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THIS week’s special edition of FRIDAY NIGHT IS MUSIC NIGHT (RADIO 2, 8PM), from the London Palladium, follows Michael Parkinson’s love affair with music. It charts the career of the Barnsley lad who loved cricket and the movies, and went on to become a talk show legend. The 60-piece BBC Concert Orchestra, with the BBC Big Band, will be performing music including American songbook classics by the likes of Cole Porter, Jerome Kern and George Gershwin, while the guest of honour (pictured) talks about championing artists such as Michael Buble, Clare Teal, Jamie Cullum and Diana Krall.

CLASSIC FM’S month-long celebration of the great composers comes to Johann Sebastian Bach. Centrepiece of tonight’s FULL WORKS CONCERT (CLASSIC FM, 8PM) is the rising brass

fanfares of Bach’s Magnificat, performed by Le Concert d’Astree. Other favourites include the Violin Concerto In E Minor, played by Alina Ibragimova, and Murray Perahia’s treatment of the D Minor Keyboard Concerto.

LOPA KOTHARI and Kathryn Tickell present the first of a weekend of broadcasts from the world music festival WOMAD 2018 (RADIO 3, 10PM), live from Charlton Park in Wiltshire. Tonight, there are performances from Syrian musician Omar Suleyman, as well as one of Mozambique’s greatest voices, Humberto Carlos Benfica.