Pick of the day

In November 1879, a young black man died of pneumonia in Leeds. He had apparently fallen asleep in an outbuilding on a cold night. His body was laid to rest in St George's Chapel in Windsor castle, and a plaque was erected. "I was a stranger," it read, "and ye took me in." The young man - surely the most illustrious ever to be killed by an outside toilet - was Prince Alamayou of Abyssinia. Peter Spafford tells his story in the Afternoon Play, I Was a Stranger (2.15pm, Radio 4). The ever-impressive Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Alamayou.

More sorry tales in the Woman's Hour Drama, After Happy Ever (10.45am, Radio 4). Lynn Ferguson imagines what really happened to five fairytale characters once their stories ended. Today, Rapunzel (Geraldine James) turns into a man-eating, child-abandoning dipso.

Doctor Who fans will be drooling with pleasure over plans for a new TV series, starring Christopher Eccleston. In the meantime, there's Jon Pertwee in Doctor Who: Paradise of Death (6pm, BBC7). The five-parter, by Barry Letts, was first broadcast in 1993. London has a new tourist attraction: Space World, a theme park filled with games, rides and alien monsters.

If that doesn't float your boat, there's what Auntie coyly describes as "another chance to hear" the Alan Clark Diaries (9am, BBC7). The reader is Michael Cochrane, voice of the Archers' Oliver Sterling. The story kicks off in the 1970s. Clark has moved into his stately home, and is trying to become an MP.