Today’s radio choice Charlotte Runcie

Private Passions RADIO 3, 12.00NOON

Michael Berkeley’s guest for this episode is a man with an extensive amount of music in his life: Jools Holland, the “king of boogie-woogie piano”. Holland is inseparable from his piano and has been since he left school at the age of 15, going to tour with the Jools Holland Big Band and then his 19-piece Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, and of course making 55 series of his star-studded TV music show, Later… with Jools Holland. But today he shares his love of classical music, and Bach in particular.

Sunday Feature: Wordsworth: Poet of the People RADIO 3, 6.45PM

Historian Jenny Uglow considers the philosophical and political opinions of the great poet on the 250th anniversary of his birth. She focuses on Wordsworth’s response to the Industrial Revolution, in contrast with the views of Adam Smith, and explores the Lake District and how it was changing during Wordsworth’s lifetime as more industry took hold. Uglow also considers Wordsworth’s thoughts on how to care for the poor, morality in commerce, and what makes a good society.