Including at 6.15 Pause for Thought with Suhayl Singh.
At 9.15 Pause for Thought with Nagaraja.
With The Music Goes Round.
With The Organist Entertains.
Actress and singer Bette Midler recalls singer/songwriter Laura Nyro , whose four LPs of the late 1960s never caught on with American record buyers like the big-hit cover versions of her songs - Stoned Soul Picnic (The 5th Dimension), Eli's Coming
(Three Dog Night), And When I Die (Blood, Sweat and Tears), Stoney End (Barbra Streisand ) and, most triumphantly, Wedding Bell Blues (The 5th Dimension). Nyro died of cancer in 1997, aged 49. Producer Dave Barber
1/2. Bruce Dickinson pays tribute to Mississippi-born, towering blues giant Howlin'
Wolf (Chester Arthur Burnett ),
30 years after his death. Wolf had a crucial role in shaping the Chicago blues sound that eventually proved crucial to the careers of the Rolling Stones, the Doors, Cream, Led Zeppelin and others. With input from
Bill Wyman , Jeff Beck , Hubert Sumlin , Bonnie Raitt , Dave Kelly ,
Chris Barber , Skip "Little Axe" McDonald, Marshall Chess (of Chess Records) and biographer Mark Hoffman.
Producer Viv Atkinson
Steve Harley with hits and LP cuts.
With guests Suzzy and Maggie (of folk-inspired trio the Roches).
Including at 1.30am Pause for Thought with Geetha Maheshwaran.
130 as 1.30