Including at 6.15 Pause for Thought with David Thomas.
Including at 9.15 Pause for Thought with Canon Roger Royle.
New series 1/3. Radio 2 celebrates the life and career of Hollywood actor/director
Sidney Poitier , whose late 50s/ early 60s rise to fame as an unprecedented black male lead with box-office clout coincided with the gains made by the American civil rights movement. Raised in the Bahamas and Nassau, the handsome and poised star acted in serious, socially concerned films, and began directing in the 70s. He remains best known for The
Defiant Ones (1958), Lillies of the Field (1963) - for which he won an Oscar - and the three big 1967 hits To Sir, with Love, In the Heat of the Night and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. Featuring an interview with Poitier, plus input from James Earl Jones , Denzel Washington ,
Patricia Routledge , Lulu and others. Producer Neil Rosser
Richard Balcombe conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in a concert celebrating yesterday's birthdays of both
Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Presented by Sarah Brightman.
3/4. Sophie Okonedo reads Ann Rinaldi 's story of the slave who became the first African-American woman to have poetry published. Abridged by Amanda Hancox
Frank Rentons presents the YBS Band, conducted by David King.
Arts show.
Including at 3.30 Pause for Thought.
