Close menu

Programme Index

Discover 11,128,835 listings and 280,504 playable programmes from the BBC

Friday Night is Music Night

BBC Radio 2
on BBC Radio 2

direct from the Hexagon, Reading
Stanley Black conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra leader MARTIN LOVEDAY
Friday Night's Star Singers Maryetta Midgley and Vernon Midgley with the Stephen Hill Singers and featuring Martin Loveday and Cynthia Bowes (violins) Introduced by Robin Boyle This evening's programme includes a heady mixture of Italian opera, Viennese operetta, American musical, British traditional tunes and TV hit themes, all of which call for vocal pyrotechnics and orchestral dexterity.
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
8.20-8.40* Meet the Clavichord Peter Dickinson brings this most shy and retiring of instruments into the limelight and displays its versatility with music covering three centuries.

Contributors

Leader:
Martin Loveday
Singers:
Maryetta Midgley
Singers:
Vernon Midgley
Unknown:
Stephen Hill Singers
Unknown:
Martin Loveday
Violins:
Cynthia Bowes
Introduced By:
Robin Boyle
Producer:
David Rayvern Allen
Unknown:
Peter Dickinson
Source: Radio Times

BBC Radio 2

About BBC Radio 2

Radio 2: Amazing music. Played by an amazing line-up. The home of great music, entertainment and documentaries

Appears in

Suggest an Edit

We are trying to reflect the information printed in the Radio Times magazine.

  • Press the 'Suggest an Edit' button
  • Type in any changes to the title, synopsis or contributor information using the Radio Times Style Guide for reference.
  • Click the Submit Edits button.
    Your changes will be sent for verification and if accepted, will appear in due course More