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29/12/2009

An extended Best Time of the Day Show, with Pause for Thought, Lester's Library and the Listeners' Library features.

Alex brings his own combination of music and conversation to early weekday mornings, making this The Best Time Of The Day Show. Popular features during this week of specially extended shows include the Listeners' Library, where you choose the music, and a selection from Alex's own collection in Lester's Library.

4 hours

Last on

Tue 29 Dec 2009 03:00

Music Played

  • The Psychedelic Furs

    Pretty In Pink

    • Teenage Kicks (Various Artists).
    • Polygram Tv.
  • Indigo Girls

    Fill It Up Again

    • Indigo Girls - All That We Let In.
    • Epic.
  • Dionne Bromfield and Zalon Thompson

    Ain't No Mountain High Enough

    • (CD Single).
    • Island.
    • 2.
  • The Dandy Warhols

    Bohemian Like You

    • (CD Single).
    • Capitol.
    • 7.
  • Stevie Nicks

    Edge Of Seventeen

    • (Single).
    • WEA.
    • 4.
  • Madness

    Forever Young

    • (CD Single).
    • Lucky 7 Records.
    • 1.
  • The Beatles

    Help!

    • The Beatles - 1.
    • Apple.
    • 010.
  • Gwen Guthrie

    Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But The Rent

    • Now 1986 (Various Artists).
    • Now.
  • Rod Stewart and Smokey Robinson

    Tracks Of My Tears

    • Soulbook.
  • Lester's Library: Featured on the CD 'Never Been Rocked Enough' on Curb records

    • Delbert McClinton

      Cease And Desist

  • China Crisis

    Black Man Ray

    • China Crisis - Collection.
    • Virgin.
  • Robbie Williams

    You Know Me

    • (CD Single).
    • Virgin.
    • 1.
  • XTC

    Making Plans for Nigel

  • Scouting for Girls

    Elvis Ain't Dead

    • (CD Single).
    • Epic.
  • Raphael Saadiq

    Never Give You Up (feat. Stevie Wonder)

    • The Way I See It.
    • Columbia Records.
    • 11.
  • Nell Bryden

    Not Like Loving You

    • (CD Single).
    • Cooking Vinyl.
    • 1.
  • Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

    The Love I Lost

    • Midnight Soul (Various Artists).
    • Music Club.
  • Del Amitri

    Nothing Ever Happens

    • Waking Hours.
    • Universal.
    • 010.
  • Timothy B. Schmit

    Parachute

    • Expando.
  • Beth Rowley

    Oh My Life

    • (CD Single).
  • Marvin Gaye

    Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)

  • Brenda Russell

    Piano in the Dark

    • And Then She Kissed Me Vol.1 (Various.
    • Debutante.
  • James Blunt

    1973

    • (CD Single).
    • Atlantic.
  • Lester's Library: Featured on the CD 'Live On The Inside' on Humphead records

    • Sugarland

      Love

  • Swing Out Sister

    Breakout

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
  • Pulp

    Disco 2000

    • Hits.
    • Island.
    • 6.
  • Michelle Gayle

    Sweetness

    • No Greater Love (Various Artists).
    • Global Records & Tapes.
  • Michael Bubl茅

    Cry Me A River

    • Crazy Love.
    • Reprise.
    • 1.
  • 补鈥恏补

    Take On Me

    • Fantastic 80's Disc 1 (Various Artis.
    • Columbia.
    • 1.
  • Lisa Stansfield

    The Real Thing

    • Huge Hits 1997 (Various Artists).
    • Global Television.
  • R. Dean Taylor

    There's A Ghost In My House

    • And They Danced The Night Away.
    • Debutante.
  • Dire Straits

    Walk Of Life

    • Brothers In Arms 20th Anniv Edition.
    • Vertigo.
  • Leddra Chapman

    Story

    • (CD Single).
  • Bruce Springsteen

    The Rising

    • (CD Single).
    • Columbia.
  • Listener's Library: Suggested by George Barclay or Dorset. Featured on the CD 'Kings Road Shop (VA)' on CBS

    • John Hiatt & Roseanne Cash

      That's The Way We Make A Broken Heart

  • Natalie Imbruglia

    Torn

    • 1999 Grammy Nominees (Various Artist.
    • Elektra.
  • Howard Jones

    New Song

    • Fantastic 80's - 3 (Various Artists).
    • Parlophone.
  • Martha Reeves and the Vandellas

    I Can't Dance To That Music You're Playing

    • Dancing In The Streets: Motown's Greatest Hits (Various Artists).
    • Motown.
  • Kim Carnes

    Bette Davis Eyes

    • And The Road Goes On Forever Vol 1.
    • Debutante.
  • Jamiroquai

    Canned Heat

    • (CD Single).
    • Sony.
  • OneRepublic

    All The Right Moves

    • (CD Single).
    • Mosley Music/Interscope Records.
    • 1.
  • James Taylor

    Fire and Rain

    • James Taylor - Classic Songs.
    • CBS.
  • Secret Garden, Brian Kennedy & Tracey Campbell-Nation

    You Raise Me Up

    • (CD Single).
    • Universal.
    • 4.
  • The Supremes

    Love is Like an Itching in My Heart

    • Diana Ross & The Supremes - 25th Anniversary.
    • Motown.
  • Eric Carmen

    Hungry Eyes

    • Dirty Dancing - Original S/Track.
    • RCA.
  • Take That

    Hold Up A Light

    • The Circus.
    • Polydor.
    • 1.
  • Steve Miller Band

    Fly Like An Eagle

    • The Steve Miller Band - Greatest Hits 1974-78.
    • Capitol Records.
  • Lester's Library: Featured on the CD 'Swing High Swing Low' on ASV records

    • The Ink Spots

      Bless You For Being An Angel

  • The Beat

    Can't Get Used To Losing You

    • The Best Of.
    • Go-Feet.
  • Biffy Clyro

    Many Of Horror

    • (CD Single).
    • 14th Floor.
    • 1.

Broadcast

  • Tue 29 Dec 2009 03:00

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