"On The Beat" is available for the following week on BBC Radio Merseyside's Listen Again facility.

Saturday 5 January 2008 - American singer/songwriter Peter Rowan

Saturday 12 January 2008 - No show. The concert "Liverpool - The Musical" is being broadcast live from the ECHO Arena.

Saturday 19 January 2008 - (from 5.30pm to 8.00pm) Film director, Peter Bogdonavich, whose latest film is a celebration of Tom Petty, and Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett of Little Feat, and the blues guitarist Stephen Dale Petit.

Saturday 26 January 2008 - Steel guitarist B J Cole and slide guitarist Michael Messer.

Saturday 2 February 2008 - No show, late kick-off.

Saturday 9 February 2008 - The Tim Harvey Quartet, mainstream jazz with blues guitarist Bill Hackney and Canadian beat poet Ralph Alfonso recorded at BBC Radio Merseyside.

Saturday 16 February 2008 - Juke Box Jury with the artistic director of the Bluecoat Bryan Biggs, guitarist Neil Campbell, publicist and author, Neil Cossar and owner of the Door cafe, Matt Robinson.

Saturday 23 February 2008 - Conductor, writer and arranger, Laurie Johnson, noted for his themes for The Avengers, The Professionals and This Is Your Life.

Saturday 1 March 2008 - (From 5.30 to 8pm) 50s star Johnny Brandon, who also wrote songs for Bill Haley, Mark Wynter and Billy Fury, and Fionna Duncan of the Clyde Valley Stompers.

Saturday 8 March 2008 - The wacky career of music writer C P Lee, formerly of Albertos Y Los Paranoias.

Saturday 15 March 2008 - Live Buddy Holly special with his guitarist Tommy Allsup, Johnny Rogers, Juke Box Eddies, Susan Hedges and Raphael Callaghan. This is to celebrate the tribute concert to Buddy at the Phil on 20 March, the 50th anniversary of Buddy playing the concert hall. (Because of a split frequency with rugby, this programme will only be on FM from 7pm)

Saturday 22 March 2008 - No show: late-kick off for soccer.

Saturday 29 March 2008 (from 5.30 to 8.00pm) - Juke Box Jury with record collector and ardent concertgoer, Tim Adams, Raphael Callaghan from Blue C, Henry Priestman (former Christian) and from Radio Merseyside's sports team, DJ Paul Bradshaw, plus Stan Williams talks about being at school with John Lennon.

Saturday 5 April 2008 - Songwriter Roger Cook (Part 1) (You've Got Your Troubles, Lovers Of The World Unite, I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing,, Something's Gotten Hold Of My Heart, Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress - how's that for starters?)

Saturday 12 April 2008 - Songwriter Roger Cook (Part 2)

Saturday 19 April 2008 - Maurice Cockrill on Liverpool's hippie bohemia in the 1960s.

Saturday 26 April 2008 - "I can't remember if I cried, When I read about his widowed bride" - Spencer Leigh talks to Buddy Holly's widow, Maria Elena Holly. Spencer also talks to Joe McGann, star of the new touring production of Fiddler On The Roof.

Saturday 3 May 2008 (from 5.30pm to 8.00pm) - He's back: the most popular of all my guests - Little Richard's biographer, Chas (Dr Rock) White. Expect mayhem and you'll get it! Plus the first UK interview in years with Liverpool star, Michael Cox, who had a Top 10 hit with Angela Jones. Plus a vintage interview with Humphrey Lyttelton.

Saturday 10 May 2008 (from 5.00pm to 8.00pm) - Stuart Shea, author of the 500 page, Fab Four FAQ, and Sid Griffin fromt the Coal Porters and author of The Basement Tapes..

Saturday 17 May 2008 - Juke Box Jury with Colin Hall (Rock'n'Reel writer, custodian of Mendips), Norman Killon (DJ at Eric's), Beatles promoter Sam Leach and rock'n'roll aficionado Mick O'Toole

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Starting at 5pm on Sunday 18 May 2008 for six weeks is Starry Eyed, six one hour programmes about the BBC's files on Liverpool entertainers and events. Unless you (like me) have read these files, you cannot possibly know what will be in these programmes. An introductory note is on BBC Radio Merseyside's website.

Sunday 18 May 2008 - Part 1, Give Me The Spotlight

Sunday 25 May 2008 - Part 2, It's Those Men Again!

Sunday 8 June 2008 - Part 3, Horses For Courses

Sunday 15 June 2008 - Part 4, Let Me Entertain You

Sunday 22 June 2008 - Part 5, You Cant' Do That

Sunday 29 June 2008 - Part 6, Trust Us, We're The BBC

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Saturday 24 May 2008 - A live concert featuing bands visiting Liverpool for the International Pop Overthrow at the Cavern and other venues in Mathew Street.

Saturday 31 May 2008 - Waterloo-born, Radio 4 comic, Steve Gribbin, with a radio version of his stage show, Adolf To The Zutons.

Saturday 7 June 2008 - British country star from the 60s, Houston Wells, who was produced by Joe Meek, artist Ben Johnson on going to the Cavern, Giles Martin on Love and Anton Barbeau performing live.

Saturday 14 June 2008 - Peter Carlin, author of Catch A Wave - The Rise, Fall And Redemption Of The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson, and Mark Lewisohn on the new edition of The Beatles' London..

Saturday 21 June 2008 - Wigan-born songwriter, Barry Mason, in concert at BBC Radio Merseyside, with former Applejack Don Gould and local singer/songwriter Rachael Wright (Part 1)

Saturday 28 June 2008 - Wigan-born songwriter, Barry Mason, in concert at BBC Radio Merseyside (Part 2), plus Tim Whitnall, back on Merseyside to appear in Eight Miles High at the Royal Court.

Saturday 5 July 2008 - Prior to their Cavern appearance, Stackridge live in the studio plus Peter Noone on The Very Best Of Herman's Hermits and from the swamps of Louisiana, Tony Joe White.

Saturday 12 July 2008 - Juke Box Jury with Ron Ellis, author of the Johnny Ace detective novels, Gary Murphy, whose show, Guitar Legends, is at the Phil on Sunday July 27, Ray O’Brien, author of There Are Places I’ll Remember, a guide to Beatle venues on Merseyside, and Christine Purnell from the blues duo, Blue C.

Saturday 19 July 2008 - Hey, Mony, Mony! It's Tommy James.

Saturday 26 July 2008 - Songwriter and producer, Tony Macaulay, who has written and produced Baby Now That I've Found You (Foundations), Let The Heartaches Begin (Long John Baldry), The Lights Of Cincinnati (Scott Walker) and Home Lovin' Man (Andy Williams).

Saturday 2 August 2008 - The Granada TV producer, Johnnie Hamp, on working with Buddy Holly, the Beatles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Gene Vincent. He has just written his autobiography, It Beats Working For A Living. (Trafford Publishing).

Saturday 9 August 2008 - Scottish singer/songwriter Tam White, who had a hit with What In The World's Come Over You, and Mike Heron from the 60s festival favourites, the Incredible String Band.

Saturday 16 August 2008 - No show: late kickoff.

Saturday 23 August 2008 - Beatles Week in Liverpool: Beatle authors John Boland (Beatles For Sale), Damian Smith (Beatles In Ireland), Eric Woolley (The Golden Years Of Merseybeat) and Beatles' photographer Robert Whittaker.

Saturday 30 August 2008 - The former Controller of Radio 1 and a key producer, Johnny Beerling, talking about his book, "Radio 1 - The Inside Scene" (Trafford Publishing).

Saturday 6 September 2008 (Starts 5.30) - Rita Tushingham talks about her career with music from The Trap and Dr Zhivago, followed by a Juke Box Jury with Dave Crosby (organised Buddy Holly tribute at the Phil in March 2008), Colin Hall (Mendips curator), Norman Killen (DJ at Eric's), Mick O'Toole (50s authority).

Saturday 13 Saturday 2008 (Starts 5.30 and ends at 7.00pm as BBC Radio Merseyside is broadcasting a Russell Watson concert live) - Cockney special! Tommy Steele on his BBC files and Alan Klein who wrote What A Crazy World We're Living In and Sally Ann and was part of the New Vaudeville Band.

Saturday 20 Saturday 2008 - British rock'n'roll singer, Terry Wayne, and singer/ songwriter Phillip Goodhand Tait.

Saturday 27 Saturday 2008 - (Starts 5.30) Record producer Snuff Garrett, whose artists include Johnny Burnette, Bobby Vee, Gary Lewis and the Playboys, and Gene McDaniels, The One And Only Chesney Hawkes, Waterloo-born comedian, Steve Gribbin, and Sonny West, the writer of "Oh Boy!" and "Rave On"..

Saturday 4 October 2008 - (Starts 5.30) Feature on Percy Phillips' recording studio where Ken Dodd, Billy Fury and the Beatles first recorded with Percy's grandson, Peter Phillips, plus Nigel Greenberg, who ran the Cavern's recording studio, and Bob Stanley from Saint Etienne.

Saturday 11 October 2008 - (Starts 5.30pm) Juke Box Jury with Chris Beazer, Pete Cowley, Brian O'Connell and Bernard Wrigley.

Saturday 18 October 2008 - Philip Norman on his new biography, John Lennon - The Life.

Saturday 25 October 2008 - (Starts 5.00pm) In Concert - Edwin McCain, Henry Priestman and Pete Riley. Also, Hoylake born songwriter, Paul Kennerley, who wound up in Nashville writing country hits for the Judds, Johnny Cash, Marty Stuart and Emmylou Harris, and a session from US singer/songwriter Corrine West.

Saturday 1 November 2008 - No show. Late kickoff.

Saturday 8 November 2008 - No show. Late kickoff.

Saturday 15 November 2008 (5.30pm - 8pm) - The drummer, Bryan Dodson, formerly with Liverpool Scene and a session with Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby.

Saturday 22 November 2008 - Alwyn Turner on his new book, Halfway To Paradise, featuring Harry Hammond's photographs and published by the V&A, and Susie Boyt on her highly acclaimed book, My Judy Garland Life.

Saturday 29 November 2008 (5.30pm to 8pm) - An interview with Nigel Rees (formerly from Crosby and now host of Quote, Unquote) and Ian Greaves (co-author of Prime Minister, You Wanted To See Me, a book about Radio 4's Week Ending), plus a Juke Box Jury with Paul Gallagher (Curator of Contemporary Collecting, National Museums Liverpool), Andrew Millin (champion show-jumper and owner of Church Farm equestrian centre in Mawdesley), Alun Parry (Liverpool agit prop singer/songwriter and organiser of recent working class song festival at the Picket), and Melissa Storey (manager of Vivienne Westwood store in Cavern Walks).

Saturday 6 December 2008 - Andrew Cornall, record producer for many years with Decca and now executive director (orchestra, ensembles and education) at Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, and Ken Seymour, who interviewed John and Yoko in Montreal..

Saturday 13 December 2008 - Folk musician Roy Bailey and guitar supremo Stefan Grossman.

Saturday 20 December 2008 (5.30 to 8pm) - Strictly Come Christmas!

Guests: Tim Adams (doowop collector), Chris Beazer (collector of original versions of hit songs), Simon Bell (publicity officer, Liverpool University Press), Bryan Biggs (Director, Bluecoat), Frank Donovan (local promoter of guitar heroes), Steve Hardstaff (graphic designer with a new book of record sleeves and posters, Cover Versions), Dean Johnson (singer/songwriter: opening act for Paul Carrack and the Christians), Carl Jones (Lonnie Donegan expert), Norman Killon (DJ at Eric’s and The Sink), Mick O’Toole (rock’n’roll collector), and Matt Robinson (former DJ at Zanzibar and now owner of The Door café in Hanover Street).

Each guest has been asked to bring in two Christmas records that he would like the world to hear (and they can through Listen Again). They will be voting on the other choices and so by the end of the show, we will have a winner – Strictly Come Christmas.

Saturday 27 December 2008 (5pm to 8pm) - A musical review of the Capital of Culture year.

Guests: Tony Brown (artist responsible for 100 Heads Thinking As One), Ron Ellis (creator of the detective Johnny Ace), Steve Gribbin (Radio 4 comedian), Mark McNulty (photographer – new book Pop Cultured), Raphael Callaghan and Christine Purnell (blues musicians, Blue C) and Bill Kenny and Alan Schroeder (Black Knights, who were in the film, Ferry Cross The Mersey).

Guests will be talking about the Capital of Culture year and some of the highlights for them. There will be live music from Blue C.

Saturday 3 January 2009 - No show, football.

Saturday 10 January 2009 - No show football

Saturday 17 January 2009 (5.30 to 8pm) - Graham Fellows, better known as Jilted John and John Shuttleworth, graphic artist Steve Hardstaff on his book, Cover Versions and singer/guitarist Jeff Alan Ross, former member of Badfinger and the leader of Peter and Gordon's band.

Saturday 24 January 2009 (5.30 to 8pm) - Derek Barker, author of a 500 page book on cover versions sung by Bob Dylan called Bob Dylan - Under The Influence.

Saturday 31 January 2009 - No show, football..

Saturday 7 February 2009 - No show, football.

Saturday 14 February 2009 (5.30 to 8pm) - Country music songwriter, Pam Rose, who tours with Emmylou Harris and records as part of Kennedy Rose, and the guitar and cello duo, Richard Smith and Julie Adams.

Saturday 21 February 2009 (5.30 to 8pm) - Billy Kinsley in concert, supported by Aylssa Bonagura, plus an interview with .Sonja Kristina of Curved Air.

Saturdaay 28 February 2009 - Andy Neill, author of 'Anyway Anyhow Anywhere - The Complete Chronicles Of The Who'.

Saturday 7 March 2009 (5.30 to 8pm) - Raul Malo of the Mavericks and the Liverpool drummer who played with Frank Zappa, Aynsley Dunbar.

Saturday 14 March 2009 - Another Juke Box Jury with Jamie Bowman (press office, The Beatles Story), Steve Dinwoodie (owner of record promotions company), Bill Hackney (blues guitarist) and Ijs Latham (Up Front team).

Saturday 21 March 2009 (from 5.30pm) - Vic Flick, guitarist with the John Barry Seven and featured on the James Bond Theme, Jonatha Brooke, who has just put her music to some of Woody Guthrie's lyrics, and Matt Greenhalgh, who has written the forthcoming film about John Lennon, Nowhere Boy.

Saturday 28 March 2009 (from 5.30pm) - Fairport Convention and Phil Cool.

Saturday 4 April 2009 -No show. Football.

Saturday 11 April 2009 - (5.30 to 8.00)pm Top rock writer, Barney Hoskyns, author of the current best seller, Lowside Of The Road - A Life Of Tom Waits.

Saturday 18 April 2009 - (5.30 to 8pm) Juke Box Jury with Chris Beazer, keen cyclist and a collector of original versions of hit records, Jim Finn, biographer of Frankie Vaughan, Sam Leach, Merseybeat promoter who often booked the Beatles, and Geoff Skelhorn, leader of new wave band, the Guttersnipes.

Saturday 25 April 2009 - Birkenhead born, Michael Gray, author of Hand Me My Travelling Shoes, a life of the blues singer Blind Willie McTell, and Verden Allen of Mott the Hoople. Gerry Marsden talks about getting the Freedom of the City and Charlie Landsborough pays tribute.

Saturday 2 May 2009 (5.30pm - 8pm) - Searchers Special withFrank Allen of the Searchers on his biography, The Searchers And Me, and Jackie DeShannon, who recorded the original versions of Needles and Pins and When You Walk In The Room.. Plus Paul Du Noyer on the photographs of Liverpool youth 1978-82 by Francesco Mellina, now at the Conservation Centre, and John Doubleday on the 25th anniversary of his Beatles' statue at Cavern Walks.

Saturday 9 May 2009 - No show. Football

Saturday 16 May 2009 - A celebratory concert of local songwriting with Xander and the Peace Pirates, Jimmy Rae and Blue C.

Saturday 23 May 2009 - (6pm to 8pm) The Soul'd On Blues tour with Chris Farlowe, Cliff Bennett and Herbie Goins, plus the opening of the Mersey Sound exhibition with Professor Kelvin Everest, Roger McGough and Brian Patten, plus Colin Hall, the curator of Mendips, on the visit by Bob Dylan.

Saturday 30 May 2009 (Probably on air from 7pm: depends on timings in the Cup Final) - The former leader of the Byrds, Roger McGuinn, who is about to play Merseyside, and Birds Of A Feather actor Dave Cardy, who is starring in the rock and roll musical, Dreamboats And Petticoats, and Roger rog.

Saturday 6 June 2009 (6pm to 8pm) - Juke Box Jury with Peter Cowley (ardent concertgoer), Francesco Mellina (rock photographer), Mick O'Toole (rock'n'roll and counry specialist) and Meliissa Storey (director, Hard Days Night Hotel art gallery). Also, Richard Havers, author of The Stones In The Park.

Saturday 13 June 2009 (6pm to 8pm) - Ben Taylor, son of James Taylor and Carly Simon, the blues singer, Louisiana Red and Graham Jones, the author of Last Shop Standing, a celebration of independent record shops. Actor Con O'Neill and director Nick Moran discuss the film about Joe Meek, Telstar, and Earl Preston and Tommy Kelly (drummer with Earl Preston's Realms) look at the reissue of Liverpool Today - Live At The Cavern.

Saturday 20 June 2009 (6pm to 8pm) - Liverpool drummer, Pete Clarke from the Escorts and Liverpool Scene, and film director, Mike Figgis, who made Leaving Las Vegas and the Red, White And Blues about British Blues. Denise Theophilus talks about her tribute to George Harrison at St George's Hall in August, and Paul Whelan and Jaki Florek talk about their book about Eric's club in Mathew Street.

Saturday 27 June 2009 (6pm to 8pm) - Bruce Baxter, who toured with the Beatles in the Sons of the Flintstones and produced the best-selling cover LPs, Top Of The Pops, and Roger Chapman of Family.

Saturday 4 July 2009 - Liverpool band, Deaf School, who have reformed and folk singer Carolyn Hester, who recorded with both Buddy Holly and Bob Dylan. (This programme will be on FM only due a split frequency with rugby league: it will be on Listen Again from Monday.)

Saturday 11 July 2009 - Juke Box Jury with Bryan Biggs (director of the Bluecoat), Andrew Hesford (leader of the community music group, the Waltones), Billy Kinsley (Merseybeats, Liverpool Express) and LIPA graduate, the singer/songwriter, Aylssa Bonagura..

Saturday 18 July 2009 - Maggie Bell (Themes from Hazell and Taggart), Dave Kelly (from the Blues Band) and Jim Diamond (I Should Have Known Better, Hi Ho Silver).

Saturday 25 July 2009 - Barry McGuire (Eve Of Destruction) and John York (Byrds). and Mike Evans on his new book about Woodstock. (This programme will be on FM only due a split frequency with rugby league: it will be on Listen Again from Monday.)

Saturday 1 August 2009 - A special programme looking at the recent conference in Liverpool organised by the International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), plus a celebration of the George Harrison Day in Liverpool..

Saturday 8 August 2009 - American country singer, Gretchen Peters.

IT'S LOVE THAT REALLY COUNTS

Sunday 9 August (5pm to 6pm), repeated Wednesday 12 August (9pm to 10pm) - The start of a four part biographical series about Billy Kinsleys of the Merseybeats and Liverpool Express. Billy has recorded original music for this series.

Part 1 - Poor Boy From Liverpool

Part 2 - I Love You Yes I Do

Part 3 - Every Man Must Have A Dream

Part 4 - Don't Stop The Music