Moira Stuart Meets – Alison Balsom

Classic FM, 9pm

In the first of a new series, the former

BBC newsreader

(right) meets multiaward winning trumpeter Alison

Balsom. They discuss the latter’s life in music as well as her domestic set-up with her equally acclaimed husband, film and theatre director Sam Mendes.

The latest edition of Open Book (Radio 4, 4pm) features an interview with author Ian McEwan, who describes his latest title, Lessons.

The final episode of the current run of The Reunion (Radio 4, 11.15am) features those caught up in the Maidan Uprising of 2013, a wave of protests and civil unrest that rocked Ukraine.