TODAY’S RADIO

SIMON MAYO

10AM, SCALA RADIO ★★★★ Women worked both behind and in front of the cameras in the early days of Hollywood, but as cinema became more and more commercial, men took more and more of their work. The film journalist Helen O’hara has just published a book, Women Vs Hollywood, that looks at the rise and fall of women in the film industry. Helen joins Simon this morning to discuss her book.

LIFE AND AFTER-LIFE

11.30AM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

John Keats studied to be a doctor at Guy’s Hospital, where he proved an adept student. Poetry was his true love, however, and in his short life, his writing was to shake the world of English literature. Thomas Brodie-sangster reads poems and

THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT

8PM, CLASSIC FM ★★★

The Prince of Wales commissioned the British composer Nigel Hess to write a Piano Concerto celebrating his grandmother. The work has three movements – The Smile, The Love and The Duty – each reflecting aspects of the Queen Mother’s life and personality. John Suchet includes Lang Lang’s recording of the work tonight.

ASSIGNMENT

8.06PM,

BBC WORLD SERVICE ★★★★

A mental health experiment has been carried out in Norway over the past five years. A number of facilities across the country are offering medication-free treatment to people with serious psychiatric conditions.

The scheme is based on evidence that the outcome for patients on drugs is generally worse than for patients who have been weaned off medication. Lucy Proctor hears about the scheme, and listens to psychiatrists who believe this is a dangerous experiment. SJ

Johnkeats(11.30am,radio4) letters by the doomed young Romantic, who died of tuberculosis 200 years ago this month.