including at 12.30 pin Newsbeat with Frank Partridge

from Northern Ireland Beginning at 6.5 Peter reviews the new Top 30 album chart and at 5.30 Newsbeat with Frank Partridge

Phil Spector. The seventh in a series of 18 programmes
Introduced by Andy Peebles
No other record producer has stamped his own style on productions in such a positive way as PHIL SPECTOR. Celebrated not only for his highly individual records but also for his eccentricity, he insisted on recording in mono at a time when stereo was regarded as the accepted standard. By the end of 1960 he had produced his first big hit, which was shortly followed by an increasing flow of hits from his own groups: The Crystals, Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans, and The
Ronettes. In the mid 60s he produced the highly-acclaimed' You've lost that loving feeling ' for the Righteous Brothers and Ike and Tina Turner 's ' River deep - mountain high '. There followed a lengthy association with John Lennon and George Harrison at which time Spector was Head of Artists and Repertoire for Apple Records.
His most recent success was in 1980 with an album for The Ramones - ' End of the century '. ( Broadcast Sun 7.0 pm)