Radio Week

DERMOT O’LEARY

SATURDAY, 8AM, RADIO 2 ★★★★

Dexter Fletcher, who has worked on many a musical, and John Owen-jones, star of Les Miserables, join Dermot for Radio 2’s weekend-long celebration of musicals.

RYLAN ON SATURDAY

SATURDAY, 3PM, RADIO 2 ★★★★

Peter Andre played Teen Angel in the stage version of Grease, and is looking forward to touring with the show again. Peter joins Rylan Clark-neal to talk about getting ready for slapping on the greasepaint.

FILE ON 4

SUNDAY, 5PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

Recordings made by medics on the front line of the fight against Covid-19 bring a sharp reminder of the early days of the pandemic and the terrible, continuing burden on doctors nurses and paramedics.

MUSICALS: THE GREATEST SHOW

SUNDAY, 7PM, RADIO 2 ★★★★★

Sheridan Smith brings Radio 2’s big musical weekend to a grand crescendo with a dazzling cast performing songs from The Greatest Showman, Mamma Mia!, Hamilton, The Phantom Of The Opera, Wicked, Dreamgirls and other top West End and Broadway musicals.

STONE

MONDAY-FRIDAY, 2.15PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

This excellent crime drama, rooted in reality and full of psychological insights, returns for a new series, with Hugo Speer as DCI Stone. This week, Stone heads an investigation of a stabbing that comes dangerously close to home.

AFTERLIVES

TUESDAY, 11AM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

Harry and Anne have something awful in common: their sons, both in their 20, committed suicide. They talk about their grief and their mission to spare other parents the sorrow they have known.

BUNK BED

WEDNESDAY, 11PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

Patrick Marber and Peter Curran bring us another episode of their strange, brilliant comedy series, set in the dark, where the conversation wanders into weird territory.