TODAY’S RADIO

THE BEAUTIFUL AND DAMNED

3PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

Idle, aimless Anthony Patch

(Joel Maccormack) has a fortune coming his way. He falls in love with the beautiful, selfish Gloria Gilbert (Jessica Hardwick), and the two of them party their way through the Jazz Age, waiting for Anthony’s inheritance from his grandfather. F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 1922 novel has been dramatised in two parts, starting today.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES

7PM, CLASSIC FM HHH

Bright and lively music written by Alexandre Desplat dances its way through the 2019 film Little Women, catching the mood of this sparky adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel. Andrew

Kelly Holmes (9pm, Radio 4) Collins includes the score in his selection of music from children’s films. Themes from Paddington, The Grinch and The Adventures Of Black Beauty are also on the show.

MEETING MYSELF COMING

BACK

8PM, RADIO 4 HHH Double Olympic gold medallist Kelly Holmes began running at school; she then joined the Army, serving as a lorry driver and PE instructor. The lure of the track proved too much, so she went back to athletics. She joins John Wilson to hear archive recordings of her younger self, and to look back on her career.

MARC ALMOND’S TORCH SONG TRILOGY

9PM, RADIO 2 HHHH

‘If you put a torch song to a dance beat, it becomes an anthem of survival.’ In the second of his three-part series on high-emotion songs, Marc Almond proves that torch songs don’t have to be tragic – or sung by women. He features tracks that include I Will Survive by Gloria Gaynor, Frank Sinatra’s I’m Fool To Want You and Marc’s own version of The Shadow Of Your Smile. SUSAN JEFFREYS