Radio 3 In Concert Radio 3, 7.30pm

The First Night of the BBC Proms

Japan sees Dalia

Stasevska conduct the BBC Symphony

Orchestra and

Nicola Benedetti

(right) in works including Dai Fujikura’s Glorious Clouds, Sibelius’s Violin Concerto and Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony .

Miles Warde and author John Garth are going in search of Middle-earth in Open Country (Radio 4, 3pm), visiting Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire as they explore some of the landscapes that could have inspired J.R.R. Tolkien .

Free Thinking (Radio 3, 10pm) finds Matthew Sweet and his guests discussing the work of the Scottish theologian and minister John Knox.