Drama On 3: Doctor Faustus

Radio 3, 7.30pm John Heffernan (right) stars in Emma Harding’s adaptation of Christopher Marlowe’s 16th Century tragedy. Faustus sells his soul to the devil in exchange for 24 years of knowledge, power and pleasure – but although he gains control over nature, he loses control of himself.

In Sunday Feature: The Many Diagnoses Of Robert Schumann (Radio 3, 6.45pm) Phil Hebblethwaite traces explanations for the composer’s illness and death.

The last in the series of Tongue

And Talk: The Dialect Poets (Radio 4, 4.30pm) looks at Welsh writers.