PICK OF TODAY’S RADIO

HOW TO WIN THE WORLD CUP, 8PM, RADIO 4

IN NOVEMBER 2010, the President of UEFA Michel Platini, President of France Nicolas Sarkozy and Qatari Crown Prince Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met for lunch at the Elysee Palace. A few days after that, it was announced that the tiny Gulf state of Qatar would be hosting the 2022 World Cup. The fact that Qatar had, at the time, no football stadiums was just one of the reasons this announcement came as a shock. David Conn, author of The Fall Of The House Of FIFA, looks at the questionable background to Qatar’s successful bid.

■ WHEN Josephine Baker (pictured) danced, her limbs seemed made of rubber, and she sent audiences wild at Paris’s Folies Bergere. In his week-long celebration of THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE (12NOON, RADIO 3), Donald Macleod looks at the singer, dancer and film star who was born into poverty in the U.S., became a Broadway star and then made a new life in France, where her funeral in 1975 brought the streets of Paris to a standstill.