PICK OF TODAY’S RADIO

IN THE STUDIO, 11.30AM, 10.30PM, BBC WORLD SERVICE

THE Met Gala has been going since 1948, and it’s grown madder by the decade. The annual event is a fundraiser for the Costume Institute of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, marks the opening of each year’s new fashion exhibit — and only spoilsports turn up looking chic. Guests are expected to sashay up the carpet, channelling their inner Lady Gaga (pictured). Kizzy Cox hears about the Gala and this year’s exhibition — the theme of which is American cinema — and gasps at the Costume Institute’s treasures.

■ IN 1953, ten modern composers were invited to write a short choral work for a Coronation collection, called A Garland For The Queen. Tonight, at the Aldeburgh Festival — and on RADIO 3 IN CONCERT (7PM) — the BBC Singers perform these works, including Ralph Vaughan Williams’s beautiful Silence & Music. It’s a distinctly 20th-century piece, with high, floating harmonies, but it also harks back to the music of Elizabeth I.