PICK OF TODAY’S RADIO

PERFECT PITCH (FROM CHOIR STALLS TO CRICKET BALLS), 8PM, RADIO 4

IF YOU sing in a choir, you should listen to everyone else; your fellow choristers are not your backing singers. Choral singing, like cricket, requires teamwork, which may explain why so many great cricketers were in choirs. Former England captain Alastair Cook (pictured) was a St Paul’s Cathedral chorister, while the England World Cup winner Ebony Rainford-Brent and the West Indies cricket star Clive Lloyd also sang in choirs. Eleanor Oldroyd looks at their careers as she follows the links between cricket scores and music scores.

IGNORE the daft title of this series about the natural world — there’s nothing daft about the content. This episode of NATUREBANG

(9.30AM, RADIO 4) looks at how the nervous system of octopuses challenges our ideas about brains and bodies. Each of an octopus’s arms can make separate movements and decisions without sending messages to a central brain. Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul Of An Octopus, shares her thoughts on this complex matter.