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TODAY’S RADIO
Lauren Laverne
10AM, BBC 6 MUSIC
It’s the first-ever National Album Day tomorrow, and Lauren takes an early crack at it by inviting the US singer-songwriter John Grant into the Maida Vale studios. John gives a live session of music from his latest project, Love Is Magic. He’ll also bring in some of his favourite albums to play tracks from, and cover one of his favourite songs from one of the bestselling albums of all time.
Journey Of A Lifetime
11AM, RADIO 4
The Paralympian Karen Darke rides along the 2,000-mile length of Australia’s Murray River on a hand-cycle. She starts in the Snowy Mountains, and travels through drought-stricken land to the sea. As she follows the route, Karen, who is paralysed from the chest down, thinks about her own difficult course through life.
Gloomsbury
11.30AM, RADIO 4
The sitcom that revolves around a spoof version of the Bloomsbury Set returns for a new series. In this opening episode, Vera SackclothVest (Miriam Margolyes) is sharing some cold toast with her husband, Henry Mickleton (Jonathan Coy), in their draughty castle of Sizzlinghurst. Literary jokes abound as that creaky old sitcom standby – the surprise birthday party – lumbers into action.
Composer Of The Week
12 NOON, RADIO 3
All this week, Donald Macleod has been looking at the life and music of the composer Hubert Parry. This final programme deals with Parry’s life during the First World War. It was a bitter time for the composer, made worse by seeing so many of his bright music students going off to fight, never to return. Yet, during this terrible time, Parry composed his most-loved work – Jerusalem.
Martin Freeman
7PM, BBC 6 MUSIC
Martin Freeman says he’s had a ‘bit of a crush’ on Paul Weller since he was a child. He’s been an obsessive follower of Weller’s career, and does indeed look as if he goes to the same barber as the Modfather. In this two-hour celebration, marking Weller’s 60th year, Freeman shares his long-lasting enthusiasm for Paul Weller’s music.