Does modern Mother's Day go right back to ancient Greek festivals honouring Cybele? It's also Summer Day in Albania, White Day in Japan and Pi Day for mathematicians. Jarvis accidentally watched Lambing Live this week, so he plays a track about how they count sheep in Yorkshire. We hear 'soothing sounds for baby' by Raymond Scott, an American one-man Radiophonic Workshop, and a track he made with Jim Henson called Limbo: The Organised Mind. Childhood memories are stirred by the Trumpton Clock and Baby Mine from Dumbo. Peter Sagal reads ...Lamentations of the Father by Ian Frazier, a short story sermon from a dad's point of view. And Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: Are They Any Good? Birthdays: Rita Tushingham, Casey Jones (a heroic train driver), Albert Einstein (William Simpson reads his theories on society and personality), Pam Ayres (contemplating her son), Michael Caine and Quincy Jones.
The Intruders - I'll Always Love My Mama
John Lennon and The Plastic Ono Band - Mother
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love
X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents
Burl Ives - Casey Jones
The Katzenjammers - Cars
Jake Thackray - Old Molly Metcalfe
Einstein on society and personality, read by William Simpson
Philip Glass - Einstein on the Beach (Cadenza)
Spacemen 3 - Transparent Radiation
Raymond Scott - Lullaby
Jim Henson and Raymond Scott - Limbo: The Organised Mind
The Trumpton Clock
Betty Noyes - Baby Mine (Dumbo OST)
How Can That Be My Baby, read by Pam Ayres
Quincy Jones - Get a Bloomin' Move On (The Italian Job OST)
Evie Sands - It's This I Am
Prince - The Cross
'The Laws Concerning Food and Drink; Household Principles; Lamentations of the Father', read by Peter (not Ian) Sagal
The Beatles - Lady Madonna
Clare and The Reasons - All the Wine
The Morning Benders - Excuses
Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention - Peaches en Regalia
Can - Mother Sky
