TODAY’S RADIO

WILL SELF TAKES THE WATERS

9.30AM, RADIO 4 HHH

Will Self is a confirmed fan of mineral water. In this first of a five-part series, Will investigates five towns made famous for their supposedly health-giving H2O. He starts his journey with Perrier water, first marketed by St John Harmsworth, who sold his share in the Daily Mail to buy the spring.

ONE TO ONE

8.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

Six years ago, the BBC journalist Sabet Choudhury, of Bangladeshi origin, saved his mother’s life by donating one of his kidneys to her. In this second of a three-part series on organ donations, Sabet talks to Faruk Choudhury (no relation), who, as Lord Mayor of Bristol in 2013, set out to increase the number of blood and organ

THE POWER OF ONE

9PM, RADIO 4 HHH

Komodo dragons seem like creatures from a lost world. Measuring up to ten feet in length, these giant lizards, found on the Indonesian archipelago, have forked tongues and skin like chain mail. They are solitary creatures, coming together only to breed, eat and have the occasional and alarming fight. Lucy Cooke investigates the behaviour of Komodo dragons in this programme about nature’s loners.

THE ESSAY: FORGOTTEN FEMINIST FUTURES

10.45PM, RADIO 3 HHH Herland is a strange novel, written in 1915 and first published in serial form, about a hidden country entirely populated by women. Three male explorers deliberately get lost on an expedition in order to find this all-female land. The comedian and author Viv Groskop looks at this feminist work by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. SJ

Komodo dragon (9pm, Radio 4) donors from the black, Asian and minority ethnic communities in the city. Did he succeed?