Banding: Love, Spit And Valve Oil

Radio 4, 11.30am

Music trends may come and go but people are still drawn to brass bands, both for the sound and the social aspects. Folk musician

Martin Green (right) finds out more about the important role the bands play in their communities as he composes a new piece for brass.

In Ramblings (Radio 4, 3pm), Clare Balding walks the first stretch of the Monarch’s Way with poet Catherine Swire, who believes that historical events such as the civil war leave their mark on Britain’s landscape.

There are wanderings of the sonic variety in Unclassified (Radio 3, 11.30pm) courtesy of Andrew Wasylyk.