RADIO CHOICE

DAVE PODMORE, a veteran cricketer who had to face the ferocity of the late June Whitfield’s bowling during a particularly testing panto season, is back for a one-off comedy from the Ed Reardon team, DAVE PODMORE’S WORLD CUP TRIUMPH (RADIO 4, 11.30AM). Dave, a man who will do pretty much anything — both on and off the pitch — if the price is right, gives us an unsportsmanlike guide to the Cricket World Cup, which gets under way next week.

MANY composers embedded secret messages, codes or number sequences into their works. For tonight’s FULL WORKS CONCERT (CLASSIC FM, 8PM), Catherine Bott plays some of these works, including enigmatic stuff from Elgar and golden numbers from Beethoven.

THE music scholar Alan Lomax began collecting songs when he was 18, helping his folklorist father to record American music — particularly that performed GREAT LIVES (RADIO 4, 11PM).