TODAY’S RADIO

Ken Bruce

9.30AM, RADIO 2

The ever versatile Denise Welch, the TV presenter and star of Coronation Street and Waterloo Road, joins Ken all this week to pick her Tracks Of My Years.

What Maisie Knew 10.45AM,

7.45PM, RADIO 4

Maisie is the child of divorced parents. They hate each other, and use their daughter as a weapon in their marital wars.

Talia Barnett stars as Maisie in this week-long adaptation of Henry James’s 1897 novel of careless wealth and casual cruelty. It’s a subtle, perceptive book, and its themes remain all too relevant.

The Radcliffe & Maconie Show

1PM, BBC 6 MUSIC

Jazzman Donny McCaslin was Bowie’s band leader for the Thin White Duke’s final album, Blackstar. Donny joins Mark Radcliffe to talk Denise Welch (9.30am, Radio 2) about working with Bowie and about his own new solo album, Blow.

Intrigue: The Ratline

1.45PM, RADIO 4

An old man lives in a decaying castle, poring over dusty documents and trying to wipe away the stains on his father’s reputation. On a mission to uncover the grim fate of his family, an international lawyer has become a regular visitor – even a friend – to the old man. So starts this dark account of the senior

Nazi Otto von Wachter and the ‘Ratline’ – an escape route that kept many of Hitler’s henchmen from the gallows. Philippe Sands, the lawyer whose family was all but obliterated by Von Wachter’s war crimes, takes us through an investigation full of secrets, lies, poison and murder in this gripping, ten-part true-life account.

Nine Perfect Strangers

10.45PM, RADIO 4

Nine new clients roll up with their many troubles to the remote-controlled gates of Tranquillum House. They will spend the next ten days cut off from the world and, according to the staff, will never be the same again. Kerry Fox pulls out all the stops as the narrator for Liane Moriarty’s new book. Those of you who know Liane’s previous bestseller Big Little Lies will know that we’re in for plenty of plots, subplots and sinister goings-on.