Radio 3 In Concert
Radio 3, 7.30pm
To mark the centenary of the BBC’s first broadcast, this concert is inspired by what the world was listening to 100 years ago. Semyon
Bychkov (right) conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a performance of Mussorgsky’s Pictures At An Exhibition. There’s also the UK premiere of a work by Bryce Dessner .
In Short Works (Radio 4, 3.45pm) Craig Roberts reads Joe Dunthorne’s The Tallest Building In Wales. It’s set in the All Sky Cafe, where waitress Jeanette is the biggest draw.
Writer Tessa Hadley discusses her new novel Free Love in the latest edition of The Verb (Radio 3, 10pm).