Radio Week

The picks of the best of this week’s radio

ENTERTAINMENT

The Poetry Programme

SUNDAY, 7.30PM, RTÉ RADIO ONE ★★★★ Do you know what a haiku is? Olivia O’Leary and guests chat about their favourites on tonight’s Poetry Programme. Poets Maeve O’Sullivan, David J Kelly and Orla GrantDonoghue join Olivia to share their love of this Japanese poetry. Book On One: Shadowplay

MONDAY, 11.30PM, RTÉ RADIO ONE ★★★★ Across two weeks Joseph O’Connor reads from his award-winning novel Shadowplay, named Irish novel of the Year 2019. The imagined intertwined lives of Bram Stoker, Henry Irving and Ellen Terry are at the heart of the book. Marty In The Morning

MON-FRIDAY, 7AM, LYRIC FM ★★★★

Marty Whelan takes the chill out of early mornings with music, news, weather and travel updates. On Fridays, Neven Maguire joins the show with ideas for midweek meals from his latest book.

FACTUAL

The Order Of The Day MONDAY-FRIDAY, 12.04PM,

10.45PM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★★★

War, for many German industrialists, was good for business. Henry Goodman is the narrator for Eric Vuillard’s vivid account of the build-up to the Second World War. All In The Mind

TUESDAY, 9PM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★★

Worry, boredom and fear have all taken their toll on our mental health. Claudia Hammond talks about the psychological damage the coronavrius pandemic has inflicted, and gives useful advice on getting through the winter. Missing And Murdered

TUESDAY, 3PM, BBC WORLD SERVICE ★★★★ In America, Native American women are

five to ten times more likely to be be trafficked, raped or murdered. These women are falling through cracks in the system and the violence has become normalised, but a new breed of warrior women is fighting back. The Lyric Feature

SUNDAY, 6PM, LYRIC FM ★★★★

Between 1813 and 1816, the folk song collector and publisher George Thomson commissioned Beethoven to write arrangements and settings of Irish, Scottish and Welsh folk songs. They have all been recorded for the Beethoven 250th anniversary year, and two of the artists who are featured in these recordings discuss the music along with Sophie Daneman, who sings on some of the recordings of Beethoven’s song settings.

DRAMA

Meltdown

FRIDAY, 2.15PM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★★ Joanna Lumley (pictured), Robert Glenister and Evan Davis star in this comedy drama about an actress struggling with the lack of privacy that fame has brought. Drama: Franklin

WEDNESDAY, 2.15PM, BBC RADIO 4 ★★★★ Simon Bovey’s play tells of how a letter from a high-school teacher to Peanuts creator Charles M. Schultz after the death of Martin Luther King Jr resulted in the introduction of the black character Franklin into the famous strip cartoon in 1968.

The play highlights the cartoonist’s initial reservations .