AFTERNOON PLAY
Radio 4, 2.15pm
These days it is a surprise to encounter an Afternoon Play that does not concern itself with medical ailments rendered as fiction, which is what makes Nicholas Meiklejohn’s Mike and Muriel are Getting Married all that more of a gentle joy. Andy (Billy Boyd) and Rebecca (Gabriel Quigley) are brought together on a blind date by the happy couple of the title, and are having a miserable time until they discover they have something in common: he hates Muriel and she hates Mike. So what do they do? They. . . find out for yourself. It is good, promise.
THE CHOICE
Radio 4, 9am/9.30pm
I do like Michael Buerk’s excavation of predicaments great and small, which returns for a six-week stint with a bit of agonising at the top end of the global impact spectrum. In August 2001 Sherron Watkins, a vice president in the corporate development department of the mighty Enron corporation, put a memo in the in-tray of the company’s chief executive officer, Kenneth Lay, that raised questions about Enron’s accounting practices. History tells us what happened next — here Watkins tells us how she came to decide to do it.