The Verb

Ian McMillan's programme about language looks at two new teenage fictional heroes, from new books by Joe Dunthorne and Ross Raisin – themselves just of their teens and already being hailed as the future of British fiction. With a performance by American singer Alela Diane, whose CD The Pirate's Gospel was a critical success last year, as well as comic verse from Luke Wright. And Hungarian writer Peter Zilahy reads from his autobiography, partly a report from the streets of the former Yugoslavia in the turbulent 1980s and 90s.