SUSAN JEFFREYS’ Radio Week

UNCANNY – CASE 1: THE EVIL IN ROOM 611

SATURDAY, 11.30PM, RADIO 4 HHHH This series of tales of the supernatural by Danny Robins is presented as factual. It’s peppered with ‘experts’, enjoyably spinechilling, and best taken with a pinch of salt.

PRESTIGE

MONDAY, 2.15PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Monica and Samira were frontline foreign correspondents, and have a shared secret. Years later, this secret comes back to haunt them in Hugh Costello’s pacey drama.

A HISTORY OF GHOSTS

TUESDAY, 11AM, 9PM, RADIO 4 EXTRA

HHHH Kirsty Logan’s fascinating series on the origins and evolution of ghost stories originally aired in bite-sized programmes. Here’s a chance to hear it in two omnibus editions, this first part taking in pregnant ghosts and ‘a full-bodied violent spectre that stalked medieval England’.

THE FIRST MAN ON THE MOON AND HOW THEY DONE IT

WEDNESDAY, 2.15PM, RADIO 4 HHHH Patrick Barlow and John Ramm, who make up The National Theatre Of Brent, re-enact what they describe as the ‘52year centenary of the historic first walking on the moon, as it was done by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Phil Collins’.

THE COUNTRY SHOW

THURSDAY, 9PM, RADIO 2 HHHH

This weekend, the Grand Ole Opry notches up its 5,000th show, so Bob Harris features some of the Opry’s stalwarts, including Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash and Darius Rucker.

39 WAYS TO SAVE THE PLANET

FRIDAY, 1.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

‘If pollution is created by humans,’ says Arnold Schwarzenegger, ‘it can be solved by humans.’ The Terminator star sends out a call to arms in defence of planet Earth.

HARLAND

FRIDAY, 2.15PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

A child goes missing from the brightly lit, shiny new town of Harland, and DI Ward is put on the case. Tyger Drew-honey stars in this new, five-part supernatural thriller.

ARCHERS UPDATE

With a bit of luck, Jennifer Aldridge’s haymakers’ pie won’t be on the menu for this year’s harvest supper. Those of us who’ve had to soldier through a slab of the stuff will know that it lingers long in the memory – and the digestive system. Instead, those at the table will have to contend with Bert Fry’s doggerel, a bewildering selection of desserts, and the ever lurking possibility of another dingdong family row. While they tuck in at Brookfield, Halloween plans are afoot at Lower Loxley, raising hopes that another horror will unfold among the spurge laurel. Meanwhile, Ben faces a crisis, Ruth gets a shock, and a Fairbrother returns to Ambridge – bringing, as is the Fairbrother way, a whole heap of trouble with him.