Channel Highlights w/c 21st Sept
Saturday 21st September, 3.00pm - Broadway Bonanza: Porgy & Bess with Willard White
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.
Saturday 21st September, 9.00pm - Night of Indie
If it’s indie you are after, then Vintage TV is the place to get your fix of guitars, quiffs and killer riffs in our three hour, three programme special; hear rarely-heard classic tracks from the likes of The Cure, U2, Gary Numan, Blondie, The Fall, Strawberry Switchblade, Altered Images and more from our collection in ‘New Wave Classics’ (9pm, and ‘Volume 2’ at 10pm); and shoe-gaze to the chosen ones of 80s UK indie, including The Smiths and The Jesus and Mary Chain in ‘How Soon is Now… The 80s’ (11pm).
Sunday 22nd September, 5.00pm - Mike Batt: My Vintage (and Thursday 26th September at 10pm)
Music maestro Mike Batt, mega successful songwriter, musician, producer, creator of the Wombles and the man who put sultry songbird Katie Melua in the spotlight, gives a great innings on our popular favourite records show, as he reveals the tracks from the likes of Abba, The Kinks, Roy Orbison, The Hollies and Bruce Springsteen that have knocked him for six.
Sunday 22nd September, 8.00pm - The Janice Long Review Show (and Wednesday 25th September at 10pm)
Two influential 80s albums that fused soul, funk and other genres aplenty – Prince’s acclaimed ‘Sign ‘o’ the Times’ and Neneh Cherry’s assured debut ‘Raw Like Sushi’ which gave her the sassy ‘Buffalo Stance’ - are digested and discussed by Janice’s guests, journalist Jude Rogers and British singer-songwriters Ed Harcourt and Tom Robinson.
Monday 23rd September, 4.00pm - Broadway Bonanza: Pal Joey with Sian Phillips (and Thursday 26th at 12.15pm and Saturday 28th at 3pm)
We are ‘Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered’ this week on our marvellous musicals show with Pal Joey in the spotlight and special guest Welsh actress Sian Phillips, who won an Olivier award for her portrayal of socialite Vera in the much-loved Rodgers and Hart hit about New York life.
Tuesday 24th September, 10.00pm - Neil McCormick’s Needle Time: Nile Rodgers (and Saturday 28th at 7pm)
We get lucky here, very lucky indeed, and freak out with man-of-the-moment Nile Rodgers who is in the hotseat this week reliving an incredible five decade career as hitmaker with Chic, and for Bowie, Madonna, Sister Sledge and many more, which has taken him from the heights of 70s discomania to personal depths and right back again with Daft Punk and a storming Glastonbury gig, with that trusty guitar and its distinctive choppy, funky sound, in tow.
