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 (4 of 6)
Musical humour this week. Surely an oxymoron (unless it's applied to Spinal Tap or The Leningrad Cowboys).

Weds BBCR2 23.00 ~ 23.30
* Hep To The Jive: The Cab Calloway Story (4 of 4)
Concluding part and Cab is appropriated by ad men and appears in The Blues Brothers. What a sorry end.

Thurs BBCR3 23.15 ~ 01.00pm
* Late Junction
Penguin Café Orchestra are featured tonight.

Fri BBCR6 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan:
Right, BBC can't get their arses in gear so, I'll tell you what it was last week ~ Cars.

Fri BBC3 22.30 ~ 23.30
* Jazz Library: Dave Brubeck
87th birthday celebration (did they do a 86th?) of the time signature definer.

Fri BBC3 23.30 ~ 01.00
* Jazz On 3
CDs Of The Year with Jez Nelson spinning them. Do you spin CDs? Is it all on mini disk, mp3s or whatever? Do you care?


TV For Grown-Ups

Fri BBC4 19.30 ~ 21.00
* Gergiev Conducts Three 20th Century Greats (1 of 3)
Firts of three concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra

Fri BBC4 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Brasil, Brasil
Last of three brings the story up to date, and politics still shapes the musical landscape and music still shaped politics. Gilberto Gil is Minister of Culture.


Yup, that's your lot. Quite possibly THE worst week (certainly for TV) that I've seen since I started doing this.