SUSAN JEFFREYS’ Radio Week

DERMOT O’LEARY SATURDAY, 8AM, RADIO 2 HHHH

The singer-songwriter Jessie Ware joins Dermot to talk about her music, her Table Manners podcast and her cookbook.

SWEENEY TODD AND THE STRING OF PEARLS HHHHH

SUNDAY, 3PM, RADIO 4

Martin Jarvis plays the Demon Barber in this two-part horror thriller, which tells the Sweeney Todd story without Stephen Sondheim’s meandering music.

THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT MONDAY, 8PM, CLASSIC FM HHHH

Classical music performed in lockdown packs a big emotional punch. John Suchet presents an exclusive recording of a concert given by the socially distanced Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra, which opened with Pachelbel’s tranquil Canon In D Major. It will bring a lump to the throat.

THE JAZZ SHOW TUESDAY, 9PM, RADIO 2 HHHH

The pianist and composer Jon Batiste tells Jamie Cullum about co-writing the soundtrack to the Pixar film Soul, working with the likes of Prince and Stevie Wonder and about his new album, We Are.

THE FOLK SHOW

WEDNESDAY, 9PM, RADIO 2 HHHH

Mark Radcliffe puts together folk and acoustic music by Irish performers for his St Patrick’s Day special, featuring plenty of great new young bands.

MEET DAVID SEDARIS

THURSDAY, 6.30PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

The humourist David Sedaris is holed up in his own home for the first of a six-part series on how he has got through the past year. As ever, he will be sly, rude, unsentimental and very, very funny.

JUST LIKE THAT FRIDAY, 2.30PM, RADIO 4 EXTRA HHHH

Tommy Cooper pretended to make a terrible mess of various magic tricks, sending his audiences into helpless laughter. He was, as we hear in this tribute to the late comedian, really delivering his own special magic.

ARCHERS UPDATE

Discontent seethes in the village. Ben has what many a therapist would describe as a ‘frozen need’. This means that whatever Ben gets, it’s never enough. You will know someone with a frozen need – these types are all over the place. Last year,

Ben got a set of wheels off Grandma

Jill and her paramour for his birthday.

Will this year’s offering live up to his great expectations? Make a wild guess. Eddie has his own gripes, and vows to take revenge over Lynda’s decision about the Miracle Plays, while Jazzer gets a bit of a talking-to from another Ambridger about his bragging, and Susan finds herself caught between a rock and a hard place. All these niggles and gripes, though, are nothing compared to Alice’s struggles.