SUSAN JEFFREYS’ Radio Week

GROUNDED WITH LOUIS THEROUX

SATURDAY, 7.15PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Louis has a phone, time on his hands and a long contact list of celebrities. We listen in as he talks frankly to the film director Oliver Stone about serving in Vietnam, drug addiction and US Presidents.

SUNDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT

SUNDAY, 7PM, RADIO 2 HHHH

Lots of heart-lifting songs, including I Could Have Danced All Night and On The Street Where You Live, feature in this recorded concert celebrating the work of the lyricist Alan Jay Lerner.

LAMENTATION

MONDAY-FRIDAY, 10.45AM, 7.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Tudor London is full of plots and fear as Henry VIII lies dying – and Queen Catherine goes in fear for her life – in this meaty historical drama starring Jessica Hardwick and Justin Salinger.

BREAKING BLAKE

TUESDAY,

2.15PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

Michael Maloney plays George Blake, the traitor who died last month, in this drama that tells the strange story of Blake’s escape from Wormwood Scrubs, having served just five years of a 42-year sentence.

THE FOLK SHOW

WEDNESDAY, 9PM, RADIO 2 HHHH Fay Hield, a traditional English folk singer, will be in her Yorkshire home, talking to Mark Radcliffe and giving us a song or two.

THE UNTOLD

THURSDAY, 8.30PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Sam Wilmot began to put pictures of public benches on Instagram to pass the time. Now, as Grace Dent reports, his little hobby has become an international news story during the pandemic.

LUDWIG KOCH AND THE MUSIC OF NATURE

FRIDAY, 2.30PM,

RADIO 4 EXTRA HHHH

Ludwig Koch made the earliest known recording of birdsong, in 1889, then went on to lay the foundations of radio and TV wildlife programmes. This is the story of his remarkable life.