RADIO CHOICE

SARAH struggled to come off the drugs that were ruining her and her family’s life. In the end, she felt that she would have a better chance of getting clean if she lived away from her two children for a few months while she fought her addiction. In ONE TO ONE (RADIO 4, 9.30AM), Sarah talks to Rachel Johnson about this drastic decision, and Rachel recalls how her own mother left the family home, when Rachel was a child, during a period of mental illness.

SEURAT’S A Sunday Afternoon On La Grande Jatte is an extraordinary piece of work, made up of layers of painted dots. In MOVING PICTURES (RADIO 4, 11.30AM), Cathy FitzGerald invites you to look at a high-resolution image, available on the Google Arts and Culture

site, to explore the picture in detail. Even if you are unable to access this image, FitzGerald gives an insight into Seurat’s method of creating this masterpiece.

DAVID BAILEY and Don McCullin (pictured) were working-class boys who made their names as photographers in the Sixties. Bailey’s photographs chronicled the Swinging Sixties, while Don captured harrowing images of the Vietnam War. They talk to Philip Dodd in FREE THINKING (RADIO 3, 10PM) about their work and two current exhibitions of their photographs.