Including at 6.15 Pause for Thought with the Rev Gillean Maclean.
Johnnie Walker sits in for Brian Matthew with hits and obscurities.
Sitting in for Jonathan Ross.
Teenage Kicks
1/6. As UK punk turns 30, Adrian Edmondson stars as as a disgracefully ageing punk rocker and divorcee who moves in with his kids, much to their annoyance. The sitcom co-stars Ben Elton as his best mate who has opted for a cosy life in the suburbs. Also featuring Spencer Brown, Kelly Adams and Jonathan Chan-Pensley, and a punk-era soundtrack.
Written by Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Smith. Producer Gareth Edwards
What Adrian Edmondson's watching: page 32
1.30 Lee Mack
1/6. Comedian Lee Mack with stand-up, sketches and a musical guest, former Spice Girl Melanie C.
(Repeated from Thursday)
Current tunes and hip oldies. DVD review: page 36
Featuring a live session from Mr Hudson and the Library.
With America's Greatest Hits.
Just two days before his 60th birthday, Radio 2 celebrates the phenomenal impact of David Bowie , whose style and pop and rock gravitas have illuminated the careers of scores of major artists. Bowie-influenced interviewees include Deborah Harry, Marc Almond, Boy George, Peter Hook, Brett Anderson, Jarvis Cocker, Guy Garvey, Moby, Ian McCulloch, Neil Hannon, Richard Hawley, Annie Lennox and Ricky Gervais. Plus archive input from John Lennon. Producer John Sugar
It seems like only yesterday that a flame-haired vision called David Bowie (above) appeared on Top of the Pops with his arm slung provocatively around the guitarist's shoulder and had my dad choking on his tea. But this week Bowie celebrates his 60th birthday. In this programme, introduced by Mark Radcliffe, the great and the good (including Deborah Harry, Boy George and Ricky Gervais) pay tribute to Bowie's (mostly) illustrious 40-year career. And never has the word tribute been more apt. Camping it up with Jagger for Live Aid and the debacle that was Tin Machine quickly forgiven, this is a warm and enthusiastic appreciation of rock's great chameleon in all his guises. His fearless decisions to change musical direction, his song-writing, and work as a producer for Lou Reed and Iggy Pop are being justly recognised as major contributions to popular music. (Tony Peters)
Music, chat and shenanigans.
New and classic sounds.
Including at 2.30 Pause for Thought with the Rev Gillean Maclean.
6.15 as 2.30