Festival of Remembrance, Denmark’s tough immigration policy, and more: Radio and podcasts of the week
Patti Smith Forever Day
Radio 6 Music/BBC Sounds, from 8am
A day of programming to celebrate 50 years of Horses, Patti Smith’s hugely influential 1975 debut album. Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie (8am) kick things off with a selection of interview clips and related music, with Cerys Matthews, Guy Garvey and Iggy Pop carrying the theme on through the day. At 6pm, Mary Ann Hobbs plays a selection of tracks specially chosen for Smith by fellow rock stars including Johnny Marr, while Stuart Maconie is back again to round the day off, at 8pm, exploring Smith’s impact on the artier side of punk.
Immigration: The Danish Way
Radio 4/BBC Sounds, 1.30pm
Denmark’s tough immigration policies are attracting lots of attention around Europe. Introduced not by the far-right but by the country’s centre-left government following a large inflow of migrants and fears that the country’s famously generous welfare system was in danger of collapse, could it offer a blueprint for Keir Starmer to address this most divisive of political issues? Iain Watson reports.
Monday 10 November
Darren Harriott: Father Figuring
Radio 4/BBC Sounds, 1.45pm
Part of the BBC’s ongoing fatherhood season, comedian Darren Harriott’s five-part series is a quest to make peace with his past by finding out more about his late father, and an exploration of whether “bad dad syndrome” is passed down from father to son. In the opening episode, Harriott explores why his father died by suicide in prison at the age of 35, and the impact on his 11-year-old self, his relationship with his mother, and his own attitude to fatherhood. Earlier, in Are Fathers Working? (Radio 4, 11am), Horatio Clare examines the changing face of fatherhood since Victorian times.
Radio 3 in Concert
Radio 3/BBC Sounds, 7.30pm
A treat for lovers of symphonic music. Celebrating its centenary year, the Danish National Symphony Orchestra is joined on stage by the Danish National Concert Choir, the BBC Singers and the Copenhagen Boys’ Choir, plus eight world-class soloists, for a performance of one of the most monumental symphonies in the repertoire, Mahler’s Symphony No 8, known as the “Symphony of Thousands” for its epic scale.
Tuesday 11 November
