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WHEN Oona King was 11, her main ambitions were to get better at roller-skating and to have a new hamster. By the time she was 19, Oona was a politics student, with the ambition of becoming PM. The former MP is the subject of this morning’s MY TEENAGE DIARY (RADIO 4 (FM), 11.30AM), bravely handing over her teenage journals to Rufus Hound, who shares some of the entries with us.

SAMUEL COLERIDGETAYLOR was a black British composer. He died in 1912 at the age of 37, of pneumonia. His work was immensely popular, but he wasn’t much of a businessman and died in poverty. The last of the latest COMPOSER OF THE WEEK (RADIO 3, 12 NOON, 6.30PM), includes a performance of Coleridge Taylor’s bold Violin Concerto.

THE Venables family move in to their new home;

the family’s arrival will have a lasting impact on the neighbours. Tom Hollander (pictured) is the narrator for REUNION (RADIO 4, 3.45PM), a story of two sisters and a cruel game that comes back, with a horrible vividness, when two people meet up again years after.

FIFTY years ago today, a nightmare struck the Welsh mining village of Aberfan when a huge colliery spoil tip engulfed the school.

THE FULL WORKS CONCERT (CLASSIC FM, 8PM) includes the Cantata Memoria — For The Children, composed by Karl Jenkins to mark the anniversary.