TODAY’S RADIO

KEN BRUCE 9.30AM, RADIO 2

★★★

Sting talks to Ken Bruce about being the front man for The Police and about his new album, The Bridge. Sting worked on the album through lockdown, and the tracks reflect a time of loss, separation, disruption and turmoil. Sting talks about the album, and picks his Tracks Of My Years.

SORROW AND BLISS 12.04PM,

10.45PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★ Martha’s husband, Patrick, has loved her for years, but their eight-year marriage is over.

Now, Martha finds herself friendless, broke and broken. Martha could turn to her family, but would her bohemian parents and her wisecracking sister be of much help? Might they even be the source of Martha’s

problems? Hattie Morahan is the narrator for this ten-part adaptation of Meg Mason’s eagerly anticipated new novel.

RADIO 3 IN CONCERT 7.30PM, RADIO 3

★★★★

It’s St Cecilia’s day today, and the patron saint of music is celebrated with this concert given by the

BBC Singers. James Macmillan’s Cecilia Virgo is on the bill, plus Bob Chilcott’s new setting of James Weldon Johnson’s The Gift To Sing, which is a gift to choirs everywhere as they start to make music again after being silenced by Covid.

THE WEDDING DETECTIVES 8PM, RADIO 4

★★★★

Tony and Thelma fell in love.

Tony was in the Royal Marines, so when they were apart, they wrote each other love letters. Thelma kept Tony’s letters in a box, along with a lock of his hair, tickets for plays they had seen together and a newspaper notice about their engagement and coming wedding. Then, Tony died in terrible, tragic circumstances. Charlotte Sibtain and Cole Moreton tell the sad story behind a wedding that never happened. SJ

Sting (9.30am, Radio 2)