RADIO CHOICE

JASON ROBERT BROWN (pictured), the three-times Tony Award-winning composer, lyricist, conductor and pianist, gave a concert of his work last summer at the London Palladium, with the ever impeccable BBC Concert Orchestra joining singers Rachel Tucker, Betsy Wolfe and Norm Lewis. FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT (RADIO 2, 8PM) brings us a recording of that concert, which features

songs from his musicals, including The Bridges Of Madison County, Parade and Honeymoon In Vegas.

GRADY had a serious motorbike accident in the desert, but years later, he can remember nothing about the last seconds before impact. CROWDSCIENCE: WHY CAN’T I REMEMBER MY ACCIDENT? (BBC WORLD SERVICE, 8.30PM) asks a panel of experts if those seconds have been wiped

from his brain for ever. Grady learns that during near-death experiences, profound chemical changes occur in our brains, and hears what may have been going on in

his head in that moment when he cheated death.

n W.S. GRAHAM was a Scottish poet who spent much of his life in Cornwall and whose work includes The Nightfishing, a poem of gull cries and howling winds at sea. THE VERB (RADIO 3, 10PM) celebrates the work of a 20th-century poet who was much admired by the playwright Harold Pinter, and who, as is often the way, gained fame after his death.