On the Radio Seven Days

Today Radcliffe and Maconie

6 Music, 8am

Mark and Stuart play a selection of their favourite tracks from 2021. Expect music from the likes of Matthew E White, Little Simz, Hamish Hawk and The Go! Team. Plus, there’ll be another round of The Chain – the duo’s famous list of interconnected songs, which is up to 8,000 and counting.

Monday Craig Charles 6 Music, 1pm

The legendary Sir Tom Jones is Craig’s guest, a man of many hits stretching back to the 1960s. Plus, more fantastic music to make your Monday afternoon feel like a Friday-night party.

Tuesday Lunchtime Concert

Radio 3, 1pm

Pianist Steven Osborne joins Scottish Chamber Orchestra soloists to performs Messiaen’s Quartet For The End Of Time, written while the composer was imprisoned by the Nazis in Stalag VIII-A at Gorlitz and first performed in the camp to the other prisoners.

Wednesday The Folk Show Radio 2, 9pm

Songwriter Kris Drever and painter Jackie Morris talk to Mark Radcliffe about Let The Light In, the second album by the Spell Songs collective, which features, among others, Drever, Karine Polwart and Julie Fowlis.They combine on stage with Morris’ live, fluid painting to celebrate nature.

Thursday Spank the Plank

Radio 4 Extra, 2.30pm

Mitch Benn investigates slap bass, a musical technique that became the engine of funk and is the unlikely link between Elvis and thrash metal. Mitch also gears up for a live performance.

Friday Sounds Of The ’80s

Radio 2, 8pm

Twenty years after his passing, presenter Gary Davies pays tribute to Big Country singer Stuart Adamson. Singersongwriter James Morrison guests plus there’s another Mastermix.