TODAY’S RADIO

11AM, RADIO 4 They’ve had to create a Department for Exiting the European Union to cope with the maypole of red tape caused by Brexit. In this programme, Gus O’Donnell, the former head of the British Civil Service, finds out how the DEEU is coping.

Radcliffe & Maconie

1PM, BBC 6 MUSIC Jon Anderson, whose high vocals were the trademark of Yes, joins Mark and Stuart to talk about the band, working with Vangelis, going solo and his Prog God award.

Yusra: Swim For Your Life

4PM, RADIO 4 One of the many moving sights of the Rio Olympics was seeing the ten stateless competitors, who together formed the refugee team, at the opening ceremony. One of these athletes was the swimmer Yusra Mardini, who fled war-torn Syria with her sister, making the dangerous crossing from Turkey to Lesbos. The sisters were in an overcrowded dinghy with a failing engine. When the engine died, the two sisters went into the water and swam together, dragging the boat and its terrified passengers to safety. This two-part documentary tells Yusra’s story.

BBC Proms 2016

7.30PM, RADIO 3 The violinist Baiba Skride joins the BBC Symphony Orchestra for a concert that includes Mozart’s Fifth Violin Concerto and an ethereal work by Zemlinsky, which sets to music poems by the Nobel Prize-winner Rabindranath Tagore.

Johnnie Walker’s Long-Players

10PM, RADIO 2 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers were great live, but struggled to deliver the goods in the studio. In the penultimate programme of this series comparing great albums, Johnnie Walker and David Hepworth talk about the band’s Damn The Torpedoes, from 1979. The other LP on the turntable tonight is the Steve Miller Band’s excellent 1976 album Fly Like An Eagle.

Late Junction

11PM, RADIO 3 Nick Luscombe features work by the Italian film composer and lawyer Piero Piccioni in this late-night music show.

Yusra Mardini (4pm, Radio 4)