The Saturday Show including at 7.45 Down to Earth with Alan Titchmarsh Producer DAVID BELLINGER BBC Pebble Mill

Producer ALAN OWEN

Twenty years ago, in the late spring of 1967, a record was issued which captured everyone's imagination and shot to the top of the charts.
The record was A Whiter Shade of Pale and its writer and singer was Gary Brooker of Procol
Harum. Today he looks back to that decade and plays tracks by BRUCE CHANNEL. THE SMALL FACES.
THE SHADOWS and BUZZ CLIFFORD.
Producer STUART HOBDAY BBC Bristol

with Peter Clayton
Producer SANDRA BLACK

starring Frankie Howerd with Susie Blake , Nick Maloney and Phil Nice

seepanel

Ray Alan
(by permission of Lord Charles) cordially invites you to join him in a programme of voices and noises starring:
Peter Goodwright
Dave Evans , Brian Coshall and Hilary O'Neil
Musical impressions by THE RONNIE PRICE TRIO
Compiled and produced by RICHARD WILLCOX (R)

The first 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 Sunday in the Park with George.
Producer DAVID RAYVERN ALLEN (R)

Bernie Clifton presents the touring general knowledge quiz from Broadcasting House, Edinburgh
Questions set by DAVID WILLIAMS Devised by DON DAVIS Producer ANDY ALIFFE

Special American guest conductor Skitch Henderson guides the BBC Radio Orchestra, leader MICHAEL TOMAUN , through a musical tribute to the New World, on Independence Day. Philip Martin is the soloist in Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Variations on I Got Rhythm. Plus the best of Richard Rodgers , Jerome Kern , Harold Arlen and John Philip Sousa and more Gershwin in the form of his Cuban Overture and An American in Paris
Presented by Gayle Hunnicutt Producer TIM MCDONALD
(Given at the Royal Festival Hall,
London in association with Raymond Gubbay Ltd) (R)
8.20-8.40* Interval
Mark Steyn suggests some patriotic alternatives to The Star-Spangled Banner

The Strings of the BBC Radio Orchestra leader MICHAEL TOMALIN
Guest conductor Roland Shaw Presented by Bill Rennells Producer MADELEINE CUMING

David Moorcroft , Steve Cram and Ingrid Kristiansen can all confirm that the Bislett Games in Oslo is a record-breaking meeting. They've all set world records in the Norwegian capital in recent years and this year's Grand Prix meeting at Bislett is bound to produce its share of headlines. Highlights from the evening's top races and the Dream Mile live at 10.15. Commentators IAN DARKE and BOB Phillips
Producer JOHN EVANS

direct from Ulverston, birthplace of Stan Laurel and home of the Laurel and Hardy Museum. Today sees hundreds of Stan and Ollie aficionados, or 'Sons of the Desert', to give them their official title, descend on this small town in the Lake
District to pay homage to their heroes. Martin Kelner joins in the celebrations culminating with the traditional custard pie fight.
Producer MARK RADCLIFFE BBC Manchester

with Dave Gelly
Producer BARBARA PAGE

presents Nightride Producers PAM cox ROGER BOWMAN and GRAHAM BELCHERE

Producer IAN GRANT

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