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Desmond Carrington with Radio 2 All-Time
Greats
Your favourite tunes and performances on record. Producer Roy Oakshott
2.00pm Benny Green
A weekly celebration of the art of the songwriter. Producer Ray Harvey
3.00pm Alan Dell with Sounds Easy
Producer Ray Harvey
4.00pm
Many Happy Returns St Cecilia
Steve Race presents a special programme in deference to the patron saint of music, St Cecilia, on her feast day.
Featuring music written in her honour, by composers from Handel and Purcell to
Britten; music from people bom on her feast day, like Hoagy Carmichael ; and songs written for or named after her, sung by performers including
Simon and Garfunkel and Bing Crosby.
Producer Maura Clarke
5.00pm Charlie Chester with your
Sunday Soapbox Producer David Welsby •WRITE to:
Charlie Chester. BBC Pebble Mill, Birmingham B5 7QQ

Contributors

Unknown:
Desmond Carrington
Producer:
Roy Oakshott
Unknown:
Benny Green
Producer:
Ray Harvey
Producer:
Ray Harvey
Unknown:
St Cecilia
Unknown:
Hoagy Carmichael
Unknown:
Bing Crosby.
Producer:
Maura Clarke
Unknown:
Charlie Chester
Producer:
David Welsby
Unknown:
Charlie Chester.

Roger Royle joins the congregation of Jordanhill Parish Church in Glasgow to sing some favourite hymns, including
0 Send Thy Light Forth; Holy Spirit, Hear Us;
Guide Me, 0 Thou Great Jehovah; Like a Mighty River Flowing;
God of Creation; All Things Bright and Beautiful; The Duteous Day Now Closeth; and Thine Be the Glory. Musical director and organist Alan Tavener. Producer Johnston McKay

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Royle
Organist:
Alan Tavener.
Producer:
Johnston McKay

Musical Peaks
What is it really like to be a musical prodigy?
Ruth Leon talks to the world's top music students, their teachers and their role models - the great musicians - at the Aspen Music Festival, high in the Rocky
Mountains in Colorado.
Producer Madeleine Cuming

Contributors

Talks:
Ruth Leon
Producer:
Madeleine Cuming

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