Desert Island Discs

Radio 4, 11.15am

Acclaimed star of stage and screen,

Maxine Peake

(right), tells Lauren

Laverne which eight records, book and luxury item she'd take with her to the mythical isle.

Today's Drama On 3 (Radio 3, 7.30pm), subtitled People Everywhere Will Sing, is set in 1951, and tells how a widowed Ralph Vaughan Williams (Oliver Ford Davies) decided to revamp his image by composing something radical for the Queen's coronation.

Sadly nothing to do with Olivia Newton-John, Xanadu (Radio 4, 4.30pm) instead offers insights into Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan from poet Daljit Nagra.