RADIO CHOICE

TV PRESENTER Suzi Perry (pictured) joins KEN BRUCE (RADIO 2, 9.30AM) each morning this week to pick her Tracks Of My Years. Suzi, whose father is a music promoter, opens her selection with songs from Kate Bush and Abba.

LADY SHONAGON and Lieutenant Yukinari sit in a quiet room. There is one other creature present — a spider in a rice bowl. The lady and lieutenant are in possession of gifts from the Empress — gifts that are a source of worry and tension to their recipients. Ruth Gemmell, Cal MacAninch and Robert Jack star in THE PILLOW BOOK (RADIO 4, 10.45AM, 7.45PM), a crime drama, set in tenth-century Japan, that’s full of atmosphere and intrigue.

THE British Association for Adoption and Fostering holds activity days for children who are ‘hard to

place’. These children might have medical conditions, behaviour problems or be coming up to their teens — factors that can put off potential adopters. In

LIVES IN A LANDSCAPE

(RADIO 4, 11AM), Alan Dein joins one of these ‘party days’, and talks to some would-be parents who are hoping to adopt.

AIDAN MCARDLE, Robert Daws and James Lance star in GOODNIGHT FROM HIM (RADIO 4,

2.15PM), a comedy by Roy Smiles about Ronnie Corbett, Ronnie Barker and their long-running comedy show and friendship.