...AND YOUR RAD AD IO PICKS

SUNDAY Moira Stuar t Meets… Class ic FM, 9pm

First of a new series where the presenter talks to big names from politics, the arts, sport and entertainment. Moira meets Welsh soprano Katherine Jenkins, who talks about the music that inspires her and her new album, Cinema Paradiso.

Perm iss ion To Speak, Sir!: Dad ’s Arm y On Rad io Rad io 4 Extra , 1pm

In the 1970s more than 60 episodes of the much-loved sitcom starring Arthur Lowe and John Le Mesurier, below, were adapted for radio. Here, Harold Snoad and Michael Knowles, the writers who adapted the TV shows, look back on their favourite episodes.

MONDAY Drama : The Ballad Of Bobb y Sands , Rad io 4, 2pm

Tom Kelly’s play about political and religious conviction imagines the final days of the IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands (Jonjo O’Neill) in The Maze prison at the height of the Troubles.

WEDNESDAY Pa ul Sinha’s Genera l Knowledg e, Rad io 4, 6.30pm

Comedian Paul Sinha is also the reigning British Quiz Champion. He returns with this second series full of weird facts and true stories. This episode covers writers: the scribes who made Robson And Jerome stars are spotlighted.

THURSDAY The Forum: Ray Bradbury World Service, 10am

A hundred years after his birth, an exploration of the work of Ray Bradbury, who brought modern science fiction to a wider audience. As well as penning such classics as the dystopian Fahrenheit 451, where books are banned and burned, he also created novels, poems, TV scripts and popular short stories.

FRIDAY Cr owdScience: What Makes Slugs So Slimy?, World Service, 8.30pm

This does what it says on the admittedly slippery tin, revealing how to deal with the sticky stuff, the way slug goop is being turned into medically useful glues and antibacterial creams, and its importance to life on Earth in general.

SATURDAY Derm ot O’Lear y Rad io 2, 8am

The presenter’s guest is Northern Irish actor Jamie Dornan, who found fame playing a serial killer in TV’s The Fall. He’s also appeared in Once Upon A Time and the Fifty Shades franchise, and here talks about his latest romantic movie, Endings, Beginnings.