Jeremy Deller

On This Day features Guy Fawkes, the first VD hospital, AA Milne, Native Americans and Robert E Lee. Jarvis investigates sound recording, beginning with a gramophone record of Thomas Edison's voice. Jarvis reads passages from Greg Milner's Perfecting Sound Forever. One is a scientific analysis of Led Zep's drumming, another considers loudness. There's a soundpiece by Miranda July. Jarvis talks to Turner Prize-winning performance artist Jeremy Deller. His projects include a steel band who play Manchester hits; a film about Russian Depeche Mode fans; his Folk Archive; a re-enactment of the Battle of Orgreave with miners and battle re-enacters; and the Acid Brass Project. Jeremy points out that Northern musicians favour the thumping beats that once thrummed through their cities. Then we hear some dub music, which can't really be done live. Finally, another excerpt by Greg Milner about an American healer who thinks digital music's making society sick.

Chilly Gonzales

24th January is 'officially' the most depressing day of the year, so Jarvis tries to play some uplifting songs. On This Day, the first Apple Mac computer went on sale. Jarvis reads the story Mirror from the anthology Sum. On the phone from Paris, pianist Chilly Gonzales talks about representing the hands of Serge Gainsbourg in the biopic Gainsbourg: Vie héroïque. Jarvis asks whether you can get to know a person by learning to imitate how they played. Gonzales suggests that French people clap differently to Anglo audiences, to a beat he feels is somehow childlike. Jarvis sheds light on that with an interesting psychological theory about rhythm. And Jarvis is cheered to hear of more pets named after him. Birthdays: Neil Diamond, Klaus Nomi (Is He Any Good?), John Belushi, Jools Holland, Natasia Kinski, Ray Stevens and Vic Reeves. Valete: Kate McGarrigle.

Baxter Dury

A freshly Poligripped Jarvis delivers one last dead Christmas tree update and asks Are They Any Good of Ryan Adams. We hear a story with a musical backing, The Gift by The Velvet Underground, and how Benjamin Franklin invented the glass armonica - an instrument that sounded so beautiful that it was feared it drove people mad. In a restful interlude, Uri Geller encourages you to bend a spoon with your mind. Tom Waits shares some wisdom about conception. Baxter Dury tells Jarvis about the new biopic of his father, Ian. He considers how it feels to have a rock star parent mythologised and explains that a biopic needn't be factually accurate to tell a truthful story. He also talks about CCTV and the London marathon. Birthdays: Eartha Kitt, Chris Montez, Françoise Hardy, Keith Chegwin, Michelle Obama, Muhammad Ali (discussing trash talk), Benjamin Franklin, Richard Hawley and Al Capone.

John Hillcoat

Welcome to the Sunday Service! 
Jarvis Cocker begins his weekly 6 Music show, filled with dodgy opinion, crackpot theories, hare-brained schemes and beautiful, beautiful music.

Jarvis begins by throwing down the gauntlet and asking: The Grateful Dead - Are They Any Good? Stephen Fry reads Dave Eagleman's story about the afterlife, Sum. Jarvis reads Richard Brautigan's story What Are You Going to Do with 390 Photographs of Christmas Trees? and listeners send in photos of abandoned Christmas trees they've spotted. Sir John Betjeman recites In the Liquorice Fields of Pontefract and we're introduced to the BBC Seasons record. Jarvis talks to John Hillcoat, director of The Road. John discusses the use of music in the film, scored by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. He wonders why these days serious dramas are usually labelled 'bleak' and 'depressing'. He also suggests that in the spectacle of an apocalyptic, destroyed landscape, a stark beauty may be found. And Jarvis wonders whether Coca-Cola would thrill a child as much in a world without marketing.