Miss Bessemer Saves The Train

Radio 4, 7.45pm pm Penelope Keith( right) reads the first of a five-part serial inspired by a true story. It focuses on the titular character, who is determined to save her her local railway line from c losure. om closure Keith’ s Good Life alter ego Mar go Lead better would be proud.

In Elaine Paige On Sunday( Radio 2, 1 pm) the performer looks ahead to tonight’ s Tony Awards. Delayed from last year, they celebrate great Broadway shows from the 2019-20 season. Drama On 3: This Little Relic (Radio 3,7.30 pm) focuses on a youth worker’ s troubled efforts to stage Ira Aldridge’ s play The Black Doctor in an abandoned pub in Coventry.