With the Dawn Patrol.
And at 6.15 Pause for
Thought with Paul Walker.
At 9.15 Pause for Thought with the Rev Murray Grant.
Talking to the people who make the news.
American singer and pianist Michael Feinstein presents a new nine-part series on both legendary and lesser-known songwriters. Today he looks at Jimmy McHugh , among whose many lyricists was the love of his life Dorothy Fields. Contributors include Peggy Lee, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters and June Christy.
Producer Mark Rowles
The man who made the music and the woman who wrote the words: Jimmy McHugh with lyricist Dorothy Fields
The Michael Feinstein Songbook 7.00pm R2
Michael Feinstein is the Michael Parkinson of Radio 2 music programmes: he has interviewed just about anyone worth knowing, living or dead, who has ever written a handful of decent songs. I dare say there are songwriting schools across America whose graduates are on Feinstein's waiting list. This is the start of the fifth series of Songbook and it is always good value, not least because it mixes big names from the past with big names from the present- this is by no means one of those down-memory-lane shows. The new series ranges from Irving Berlin to Carole Bayer Sager. Feinstein starts tonight with Jimmy McHugh, who wrote On the Sunny Side of the Street and I Can't Give You Anything but Love, among many other hits.
Robin Stapleton conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, with guest singers Ria Jones and Tony Jacobs , live from the BBC Hippodrome in London. The programme is presented by Ken Bruce.
The first in an eight-art adaptation of Anthony Hope 's classic novel, read byTimPigott-Smith.
With Frank Renton.
Tim Rice continues a series profiling theatre producer
Cameron Mackintosh , whose global hit shows include Cats, Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera and Miss Saigon.
With the Radio 2 Arts
Programme.
Including at 2.30 Pause for Thought with Judy Merry.
