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

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

Remember – most BBC radio shows are broadcast live (and can be heard for the following seven days) on the web. BBC and Channel 4 TV output will also soon be available on the interwebnet: watch this space… .

* RADIO For Grown-Ups

Wednesday BBCR2 00.30 ~ 03.00
* Janice Long - A live session from The Waterboys

Wednesday BBCR2 19.00 ~ 20.00
* Folk On Two - Mike Harding introduces coverage from The Cambridge Folk Festival

Thursday BBCR2 23.00 ~ 23.30
* Pat Metheny ~ Bright Size Life (1 of 3)
Whilst in for Jazz Library on R3 a couple of weeks back, the Beeb must have kept Pat locked up there to make this 3 part profile of his career. Funny one this, Metheny can be very, very good but he can also be very, very bad.

Friday BBCR6 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan: Hair
Hank Ballard, Sonny Burgess and Louis Jordan feature this week ~ a joy to listen to.

Friday BBCR3 22.30 ~ 23.30
* Jazz Library - Billie Holiday

Friday BBCR3 23.30 ~ 01.00
* Jazz On Three – Medeski, Scofield, Martin and Wood recorded at the Barbican last month, a set by the jazz-funk fusion supergroup.

Saturday BBCR4 10.30 ~ 11.00
* The Elvis Effect - David Stafford considers the way Elvis still lives on in our consciousness.

Saturday BBCR2 20.00 ~ 21.00
* Ray Manzarek's Summer Of Love - The Doors keysman looks at the 60s. Someone must have jogged his memory, I thought if you were there, you couldn't remember it?


* TV

A dearth of TV music this week:

Friday BBC4 21.30 ~ 22.30
* Bruce Springsteen In Dublin
Broooce leads the Seeger Sessions band with some illuminating cover versions of his own material, and songs inspired (rather than written by) Pete Seeger. Ones to watch are a sterling re-write of "How Can A Poor Man Stand Such Times And Live?" and re-vamped classics like "Growin Up". However, if you bought the recent album you've already got this.

Friday BBC4 22.30 ~ 23.30
* BBC4 Sessions
Another in this excellent, enjoyable series of shows, Ryan Adams and The Cardinals live at LSO St Luke’s.

Both shows are repeated Saturday.