TODAY’S RADIO

PEOPLE FIXING THE WORLD

8.06AM, 3.06PM, 11.06PM, WORLD SERVICE ★★★★ Floating solar panels and a revolutionary see-through pyramid that produces cheap hot water are among the solutions that have been put forward as a way to ease global warming. Tom Heap meets the bright sparks who’ve come up with bright ideas that could make life easier and greener in low-income countries.

THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK 11AM, 9PM, R4 EXTRA ★★★★

At 6ft 6in, David Prowse provided the body for Darth Vader in the first three Star Wars films; James Earl Jones supplied the voice and, between the two of them, they created one of cinema’s greatest villains. Before he came to villainhood, Prowse had been

David Prowse (11am, R4 Extra) one of television’s good guys, taking on the role of the Green Cross Man, for which he was awarded an MBE. He died in November 2020; this is his story.

THE RIVER MAN 8PM, RADIO 4

★★★★

A hundred years ago, the body of a man was found on a roadside in County Kerry in Ireland. A grim notice on the corpse read: ‘Convicted Spy.

Let Others Beware. IRA’. In this programme, Fergal Keane marks the centenary of the Anglo-irish Treaty by looking at the story behind the death of the Catholic widower, fisheries officer and former policeman James Kane.

THE CLASSIC FM CONCERT 8PM, CLASSIC FM

★★★★

It’s St Andrew’s Day, so John Suchet picks a selection of music that will take us to the Highlands and islands. Mendelssohn’s Fingal’s Cave – summoning up surging waves and a craggy coastline – opens the show, which will include traditional airs and dances, as well as Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy, with violinist Tasmin Little as the soloist. SJ