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TEN years ago, George Osborne delivered an austerity budget of benefit restrictions, higher taxes and the biggest cuts to government spending since World War II. In his new series THE AUSTERITY AUDIT (RADIO 4, 11AM), Paul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, looks at the decade of austerity in the light of the current Covid financial crisis.

IT’S 4am. The mist is forming over the reservoir, and a murder enquiry is under way. A black teenager has been found stabbed to death, and local reporter Nathan — who is also black — is covering the story. There have already been five murders of young black men in the area. Nathan (Stefan Adegbola, pictured) realises that he was at school with the mother of the dead boy, and that could give him an

angle on the story and the murder. DEATH KNOCK (RADIO 4, 2.15PM) is a tense, atmospheric drama, written by the former journalist Martin Edwards.

THE genius British guitarist Julian Bream died last month, and John Suchet pays tribute to a great talent in tonight’s THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT (8PM) by playing Julian’s recording, with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, of Joaquin Rodrigo’s evocative Concierto De Aranjuez. It’s a magical piece and, in the hands of Maestro Bream, it shimmers with beauty.