniest moments.

TUESDAY MY TEENAGE DIARY, RADIO 4, 6.30PM

If you wrote a teenage diary of your inner torments, on reading it back later you probably ripped it up in red-faced embarrassment. Some celebrities, though, have kept theirs. In the first of six episodes of a new series, comedian and actor Rufus Hound hears fellow stand-up Shazia Mirza read her adolescent angst aloud.

THURSDAY RADIO 3 IN CONCERT: HALLE, RADIO 3, 7.30PM

In a 2010 Manchester concert, Sir Mark Elder conducts the world-renowned Hallé Orchestra in two quintessentially British pieces from the 20th Century: Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony – his own view of the capital and its people – and Elgar’s Violin Concerto in B Minor, performed by Danish virtuoso Nikolaj Znaider.

FRIDAY SOUND WALK, RADIO 3, 1PM

Natural sounds and meditative thoughts in a four-hour, immersive ‘slow radio’ experience of the British countryside. It’s based on Horatio Clare’s ten-mile walk from the village of Cwmdu in the Black Mountains, via Offa’s Dyke and the England/ Wales border, to Hay-on-Wye.

THE FULL WORKS CONCERT: 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF VE DAY, CLASSIC FM, 8PM

Winston Churchill’s grandson Nicholas Soames presents a programme centred on Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Its four-note opening corresponds to the letter V in Morse code and was used in the V for Victory campaign during the war. William Walton’s score for the 1942 film The First Of The Few also features.

SATURDAY ARCHIVE ON 4: BEING BORED, RADIO 4, 8PM

Subtitled The Importance Of Doing Nothing, comedian Phill Jupitus’s broadcast argues that boredom is a crucial part of the human condition and that we suffer too many distractions in this digital age. His discourse takes in such diverse subjects as Sherlock Holmes, a London ‘Boring’ Conference and sexual encounters in Denmark.