Tongue And Talk: The Dialect Poets

Radio 4, 4.30pm

In the first of a four-part series, Catherine Harvey takes a trip to Blackpool – not for a stroll on the beach or a ride on its famous trams, but to sample the sights and sounds of its annual festival dedicated to dialect speaking and writing.

Presenter Hannah French (above) showcases in full one of musicologist Dr Natasha Loges's favourite works by a female composer in Record

Review Extra (Radio 3, 7.30pm). William Gaminara reads The New Adventures Of Baron Munchausen (Radio 4, 7.45pm), in which a descendent of the legendary dreamer tells his own incredible tales.