And at 6.15 Pause for Thought with Gareth Higgins in Northern Ireland.
Brian Matthew with hits and B-sides.
Guests include the Pet Shop Boys in a show kicking off a weekend of programmes to launch the Radio 2 Music Club, in which listeners use the Radio 2 website to share and explore their musical passions. See Per Shop Soys - Sold on Song at 9pm
The Day the Music Died
New series 1/8. Return of the satirical series targeting aspects of the music industry. Presented by Andrew Collins. Producer Will Saunders
1.30 It's Been a Bad Week
1/5. Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis return with further absurd antics.
Repeated from Thursday
Highlights from previously aired exclusive Radio 2 gigs as part of the launch of the Radio 2 Music Club.
(Stuart Maconie on Bergerac, plus DVD offer: page 38)
With Massive Attack in session.
Stuart Maconie presents a full-blown concert featuring the Pet Shop Boys
(Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe), recorded on 8 May at London's Mermaid
Theatre. Exploiting the orchestral layerings of their melancholic synth-pop sound, Britain's premier chart duo perform alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Nick Ingman, and a troupe of music luminaries, including studio masters Anne Dudley and Trevor Horn, who has produced their latest album. Rufus Wainwright and Robbie Williams perform a Pet Shop Boys song each, and Tennant and Lowe discuss their craft, which has given the canon West End Girls, It's a Sin, What Have I Done to Deserve This?, Rent, Heart, Being Boring and dozens of other gems.
With guest Danny McNamara (of Embrace). And at 2.30 Pause for Thought with Gareth Higgins in Northern Ireland.
6.15 as 2.30
