the Saturday Early Show Producer GEOFFREY HEWITT BBC Birmingham

presents Star Sounds
8.2 Racing Bulletin

Producer STUART HOBDAY

For Radio 4 aficionados - historical and biographical information at the drop of a reference book. For Radio 3 devotees - all your favourite golden classics.
For Radio 2 listeners - 20th-century nostalgia and permissible idiocy of the intellectual fringe. Producer GEOFF MULLIN

Roy Hudd laughs at the news with Chris Emmett Alison Steadman and the HUDDLINES BAND Written by ROB GRANT
DOUG NAYLOR , PETER HICKEY RICHARD QUICK.
JEREMY BROWNE. TREVOR MCCALLUM .JON CANTOR, CHARLIE ADAMS and others

see below

David Allan introduces the pick of new American records, plus listeners' favourites.
Producer RAY HARVEY

Chairman Shaw Taylor with Peter Clayton
Humphrey Lyttelton
George Melly. Ronnie Scott Special guest Kingsley Amis
Research and questions by ROY PELLETT
Producer RICHARD WILLCOX

the Radio Big Band conducted by BARRY FORGIE with Lee Gibson
Introduced by Sheila Tracy Producer ROBIN SEDGLEY

direct from the Town Hall, Birmingham, presents
Robert Mandell conducting the Melachrino Strings and Orchestra
The Music of Rodgers and Hammerstein With
CATHRYN JAMES
DAVID TIMPSON and the MELACHRINO CHORALE Introduced by Desmond Carrington
Producer DAVID WELSBY BBC Birmingham
8.40*-9.0* Interval
In P. G. Wodehouse's centenary year Teddy Johnson looks at the author's lyric writing.

Ultima Thule
The Finnish entry
A composition for jazz quintet and orchestra inspired by the nature, culture and history of Lapland.
EERO KOIVISTOINEN (Sax)
MARKKU JOHANSSON (trumpet)
VLADIMIR SHAFRANOV (piano)
PEKKA SARMANTO (bass) ESKO ROSNELL (drums) BBC RADIO ORCHESTRA
Composed and arranged by prize winner EERO KOIVISTOINEN conducted by ESKO I.INNAVALLI Producer
ERKKI MLEIITOLA (YLE)
Series editor LAWRIE MONK
11.2 Sports Desk

with Colin Berry
Producers DENYS JONES and BARBARA PAGE