Private Passions Radio 3, 12 midday

Best-selling author

Barbara Taylor

Bradford (right) recalls her childhood in Leeds while telling

Michael Berkeley how her mother inspired her lifelong passion for the works of Beethoven, Rachmaninoff, Bizet and Puccini.

In Now You’re Asking With Marian Keyes And Tara Flynn (Radio 4, 7.15pm) the kind-hearted duo offer help and advice on such diverse topics as jealousy, code-switching, frizzy hair and wandering accents.

The theme of today’s Words And Music (Radio 3, 5.30pm) is Modernism in the 1920s. Expect readings from Kafka and Joyce as well as music by Stravinsky and Louis Armstrong.