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Poetry Please Radio 4, , 4.30pm p

Roger McGough (right) hosts a new series in which he showcases some of his listeners’ favourite poems. Joining him in the first episode is Poet t Laureate Simon Armitage. Works featured atured include Wilfred Owen’s The Parable Of The Old Man And The Young and Thomas Hardy’s A Light Snow-Fall After Frost.

Drama On 3: The Sorrows Of Young Werther (Radio 3, 7.30pm) is an adaptation of Goethe’s tale of an artist at odds with the world. Joel MacCormack, Jack Farthing and Daisy Edgar-Jones head the cast.

The impact of messing around with strict musical time is explored in The Listening Service (Radio 3, 5pm).