Great Lives Radio 4, 4.30pm

Matthew Parris kicks off a new series by chatting to travel writer and journalist Michael Booth (right). His subject is Danish children’s author Hans Christian Andersen, whose own life was almost as odd as the tales he told. Helping to tell the story is another author and poet, Michael Rosen.

Twenty years since Enron collapsed after its fraud was exposed, Bad Business (Radio 4, 8pm) investigates how easy it would be to weave a similar web of financial deceit today.

BBC Proms 2021 (Radio 3, 7.30pm) features a performance of Schubert, Ella Milch-Sheriff and Beethoven by the BBC Philharmonic.