Today seems to have been an uneventful day in history - in 1930, BBC Radio declared it to be No News Day. Jarvis reads excerpts from 17 by Bill Drummond, a series of essays exploring his theories about recorded music. Jarvis corrects some mistakes from previous shows, reads out appreciative listener emails about the Laurie Anderson show and mentions that he's up for the Sony Rising Star Award. Then he plays some songs with French titles by non-French artists. Birthdays: Bez, Miklós Rózsa, Hayley Mills, David Tennant, Thor Heyerdahl (who voyaged to Easter Island on a raft), Skip Spence (a 60s casualty), Les Pattinson and Tony Mottola. Valete: Frankie Howerd (a clip of his stand-up) and Malcolm McLaren (a speech from October 2009 in which he describes his earlier life and education, of sorts).
Miklós Rózsa — The Dream (from Spellbound)
Happy Mondays — Kinky Afro
Laura Marling — Made By Maid
MGMT — Someone's Missing
Arthur Lyman — Kon Tiki
Serena-Maneesh — Magdalena (Symphony No 8)
Howlin' Wolf — Smokestack Lightning '68
Alexander 'Skip' Spence — All My Life (I Love You)
Frazer Hines — Time Traveller
Jad Fair and Yo La Tengo — Feisty Millionaire Fills Potholes with $100 Bills
Balmorhea — The Summer
The Beatles — Strawberry Fields Forever
Echo and The Bunnymen — Silver
Sarah Vaughan — My Favourite Things
Vincent Gallo — I Wrote This Song for the Girl Paris Hilton
Señor Coconut — The Robots
Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band — Cherchez La Femme
Quasi — Laissez les Bons Temps Rouler
Judy Henske — Let the Good Times Roll
Richard Hawley — Re-Morse Code
