Today's radio highlights - Telegraph An Everyday Story of Afghan Folk Radio 4, 10.45am, rpt 7.45pm Liz Rigby, editor of The Archers from 1987-9, wrote and directed this intriguing Archers clone. It's based on a real-life radio serial, Da Pulay Poray, loosely modelled on The Archers, broadcast daily on Pact, a local station serving the wild and mountainous Afghan/Pakistani border. There are no roads, no electricity or mobile phone signal, no law but tribal law. Her serial is about a land-owning family headed by Akbar Khan (Sagar Arya), featuring his wife, mother, sons and a widowed daughter-in-law. Sounds familiar. The Essay Radio 3, 10.45pm Albie Sachs is a prominent anti-apartheid campaigner, a member of the African National Congress, Jewish, white, a lawyer imprisoned for his beliefs. South African security agents planted a bomb meant to kill him in his car. He lost his right arm and an eye in the explosion, went into exile for a while, returned to South Africa and was appointed a Justice of the new Constitutional Court by Nelson Mandela. Here in nightly Essays he reflects on the life and work of the Court and some of the acutely difficult decisions he had to make in his work there. The Reith Lectures 2012 Radio 4, 9.00am Niall Ferguson, Oxford and Harvard economic historian, delivers his first lecture, subtitled The Human Hive. The challenge for emerging nations will be to maintain economic growth by underpinning them with strong institutions, clear public accountability, less debt. It was recorded two weeks ago at the London School of Economics and the audience responded so eagerly chairman Sue Lawley could barely fit in all the questions. The Songs of Milne Radio 4FM, 11.30am Pianist John Kember found some intriguing music on a friend's piano, settings of A A Milne's children's verses. He was so taken with them he began to search for more, discovering a fascinating story. The music was by Harold Fraser-Simpson (1872-1944) and, in their time, his tunes were as familiar as the E H Shepard illustrations that accompanied Milne's work. Now, these settings have almost been forgotten and Kember wants to put that right. With baritone Richard Burkhardt he performs some favourites, explaining why he's intent on tracing the rest. Click here for television highlights Click here for full television and radio listings Click here to follow Telegraph TV on Twitter