Book Of The Week: Tom Stoppard: A Life

Monday-Friday, Radio 4, 9.45am & 12.30am AlexJennings readsHermoine Lee’sbiographyof theplaywright (right ), whose bestknown works include de Arcadia and Ros en crantzAndcrantz And Guild en stern Are Dead. It begins by charting Stop pa rd’ s early years in Czechoslovakia and his family’ s determination to escape the Nazis. Grace Dent starts a new run of The

Untold( Radio 4,11 am) with the story of a graduate who has a popular Ins tag ram account focusing on public benches. Drama: The Tenderness Of Boys (Radio 4,2 pm) centre son a writer coming face-to-face with his mother, who has been dead for 15 years.