Oscars Music with JONNY TRUNK

As tonight is the Academy Awards, Jarvis describes the Oscar statuette: more facts about it appear throughout the show.  This Day in history was significant for road signalling, so the Monty Python team drone mournfully about traffic lights.  Jarvis talks to record expert Jonny Trunk about Oscar-winning music, and we hear tracks from Dumbo, The Elephant Man, Doctor Zhivago, The Sterile Cuckoo, The Sting and The Artist.  Marking Johnny Cash's 80th birthday, there's a megamix tribute.  In the inaugural 'settee theatre', Raina Lampkins-Fielder and Jarvis act out the story In Reference to Your Recent Communications by Tessa Brown, about a love affair which has deteriorated rather alarmingly.  Birthdays: Bob Hite, Sandie Shaw (Morrissey praises her), Levi Strauss, Michel Houellebecq, Johnny Cash, Fats Domino and Erykah Badu.

In Memoriam: Dory Previn

Music and dialogue from The Valley of the Dolls open the show.  On This Day, Thomas Edison patented the phonograph, which enabled us to listen to recorded music, and New York exchanged hands.  Songwriter Dory Previn died this week on Valentine's Day.  We hear a megamix of her songs and clips of an interview in which she discusses mental health, Judy Garland, songwriting and how sad songs can be funny.  Jarvis tells the controversial story of Tyneham House in Dorset; and talks about film, including a new documentary about Serge Gainsbourg.  Plus another chance to hear Jarvis reading from The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.  Birthdays: Carson McCullers, Tony Iommi (remembering the day he lost his fingertips), Seal, Lee Marvin (on his screen persona), Nicolaus Copernicus (why he was so groundbreaking) and Beth Ditto.

With Film Director GRANT GEE

1-2-0-2-2-0-1-2: today's date sounds like a soundcheck!  Jarvis asks listeners for film music recommendations, as tonight is the Baftas.  Director Grant Gee talks about his film Patience: After Sebald.  He describes WG Sebald, his unique writing style, and the trippy journey through Suffolk which Gee tries to recreate in the film – we hear a chilling clip.  This Day was the Battle of the Herrings, and Munch's painting The Scream was stolen: there's a [3m37s] soundpiece of the best screams in rock.  Jarvis reads some of Darwin's favourite poem The Excursion by Wordsworth, which is about the origins of mankind.  Anticipating Valentine's Day, Raina Lampkins-Fielder reads a romantic menu from The Futurist Cookbook.  Birthdays: Grant McLennan, Lisa Hannigan, Joseph Jordania (his theory of choral singing), Charles Darwin (poetry), Raymond Kurzweil (on the fusion of people and machines), Ray Manzarek, Franco Zeffirelli, Abraham Lincoln and Darren Aronofsky (aural inspiration from Black Swan).

Kraftwerk Special

On this snowy Sunday, the station is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Kraftwerk's first UK No 1. Today in 1924 the BBC first broadcast the Pips, so we hear a Kraftwerk track mimicking radio time signals. And this week Jarvis was the DJ at a children's party, so he plays musical statues with us. Jarvis recalls how he first heard Kraftwerk thanks to his mum. In archive clips, the band discuss why they began making 'electronic folk music'; how they played live, occasionally in two places at once; and how they tried to find a new, creative way to engage with computers. David 'Kid' Jensen asks a baffled Ralf Hütter why The Model found UK success long after its release – Jarvis looks for clues in the previous week's chart. Finally, Taylor Parkes returns with an essay on Right-Wing Rock. Birthdays: Nolan Bushnell (we hear some Pong noises) and Charlotte Rampling.