Programme Information

• Saturday – Graham Norton (10am-1pm): This week's guests are Hollywood actor John Leguizamo and former Hustle star Marc Warren.
• Saturday – Ricky Ross in for Bob Harris (12midnight-3am): Ricky Ross sits in for Bob Harris with Nashville's Gabe Dixon in session.
• Sunday –Weekend Wogan (11am-1pm): Linda Ortega performs and comedian Bill Bailey joins Terry Wogan for a chat.
• Monday – Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce all week (9:30am-12noon): Randy Crawford chooses the Tracks Of My Years.
• Monday – Vanessa Feltz sits in for Jeremy Vine all week (12noon-2pm).
• Monday – Paul Jones (7-8pm): Tonight's show features Oli Brown, recorded live at the Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival in Colne.
• Tuesday – Simon Mayo Drivetime (5-7pm): Author, actor, and country rock superstar Steve Earle plays live on the show.
• Thursday – Sounds Of The 20th Century (Ep 30/50): The series reaches the Eighties, the year of Coe versuss Ovett, JR and Jona Lewie, new jobs for senior citizens, Michael Foot and Ronald Reagan, and the tragic loss of John Lennon.

BBC Radio 2 Publicity

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The comedy sketch show starring Diane Morgan and Joe Wilkinson, with support from Perrier Award-winner David O'Doherty and Radio 2's very own Ken Bruce, continues, this week featuring Paul Harry Allen and Jimmy Carr too.

Each show is a mix of silly sketches interspersed with Diane and Joe's humorous banter. Tonight, David organises an outside broadcast...

Presenters/Diane Morgan and Joe Wilkinson, Producer/Clair Wordsworth

BBC Radio 2 Publicity

Trumpeter Alison Balsom introduces the second of her two programmes in which she shares some of the music and musicians that continue to inspire her, including Beethoven's Violin Concerto, Bach's St Matthew Passion, Strauss's Four Last Songs, Ravel's Piano Concerto and recordings by Sir Simon Rattle and Dizzy Gillespie.

Presenter/Alison Balsom

BBC Radio 3 Publicity

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John Wilson conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of Opera North in Jo Davies's production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore. Presented by Christopher Cook, this performance was recorded at the Grand Theatre in Leeds.

Ruddigore, or The Witch's Curse, is one of the comic operas that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote for the Savoy Theatre, and contains some of the most engaging music Sullivan wrote. Richard Burkhard takes the role of Sir Despard Murgatroyd, along with Grant Doyle as Robin Oakapple.

Presenter/Christopher Cook

BBC Radio 3 Publicity

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BBC Radio 3's Conviction Season continues with Kate Clanchy's Iced, the third of six new plays for The Wire on the theme of conviction.

Finnish teen eco-blogger, Ulli Earthgirl, wins a competition to join a low-carbon expedition to the North Pole by foot, to measure the melting ice. Blogging her way across the Arctic, she has to navigate deadly cracks in the ice, as well as the treacherous currents of environmental controversy in the blogosphere. Soon she's afloat in both worlds, as all her certainties begin to dissolve.

See the Conviction Season press release for further information.

Director/Jonquil Panting

BBC Radio 3 Publicity

Lifelong Rupert Bear fan Mark Radcliffe delves into the magical world of Rupert and friends, and explores the continued success and appeal of the iconic white bear.

From his humble beginnings in a strip cartoon back in 1920, Rupert Bear has been captivating children – and adults – for the best part of a century.

Mark delves into his own Rupert annual collection and talks to fellow fans including the actor Terence Stamp, former-Python Terry Jones and comedy actor John Thomson about what they find so enticing about the world of the curious white bear.

With contributions from current Rupert annual illustrator Stuart Trotter, biographer Caroline Bott and children's literature expert Julia Eccleshare, Mark takes a look at Rupert's origins, the artistry and creativity of long-time illustrator Alfred Bestall and the significance of Rupert's home – the world of Nutwood.

Presenter/Mark Radcliffe, Producer/Lorna Skingley for Smooth Operations

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

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Toby Stephens is Raymond Chandler's fast-talking private eye Philip Marlowe in Poodle Springs, dramatised by Robin Brooks.

Fresh from his honeymoon with heiress Linda Loring, Philip Marlowe has set up shop in the upmarket Californian town of Poodle Springs. But the life of a kept man soon loses its charm, and when he's asked to find a gambler on the run from his debts, Marlowe can't resist.

Poodle Springs is the eighth and final Philip Marlowe novel and was unfinished at the time of Chandler's death in 1959. It remained so for another 30 years, until crime writer Robert B Parker completed the novel to mark the centenary of Chandler's birth.

Director/Sasha Yevtushenko for the BBC, Producer/Claire Grove for the BBC

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

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Fifty years after it was first introduced, Dominic Sandbrook questions the political importance of Prime Minister's Questions.

Prime Minister's Questions dominates the public's image of Parliament, but far from being an indelible part of Britain's political heritage, it was introduced only 50 years ago in 1961.

In this programme, historian Dominic Sandbrook traces its development to show how it has reflected the changing political culture.

Harold Wilson's former private secretary reveals how the personal animosity between Heath and Wilson poisoned the atmosphere of PMQs. It was never to be the same again with successive party leaders calling for an end to Punch and Judy politics while simultaneously using Prime Minister's Questions for political point scoring.

The programme features interviews with Lord Kinnock, Lord Ashdown, Commons Speaker John Bercow, former Speaker Betty Boothroyd, MPs John Whittingdale and Stephen Pound as well as Tony Blair's former chief of staff Jonathan Powell.

Presenter/Dominic Sandbrook, Producer/Barney Rowntree for Somethin' Else

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

5 Live Sport

Saturday 22 October

12.00noon-6.06pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch presents the day's sports news and build-up to today's matches.

From 12.45pm there's live Premier League football commentary of Wolverhampton Wanderers versus Swansea City.

At 3pm there's live football coverage of all the 3pm kick-offs including Aston Villa against West Bromwich Albion in the Premier League and Celtic versus Aberdeen in the Scottish Premier League.

In Sports Report at 5pm there are post match interviews and reports, plus regular Premier League football updates from Liverpool versus Norwich from 5.30pm.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mike Carr

BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity

Seconds out – it's the return of Fight Club to The Craig Charles Funk And Soul show. This time Craig's opponent is Adam from Lack Of Afro as Northern Soul takes on its Southern counterpart.

Listeners can expect big tunes, classic artists and some long-lost favourites as Craig and Adam battle it out to be king of the airwaves. Craig is the defending champion after guiding Motown to a knockout over Atlantic/Stax but will he retain his crown? The rules are simple – bring your best tunes to the turntable, get your sunglasses on and no dodgy shirts allowed.

Presenter/Craig Charles, Producer/Ben Appleyard for Bit yer Legs

BBC Radio 6 Music Publicity