Our pick of the programmes to listen to this Christmas and New Year

THE PICK OF THIS WEEK’S RADIO

John Rutter at 80 Donald Macleod visits John Rutter at home in this celebratory series of Composer of the Week, looking back at the highs and lows of his extraordinary career. We hear about the full b

WEDNESDAY 17 DECEMBER

16 DECEMBER

I was at one of those gatherings where friends of friends sprawled into groups entirely unconnected from the first, like a suburban town long freed from its planner. “It must be great to be in enterta