Radio Week

The Road

SATURDAY, 2.30PM, RADIO 4

Mark Gatiss and Adrian Scarborough play a philosopher and a scientist investigating ghostly goings-on in a country wood in

1768 in this suitably creepy adaptation of Nigel Kneale’s legendary lost 1963 television play.

The Shadow Of A Doubt

SUNDAY, 7.30PM, RADIO 3

The world premiere of a newly discovered play by the US writer Edith Wharton. The Shadow Of A Doubt was set to be staged in New York, but the production was abandoned and the script slipped into obscurity. Now, 117 years after it was written, it gets its first performance.

Mad, Bad, Dangerous To Know

MONDAY-FRIDAY, 9.45AM (FM),

12.30AM, RADIO 4

The writer Colm Toibin reads from his new book, which explores the complex relationships between three Irish literary giants – Oscar Wilde, W.B. Yeats and James Joyce – and their fathers.

BBC Radio 2’s Young Choristers Of The Year 2018

TUESDAY, 9PM, RADIO 2

Eight young finalists will be competing to be named one of BBC Radio 2’s Young Choristers Of The Year, each singing two items at MediaCityUK in Salford. Blue Peter presenter Radzi Chinyanganya is your host for the night.

Nurse

WEDNESDAY, 11PM, RADIO 4

Paul Whitehouse’s bittersweet comedy returns for a third series. Esther Coles is the community mental health nurse whose interactions with her patients are both humorous and sad.

Tracks: Chimera

THURSDAY, 2.15PM, RADIO 4

Back for a new, nine-part series comes Matthew Broughton’s award-winning conspiracy thriller. Dr Helen Ash (Hattie Morahan) discovers she’s pregnant – but she hasn’t had sex since her husband died, 18 months ago…

Friday Night is Music Night

FRIDAY, 8PM, RADIO 2

This spectacular staging of Michael Morpurgo’s bestselling First World War novel War Horse was held at Coventry Cathedral in May as part of BBC Music’s The Biggest Weekend.

This performance features Adrian Sutton’s acclaimed score, which was composed originally for the National Theatre’s production.