Today’s radio choice Charlotte Runcie

Between the Ears: The Nightingales of Berlin RADIO 3, 6.45PM

Berlin has become a haven for nightingales. In early summer their songs, which have inspired so many myths, poems and stories, light up the evenings, sung by over a thousand nesting pairs. This programme, made with Berlin Museum of Natural History’s Forschungsfall Nachtigall project, which asks members of the public to record nightingales and send in their recordings, hears from Berlin residents about their memories of the birds, and musicians who travel to the city and are inspired by their song.

The Things We Leave Behind

RADIO 4, 7.45PM

The novelist Mary Paulson-Ellis (author of

The Other Mrs Walker) has written this five-part series for Radio 4, which concludes this evening. Read by Alexandra Mathie, it’s the story of a life, the life of

Rosalind Goddard, told in five objects, seemingly random and inconsequential, but linked to defining moments in her life, going backwards through time. After spoons, a bracelet, a door key and a green ribbon, in this final episode, we consider a photograph, and find Rosalind at her eighth birthday party.