RADIO Icon Radio 4, 11.30am

In the summer of

1962, during a break in filming Cleopatra,

Elizabeth Taylor

(right) and Richard

Burton were caught in a series of candid photographs on a yacht off the Isle of

Ischia, Italy. These images, it’s argued, marked the birth of modern celebrity, and this six-part series looks at our relationship with fame through the life of iconic screen goddess Taylor.

Drama: Love Across The Ages (Radio 4, 2.15pm) tackles love between two Muslim men from Iran in 815 and modern-day Bradford.

Jim Al-Khalili is joined by geoarchaeologist Dr Judith Bunbury, who discusses the Sahara Desert in The Life Scientific (Radio 4, 9am).