A NIGHT ON THE TOWN WITH . . .
Radio 4, 3.45pm
Julian Putkowski presents the first in a series of daily programmes that must have taken ages to research. Basically, famous figures (Darwin today, then Karl Marx, Simon de Beauvoir, Freud and Nietzsche) report back through their writings from visits to foreign cities (Dickens’s to Edinburgh, Freud’s to Manchester, de Beauvoir’s to New York — guess who got the best deal). Want to know what shade of red Nietzsche chose for Turin? Hold your breath until Friday.
VOTE WITH YOUR EARS: 2004 BRITISH COMPOSERS AWARDS
Radio 3, 10.15pm
In the old days great artists had to starve in garrets before they were discovered, usually after their death (which can’t have been pleasant). These days Radio 3 just gets together with the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters and, over the next three weeks, invites the great British public to vote (at www.bbc.co.uk/radio3, or by phoning 08700 100300) for the 12 entries duking it out for the Radio 3 Listeners’ Award. It is a Eurovision for posh music; a Pop Idol for the talented. Tonight’s first offering is Slasp by Elaine Agnew.