TODAY’S RADIO

START THE WEEK 9AM, 9.30PM, RADIO 4

★★★★ The mysterious and ancient Nebra Sky Disc will be in an exhibition, opening this week, at the British Museum. The beautiful bluegreen disc, a wonder to behold, was found in 1999 in Germany, but contains gold from Cornwall. Neil Wilkin, the curator of the exhibition, tells us what’s known about this Bronze-age artefact, and about the people who made and used this guide to the stars.

KEN BRUCE 9.30AM, RADIO 2

★★★★

The singer-songwriter James Morrison got bullied in his home townofrugbywhenhewasa child because he liked music, not sport. James moved to Cornwall when he was in his teens; he started busking, got some money

and confidence, then hit the big time. James is on Ken’s show for a live session from the BBC Maida Vale studios to perform a new song, a classic and a cover.

NAZANIN 1.45PM, RADIO 4

★★★★ Photographs of Nazanin ZaghariRatcliffe’s husband and young daughter as they campaign for her release are heartbreaking. Nazanin is being held to ransom over a debt – between the UK and Iran – that she had nothing to do with. In this programme, Ceri Thomas explores the murky background to Nazanin’s capture.

THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT 8PM, CLASSIC FM

★★★

It’s all sweeping strings and throbbing passion on John Suchet’s Valentine’s Day special. The show opens with Johann Pachelbel’s Canon In D Major, a current favourite for brides heading down the aisle to the altar. Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, written by the composer as a gift for his wife, is also on the bill, and the show closes with Ralph Vaughan Williams’s sweet and tender Serenade In A Minor. SJ

James Morrison (9.30am, R2)