TODAY’S RADIO

KEVIN ELDON WILL SEE YOU NOW

11.30AM, RADIO 4 ★★★ The actor and comedian Kevin Eldon heads this comedy sketch show series. This week, we find Kevin dealing with The Haunted Ghost Of The Scary Studio Of Terror. He will be joined in this comic endeavour by Amelia Bullmore, Julia

Davis and Justin Edwards.

WITNESS 2.45PM, RADIO 4

★★★★ Janina Dawidowicz’s father lifted her from the truck that had taken her out of the ghetto, gave her one last, loving look, then watched as she fled through the streets of Warsaw. Janina spent much of the latter years of the Second Word War in convents, where brave nuns sheltered other Jewish girls. Janina talks about her fractured,

dangerous childhood, and shares memories of life in the ghetto.

LEMN SISSAY’S POETRY REBELS

7PM, RADIO 4 ★★★★ Liverpool became a place of poetry and music in the 1960s, with many Scouse bards performing their work in clubs and venues as if they were pop stars. The public loved it, and the poets attracted the same kind of young, hip audiences that the pop stars did. Lemn Sissay tells the story of poets such as Roger Mcgough and Brian Patten in this first of a five-part series on modern poets and their work.

SCREENSHOT 7.15PM, RADIO 4

★★★

West Side Story, with its big, bold score by Leonard Bernstein and exuberant dance sequences , burst on to cinema screens 60 years ago – and still dazzles. This Romeo and Juliet story, set in 20th-century Manhattan, has now been remade by Steven Spielberg. Ellen E. Jones and Mark Kermode trace the journey of this doomed love story, from Shakespeare’s pen to the 21st-century screen. SJ