What’s Funny About

Radio 4, 11.30am

Ricky Gervais (right) joins Peter Fincham and Jon Plowman to give the inside story of how he and Stephen Merchant brought hit comedy The Office to the small screen. He discusses the challenge of getting the show commissioned, and his fear that the audience would think it was just another docu-soap.

Sophie Okonedo and Mark Rylance star in Drama: Song Of The Reed: Whirlpool (Radio 4, 2.15pm), the second of Steve Waters’ dramas following life at a nature reserve.

In Free Thinking (Radio 3, 10pm) Matthew Sweet celebrates the career of actor Dirk Bogarde.