Susan jeffreys’ Radio Week

ALL REQUEST SUNDAY

SUNDAY, 5PM, RADIO 2 HHHH

Paddy O’connell steps in to host Paul O’grady’s usual show, and will give the time over to playing requests for listeners’ friends and relatives in self-isolation.

THE PASSION IN PLANTS

MONDAY-GOOD FRIDAY, 9.45AM (FM), 12.30AM, RADIO 4 HHHH

This thoughtful, gentle series takes us on a quest through the countryside gardens and city streets in search of flowers and plants associated with Holy Week.

THE MILL ON THE FLOSS

MONDAY-GOOD FRIDAY,

10.45AM, 7.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

If you’ve been meaning to catch up on the classics, this ten-part dramatisation of George Eliot’s epic novel delivers all the big themes of the author’s great work about love, family feuding and ruin.

INGENIOUS

MONDAY-GOOD FRIDAY, 1.45PM, RADIO 4 HHHH

Using music, poetry, anecdotes and hard scientific facts, Kat Arney looks at human genes and their effect on our lives. She begins by following the journey of redheads from central Asia to Ireland.

A GRIPPING YARN

WEDNESDAY, 6.30AM, 1.30PM,

8.30PM, RADIO 4 EXTRA HHHH Needles click away as many of us take up knitting to calm the nerves and fill the hoursofisolation.janegarveyhearsabout the history of this soothing, useful craft.

A HANDFUL OF DUST

THURSDAY, 10AM, 3PM, RADIO 4 EXTRA HHHH Evelyn Waugh’s novel about a highsociety marriage hitting the rocks ricochets between comedy and tragedy. Tara Fitzgerald stars in this dramatisation of an enduring masterpiece.

A CLASSICAL CONVERSATION

GOOD FRIDAY, 9PM, CLASSIC HHHH John Humphrys meets Judi Dench, who reveals which pieces of classical musicmeanthemosttoher–including those that reveal a love of Scotland, from Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy to the traditional tune Flowers of the Forest.