Rover two years on, Radio 4, 11am

To recap, for those who came late to this exercise in social history, Adrian Chiles grew up close to what eventually became the MG Rover plant in Longbridge, south Birmingham. After the Rover factory closed, he went back to talk to those made newly redundant and found, amid the gloom, green shoots of hope. Now he returns again – to find a lot more gloom, sadly. The mortgage protection schemes came to an end a year ago, the redundancy payments have long gone, spent on doing nothing more self-indulgent than making ends meet, and even the faintest of hopes that large-scale production might return to Longbridge seem to have been snuffed out. He talks to former employees, including Maurice Minor – no, really – who found another job in the car industry, but which involved an 80-mile daily commute. At the end the question is obvious – will there beany need for Chiles to return in another two years?

Squeezing Victoria’s Curves, Radio 4, 9pm

Ignore the risqué title. This is no laughing matter – more than 30 million people depend on Lake Victoria, the largest in Africa, for their livelihood, and it is shrinking. The Tanzanian journalist Ayisha Yahya investigates the possible cause of the falling water levels, from global warming to the opening of a new hydroelectric power station in Uganda.

Shaun Keaveny Breakfast Show, BBC 6 Music, 7am

So that’s it, then. No more Phill Jupitus of a morning. Fans of Keaveny’s evening show will doubtless be pleased, but the rest of us will be keeping our powder dry for at least, oh, three days.

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