RADIO CHOICE

IN THE 19th century, breakfast got earlier and dinner got later to fit in with work hours, clearing a bit of culinary space for the rise of the biscuit. For this week’s WORD OF MOUTH (RADIO 4, 4PM), Michael Rosen looks at the surprisingly interesting history of the biscuit, finds out about ‘travelling biscuit class’, and suggests Jammie Dodger is the best name for a biscuit in the whole world.

THE TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham (pictured) reads some of his diary entries from back in the Seventies to an uncomprehending Rufus Hound in MY TEENAGE DIARY (RADIO 4, 6.30PM). Chris did like music, but wasn’t much of a lad for discos, instead spending much of his teenage years up trees, looking for birds. — his diaries are full of careful observations about what

was going on in the natural world. This made him a bit of an oddball growing up, but his journals give us a refreshingly individual account of teenage life.

JEAN TOUSSAINT learned to play calypso when he was growing up in America; then, he took up the saxophone and found his musical home in jazz. He left New York for London in the late Eighties and became a regular on the Camden Town jazz scene. Jean, who has played alongside Courtney Pine, Julian Joseph, Max Roach and Gil Evans, joins Jamie Cullum on THE JAZZ SHOW (RADIO 2, 9PM).