Including at 6.15 Pause for Thought with Gilly Pawson.

And at 9.15 Pause for Thought with Rabbi YY Rubinstein.

Continuing his four-day UK tour, today at a listeners'home in Northern Ireland, where guest Ronan Keating performs live.

With The Music Goes Round.

With The Organist Entertains.

Mark Lamarr recalls the unusual life of singer, songwriter and actor Dean Reed. Sometimes dubbed the Red Elvis or the communist Johnny Cash, the teen idol-looking Reed was virtually unknown in his native America. But following moves to Chile, Argentina, Italy (where he starred in numerous spaghetti westerns) and ultimately East Germany, he became one of the Soviet bloc's biggest stars. Reed was found dead in an East Berlin lake in 1986, aged 47, most likely from a suicide.
Contributors include author Stefan Ernsting (Der Rote Elvis [The Red Elvis]), American defector Victor Grossman (who translated for Reed) and biographer Chuck Laszewski. Plus archive interviews with Dean Reed and Phil Everly.

4/4. Kris Kristofferson tells the story of hugely successful Texan singer/songwriter Willie Nelson , who has been referred to as "the hillbilly Dalai Lama". The story winds down with a look at Nelson's emergence as a global superstar, helped by Stardust - his 1978 hit LP of pop standards. Plus a look at his notorious tax troubles and, in 1985, both his formation of country supergroup the Highwaymen and his work for the Farm Aid charity.

Including at 1.30 Pause for Thought with Steve Benson.

3.30 as 1.30