with the Saturday Show
with Sounds of the 60s
A Rewind production
The Laughter Front
Robin Boyle looks back at some of the programmes that entertained both HM
Forces and those on the home front during the Second World War. Including comedy from ITMA,
Garrison Theatre, Hi, Gang!, Merry-Go-Round and Music Hall, and musical contributions from George Formby , Norman Long and the Western Brothers.
Producer Richard Edis
with Sounds of the 50s
On 28 May 1984, Eric Morecambe died. Ten years on, Glenda Jackson pays tribute to this great comic and his work with Ernie Wise. With Joan and Gary Morecambe, Eddie Braben, Bill Cotton, Bryan Forbes, Penelope Keith, Nanette Newman, Des O'Connor and Harry Secombe.
A Boom production
with New Country
A Smooth Operations production
Chris Barber 's Jazz Band celebrates 40 years with an anniversary concert featuring original band members, the Lonnie
Donegan Skiffle Group and the current band line-up. Producer Sonia Beldom
Presented by Chris Stuart.
As the 50th anniversary of D-Day approaches, Radio 2 presents a special concert commemorating not only 6 June 1944 but also nearly five years of hardship, heartbreak and, at last, the victories. Raymond Baxter introduces the concert at the Guildhall in Portsmouth.
It features the BBC Concert
Orchestra, the Band of Her
Majesty's Royal Marines School of Music (Principal Director of Music Lt Col
John Ware OBE), the Ambrosian Singers (chorus-master John McCarthy) and guests Joan Savage , Mary Law and Gordon Langford. The programme is devised and conducted by Kenneth Alwyn.
At 8.20-8.40 Interval
Producer Tim McDonald
(Given in association with Music Nights Unlimited)
presents Easy Does It
with the Radio 2 Arts Programme
with Sounds of the 50s
with Night Ride
Including at 1.30, 3.30 Pause for Thought with Rev Stephen Oliver.
with the Sunday Show
