TODAY’S RADIO

ANGSTROM 11.30AM, RADIO 4

★★★★ Bleak-faced Scandi detectives with difficult pasts are forever being sent by bosses across long, windy bridges to help other Scandis to deal with tricky investigations. Those of us who spent too much time in lockdown following these dramas are familiar with the format, so will enjoy all the gags in this spoof bit of Nordic noir. In the first of a four-part comedy drama, the brooding, alcoholic Swedish detective Knut Angstrom (Matthew Holness) takes on a case where a body goes missing from a crime scene – but was it ever there?

WILD SWIMMING 2.15PM, RADIO 4

★★★

Oscar (Joseph Tweedale) walks along a Dorset beach and meets Nell (Aimee-ffion Edwards).

They have known each other for a long, long time – more than 400 years, in fact – in this drama about the battle of the sexes, privilege and English literature.

RADIO 3 IN CONCERT 7.30PM, RADIO 3

★★★★ Calm, ethereal music flows to your ears in this concert of Choral

Lamentations given by the BBC Singers. They open with a work by Thomas Tallis, one of England’s great composers, who wrote music for the Tudor courts and was often in fear for his life. There’s no hint of that in the serene harmonies on offer tonight.

THE ESSAY: UNEARTHING BRITANNIA’S TRIBES 10.45PM, RADIO 3

★★★

The Atrebates arrived in Britain around 54 BC from northern Gaul, where they had put up a spirited resistance against the Romans. They settled in the areas we now call Hampshire, West Sussex and Berkshire, where artefacts have been discovered, giving insights into their lives. The archaeologist David Miles digs in to the history of the Atrebates in this continuing series on lost tribes.

Thomas Tallis (7.30pm, Radio 3)