Radio This Week

There’s a few interesting things on TV just at the moment, but I’m going to concentrate on radio.
All this week, Melvyn Bragg is celebrating the Royal Society’s 350th anniversary with four episodes of In Our Time. The first is already available to listen to as I type (and they’ll stay available, which is fabulous).
I’ve not yet heard it, but I will be listening to Radio 4’s Saturday Play: Private Lives by Noel Coward. It’s got Bill Nighy in it after all – and Helena Bonham Carter!
And Thursday’s Afternoon Play – The Killing of TSR2 – sounds up my street. It’s the British fighter that never was.
In comedy, there’s the last episode of Giles Wemmbley-Hogg Goes Off, and a new series of Just A Minute.
There’s a new series of Jon Ronson On starting tomorrow evening at 11.00pm which as far as I can tell from the Radio 4 trailer, seems to feature all the people I follow on Twitter as well as Ronson himself (Victoria Coren, Charlie Brooker, and Graham Linehan).
BBC 7 has another Doctor Syn book being read fantastically by Rufus Sewell that started today – The Last of Doctor Syn.
Finally – and this is a bit late and useless to you – but Saturday saw BBC 7 broadcast the final episode of series 3 of Ben Moor’s science fiction comedy Undone. I really enjoyed this, but at least with series catch-up, you can still hear all six episodes from this series on the iPlayer. But you might want to wait for the next repeat of the first series.
I was sorry to hear that Clive James has called an end to his A Point of Views now. He’s writing another book and that’s going to fully engage him.
And I feel that if Ed Reardon’s Week was coming back for another series, it’d have been on-air now. If anyone knows, I’d love to hear from you.
So little time, but so much radio to listen to, and that doesn’t even include my day job!


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