TODAY’S RADIO

DERMOT O’LEARY 8AM, RADIO 2 ★★★★

The singer-songwriter Jessie Ware started a little sideline in 2017 when she launched her podcast, Table Manners. Jessie and her mum set out to offer ‘food and the art of a good old chit-chat’ to her guests, who have included Ed Sheeran, Kylie Minogue and Dua Lipa. Jessie joins Dermot to talk about her music and her recent Table Manners cookery book.

MITCHELL ON MEETINGS 10.30AM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

There was a time when a working day mainly consisted of doing a job, not going to endless meetings about the job. The meetings have expanded, leaving many employees having to do the real work in their own time. David Mitchell begins a new series on the rise of the meeting, and gets some good advice from experts on how different personality types behave in meetings.

JTOZ 5.30PM, RADIO 3 ★★★★★

There’s something precise and calming about the way Jason Vieaux plays the guitar. The soloist, chamber musician and composer is a world-renowned classical performer, but here, you can hear him giving a live session from his home of jazz music from Pat Metheny’s upcoming album, Road To The Sun. Also in the programme, Metheny himself talks about some of the music that inspires him.

J.D. SALINGER 11.30PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

The American author J.D. Salinger was stationed in Tiverton during the Second World War, before taking part in the D-day landings. While in Devon, he wrote the story For Esme – With Love & Squalor, published a year before his 1951 bestseller, The Catcher In The Rye. Mark Hodkinson visits Tiverton, looking for traces of Sgt Salinger’s Devon sojourn. SUSAN JEFFREYS

David Mitchell (10.30am, R4)