9.15 Pause for Thought with Angela Wood.
This RAF base on Cyprus has around 3,000 service personnel living in the "village". Ken Bruce samples base life and offers an opportunity for staff to send messages home and residents to have a bit of home life brought to them as BFBS relays the show around the island.
This is a strike-attack base on the north German/Dutch border. Among Jimmy Young's guests there: the Commanding Officer for the RAF in Germany, Bruggen's Station Commander, a Tornado pilot, and representatives of the local German and Dutch communities. The programme is being simultaneously broadcast on BFBS in Germany, and comment lines will be open as usual.
The base on the Moray Firth opened in 1939 as a training unit and sent the famous "Dambusters" 617 Squadron off on a successful attack on the German battleship Tirpitz in 1944. Now the size of a small town, with a population of 21,000, Lossiemouth is also a training unit for the Jaguars search and rescue operation.
Returning to the Falklands ten years on from his last visit, Ed Stewart talks to the RAF men and women, and the islanders, about how things have changed and how life is today on these remote SouthAtlantic islands.
Now the single point of entry to the RAF for all officers, Cranwell in Lincolnshire is essentially a training station. John Dunn learns about the instruction recruits receive, and what life is like in today's air force. He also looks back over Cranwell's history, which has included everything from ascents in gas balloons to Britain's first ever jet flight.
Live from the Royal Festival Hall, London. As a climax to RAF Day - the Central Band of the Royal Air Force, the RAF Squadronaires, the BBC Concert Orchestra, with Joan Savage, Mary Carewe, Michael Dore, the Stephen Hill Singers and the Thames Valley Male Chorus.
Conducted by Wg Cdr H.B. Higley, Stanley Black and Flt Lt Stuart Stirling. Introduced by Raymond Baxter.
(In assoc with the International Air Tattoo and Marshall Aerospace)