TODAY’S RADIO

YELLOWSTONE WOLVES 2.30PM, RADIO 4 EXTRA

★★★★ Yellowstone became the world’s first national park 150 years ago. Wolves were reintroduced to the park in 1995, and are now wellestablished – but elk-hunters, local farmers and businesses that rely on hunting aren’t so happy. Howard Stableford reports from the wolves’ wilderness in a programme that first aired in 2005.

CONVERSATIONS FROM A LONG MARRIAGE 6.30PM, RADIO 4

★★★★ Joanna Lumley and Roger Allam return with this sharply written comedy series about a longmarried couple. In this opening episode, a significant birthday looms, bringing suspicion to a usually happy marriage. Why has he gone on a diet and started

whitening his teeth? Is he having an affair? Some – but not all – of these questions will be answered in this witty two-hander.

RADIO 3 IN CONCERT 7.30PM, RADIO 3

★★★★ Ralph Vaughan Williams was too old to fight in the First World War, but volunteered to serve as an ambulance driver. The grim work of going into no-man’s-land under enemy fire left its mark. In 1917, he was made an artillery lieutenant, and the constant noise of the big guns damaged his hearing. You can hear brooding undercurrents from those years of war in this concert of work by the great English composer.

BUNK BED 11PM, RADIO 4

★★★★

The chef and presenter Andi Oliver finds herself gazing into the dark with Patrick Marber and Peter Curran. It’s a mystery, to us and to them, why Peter, Patrick and their various guests are there – all we have to do is listen in. Tonight’s conversation includes a mutual mistrust of dolphins; then, Andi sings the bedbound duo an ancient melody. SJ

Roger Allam (6.30pm, Radio 4)