David Cunningham

Jarvis talks about the concept behind Aidan J Moffat's Ten Short Songs for Modern Lovers. Honouring the first publication of The Times newspaper, Jarvis plays a musical representation of the steam press. David Cunningham of The Flying Lizards comes in to talk about the band's album re-issues, his project in which all the pianos in a piano shop played together, and working with Michael Nyman. Then they have a jamma session, with DC on the thumb piano and JC reading from The Interrogative Mood: A Novel? by Padgett Powell. From SweetThunder.org, a recording of a decaying fairground organ. Lastly, Jarvis asks of Bright Eyes, Are They Any Good? and reads an excerpt about them from Jonathan Franzen's novel Freedom. Birthdays: John Bunyan, Nancy Mitford, Berry Gordy Jr, Friedrich Engels, William Blake (prompting a reading of Songs of Experience: The Human Abstract).

Garth Jennings

Jarvis reads the English words to the Gaelic song Horo Bhodachain by The MacDonald Sisters. He also explains the idea of World Hello Day. Director Garth Jennings drops by to chat about his creative process, why he started making music videos and his film Son of Rambow. He brings in a recording of Oliver Postgate reading from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, as well as the Italian Lessons track from his album of happy hold music. He also talks about a film he's promoting, A Town Called Panic. Afterwards, Jarvis talks about an exhibition of customised record sleeves he saw in Paris, World Television Day and the Piltdown Man hoax. Birthdays: Roy Boulting, Eleanor Powell (doing some tap dancing), Alex James, Goldie Hawn and Björk.

Matthew Herbert

Musician Matthew Herbert discusses his concert at the RFH in which all the music is based on one newspaper. He explains why he chose the Guardian over the Times and how he wants the concert to highlight conflicting messages within the same paper. He also considers how we think of sound as generic compared to specific visual records. Jarvis marks the NME printing the first regular singles chart this day in 1952, and the first BBC radio broadcast. Cordelia Cembrowicz gives her eyewitness account of the recent student protests. Sadly, no-one answers the Are They Any Good question of Yanni. Birthdays: Cornell Gunter, John Henry Barbee, Wendy Carlos (talking about synthesisers), Brendan Benson, Prince Charles, Big Daddy (talking about his real name, Shirley) and Gunter Sachs. Valete: Michel Colombier.

Brian Eno (1)

Richard Burton's chilling opening dialogue to War of the Worlds starts the show and Jarvis wonders about music for firework displays. After a Brian Eno megamix, the celebrated producer introduces his new album, Small Craft on a Milk Sea. He remarks that a record label's like a gallery: you get to know the kind of work they show. He remembers mixing live for Roxy Music, in costume at the back of the auditorium! He considers how to keep improvisation fresh, with techniques like 'imagining lost music from the future'. His Oblique Strategy Cards also help to spark creativity when under pressure in an expensive studio. He praises Cosmo Jarvis' method of writing music visually, and poet Rick Holland. Birthdays: Captain Cook, Neil Hannon, Joni Mitchell, Ary Barroso, Albert Camus (who reads from L'Étranger), Jean Shrimpton (on modelling). Dee Clark, Billy Graham (interviewed about Creationism by David Frost). Valete: Steve McQueen.