Desert Island Discs Radio 4, 11am

Author Neil Gaiman (right), of American Gods and Good Omens fame, chooses which pieces of music and luxury items he’d take with him to the mythical isle.

Writer and film-maker Iain Sinclair talks to Michael Berkeley about his Private Passions (Radio 3, 12 midday). Sinclair reveals how music has inspired the journeys that have shaped his life and describes his love for Stravinsky’s setting of Dylan Thomas’s Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night.

Choral Evensong (Radio 3, 3pm) is broadcast live from the Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge, where the start of Advent is celebrated with a fourpart service of hymns and lessons.