Archive On 4: Mr Lucas’ Diaries

Radio 4, 8pm

Mark Gatiss (right) reads extracts from the diaries of civil servant George

Leo John Lucas, which detail his life as a homosexual man during the 1950s and 1960s. Lucas writes movingly of his search for acceptance and romantic entanglement with an associate of the Krays.

Opera On 3 From The Met (Radio 3, 6.30pm) features a production of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up In My Bones, an adaptation of journalist Charles M. Blow’s memoir.

The Good Groove With DJ Spoony (Radio 2, 9pm) is a new series full of joyful music. In the first edition, Craig David showcases an old-school track.