... AND THE BEST RADIO

SUNDAY PRIVATE PASSIONS RADIO 3, 12PM

David Jensen first worked in radio in his native Canada at the age of 16 before moving to Radio Luxembourg, where he earned the nickname ‘Kid’. So he has a fund of star-studded stories and also talks of his love of opera and movingly of living with Parkinson’s disease since 2013.

TUESDAY IN THE STUDIO WORLD SERVICE, 9.30AM, 1.30PM, 11.30PM

Award-winning Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park reveals his childhood dreams of being an inventor and a new venture for his much loved plasticine duo (below) as they set up Spick and Spanners in an interactive story that will take place on smartphones.

FREE THINKING RADIO 3, 10PM

Mildred Pierce, starring an Oscar-winning Joan Crawford, is one of the great Hollywood noir classics, based on a novel by James M. Cain. Matthew Sweet, crime novelist Denise Mina and Professor Sarah Churchwell discuss the book, and Cain’s other film hits, The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity.

WEDNESDAY BBC RADIO 3 IN CONCERT RADIO 3, 7.30PM

Last year’s concert by the Vienna Philharmonic marking 150 years at the city’s Musikverein. Led by Semyon Bychkov, it performs Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony and vocal music by Haydn, Mozart and Schubert.

BUNK BED RADIO 4, 11PM

A return of the series in which writer/director Patrick Marber and

Peter Curran chat to celebrities in the dark and in bed. First off is the actor and director Kathy Burke, who opines on such diverse matters as amusing police officers with rude hand gestures, Marber’s penchant for expensive gifts and eating crisps in bed.

SATURDAY DRAMA: THE COMPLETE SMILEY: CALL FOR THE DEAD, RADIO 4, 2.45PM

Following the death of espionage writer John le Carré, a dramatisation of his first novel, which sees George Smiley working in security vetting and investigating the apparent suicide of a civil servant suspected of Communist sympathies. Simon Russell Beale is a terrific Smiley, of course.

JACK SAVORETTI’S MUSIC WITHOUT BORDERS RADIO 2, 9PM

The second of four shows in which the chart-topping Savoretti uses his upbringing and extensive travels in Europe to highlight the singer-songwriters from the 1950s to the present day who defined the continent’s musical landscape. Expect everything from Jacques Brel and Julio Iglesias to Sweden’s First Aid Kit.

Mark Cook