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TODAY’S RADIO
The Beast
2.15PM, RADIO 4
Hannah Silva’s lyrical and highly contemporary drama is based on research into real cases of migrants who have travelled on The Beast, the name given to the freight trains frequently used by Latin American migrants to cross Mexico in an attempt to reach the US border. It takes inspiration from the classic 1950s Mexican ghost story Pedro Paramo, and follows the plight of Juan, a young boy attempting to make this perilous journey.
Jo Whiley & Simon Mayo
5PM, RADIO 2
The singing sensation Anne-Marie performs live in the studio this afternoon, and will also be talking about her meteoric rise to fame. Despite only releasing her first solo album earlier this year, Anne-Marie is the biggest-selling debut female act in the UK in 2018, and has already had four Brit Award nominations.
Ringing The Changes
6PM, 12 MDN’T, RADIO 4 EXTRA
To mark the spookiest night of the year, Radio 4 Extra is giving you the chance to settle down for this unnerving tale, narrated by Mark Gatiss and first broadcast in 2000. George Baker and Fiona Allen are the newly married couple who arrive at their honeymoon destination, only to find that it’s a curiously deserted seaside resort – where the church bells won’t stop ringing...
The Ballads Of
The Great War – 1916
9PM, RADIO 2
The First World War has reached 1916 this week, and the emotional first-hand stories feature harrowing accounts of trench warfare, tunnellers working under enemy lines and that fatal summer offensive on the Somme. The suitably mournful music is composed by John Tams, Seth Lakeman, Julie Matthews,
Jez Lowe and Bernard Wrigley.
Nurse
11PM, RADIO 4
Paul Whitehouse’s well-observed and bittersweet comedy returns for a third series to follow community mental health nurse Elizabeth as she recounts the humorous, sad and often bewildering daily interactions she has with her patients. Esther Coles is back as Elizabeth, who, in these times of austerity, has to make meagre resources stretch a long way.