| February 2023 IT’S
(NOT REALLY) A MUSICAL WORLD
4 - 10 FEBRUARY 2023
Not much of note
though Rugby fans will be
happy… I’ve left out
some repeats:
Saturday
4/Sunday 5 February
It’s Roy
Orbison Night on BBC2 as the
network for no apparent reason
devotes nearly four hours to the
charismatic crooner, who left us
in 1988 at the age of 52. First
off Roy Orbison At The BBC
is likely to be the best of the
sequence but the other three
programmes look pretty strong
(BBC2 8.50 pm – midnight 20)
Radio 2 continues its daft
scheduling policy by putting Cliff
Richard at Wembley Arena in 1994
on at 4 am (BBC Radio 2)
Sunday 5
February
EP at 1 pm (BBC
Radio 2) and Don Black at 5 pm
(BBC Radio London)
BBC4 kicks off its evening with
another sedate 1979 edition of Come
Dancing (7 pm) then
it’s straight into four
hours of Luciano Pavarotti! They
kick off with Pavarotti In
Hyde Park (7.45 pm) which is
likely to be somewhat poignant,
as Charles and Diana were among
the audience in a torrential
downpour (also present are John
Major, Michael Caine and Andrew
Lloyd Webber, not to mention the
Philharmonia Orchestra &
Chorus). A film biography follows
at 9.20 pm and an interview with
the maestro at 11.05 pm in King
Of The High Cs.
If you prefer something non-vocal
Sky Arts (Freeview 11) is showing
Ennio, a three hour film
documentary about the great film
composer at 10.40 pm (Sky Arts)
Monday 6
February
There’s a
massive amount of Kate Bush
everywhere this week (though
what’s special about the
45th anniversary of the release
of The Kick Inside?)
starting with five hours on Radio
6 Music (midnight – 5 am)
Tuesday 7
February
1.35 pm **Film: Let’s
Make Love (1960) There is
much to enjoy here, with Marilyn
Monroe in fine form and a
surprisingly good turn from
Frankie Vaughan…but Yves
Montand struggles with the songs
(lyrics Sammy Cahn, music Jimmy
van Heusen) George Cukor directs
(Talking Pictures TV, Freeview
82)**
Thursday 9
February
More Kate Bush on
The Lauren Laverne Show (BBC
Radio 6 Music, 7.30 – 10.30
am)
Friday 10
February
The AW Show! Over
the next three weeks my record
choices will feature in
Jacqui’s Angel Radio
Breakfast Show (7.30 - 8 am) as a
thank-you for my financial
support to the station. Angel
Radio can be accessed on any DAB
Digital Receiver or via its
website www.angelradio.co.uk The station is
prohibited from playing any
record recorded after 1967 so it
covers every type of popular and
light music from the 1930s up to
that date. Do give it a whirl!
Also highly recommend is Dinner
Jazz on Jazz FM, presented
by Mark Walker (Mondays –
Fridays, 7 – 9 pm)
Kate Bush – BBC4 sticks its
pennyworth in (actually three
hours, starting at 9 pm with the
inevitable …At The BBC)
(BBC4)
1 am (Saturday) - yes really -
Fred Sirieix presents Vive
L’Amour! a programme of
French pop (presumably to mark
the upcoming St Valentin’s
Day) featuring tracks by Johnny
Halliday etc (BBC Radio 2)
E. & O.E.
Anthony
Wills
January 2023
Brian
Willey
January
3rd 1928 - January 16th 2023
It is with great
sadness that we record the death
of Brian Willey, who passed away
earlier this month. Brian was a
regular and loyal supporter of
the LLMMG, and his encyclopaedic
knowledge and great sense of
humour certainly enlivened many
of our meetings. We are hoping to
publish a full appreciation of
Brian, and his career in Radio
Broadcasting, in due course.
TC 25/01/23
December 2022
Eric
Coates
Wednesday 21st
December will see the 65th
anniversary of the death of Eric
Coates (1886-1957).
He is best known
for his By The Sleepy Lagoon
which has been used as the
signature tune of BBC Radio 4's
Desert Island Discs since the
programme started 80 years ago in
1942, although Coates wrote it in
1930. Other compositions of his
that were used by the BBC were Calling
All Workers (for Music While
You Work, 1940-67) and Knightsbridge
March (for In Town Tonight,
1933-60).
November 2022
Bramwell
Tovey & the BBC Concert
Orchestra record Poulenc for
Chandos
Recorded in April
at the Watford Colosseum, the BBC
Concert Orchestra play a
programme of music by Francis
Poulenc (1902-60), conducted by
the late Bramwell Tovey who died in July.
Chandos CHSA 5260
[SACD] was released on November
4th.
https://www.chandos.net/products/catalogue/CHAN%205260
June 2022
Aspidistra
Drawing Room Orchestra
New CD
The Aspidistra
Drawing Room Orchestra have now
received the CDs of 'Café
Bonheur’, their brand new
recording.
More CD
information on their website
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