Basil Rathbone Reads Oscar Wilde

The show comes loud and clear from BBC Media City in Salford.  Oscar Wilde was born this day in 1854: actor Basil Rathbone gives an expressive reading of Wilde's tragic tale, The Nightingale and the Rose.  Also On This Day, police TV drama The Bill debuted, and anaesthesia by ether was first demonstrated.  Jarvis chats to his guests Marconi Union, whose track Weightless was scientifically designed to be more soothing than a massage.  Angela Lansbury goes bobbing along at the bottom of the beautiful briny, and poet Ken Nordine considers what happens When You're Born.  And Are They Any Good returns with Bob Mould.  Birthdays: Max Bygraves, Bob Mould, Nico (discussed by John Cale), Angela Lansbury, Gary Kemp, Flea (burbling) and Peter Bowles (who found playing a millionaire got him noticed). Valete: Marie Antoinette.

Tom Waits — Back in the Crowd
The Smiths — Cemetery Gates
Nico — Little Sister
Kevin Ayers — Decadence
Richard Warren — The Lonesome Singer in the Apocalypse Band
Magazine — Physics
Andy Pask and Charlie Morgan — Overkill (Theme to The Bill)
Mud — Tiger Feet
David Bowie — Wild Is the Wind
PJ Harvey — When Under Ether
Dustin O'Halloran — Opus 23
Marconi Union — Weightless
Lemon Jelly — Soft
Angela Lansbury and David Tomlinson — The Beautiful Briny
Ken Nordine — When You're Born
Spandau Ballet — The Freeze
Françoise Hardy — The Rose
Tom Fazzini — The Programme
Mara Carlyle — Bowlface En Provence
Sugar — If I Can't Change Your Mind