TODAY’S RADIO

Ian Sansom And The Little People

11AM, RADIO 4 The author Ian Sansom finds a protected habitat for leprechauns in Ireland, enrols at Iceland’s Elf School, and hears all kinds of baloney on both islands about ‘the little people’.

The Other Simenon

2.15PM, RADIO 4 Justin Calmar, a middle-aged businessman, has cut short his holiday and taken the express train from Venice to Paris. He shares a carriage with a stranger, who grills Justin about his life. The stranger manages to persuade Justin to deliver an attache case to an apartment in Lausanne. Justin discovers there’s a dead body in the apartment, a fortune in the attache case – and a whole lot of trouble heading his way. Paul Bown, Clare Corbett and Crawford Logan star in this dramatisation of a Georges Simenon story.

In Tune

4.30PM, RADIO 3 The Third Programme, which would become Radio 3, went on air 70 years ago. Sean Rafferty marks the event with this live show from London’s South Bank. Guests include the cello prodigy Sheku Kanneh-Mason and the BBC Concert Orchestra.

The News Quiz

6.30PM, RADIO 4 Miles Jupp will be joined by Jeremy Hardy, Rebecca Front, Lucy Porter and Zoe Lyons for another round of the topical comedy panel show.

Friday Night Is Music Night

8PM, RADIO 2 Tonight’s concert is a celebration of some of the many instrumental hits that have topped the British charts. Acker Bilk’s Stranger On The Shore, Morricone’s The Good, The Bad And The Ugly and Vangelis’s Chariots Of Fire are on the bill.

The Full Works Concert

8PM, CLASSIC FM The Menuhin Festival Gstaad was founded by the legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin after he moved to the Swiss Alpine town in 1957. It has been held every summer since, and here are highlights from two concerts at this year’s event, featuring performances by the cellist Sol Gabetta, pianist Nelson Goerner, Sinfonia Varsovia and the Basel Chamber Orchestra.

Lucy Porter (6.30pm, Radio 4)