TODAY’S RADIO

Fighting Talk

11AM, RADIO 5 LIVE

Radio 5 always gets Saturdays off to a good start with its regular mix of sport, entertainment and sharp-witted presenters. Colin Murray does his bit for the team as he gets Justin Moorhouse,

Des Kelly and Rick Edwards to look over the week’s sporting headlines.

Dermot O’Leary

3PM, RADIO 2

The English-Italian singersongwriter Jack Savoretti is on today’s show for a live Saturday Session. Jack, who is no slouch in the recording studio, is even better live. He tells Dermot about the hiatus – a couple of years ago – in his career, and will play some new material from his upcoming fifth album, Sleep No More. Justin Timberlake and Anna Kendrick, who’ll be supplying the voices of Branch and Poppy for the new Trolls film, are also on the show. Ron Howard (5pm, Classic FM)

Saturday Night At The Movies

5PM, CLASSIC FM Andrew Collins talks to the director Ron Howard about the film Inferno, and hears how Ron goes about bringing Dan Brown’s books to the big screen. Andrew plays some of the music from Inferno and from Howard’s The Da Vinci Code.

Song Of The Singer Sewing Machine

8PM, RADIO 4

Isaac Singer was an actor, inventor and millionaire; he had numerous ‘wives’ and mistresses – and 22 children. He patented his version of the sewing machine in 1851, and, by the end of the 19th century, the Singer domain was almost as large and widespread as the Catholic Church. Maria Margaronis visits a Singer factory as she gives this personal, idiosyncratic account of a machine that changed the world.

Between The Ears: Jump Blue

9.40PM, RADIO 3

Natalia Molchanova would dive down, without oxygen supplies, deep into the ocean. She could hold her breath for more than nine minutes, and could swim underwater for 182 metres without fins. Then, one day last year, near Ibiza – while teaching a group of learners how to freedive – tragedy struck. This atmospheric mix of music, sounds and the words of freedivers takes us on Natalia’s final, fatal descent.

SJ