Radio Week

DERMOT O’LEARY

SATURDAY, 8AM, RADIO 2 ★★★★ Peter Crouch joins Dermot on this morning’s show to talk about an exciting summer of football; then, the actor Rafe Spall gives us an insider’s look at the TV comedy show Trying.

WOMEN TALKING ABOUT CARS SATURDAY, 7.15PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

Jo Brand spent a lot of her early years as a stand-up ferrying fellow comedians to and from gigs – and giving them in-car psychotherapy en route. She tells Victoria Coren Mitchell all about it this evening.

PAUL WELLER LIVE AT THE BARBICAN

SUNDAY, 7PM, RADIO 2 ★★★★★

Paul Weller was on stage at the Barbican last month – with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Boy George, Celeste and James Morrison – for a concert of his greatest hits. This is a recording of that great event.

KEN BRUCE

MONDAY, 9.30AM, RADIO 2 ★★★★

Jon Fratelli joins fellow Scot Ken to explain why his band, The Fratellis, re-recorded the 1970s hit Yes Sir, I Can Boogie – and why that song means so much to Scottish football fans.

THE DEVIL YOU KNOW MONDAY-FRIDAY, 9.45AM (FM),

12.30AM, RADIO 4 ★★★★

Gwen Adshead is a forensic psychiatrist who has spent 30 years working in secure hospitals, including Broadmoor. This series, based on interviews with inmates, follows some of her many serious cases.

BLUE: PAIN AND PLEASURE THURSDAY, 11.30AM, RADIO 4 (FM) ★★★★

Emeli Sande, Beth Orton and Ellie Goulding join other top musicians for this celebration of Joni Mitchell’s fine album Blue, which was released 50 years ago and includes A Case Of You and River.

SOUNDS OF THE 90S

FRIDAY, 10PM, RADIO 2 ★★★★ Fearne Cotton presents a Euro 96 mix tape of some of the great sets played at summer festivals that year.

ARCHERS UPDATE

Brace yourselves: another shocking discovery is heading the Aldridges’ way this week. Just how much more of this can we – and that cursed clan – take? No sooner have the empty bottles, the broken glass and the emotional damage been cleared away from one Aldridge disaster than another one rears its ugly head. Make sure to stay well out of Brian’s way as he looks to pin the blame on anyone not called Aldridge in sight. You have been warned. Over at Beechwood, the unconvincing alliance between Helen and Lee is put under strain when Joy does a spot of babysitting and makes a mistake. Meanwhile, Phoebe digs in her heels when things get a bit out of hand at the rewilding site, and another Ambridger – already in trouble – digs an even bigger hole.