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SUNDAY PRIVATE PASSIONS RADIO 3, 12PM

In a highly emotional interview with Michael Berkeley, former rugby international Brian Moore reveals the role music has played in his extraordinarily varied life. He has seen The Nutcracker every year since he was 17 – he’s now 58 – and says he was persuaded to retire from the game after listening to a Mozart aria.

MONDAY THE LYING LIFE OF ADULTS RADIO 4, MON-FRI, 12PM & 10.45PM

Elena Ferrante is best known for her Neapolitan quartet of novels and the TV version, My Brilliant Friend. This extract from her new novel finds a teenage girl from a wealthy part of Naples in the 1990s experiencing the trials of adolescence and uncovering life-changing family secrets as she descends into the city’s rougher areas of her father’s youth.

BRITPOP TOP 50 RADIO 2, 2PM

Jo Whiley counts down the 50 best-selling Britpop songs of the mid-1990s, as compiled by the Official Charts Company. As well as playing era-defining songs by such purveyors of the genre as Blur, Oasis (above right), Manic Street Preachers and Pulp, she chooses some lesser-known tracks and hears reflections on the optimism of the Cool Britannia years.

TUESDAY ED REARDON’S WEEK RADIO 4 EXTRA, 9.30AM & 2.30PM

The first episode of the popular comedy from 2005, with Christopher Douglas as a curmudgeonly 50-something hack, fare-dodger and abusive e-mailer who once wrote an episode of Tenko and scratches out a living writing dull coffee-table books and taking part in police identity parades.

ANATOMY OF GUILT RADIO 4, 4PM

Helena Kennedy QC, who grew up as a Catholic, looks at guilt from various perspectives – legal, psychological and political – and asks why we feel guilty. Collective guilt, and whether our understanding of guilt has changed over time are also discussed by contributors including the author Howard Jacobson.

THURSDAY BEYOND OUR KEN RADIO 4 EXTRA, 8AM & 7PM

A welcome return for the classic BBC comedy that ran from 1958 to 1964 and preceded Round The Horne. It comprised a fictional week in the life of the urbane Kenneth Horne, with characters such as Fanny Haddock and Hankie Flowered.

BBC PROMS LIVE RADIO 3, 7.30PM

Violinists Nicola Benedetti and Alina Ibragimova, with the Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment, perform Baroque concertos for two violins by Vivaldi, Handel, Bach and Charles Avison.