SUSAN JEFFREYS’ Radio Week

CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN

SATURDAY, 10AM, RADIO 2 ★★★★ Claudia Winkleman starts her new job as host for this Saturday-morning music and chat show now that Graham Norton has flitted off to Virgin Radio.

MARC ALMOND’S TORCH SONG TRILOGY

SATURDAY, 9PM, RADIO 2 ★★★★ Hankies at the ready – Marc Almond brings his series on songs of heartbreak and survival to an end with some major weepies, including Dusty Springfield’s You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me.

SUNDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT

SUNDAY, 7PM, RADIO 2 ★★★★ The musical genius of Ella Fitzgerald is celebrated in this concert, recorded at the Hackney Empire, with the impeccable BBC Concert Orchestra playing some of the hits of the orphan girl who became a star.

JUST A MINUTE

MONDAY, 6.30PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

The long-running comedy panel show goes global as Sue Perkins presents the show to an audience around the world. Stephen Fry, Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair and Desiree Burch are the panellists.

SIDEWAYS

WEDNESDAY, 4PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

The US military strategist John Boyd based life-and-death decisions on the principle of ‘observe, orient, decide, act’. Political adviser Dominic Cummings is a fan of Boyd’s system, but, as Matthew Syed asks, is it appropriate when cooperation, not annihilation, is required?

THE CONFESSIONAL

THURSDAY, 11.30AM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

David Tennant did something unforgivable during a school Nativity play when he was five. He confesses all to Stephen Mangan in this new series that has stars owning up to three things of which they are ashamed.

THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT

FRIDAY, 8PM, CLASSIC FM ★★★

Memories of Jim Morrison are evoked as Nigel Kennedy joins the Prague Symphony Orchestra in a rendition of The Doors Concerto for this selection of 1960s hits arranged for classical orchestras.