TODAY’S RADIO

IN THE STUDIO

9.30AM, 1.30PM, 11.30PM, BBC WORLD SERVICE ★★★★

Wallace and Gromit come to the rescue of Aardman Animations’ home city, Bristol. Eliza Lomas goes behind the scenes to hear how Nick Park and his team are using smartphones and new technology to bring fans into a game set in the world of the cheese-obsessed inventor. This innovative project will have players working for a new business called Spick & Spanners to help to ‘fix up’ Bristol.

ANN VERONICA

10AM, 3PM, RADIO 4 EXTRA ★★★★

Ann Veronica (Amy Hoggart) lives with her overbearing father (Geoffrey Whitehead), who fills Ann’s life with petty rules. When he forbids her to go to a ball, Ann rebels and leaves home.

80 NOT OUT: SPARKS WILL FLY

10.45AM, 7.45PM, RADIO 4 ★★★

In the second of a week-long series of monologues performed by five actors aged 80 or over, Penelope

Keith plays Marjorie, a much putupon assistant stage manager who finally gets her chance to appear on the stage herself. A malicious campaign by a younger rival robs her of her moment in the spotlight, but Marjorie has a trick or two up her sleeve.

THE CURIOUS CASES OF RUTHERFORD & FRY 3.30PM, RADIO 4 ★★★

There are three kinds of noise that set our teeth on edge – scraping sounds like nails on a blackboard, disgusting ones such as sniffing, and cringe-making sounds including dentists’ drills. Trevor Cox, a professor of acoustics, has studied these sounds and found, as he explains today, that they have an impact on an ancient part of our brains, and may be a survival mechanism. SJ

Amy Hoggart (10am, R4 Extra) H.G. Wells’s novel of financial and sexual revolution in the early 20th century has been adapted into a two-part drama.