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On this evening's Weekends With The Wizard: a four-hour celebration of three of the best composers of the scores for the best of British cinema, mostly from the immediate ten post-war years.

From Dead Of Night to The Innocents, and everything in between. Sir Malcolm Arnold's devastatingly wistful music for Whistle Down The Wind and his stirring (and Oscar-winning) score for The Bridge On The River Kwai. William Alwyn's music for the relentlessly dramatic Odd Man Out and the relentlessly comedic The History Of Mr Polly. And the music of the very French Georges Auric for the very British Ealing comedies, the likes of Passport To Pimlico and The Titfield Thunderbolt.

All put together and painstakingly reconstructed by the good people at the Chandos Movies sub-label. So do listen, won't you?

Gonna have a BBQ party! Playing songs about summer and songs we like in the summertime.

Is summer finally here? I fucking hope so. This Saturday, White Light will be exclusively playing 50's R&B, Soul, Surf and Rock. So tune in, dance, have a drink and start kissing somebody!

I'm sick! Feeling terrible. Will be back next week.

Sorry about the no show today but we are making some much needed changes at the station. Be with you next week until then check out the fresh podcasts from parts 2 and 3 of last weeks show.

On tonight's Fifty-Eighth Edition of Weekends With The Wizard:

The complete original cast recording on Columbia Records of Edward Albee's first (and, perhaps, greatest) full-length play: Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?.

With Uta Hagen, Arthur Hill, George Grizzard and Melinda Dillon.

Listen...for Chrissakes!

I'm trying to figure out how to IM, both as the DJ and the listener. I have Gmail. How do I do it?

I'm trying to figure out how to IM, both as the DJ and the listener. I have Gmail. How do I do it?

On tonight's Fifty-Seventh Edition of Weekends With The Wizard:

Enough of this godforsaken spoken-word bollocks. Time for some cheesy cover-song bollocks instead.

These Foolish Things; Another Time, Another Place; Let's Stick Together; In Your Mind; The Bride Stripped Bare: the first five solo albums of Bryan Ferry, late and occasionally not late of Roxy Music. 1973-1978. Strange covers and stranger originals, all entrancing in one way or another.

And all, of course, impeccably coiffured.

Caught in deadlines in North Portland.
I will catch you all next week.
Will be posting podcasts later today.