with Kanwaljit Singh.
with Dr Pauline Webb.
At 7.00 the marathon phone-in comes to an end, and John announces the grand total raised for the appeal by Radio 2 as he hands over to Terry Wogan on BBC1.
In this six-part series Derek Jameson tells the stories of the great composers through the eyes of a newspaper editor of today. Love, lies, scandals and shambles.
1: Tchaikovsky
Producer Bridget Apps
from the Hippodrome,
Golders Green, London.
Barry Wordsworth conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Friday Night's Star Singers are Susan Bullock and Kenneth Collins , with the Serenata Voices directed by David Beavan. Introduced by Robin Boyle. Producer Alan Boyd
Featuring xylophonist Syd Wright. One of Syd's earliest stage appearances was as Sammy Fincklefeffer in Issy Bonn's legendary Fincklefeffer family.
It is as a xylophonist, though, that he is best known, and as he says himself, "I am very proud to say I've been in the business over 50 years and I'm still not old enough to draw my old-age pension." A 50:50 production
Roy Newsome presents the Britannia Building Society
Band, conducted by Howard Snell , and a session from the British Tuba Quartet.
presents the Radio 2 Arts Programme
A special Thanksgiving edition from the American airbase at Alconbury in Cambridgeshire. The US Air Force has been in East
Anglia since 1942 but now only a handful of bases remain. The cultural inheritance of this 50-year "occupation" is the theme of tonight's programme. Music comes from RAF
Alconbury's own Gospel Choir, and the nine-piece jazz group Red, Hot and Blue and local country singer Pete Sayer.
A Boom Media production
with Jazz Notes
Including Jerry Senfluk and His Capital Swing, plus the BBC Big Band.
with Night Ride
Including at 1.30,3.30 Pause for Thought with Alan Sykes.
with her choice of music.
A Unique Broadcasting production