... AND YOUR RADIO PICKS
SUNDAY SUNDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT RADIO 2, 7PM
Twang: The Great Instrumental Hits celebrates chart hits that dispensed with vocalists, from Eye Level (the Van Der Valk theme) and Telstar, to Chariots Of Fire and the theme for The Onedin Line by Khachaturian. Plus tributes to guitar greats Duane Eddy and The Shadows.
MONDAY VESPER FLIGHTS RADIO 4, 9.45AM/12.30AM, MON-FRI
Writer and naturalist Helen Macdonald reads from her new essays about our connection with the natural world – her first publication since the bestselling H Is For Hawk. Each essay highlights our curiosity and love for the non-human life around us and its fragility.
DRAMA: ELECTRIC DECADE: BREAK OF DAY, RADIO 4, 2PM
A semi-biographical story from 1928 by Colette, in which the French writer – played by Frances Barber – abandons Paris for the countryside after a messy divorce. There she is tempted by a man 20 years her junior and encounters the ghost of her mother.
TUESDAY THE LENNY HENRY SHOW RADIO 4, 6.30PM
Sir Lenny (right) returns with a new character-based sketch show featuring familiar favourites such as Delbert Wilkins and Deakus as well as new ones: an ex-SAS man turned supply teacher, a cranky history of art teacher and a politician who is unable to answer any question properly (imagine).
WEDNESDAY BBC PROMS RADIO 3, 7.30PM
The first of Leonard Bernstein’s only two appearances at the Proms finds him conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in 1987. The programme comprises Mozart’s late work, the Clarinet Concerto in A major, with Austrian clarinetist Peter Schmidl, and Mahler’s Symphony No 5 in C sharp minor.
THURSDAY THE EMPTY CASES RADIO 4, 11.30AM
A look at what the pulling down of a 17th Century slave trader’s statue in Bristol earlier this year means for this country’s museums, as curators reassess their collections, and how we represent British historical moments, in the light of the Black Lives Matter protests.
SATURDAY DRAMA: AGATHA CHRISTIE’S THE LIE RADIO 4, 2.30PM
Early and only recently discovered play by the Queen of Crime that reflects her own divorce and mysterious disappearance in the 1920s. It’s a domestic drama in which a woman is trapped in an unhappy marriage to a man who is obsessed with her younger sister.