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26/05/2011

The Best Time of the Day show with Alex, more laughs and top tunes than you can poke a stick at. Includes Record and Album of the Week, and Listener's and Lester's Library tracks.

Tune in for another serving of the show that will simply refuse to let you sleep. On Day 4 of National Switch Week, there are more tales of how those on/off buttons have both enhanced - and endangered - our lives. We are reeling with shame from mixing our words up and inventing a new one in "Tongue-Tied Twaddle". New for today, is your rug always trying to trip you up? Perhaps it is haunted! Tell Alex about your "Possessed Possessions". More Pause for Thought at 3.20am and another trip to the 4.15 Confusion Hareem to ask those questions that have always baffled us.

There's another track from Album of the Week by The Pierces, another spin of Record of the Week by Patrick Wolf, Lester's Library tracks from Jeff Healy and Shona Foster, plus one of your choices from the Listener's Library by Tenacious D.

Buffoons are go!

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Music Played

  • Nik Kershaw

    The Riddle

    • The Essential Nik Kershaw.
    • Spectrum.

  • KT Tunstall

    Black Horse and the Cherry Tree

    • (CD Single).
    • Relentless Records.

  • Aloe Blacc

    I Need A Dollar

    • Good Things.
    • Stones Throw Records.
    • 1.

  • Let Loose

    Crazy For You

  • Marlena Shaw

    California Soul

    • Sampled 3 (Various Artists).
    • Virgin.

  • Sophie Ellis鈥怋extor

    Starlight

    • (CD Single).

  • Larry Williams

    Bony Moronie

    • That's Rock'n'Roll (Various Artists).
    • EMI.

  • Thin Lizzy

    The Boys Are Back In Town

    • (Single).
    • Vertigo.
    • 10.

  • RECORD OF THE WEEK from the forthcoming CD, "LUPERCALIA" (Mercury) out on June 20th

    • Patrick Wolf

      House

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

  • Andreas Johnson

    Glorious

    • Glorious (Various Artists).
    • Columbia.

  • LESTER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "LIVE AT GROSSMAN'S 1994" (Eagle)

    • The Jeff Healey Band

      Killing Floor

  • Dean Martin

    Mambo Italiano

    • Best Of The Capitol Years - Dean Mart.
    • Capitol.

  • Eliza Doolittle

    Pack Up

    • (CD Single).
    • EMI.
    • 1.

  • Tom Jones & Mousse T.

    Sex Bomb

    • (CD Single).
    • Gut Records.

  • Tasmin Archer

    Sleeping Satellite

  • Jonathan Jeremiah

    Heart Of Stone

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 1.

  • The Pioneers

    Long Shot Kick De Bucket

    • Rhythm & Blues Beat Volume 2.
    • Island.

  • Joan Armatrading

    Drop The Pilot

    • The Very Best Of Joan Armatrading.
    • A&M.

  • Status Quo

    Rock 'n' Roll 'n' You

    • (CD Single).
    • Fourth Chord Records.
    • 1.

  • The Assembly

    Never Never

    • The Very Best Of The Tube (Various).
    • Universal Music Tv.

  • Barbra Streisand

    Stoney End

    • Barbra Streisand Greatest Hits Vol.2.
    • CBS.

  • KISS

    I Was Made For Lovin' You

    • Endless Love (Various Artists).
    • Mercury.
    • 4.

  • LISTENER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "TENACIOUS D" (Sony) suggested by Samantha Wright in Hampshire

    • Tenacious D

      Wonderboy

      • Tenacious D.

  • Wilson Pickett

    634-5789

    • Wilson Pickett - A Man And A Half.
    • Rhino.

  • Buggles

    Video Killed The Radio Star

    • Our Friends Electric (Various Artist.
    • Telstar.

  • Blondie

    Mother

    • Panic Of Girls.
    • Phasm 8.
    • 1.

  • Boyzone

    Picture of You

    • Hits Zone - The Best Of 97 (Various).
    • Polygram Tv.

  • Blue Mink

    The Banner Man

    • Dance Hits Of The '60's & '70's.
    • Old Gold.
    • 1.

  • Clare Maguire

    The Shield And The Sword

    • (CD Single).
    • Polydor.
    • 1.

  • Depeche Mode

    Everything Counts

    • Depeche Mode - The Singles 1981-1985.
    • Mute Records.

  • Glen Campbell

    Times Like These

    • Meet Glen Campbell.
    • Capitol.
    • 1.

  • Tracy Chapman

    Baby Can I Hold You

    • Tracy Chapman.
    • Elektra.

  • ALBUM OF THE WEEK from the CD, "YOU & I" (Polydor) out on 30th May

    • The Pierces

      Love You More

      • You & I.
      • Polydor.
      • 3.

  • King

    Love & Pride

    • The Ultimate Eighties (Various).
    • Hit Records.

  • Horace Faith

    Black Pearl

    • Young Gifted & Black (Various).
    • Trojan.

  • Rainbow

    All Night Long

    • Rainbow - The Very Best Of Rainbow.
    • Parlophone.

  • Daniel Merriweather

    Change (feat. Wale)

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
    • 1.

  • LESTER'S LIBRARY from the CD, "THE MOON & YOU" (Beach Hut Records)

    • Shona Foster

      Bad Intentions

  • Jackson Browne

    Somebody's Baby

  • Tommy Roe

    Dizzy

    • Delilah - Jukebox 60's Hits.
    • Old Gold.

Broadcast

  • Thu 26 May 2011 02:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 2

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