What’s Funnyy About

Radio 4, 11.30am

Ricky Gervais (right) joins Peter Finchamand JonPlowmanto give the inside storyofhowheand Stephen Merchant brought hit comedy y The Office to the small mall screen. screen He discusses the challenge of getting the show commissioned, and his fear that the audience would think it was just another docu-soap.

Sophie Okonedo and Mark Rylance star in Drama: Song Of The Reed: Whirlpool (Radio 4, 2.15pm), the second of Steve Waters’ dramas following life at a nature reserve.

In FreeThinking (Radio 3, 10pm) Matthew Sweet celebrates the career of actor Dirk Bogarde.