…ANDTHEBEST RADIO SUNDAY
PRIVATE PASSIONS: MIKE BREARLEY RADIO 3, 12PM
The former England cricket captain – who won 17 Test matches and lost only four, including the memorable 1981 Ashes – is now a psychoanalyst. He chooses music by Bach, Monteverdi and Tchaikovsky, as well as a Mozart sonata that reminds him of his father, also a top cricketer.
THE COUNTRY MUSIC ASSOCIATION AWARDS RADIO 2, 7PM
Bob Harris presents highlights from this week’s awards from Nashville. Nominees for Entertainer of the Year comprise Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, Eric Church, Carrie Underwood and Keith Urban.
Reba McEntire and Darius Rucker host.
MONDAY
THE CLIMATE QUESTION
WORLD SERVICE, 9.05AM & 8.05PM
The BBC’s World Service launches a climate-change podcast and radio series involving journalists, experts, campaigners and politicians talking about the latest developments and issues. The first episode focuses on the US and China and their different attitudes to the problem.
TUESDAY
AL MURRAY: TOTALLY OUT OF CHARACTER RADIO 4, 6.30PM
The Pub Landlord is probably finding himself a bit short of work at the moment, so step forward his alter ego Al Murray, who, in this sketch show, reveals the Oxford-educated man behind the ebullient victualler.
WEDNESDAY RADIO 3 IN CONCERT RADIO 3, 7.30PM
Recording of a recent Barbican concert by singers Sarah Connolly and Ian Bostridge with pianist Julius Drake and the Carducci Quartet. They perform a pair of song cycles inspired by nature: Chausson’s Poème De L’ Amour Et De La Mer and On Wenlock Edge by Vaughan Williams.
THURSDAY DRAMA: REDACTED RADIO 4, 2.15PM
In Hugh Costello’s political thriller, a senior civil servant censoring old government documents before they are released to the press and public finds his wife’s name at the bottom of an urgent memo to the Prime Minister and faces a moral dilemma.
Greta Scacchi and Nicholas Murchie star.
FRIDAY
SOUNDS OF THE 80S WITH GARY DAVIES RADIO 2, 8PM
On the back of their new book, Really Saying Something, Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward – two-thirds of 1980s popsters Bananarama (below with Siobhan Fahey) – spill the beans on the girl band.