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20/08/2010

Start the weekend with The Best Time of the Day Show with the Dark Lord. Expect some brilliant music and witty chat to keep you entertained through the small hours.

Kickstart your weekend by tuning into the Best Time of the Day Show for offbeat conversation and fantastic music. This morning, more hilarious admissions of how we are turning into our parents, Alex gets mistaken for a woman, it is the final day of the fake fact frenzy that is National Statistics Week, more newcomers into the 4.15 One-Off Canteen and Pause for Thought at 3.20am. All of the above, plus it's a Feelgood Friday.
On the music front, from Lester's Library there are tracks from 70s punk band, Tonight, and a new track from Brian Wilson's Gershwin tribute album. The Listener's Library track is from classic Brit metal band, Saxon. There is one more track from Album of the Week by I Am Arrows and Record of the Week by Manic Street Preachers. Nobody else, nowhere else.

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Fri 20 Aug 2010 02:00
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Music Played

  • Level 42

    Lessons In Love

    • Now That's What I Call Music '86.
    • Now.

  • Pet Shop Boys

    Go West

    • Pet Shop Boys - Very.
    • Parlophone.

  • Thea Gilmore

    You're the Radio

    • (CD Single).
    • Fullfill Records.
    • 1.

  • Diana Ross & The Supremes

    Reflections

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 40 Motown.
    • Polygram Tv.

  • OneRepublic

    Stop And Stare

    • (CD Single).
    • Interscope.

  • Van Morrison

    Brown Eyed Girl

    • The Very Best Of Van Morrison.
    • Polydor.

  • Amy Macdonald

    This Pretty Face

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.
    • 1.

  • Simon & Garfunkel

    Keep The Customer Satisfied

    • Bridge Over Troubled Water.
    • Columbia.

  • RECORD OF THE WEEK from the forthcoming CD, "POSTCARDS FROM A YOUNG MAN" (Columbia) Out 20th September

    • Manic Street Preachers

      (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love

      • (CD Single).
      • Columbia.
      • 16.

  • INXS

    Beautiful Girl

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • LESTER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "DRUMMER MAN" (Angel Air)

    • Tonight

      Drummer Man

  • Diane Birch

    Valentino

    • Bible Belt.
    • Virgin.
    • 1.

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    Breathless

    • The Essential One & Only Jerry Lee Le.
    • Trax Records.

  • Carly Simon

    You're So Vain

    • The Very Best Of Carly Simon.
    • Global Television.

  • Queen

    Seven Seas Of Rhye

    • Queen - Greatest Hits.
    • Parlophone.
    • 11.

  • Dionne Warwick

    Heartbreaker

    • Friends & Lovers (Various Artists).
    • K-Tel.

  • The Hoosiers

    Choices

    • (CD Single).
    • RCA.
    • 1.

  • Thin Lizzy

    Whiskey In The Jar

    • The Best Of Phil Lynott & Thin Lizzy.
    • Telstar.
    • 10.

  • Donna Summer

    Bad Girls

    • Donna Summer - Summer Collection.
    • Mercury.

  • Biffy Clyro

    God & Satan

    • (CD Single).
    • 14th Floor Records.
    • 1.

  • UB40

    Kingston Town

    • Now 1990 - The Millennium Series.
    • EMI.

  • Elton John

    Are You Ready for Love

    • Diamonds.
    • Virgin EMI Records.

  • Jamie Cullum

    Love Ain't Gonna Let You Down

    • (CD Single).

  • LISTENER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "DENIM AND LEATHER" (EMI) suggested by Kevin from Barnsley

    • Saxon

      And the Band Played On

      • And the Band Played On.

  • Shania Twain

    Man! I Feel Like A Woman!

    • (CD Single).
    • Mercury.

  • Maria Mena

    Just Hold Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.
    • 1.

  • Barry Mann

    Who Put The Bomp In The Bomp, Bomp, Bomp!

    • Rockvile Vol 16.
    • Backline Records.

  • Dead or Alive

    You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)

    • Wave Party (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.
    • 4.

  • The Who

    Substitute

    • The Who Hits 50! (Deluxe Edition).
    • Polydor.
    • 005.

  • Lady A

    I Run to You

    • Need You Now.
    • Capitol Nashville.
    • 1.

  • Semisonic

    Chemistry

    • (CD Single).
    • MCA.

  • Scorpions

    Wind Of Change

    • (CD Single).
    • Vertigo.

  • Sophie B. Hawkins

    Right Beside You

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.

  • ALBUM OF THE WEEK from the CD, "SUN COMES UP AGAIN" (Mercury)

    • I Am Arrows

      Green Grass

      • (CD Single).
      • Mercury.
      • 1.

  • Rose Royce

    Car Wash

    • Now 12 (Various Artists).
    • Now.

  • Ray LaMontagne & The Pariah Dogs

    Beg Steal Or Borrow

    • (CD Single).

  • LESTER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "BRIAN WILSON RE-IMAGINES GERSHWIN" (EMI) Out on September 6th

    • Brian Wilson

      Someone To Watch Over Me

  • Hot Chocolate

    No Doubt About It

    • Hot Chocolate - Their Greatest Hits.
    • EMI.

  • Sylvester

    You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)

    • Sylvester - The Original Hits.
    • Fantasy.

Broadcast

  • Fri 20 Aug 2010 02:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 2

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