Radio Week

The picks of the best of this week’s radio

ENTERTAINMENT

Louise McSharry

SUNDAY, 9AM, 2FM HHHHH

Louise tackles everything from the newest beauty product to rights for renters as she catches up on the news headlines, shines a light on new music and deals with real life issues, all mixed in with some top tunes.

The Ronan Collins Show MONDAY-FRIDAY, 12 NOON, RTÉ RADIO 1 ★★★★★ Una Healy (pictured) will be taking residence in the Ronan Collins studio all this week, requesting your favourites and playing a few of hers too. Listeners’ choices, old favourites, plus the best of the new as well as many musical surprises are in store.

FACTUAL

The Californian Century MONDAY-FRIDAY, 1.45PM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★★

The US actor Stanley Tucci delivers true stories, told in a film script format, about the making of modern California. He opens the series with an account of the mysterious death in 1911 of the pioneering movie director Francis Boggs.

The Likely Dads

THURSDAY, 11PM, BBC RADIO 4 HHHH

Tim Vincent gets comedians Russell Kane, Sean Hegarty and Mick Ferry to talk honestly about their fears and worries on becoming fathers. A reassuring programme for those new to parenthood.

The Lyric Feature SUNDAY, 6PM, LYRIC FM ★★★★

This three-part series has seen Regan Hutchins join artists, poets, friends and family to hear how we encounter morning, noon and night. This evening’s final installment looks at night and asks if we have banished the night with a flick of an electric switch? We’ll take a night walk with an artist, pray for our souls and hear about a mysterious night visitor called The Little Nun in this programme of short features, poetry and prose.

Documentary on One

SUNDAY, 7PM, RTÉ RADIO 1 ★★★★

This documentary charts the development of television in Ireland, since the first broadcast on Telefís Éireann in 1961 later renamed RTÉ.

DRAMA

This Thing Of Darkness

MONDAY, 2.15PM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★★★ Written by Lucia Haynes, this gripping drama explores the psychological impact of murder.

A young man has been killed – and forensic psychiatrist Dr Alex Bridges interviews the members of his familyto make a pre-trial assessment of the case – in the first of a seven-part true-crime drama series. Compelling listening.

The Interrogation

WEDNESDAY, 2.15PM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★★★ A middle-aged man is arrested for shoplifting, but DCI Max Matthews (Kenneth Cranham) and DS Sean Armitage (Alex Lanipekun) are more worried about his past dealings with the police in Roy Williams’ hard-hitting contemporary crime drama.