Channel Highlights w/c 14th Sept
Saturday 14th September, 3.00pm - Broadway Bonanza: Anything Goes with Stephen Mear
Anything Goes this week as we set sail on a jolly jaunt aboard this madcap ocean-going musical in the company of presenter Lesley Anne Knight, with all the sensational songs, a peep behind the scenes, and special guest Stephen Mear, the award-winning choreographer who helped bring the show to the National Theatre.
Sunday 15th September, 5.00pm - Andy Bell: My Vintage (and Thursday 19th September at 10pm)
One half of hi-tempo electro pop outfit Erasure, Andy Bell, reveals what songs chime for him, and the tracks that really rang out for a young, gay singer starting out. Find out who his gods and goddesses of the music scene through the decades are, and which all-time favourite, an 80s classic, is always the song he asks his DJ partner to play at clubs.
Sunday 15th September, 8.00pm - The Janice Long Review Show (and Wednesday 18th September at 10pm)
It’s all about the 70s this week as two albums from the decade defined by rock of all genres – Who’s Next by The Who, and Crisis? What Crisis? by prog rockers Supertramp – are given a critical going over by Janice’s guests: saxophonist Lee Thompson of Madness, Irish folk singer Cara Dillon, and bilingual journalist Pierre Perrone, whose life was transformed by one of the iconic offerings.
Monday 16th September, 4.00pm - Broadway Bonanza: Porgy & Bess with Willard White (and Thursday 19th at 12.15pm and Saturday 21st at 3pm)
Our brilliant new Broadway Bonanza show continues with Porgy & Bess, George Gershwin’s powerful opera of African/American life amid the slums of Charleston in the 1920s, with special guest world-renowned opera bass Sir Willard White, who made the role of Porgy his own in the Glyndebourne production of 1993, directed by Sir Trevor Nunn.
Tuesday 17th September, 10.00pm - Neil McCormick’s Needle Time: Katie Melua (and Saturday 21st at 7pm)
The ‘Closest Thing To Crazy’ singer opens up about her austere but happy childhood in Georgia, her creative collaboration with composer Mike Batt who discovered her and made her a star, how she is a bit of an adrenalin junkie and how she is back on track after a troubled time that saw her opt out of the limelight for six months.
