Including at 6.15 Pause for Thought from Wales with the Rev Robert Atkins.
Brian Matthew with hits and B-sides.
Maroon 5 perform a live session.
Daydream Believers
Sci-fi comedy in which David Mitchell and Robert Webb star as tetchy novelist Ray and his flatmate Colin and, in a parallel space adventure concocted by Ray, as Baron Amstrad and his bothersome android companion Info. Producer Gareth Edwards
Space pilot: page 127
1.30 On the Blog
1/6. Caroline Quentin, Andy Taylor and Simon Greenall star in a satirical comedy about a 37-year-old blogger who, in this opening chapter, seeks true love online but ends up with a few nasty surprises. Repeated from Thursday
With guest Loudon Wainwright III. DVD review: page 42
With live sets from Kings of Leon and Scouting for Girls, and a phone chat with Fran Healy (of Travis).
With America's Greatest Hits
Radio 2 presents the story of 1950s American rockabilly and its re-emergence in the mid-70s as a European-based revival music genre, spearheaded by then-
Radio 1 specialist DJ Geoff Barker. The programme explores its enduring appeal and showcases obscure American gems never released in the UK. Contributors include Geoff Barker , original 50s rockabilly stars Mac Curtis , Sonny Burgess , Carl Mann and Ray Campi , producer/writer Stuart Colman , singer Shakin Stevens , Boz Boorer (of the Polecats), Bob Cotton (of the Jets), current rockabilly star Darrel Higham and former teddy boys. Producer Des Shaw
Manic chat.
A Joan Armatrading special.
including at 2.30 Pause for Thought with the Rev Robert Atkin from Wales.
6.15 as 2.30.
