Including at 6.15 Pause for Thought with Shazia Khan.

And at 9.15 Pause for Thought with Rabbi Pete Tobias.

British rockabilly guitarist Albert Lee discusses his latest album.
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Specialist in the latest folk, roots and acoustic-based sounds. Plus an interview with Manchester-based singer/songwriter Kirsty McGee , who airs tracks from her new album.

5/8. Reggae enthusiast Mark Lamarr presents choice examples of the Jamaican music genre.

4/4. Richard Carpenter profiles trumpeter, composer and producer Herb Alpert, who co-founded A&M Records and had huge success as frontman of breezy,
Latin-spiced instrumental septet the Tijuana Brass and, on one particular occasion, as a solo singer (This Guy's in Love with You).

This final edition looks at Alpert's 1979 comeback hit Rise, and his and Jerry Moss 's 1989 sale of A&M Records, whose roster of acts included Carole King , Carpenters, Stealers Wheel, Joan Armatrading, Captain and Tennille, Squeeze, Quincy Jones, Janet Jackson, Supertramp and, perhaps most famously, the Police. Plus a look at Alpert and Moss's post-A&M venture, Almo Sounds, and the former's interests as a painter and a Broadway producer. With input from Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss, Roger Hodgson (of Supertramp), Sergio Mendes, Sting, and Tijuana Brass trumpeter Bob Findlay. Producers Nick Low and Paul Welsh

With a live session from Glaswegian trio Cosmic Rough Riders.
Including at 1.30am Pause for Thought with Sara Saigol.

330 as 1.30