PICK OF TODAY’S RADIO

WAR ON TRUTH, 1.45PM, RADIO 4

THE sight of the heavily pregnant Marianna Vyshemirsky, bleeding from a head wound and struggling down the stairs of a bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol, brought home the grim reality of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Marianna, a beauty blogger, found shelter and gave birth to a daughter, but her troubles are not over. She has been evacuated to an area of Ukraine that’s controlled by Russian separatists, where she is accused of faking the whole event. She tells the BBC’s disinformation and social media correspondent, Marianna Spring, how she now has to live under a different kind of attack from Russia.

DAVID BOWIE’S persona Ziggy Stardust (pictured) arrived onstage wearing astounding, androgynous clothes that made a clear statement about Bowie’s bisexuality. It was an extraordinary moment in the history of pop music. Record producer Tris Penna presents an archive roundup on ZIGGY STARDUST AT 50 (RADIO 4, 12.04PM), and finds a lost session of the title track from The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars.