Saturday 9^th November, 3.00pm - Broadway Bonanza: West Side Story with Anna-Jane Casey

We’re getting down and dangerous with the Sharks and the Jets, as one of musical history’s most powerful, passionate and memorable shows takes centre stage with its dazzling dance sequences, enthralling take on the Romeo and Juliet tale transferred to 1950s Upper West Side, sharp young stars, and songs including ‘Maria’, and ‘America’: Lesley Anne Knight explores its explosive appeal with guest Anna-Jane Casey who played Anita in the West End revival.

Saturday 9^th November, 7.00pm - Neil McCormick’s Needle Time: Graham Nash

He ain’t heavy, but he has been a huge musical influence on both sides of the pond, as singer songwriter with The Hollies, and folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, and now the legend that is Graham Nash comes clean to our interviewer Neil about the highs and lows of life on the road, the fallings out, the mind-bending substances, the struggle to keep real, the campaigning and, of course, the making of the magnificent music.

Saturday 9^th November, 8.00pm - Rolling Out The Rock! 

Four hour, four programme special!

It’s gonna be raw and raucous as we roll out our night of rock in an ear-splitting, heart-pounding, adrenalin-pumping all-evening special featuring the legends, the killer beats, the riffs and the terrific tunes from alt and art rockers to masters of metal: Rock out to classics from the US and UK featuring the likes of Van Halen, Talking Heads, Dire Straits, U2, Bruce Springsteen and more in Rock Legends (8pm); Feel the memories come flooding back with a wealth of solid gold rock ‘n’ roll in Vintage Rock Anthems (9pm); then Queen: Killer Queen (10pm); need we say more? And we find ourselves between rock and a hard place, in a good way, in Best of British Hard Rock Bands (11pm); amps cranked up to 11 for rock maestros The Who, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Def Leppard and more. It’s gonna be heavy, man.

Sunday 10^th November, 5.00pm - Scott Gorham: My Vintage (and Thursday 14^th November at 10pm)

As one half of the twin lead guitarists and long serving member of Irish rockers Thin Lizzy, Scott Gorham has been there, done that and got the T-shirt when it comes to performing and touring with, and watching close hand some of the greats in action, and here he relives memorable moments in music through a cracking collection of his top tunes from the likes of Queen, Alice Cooper and Supertramp.

Sunday 10^th November, 8.00pm - The Janice Long Review Show (and Wednesday 13^th November at 10pm)

Two 90s offerings are up for expert analysis this week as Janice is joined by acclaimed singer songwriter Jack Savoretti, rocker Suzi Quatro and music journalist Paul Williams who will be turning their attention to Ben Harper’s ‘edgy yet sensitive’ folk rock album ‘The Will to Live’ and Blur’s Britpop-defining ‘Parklife’, a ‘patchwork of Englishness’.

Tuesday 12^th November, 10.00pm - Neil McCormick’s Needle Time: Roy Harper (and Saturday 16^th November at 7pm)

He may have never properly hit the mainstream with his uncompromising and unconventional output and attitude, but Roy Harper, venerated elder of folk-rock whose songs are infused with the poetry that he loves, gets lyrical with interviewer Neil about longevity in music, his muses, life as an artistic outsider and why the title of his new album ‘Man and Myth’ sums it all up. 

Wednesday 13^th November, 7.30pm - Vintage TV at Rewind 2013 (and Friday 15^th November at 5.30pm)

Janice is surfing 80s New Wave from both sides of the pond with her short but perfectly formed interviews from two top acts that made a splash at this summer’s Rewind festival at Henley – those funsters from the brilliant B-52s, whose infectious pop-rock rooted in 60s rock ‘n’ roll brought the party here from America, and the Then Jerico lads who rode the 80s riptide with the likes of Duran Duran and other English bands who were the dudes in that decade.