New weekend line-up for 5 Live

Today sees the start of BBC Radio 5 Live's new weekend schedule, with Danny Baker's new sports show, Chris Warburton's new news show and Adrian Goldberg's new investigation show.

In addition, 5 Live Sports Extra has commentary on England v Pakistan in the first Twenty20 International.

The Danny Baker Show returns with fans and special guests. Joining Danny for the opening programme is Paul Watson, the world's youngest international football coach with latest team news from the Micronesian state of Pohnpei, plus comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The programme is also available to watch in-vision under the red button and via bbc.co.uk/5live.

On Saturday night the brand-new news show Saturday Edition With Chris Warburton will have its first airing from 8pm. Comedian Chris Addison returns with 7 Day Sunday, where he will be joined by regular guest Andy Zaltzman and special one-off guests, presenter Marquita Oliver and journalist Toby Young, to pull apart the week's big stories and see what makes them tick.

From 7pm John Pienaar, 5 Live's chief political correspondent, will present Pienaar's Politics featuring interviews with political figures and analysis political events.

At 8pm, former BBC Breakfast and Working Lunch presenter Declan Curry will present On The Money, and former Watchdog presenter Adrian Goldberg completes the Sunday evening line-up with the new hard hitting investigative journalism show 5 Live Investigates.

The schedule in full is:

[b]Saturday 4 September[/b]
6.00am Weekend Breakfast
9.00am The Danny Baker Show
11.00am Fighting Talk
12.00noon 5 Live Sport
5.00pm Sports Report
6.06pm 606
8.00pm Saturday Edition with Chris Warburton
10.00pm Stephen Nolan

[b]Sunday 5 September [/b]
6.00am Weekend Breakfast
8.30am Sportsweek
9.30am Kate Silverton
11.00am 7 Day Sunday
12.00noon 5 live Sport
6.00pm 606
7.00pm Pienaar's Politics
8.00pm On the Money
9.00pm 5 Live Investigates
10.00pm Stephen Nolan

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