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Good Morning Sunday
6AM, RADIO 2
Joining the Rev Kate Bottley and Angie Greaves this morning are the Christian folk rock group Rend Collective, along with comedian and actress Cariad Lloyd, whose award-winning podcast addresses an issue that most people run a mile from – death – and has been described as ‘heart-wrenchingly moving and spiritually uplifting’.
Private Passions
12 NOON, RADIO 3
The US author Audrey Niffenegger had a huge worldwide success with her first novel, The Time Traveler’s Wife – it sold eight million copies, and was made into a film in 2009, starring Eric Bana and Rachel McAdams. This morning, she reveals her eclectic music choices to Michael Berkeley, which range from 12th-century music by Hildegard of Bingen to Philip Glass, Radiohead and Pauline Oliveros.
The Man Who Would Be King
3PM, RADIO 4
Sean Connery and Michael Caine starred in John Huston’s classic 1975 film adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s chilling novella, set in the Hindu Kush mountains. Now, as part of Radio 4’s To The Ends Of The Earth series of classic tales of adventure and peril, it’s the turn of Richard Ridings and Samuel James to play the con men Dan and Peachey, who have an audacious plan to conquer a remote region of what is now Afghanistan.
BBC Proms 2018
7PM, RADIO 3
The BBC National Orchestra of Wales and its principal conductor, Thomas Sondergard, are joined by a starry line-up of soloists, plus no fewer than five choirs – the Southend Boys’ Choir, the Southend Girls’ Choir, the BBC National Chorus of Wales, the BBC Symphony
Chorus and the London Symphony Chorus – to perform Mahler’s mighty Eighth Symphony in Prom 11, live from the Royal Albert Hall.
Headliners
7.30PM, RADIO 5 LIVE
The musicians joining DJ Nihal Arthanayake for a relaxed and informal chat about their lives and careers this week are U2 bassist Adam Clayton and, from Manic Street Preachers, Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield.