with the Saturday Show
with Sounds of the 60s
1.00pm Laughter USA A series of nine programmes featuring American comedians.
6: Bob Newhart
Bob Newhart , best known as the most nervous driving instructor of them all, talks about his comedy career, with clips from some of the masters of American humour.
A Rewind production
1.30 The News Huddlines
Join Roy Hudd ,
June Whitfield and Chris Emmett as the team take a sledgehammer to the week's news. With music from Peter Moss and the Huddliners. The announcer is Richard Clegg.
Repeated from Thursday
A Rewind production
with New Country
The best new country music straight from Nashville.
A Smooth Operations production
Suzi Quatro presents the story of the man who has been a powerful figure in the music business since the late fifties. Mickie Most started out as a performer but soon switched to production, creating a stream of hits for the Animals, Donovan, and Herman's Hermits. In the seventies he founded the RAK record label, and in the early eighties launched Kim Wilde 's singing career. Producer Paul Dodgson
From the King Biscuit
Rower Hour series made for American radio. This show, recorded in 1986, features the ex-lead singer with the Doobie Brothers performing some of his greatest hits, including
Takin' It to the Streets, Yah Mo B There, and Real Love.
Producer Richard Masters
Denis Norden introduces more orchestral favourites.
In the studio, another ITMA special arrangement. With the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Robin Stapleton.
Musical advisor David Ades
Rpt
A programme of music by the Strauss family recorded earlier this year at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, performed by the Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alfred Eschwe. Introduced by Peter Kemp , chairman of the Johann Strauss Society of Great Britain, who at
8.20, during the interval, illustrates the combined work of this Viennese family and measures the impact they had on the music world. Producer Richard Masters
with the Radio 2 Arts
Programme
Including at 1.30, 3.30 Pause for Thought With Dennis Bailey.
with the Sunday Show
Records, requests and the Spot the Song quiz.