This Week’s Music for Grown-Ups on Radio/TV

Your new listening/watching guide… thanks to compiler Mike Ollier


RADIO

Monday BBCR3 23.15 ~ 01.00
* Andy Kershaw - The Fat Possum label is chock full of wonderful artists (RL Burnside; Jnr Kimborough) and a refreshingly uncompromising label policy. 68 yr old signing Robert "Wolfman" Belfour is in session tonight.

Tuesday BBCR2 22.30 ~ 23.30
* Talking 'Bout My Remuneration - Witty title for a programme in which poor pop/rock stars who should have taken more care of their legacy and money talk about reforming their bands when they swore blind they never would. Maybe bulti-millionaire Phil Collins will explain why, when the members of Genesis say they don't need the money and it's not their motivation, tickets cost upwards of 70 quid for their forthcoming tour. Maybe professional Geordie Sting will explain why he has ignored his hometown on The Police tour. Or maybe they won't.

Tuesday BBCR2 23.30 ~ 00.30
* Courtney Pine's Jazz Crusade - Contemporary jazz chosen by the legendary British saxophonist.

Wednesday BBCR2 22.00 ~ 00.30
* Swee'Pea: The Billy Strayhorn Story - 2nd programme of a 4-parter.

Wednesday BBCR3 23.15 ~ 01.00
* Late Junction - Everybody's favourite folk guitarist Nic Jones is featured tonight.

Thursday BBCR2 22.00pm ~ 22.30
* In Love With Hank - 2nd of a five-part profile on the Hillbilly Shakespeare, Hank Williams.

Friday BBCR6 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan: Coffee – Caffeine-induced show this week.
Friday BBCR3 22.30 ~ 23.30

* Jazz Library ~ Charles Mingus - A selection of the very best Mingus recordings by his biographer, Brian Priestley

Friday BBCR3 10.30 ~ 11.30
* Live from Cheltenham Jazz fest, the Claudia Quintet (ex-Refusniks).


TV

Tuesday BBC1 22.35 ~ 11.35
* Imagine: 30th Century Man - A profile of Scott Walker… 3rd in the depression stakes after Nick Drake and Laughing Lenny and just ahead of Morrissey (ie intelligent music), an acclaimed cinema release from last year.

Friday
* BBC4 has again forsaken its normal music coverage for Friday ~ this is all very worrying. Your only hope tonight is to tape Later with JH (BBC2 23.40) and wind forward to Wilco.

Saturday BBC2 21.10 ~ 22.10
* Seven Ages Of Rock: White Light, White Heat - 2nd of 7 parts, this week Art Rock with the Velvets, Bowie and Roxy Music. Not a great series, most of this has been seen before and anybody with even a small interest in music has a handle on it, but still welcome when you consider the dearth of 'grown-up' music on the box. Put it this way, it's better than Casualty on the other side. (Repeated Sunday on BBC1).

Saturday BBC4 22.05 ~ 23.35
BBC4 Saturday schedules appear to be shadowing the BBC1’s Seven Ages Of Rock series. Here is a 1973 Bowie (not forgetting the brilliant Mick Ronson) concert. Followed by:

Saturday BBC4 23.35 ~ 00.30
* Cracked Actor - A 1974 profile of David Bowie.