Including at 6.15 Pause for Thought with Zia Chaudhry.
And at 9.15 Pause for Thought with Oliver McTernan.
Folk, roots and acoustic sounds.
New series 1/6. Conductor and music commentator
Charles Hazlewood returns to explore further links between classical and popular music - from Bach to Björk, from punk to polka
- with particular attention to the former's influence on the latter.
The series, recorded at
Hazlewood's Somerset farm overlooking Glastonbury Tor, features special guests, starting tonight with singer/songwriter
Green Gartside (of Scritti Politti).
Producer Nicky Birch
New series 1/4. Russell Davies pays tribute to classically trained jazz pianist, composer and arranger Billy Strayhorn , who died in 1967, aged 51, following a striking career marked by his longtime collaboration with jazz giant Duke Ellington. In 1938 Strayhorn offered his now-signature compostion Lush Life - about a broken-hearted man's disillusionment with the boozy pick-up world of jazz clubs - to Ellington, who later described him as "my listener, my most dependable appraiser [and] critic" Producer Graham Pass
New, old and obscure tracks.
Featuring a live session from
Swedish singer/songwriter Ebb. Including at 1.30 Pause for Thought with Steve Benson.
3.30 as 1.30.
