TODAY’S RADIO

5 Live Daily

10AM, RADIO 5 LIVE The journalist and broadcaster Emma Barnett begins her new series, which will run from Wednesday to Friday each week. She’ll be inviting experts to share their views on the day’s big stories and asking guests to talk about issues, on air, that they would normally only discuss in private.

Sunni-Shia: Islam Divided

11AM, RADIO 4 Tarek Osman tells the story of a major division in Islam that dates back to the death of the prophet Muhammad.

Jo Whiley

8PM, RADIO 2 Ripon-born Billie Marten was a star on a local Yorkshire YouTube channel, Ont’ Sofa, when she was just 12. She was a nominee for this year’s BBC Sound Of 16 award, and is a prolific songwriter. Billie joins Jo for a live session of recent material.

The Full Works Concert

8PM, CLASSIC FM Last night, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields – Classic FM’s artists in residence – under the baton of conductor Timothy Henty, gave a concert at the Royal Albert Hall for lucky Classic FM listeners. The concert, which will be broadcast tonight, included many old favourites, such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue, and ended with the 1812 Overture.

The Essay: Islands

10.45PM, RADIO 3 Rum is a diamond-shaped island of the Inner Hebrides, and a place of wild beauty. It is home to red deer, Highland cattle and herds of small ponies that have, according to local legend, descended from animals that swam ashore from a wrecked ship of the Spanish Armada. Poet Kenneth Steven looks at life on the island through the prism of poetry.

The People’s Songs

11PM, RADIO 2 Stuart Maconie is taking an appraising look at The Kinks’ Dedicated Follower Of Fashion in this continuing series, which looks at the history of modern Britain through 50 records. Ray Davies wrote the song after a heated argument with a fashion victim at a party in the Swinging Sixties. His attack on the ‘Carnabetian Army’ still seems, after all these years, funny and relevant.

The Kinks (11pm, Radio 2)