TODAY’S RADIO

Good Morning Sunday

7AM, RADIO 2 Chris de Burgh joins Clare Balding to talk about his music and beliefs. The British Anglican priest Lucy Winkett is also on the show, and there will be live music from Jess Thristan.

Desert Island Discs

11.15AM, RADIO 4 The opera star Joyce DiDonato grew up in Prairie Village, Kansas. She was the sixth of seven children, and her ambition was to be a music teacher; then, she saw a televised broadcast of Don Giovanni, and a whole new world opened up for her. Joyce tells Kirsty Young about her journey from Kansas to the opera stages of the world.

Charlotte Green’s Culture Club

3PM, CLASSIC FM Daniel Radcliffe joins Charlotte for her show this week. Daniel listens to classical music when he’s working, as he finds that it helps him to clear his mind of day-today matters so he can focus on the demands of his acting life. Daniel selects some favourite classical pieces, and talks about his Harry Potter years and new films Imperium and Swiss Army Man.

The Smilers

3.45PM, RADIO 4 EXTRA Gloomy Sylvester Stockton walks through the streets of New York, looking for someone to inflict his misery on. He catches sight of Betty, an old girlfriend who broke up with Sylvester years ago. Betty once said that she would go mad ‘if ever again he parked his pessimism in her sun-parlour’. Garrick Hagon reads four short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald, which follow Sylvester as he sows gloom and misery among his acquaintances.

The Choir

4PM, RADIO 3 The Third Programme, the forerunner of Radio 3, went on air 70 years ago. As part of the festivities, Sara Mohr-Pietsch looks at the effect that this new station had on choral music. Many new choirs and choral societies were formed that year, and Sara hears from them as they, too, celebrate their 70th birthdays. The celebrations continue in

Words And Music (5.30pm), a live programme of performances of post-war music, poetry and prose celebrating seven decades of pioneering culture.

Daniel Radcliffe (3pm, Classic FM)