FOLK AWARDS 2005
Radio 2, 7pm
Every year Radio 2 sponsors the folk awards, and every year that portion of the country not togged up in Fair Isle sweaters yawns and marvels anew at just how fair and blue-eyed Joss Stone is for a black urban artist. Pah. Anyway, if Mike Harding can drag himself into his sleeveless cardie again for another bout of ritual humiliation, the least we can do is suffer along with him. As ever, some of the finest musical talent will be on hand to dazzle — veterans such as Tom Paxton and Steeleye Span rubbing plectrums with up-and-comers like Karine Polwart. Karine who? Precisely.
WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG?
Radio 4, 11.15pm
Simon Munnery begins his second series of clever little bendings of history with The True Confessions of Sherlock Holmes, Part 2 — The Inevitable Invention of Moriarty, where the great detective is really a bit a nitwit who gets lucky. It is not a new idea, and not really as good as one that pops up later in Munnery’s four-part series, in which Sally Phillips (great) interrogates a member of an extremist Buddhist gang. Gentle chuckles all round there.