Including at 6.15 a special live
Pause for Thought with Nick Baines.
Sits in for Terry Wogan today. And at 9.15 Pause for Thought with the Rev Roger Royle.
Sitting in for Johnnie Walker.
2/4. A profile of Motown giants the Four Tops, who - alongside the Supremes - perfected soulful pop melodramas with huge chart success. Gems include 60s classics I Can't Help Myself, Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over), Reach Out I'll Be There, Standing in the Shadows of Love, Bernadette and 7 Rooms of Gloom, plus dozens of other hits across three decades.
This instalment recalls their 1964 breakthough, when they scored big with Baby I Need Your Loving - the first of many classics written for them by Eddie Holland, Lamont Dozier and Brian Holland.
Paul Gambaccini presents.
Barry Wordsworth conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra with soprano Jacqueline Fugelle , tenor Richard Coxon and cor anglais player Victoria Walpole , recorded at LSO St Luke's in London.
Presented by Brian Kay.
Actor Sean Penn reads an abridged version of Bob Dylan 's 2004 autobiography.
4/8. Dylan finds inspiration in Woody Guthrie , Ramblin' Jack Elliott and Joan Baez.
Abridged by Clive Stanhope
Frank Renton presents a session by the Fairey Band, conducted by Major Peter Parkes.
Fiona Bruce sits in for
Mariella Frostrup with the current arts.
Go to www.radiotimes.com for guest details
At 2.30am Pause for Thought with the Rev Blair Robertson in Scotland.
