Including at 6.15 Pause for Thought withZiaChaudhry.
And at 9.15 Pause for Thought with Nagaraja.
1/2. To mark next week's 30th anniversary of the US release of George Lucas 's hugely successful and influential sci-fi adventure Star Wars, Radio 2 hears from actors, musicians, directors and producers who worked on or were influenced by the film. The quaintly dated-looking space tale of good versus evil opened in the UK seven months after its US release, and remains a powerful nostalgic trigger for men who were young and adolescent in 1977. Producer Des Shaw
Andrew Collins on Star Wars: p119
Roderick Dunk conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra live at London's Mermaid
Theatre, with singer and TV presenter Jane MacDonald.
Ian Richardson reads the story of CS Lewis and his wife Joy, by Brian Sibley.
7/8. Joy's recovery is just a temporary reprieve.
Frank Renton presents highlights of the 2007 European Brass Band Championships, recorded at
Birmingham's Symphony Hall.
Culture show in which
Matthew Wright looks at the arts, including the current cinema.
With a live session from the Bees.
Including at 3.30 Pause for Thought with Blair Robertson from Scotland.