THE ENVIRONMENT AGENCY
Radio 4, 11am
Had we looked after the land, air and water of England and Wales better Mother Nature would have probably been able to cope quite nicely with natural wastage. Instead, she now requires the help of the 11,000 staff of the Environment Agency, whose work is examined by Jeremy Bristow over the next three Tuesdays. First up: waste and rubbish, their disposal and containment. It’s not a pretty listen.
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LLOYD WEBBER: THE MAN BEHIND THE MUSIC
Radio 2, 8.30pm
All the money in the world, all the glory, all the fame. And Andrew Lloyd Webber — Lord Lloyd-Webber to lovers of hyphens — is still driven to explain himself and his music, as here, in this two-part interview conducted by John Barrowman. “My name means that a musical is judged in a different way,” Lloyd Webber vouchsafes. “It doesn’t mean that a musical is going to work — my last, The Beautiful Game, didn’t. But I think the name does help.” Of course, it could also be that the tuneful one has offered himself up for questioning because he has a new West End-bound musical to promote, based on Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White. But then isn’t that another difference that marks him from the herd? He writes it and then, by God, he sells it. Like or loathe his craft, you have to admire his continued dedication to the Show.