Radio Week

Graham Norton

SATURDAY, 10AM, RADIO 2

Eileen Atkins and Jonathan Pryce join Graham to talk about their new play, The Height Of The Storm. Pop band Spandau Ballet and the author J.K. Rowling will also be on the show.

The Golden Bowl

SUNDAY, 3PM, RADIO 4

A strange shopkeeper offers a golden bowl at a bargain price to a couple of customers. To the woman, it seems an object of rare beauty but, to the man, it is cracked and flawed. Henry James’s novel of marriage and adultery has been dramatised, rather brilliantly, for radio.

Churchill’s Passions

MONDAY-FRIDAY, 9.45AM (FM), 12.30AM, RADIO 4

Andrew Roberts reads five of his essays on the life of Winston Churchill, covering subjects including friendship, politics and the sense of destiny that drove Churchill on throughout his life.

Nine Perfect Strangers

MONDAY

FRIDAY, 10.45PM, RADIO 4

Nine new clients check in to Tranquillum House, looking for peace and health – but there’s something not quite right about this luxury spa. Kerry Fox is the narrator for this gripping new book by Liane Moriarty, author of Big Little Lies.

Lauren Laverne

TUESDAY, 10AM, BBC 6 MUSIC

The South African singer-songwriter Petite Noir performs tracks from his new mini-album, La Maison Noir, on Lauren’s show this week.

The Full Works Concert

WEDNESDAY, 8PM, CLASSIC FM

The Great War Symphony, a new piece by Patrick Hawes, features in this concert from the Royal Albert Hall. The work will be performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and a massed choir.

CMA Music Festival 2018

THURSDAY, 9PM, RADIO 2

The Australian country star Morgan Evans presents highlights from this year’s Country Music Association Festival in Nashville.

Martin Freeman

FRIDAY, 7PM, BBC 6 MUSIC

Martin Freeman, who’s been a fan of Paul

Weller since he was a kid, presents a two-hour tribute to the Modfather. There will be tracks from Weller’s years with The Jam and The Style Council, and from his long and varied solo career.

ARCHERS UPDATE

You may think it’s been a quiet summer for the current Beast of Ambridge, but the wildlife of Borsetshire could tell another tale. Even the birds of prey that hover over St Stephen’s take cover when Peggy’s cat is on the hunt. Hilda, like all predators, keeps an eye out for the weak and wounded and, this week, hapless Christine falls within her sights. Lynda also stalks the village looking for fresh blood for her Christmas venture. The fearful villagers, worried by all this, sign up for the karate class in droves. Meanwhile, Adam and Brian circle round each other looking for any sign of weakness, there’s trouble at Brookfield, and a looming problem with the flow of business and punters for the Grundy’s Cider Club.