There's a wildlife theme this week, beginning with warm praise for David Attenborough's series on Africa. Jarvis has a little shout about hoovering. A scientist dispels the myth that Mozart's music makes you intelligent. Pigeons are musical too: artist Kerry Morrison made sheet music with the help of birds in the park. Rabbits are Jarvis's pet hate — another thing he finds a bit of a nightmare is opera. The Peel Q is for Quiet Sun. Today in 2003, the first historically significant selections for the National Recording Registry were announced: we hear two surprising examples. And in 1967 the Outer Space Treaty ensured that the stars would remain free from human conflict. Birthdays: Margo Timmins, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lewis Carroll (Alan Bennett reads about Tweedledum and Tweedledee), Gillian Gilbert, Tricky (on crime and punishment), Frank Skinner (on The Magic Flute), Rosamund Pike (on her operatic upbringing) and Nick Mason.
Roy Ayers - Africa, Centre of the World
Vivian Stanshall - Baba Tunde
Serafina Steer - How to Haunt a House Party
Olivia Chaney - Daddy, Oh I'm Hoovering
Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane
Jacques Loussier - Mozart
Marvin Gaye - Why Did I Choose You
The a.P.A.t.T Orchestra - Bird Sheet Music: Movements 8, 10, 11, 14 and 24
Lieutenant Pigeon - Aunty May
Lone Pigeon - Boats
Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
Scott Walker - The Me I Never Knew
New Order - Doubts Even Here
Tricky - Song for Yukiko
Members of the Collegium Aureum / Colin Davis - Mozart: Queen of the Night's Vengeance Aria
Gordon Jenkins - The Nightmare
Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Live)
The Damned - Help
Quiet Sun - Trot
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - The Message
Les Paul and Mary Ford - How High the Moon
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Weird: The second news break was just the music bed, with no reporter speaking over it!
