With Akram Khan-Cheema .
Star guests and great music.
American entertainer and archivist Michael Feinstein returns with an eight-part series featuring some of the great songwriters, including exclusive airings of specially recorded songs. The first programme features the songwriting duo
Jay Livingstone and Ray Evans. In a rare interview, they talk about their long, illustrious and varied career.
Producers Adrian Edwards and Mark Rowles
Introduced by Richard Baker from the Hippodrome,
Golders Green, London. Barry Wordsworth conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, with guest artists Marilyn Hill Smith , Alan Opie and Graham Dalby and the Grahamophones. At
8.15, during the interval, Richard Baker introduces music on disc from saxophonist Branford Marsalis. Producer Alan Boyd
Two new collections of Friday Night Is Music Night are available now on CD and cassette
John le Carre continues an eight-part reading of his new novel.
Oliver discovers the real source of his father's massive profits.
Frank Renton reviews a recent
CD collection of the best music from Listen to the Band. Four new Listen to the Band releases are available now on CD and cassette
With Easy Does It.
The Radio 2 Arts Programme.
A fresh look at some of the oldest songs in the world.
Including at 2.30am Pause for Thought
With Janey Lee Grace.
