With the Dawn Patrol.
Including at 6.15
Pause for Thought with Jeffrey Leader.
And at 9.15 Pause for
Thought with the Rev Ruth Scott.
David Jacobs presents a new six-part series devoted to the singer who established a singular musical persona in the fifties with classic ballads like Misty and Chances Are. The series looks at a career spanning several decades and offers interviews with Mathis, Burt Bacharach, Deniece Williams and Natalie Cole.
Choice
There are two excellent and very different plays on today. The second is a one-man tour de force. Forget Alf Garnett when Warren Mitchell dons The Seven White Masks of Scaramouche Jones (9.00pm R4). This picaresque adventure spirits our hero out of a Trinidad fish-shop, across the world and through the 20th century, meeting a young Karol Wojtyla, among others, on his way.
Earlier, Island of the Day Before Yesterday (2.15pm R4) is a dramatisation of one of Jane Stevenson's utterly brilliant stories of intricate and rebounding deception. Sorry, but you really must not miss it.
Meanwhile, in the smoochy corner, David Jacobs introduces a series about Johnny Mathis (7.00pm R2), whose first hit was in 1957... that was six years after Tony Benn first answered Any Questions (8.00pm R4). He celebrates this half-century by doing it again tonight - and talks to Andrew Duncan on p8. SG
Presented by John Dunn. Edward Warren conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, with guest performers Mary Hegarty and Wynne Evans and, on piano, organ and celesta, Roderick Elms and Alistair Young.
Richard Griffiths reads an eight-part adaptation of Victor Hugo 's classic novel. 4: As punishment for his attempted abduction of Esmerelda, Quasimodo is summoned to appear before the court. But solace arrives from an unexpected source.
Abridged by Peter Mackie
Frank Renton presents a session from the International Staff
Band of the Salvation
Army, conducted by Stephen Cobb.
Writer Michael Freedland continues his series on how the film capital responded to the war.
5: A look at the events leading up to the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings. With input from David Raksin , Larry Adler ,
Vincent Sherman , Artie Shaw , Sidney Sheldon and Betty Garrett.
With the Radio 2 Arts
Programme. Reviews, music and future events.
Includingat2.30
Pause for Thought with FrankTopping.
