On a crisp winter's day, Jarvis takes us sightseeing around Paris. He walks us from the BBC's Paris studio, up the Champs-Élysées to a record shop. Then he reads about the Gare du Nord and its statues representing European destinations. Today in 2009, Barack Obama was inaugurated, and in 1986 the first Martin Luther King Day was celebrated. There's arcane spoken word from The North Sea Scrolls. The rowdy Peel P is for Panacea. 16 January is when the French do their New Year's thanksgiving: pianist Nils Frahm gives thanks for his unbroken digits. After the Louvre, we warm up with a hot toddy. Birthdays: Clarice Cliff, Hachidai Nakamura, Eric Stewart, David Lynch (who discusses his creative process), Gary Barlow (lamenting his early lyric-writing), DeForest Kelley, Buzz Aldrin (marvelling at the moon landing), Tom Baker (Jarvis does an impression of him), Federico Fellini (considering neorealism), Slim Whitman and Josef Hofmann.
Jim Williams - A Happy Man Pulls a Caravan (Sightseers OST)
David Thomas Broughton - Perfect Louse
La Féline - Cœur bizarre
The Stranglers - European Female
Julee Cruise - Falling (Twin Peaks Theme)
David Lynch and Alan R Splet - In Heaven (Lady in the Radiator Song)
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds - Jubilee Street
Sister Rosetta Tharpe - Didn't It Rain (Live)
Songs: Ohia - Steve Albini's Blues
Alexander Courage - Star Trek Theme
The Human League - Tom Baker
Go-Kart Mozart - Blowin' in a Secular Breeze
Western Man - Solitary
The North Sea Scrolls - Scroll Three
The North Sea Scrolls - I'm Not the Man You Think I Am Karen, I'm the Actor Tony Allen
Dean Parrish - I'm On My Way
Nino Rota - Carlotta's Gallop (from 8½)
Nino Rota - La poupée automate, Versione 2 (from Casanova)
Viv Albertine - Still England
Slim Whitman - Indian Love Call
Panacea - Power of Darkness
Nils Frahm - You
Josef Hofmann - Berceuse, Op 57 in D flat
Dory Previn - With My Daddy in the Attic
Suzanne Vega - Tom's Diner
Matthew E White - Hot Toddies
