With the Dawn Patrol.
Including at 6.15 a special live Pause for Thought with Roshan Doug.
And at 9.15 Pause for Thought with the Rev Roger Royle.
Including Tracks of My Years, in which songwriter Burt Bacharach picks two final favourite records.
4/4. A profile of the Four Tops, whose 60s classics include I Can't Help Myself, Shake Me, Wake Me (When It's Over), Reach Out I'll Be There, Bernadette and 7 Rooms of Gloom. The story winds down with the quartet leaving Motown, enjoying sporadic success throughout the 70s and 80s and even returning to Motown, their legendary status intact.
Gavin Sutherland conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, with guest vocalists Jeni Bern and Loren Geeting , and pianist
James Pearson , recorded at the Pentland Theatre in London.
Presented by Brian Kay.
Actor Sean Penn reads an abridged version of Bob Dylan 's 2004 autobiography.
6/8. 1968. Dylan has a motor-bike accident and his wife gives birth. But he shies away from his public persona as the conscience of America with a radical change of image and direction, taking up painting and recording an album based on Chekhov short stories.
Abridged by Clive Stanhope
Frank Renton talks to conductor and arranger Ray Farr.
Fiona Bruce sits in for
Mariella Frostrup with the current arts.
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At 2.30am Pause for Thought with the Rev Allen Sleith in Northern Ireland.
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