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

Producer ANTHONY CHERRY

From Radio Caroline DJ to TV chat-show host with 13 million viewers, Simon Dee was the personification of the swinging 60s. Today he remembers music of the time with records by RAY CHARLES. WAYNE FONTANA. LOVE AFFAIR and BOB DYLAN. Producer STUART HOBDAY BBC Bristol

Put your hands together please, ladies and gentlemen, and give a warm Radio 2 welcome to Miss Anne Robinson , who arrives today for a series of Saturday shows to brighten up your weekend. Cue applause! Producer GEOFF MULLIN

If music be the food of love, spend an amorous lunch-hour with Gerald, who serves up only the choicest cuts from your favourite records.
Producer ROGER BOWMAN
Write to: Gerald Harper , Radio 2. BBC. London WIA 4WW

... looks at how radio works. Plus Martin Brown meets special guest John Peel to ask him what it's like being Emma's brother.
With Prof Laurie Daptor (HELEN ATKINSON WOOD) Prof Laurie Channel
(ANGUS DEAYTON )
Prof Laurie Brown
(MICHAEL FENTON-STEVENS) Prof Laurie Flex
(GEOFFREY PERKINS )
Prof Pry Laurie Nigel (PHILIP POPE)
Material reviewed by GEOFFREY PERKINS and ANGUS DEAYTON with additional material by MICHAEL FENTON-STEVENS Music by STEVE BROWN and PHILIP POPE
Producer DAVID TYLER
(First broadcast on Radio 4)

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Introduced by Peter Jones

40th Anniversary of Sports Report

Saturday 3 January 1948: 5.30pm ANNOUNCER: This is the BBC Light Programme. Sports Report. (Music: Hubert Bath's Out of the Blue). Here is Raymond Glendenning to introduce a new Saturday feature for sportsmen. GLENDENNING: Hello there, sports fans, and welcome to Sports Report. Thus were the foundations laid for 40 years of sports broadcasting covering events the world over. Memories of those early pioneering days, favourite gaffs and a look into the future feature as part of today's celebrations. Plus coverage of all today's sport:
Football: Barclays League LIVERPOOL travel to DERBY while EVERTON entertain NOTTINGHAM FOREST, ARSENAL play QUEEN'S PARK RANGERS and CHELSEA take on TOTTENHAM. In Scotland just 60,000 are expected to watch CELTIC play RANGERS! Reports and second-half commentary.
Racing: from Newbury 1.30 E8,000 The Bradstone Mandarin Handicap Steeplechase (3m 2f) 2.00 E6,000 The L'Oreal Handicap Steeplechase (2m) Commentator PETER BROMLEY Plus Rugby Union news from the trials at Twickenham and Murrayfield.
5.00 Sports Report The classified football results read by JAMES ALEXANDER GORDON The sports news from today and a nostalgic trip back to 1948 for the stories of 40 years ago. Producer ROB HASTIE Editors MIKE LEWIS andDEREK MITCHELL

A two-part digest of the recent Radio 2 series in which
Norman Wisdom reminisces with Michael Pointon and a studio audience. 1: The Joker
Researcher MICHAEL POINTON Producer EDWARD TAYLOR (R)

Dave Dee , assisted by his
AMI 200 juke-box, presents a programme of 50s American music, from doo-wop and the birth of rock 'n' roll to the start of the 'teen' culture with Frankie Avalon. Sit back and share the nickle-and-dime selection while Dave hits the button! Producer CAROLYN SMYTH

with Keith Fordyce Devised by DON DAVIS Producer ANDY WILSON
If you would like to take part, send a card with your name, address, daytime telephone number and a few words about yourself to: Beat the Record. Radio 2. BBC. London WIA 4WW

Music by Borodin, Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev, among others, features in a Gala Concert, recorded at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth. BBC Concert Orchestra led by MARTIN LOVEDAY conducted by Ashley Lawrence Yitkin Seow is the soloist in Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2 in c minor
Presented by Angela Rippon Producer TIM MCDONALD
(Given in association with Heybrook Hi-Fi Ltd. Estover, Plymouth) including 8.20-8.40* Elizabethan Love Music from
Wynford Evans (tenor) with James Tyler (lute) and Peter Vel (viola da gamba) Producer JOHN LANGRIDGE

The Strings of the BBC Radio Orchestra led by MICHAEL TOMALIN are this week joined by guest conductor John Fox for a musical start to the New Year. Presented by Bill Rennells Producer MADELEINE CUMING

'It's getting more and more absurd.'
Producer NICK CLARKE BBC Manchester

with Dave Gelly
Producer BARBARA PAGE

presents Nightride Producers MEL HOUSE and GRAHAM BELCHERE

Producer IAN GRANT

The Early Show