Radio Week
The picks of the best of this week’s radio
ENTERTAINMENT Desert Island Discs Revisited SUNDAY, 10AM, 9PM, BBC R4 EXTRA ★★★★
The BBC is fond of sending Judi Dench (pictured) to be a castaway on its desert island. In this repeat programme, first broadcast in 2015, she sets off with her eight records, plus a book, a luxury and a lot of memories for another trip to the island.
The John Creedon Show
MONDAY, 8PM, RTÉ RADIO 1HHH
John chats about the world around him, delights in his listeners’ letters and emails, and reflects on what tomorrow will bring, with a few songs along the way.
The Anton Savage Show SATURDAY, 9AM, NEWSTALK ★★★★
Anton presents this bright, lively and engaging current affairs magazine show, featuring all the latest news, features and opinion.
FACTUAL
Talking History SUNDAY, 7PM, NEWSTALK
★★★★
Dr Patrick Geoghegan takes a critical look at some of the great personalities and political, social and cultural events in history. Talking History focuses on the human side of history — unravelling the gritty and sometimes uncomfortable side we don’t usually hear much about.
The Smugglers’ Trail FRIDAY, 11AM, BBC RADIO 4
★★★★
Five armed men guard a gang leader in a clearing in a forest as night falls. Rob Lawrie, a former soldier, approaches and, bravely, questions the gang leader about his role as a human trafficker. An important documentary, made with great bravery.
DRAMA The Case Of Charles Dexter Ward
MONDAY, 6PM, 12 MIDNIGHT,
BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA ★★★★
Alun Armstrong, Nicola Walker and Alex Lanipekun are among the cast for this eerie 18-part supernatural thriller adapted from a novella by H.P. Lovecraft.
A Fair Shot
WEDNESDAY, 2.15PM, BBC RADIO 4
★★★★
A millionaire businesswoman is appointed as leader of a new centrist party, but is she all that she seems? Barbara Flynn stars in this intelligent drama about speeches and secrets.
Drama on One
SUNDAY, 8PM, RTÉ RADIO ONE ★★★★
Hecuba by Marina Carr. Troy has fallen. As the cries die down after the final battle, there are reckonings to be made. Humiliated by her defeat and imprisoned by the charismatic victor Agamemnon, the great queen Hecuba must wash the blood of her buried sons from her hands and lead her daughters forward into a world they no longer recognise. Agamemnon has slaughtered his own daughter to win this war. But now another sacrifice is demanded.