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Kaleidoscope is an Arts magazine program which brings the creative and theatrical world to 5mbs listeners, through interviews and music. Together with Arts Diary it is our link to local events and personalities. Broadcast on Wednesday 6.00pm and Saturday 11.00am. You may also access Kaleidoscope through Listen on Demand via 5mbs.com.

Kaleidoscope is an Arts magazine program which brings the creative and theatrical world to 5mbs listeners, through interviews and music. Together with Arts Diary it is our link to local events and personalities. Broadcast on Wednesday 6.00pm and Saturday 11.00am. You may also access Kaleidoscope through Listen on Demand via 5mbs.com.

Little Walter – 5MBS Blues Legend for October Little Walter, born Marion Walter Jacobs on May 1, 1930, in Marksville, Louisiana, was one of the most influential blues musicians of the twentieth century. There are various disagreements on his age, from 1925 to 1930, and although Marion frequently used 1930, his mother named 1925 in a US census.

Kaleidoscope is an Arts magazine program which brings the creative and theatrical world to 5mbs listeners, through interviews and music. Together with Arts Diary it is our link to local events and personalities. Broadcast on Wednesday 6.00pm and Saturday 11.00am. You can also access Kaleidoscope through Listen on Demand via 5mbs.com.

Kaleidoscope is an Arts magazine program which brings the creative and theatrical world to 5mbs listeners, through interviews and music. Together with Arts Diary it is our link to local events and personalities. Broadcast on Wednesday 6.00pm and Saturday 11.00am. You can also access Kaleidoscope through Listen on Demand via 5mbs.com.

The overriding theme was  Belonging. The Graduate Singers, conducted by Karl Geiger, showed over the evening that there were many ways to belong and much lovely music to encapsulate this concept. From the gentle Halcyon Days which began with the sopranos singing with clarity and a lovely tone, followed by  All is a Miracle  to the more robust More than Enough in the first bracket, the reference was to both a spiritual and practical belonging to nature.

Kaleidoscope is an Arts magazine program which brings the creative and theatrical world to 5mbs listeners, through interviews and music. Together with Arts Diary it is our link to local events and personalities. Broadcast on Wednesday 6.00pm and Saturday 11.00am. You can also access Kaleidoscope through Listen on Demand via 5mbs.com.

Kaleidoscope is an Arts magazine program which brings the creative and theatrical world to 5mbs listeners, through interviews and music. Together with Arts Diary it is our link to local events and personalities. Broadcast on Wednesday 6.00pm and Saturday 11.00am. You can also access Kaleidoscope through Listen on Demand via 5mbs.com. This week on 9 and 12 September you will hear from the archives, a program broadcast on 19 February 2020.

B.B. King was not born. He was a gift from the Rhythm Gods. Born Riley B. King onSeptember 16, 1925, near Berclair, Mississippi, he grew up in a poor farming community. Not too surprising, his early experiences with gospel music and the blues helped shape the sound that would later make him famous. Although his childhood was difficult, leaving school by the age of 14 to work picking cotton, music became an important part of his life and eventually gave him a path to success.

Kaleidoscope is an Arts magazine program which brings the creative and theatrical world to 5mbs listeners, through interviews and music. Together with Arts Diary it is our link to local events and personalities. Broadcast on Wednesday 6.00pm and Saturday 11.00am. You can also access Kaleidoscope through Listen on Demand via 5mbs.com.