BBC PROMS 2022, 7PM, RADIO 3

THE exotic and fantastical tales of the One Thousand and One Nights were a great source of inspiration for composers in the 19th century. Maurice Ravel’s earliest surviving orchestral piece is an overture for a planned opera about the Tales’ beautiful heroine and narrator, Sheherazade. It was influenced by

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s symphonic suite of the same name. The BBC National Orchestra of Wales performs both enchanting works at the Royal Albert Hall tonight, and is also joined by the harpist Catrin Finch for the world premiere of a piece by Sally Beamish that depicts a year in the life of a beehive.

MARK FORREST

(10AM, SCALA RADIO) is joined for the Scala Radio Book Club this week by Imran Mahmood (pictured), on the publication day of his much-anticipated new crime thriller, All I Said Was True. Imran is a barrister with 30 years’ experience fighting cases in courtrooms across the country. His debut novel, You Don’t Know Me, was adapted for screen for BBC1 in December last year, and is available on iPlayer.