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

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


Radio For Grown-Ups

Thurs BBCR2 23.00 ~ 23.30
* My Country Jukebox: Nick Barraclough talks to Suzy Bogguss, soon to tour the UK, about her favourite records.

Fri BBCR6 2100 - 2200
* Theme Time With Bob Dylan: Divorce - Tammy Wynette, George Jones and Lefty Frizzell all feature. I'll never get this hour of my life back, but I don't care!

Fri BBCR3 23.30 ~ 01.00
* Jazz On 3: Richard Galliano (accordion) and Michel Portal (clarinet) at the London Jazz Fest


TV For Grown-Ups

The Pop, What Is It Good For season continues on BBC4:

Weds BBC4 19.30 onwards
* Sounds Of The '60s
* Top Of The Pops ~ 1967 Xmas show
* Help ~ Beatles film with the Fab Four larking about on a much bigger budget. Fun
* Pop On Trial ~ Maconie is joined by Bonzo/Python stalwart, Neil Innes
* Chuck Berry In Concert ~ a gig from 1972
* Gimme Shelter ~ The Stones look on shocked at Altamont: a towering doc.

Thurs BBC4 19.30 onwards
* Top Of The Pops ~ 1978 Xmas edition. Warning, it contains Wings. On the brighter side it also has Father Abraham.
* Flame ~ the movie starring Slade … everyone expected a light and fluffy romp but what they got was a pitch black tale from the seamier side of the music industry. A great (hugely underrated) film with two of their greatest songs, Far Far Away and the superb How Does It Feel, on a decent soundtrack. The band sunk like a man in an overcoat with pockets full of house bricks after this, as they tried 'proper' music.
* Pop On Trial ~ more Maconie, the talk is crap but the clips are great.
* The Song Remains The Same ~ Led Zep's ill-judged movie, worth watching for the hilarious 'dream' sequences each of the band came up with. Who'd have thought it eh, Slade's movie better than Zep's?
* Rod The Mod ~ a doc from 1976 when he'd left behind the Faces and the decent solo career.

Fri BBC4 19.30 onwards
* Soweto Strings ~ world music doc from the townships.
* Marc Bolan ~ The Final Word. Again? Profile of the Boppin Elf but, apart from the clips, it's not much cop.
* Pop Britannia ~ 3rd of 3, it's the mid-'70s and it traces from then to now.
* Tommy ~ that deaf, dumb and blind kid plays pinball. Overblown.