Radio: Pick of the Day

Monday 05 April 1999 18:02 EDT

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ALEXANDRA CADELL'S droll comedy Desert Island Desserts (2.15pm R4) answers the wish of anyone who has ever idly longed to test the hypothetical contentedness of the guests on Desert Island Discs: two interviewees become castaways and find themselves strangely uncheered by their musical survival kit. Sue Lawley (right) contributes her dulcet tones.

Alan Whicker chases up some of the ex-pats he first interviewed 15 years ago to quiz them about their Stateside fortune-seeking experiences in Whicker's New World (10pm R2); or tries to - one man has vanished. Perhaps it was too much like hard work - the artistic representation of which is up for discussion in Night Waves (11pm R3).

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