with the Saturday Show
with Sounds of the 60s
LPs, EPs, 45s and more.
A spicy mix of music, interviews and features.
A Rewind production
Topical debate, features and phone-ins on issues of the week.
Producer Julia Brooke
2:The Thin Controller
Starring Peter Davison and Michael Williams.
David Clare , the new
Oglethorpe Station Master, has got off to a bad start - falling through the cafe window, being shot at and attacked by a prize ferret - but things look likely to get a lot worse when he tries to sack Rocket.
Repeated from Thursday Written by Peter Morfoot
Pop music for the discerning listener.
with New Country
A Smooth Operations production
From the Green Room at
London's Cafe Royal, Gloria Hunniford presents new singers, bands and comics.
The first of a three-part series documenting the career of broadcaster, singer and country music historian Wally Whyton, discovers how he set about his early career as a singer with the Vipers skiffle group. Friends remember him as the leader of a group that among others boasted Tommy Steele, Hank Marvin and Jet Harris as sometime members. But the skiffle era was soon to pass.
The Frankie Howerd Show
Ken Bruce introduces the last of three repeats of the series. A giant skunk called King Pong and a seven foot fly loose in Huddersfield demand the expertise of Dr Francis Howerd. This send up of Doomwatch and Quatermass was recorded on 25 April, 1975.
Producer Barry Littlechild Rpt
Lord Attenborough presents a concert of film music with a festive touch.
George Fenton conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, the London Choral Society, and solo singers Catherine Bott and Nicola Emmanuel.
Much of Fenton's own music is featured, including extracts from 84 Charing Cross
Road and The Madness of King George. And special guest Alan Bennett chooses some favourite readings.
At 8.20, during the interval, A Yorkshireman at Christmas with Michael Hollingworth.
Producer Tim McDonald
with the Radio 2 Arts
Programme
Including at 1.30, 3.30 Pause for Thought With Tony Jasper.
with the Sunday Show
Records, requests and the Connection Quiz.
