Jarvis returns with tales of his summer adventures! Including surviving the absolutely boiling weather; the Venice Biennale; the Big Melt in Sheffield; the End of the Road Festival; a Beck-inspired concert at the Barbican; the Despacio project in Manchester; the Rory McEwen exhibition at Kew; and at a lakeside cocktail bar, an entertainer making a surprising song choice. Today in history, World War II began — Stephen Fry recites WH Auden's poem about that day — Martha the last Passenger Pigeon died, the Cod Wars started, and Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea was published. Plus, what could replace The A-Z of Peel: perhaps recipes for Sunday lunch? Birthdays: Edgar Rice Burroughs (we learn Tarzan's language), AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (founder of Krishna Consciousness), Johann Pachelbel, Violet Carson (in character as Ena Sharples), Barry Gibb (recalling the Saturday Night Fever premiere), Bruce Foxton (on lyric-writing), Gloria Estefan and Armi Aavikko (video).
Melodians Steel Orchestra - Vaughan Williams: Symphony in D minor
Manchester String Quartet - Being Boiled
Patrick Coutin - J'aime Regarder les Filles
Andrew Wyatt - Horse Latitudes
Hank Mizell - Jungle Rock
George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
Frank Sinatra - It's Nice to Go Trav'ling
Stephen Fry reads 'September 1, 1939' by WH Auden
Tim Buckley - Hong Kong Bar
Bob Lind - Elusive Butterfly
Angel Olsen - The Waiting
Portland Cello Project and Jolie Holland (Beck) - The Wolf Is On the Hill
The Modern Lovers - Don't Let Our Youth Go to Waste
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Jean-Francois Paillard - Pachelbel: Canon in D major for strings and continuo
John Herald - (Martha, Last of the) Passenger Pigeons
Violet Carson - Bolton's Yard
Bee Gees - Don't Wanna Live Inside Myself
The Jam - London Traffic
Rory McEwen and Jim Dine - Clam Spaghetti
Rory McEwen - Names
Dimitri Tiomkin - I Am Your Dream (The Old Man and the Sea OST)
Eleanor Friedberger - Echo or Encore
Jarvis's recording of a lounge singer - 'Creep'
The Tammys - Egyptian Shumba
The Shangri-Las - I Can Never Go Home Anymore
