Radio 2's news-iest music show! A collection of wit, words and wigdom with interviews, features, reviews and comment.
with his mid-morning mix of melodic music, featuring your favourite Golden Moments.
plus today, your medical questions answered by Dr Mike Smith
including at 3.0 Prime Time - a touch of nostalgia
by the SDP/Liberal Alliance
Radio meets theatre as East meets West in the new musical Chess.
Tonight's programme comes direct from the Prince Edward Theatre. London where John talks to the company as it prepares for tonight's preview performance. Researcher SUZIE FRIEND Producer CAROLYN SMYTH including at 6.45 on MW only
Sport and Classified Results
The BBC Radio Orchestra leader MICHAEL TOMALIN guest conductor Pete Moore with star vocalist Vince Hill Also on hand to keep the music flowing - David Francis with his Sound of Strings.
Plus some classic album tracks. Producer GRAHAM BELCHERE
The second of a series of six musical conversations in which composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim talks to
Sheridan Morley about his career in the American musical theatre. A career which has included
Broadway classics West Side Story. Gypsy, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Company, A Little Night Music and Sweeney Todd , as well as lesser-known scores Anyone Can Whistle, Merrily We Roll Along and his latest
Sunday in the Park with George. Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN
9.55 Sports Desk
10.0 VHF/FM joins Radio 1
How well do you know the law? Chairman Shaw Taylor asks Iain Johnstone, June Whitfield and Christopher Biggins to give their verdicts on some tricky law cases.
With Shaun Prendergast, Anne Jameson, Andrew Branch
The antidote to panel games
Tim Brooke-Taylor, Willie Rushton, Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden challenge listeners to spot the deliberate mistake.
Chairman Humphrey Lyttelton
At the piano Colin Sell
Producer Paul Mayhew-Archer (First broadcast on Radio 4)
presents Round Midnight
12.0 VHF/FM rejoins Radio 2
presents Nightride
