with The Saturday Show

with Sounds of the 60s

with Sounds of the 50s

Lorraine Craig with the BBC Big Band conducted by Barry Forgie , with Angela Christian. On record, Howard Keel.

In the last of the series, Malcolm Laycock recalls the achievements of Britain's greatest swing band leade(with the help of some of his musicians. An Encore Radio production

News, reviews and expert analysis, presented by Chris Stuart.

with New Country
The latest country releases. A Smooth Operations production

Recorded at the Playhouse Theatre, Edinburgh. Songs include Bunch of Thyme, Maggie, and Old Rowers. Presented by John Sachs.

David Mellor continues his musical grand tour and reaches Spain.
Producer Bridget Apps

A Radio 2 gala concert recorded at the De
Montfort Hall, Leicester.
The BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes, led by Martin Loveday , and the Leicester Philharmonic Choir perform works by Borodin, Khachaturian and Tchaikovsky and offer a rare opportunity to hear
Musorgsky's Night on the Bare Mountain as it was conceived for the opera Sorochintsy Fair.
Sherban Lupu is the soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto in D.
Presented by Rula Lenska . Including at 8.204.40
Capital Clarinets present music in the Russian vein.
Introduced by Jack Brymer. Producer Tim McDonald
(In association with De Montfort Hall, Leicester)

presents Easy Does It The second of two programmes recorded at the Floral Pavilion Theatre, New Brighton. Featuring the BBC Big Band conducted by Barry Forgie , with singer Jeff Hooper. (In association with Royal Mail)

with Sheridan Morley.
Including a look forward to National Music Day, eavesdropping on several events at the Barbican.

Sounds of the 50s

with Night Ride including at 1.30, 3.30 Pause for Thought with Rev David Runcorn.