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TODAY’S RADIO
THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT 8PM, CLASSIC FM ★★★
You can hear ‘the soul of Jim Morrison reincarnated on a single string’ as Nigel Kennedy joins the Prague Symphony Orchestra in a rendition of The Doors Concerto, featuring arrangements of the band’s greatest hits. John Suchet includes the work in this selection of 1960s music that has been rearranged for orchestra. Bowie’s Space Oddity is also on the bill.
CROWDSCIENCE 8.30PM, BBC WORLD SERVICE ★★★
Why, when you stub your toe or drop something on your foot, does it help to swear out loud? It’s almost a reflex, and seems to be a way of releasing shock. Anand Jagatia investigates the power of swearing – using only
family-friendly language – and wonders if some swearwords have more power than others.
THE BONZO DOG DOO-DAH BAND 9PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★
At one of those many points in music history when pop was taking itself far too seriously, the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band lurched on to the scene. Their music owed something to trad jazz, but their lyrics, by Vivian Stanshall and Neil Innes, owed nothing to anybody. Their albums include The Doughnut In Granny’s Greenhouse and their only hit was I’m The Urban Spaceman – but they were wildly inspired and wonderfully entertaining, and had a legion of loyal fans. This is their surreal story.
THE ESSAY: RAINSONG IN FIVE SENSES 10.45PM, RADIO 3 ★★★
British authors and poets are very good at writing about rain – and so they should be. In this last of the series, Tess Somervell brings together a medieval song, one of Jane Austen’s sodden heroines and a clutch of Romantic poets to hear their thoughts on showers and downpours.