Radio: Pick of the Day

MICHAEL WILLIAMS (right) stars as the original loveable loser in Frank Dickens's radio adaptation of his long-running cartoon strip, Bristow (11.30am R4). Keeping this stickler for bureaucracy company are Rodney Bewes and Dora Bryan.

By way of contrast, Professor Anthony Giddens talks about the collapse of tradition in the Western World, as part of the 1999 Reith Lectures (8pm R4).