PICK OF TODAY’S RADIO

SARAH KENDALL: TALKING STORY, 11.30PM, RADIO 4

THE Australian comedian Sarah Kendall (pictured) used to be so scared about doing stand-up that she would be sick immediately before each show. ‘After about seven or eight years,’ she says, ‘I eventually got it under control.’ Now, Sarah is more of a mesmerising storyteller than a gagdeliverer as she finds this helps her to connect with her audiences on a deeper level. Tonight, she talks to the comedian, writer and director Chris Addison — who played Ollie in The Thick Of It — about the business of comedy and the art of crafting a story.

■ THE composer Ivor Gurney suffered from mood swings, a condition made worse by his years in the First World War trenches. He was tricked into spending most of his life in a mental asylum, behind closed doors. Gurney was subjected to some terrible experiments and would die from TB and near starvation.

UNMOUTHED (10PM, RADIO 3) hears some of the lost songs written by Gurney that were found, hidden away in an archive, long after his desperate, lonely death.