CLIVE ANDERSON’S CHAT ROOM
Radio 2, 10pm
I like Clive Anderson on the radio — on TV he always seems nervous, even if he is probably not. On radio, though, the hesitations and stammers are part of the fun as he prepares another lightning sally. “I put it to you,” says the barrister within him, and by God he does. And he is never better than when he is matching wits with four other quick-thinking and articulate thinkers on current affairs, as in his Chat Room, which returns for another six-part series.
PERFORMANCE ON 3
Radio 3, 7.30pm
To celebrate the opening of the refurbished Glasgow City Halls, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, under Ilan Volkov, gives the world premiere of Jonathan Harvey’s . . . towards a Pure Land, as well as Beethoven’s Triple Concerto and Stravinsky’s original version of The Firebird. What? No Mozart, you may well be asking. Fear not (or be very afraid); Radio 3’s Celebrating Mozart Lunchtime Concert (1pm) should have sated your hunger, what with the pianist Ashley Wass and the Galliard Wind Ensemble having already given us the Quintet for Piano and Wind (K453).