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TODAY’S RADIO
My Teenage Diary
11.30AM, RADIO 4 (FM)
When Oona King was 11, her main ambitions were to get better at roller-skating and to have a new hamster. By the time she was 19, Oona was a politics student, with the ambition of becoming PM. Bravely, Oona hands over her teenage diaries to Rufus Hound, who shares some of the entries with a studio audience and Radio 4 listeners.
Composer Of The Week
12 NOON, 6.30PM, RADIO 3 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was a black British composer. He died in 1912, at the age of 37, of pneumonia. His work was immensely popular, and his music played to capacity crowds. Sadly, Coleridge-Taylor wasn’t much of a businessman, and died in poverty. In this last of a week-long series, Donald Macleod includes a performance of Coleridge-Taylor’s bold and confident Violin Concerto.
Radcliffe & Maconie
1PM, BBC 6 MUSIC
Mary Anne Hobbs has been looking after Mark and Stuart’s show this week. She rounds off her stint with an interview with two Motown legends, Otis Williams – aka
Big Daddy, one of the founding members of The Temptations – and Duke Fakir, of The Four Tops. They tell Mary Anne about their current UK tour, and about the good-natured rivalry between the two groups that has kept them on their musical toes over the decades.
Reunion
3.45PM, RADIO 4
The Venables family move in to their new home; the family’s arrival will have a lasting impact on the neighbours. Tom Hollander is the narrator for this story of two sisters and a cruel game that comes back, with a horrible vividness, when two people meet up again years after.
The Full Works Concert
8PM, CLASSIC FM
Fifty years ago today, a nightmare struck the Welsh mining village of Aberfan. A huge colliery spoil tip, turned into slurry by a build-up of water, engulfed the village school. In less than five minutes, a whole generation of children was wiped out. Tonight’s concert includes the Cantata Memoria – For The Children, composed by Karl Jenkins to mark the anniversary.