In The Key Of Charles & Inside The Music Updates

As you may have heard, Joy To The World (the Euradio Christmas Music Day concert) pre-empts the following R2 shows on Sunday: Choral Concert, In The Key of Charles, Inside the Music, Sunday Afternoon In Concert, and Skylarking.

But both In The Key Of Charles and Inside The Music can be heard over at R2's stablemate, Radio 1. So for fans of both of these programmes, here are the details of this weekend's broadcasts -- again, these two shows are pre-empted on Radio 2, but still air on R1.

First, In The Key Of Charles. (Radio 1 at 9 p.m. 10 p.m. AT; 10:30 NT.) This week, Gregory takes on a wee theme that's dear to all of us who takes inordinate pleasure in the "little" things in life. Yes, the theme is "little."

Music includes performances by the Choir of King’s College Cambridge, the Swingle Singers, the Modern Mandolin Quartet, Nina Simone, Joni Mitchell, Lizz Wright, Coral Egan, The Mamas & the Papas, Ozzie Nelson, Bebel Gilberto, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughan, Diana Krall ... and as always Gregory himself, unscripted and unpredictable, at the piano in his living room.

And on Inside The Music, (Radio One at 8 p.m.) episode seven of The Concerto According To Manny -- this week, the Rachmaninov Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, Opus 18.