The Saturday Show
Producer DAVID BELLINGER BBC Birmingham
Producer KEN EVANS
Take a trip down memory lane with Keith Fordyce to a time when the most beautiful woman was Jean Shrimpton and the English football team won the World Cup. Producer SANDRA BLACK
with Peter Clayton
Producer CHRISTOPHER VEZEY
Presented by Ray Alan
see panel
Cyril Tawney introduces from the 1984 Whitby Folk Festival, Harry Boardman and The Alan Bell Band and from the 1984 EBU
Contemporary Folk Festival, T. Klieske from Belgium. Producer PETER PILBEAM BBC Manchester
(Repeated: see page 54, 3.0am)
Keith Fordyce tests your musical knowledge. Devised by DON DAVIS
Researcher BILL SULLIVAN Producer ANDY AUFFE
7.30 VHF/FM rejoins Radio 2
Direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London, on the occasion of the centenary of The Mikado, 27 former members of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company come together to commemorate this 'entirely new and original Japanese Opera' and other masterpieces that sprang from the inimitable collaboration of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan , including Trial by Jury, The Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe.
Featured soloists Lorraine Daniels , Patricia Leonard
Vivian Tierney , John Ayldon Alistair Donkin , Meston Reid Kenneth Sandford and special guest presenter John Reed
BBC Concert Orchestra led by ROY gillard conducted by Fraser Goulding Producer TIM MCDONALD
(Given in association with Raymond Gubbay Ltd)
8.20*-8.40* Interval
Peter Gammond examines the separate careers and talents of William Schwenck Gilbert and Arthur Seymour Sullivan. 0 HEAR THIS! page 27
BBC Big Band conducted by Barry Forgie
The programme includes
Bill Holman 's Porgy and Bess Suite with special guest
Kenny Wheeler and guest singer Norma Winstone
Introduced by Sheila Tracy Producer BARBARA PAGE
with music, memories, fun on the phones.
Too marvellous for words. Producer BRIAN STEPHENS
Introduced by Dave Gelly Producer BARBARA PAGE
presents Nightride Producers BEV PHILLIPS
RICHARD MASTERS and TONY WILLS
introduces Country Concert featuring Don Williams
Singer of the day TOMMY STEELE