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

including at 12.30 pm Newsbeat with Frank Partridge

including from 5.0-5.30 The Record Race
Beginning at 6.5, Peter reviews the new Top 30 album 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.
4: The Withdrawal - Feb 1975-Dec 1979
' But funnily enough at the end of the "Rock 'n' Roll" album and on a track called "Just because" which Phil Spector wanted me to sing - I didn't know it that well, you hear me saying "and so we say farewell from Record Plant West," and something flashed through my mind as I said it. "am I really saying farewell to the business?" And I looked at the cover which I'd chosen, which was a picture of me in Hamburg the first time we got there. And I thought, am I going ...is this some sort of cosmic thing?'

The full text of this interview, The Lennon Tapes. £1.95, available from booksellers