With the Dawn Patrol.
Including at 6.15 Pause for Thought with Richard Syms.
Including at 9.15 Pause for Thought with Dr Pauline Webb.
New and classic music, plus the Big Quiz.
News, views, music, the Mystery Voice Competition, sport and regular travel updates.
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Bob Harris indulges his taste for quality country music and plays tracks stretching from archive classics to country's cutting edge.
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Classic blues from the archive and the best of the new releases.
Featuring a session from American bluesman Ben Andrews.
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George Melly takes a critical look at the life and art of six great 20th-century female vocalists. This final programme focuses on his heroine Bessie Smith, 'Empress of the Blues'.
Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis take a comic look at who has had a bad week and why. With Jon Culshaw, Emma Clarke and Mitch Benn. With special guest Bobby Davro.
(Repeated Saturday 1.30pm)
Boy George presents the first of an eight-part series about disco music, reflecting on the best dance tunes of the seventies and eighties. The first programme features Earth, Wind and Fire, Rose Royce, Labelle and the Jacksons.
Favourite sounds, guests and news.
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Including at 1.30 Pause for Thought.
Including at 3.30 Pause for Thought.