At 6.15 Pause for Thought with Jonathan Romain.

At 9.15 Pause for Thought with Captain Charles King.

With The Times education correspondent John O'Leary , who looks at issues facing A- and AS-level students.

Careers advisor
Kathleen Houston looks at the options open to A-level students.
From 3.45pm she will respond to questions regarding exam results as part of a live web chat, and can be reached at www. bbc.co. uk/radio2.

Featuring Scottish blues band the Nimmo Brothers.

With Sounds of the Seventies.

From the Edinburgh Festival. Repeated Saturday 1.30pm

Suggs presents a seven-part series devoted to ska, the Jamaican music which came into its own around the time the island won independence in 1962. This first part hears classics from Prince Buster, the Skatalites and Duke Reid.
Producer Czarina Dean

And at 1.30 Pause for
Thought with Tony Jasper.

And at 3.30 Pause for
Thought with Tony Jasper.