With the Dawn Patrol.
Including at 6.15 Pause for Thought with Mervyn Roberts.
And at 9.15 Pause for Thought with Judy Merry, who discusses society's treatment of its elders as part of Radio 2's Respect Your Elders campaign.
Talking to people in the news.
New country and Nashville news. EMAIL: [text removed]
Specialist in the latest folk, roots and acoustic-based sounds. Today the award-winning Gaelic-singing Scottish singer Julie Fowlis discusses her debt to the music of the Outer Hebrides, with special attention to "waulking songs" and "mouth music". EMAIL: [text removed]
6/6. Conductor and music commentator Charles Hazlewood explores links between classical and popular music. For this final programme in the current series, Hazlewood's special guest is folk singer June Tabor.
5/6 Another chance to hear Paul Sexton 's profile of Mississippi-born blues singer, songwriter and guitarist Robert Johnson , who died - probably from poisoning - in 1938, aged 27, unaware of the immeasurable impact his relatively few recordings would have on postwar Chicago blues, jazz, R&B and rock. Johnson influenced
Elmore James , Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf, and ultimately Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones,
Eric Clapton and their followers. This edition explores Johnson's appeal in the UK, with input from Eric Clapton , Ronnie Wood , Peter Green and many others.
His guest is musicologist and ex-Long Ryders singer Sid Griffin.
Including at 1.30am Pause for Thought with Sherry Ashworth.
3.30 as 1.30