RADIO CHOICE

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. Abigail Williams presents

PRIDE OR PREJUDICE: HOW WE READ NOW

(RADIO 4, 11.30AM),

a three-part series on reading and writing fiction, and begins with a look at the way social media outrage is affecting the publishing industry, and trying to control what we read and how we read.

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. For today’s instalment of

39 WAYS TO SAVE THE PLANET (RADIO 4, 1.45PM),

Tom Heap (pictured) tours an innovative fertiliser plant, and hears about this and

other ideas that will help to reduce our carbon footprint.

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.

COSTING THE EARTH (RADIO 4, 3.30PM)

hears from the conservationist Conor McKinney about his months living on the islands among the wildlife and the remains of past lives.