TODAY’S RADIO

The Food Programme

12.30PM, RADIO 4 Charles Green was ship’s cook for Ernest Shackleton on board the Endurance. Green, an affable man, had to cook four meals a day for 28 men, on blubber-fuelled stoves, often as not in an Antarctic blizzard. Gerard Baker tells his story today.

The King Of Dreams

1.30PM, RADIO 4 The Marquis Leon d’Hervey was fascinated by dreams, and recorded his own in a diary since childhood. In 1867, the Marquis anonymously published a book giving instructions on how to control dreams. Alice Roberts looks at techniques to induce ‘lucid dreaming’, and hears how the Marquis’s work is being investigated by psychologists.

Charlotte Green’s Culture Club

3PM, CLASSIC FM Laura Mvula joins Charlotte to talk about the importance of music teachers in schools, especially during these times of cutbacks. Laura was a music teacher herself, and is proud to support Classic FM’s Music Teacher of the Year awards.

The Listening Service

5PM, RADIO 3 Foetuses can feel and hear the low notes of a musical instrument, but not the high ones. This may explain why the bass line of a piece of music hooks our attention. Tom Service listens to some great bass sounds, from Stevie Wonder to Johann Sebastian Bach, then talks to musicians and neuroscientists in a quest to find out why the bass sound has such an effect on us.

Words And Music

5.30PM, RADIO 3 In this selection of poetry and prose, read by Anne-Marie Duff and Greg Wise, we hear accounts of the sun’s power and splendour. Icarus flies too close to the sun and plummets into the sea, Antoine de SaintExupery crash-lands in the desert and nearly dies in the burning heat of the Sahara, and Louis XIV declares himself to be the Sun King. Music by Haydn, Ravel and others intersperses the readings.

Moira Stuart

11PM, RADIO 2 Moira includes tracks by Mose Allison and Cassandra Wilson on her easy-listening show tonight.

Laura Mvula (3pm, Classic FM)