with the Dawn Patrol
With the Rt Rev
Nigel McCulloch , Bishop of Wakefield.
With Rabbi Lionel Blue.
with the Pick of the Hits
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Including legal questions answered by Keith Richards.
Early-afternoon entertainment.
Including the final of the Accumulator Quiz and regular travel updates.
Petula Clark presents the fourth of six programmes celebrating the golden age of the British film musical. Today she remembers some more leading ladies of the silver screen - Gertrude Lawrence , Mary Ellis and Gracie Fields.
Introduced by Robin Boyle from the Hippodrome, Golders Green, London. Kenneth
Alwyn conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, led by Martin Loveday , with guest singers Maryetta Midgley and Vernon Midgley , pianist
William Davies , and Serenata
Voices directed by David Beavan. At 8.15, during the interval, Robin Boyle plays some well-loved gospel songs. Producer Alan Boyd
John le Carre begins a ten-part reading of his latest book. 1: It was a perfectly ordinary Friday afternoon in Panama until Andrew Osnard barged into Harry Pendel 's shop asking to be measured for a suit.
Producer David Blount
In the second of three programmes dedicated to
Scottish brass bands,
Frank Renton introduces the Newtongrange Silver Band.
with the Radio 2 Arts Programme
Including at 2.30
Pause for Thought With Robert Rietti.