RADIO CHOICE

WE APPEAR to be obsessed by class in the UK. Politicians play to supposed class divisions, and historians focus on the part class has played in history. In CANNADINE ON CLASS (RADIO 4, 11AM), the author and historian Professor David Cannadine argues that the significance of the ‘class struggle’ has been overplayed, and that religion, gender, race and nationality play a far larger part in our sense of identity.

THE opera star Elizabeth Llewellyn (pictured) is joined by the pianist Simon Lepper on stage at Wigmore Hall for a live RADIO 3 LUNCHTIME CONCERT (1PM). The duo, who have often worked together, will be performing to an empty auditorium, famed for its acoustics, in a concert that includes Coleridge-Taylor’s

6 Sorrow Songs. Elizabeth brings much emotion to her singing, without ever going over the top. You may well find a tear or two coming down your cheeks.

E. COLI and other pathogens are flourishing in our seas. Back in 1990, the Cornish-based Surfers Against Sewage flagged up the problem, which has got worse. For this week’s

COSTING THE EARTH (RADIO 4, 9PM), Ellen Husain finds out about the effect antiobiotic resistant bacteria are having on swimmers, paddlers, surfers and others who go down to the sea.