THIS WEEK’S RADIO PICKS

SUNDAY DRAMA ON 3: I AM THE WIND RADIO 3, 7.30PM

Jon Fosse is one of the most performed living playwrights in the world, regarded as Norway’s new Ibsen. This minimalist drama stars TV regulars Lee Ingleby and Shaun Dooley as two men adrift in a boat and pondering the nature of existence. Sounds more Beckett than Ibsen.

MONDAY JO WHILEY RADIO 2, 8PM

It should have been Glastonbury’s 50th anniversary this year, so to mark the occasion Jo Whiley shares her memories of the festival each night this week. Also, late on Thursday night in When We Played Glastonbury (Radio 6 Music, 1am), Jarvis Cocker, Lauren Laverne and Tom Robinson look back on the sets they played.

TUESDAY DRAMA: THE UN RADIO 4, 2.15PM

Tense drama by Eye In The Sky writer Guy Hibbert set in the United Nations and a world undergoing massive upheaval. Richard (Jason Isaacs) has the knotty job of uncovering corruption while dealing with his murky past. Then one day a Pakistani man with a story concerning nuclear warheads gets into his office… Concludes Wednesday.

RADIO 3 IN CONCERT RADIO 3, 7.30PM

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for a concert at the Aldeburgh Festival – which should have been happening this week – from 2011. The programme comprises Messiaen’s Et Exspecto Resurrectionem Mortuorum and Mahler’s song cycle Das Lied Von Der Erde with tenor Michael Schade and mezzo Magdalena Kozena.

WEDNESDAY COMEDY CLUB: RUDY’S RARE RECORDS RADIO 4 EXTRA, 10.30PM

Lenny Henry stars in this 2009 comedy as divorcé Adam who has left London after redundancy and a breakdown to live with his father in a flat above the record shop he owns. It sets up a chalkand-cheese scenario between the slightly neurotic son and his colourful dad.

THURSDAY STRETCH AND LISTEN! RADIO 4, 11.30AM

At a time when many of us are leaping around our living rooms trying to get fit, Mr Motivator, aka Derrick Evans, looks at the history of exercise on the radio, revealing how Laugh And Grow Fit in the 1930s morphed into today’s Radio 1 Workout Anthems.

SATURDAY SOUND OF CINEMA RADIO 3, 3PM

Matthew Sweet assesses the career of Barry Gray, creator of the music for Thunderbirds (above), Joe 90 and Space: 1999.