featuring events, birthdays and anniversaries on this day through the years.

Beginning at 12.45 Dave gives a rundown on this week's Top 40 discs including at 12.30 pm Newsbeat with Frank Partridge

starts off his show with a Top Three Memory Jogger plus Fun at Three and two golden oldies in today's Firm Offer.

including from 5.0-5.30 The Record Race and beginning at 6.5 Peter reviews the new Top 40 singles chart including at 5.30 Newsbeat with Frank Partridge

1940-80
A five-part tribute based on a conversation between John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Andy Peebles recorded in New York on 6 December last year - two days before John Lennon's tragic death. 2:
late 1969-late 1971
' I was talking to Yoko about the Cavern today, because there was two girls standing outside our apartment today, and they'd been standing off and on for the last five years, right through the so-called hiatus, you know, when I wasn't ... I was supposed to be buried alive, like Howard Hughes ! I'd talk to them, you know. and say, " Hi. I saw you running across the park ", and all that.'
The full text of this interview. The Lennon Tapes. £ 1.95, available from booksellers