HERESY
Radio 4, 6.30pm
It is tricky recommending anything involving David Baddiel because the world seems to be unequally divided between those who rate him highly and those who, for want of a better word, don’t. As a self-confessed fan I think it must be because of the beard. Either that, or it’s because he really does have a brain the size of a planet — Renaissance man, double starred First or whatever — which seems doubly unfair. He can’t help being bright. Anyway, here he returns with the show in which he and other glacially urban members of the brain’s trust show off how witty they are. It has had its moments in the past, and some of us are keenly anticipating more.
PERFORMANCE ON 3
Radio 3, 7.30pm
Those unable to make it to Snape in time for tonight’s concert from the Aldeburgh Festival can join Stephanie Hughes in relishing, no doubt, the world premiere of Neruda Madrigales — a new choral work by Sir Harrison Birtwistle. Tansy Davies’s Aldeburgh commission, spine, also sees the light of day for the first time, and there is some Monteverdi and Stravinsky if you want something to hum along to.