With the Dawn Patrol, including at 6.15 Pause for Thought with Nick Baines.
Including at 9.15 Pause for Thought with Father Oliver McTernan.
The best morning entertainment, including the Pop Master quiz and the Headline Hunt.
Talking to the people who make the news.
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New and classic music, plus the Big Quiz.
News, views, music, the Mystery Voice Competition, sport and regular travel updates.
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This week's programme is devoted to listeners' blues requests.
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In the first of his new series, George Melly takes a critical look at the life and art of six great 20th-century female vocalists. This first programme focuses on the mother of the blues Ma Rainey.
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis take a comic look at who has had a bad week and why.
(Repeated Saturday 1.30pm)
Rick Parfitt explores five decades of the electric guitar and its defining role in pop music. This final programme discovers how the advent of Britpop in the nineties gave a boost to the instrument, and how the continued popularity of the blues set the seal on 50 years of the electric guitar.
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Including at 1.30 Pause for Thought with Fidelma Meehan.
Including at 3.30 Pause for Thought with Fidelma Meehan.
