PICK OF TODAY’S RADIO

MARY PORTAS: ON STYLE, 11.30AM, RADIO 4

THE designer Jenny Packham creates dresses that you see shimmering on the red carpet at film premieres or adorning the likes of the Duchess of Cambridge (pictured at the premiere of No Time To Die last year) and Angelina Jolie. The dresses might be beaded, feathered and sequin-strewn, but they are also never over the top or vulgar. Mary Portas talks frocks this morning to Jenny — whose brother is the TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham — and also hears the perhaps slightly alarming news that flared jeans are flapping back into fashion.

WHAT Franklin D. Roosevelt did for America in the 1930s could have great relevance for the UK now. The Great Depression was at its height, impoverishing people around the world and hitting America hard, when Roosevelt introduced his New Deal. For this week’s edition of GREAT LIVES (RADIO 4, 4.30PM), the comedian and writer Rob Newman explains how the outwardly folksy, but inwardly shrewd, 32nd U.S. President got America back on its feet.