TODAY’S RADIO

THE MICHAEL BALL SHOW 11AM, RADIO 2

★★★★

Matt Willis, the singer and bassist with the band Busted, is also a star of West End musicals. Matt joins Michael Ball for this music and chat show to talk about his role in a touring production of Waitress, and we hear from the awardwinning author Annabel Streets, whose books include 52 Ways To Walk: The Surprising Science Of Walking For Wellness And Joy.

THE EARLY MUSIC SHOW 2PM, RADIO 3

★★★★

For hundreds of years, the songs from a tiny, long-lost music book called the Leuven Chansonnier were unsung and unheard. Then, in 2014, the manuscript – dating from the 1470s – was discovered in a job lot of books and artefacts that had been purchased from an

auction house in Brussels. In this programme, Hannah French tells the story of this important work.

THE CLASSICAL COMEDY CLUB 6PM, SCALA RADIO

★★★

In this four-part series, comedians pick some of their favourite classical pieces and theme music, including compositions that are intentionally funny. This evening, the stand-up comedian Sindhu Vee, who’s appeared in Netflix’s Sex Education and is a regular on TV comedy panel shows, plays us music by Beethoven and Faure, plus themes from When Harry Met Sally and Sex Education.

AROUND THE PIANO 8PM, RADIO 2

★★★★

Kate Bush started playing the piano when she was 12 to accompany her brother when he practised the violin. Then, Kate began to write her own songs, using the piano on many of her hits, including Wuthering Heights. In the second programme of this repeated series, Tom Odell focuses on Kate and other 1970s singer-songwriters who found that the piano added depth – and often drama – to their work. SJ

Kate Bush (8pm, Radio 2)