THE MORAL MAZE
Radio 4, 8pm
Michael Buerk introduces the umpteenth season — it began in 1990 and recently celebrated its 400th edition — of the most civilised shouting match in broadcasting. Actually, no, you’re right — it is not civilised at all, which is why we love it so much. This first of the latest ten-part instalment welcomes Michael Portillo as a regular panellist. Terrific — politicians are always a good laugh because they tend not to be as clever as they think they are. Will Portillo prove me wrong?
THE STORYMAN WITH ANDREW CLOVER
Radio 4, 11.15pm
Clover, the Rowland Rivron of literary inquisitors (ie, talks a lot, occasionally goes too far, but on the whole is fairly harmless) returns with a new four-part series of the question-and-answer exercise by which he inveigles a modern fairy story from a fully paid-up citizen of the Land of Clever. First up, he and G. P. Taylor, the larger- than-life writer, most famous for the religious allegory for children Shadowmancer, concoct a rather unsettling piece involving David Walliams, Jonathan Ross in a goat’s body, and a fight with a miniature Jimmy Carr over nasal hair. Listen to it with the lights on, that is my advice.