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

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


Radio For Grown-Ups

Weds BBCR2 22.00 ~23.00
* Charles Hazlewood
From his humble abode in Glastonbury, the conductor welcomes Vashti Bunyan and highlights 'voices' ~ Maria Callas, James Brown and Youssou N'Dour.

Weds 23.00 ~ 23.30
* Hep To The Jive: The Cab Calloway Story
What it says on the tin.

Fri BBCR6 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan: Luck
Bobby plays Guitar Slim and Kay Starr this evening.

Fri BBC3 22.30 ~ 01.00
* Jazz On 3
Jez Nelson introduces a special, extended show this week, live from Pizza Express. It's the first night of the London Jazz Fest and details of performing artistes featured tonight are, as yet, undecided.



TV For Grown-Ups

Fri BBC4 19.30 ~ 20.30
* European Roots: Klezmer In Germany
Klezmer music? In Germany? Oddly, there is apparently a huge demand for it there; this programme looks at why this might be.

Fri BBC4 20.30 ~ 21.00
* Cambridge Folk Festival 2007
Americana is tonight's focus ~ Joan Baez and Nanci Griffith. Am I the only one who doesn't get Joanie? (No, you’re not - I'd rather listen to paint drying - Ed). I really think she destroyed the Rolling Thunder Official Bootleg. So, one to miss then. Except Steve Earle is also on. So, one to tape then!

Fri BBC4 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Legends: Ella Fitzgerald
"The First Lady Of Song" is profiled in the excellent Legends strand tonight, the only respite from Children In Need.

Fri BBC2 23.35
* Later with Jools Holland
Not as good as last week's show (boy, didn't RT blister the walls?) but King Creosote and PJ Harvey are on. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are subjected to Jools' unique chat stylings; FFF at the ready (that's Fast Forward Finger) to miss glorified pub-rockers The Stereophonics and Don Henley from The Eagles.