Today's radio highlights - Telegraph The Casbah: the Birthplace of Merseybeat Radio 2, 10.00pm Pete Best, the drummer The Beatles dropped, narrates the story of the private club in the basement of his parents" home that was strictly R&B (not a jazz or folk club) and perfectly fitted the great blossoming of Mersey Beat as the late Fifties turned into the Swinging Sixties. Mona Best, Pete's mother, owned and ran the club. Memories of the Casbah come from Mike Pender (of The Searchers), Howie Casey (of Derry and The Seniors), Geoff Nugent (The Undertakers) and Bill Harry, founding editor of Mersey Beat. And there's a bit from Sir Paul, too. Listen to Liverpool in another way when Radio 3"s Choral Evensong (3.30pm) comes from the city's Metropolitan Cathedral, live, on the feast of St Ignatius of Antioch. The music includes another Jubilee commission for the great celebratory Choirbook for the Queen, Roxanna Panufnik's motet, Joy at the Sound. Hallucination: Through the Doors of Perception (Radio 4, 9.00pm) is a report on the science behind seeing things that aren't really there. Across centuries, across cultures, there are people who have visions, waking dreams. Sometimes they're associated with sainthood, these days with dementia and brain damage. Now we have the scanning technology to observe the brain as it hallucinates. Geoff Watts meets researchers who are tracing such mysteries, hoping they will lead to new insights into psychosis and schizophrenia. Kylie at 25 In the concluding part of this conversation with Paul Gambaccini she reveals some landmarks on the way to becoming a legend. Just before comes Tittle Tattle (Radio 2, 9.30pm), a banquet for fans of chat (whether real or parodic) as host Ben Tittle, three panellists and astrologer Russell Grant survey the world of gossip and the riches of the TV schedule. Hollywood on the Tiber (Radio 4, 11.30am) marks the 75th anniversary of Rome's famous film studios. Roman Holiday, Ben-Hur, War and Peace and La Dolce Vita were all shot there because it was cheaper than Hollywood and more fun, too, with flocks of stars like Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra hopping on and off planes at Rome airport, pausing only to smile for the cameras (yes, that's when the word paparazzi was born). It's also where Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton fell tempestuously in love while making the epic 1963 production of Cleopatra. But, as presenter-producer Mukti Jain Campion makes clear, Italy sorely needed the business. A few years before, Cinecittà had been so comprehensively ransacked by the departing Nazis that incoming Allied forces used its empty studio spaces as a refugee camp. Al Murray and Chris Ramsey Radio 2, 2.00pm All week this slot (usually Steve Wright territory) has been hosted by "star" presenter duos. Because the big Stand Up for Pudsey concert looms (when comedians and pop stars perform for charity). Murray seems to have moved into radio presentation in a big way (on Radios 4 and 5 Live) and not just as his comedy alter ego, the Pub Landlord. Expect live music, guests, their own choice of nonstop oldies and, of course, the chance to learn even more about this year's novelty fundraising events. Friday Night Is Music Night (Radio 2, 8.00pm) supports new talent as students from the Arts Educational School take the stage of the Mermaid Theatre to perform hits from shows, Oklahoma to The Producers. Backing the newcomers are the splendid BBC Concert Orchestra at their full strength, fronting the whole show is Michael Ball. If you fancy singing along to On the Street Where You Live or Springtime for Hitler here's the place for it. The Essay: Anglo-Saxon Portraits (Radio 3, 10.45pm) unfolds the story of the historic 1939 discovery at Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge in Suffolk, its mighty treasure trove including helmets that matched descriptions in Beowulf, its excavation carried out under the gathering shadow of the Second World War. Martin Carver of the University of York recreates the life, death and burial of a high king. The News Quiz (Radio 4, 6.30pm) beefs up its comedic ranks with peerless Daily Telegraph political sketch writer Michael Deacon. Click here for television highlights Click here for full television and radio listings Click here to follow Telegraph TV on Twitter