with the Early Show

Laurie Rosenberg has a picnic for Lag B'Omer.

with news, travel, weather and some more of the greatest hits of all time.

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 and regular travel updates.

including the Mystery Voice competition.

Chris Stuart tests your knowledge of films, with cash prizes and a chance to win a one-year cinema pass. John Huntley fills in halfway with his intermission talk.

from the Guild Hall,
Preston. lain Sutherland conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, led by Martin Loveday. The Friday Night Singers are Marilyn Hill Smith , Mary Carewe , Vernon Midgley and Geoffrey Davidson , with Phillip Dyson (piano) and the combined voices of Preston Cecilian Choral
Society and Preston
Orpheus Choir. Introduced by Robin Boyle. At 8.20-8.40
Peter Kemp reflects on the British activities of some of tonight's non-British composers.
Producer Alan Boyd

Roy Newsome presents the DUT Yorkshire Imperial Band conducted by Geoffrey Whitham and another session from the brass sextet, Principals.

with the Radio 2 Arts Programme

John presents a review of the arts scene in the Midlands including Gounod's Faust in a new production by the award-winning City of Birmingham Touring Opera, Ibsen's Peer Gynt and Shakespeare's Henry V by the RSC at Stratford and Reet Petite, the Jackie Wilson story, at Leicester's Haymarket Theatre.

with Jazz Notes

with Night Ride
Including at 1.30, 3.30 Pause for Thought with Rev Margaret Cundiff.

A Spearhead production