Radio: Pick of the Day

Thursday 07 January 1999 00:02 GMT

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TWO IN A ROW to stay awake for. World of Pub (11pm R4), a blokeishly droll series by the up-and-coming Tony Roche, has been given a well-deserved longer slot. The basic gag remains unchanged: Dodgy Phil comes up with daft schemes to get folk into Barry and Garry's eternally doomed boozer - tonight, a millennium makeover is decided upon. Edith Piaf (right) is listed as a special guest; enough said.

It's followed, incongruously, by an adaptation of Geoffrey Hill's slim magnum opus, Mercian Hymns (11.30pm R4) - the series of prose poems revisiting the life of the eighth-century overlord, Offa: "King of the perennial holly-groves". Simon Russell-Beale is among those savouring every lush syllable.

Dominic Cavendish

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