The Maudlin Megamix

With a major birthday approaching, Jarvis muses over the autumnal change in the air. He asks listeners about our must-have music for birthdays. The BBC's Sound of Cinema season gets a mention, and On This Day, Lehman Brothers imploded. We wonder whether the unearthly beauty of the glass harmonica ever really sent anyone mad. Then it's time for a 50th birthday Maudlin Megamix, during which Jarvis reads the story Forever Overhead by David Foster Wallace, about an adolescent boy taking his first tentative dive into the unknown. Today in history, Winston Churchill reminds us, was the climax of the Battle of Britain. And we cheer ourselves up with this video. This week's recipe: pizza. Birthdays: Oliver Stone (arguing that we are addicted to greed), Ben Wallers, Cannonball Adderley, Bruno Hoffmann, Sophie Dahl (on why she loves cooking) and Jimmy Carr (with a quick quip).

Daniel Knox - Blue Car
Lee Hazlewood - My Autumn's Done Come
Felice Bros - Oliver Stone
JS Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 998 (extract)
Country Teasers - Golden Apples
Cannonball Adderley - Virgo
The Rolling Stones - Mother's Little Helper
Bruno Hoffmann - Chopin: Largo in C minor (glass harmonica)
The Sugarcubes - Birthday
Darren Hayman - London Fields Lido
Lesley Gore - It's My Party
Archie Bell and The Drells - I Just Can't Stop Dancing
(55.00 a Bernard Hermann-esque strings track beneath the story)
György Ligeti - Lux Aeterna (2001: A Space Odyssey OST)
Pachanga Boys - Vampiros Hermanos
Scott Walker - Little Things (That Keep Us Together)
(1.08.53 oboe-led film music (Kes?)
Aram Khachaturian - Gayane Ballet Suite, Adagio (2001: A Space Odyssey OST)
Leonard Cohen - Tonight Will Be Fine
Burt Bacharach - Something Big
David Bowie - Golden Years
Eddie Rabbitt - Tullahoma Dancing Pizza Man
The Beatles - Flying
Nelson Riddle - Lolita Ya Ya (Lolita OST)
The Lords - Poor Boy
Picture Box Theme Tune
Iggy Pop - No Shit
The Beach Boys - Wasn't Made for These Times