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TODAY’S RADIO
CROSSING CONTINENTS 11AM, RADIO 4
★★★★
Winter has set in along the Polandbelarus border. Migrant families huddle against the cold, while in nearby villages and towns, residents are torn between pity and anger at the crisis unfolding on their doorsteps. Lucy Ash speaks to the migrants and locals who are caught up in a stand-off between Belarus’s autocratic President, Alexander Lukashenko, and the Polish government.
COMPOSER OF THE WEEK 12 NOON, RADIO 3
★★★
The opera Anna Nicole by Markanthony Turnage is based on the life of the Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith; it’s a story of rich old husbands, contested wills, drug addiction and a fatal overdose. We hear the Dutch
soprano Eva-maria Westbroek singing music from Anna Nicole in today’s edition of a week-long exploration of Turnage’s music.
BOOKCLUB 3.30PM, RADIO 4
★★★★ Harold Fry, a quiet, self-effacing man, nips out to post letter. It’s to a long-lost friend who’s very ill, but instead of posting the letter, Harold decides to visit the friend. The trouble is that she lives
600 miles away, and Harold is neither dressed nor equipped for such a journey. Author Rachel Joyce joins James Naughtie to talk about her debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry.
FRED AT THE STAND 11PM, RADIO 4
★★★★
Lee Ridley, the Britain’s Got Talent-winning stand-up comedian known as Lost Voice Guy, headlines this show from
The Stand in Newcastle. Fred Macaulay is the compere, and the other acts include Lauren Pattison, who created the awardwinning Edinburgh act Lady Muck. Rising comedy star Michael Akadiri, who is also a frontline junior doctor, is on the bill, too. SJ