PICK OF TODAY’S RADIO

CROSSING CONTINENTS, 11AM, RADIO 4

IT’S wonderful to learn that tigers (pictured), once hovering on the edge of extinction, are growing in numbers. Nepal has done terrific work saving these magnificent creatures from poachers and, over the past decade, has doubled its wild tiger population. The people of Nepal are proud of this but, as Rebecca Henschke reports, tiger attacks on humans are on the up, and hearing one of these predators prowling nearby can make a person a tad less enthusiastic about tiger conservation.

n WILL Shaun Keaveny want to sit, for hour after hour, on a plane, so that he can visit the coal-mining town of Newcastle in Australia? It does have a truly impressive post office and was once the home to the Southern Hemisphere’s biggest soap factory — but is that enough? In the first of an amiable new ten-part series, YOUR PLACE OR MINE (RADIO 4, 11PM), the comedian Sarah Kendall tells Shaun why he should visit her quirky home-town.