with the Early Show standing in for
Sarah Kennedy today, with news, views and music, plus a review of the newspapers.
Umar Hegedus with more contemplations for Ramadan.
with Father Brian D'Arcy.
with dedications and requests, including at
10.00 Pick of the Hits
talks to the people who make the news. Plus today: your legal questions answered.
prepares for the weekend with music from 40 years of No 1 hits and at 2.30 the star guest interview.
with the final of the Accumulator Quiz.
Last of the series in which
Mark Steyn finds out just how much team captains Dick Vosburgh and Denise Coffey and their guests Marti Webb and Dave Willetts
know about the world of musicals.
Producer Carol Smith
from the Fairfield
Hall, Croydon.
Robin Stapleton conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, led by Martin Loveday. The Friday Night Star Singers are Vivian Tierney , Beverley Humphreys , Bonaventura Bottone and John
Cashmore, with the Ambrosian Singers directed by John McCarthy.
Introduced by Robin Boyle. At 8.20-8.40 Leonard
Pearcey introduces Yuri Zhislin (violin), Radio 2's Young Musician 1993. Producer Alan Boyd
(In association with Fairfield. Croydon)
Roy Newsome presents Brass Band
Berner Oberland , current champion band of Switzerland, conducted by James Gouday.
Alan Titchmarsh in Birmingham looks at the fourth year of Simon Rattle 's Towards the Millennium festival, which has reached the 30s. Included in the offerings are Birmingham
Rep's production of Awake and Sing, and an exhibition of Bournville artist Frank Lockwood.
Plus, Nottingham Playhouse's new production of Shaw's Pygmalion, starring Christopher Timothy and Josie Lawrence , and Hedda Gabler at the Leicester Haymarket. Producer David Corser
with Jazz Notes
Studio sessions from the BBC Big Band and Martin Litton's Red Hot Peppers.
with Night Ride
Including at 1.30, 3.30 Pause for Thought with Rev Anne Easter.