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12.00
Desmond Carrington with Radio 2 All-Time Greats
Your favourite tunes and performances on record.
2.00pm Benny Green
3.00 David Jacobs with Sounds Easy
4.00 New series
Legends of Light Music In the first of a six-part series featuring recordings of the work of writers and arrangers who provided some of the best-loved music of the 30s, 40s and 50s, Denis Norden celebrates such outstanding orchestral craftsmen as George Melachrino ,
Clive Richardson and David Rose.
In the studio the BBC
Concert Orchestra, conducted by Robin Stapleton , re-creates for the first time in 50 years an ITMA special arrangement. Producer Roy Oakshott
4.30 Sing Something Simple with the Cliff Adams
Singers, accompanied by Jack Emblow.
5.00 Charlie Chester with Sunday Soapbox
During the programme, call [number removed].
6.30 Ronnie Hilton with Sounds of the 50s
Repeated next Sunday at 12.05am

Contributors

Unknown:
Desmond Carrington
Unknown:
David Jacobs
Unknown:
Denis Norden
Unknown:
George Melachrino
Unknown:
Clive Richardson
Unknown:
David Rose.
Conducted By:
Robin Stapleton
Producer:
Roy Oakshott
Singers:
Cliff Adams
Accompanied By:
Jack Emblow.
Accompanied By:
Chartie Chester
Unknown:
Ronnie Hilton

Roger Royle presents favourite hymns from
St George 's Methodist Church, Boscombe, Bournemouth.
Angel voices ever singing; Lord we have come at your own invitation; And can it be;
Fill Thou my life; 0 Lord my God; Thy hand 0 God has guided; Blessed assurance; May the mind of Christ my Saviour; To God be the glory. Organist George Horrell Producer Clair Jaquiss

Contributors

Unknown:
Roger Royle
Unknown:
St George
Organist:
George Horrell
Producer:
Clair Jaquiss

Radio 2 Arts Programme Some of our best-known poems have come down to us as song-settings, but what makes a poem
"settable"? What attracts composers to certain poems and not to others? Sean
Street investigates with the help of composers Michael Hurd , Trevor Hold and Douglas Coombes , singer-songwriter Michael Dawney and poet Brian Hinton. Producer Stella Hanson

Contributors

Unknown:
Michael Hurd
Singer:
Douglas Coombes
Songwriter:
Michael Dawney
Unknown:
Brian Hinton.
Producer:
Stella Hanson

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