Season 34

Joining Jools for the music show are Glasgow's favourite art school rockers Franz Ferdinand, with songs from their most recent album Tonight. British ska legends The Specials, who recently announced they are reforming to celebrate their 30th anniversary, perform a selection of their classic songs. American singer-songwriter Carole King makes her first UK TV performance since 1971, performing tracks from her seminal album Tapestry. Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Mummers and Karima Francis also guest.

More from Manchester three-piece Doves, who make a welcome return to the show with tunes from their new album Kingdom Of Rust. Marianne Faithfull will be in the studio to perform numbers from her acclaimed new album Easy Come, Easy Go, which sees her covering songs by the likes of Jarvis and Morrissey. Lead by Shingai Shoniwa, London-based trio Noisettes currently high in the charts with their indie pop anthem Don't Upset The Rhythm will be performing that and other tunes from their forthcoming album Wild Young Hearts. Malian singer/songwriter Rokia Traore will also be in the studio to perform tunes from her recent Tchamantche album. American-born and French-bred singer Madeleine Peyroux, who first came to public attention with her album Careless Love, will be performing a song from her new album Bare Bones. Plus, Jools chats with Grandmaster Flash who has only just got round to releasing his first solo album.

Madness are in the studio to perform tracks from their album The Liberty Of Norton Folgate, as well as revisiting a couple of classics. Bat for Lashes, effectively the multi-talented Natasha Khan, performs songs from Two Suns, the follow-up to her Mercury-nominated Fur and Gold set. Malian superstar and business woman Oumou Sangare performs tracks from her album Seya. Yusuf Islam (aka Car Stevens), who returned to recording music in 2006 when he released An Other Cup, plays an acoustic number. Making their television debut is the Portland, Oregon four-piece Hockey, who describe their songs as 'new wave/soul'. Concluding the line up is William Elliot Whitmore, a deep-blues vocalist and guitar/banjo player from Lee County, Iowa.

Joining Jools for the fourth show of the series are Depeche Mode. Now approaching 30 years in the music business, the band make their debut performance on the show performing songs from their album Sounds Of The Universe, as well as a couple of classics. Another Later... debutante, Lily Allen, marks her first appearance in the legendary studio with selections from her chart-topping second album It's Not Me It's You. By contrast, Sonic Youth make a long awaited return to the studio - their first UK television appearance since appearing in series one back in 1992 - to showcase tracks from their new album The Eternal. Raphael Saadiq, whose career includes turns in Tony! Toni! Tone! and Lucy Pearl, will be playing tracks from his newly released fourth album The Way I See It, and blues colossus Taj Mahal will also be in the studio.

Joining Jools live are Welsh rockers Manic Street Preachers, Paolo Nutini, Booker T, Taylor Swift, Grizzly Bear and Aboriginal musician Geoffrey 'Gurrumul' Yunupingu.

Joining Jools are the legendary, punk-inventing New York Dolls, who have had a new lease of life since reforming in 2004 for longtime fan Morrissey's Meltdown. They play tracks from their new album, Cause I Sez So, along with a classic or two. Melbourne's Daniel Merriweather also joins Jools to debut tracks from his recent Love and War album. Winner of the BBC's Sound of 2009 poll, Blackpool's Little Boots, returns to the show with her band after a solo debut last year, to perform tracks from her forthcoming debut album. Playing solo at the piano is one of the queens of British pop, Annie Lennox. Irish singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lisa Hannigan, who is perhaps best known for her work with Damien Rice, makes her solo Later debut with songs from her album, Sea Sew. From Pennsylvania, Asher Roth makes his UK TV debut with tracks from his album, Asleep in the Bread Aisle.

Joining Jools are Kasabian, who are supporting Oasis on their 2009 tour and whose third album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, is imminent. Chrissie Hynde's The Pretenders return with a couple of numbers from their new album Break Up the Concrete, and Senegalese legend Baaba Maal is also in the studio to play tracks from his latest record, Television. Former Manfred Mann vocalist and now broadcaster and blues musician Paul Jones plays a song from his album Starting All Over Again, and Moscow-born, New York-bred Regina Spektor presents an acoustic tune from her new LP Far. From North London, Golden Silvers make their first Later appearance with tracks from their debut True Romance. Chicago's Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, a nine-piece outfit, eight of whom are sons of jazz trumpeter Phil Cohran, also appear. They've played with Mos Def, Erykah Badu and Maxwell, and are supporting Blur in Hyde Park in summer 2009.