Including at 6.15 a special Pause for
Thought with TV personality Ben Fogle.

Including at 9.15 Pause for Thought with with Canon Roger Royle.

3/4. Desmond Carrington profiles historically significant entertainers from the worlds of cabaret, nightclub, revue and theatre. He continues with hugely successful Lancashire-born singer, comedian, banjolele player and film star
George Formby (1904-61), whose slightly risque songs were the musical equivalent of the era's saucy seaside postacards.

Richard Balcombe conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra with vocalists Patrizio Buanne and Anna Krantz and world whistling champion David Morris , recorded at LSO St Luke's in London.

1/4. To mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in Britain, actress Sophie Okonedo (Dirty Pretty Things, Hotel Rwanda) reads Ann Rinaidi's story of seven-year-old Senegalese Phillis Wheatley, whose literary abilities were nurtured by the wealthy Boston family she was sold to in 1761, Phillis's involuntary move to Boston and her owners' recognition of her talent.

The March issue of BBC History Magazine, out now, features a slavery abolition special

Frank Renton presents a studio session from the Kirkintilloch Band.

Arts show.

Including at 3.30 Pause for Thought with the Rev David McLachlan in Scotland.