If long summer days make you dream of romance then The Book On One (RTE Radio 1, 2.45 p.m., Monday to Friday) choice of Four Letters Of Love by Niall Williams will tickle your fancy. This openly romantic bestseller is about destiny and illuminates the power of love.
If all this love-stuff is too much and you're in or near Cork then Corkabout (RTE Radio Cork, noon, Monday to Friday) should be a tonic with Alan Shortt and his guest presenter, comedian Tom O'Connor.
MORE letters, this time of insight and wisdom and love of family, are featured in Women's Hour (BBC Radio 4, 10.45 p.m., Monday to Friday), with the second instalment of Speaking For Themselves, the personal letters of Winston and Clementine Churchill, which are broadcast for the next two weeks.
Robert Browning's poem, Home Thoughts From Abroad, which inspired Clifford T. Ward's song of the same name, prompted a new four-part series in The Lyric Concert slot (Lyric fm, 8 p.m., Monday). Oh To Be In England features the best compositions by English composers including Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir Charles Hubert Parry and Edward Elgar.
Thoughts of ageing are often postponed in the hope that the wheel of life may move more slowly when dismissed. But hope may be restored after listening to Margaret (Daisy) Phelan philosophising on her life and on the process of ageing in Soul Survival (RTE Radio 1, 9 p.m., Thursday). Daisy is 96 years old, a Freeman of the City of Kilkenny, and she talks about her unrelenting interest in everything around her - family, garden, bridge, golf and the fortunes of the black and amber.
In Serial: A.J. Ayer - A Philosopher's Life (BBC Radio 4, 9.45 a.m., FM only, Monday to Friday) Ben Rogers reads from his biography of one of the century's most influential philosophers who was also a provocative, fast-talking and controversial personality.