Including at 6.15 a special Pause for Thought with singer Chris de Burgh.

Including at 9.15 Pause for Thought with Rabbi Pete Tobias.

Craig Charles celebrates the heyday of Liverpool's Mardi Gras club, which in the 1960s played host to high-calibre black performers such as Ben E King, Al Green , Arthur Conley , Clyde McPhatter and the Chants, and aspiring locals such as the Vocal Perfection (later the Real Thing). The club became the music mecca for a postwar generation of white and black lovers of the Stax sound.
Recalling the glory days of the Mardi Gras are singer
Geno Washington , Eddie and Chris Amoo (of the Real Thing), trumpeter Kenny Ball , journalist
Paul Du Noyer and Tamla Nights comperes Billy Butler and Chris Wharton. Producer James Crawford

2/5. Songwriter, producer and Robbie Williams collaborator Guy Chambers presents a detailed guide to the many aspects of the "simple" three-minute pop song, aided by British and American songwriters, musicians, managers and historians. This instalment begins the exploration of a song's constituent parts, specifically the intro and the first minute. Versed contributors include singer/ songwriters Dave McCabe (of the Zutons) and Beverley Knight , songwriter Desmond Child (Livin' la Vida Loca, Poison, Livin' on a Prayer), managers Louis Walsh
(Westlife, Girls Aloud) and Simon Napier-Bell (the Yardbirds, Wham!).

Featuring a live session from Super Furry Animal singer Gruff Rhys. Including at 1.30 Pause for Thought with Juli Wills

3.30 as 1.30.