FREE! Music for grown-ups on air in the next seven days

Over the next seven days, I hope to catch/record these tempting TV/radio broadcasts:


Thurs 1 May
2300 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (rpt) – BBC Radio 2

Fri 2 May
2100 Theme Time Radio Hour with Bob Dylan (Series 2) – BBC 6 Music
2230 Thelonious Monk, Jazz Library - BBC Radio 3

Mon 5 May
1200/2045 Schubert, Composer Of The Week – BBC Radio 3
(1/5, continues Tues-Fri)


Gerry Smith


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ALTERNATIVE SELECTION: on air in the next seven days

… thanks to compiler Mike Ollier:

Radio For Grown-Ups

Thurs BBCR2 ~ 23.00 ~ 00.00
* Theme Time Radio With Bob Dylan: Trains
Repeats continue on terrestrial radio with The Monkees!

Fri BBCR2 19.30 ~ 21.15
* Friday Night Is Music Night; A tribute to Billie Holliday

BBC6 21.00 ~ 22.00
* Theme Time With Bob Dylan

BBCR322.30 ~ 23.30
* Jazz Library: Thelonious Monk
BBCR3 23.30 ~ 01.00
* Jazz On 3: Cheltenham 2008 Jazz Fest ~ Tim Berne’s Science Friction, Iain Bellamy and Peter Brotzman.

Sat BBCR2 19.00 ~ 20.00
* Icons Revisited
Prince ~ a look at the tiny one’s enduring work which will probably ignore the last ten years.


TV For Grown-Ups

A terrible week on TV:

Tues
BBC2 22.00 ~ 22.30
* Later Live
The first Motown signing Mable John (Little Willie’s sister) is on, but not much else ~ repeated but longer on Friday

Fri
BBC4 21.00 ~ 22.05
* James Taylor: One Man Band
A night with Taylor fills me with the horror that I’ll die in a sugar-coated hell, but there’s little else this week.

Fri
BBC4 22.05 ~ 23.40
* Hotel California: From The Byrds To The Eagles
Shudder.

BBC2 23.40 ~ 00.20
* In Concert: James Taylor
1971 gig

Much more interesting is the movie Downfall at 21.00 on More4 ~ a brilliant study of Hitler’s last days in the bunker. Yes, I’d rather be with Adolf than James!!

Sat
BBC3 21.10 ~ 22.55
High Fidelity - A great movie, a great soundtrack and a special appearance by Bruce Springsteen. Nick Hornby’s novel is transplanted to Chicago where the excellent John Cusack tries to work out what he wants from life whilst working in his record shop, Championship Vinyl. The movie also handed Jack Black his first starring role ~ though don’t hold that against it, he is good in it. A load of brilliant cameos and a 10/10 film.