Drama On 3: Adventures With The Painted People

Radio 3, 7.30pm

Kirsty Stuart (right) and Olivier Huband take the lead roles in David Greig’s play, which was originally commissioned for the now cancelled Pitlochry Festival. It focuses on a Pictish woman who strikes a deal with a captured Roman soldier – she will help him escape if he teaches her to write in return.

Nicola Walker reads another episode of Annika Stranded (Radio 4, 7.45pm) in which the Oslo cop feels the strain while investigating a body abandoned in the city’s Laerdal Tunnel.

James Naughtie talks to Max Porter about his acclaimed novel Lanny in Bookclub (Radio 4, 4pm).