With Captain Charles King.
The first of three programmes over the Easter weekend in which Paul Gambaccini presents the top 100 songs of the century.
(Gong for a song: See This Week, page 7)
Michael Feinstein celebrates composer Charles Strouse.
Introduced by Richard Baker from the Hippodrome,
Golders Green, London. Barry Wordsworth conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, with guest artists Yvonne Barclay , Harry Nicoll and guitarist Martin Kershaw. At 8.15, during the interval, Richard Baker introduces music on disc from the Boys of St Paul's Cathedral Choir.
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. 6: Oliver and Aggie travel to Switzerland posing as man and wife.
Roger Royle introduces a performance of this classic choral work from Coventry
Cathedral. The Huddersfield
Choral Society are joined by soloists John Mark Ainsley and Peter Sidhom , and the reader is Saskia Wickham.
Producer Philip Billson. Musical director Paul Leddington Wright Organist Rupert Jeffcoat
The Radio 2 Arts Programme.
The last of six programmes looking at some of the oldest songs in the world. With Rabbi YY Rubenstein and Bishop Michael Baughen. Producer John Forrest
At 2.30 Pause for Thought With Janey Lee Grace.
