TODAY’S RADIO

KEN BRUCE 9.30AM, RADIO 2

★★★★★ Jack Savoretti wrote poetry by the yard when he was a teenager, but like many an aspiring young poet, he found demand for his verse was limited. Then, he put his words to music, and found people – in fact, millions of them – were prepared to pay good money to hear his verse. This morning at 11.30am, the poetic Mr Savoretti will be in the Piano Room to give us two of his songs, plus a cover of someone else’s.

ONE RING TO BIND THEM ALL 11.30AM, RADIO 4

★★★★ Scrubber Daly from Nuneaton was a tag-team partner for the legendary wrestler Giant Haystacks. Scrubber, who began wrestling in 1983, joins pro wrestler Matt Powell (aka Mad Dog Maxx)

for this programme, recorded on the road in the Midlands, that takes a look at the increasing popularity of a sport that was huge in the 1970s and 1980s.

A GOOD READ 4.30PM, RADIO 4

★★★★

The Shropshire scenery in P.G. Wodehouse’s comic masterpiece

Summer Lightning is green, pleasant and benign. The Yorkshire landscape in Hannah Hauxwell’s Seasons Of My Life, documenting her years trying to survive on a lonesome farm, is often harsh and bleak. In a new series that has guests discussing their favourite books, the author and gardener Alan Titchmarsh and the author and shepherdess Amanda Owen are in complete agreement over each other’s book choice.

RADIO 3 IN CONCERT

7.30PM, RADIO 3 ★★★★ Throbbing with passion, Wagner’s Prelude from Tristan Und Isolde will be opening the bill for this concert – given by the London Philharmonic – on the theme of ecstasy. The concert closes with Scriabin’s unbridled Poem Of Ecstasy. SJ