RADIO

SUNDAY PRIVATE PASSIONS

Michael Berkeley chats to barrister and Labour peer Helena Kennedy, who recalls growing up in a Glasgow tenement, and how she exposed the failures of the UK’s criminal justice system and the persecution of women in Iran. Her music choices include Puccini, Handel, Bach, Schubert, George Benjamin and James MacMillan. Radio 3, midday

MONDAY LADY KILLERS WITH LUCY WORSLEY

The historian kicks off a new series by profiling Christiana Edmunds, a respectable Victorian spinster who became a mass poisoner after being thwarted in love. Worsley is joined by forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist Dr Gwen Adshead and Rosalind Crone, Professor of History at the Open University. Radio 4, 11.30am

TUESDAY THE DOCUMENTARY

The storming of the Brazilian Parliament and the US Capitol by supporters of Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump (below) respectively showed how social media is used to erode democracy. But technology can also strengthen it, as David Baker reveals how it can hold politicians to account and engage citizens. BBC World Service, 9am

WEDNESDAY STEVE LAMACQ

Memento Mori is Depeche Mode’s 15th studio album, but their first as a two-piece following the death of co-founder Andrew Fletcher last year. Surviving members

Dave Gahan and Martin Gore talk to Lamacq about making it, and the ways in which it was inspired by the pandemic. 6 Music, 4pm

THURSDAY ALL THE NAMES YOU’VE EVER CALLED ME

Kate Dickie performs Christine Entwisle’s poetic account of a coercive relationship, which may be fictionalised but has drawn inspiration from many real experiences. It explores some of the hallmarks of coercive control, recognised as a criminal offence in the UK since 2015.

Radio 4, 11.30am

FRIDAY AFTERNOON CONCERT

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in a performance of Brahms’s Second Symphony. There’s also music from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Concert Orchestra, as well as a chance to hear the BBC Singers, who it has just been announced will be disbanded. Radio 3, 2pm

SATURDAY ARCHIVE ON 4: THE FUNNY OLD WORLD OF VICTOR LEWIS-SMITH

He may not have been to everybody’s taste, but the writer, producer, critic and satirist was undoubtedly one of the most original thinkers in media until his untimely death, aged 65, last December. This programme pays tribute to his talent. Radio 4, 8pm