Let's celebrate: 6 Music has survived! On This Day, Martin Frobisher sighted Greenland; the town of Tijuana was founded; the Hollywood Bowl first opened; Jean-Louis Pons observed the first of many comets he discovered; A Tale of Two Cities and To Kill a Mockingbird were first published; Waterloo Station opened; and today there is a total solar eclipse visible from Easter Island. Jarvis reads a poem by Jim Morrison. We hear some of Fleet: Ice Cream Orchestra, a piece for Pixiphone and Grampian horn by Kelvin Pawsey and Chris Yates. We also ponder a tall tale about a phonebox. Spiritual guru Alan Watts gives a mesmeric lecture on the Hindu concept of Om. Cleo Laine reads The Frog's Request by Brian Patten. And Jarvis reveals where his intro/outro music comes from... Birthdays: Reg Varney, Giorgio Armani, Craig Charles, Lil Kim, Yul Brynner, Pete Murphy, Michael Rose and Andrew Bird. Valete: Laurence Olivier.
John Lennon — Power to the People
The Associates — White Car in Germany
Herb Alpert — Without Her
Adam Green — Hollywood Bowl
Jim Morrison — Orange County Suite
Comet Gain — Intergalactic Starbed
Martin Denny — March of the Siamese Children
Bauhaus — Bela Lugosi's Dead
Michael Rose — Dub Burial
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band — Visiting an Old Friend
Andrew Bird — A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left
Kelvin Pawsey and Chris Yates — Fleet: Music for Six Ice Cream Vans
John Cooper Clarke — A Heart Disease Called Love
Alan Watts — Om
The Soulful Strings — Within You Without You
The National Theatre of Great Britain — Under the Greenwood Tree
Sun Ra — Astro Black
Ludella Black — I've Just Seen a Face
The Kinks — No Return
Cleo Laine — The Frog's Request
Lydia Lunch — A Cruise to the Moon
Elmer Bernstein — To Kill a Mockingbird OST, Main Title Theme
