Programme Information

The Chris Evans Breakfast Show

From Monday 11 January on BBC RADIO 2

Chris Evans aims to get the nation smiling in the mornings when he takes over BBC Radio 2's prestigious Breakfast Show, launching a new daytime schedule (Simon Mayo takes over Chris's former Drivetime show)

• Programme copy

Gabby Logan/Richard Bacon

From Monday 11 January on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Gabby Logan presents a new daily lunchtime programme and Richard Bacon a new daily afternoon programme as part of BBC Radio 5 Live's new look for weekdays (comedian Chris Addison also hosts a new, live, topical news show on Sundays)

• Programme copy (Gabby Logan)
• Programme copy (Richard Bacon)

Opera On 3 Live From The Met –
Der Rosenkavalier

Saturday 9 January on BBC RADIO 3

Edo de Waart conducts Der Rosenkavalier, by Richard Strauss, starring Renée Fleming, live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York

• Programme copy

Super Bad, Super Cool

Saturday 9 January on BBC RADIO 2

Pam Grier, star of Coffy and Foxy Brown, celebrates the legacy of Seventies so-called "blaxploitation" cinema considering its impact on African-American actors and audiences

• Programme copy

What's So Great About...

Saturday 9 January on BBC RADIO 4

Lenny Henry returns with three further explorations of subjects people tend to take for granted, but which he's personally never been completely convinced about; in the first episode he considers maths

• Programme copy

Private Passions – Leslie Caron

Sunday 10 January BBC RADIO 3

Michael Berkeley's guest is the French actress and former dancer Leslie Caron, whose big break came when she starred with Gene Kelly in An American In Paris

• Programme copy

7 Day Sunday

Sunday 10 January on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Chris Addison hosts a new topical show for Sunday mornings, this week joined by fellow comedians Andy Zaltzman, Sarah Millican and a special guest to pull apart the week's big stories

• Programme copy

Composer Of The Week – Alfred Schnittke

Monday 11 to Friday 15 January on BBC RADIO 3

Donald Macleod presents a celebration of the music of Russian composer Alfred Schnittke, often considered the heir to Shostakovich

• Programme copy

Book Of The Week – Must You Go?

Monday 11 to Friday 15 January on BBC RADIO 4

Antonia Fraser reads from her book, which is a candid testimony of her relationship with her late husband, playwright Harold Pinter

• Programme copy

Ed Reardon's Week

Monday 11 January on BBC RADIO 4

Ed Reardon, the nation's favourite author, pipe-smoker, cat-lover, scrimper, saver and master of the abusive email, returns for a new series

• Programme copy

The Inventor Of Rock And Roll –
The Alan Freed Story

Tuesday 12 January on BBC RADIO 2

The fascinating story of one of the most influential DJs in pop history, The Alan Freed Story includes archive clips of his original shows featuring an interview with Buddy Holly

• Programme copy

On The Blog

Thursday 14 January on BBC RADIO 2

Caroline Quentin, Simon Greenall and Andy Taylor return for a third series of the sitcom

• Programme copy

FREE THINKING 2009
Night Waves

Thursday 14 January on BBC RADIO 3

Bioethicist and disability specialist Tom Shakespeare demands we think of art as a "Tool for Thinking", in this talk, recorded at The Sage, Gateshead

• Programme copy

BBC Television and Radio Programme Information Christmas pull-up publication dates are now available up to Week 4: Publication dates.