RADIO CHOICE

MONICA GRADY is a specialist in meteorites and is interested in Martian rocks. She’s today’s guest on THE LIFE SCIENTIFIC (RADIO 4, 9AM, 9.30PM), where she tells Jim Al-Khalili about the Nasa robot Curiosity, which has been manoeuvred over the surface of the Red Planet to analyse the rocks. Will the robot, Monica ponders, come up with any evidence for life on Mars?

SIOUXSIE SIOUX (pictured) joins Miranda Sawyer this morning to discuss the early days of Siouxsie And The Banshees. In SPELLBOUND: SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES (RADIO 4, 11.30AM), M), the raven-haired singer nger recalls their first concert and the band’s post-punk roots.

JONATHAN HYDE plays Rock Hudson in ROCK AND DORIS AND ELIZABETH (RADIO 4, 2.15PM), a drama set in Hollywood during the week that the long-suppressed story of the actor’s homosexuality h finally fi came out. Frances Fra Barber plays play Doris Day and Tracy-Ann Tracy-A Oberman is Elizabeth Taylor T in a story of secrets, friendship and film.

RECENT revelations about the Hillsborough disaster have brought those terrible events of 1989 back into focus. LAW IN ACTION (RADIO 4, 4PM) considers the legal action the bereaved might now take.