with The Saturday Show

with Sounds of the 60s

Producers Anthony Cherry and Flick Roskrow

I Roy Hudd , June
I Whitfield and Chris Emmett poke fun at the news.

with Sounds of the 50s

Lorraine Craig and the BBC Big Band conducted by Allan Ganley , with Angela Christian. On record, Johnny Mathis.

Dave Gelly presents a profile of the American singer they call "the genius" - Mr Ray Charles. Producer Bridget Apps
SEE PREVIEW page 20

Presented by Chris Stuart. Producer Barry Uttlechild

with New Country
A Smooth Operations production

Part chat show. part variety show, with music from the BBC Big Band conducted by Max Harris , with Bellacappella.
Producer Richard Willcox

Moira Stuart presents the third of nine programmes celebrating black British and British-based musical entertainers who came to fame between the 1930s and 1950s.
This week: three musicians who helped transform British jazz in the late 30s and early wartime years: Leslie "Jiver" Hutchinson, Ken "Snakehips" Johnson, and Leslie Thompson.
Including memories from "Jiver"'s daughter Elaine Delmar, and a surviving member of Ken Johnson's West Indian Dance Orchestra, Joe Deniz.

A Ladbroke Radio production

lain Wallace introduces a concert of much-loved operatic arias from the Symphony Hall, Birmingham. Barry Wordsworth conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, led by Martin Loveday. With Wilhelmenia Fernandez
(soprano), Andrew Smith (baritone) and Pro Musica Chorus of London.
Including at 8.20 Stewart Collins looks at the lighter side of opera. Producer Alan Boyd

presents Easy Does It with the BBC Big Band conducted by Barry Forgie. with Angela Christian.

Sheridan Morley presents a weekly arts roundup.

with Nightride
Including at 1.30, 3.30 Pause for Thought with James Whitbourn.

with The Sunday Show REQUESTS to: Room 422, BBC Pebble Mill, Pebble Mill Road, Birmingham B5 7QQ