THE CONVERSATION, 11.30AM/11.30PM, BBC WORLD SERVICE

IT TAKES a great deal of underpinning, pumping up and smoothing down to get Beyonce cameraready. Zerina Akers (pictured), the Emmywinning fashion stylist and costume designer who was Beyonce’s wardrobe curator for many years, joins Kim Chakanetsa to talk about the work behind the glamour. Camille Friend, the Oscarnominated film hairstylist whose many credits include Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and the upcoming Little Mermaid, is also on the show to talk about her art.

WILL you be able to tell the difference between a radio documentary put together by Artificial Intelligence and one that’s been researched and written by a real live human being? You can find out this evening in

A DOCUMENTARY: BY CHATGPT (8PM, RADIO 4),

for which the tech journalist Lara Lewington and a piece of AI called ChatGPT have been tasked with reporting on the same subject.