Including at 6.15 Pause for Thought with the Rev Peter Baker.
Singer Joe Brown sits in for Brian Matthew with hits and LP cuts.
With a live set by Amy Winehouse. Go to [web address removed] for guest details
The Smith Lectures
5/5. The irreverent Professor
Arthur Smith this week lectures on Christmas cliches, with cynically seasonal archive contributions from Marcus Brigstocke , National Lampoon, Mitchell and Webb,
"Weird Al" Yankovic and others.
5/6. Rowland Rivron presents a music show of chat and peculiar comedy. Today's guests include singer/actress Toyah Willcox and Right Said Fred frontman Richard Fairbrass. Repeated from Thursday
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A pre-Christmas bash with live music from the Feeling and Orson.
With America's Greatest Hits.
A 50th-anniversary special in which Radio 2's resident rock 'n' roll enthusiast
Mark Lamarr rewinds to the afternoon of 4 December 1956, when legends Elvis Presley , Carl Perkins , Jerry Lee Lewis and, allegedly, Johnny Cash all convened at Sun studios in Memphis and together performed over 40 songs as part of an impromptu, once-in-a-lifetime jam session. Among the genres they covered were gospel, country, doo-wop, blues and pop. Lamarr celebrates the event to coincide with the reissue of those rock recordings. Contributors include rock journalists and historians
Peter Guralnick and Colin Escott.
Plus archive input from Jerry Lee Lewis , Johnny Cash ,
Carl Perkins and Sun Records owner and producer Sam Phillips. Producer Sue Clark
Including at 2.30 Pause for Thought with Rabbi Mordechai Wollenberg.
6.15 as 2.30
