including at 12.30 pm Newsbeat with Frank Partridge
From 6.5 the new Top 30 album chart
'The top-selling album will sell more copies than the No. 1 single, so it's a very important and significant chart even though it doesn't change much from one week to another. It also makes interesting radio - I play only a selection from the 30 albums and I try to anticipate which tracks will be released as singles. While the singles chart reflects the dance scene the album chart is full of bands who never find success in the Top 40.'
including at 5.30 Newsbeat with Frank Partridge
with an appreciation of The Temptations
'Like the Drifters in the 50s, they kept changing lead singers. Their peak came when David Ruffin, the gravel-throated singer, and Eddie Kendricks the falsetto tenor, traded lead vocals to maximum effect. To have performed the original versions of "My girl","Ain't to proud to beg" and "I wish it would rain" and then with an almost totally new lineup to have performed "Papa was a rolling stone", shows their ability to adapt and survive. Though there is still a group called The Temptations their great days, which started in 1964 ended when Norman Whitfield stopped producing them'.