Today’s radio choice Charlotte Runcie

Heart and Soul WORLD SERVICE, 10.30AM

The ongoing reports into human rights abuses against Uyghurs in China focus mostly on the crimes against them. This moving programme takes a broader look at Uyghur culture itself, particularly poetry and the writing and learning of it by heart, which has been a strong tradition in Uyghur culture for centuries. From religious songs to more contemporary modernist verse, this edition of Heart and Soul explores how Uyghurs are using poetry as a means of support resistance, connecting with a diaspora across the world.

Alun Cochrane: Centrist Dad? RADIO 4, 7.15PM

Are all comedians doomed to be either left wing or right wing, or is there space for comedy somewhere in the middle? This stand-up special features Alun Cochrane performing to a virtual audience from Salford, considering whether comedians can be nonpartisan in their mockery. After all, hypocrisy is hypocrisy, wherever it lands on the political spectrum. As a centrist, Cochrane wonders why the political landscape of the last few years has left him feeling like an extremist. Has he changed, or has the world?