TODAY’S RADIO

PRIDE OR PREJUDICE 11.30AM, RADIO 4

HHHH When telling a story, authors bring their own experiences, prejudices and imagination to the world they’ve created. A lot of people don’t like this. In this first of a three-part series on reading and writing fiction, Abigail Williams looks at the way social media outrage is affecting the publishing industry, and trying to control what we read and how we read.

39 WAYS TO SAVE THE PLANET HHH

1.45PM, RADIO 4 Waste from factories that make crisps can be turned into fertilisers, which can be used on fields of potatoes – which are then made into crisps.

Tom Heap tours an innovative fertiliser plant on the outskirts

St Kilda (3.30pm, Radio 4) of Birmingham, and hears about this and other ideas that will help to reduce our carbon footprint.

COSTING THE EARTH 3.30PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

St Kilda is a collection of rocky islands rising out of the North Atlantic. Life on the islands could be good; the islanders fished, grew crops, and rarely had contact with outsiders. This proved a problem as they lacked resistance to common diseases, and was one of the factors that led to the residents being evacuated. The conservationist Conor Mckinney reports on his months living on the islands among the wildlife and the remains of past lives.

FREE THINKING 10PM, RADIO 3

HHHH Twilight dwindles as the days grow shorter, and that magical period – where the boundaries blur, the landscape softens and the colours fade – becomes fleeting. Before our evenings are swallowed up in the long, dark winter nights, a group of writers, poets, artists and musicians talk about the way twilight affects their work. SJ