Evans On Best Behaviour As He Bids Goodbye to Wogan Radio Preview

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CHRIS Evans couldn't have found a better way to ease himself into Terry Wogan's breakfast slot than by presenting Thank You For The Music: A Celebration Of The Music Of Abba (BBC Radio 2, today, 6.30pm). Broadcast live from London's Hyde Park, it features an all- star line-up including Kylie Minogue, Chaka Khan and Scots warblers Lulu and Sharleen Spiteri. They'll be running through their favourite Abba songs while Evans tries not to say anything too controversial. They could still change their minds about that job ... The BBC's love affair with preposterous Devon rockers Muse began on Zane Lowe's Radio 1 show last week and continues on Steve Lamacq's Radio 6 Music show tomorrow when he invites bandmembers Matt Bellamy and Dominic Howard into the studio (4pm). Meanwhile, London rapper Dizzee Rascal is in Jo Whiley's Live Lounge (BBC Radio 1, Thursday, 10am) and on the same day, fans of a certain era of Scottish indie rock can enjoy a live set by The Vaselines on Marc Riley's BBC Radio 6 Music show (7pm). Straight after, Gideon Coe wheels out a 1998 archive set from Teenage Fanclub (9pm).

Following the recent broadcast of a long-lost Kenneth Williams radio script, the body of another 1960s comedy icon is exhumed in Titter Ye Not: The Frankie Howerd Story (BCC Radio 2, Tuesday, 10.30pm). It's all the usual talking heads for the most part - David Walliams, Griff Rhys Jones, Barry Cryer - but there is some new and meaningful insight into Howerd's life from his partner, Dennis Heymer, who died earlier this year.

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Evans On Best Behaviour As He Bids Goodbye to Wogan Radio Preview

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