with the Early Show
News, views and music, plus a review of the morning's newspapers.
Producer Colin Martin
with news, travel and music.
with Dr Pauline Webb.
Including at 10.00 Pick of the Hits.
talks to the people who make the news.
Ken Bruce and some star guests join Chris at the top of the BT Tower in London for this year's Hospital Radio Awards, which include R2's own Patient's Choice Award.
with two contestants on the general-knowledge
Accumulator Quiz and regular travel updates.
An evening of Answers
Please, as Martin sits in for
John Dunn.
Voice your views on what's in the news by phoning
[number removed] at the cost of a local call from anywhere in the UK.
LINES OPEN from 6.00pm
Producers Anne Freeman and Mark Hill
Barry Norman hosts the first of a new quiz series in which teams of celebrities compete to answer questions about crime fiction in books, TV, film and radio, and to solve mini-murder mysteries performed by the Clueless Wonders - David Timson and Joanna Brookes. This week, Dulcie Gray and Simon Brett pit their investigative wits against Francis Matthews and Frederick Forsyth.
A Ladbroke Radio production
In the early 40s, a dispute between American musicians, led by James Petrillo , and the record companies resulted in a two-year ban on recording, forcing vocalists like Frank Sinatra , Dick Haymes and Bing Crosby to make records without backing musicians. Bob Holness discusses the causes and effects of the ban and plays some of the remarkable a cappella discs made by singers as well as some records that exploited loopholes in the ban. A Robin Quinn production
Fourth of six programmes in which John Noakes explores the British love affair with the sea. This week, he is in Plymouth, on board one of the Royal Navy's latest frigates HMS Cornwall. The music draws on the military tradition, as well as sea songs from the days of sail. A Rewind production
Late-night listening with social topics, stars and human interest stories as related by the media and the public at large.
Including at 1.30
Pause for Thought with the Rev Frank Topping.
Including at 3.30
Pause for Thought
