SUSAN JEFFREYS’ Radio Week

DERMOT O’LEARY

SATURDAY, 8AM, RADIO 2 ★★★★ Adam Kay, author of This Is Going To Hurt, talks to Dermot about the TV adaptation of his book, his years working as a doctor, the difficult decisions he had to make and why he switched from medicine to comedy.

DISGUSTED, MARY WHITEHOUSE

SATURDAY, 8PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★ Mary Whitehouse complained about and campaigned against what she considered obscenity in print, in the theatre and on TV. Samira Ahmed looks back at Mary’s life.

DESERT ISLAND DISCS REVISITED

SUNDAY, 10AM, 9PM, R4 EXTRA ★★★★ The BBC is fond of sending Judi Dench to be a castaway on its desert island. In this repeat programme, first broadcast in 2015, she sets off with her eight records, plus a book, a luxury and a lot of memories for another trip to the island.

SUNDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT

SUNDAY, 7PM, RADIO 2 ★★★★

The BBC Concert Orchestra will be joined by Louise Dearman and Graham Bickley for a selection of songs from the musicals, including Mary Poppins, A Star Is Born, On The Town, Chicago and Frozen.

THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD

MONDAY, 6PM, 12 MIDNIGHT,

RADIO 4 EXTRA ★★★★

Alun Armstrong, Nicola Walker and

Alex Lanipekun are among the cast for this eerie 18-part supernatural thriller adapted from a novella by H.P. Lovecraft.

A FAIR SHOT

WEDNESDAY, 2.15PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★ A millionaire businesswoman is appointed as leader of a new centrist party, but is she all that she seems? Barbara Flynn stars in this intelligent drama about speeches and secrets.

THE SMUGGLERS’ TRAIL

FRIDAY, 11AM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

Five armed men guard a gang leader in a clearing in a forest as night falls. Rob Lawrie, a former soldier, approaches and, bravely, questions the gang leader about his role as a human trafficker. An important documentary, made with great bravery.

ARCHERS UPDATE

Neil must have hoped that he would spend his later years leaning on the gate of a pigsty, idly scratching a sow’s ear and thinking about the changes for next week’s bell-ringing practice. Susan, a woman with an insatiable hunger for status and soft furnishings, had other ideas. This week, as is her way, she feels called upon to give her unambitious husband some sound advice. Oliver could do with a bit of sound advice over at Grey Gables when one employee makes a bad decision, while at Greenacres, Jazzer hatches a risky plan that could go horribly wrong. Amy has her own decisionmaking crisis, tensions mount between Alice and Chris about Martha’s birthday, while Kate and Kirsty take very different routes as they bid for the same job.