Saturday 1^st February, 7.00pm - Neil McCormick’s Needle Time: David Arnold

The name’s Arnold, David Arnold. The composer of film scores including Godzilla, Independence Day and many James Bond movies takes the hot seat this week. Interviewer Neil asks him how he goes about creating a soundtrack for the cinematic exploits of 007, what makes a great Bond song, and how he put together the music for his biggest live event - the closing ceremony of the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.   

Sunday 2^nd February, 5.00pm - Denise Pearson: My Vintage (and Thursday 6^th February at 10pm)

You might be forgiven for thinking that this sassy singer with funky popsters Five Star would be loving her soul music, but here she reveals her inner rock chick in her top tune picks. Epic tracks from arena-fillers Aerosmith and Foreigner, who take her back to her time in the States, and Dire Straits, who remind her of an awards ceremony where Phil Collins had to rescue her from them. Tune in to find out the whole story!

Sunday 2^nd February, 8.00pm - The Janice Long Review Show (and Wednesday 5^th February at 10pm)

Melodic, soft and alt rock on two absolute classics are the treats in store for our album reviewers this week. Steve Strange, the face of 80s band Visage, Mark Morriss of The Bluetones and Ian Peel, editor of Classic Pop magazine are the opinion-toting trio and ‘Rumours’ by Fleetwood Mac, released to great acclaim in 1977, and REM’s ‘Automatic for the People’, a zeitgeist soundtrack to the early 90s, are the albums up for scrutiny.  

Tuesday 4^th February, 10.00pm - Neil McCormick’s Needle Time: Midge Ure (and Saturday 8^th February at 7pm)

Known for his great involvement in Band Aid and Live Aid and for co-writing ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’, one of the UK’s all-time best-selling songs, Midge Ure tells Neil that music was a distant dream whilst growing up poor in a Scottish tenement, but it was also a way of escape in those bleak times. And escape he did, to become hit-maker with bands Slik, The Rich Kids and Thin Lizzy and then frontman of new wavers Ultravox, whose ‘Vienna’ was massive in the 80s…