RADIO CHOICE

THE working day is getting longer and longer, with too much time being lost in unproductive meetings and too many tasks being piled on to too few people. In ONE TO ONE (RADIO 4, 9.30AM), Brigid Schulte, who works for the innovative Better Life Lab, tells Helen Lewis about confusing being busy with being important.

REQUIEMS by some composers are full of drama and hellfire; others are illuminated by religious conviction. Gabriel Faure’s is a work of great serenity that offers the hope of eternal rest and divine consolation after death. Jane Jones includes this soul-soothing work in THE FULL WORKS CONCERT (CLASSIC FM, 8PM), in a programme devoted entirely to the work of the French composer.

YOU don’t always need a whizz-bang idea to make a good comedy show; sometimes, something simple, as in the case of CRASH COURSE

(RADIO 4, 11PM), does the job. Marcus Brigstocke, Josie Lawrence (pictured), Mark Watson and Kirsty Wark have been given 24 hours to hoover up facts on a given subject, then take an oral exam on it. This week’s subject is fire, with questions on the difference between a flame on a Bunsen burner and a candle, the history of firefighting and the workings of smoke detectors. Genuinely funny.