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Network Radio BBC Week 28: 11-17 July
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Network Radio BBC Week 28: Saturday 11 July 2009
BBC RADIO 1 Saturday 11 July 2009
BBC Radio 1 returns to one of the most exciting festivals of the summer – T In The Park at Balado in Kinross-shire.
Between Friday 10 and Monday 12 July, listeners can enjoy live music highlights, the latest news and the best of the backstage gossip.
On Saturday afternoon, The Request Show goes "totally T". Huw Stephens is in Kinross, taking listeners through a special programme, with all the records being requested by the stars of the festival from Lady Gaga to The Killers. Huw will also be out and about in the crowd, taking requests from festival-loving fans.
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BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 11 July 2009
Jonathan Ross and Andy Davies are joined for this week's programme by Honor Blackman and Noel Gallagher. There's also music from Kasabian.
Presenter/Jonathan Ross, Producer/Fiona Day
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This week's show features a live session from The Duckworth Lewis Method – aka Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy and Thomas Walsh of Pugwash – who've collaborated on a concept album based around cricket.
There's also music from Lisa Mitchell, a young singer-songwriter, who was born in England but migrated to Australia at the age of three. She first rose to fame on Australian Idol in 2006 but turned down several offers from record companies afterwards to work on her performing and songwriting skills. Her debut album, Wonder, is released in the UK this month.
Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker
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In 1979, the disco industry was worth an estimated $4bn – more than movies, television or professional sport – and accounted for up to 40 per cent of the singles chart. The same year, in Chicago, Steve Dahl, a disgruntled rock DJ, left his WDAI radio show in protest at its switch to an all-disco play list. A switch to a rival station, which shared the same owners as the Chicago White Sox baseball team, resulted in an audacious publicity stunt that signalled the death knell of disco.
The promotion was simple: for a mere 98 cents, listeners could bring all their unwanted disco records to the White Sox's Comiskey Stadium and watch them being blown up by Dahl and his chums, who called themselves "The insane Coho Lips Anti-Disco Army". Over 70,000 people turned up to offload their disco records and chant: "Disco sucks! Disco sucks!" Thousands were locked out and the riot police were called in to quell pitch invasions.
Recalling the event, Dahl has said: "Disco was a fad, probably on its way out, but the event hastened its demise."
Presenter Candi Staton sets out to uncover whether there was a true anti-disco sentiment, while legendary DJ Frankie Knuckles charts disco's revenge and metamorphosis into house music, a decade later. The programme tracks down some of the pitch invaders and baseball players to find out how strongly they felt about disco then, and how they view the events of that July evening – 30 years on.
BBC Radio 2's Disco Season continues on Monday at 11.30pm with the second part of Dave Pearce's Disco Anthems.
Presenter/Candi Staton, Producer/Richard McIlroy
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Bolton-born-and-bred Americana artist Andrea Glass plays live in tonight's After Midnight Acoustic Session and talks about her new album, Stood Under Stars.
The album features pedal steel guitar by American country music legend Al Perkins and was recorded in Nashville, Tennessee, with producer Kevin Montgomery.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson
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BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 11 July 2009
Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of the concert entitled Unquiet Thoughts given by Mark Padmore and Elizabeth Kenny at this year's Aldeburgh Festival. The concert explores the melancholic music of Elizabethan England, focussing on the songs of perhaps the most famous exponent of Elizabethan melancholy: John Dowland.
Presenter/Lucie Skeaping
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In the year of the 50th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, World Routes features a specially recorded studio session by Cuban five-piece Changui de Guantanamo.
Presenter Lucy Duran first encountered this group on the road, as part of her World Routes report from Cuba, in June 2007. Changui is an old style from the Eastern Guantanamo province, dating back to the 19th century and combining elements of Spanish guitar and African traditions. The songs are played on instruments such as the marimbula thumb piano, tres (a kind of three-stringed guitar) and an array of percussion, including the guiro, maracas and bongos.
Lucy is also joined in the studio by Sue Steward and Crispin Robinson for a look at some recent Cuban and Latin-American releases on CD.
Presenter/Lucy Duran, Producer/Felix Carey
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One of the most original voices in West Coast jazz was tenor saxophonist Teddy Edwards, who arrived in Los Angeles in 1944 and created a distinctive and original bebop style.
Shortly before his death in 2003, he met Alyn Shipton to discuss the highlights from a long and illustrious recording career.
Presenter and Producer/Alyn Shipton
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The final programme in Opera On 3, prior to the start of the Proms season, is a production of Benjamin Britten's tense psychological drama, Peter Grimes.
Edward Gardner conducts English National Opera's acclaimed production, which stars Amanda Roocroft as Ellen Orford and Gerald Finley as Captain Balstrode.
Australian tenor Stuart Skelton takes the title role of the misunderstood outsider – at once unstable, unpredictable, visionary and violent.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/David Papp
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BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 11 July 2009
Tarantino's Jukebox Ep 1/ 2
Tarantino's Jukebox is an exploration of the music from the films of Quentin Tarantino.
Fans of Tarantino acknowledge him as an exceptional soundtrack producer. His movies include True Romance, Natural Born Killers, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Jackie Brown and Kill Bill. Tarantino selected all the tracks and commissioned the music himself.
In these two programmes, l'enfant terrible of American cinema talks about his musical obsessions, his influences and his sources of inspiration, and goes through the contents of his imaginary jukebox.
From the Motown years to Top 10 records of the Seventies, Tarantino explains how a song, or listening to the radio, can give him the idea for a scene, and why his soundtracks are inherent to his films.
The programmes are presented by conductor, composer and film-music historian Robert Zeigler.
Presenter/Robert Ziegler, Producer/David Roper
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Over the 40 years since the first Moon landings in 1969, NASA has been building a unique oral archive from all the main participants in the Apollo mission, both in space and on the ground.
This programme features the story of what has been described as "the greatest event in all the history of the human race". The story is told by the man who stood on the Moon, Buzz Aldrin, with the voices of those who supported him.
People from all over the world recall, for listeners, what they were doing when they heard the momentous news of man's first steps on the Moon.
The programme reconstructs the dramatic and dangerous last minutes of the approach to the Moon, when the lunar module was travelling at a much higher speed than expected, with computer alarms sounding on the control panel, and with very little fuel to make it to the surface.
"Armstrong has to pick out a landing site," recalls flight director Eugene Kranz, "and he's moving very rapidly, 10 or 15 feet per second. We'd never seen anybody fly it this way in training."
This is the true story of the final descent to the Moon's surface, and of just how close the mission came to disaster.
Presenter/Buzz Aldrin, Producer/Mark Rickards
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 11 July 2009
Yes It's The Ashes Ep 2/6
Comedian Andy Zaltzman presents the second show of a new, live, topical comedy show looking at the Ashes series between old foes England and Australia.
Andy is joined by comedian Frank Skinner and guests to poke fun at past and present Ashes series.
Presenter/Andy Zaltzman, Producer/Chris Skinner
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5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch broadcasts, live, from Cardiff on the fourth day of the first Ashes Test between England and Australia. Mark is joined by Ashes veterans Alec Stewart and Jason Gillespie
At 1pm, there's live commentary of the qualifying session of the German Grand Prix from the Nurburgring circuit, with David Croft, Anthony Davidson and Holly Samos.
After 2pm, coverage of the third day of golf's Scottish Open comes, live, from Loch Lomond, plus updates from the opening Ashes Test. At 6pm, Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott review the day's play in the first Test in Cardiff.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Ben North
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Former England cricket captain Alec Stewart and former Australian cricketer Jason Gillespie present the lively cricket phone-in.
They take calls about the major talking points from the first four days of the opening Ashes Test between England and Australia.
Presenters/Alec Stewart and Jason Gillespie, Producer/Patrick Campbell
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BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Saturday 11 July 2009
Test Match Special
Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted coverage of the fourth day of the first Ashes Test between England and Australia, live, from Cardiff.
Jonathan Agnew leads the TMS commentary team, alongside Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Henry Blofeld, with expert summarisers Geoffrey Boycott, Vic Marks and Ian Chappell.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Saturday 11 July 2009
Whilst Adam and Joe take a well-earned summer holiday from their duties at the Big British Castle, they leave the drawbridge down for BBC 6 Music regular Danny Wallace to deliver some Saturday morning merriment.
As part of his show, Danny unveils Danny's New World Order. Each week, Danny invites 6 Music listeners to imagine what would happen if they were the only inhabitants of the world, alongside Danny and his star guest and Supreme Commander of the World.
But what will the new commandments be? What will they ban? And which of their favourite tracks will join the play list?
Danny's first star guest and "Supreme Commander" is journalist and author Jon Ronson.
Presenter/Danny Wallace, Producer/James Stirling
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The 6 Mix celebrates the upcoming Bastille Day celebrations with a French special, featuring two of France's most exciting names in dance music.
For the first hour of the show, hot new Reims-based producer Yuksek takes control, playing a mix of electro house, including tracks by Moby, Diplo and Metronomy. Yuksek, a classically trained musician who fell in love with electronic music in his teens, has set dancefloors alight with his recent killer remixes of Tommy Sparks, Peaches and White Lies.
The second hour of the show is curated by the elder statesmen of French dance-rock, Phoenix. Hailing from Versailles, Phoenix have had massive success since their debut LP, United, was released in 2000. They have toured worldwide and featured on the soundtrack of hit film Lost In Translation. Their new album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, has been heralded as a potential album of the year. They chat about making music and reveal some of the artists who've influenced and inspired them, including Bo Diddley, The Pixies and Joy Division.
Presenters/Yusek and Phoenix, Producer/Rowan Collinson
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Chris Hawkins presents Public Enemy, recorded live at the 1995 Phoenix Festival. The concert features their hits, including Welcome To The Pleasure Dome, Rebel Without A Pause and Public Enemy No. 1.
One of hip-hop's highly influential and controversial founding fathers, Public Enemy, have succeeded in re-defining musical parameters and introducing a militantly political voice to the pop world.
In what is thought to have been one of their last appearances, Public Enemy were recorded by the BBC at the now defunct Phoenix Festival on 14 July 1995.
Presenter/Chris Hawkins, Producer/Frank Wilson
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Network Radio BBC Week 28: Sunday 12 July 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 12 July 2009
Aled Jones says Good Morning to Dame Ellen MacArthur. Dame Ellen joins Aled to talk about her life on and offshore, and about why she set up the Ellen MacArthur Trust.
There's also live music from the New Seekers, and the Principal Chaplain of the Sailors' Society, the Reverend David Potterton, discusses the week's news from a faith and ethics perspective and gives the Moment Of Reflection.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson
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Jodie Prenger is this week's special guest as Elaine Paige presents two hours of show tunes and movie music.
Jodie, who plays Nancy in the latest West End production of Lionel Bart's Oliver!, performs As Long As He Needs Me in the studio.
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Brian D'Arcy presents a selection of favourite hymns for St Swithin's Day and considers the folklore which says that rain on St Swithin's Day means rain for the next 40 days and 40 nights.
Through hymns and reflections, he explores the natural world. Hymns include: All Things Bright And Beautiful; O Worship The King; and All Creatures Of Our God And King.
This week's featured choir is The Schola, with members of the Priory Singers directed by Nigel McClintock. The organist is Liam Crangle.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 12 July 2009
Michael Berkeley talks to theatrical designer Richard Hudson. Richard has worked at many of the world's great opera houses and theatres – from Covent Garden, English National Opera, the National Theatre, the Old Vic, the RSC and the Royal Court Theatre in London to the Metropolitan Opera New York, the Chicago Lyric Opera and the Vienna State Opera.
He has also worked on a wide range of operatic productions, including works by Handel, Mozart, Wagner, Janacek, Britten, Stravinsky and Judith Weir. He also designed The Lion King for Disney on Broadway, which toured all over the world, winning him a Tony award for his imaginative and colourful sets, lighting and special effects.
Born and brought up in Zimbabwe, Richard's first music choice is George Fenton's arrangement of the South African national anthem, Nkosi Sikelel iAfrica, from the soundtrack of the film Cry Freedom. His other choices include three operatic excerpts: Vivaldi's Ah, ch'infelice sempre, sung by Sarah Mingardo; the canzonetta from Act III of Mozart's Marriage Of Figaro, sung by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Anna Moffo; and an extract from Judith Weir's A Night At The Chinese Opera (for which he designed the world première). He has also chosen songs by Annie Lennox, Jimmy Somerville and The Communards.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Martin Cotton
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The Early Music Show
The Early Music Show comes, live, from the York Early Music Festival, the UK's largest festival of early music, which this year takes its inspiration from the celebrations around the anniversaries of Purcell, Handel and Haydn.
Catherine Bott meets some of those involved in the festival and introduces live performances from the Cambridge-based Clerks' Group and Edward Wickham; the Danish ensemble, Baroque Fever; and, from Italy, Fabio Bonizzoni and Emanuela Galli from the group La Risonanza.
Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Rebecca Bean
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BBC Radio 3's Drama On 3 celebrates the bicentenary of the birth of Alfred Lord Tennyson with a production of his epic poem, Idylls Of The King, adapted by poet Michael Symmons Roberts and narrated by Tim Piggot-Smith.
Published between 1856 and 1885, Idylls Of The King is a cycle of narrative poems by Tennyson (Poet Laureate from 1850) which retell the legend of King Arthur and his knights. If Malory's Le morte d'Arthur is the backbone of Arthurian literature, Tennyson's "Idylls" are its flesh and blood. In this extraordinary, epic poem, Tennyson transforms Malory's sketches into living and breathing characters, infusing the legend of King Arthur with a new passionate intensity.
Poet Michael Symmons Roberts has edited the original blank-verse text, retaining Tennyson's rhythms and heightened language. The central arc of the narrative, told here in five acts, encompasses Arthur's arrival, his relationship with Lancelot and Guinevere, the Holy Grail, the last tournament and his death.
The whole work recounts Arthur's attempt and failure to create a perfect kingdom. Individual poems detail the deeds of various knights but this production concentrates on the journey of Arthur himself, the central figure who links all the stories.
Producer/Susan Roberts
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Israeli broadcaster Moshe Morad presents a portrait of his home city, Tel Aviv, to mark its 100th birthday. He meets some of Tel Aviv's characters and discusses their relationship to the city, while journeying through different areas and illuminating the heady mix of sin and seriousness which is unique to this part of Israel.
Morad takes a stroll along Tel Aviv's famous five-mile stretch of beach, meeting a collection of local characters along the way, such as: Rabbi Israel Lau, the Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv who views the city as a religious Hebrew city; Israel's top artist, Danny Karavan, who was instrumental in getting Tel Aviv made a Unesco World Heritage Site; coffee shop owner Sara Stern, who fought in the British army in the Thirties and Forties; hip-hop hero Subliminal, whose raps encourage kids to wear seat-belts; and peace activist Yael Dayan, who celebrates the secularity of Tel Aviv and eschews the religious extremism of Jerusalem.
Morad also explores some of Tel Aviv's most interesting neighbourhoods, from the White City Bauhaus quarter – the largest collection of Bauhaus in the world – to the refugee ghetto of the Central Bus Station.
Morad explores Tel Aviv as a melting pot of peoples and ideas: part old; part new; part Europe; and part Middle East.
Presenter/Moshe Morad, Producer/James Parkin
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Claire Martin introduces Jazz Line-Up from the Erin Arts Centre on the Isle Of Man. The programme features BBC Radio 3 New Generation jazz artist Tom Arthurs (trumpet and flugel).
Jazz Line-Up puts Tom together with saxophonist and composer Iain Ballamy and Norwegian percussionist Thomas Stronen for an improvised session before an audience on a theme set for them on the day.
In total contrast, the programme also features UK jazz pianist Gareth Williams, who performs some jazz standards as well as his own compositions.
Presenter/Claire Martin, Producer/Keith Loxam
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BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 12 July 2009
This week's castaway is eminent bacteriologist Professor Hugh Pennington.
Professor Pennington is an emeritus professor of bacteriology at the University of Aberdeen and has been an expert commentator on the recent Swine Flu outbreak.
Professor Pennington talks to Kirsty Young about his life, his career, his favourite music and life on BBC Radio 4's mythical desert island.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
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Poetry Please Ep 1/ 4
A new series of Poetry Please begins with three anthology editions of the poetry request programme, now in its 30th year.
Among the requests and marking the 40th anniversary of man's landing on the Moon, presenter Roger McGough introduces poems about space, stars and the night sky. Other programmes range widely across earthly delights and all sorts of summer pleasures – from ice cream to cricket.
The edition on Sunday 9 August is devoted to the poetry of Tennyson, as part of the great poet's bicentenary celebrations. Tennyson is one of the most frequently requested 19th-century poets on the programme and poems featured include The Lady Of Shalott; The Throstle; and Crossing The Bar.
Presenter/Roger McGough, Producer/Tim Dee
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 12 July 2009
5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch is joined by Ashes veterans Alec Stewart and Jason Gillespie, live, from Cardiff, on the final day of the first Ashes Test between England and Australia.
At 1pm, there's live commentary of the German Grand Prix from the Nurburgring circuit, with David Croft, Anthony Davidson and Holly Samos.
From 2.30pm, coverage of the third day of golf's Scottish Open comes, live, from Loch Lomond, plus more from the final day of the opening Ashes Test. At 6pm, Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott review all the action from Cardiff.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Claire Burns
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Ashes 606
Mark Chapman presents the lively cricket phone-in, taking calls about the major talking points from the opening Ashes Test between England and Australia.
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Patrick Campbell
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BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Sunday 12 July 2009
Test Match Special
Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted coverage of the final day's play in the first Ashes Test between England and Australia, live, from Cardiff.
Jonathan Agnew leads the TMS commentary team, alongside Christopher Martin-Jenkins and Henry Blofeld, with expert summarisers Geoffrey Boycott, Vic Marks and Ian Chappell.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 12 July 2009
Fun Lovin' Criminal Huey Morgan brings listeners the perfect soundtrack for Sunday afternoons.
He chats to Natasha Khan, aka Bat For Lashes, about her second album, Two Suns, her influences and her festival-filled summer.
With his motto: "If it's cool, I'll play it!", Huey plays an eclectic mix of the best music from the past six decades, highlights this week coming from Elvis Presley, David Bowie, George Benson and Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
Legendary producer Arthur Baker trawls his record collection for some rare vinyl and a listener chooses an unusual British track in "School Britannia".
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Simon Barnard
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Dave Pearce plays 30 years of classic dance tunes – from hip hop to house and trance to rave. Plus Detroit techno DJ Derrick May picks his Ultimate Dance Anthem.
May – a renowned DJ and the man behind 1987's iconic house tune, Strings Of Life – tells Dave about the genesis of his best-known tune and the impact it has had on his career. He also talks about his international DJ career and what life is like in the musical hotbed of Detroit.
There's also music from a brand-new bedroom producer and the biggest tunes from clubland in Dave's 3 To The Floor.
Presenter/Dave Pearce, Producer/Rowan Collinson
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Sunday 12 July 2009
This week, presenter Bridget Kendall is joined by Brian Chikwava, a Caine Prize-winning writer and musician from Zimbabwe who now lives in London. He discusses the effects of getting inside the head of a narrator whose ideologies are completely different to his own.
Also in the studio is Karen Armstrong – a provocative and original thinker on the role of religion in the modern world – who explores humanity's innate desire to be religious from the Palaeolithic to the present; and how the changing world has altered the importance of religion at both societal and individual levels. The final guest is Stephen Hopper, Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew.
The Forum brings prominent international thinkers together to debate and challenge big ideas, providing opportunities for intellectual discourse and debate across national, social and cultural divides.
Presenter/Bridget Kendall
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Network Radio BBC Week 28: Monday 13 July 2009
BBC RADIO 1 Monday 13 July 2009
Rounding up BBC Radio 1's coverage of T In The Park, Nick Grimshaw brings listeners three hours of live highlights from the festival, including: Franz Ferdinand, Jane's Addiction, Nine Inch Nails, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Mars Volta, The Killers, Calvin Harris, Bloc Party, Pendulum, Lily Allen, Eagles Of Death Metal, The Gaslight Anthem, TV On The Radio and Glasvegas.
Presenter/Nick Grimshaw
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BBC RADIO 2 Monday 13 July 2009
Ray Davies of The Kinks joins Ken Bruce this week to pick his favourite music in Tracks Of My Years.
Today, Ray chooses classics from Marvin Gaye and American rock outfit The Knack and, later in the week, he picks tracks from artists including Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Holly, Ray Charles and Roy Orbison.
Ken also presents the regular Album Of The Week, Record Of The Week and Love Song features, while two more contestants go head-to-head on PopMaster.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones
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Montreux And All That Jazz Ep 1/2
This summer BBC Radio 2 celebrates the Montreux Jazz Festival with a short series of programmes about the annual music event.
In this first programme, Jamie Cullum plays host to its founder, Claude Nobs, who talks about both the history of the festival and his personal memories.
Founded in 1967, the Montreux Jazz Festival has become an unmissable event for music fans in Switzerland and around the world. Its stages have been graced by some of music's greats, from Miles Davis to Ray Charles; and David Bowie to Massive Attack. While jazz constitutes the festival's historic core, other styles of music were quickly integrated.
Live music by Sangam, Bill Evans Trio, Nina Simone, Count Basie's Jam Session and Miles Davis complement Claude's stories about Nina and Miles, Quincy Jones, Wilson Pickett and Deep Purple.
The series concludes in August with four half-hour programmes of highlights from the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival.
Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Neil Myners
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Dave Pearce's six-part essential, alphabetical guide to the last 30 years of disco culture covers the letters E to I, as BBC Radio 2's Disco Season continues.
This week, Dave's stone-cold classics and hidden gems include big records from Gloria Gaynor and Earth Wind And Fire and some lesser-known hits from Frantique and Gary's Gang.
Dave, whose first-ever gig experience was seeing Sylvester play at Hammersmith Apollo, has long been a fan of disco and credits it as a catalyst for his own role in UK dance music.
Presenter/Dave Pearce, Producer/Rowan Collinson
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BBC RADIO 3 Monday 13 July 2009
Lunchtime Concert
Former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the Ebène Quartet perform Mozart and Beethoven live from London's Wigmore Hall. Featured pieces include Mozart's sparkling Divertimento in F K 138 for strings and Beethoven's String Quartet in C minor Op 13, his late great seven-movement work and the composer's own favourite among his quartets.
Presenter/Sarah Walker, Producer/Elizabeth Funning
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Tonight's Performance On 3 comes from this year's Cheltenham Festival and features Orchestra Europa, a fledgling orchestra set up by its young conductor Scott Ellaway.
The ensemble brings together the best conservatoire graduates before they find permanent positions in established orchestras across Europe. They perform Schubert's final Symphony (No. 9), and the overture from Mendelssohn's Midsummer Night's Dream. Mendelssohn was always interested in his musical forbears, and, in fact, conducted the first performance of Schubert's Ninth Symphony 10 years after Schubert's death.
Orchestra Europa is then joined by Nicola Benedetti who performs one of the favourites of the violin repertoire, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto.
The concert is followed by performances from past seasons of the Proms.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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Jez Nelson presents an evening of music celebrating the rich Paris jazz scene.
Henri Texier's Red Route Quartet play elements of classic love songs, over which they improvise allowing Texier's North African influences to seep through. The band consists of his son Sebastien Texier on sax and clarinet, drummer Christophe Marguet and guitarist Manu Codjia.
Representing the next generation of Parisian jazz, Eve Risser performs a solo set on prepared piano followed by electronic wizardry and brilliantly energetic original compositions from the trio Jean Louis.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Peggy Sutton
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BBC RADIO 4 Monday 13 July 2009
Book Of The Week – You're Coming With Me Lad Ep 1/5
You're Coming With Me Lad tells the story of the exploits of a rural policeman in Yorkshire.
Born in York, Mike Pannett served in the police for nearly 20 years. After starring in the BBC's Country Cops he was inspired to write about his adventures in the North Yorkshire force, in Now Then Lad. He followed this with another book, You're Coming With Me Lad.
Policing rural Yorkshire is a far cry from Mike's old job, hunting down drug gangs and knife crime in central London. But, settled back in his native Yorkshire, the former Metropolitan Policeman finds that life as a rural beat bobby is no picnic.
After a crazed swordsman threatens to take his head off, Mike finds himself confronting a knife-wielding couple bent on carving each other up. When a stag night turns ugly he ends up with the groom, the best man and the bride-to-be all banged up in the cells with the wedding just hours away. And with record-breaking floods and John Prescott to escort, Mike wonders if he will find time to woo the woman of his dreams.
Reader/Graham Fellows, Producer/David Roper
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Woman's Hour Drama –
The Pursuits Of Darleen Fyles Ep 1/5
Like many young women, Darleen is facing a lot of changes. She is not happy where she is living, she wants to move in with her boyfriend and is about to start her first job.
The difference between Darleen and most other young women is that she has learning disabilities.
Inspired by true stories, The Pursuit Of Darleen Fyles, written by Esther Wilson, follows Darleen, a lively personality who is an unlikely heroine. The drama stars Donna Lavin, a young actress with learning difficulties.
Darleen is living unhappily in the home of a service carer, who in effect is a foster carer. Darleen does not feel welcome or settle into this new housing arrangement. She wants to live with her boyfriend Jamie, although Jamie himself is not sure about this. Darleen also starts her first job and finds out the hard way who her real friends are.
Darleen faces some tough situations and experiences but is resilient, ambitious and courageous and has an in-built capacity to bounce back.
Producer/Pauline Harris
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The Political Club reveals how politicians are increasingly becoming a professionalised, separate class, who use their status to channel taxpayers' money into the coffers of their parties.
Providing further evidence of the questionable practices affecting the financing of our political system, the programme is set against the background of the the recent scandal over MPs' expenses, which revealed how politicians are spending taxpayers' money on themselves.
What hasn't been revealed – until now – is how much public money is being diverted into the political parties' coffers, or how that development is intimately related to the rise of a new type of professional politician.
Michael reveals the extent – and cost – of this development, and what it means for democracy in the UK. He also reveals how this new club has found so many ways of diverting taxpayers' money to the political parties that the UK now effectively has state funding of party politics.
The programme also explores how parties require elected representatives to fund their partisan campaigns.
Michael speaks to people at every level of politics – from former cabinet ministers, to local councils and the European Parliament – and finds out why this has happened, what it means and whether it is inevitable. And he asks the party leaders, who have spoken out against fraud, what they will do in their own parties.
Presenter/Michael Crick, Producer/Giles Edwards
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Hazelbeach Ep 1/6
The series featuring the surreal adventures of likeable conman Ronnie Hazelbeach, written by David and Caroline Stafford, returns for a second run.
Ronnie is still sharing his flat with his reluctant partner in crime, Nick, who is still in love with his ex-girlfriend Chloe, who is still unhappily married to the parsimonious and generally unpleasant James. But things are about to change...
Just as Nick and Ronnie have settled into a new regime, James turns up on the doorstep. Chloe has dumped him and kicked him out.
James reasons that since Nick is partly to blame for this alienation of her affection, the least Nick can do is take him in. Browbeaten by the logic, Nick agrees. This cleverly prevents Nick from pursuing any romantic designs he may have had on Chloe – at least on his home turf. It also destroys any domestic contentment.
This leads to Ronnie and Nick trying to get rid of James, but James' utter self-centredness means it is a harder task than it might initially appear.
Ronnie is played by Jamie Foreman, Nick by Paul Bazely and James by Neil Stuke.
Producer/Marc Beeby
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The Inconstant Moon Ep 1/10
The Inconstant Moon by Jeanette Winterson celebrates the moon as a creature of myth and legend and an inspiration to artists throughout the centuries. The timeline of the Apollo 11 mission forms the spine of these programmes on BBC Radio 4, broadcast every weekday for two weeks.
The programmes are part of a series of programmes marking the 40th anniversary of man's first landing on the Moon and explore the Moon's role in religion since pre-history, the ways in which its influence governs the tides and times of human life.
The Moon has also played a central role in folklore, such as the long-held belief that the phases of the Moon can cause temporary insanity – the word "lunacy" derives from the Latin name for the Moon, luna.
The first week of programmes covers the countdown leading to the launch from the Kennedy Space Centre just after 2.30pm GMT on 16 July.
The story of the Apollo astronauts' extraordinary journey forms a background to meditations and reflections on the influence the moon has on the people of the Earth and the way in which she has acted as a muse for writers, artists and musicians.
The series also explores whether the moment when Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the Moon and kicked up a fine, grey dust forever changed the way we view the Moon, and if this took away much of its power and mystery.
Producer/Kevin Dawson
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 13 July 2009
Kelly Cates rounds up the day's sports news and looks ahead to this week's Open Golf with John Murray live from Turnberry, Scotland.
From 8pm Kelly is joined by Ray Parlour and guests for the Monday Night Club with all the latest football news and debate.
Presenter/Kelly Cates, Producer/Steve Houghton
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BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 13 July 2009
Cerys Matthews is joined by Duncan Jones (son of David Bowie), director of new film Moon.
An atmospheric sci-fi drama starring Sam Rockwell as a lonely astronaut mining helium-3 on the lunar surface, Moon is Duncan's feature film directorial debut. The film created an all-important buzz at Sundance and was quickly snapped up by Sony Pictures Classics.
Moon had its first UK outing when it screened at the 63rd Edinburgh Film Festival and goes on general release this week.
Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 13 July 2009
Shazia's really pleased that both her boys are visiting for a couple of weeks, as the Asian drama continues. Rehan has some good news to share and the family decide to celebrate at Saffron Rays.
Elsewhere Bibi tells Hassan about a stranger taking photos on Silver Street.
Later Danyal is told to leave the menus for now as someone else will be joining them. Shazia then introduces the boys to Hassan, but what will they think of their mother's new companion?
Shazia is played by Shobu Kapoor, Rehan by Rez Kempton, Bibi by Indira Joshi, Hassan by Youssef Kerkour, Danyal by Jag Sanghera and Bina by Sana Raja.
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Network Radio BBC Week 28: Tuesday 14 July 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 14 July 2009
Hollywood actor Billy Crystal, of When Harry Met Sally and City Slickers fame, celebrates the enduring influence of Billie Holiday in this new documentary marking the 50th anniversary of the singer's untimely passing.
Billy grew up around Billie Holiday – his family owned and operated the legendary Commodore Records label that recorded many of her greatest songs.
"My uncle Milt ran Commodore Records, a small independent jazz label," says Billy. "He had a shop of the same name on 52nd Street in New York, in the middle of all the jazz clubs; Swing Street they called it.
"Billie Holiday was a regular on Swing Street and Milt and Billie became friends. When no one else would release the record Strange Fruit, Milt stepped in. The song was about the lynchings in the South, an America people didn't want to hear about. Milt knew it wasn't economical but he thought it was really important. For my part, I am so proud that my family was involved in the record that Time magazine would one day vote 'the most important release of the 20th century'."
As one of the most revered vocalists of the century, Holiday's legend needs little explaining. She left a transcendent legacy of recorded work, including timeless classics such as Summertime, Lady Sings The Blues, That Ole Devil Called Love and the controversial Strange Fruit but, more than that, through her struggles in a white and male-dominated industry at the time, she laid the foundations for the liberated musical world of today.
Presenter/Billy Crystal, Producer/Danny O'Connor
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Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine Ep 1/6
Marc Riley dips into the BBC's archives and unearths some more seminal and tantalizing interviews in a new series of Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine.
This first episode travels back to 1964, the year that Nelson Mandela was jailed for life, when The Sun newspaper was born and when the British and French Governments announced their commitment to build a tunnel under the English Channel.
Marc transports listeners back into a different era – the start of the pop revolution when Beatlemania was about to take over the world. It's March 1964 and Bill Grundy interviews the "fifth Beatle", manager Brian Epstein, for his regional radio programme Frankly Speaking. The programme revisits the BBC's archives and hears Epstein speak candidly about how and when he discovered the Beatles and what it was like seeing them perform for the first time. He reveals his role in their image change, just exactly what it is a manager does and his theories on why they would go on to be a success in America. Brian also tells of how he reacted when Paul turned up late for their first meeting.
Please note, this series was previously billed to start in Week 27 on Tuesday 7 July.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/John Leonard
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 14 July 2009
Lunchtime Concert features another live performance by BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists, recorded at this year's City Of London Festival.
Today's concert, given by Tai Murray (violin) and Giles Vonsattal (piano), comes from the church of St Lawrence Jewry. They perform Mozart's Sonata for Violin and Piano in B flat KV378, Ysaye's Sonata for Solo Violin in D minor Op 27 No. 3 "Ballade" and Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor Op 80.
Presenter/Jonathan Swain, Producer/Elizabeth Funning
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Christian Lindberg, Sweden's flamboyant virtuoso trombonist, conductor and composer, brings the Nordic Chamber Orchestra to the Guildhall in London as part of the City Of London Festival.
Lindberg is a champion of new music, and this Swedish ensemble focuses this evening on music from Scandinavia from the 18th century to the present day. The concert features music by Johan Helmich Roman, the "father of Swedish music" and an important figure in 18th-century Sweden, as well as music for strings by Grieg, Sibelius and Nielsen.
They finish the performance with the London première of Lindberg's own Kundraan for trombone and strings – a piece of musical theatre where the anti-hero Kundraan meets Lucifer.
Tonight's performance is followed by pieces taken from past seasons of the BBC Proms.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Janet Tuppen
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
With public-sector cuts almost a certainty and renewed thrift in MPs and high-flying public servants already in evidence, Philip Dodd and guests consider whether a new period of austerity is about to begin, in tonight's edition of Night Waves. They reflect upon how our politics, culture and society will look in a more austere Britain.
David Cameron explicitly committed himself to a new politics of austerity at the Conservative Spring Conference earlier this year. But, after decades of celebration of go-getting consumerism, do we even understand austerity any more? It's a word more easily associated with post-war Attlee governments, miserable freezing weather and ration books. And it's more profound than just skipping the odd holiday, eating out less and other frequently cited changes in behaviour since the recession began. Austerity is a culture of plainness, economy, severity and starkness. It implies asceticism, rigidity, abstinence, self-discipline – even Puritanism.
Night Waves questions whether this is the world towards which we are headed and whether such austerity can ever be a thing of beauty.
Philip is joined by a round-table of political thinkers, cultural commentators and historians to discuss the possibilities of a new austerity.
Presenter/Philip Dodd
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Late Junction presents music from Tibet and Mexico alongside a track from Fife singer James Yorkston's new album of British folk songs; Diabolus In Musica performing the early Renaissance music of Guillaume Dufay; the traditional music of Brittany played on bombarde and organ; and Solisti New York performing Vermont Counterpoint by Steve Reich.
Presenter/Verity Sharp, Producer/Elizabeth Arno
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BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 14 July 2009
To mark the 30th anniversary of Kit Williams's ground-breaking puzzle book Masquerade, John O'Farrell reflects on the mayhem that followed when tens of thousands of people from across the world were caught up in the search for a jewel-encrusted golden hare buried somewhere in the British countryside.
Challenged by his publisher to do something that no one had ever done before, artist Williams set out to create a book of paintings that readers would study carefully rather than flip through.
The book's objective, the hunt for a valuable treasure, became his means to this end. So, Williams crafted a hare from 18-carat gold, sealed it inside a ceramic casket and, in August 1979, buried the casket at a secret location. No one could have imagined how successful the ploy would be.
Masquerade sold in its millions and was translated into eight languages. Williams was catapulted into the media spotlight and inundated with letters from people with crackpot theories. As lawns were dug up, the hunt for the hare, for many, became something of an obsession.
After two-and-a-half years, the hare was found by someone who uncovered it through a mixture of luck and cunning. Two Lancashire teachers, who had properly solved the puzzle, lost out by just a few days.
Thirty years on, armchair treasure-hunting, as it has become known, is a popular hobby – there are four hunts under way here in Britain, and similar ones in France, Japan and Australia.
Fuelled by a rash of copycat books which came out after Masquerade, and more recently the growth of alternative reality games on the internet, it can also be lucrative. A recent winner of an online hunt dug up a prize worth £100,000.
Producer/Emily Williams
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The Adventures Of Mr Thake Ep 1/3
In 1924, writer JB Morton adopted the name Beachcomber and began a humorous column in the Daily Express which was to run for more than 50 years.
Reading about the odd lives of Beachcomber's characters – whether they were nonsensical, puritanical, pompous or simply insane – became part of the ritual of breakfast throughout the land.
A typical example of Beachcomber's gift for creating what GK Chesterton described as "a huge thunderous wind of elemental and essential laughter," is Mr Thake.
Out of print since the Thirties, The Adventures Of Mr Thake is a collection of letters to Beachcomber read for this BBC Radio 4 series by actor Leslie Phillips. The character, Oswald Bletisloe Hattersley Thake, was depicted as an upper-class twit. Described affectionately as "a caricature of his nation", Thake never quite understands what is happening to him, or why.
Reader/Leslie Phillips, Producer/Neil Cargill
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Laurence & Gus – Hearts And Minds Ep 1/6
Award-winning comedy duo Laurence Howarth and Gus Brown return to BBC Radio 4 with another series of their comedy sketch show Laurence & Gus – Hearts and Minds.
The last series tackled such eternal questions as why people hurt the ones they love, how someone can spot the real grail and whether there is an easy solution to the problems in the Middle East.
This series promises more of the same – thoughtful jokes, silly jokes and the occasional song. Laurence and Gus will be joined once again by Kate Fleetwood, Isy Suttie and Duncan Wisbey.
Presenters/Laurence Howarth and Gus Brown, Producer/Colin Anderson
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 14 July 2009
5 Live Sport
Darren Fletcher rounds up the day's sports news and looks ahead to this week's Open Golf with John Murray, live from Turnberry, Scotland.
At 8pm in Just One Carletto, Brian Alexander takes a trip to the home town of new Chelsea manager Carlo Ancellotti – nicknamed Carletto in his homeland – to find out more about the man who is hoping to bring more success to Stamford Bridge.
From 9pm, BBC Radio 5 Live's regular series examining the health of some of the nation's favourite sports continues with The State Of Racing. Contributors include journalist Matthew Syed.
Presenter/Darren Fletcher, Producer/Mark Williams
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BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 14 July 2009
George Lamb welcomes Kasabian to the BBC 6 Music Hub today to play a live session and discuss their continued success with their latest album, West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum, and how it felt to be the warm-up act for Bruce Springsteen at this year's Glastonbury Festival.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Alicia Brown
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Tuesday 14 July 2009
Shazia and her sons have dinner with Hassan, who unwittingly rubs Rehan and Danyal up the wrong way, as the drama continues. The boys conclude that he is a bit of a know-it-all but will they say anything to their mother?
Later, a crowd gathers outside the restaurant as Kuljit angrily confronts a mystery photographer that Kuljit is convinced was taking sneaky photos of the women in Silverhill. The photographer defends himself, but what is he really up to?
Shazia is played by Shobu Kapoor, Hassan by Youssef Kerkour, Rehan by Rez Kempton, Danyal by Jag Sanghera and Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal.
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Network Radio BBC Week 28: Wednesday 15 July 2009
BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 15 July 2009
In today's concert, recorded at the City Of London Festival, three members of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme come together in the church of St Anne and St Agnes to perform Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50. Jennifer Pike (violin), Andreas Brantelid (cello) and Shai Wosner (piano) perform the trio written in memory of Tchaikovsky's friend and mentor, Nikolay Rubinstein.
Presenter/Jonathan Swain, Producer/Lindsay Kemp
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The Austrian pianist Till Fellner continues his immense journey through the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven. In this recital he contrasts the three Op 10 sonatas with the massive sonata Op 106, the Hammerklavier, one of the most challenging solo works in the entire piano repertoire.
The pieces are followed by performances from past seasons of the BBC Proms.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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Tonight's Late Junction selection includes Ngbaka singers from Central Africa with a song for the spirits of the ancestors; the fiddle and footwork of Quebecois musicians Lisa Ornstein and André Marchand; alongside Tango by Argentinian Otros Aires and Igor Stravinsky.
Plus Ross Daly and his group Labyrinth feature with the dance music and songs of Crete; and the Hildegurls perform the music of 12th-century mystic Hildegard of Bingen.
Presenter/Verity Sharp, Producer/Elizabeth Arno
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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 15 July 2009
In Living Memory Ep 1/4
On 22 May 1971, 47 women bought return train tickets from Dublin to Belfast. It was a Saturday, and the carriages were typically full of women on shopping trips looking for bargains in the North.
But the members of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement (IWLM) had a different shopping agenda. They went to buy contraceptives; and then returned to Connolly Station in Dublin to confront customs officers.
The sale of contraceptives was illegal in the Republic, and the IWLM wanted to make a protest. They invited the world's media, and the story of The Contraceptive Train earned a place in Irish history.
Not all IWLM members supported the stunt – some thought this was the wrong kind of publicity and refused to join in.
The IWLM was short-lived. Set up in the autumn of 1970, it had disbanded by the following summer. For most of its short life, the group was small, just a dozen or so key members who met on Monday nights in Mrs Gaj's restaurant in Dublin.
In this programme presented by Chris Ledgard, members of the IWLM explore their memories of the day's events. They include the writers Mary Kenny, Nell McCafferty and Mary Maher.
Presenter and Producer/Chris Ledgard
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Tim McInnerny plays Sir Alec Douglas-Home in a fictional account based on a reported incident.
When the diaries of the late Lord Hailsham were decoded in 2008, cryptologists from GCHQ were faced with the startling revelation that, in the spring of 1964, a posse of students at Aberdeen University had attempted to kidnap the then Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home.
Martin Jameson's fictionalised account of this event, set in a country house on the outskirts of Aberdeen, describes what might have happened – The Night They Tried To Kidnap The Prime Minister.
Having been appointed to the premiership by Macmillan in 1963, Alec Douglas-Home is not doing well. He is having problems sticking to his brief and Labour leader Harold Wilson is making short work of him at Prime Minister's Question Time.
At the Christmas recess, Douglas-Home is told to come up with a philosophy to define exactly what his premiership would mean and he sets out to address a series of public meetings in person.
He spends the whole of that spring touring the country. In April, he addresses a meeting in Aberdeen and returns early to the house where he is staying. Upon opening the front door he stumbles upon a group of students.
Starring Tim McInnerny the cast includes Chris Starkie as Robbie, Michelle Duncan as Sheila, Benjamin Askew as Eric and Grainne Dromgole as the girl.
Producer/Jeremy Mortimer
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 15 July 2009
5 Live Sport
Self-confessed golf fan Chris Evans presents BBC Radio 5 Live's Open Golf Preview Show, live from Turnberry, Scotland. Chris will be joined by special guests and a live audience to look ahead to the tournament which begins tomorrow.
There's also a preview of the second Ashes Test between England and Australia with Mark Pougatch at Lord's.
Presenters/Chris Evans and Mark Pougatch
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BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 15 July 2009
Restless sonic chameleons the Fiery Furnaces revolve around the brother-and-sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, whose prickly childhood relationship and musical family set the stage for their playful, unpredictable music.
They talk to Cerys Matthews about the concepts of their music and their new LP, I'm Going Away.
Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 15 July 2009
Danyal and Rehan discuss whether Hassan is right for their mother, in today's visit to Silver Street. Elsewhere, Hassan worries that the boys don't like him but Shazia is confident they do, even though they haven't said anything yet.
A Bollywood film crew has set up and everyone wants a piece of the action – including Bina. Later, Danyal quizzes Bina about Shazia's new man.
Elsewhere Shazia chats to Rehan but will he tell her how he and Danyal really feel?
Danyal is played by Jag Sanghera, Rehan by Rez Kempton, Hassan by Youssef Kerkour, Shazia by Shobu Kapoor and Bina by Sana Raja.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 15 July 2009
In the final part of this documentary, acoustician Professor Trevor Cox travels to one of the most densely populated and noisiest cities in the world, Hong Kong. Here he meets engineers at the Environmental Protection Unit, who have pioneered new approaches to noise pollution in the light of research by the World Health Organisation about its dramatic affects on health.
He also meets the artists behind the city's first sound festival and visits historic areas of Hong Kong whose distinctive soundscape will soon be lost to commercial redevelopment.
The Save Our Sounds website has launched an innovative interactive sound map on which audiences are able to record and upload sounds to become part of a sonic world-view and an online archive of global noises.
Producer/Karen Holden
BBC World Service Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 28: Thursday 16 July 2009
BBC 1XTRA Thursday 16 July 2009
Target takes care of Mistajam's show tonight and brings listeners highlights of this year's Relentless NASS festival, which was held between 10-12 July at the Bath And West Showground.
NASS is an action sports and music festival with a huge music line-up, including headliners American rap-rockers N*E*R*D, Lethal Bizzle, Tinchy Stryder and Chase & Status. BBC 1Xtra will be bringing back the best bits, including live music highlights and interviews with some of the acts.
Target will also be trying his hand at some of the many activities on offer at the festival, including BMX-ing and skating.
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BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 16 July 2009
Bob Harris is joined by Austin-based honky-tonk singer and modern musical outlaw Dale Watson for this week's show.
Describing his style of music as "Ameripolitan'", Dale Watson is firmly ensconced in the authentic classic country of Waylon Jennings, Merle Haggard and Johnny Cash, far removed from the commercial sounds of today's mainstream country music.
His recording career began in 1995 with the album Cheatin' Heart Attack, and since then he's released almost 20 albums including his 2007 album From The Cradle To The Grave, which was recorded in Johnny Cash's mountain retreat. His most recent release The Truckin' Sessions: Volume 2 is a follow up to his 1998 album of highway songs.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth
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LATITUDE FESTIVAL 2009
Stuart Maconie
- www.bbc.co.uk/latitude (website available closer to transmission)
- www.bbc.co.uk/radio2
- Feature
BBC Radio 2 and sister station BBC 6 Music are at the Latitude festival for the first time. With a focus on the music, Radio 2 and 6 music join festival regular BBC Radio 4 at the four-day event from Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 July.
Stuart Maconie kicks off Radio 2's coverage at the Suffolk arts festival which features an eclectic blend of music, comedy, theatre, poetry and literature.
Stuart is live backstage at the festival's Obelisk Arena, which is set to feature headline performances from Pet Shop Boys, Grace Jones and Nick Cave over the weekend. He speaks to Little Boots, Simon Armitage, Edwyn Collins and Grace Maxwell and other performers as they arrive at the Sunrise Coast festival.
Little Boots is a young electro-pop artist from Blackpool, called Victoria Hesketh, who won the BBC's Sound Of 2009 poll and has recently delivered on this early promise with her first chart hit, New In Town.
Jeff Smith, Head of Music, Radio 2, says: "Taking Radio 2 and 6 Music to Latitude demonstrates the continuing commitment to bringing the best of live music and events to our audiences.
"It is important to get out and connect with our listeners around the country and Latitude represents a great opportunity for this – the broad range of music and varied arts culture elements lend themselves well to our audience and to coverage in our programming.
"In addition, Radio 2's lead focus on the music will complement the Latitude output of Radio 4."
The website bbc.co.uk/latitude will feature broadcast and line-up information, feeding out to the respective sites of the networks.
Radio 2's website, bbc.co.uk/radio2, will feature extensive content including pictures, videos, and exclusive material plus behind-the-scenes videos with Claudia Winkleman and Dermot O'Leary.
Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Producer/Viv Atkinson
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BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 16 July 2009
Today's concert from the City Of London Festival comes from the church of St Mary le Bow in Cheapside. BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Shai Wosner continues the Festival's northern theme with music by Peter Maxwell Davies, who lives on the Orkney island of Sanday. Wosner then plays one of the great masterpieces of the piano repertoire, Schubert's lyrical Sonata in D major.
Presenter/Jonathan Swain, Producer/Elizabeth Funning
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The 2009 BBC Proms season starts tomorrow and tonight BBC Radio 3 presents a Proms Preview Evening. Petroc Trelawny and guests present the essential guide to the 2009 season, with music, views and news.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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Verity Sharp's choices tonight include Lam Si Kwan playing the Chinese di-zi flute; Ugandan singer Geoffrey Oryema; and Thomas Bloch's Santa Maria for glass harmonica and male soprano. In addition, Ex Cathedra perform the music of Spanish baroque composer Diego José de Salazar alongside some of the recordings Alan Lomax made in Mallorca in 1952.
Presenter/Verity Sharp, Producer/Elizabeth Arno
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 16 July 2009
Inside The Ethics Committee Ep 1/4
Every day, life-and-death decisions are being made in hospitals around the country. They are discussed by clinical ethics committees who help clinicians and families make difficult decisions about what course of action to take.
In this returning series of Inside The Ethics Committee, Joan Bakewell reveals how these dilemmas are confronted and resolved. Each week she is joined by a panel of experts including health professionals, philosophers, lay members and lawyers.
They will be presented with a real-life case, told through the personal testimony of the patients, relatives and medical staff involved. As the panel gradually unravels the ethical issues, they will test the moral foundation of how decisions are made in hospitals every day. After the programme, listeners can add their comments via the series' website.
The first programme tells the distressing real-life story of a young man who has been diagnosed with kidney cancer. He desperately needs an operation to have the cancerous kidney removed. If the cancer begins to spread, it is highly likely to kill him.
But the patient has cancelled his operations on several occasions and it becomes apparent that he is terrified of going under anaesthetic. Each time he misses an operation, half a day of operating time and a fully-staffed operating theatre session is wasted.
The panel discuss when persuasion tips over to potential accusations of coercion, the patient's rights to refuse a life-saving operation and his responsibilities to the NHS and diverting its resources from other patients.
Producer/Beth Eastwood
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Crossing Continents – Pakistan Ep 1/9
Today's news coverage on Pakistan focuses on drone strikes, military offensives and suicide bombings. Yet the real battle to decide the future of Pakistan is being waged in the classrooms, campuses and social hangouts of Pakistani youngsters.
Pakistan is a young country. Over a hundred million young people, 63 per cent of the population, are under the age of 25. Yet a lack of economic opportunities coupled with an increasingly ineffective state mean that a large number of youngsters are likely to become disenchanted and vulnerable to radicalisation. If Pakistan is to remain a moderate Islamic state, the battle for youngsters' hearts and minds must be won today.
Reporter Bill Law meets young Pakistanis from all walks of life to hear their thoughts on the crisis and find out what future they would like for their country.
Starting in Islamabad, Bill Law visits Habiba whose extreme views frightened him when he interviewed her in the past. The rumour is that many of the Red Mosque's students (like Habiba) have gone on to establish their own madrassas, to entice more youngsters to their radical path. Has Habiba become a vector for extremism or has she had a change of heart?
In Karachi, he meets boys from the state school system. With crumbling buildings and truant teachers, the state educational system is a shambles. The boys Law meets tell him of their difficulties finding a job and their disappointed hopes and dreams. It's not difficult to see how such disaffected youths are easily drawn to radicalisation.
Determined to confront the increasing radicalisation of Pakistan youth, Amna Mawaz has launched a street theatre group which examines why youngsters are drawn to the Taliban and what the real consequences are for society. It's a dangerous business as their plays are regularly broken up by baton-wielding riot police and targeted by religious conservatives.
Ali Abbas, a young computer technician based in Islamabad, has had enough of standing on the sidelines. He set up a Facebook group called the Pakistani Youth Alliance aimed at encouraging youngsters to stand up to religious extremism. It has 2,000 volunteers who raise money for the 200,000 refugees of the violence and personally deliver aid to the warzone.
Pakistani society has quietly become more religiously conservative over the last three decades. The space for liberal discussion is shrinking as more extreme views take hold. Young people are taking sides and battle lines are being drawn. Ultimately it is the choices they make today that will decide the future of this troubled country.
Presenter/Bill Law, Producer/Colin Pereira
BBC News Publicity
Journey to Armenia – Komitas:
The Saddest Sound In The World Ep 1/2
Writer Toby Litt explores the life and legacy of Armenian composer and singer, Komitas.
Toby travels to Armenia in search of Komitas, an orphan whose singing and talent as a composer turned him into the voice of his country.
Seven decades after his death in 1935, his music and the vast body of folk songs that he collected guarantee him a unique place in Armenian culture – he is remembered by cowherds as much as by composers.
The journey takes Toby from the Holy See of Ejmiadzin – where the young Komitas received his training both as a musician and as a priest – to the Yerevan studios of some of his heirs. He also talks to the historians Peter Balakian and Rita Kuyumjian about Komitas' later life in Berlin and Istanbul where he established a 300-strong choir; and traces the composer's tragic descent into madness and death – a fate triggered, they believe, by what he saw of the Armenian genocide in 1915.
Presenter/Toby Litt, Producer/Zahid Warley
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 16 July 2009
5 Live At The Open Golf
John Inverdale presents a busy day of live sport from Turnberry, Scotland, on the first day of the Open Golf and the first day's play of the second Ashes Test at Lord's.
Golf correspondent Iain Carter leads the commentary team at Turnberry alongside John Murray, Clare Balding, Alistair Bruce-Ball, Russell Fuller, Conor McNamara and Vassos Alexander. They are joined by three-times Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, Ryder Cup player Andrew Coltart and former tour players Mark Roe and Jay Townsend. Meanwhile, Chris Evans is on hand to report from the course.
Mark Pougatch, Pat Murphy and Geoff Boycott will have regular updates from Lord's on the first day of the second Test between England and Australia.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Graham McMillan
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Mark Pougatch, Clare Balding and Darren Fletcher present the day's sports news and review all the day's action.
Mark is joined by Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott at Lord's to look back at the opening day's play of the second Ashes Test between England and Australia, while Clare Balding reports from the opening day of the Open Golf in Turnberry.
At 8pm on The Phil Tufnell Cricket Show, Tuffers is joined by guests from the world of cricket and showbiz to discuss the latest issues in the game.
From 9pm listeners can hear Window Shopping, 5 Live Sport's regular look at the latest moves and gossip from the football transfer market.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch, Clare Balding and Darren Fletcher, Producer/Adrian Williams
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BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Thursday 16 July 2009
Test Match Special
Uninterrupted coverage of the opening day of the second Ashes Test between England and Australia comes live from Lord's. Jonathan Agnew leads the Test Match Special commentary team alongside Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Jim Maxwell and Henry Blofeld with expert summarisers Ian Chappell, Angus Fraser, Phil Tufnell and Jason Gillespie.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 16 July 2009
Welsh psychedelic rockers The Super Furry Animals join Cerys Matthews in the BBC 6 Music Hub to play songs from their new album Dark Days/Light Years, the band's ninth studio album.
The completion of the album was documented by a series of 22 short films that were shown on the Super Furry Animals website, with one film added each day leading up to its original digital release.
Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 16 July 2009
Kuljit has a business proposition for Peter but apologises first about attacking the location scout, as the drama continues. The Bollywood producer listens but will he be willing to start afresh?
Roopa is star struck when she meets the film's leading man, but this doesn't go down well with Peter who gives her some home truths about the industry.
Later, Danyal is drowning his sorrows and in no mood for conversation but then a handsome stranger starts to win him round...
Kuljit is played by Sartaj Garewal, Peter by Pal Aron, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Danyal by Jag Sanghera and Jonni by Divian Ladwa.
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Network Radio BBC Week 28: Friday 17 July 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Friday 17 July 2009
The Movie That Changed My Life Ep 1/6
In a collection of programmes, six well-known figures each choose their favourite movie – one that might have even changed their life.
Each presenter has selected a landmark film which they review with the assistance of expert contributors.
In the first programme, Suzanne Vega chooses Funny Face: a stylish, romantic musical starring Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire. Mousey intellectual Jo Stockton is discovered in a Greenwich Village bookshop by Dick Avery, the photographer for New York fashion magazine, Quality. Crowned the reluctant new face of the magazine, she is flown to Paris where she is to model the latest collection by France's leading designer. Jo, however, has her own motivation for visiting Paris: she wants to find Professor Flostre, the man behind the Empathicalist philosophy she follows. But Jo finds she has to choose between Flostre and Avery.
Directed by Stanley Donen with songs by George and Ira Gershwin and clothes by Givenchy, Funny Face is as charming today as when it was first released in 1957.
Producers/Kate Bland and Susan Marling
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Frank Renton presents some classics from the movies in this week's Listen To The Band.
All brass bands perform film music and, tonight, Frank introduces some of the classic sounds from James Bond, The Mask Of Zorro and Sister Act 2.
Music by John Williams, James Horner, Monty Norman, John Barry and Cole Porter feature, as performed by Grimethorpe, Black Dyke, YBS and the incomparable soprano cornet of one of the UK's greatest players – Peter Roberts.
Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter
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Claudia Winkleman presents her first outside broadcast for BBC Radio 2 from the Latitude Festival in this week's edition of her Friday arts show.
The Latitude festival, a four-day event in Southwold, Suffolk, from Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 July, features eclectic music, arts and comedy, and will be featured across BBC Radio.
Claudia hosts her show live from the BBC Radio Arena and showcases the best comedy, music and performances from the weekend. Guests popping in to Claudia's tent include Squeeze and comedian Lenny Beige and she also interviews Latitude creator and director Melvin Benn.
Further Latitude coverage features on Dermot O'Leary's show on Saturday and Janice Long's on Monday. There is also additional coverage from Steve Lamacq and the Music Week on BBC 6 Music.
The website at bbc.co.uk/latitude will feature broadcast and line-up information, feeding out to the respective network websites.
Radio 2's website, bbc.co.uk/radio2, will feature extensive content including pictures, videos and exclusive material plus behind-the-scenes video with Claudia Winkleman and Dermot O'Leary.
BBC Radio brings comprehensive coverage of the 2009 Latitude Festival across Radios 2, 4 and 6 Music and BBC online, with a mix of music, chat, comedy and arts programming.
Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Carmela DiClemente
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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 17 July 2009
BBC PROMS 2009
Performance On 3 – First Night Of The Proms 2009
Live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor, Jiří Bělohlávek, open the BBC Proms 2009 with a programme that gives a taste of some of the treasures in store over the next eight weeks.
Stephen Hough begins his complete cycle of the Tchaikovsky Piano Concertos with No. 3 in E flat, and sisters Katia and Marielle Labèque kick off the season's focus on works for multiple pianos with Poulenc's Concerto For Two Pianos. There's a nod to Stravinsky as this year's Proms feature his complete ballet scores; and two former members of the BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artist Scheme, Ailish Tynan (soprano) and Alice Coote, help launch the scheme's 10th birthday celebrations.
This Prom will be repeated on Monday 20 July at 2pm and is also broadcast live on BBC Two in a programme presented by Clive Anderson.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Brian Jackson
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Moving a piano onto the stage of the Royal Albert Hall during the Proms is always a challenge. For the interval of tonight's opening Prom (which features a multiple piano performance), Twenty Minutes takes a peek behind the scenes at the challenges of moving pianos in the Royal Albert Hall and talks to those involved in the extensive preparations.
Nothing fazes Julian Rout, the specialist piano removal company which moves 15,000 pianos each year. Jacqui Kelly, on the other hand, who is Proms Co-ordinator at the Royal Albert Hall, is already having sleepless nights about the minute-by-minute plans she has been making, not to mention fighting off bribes proffered by her stage-management team to avoid being on the rota on the night in question.
Producer/Beaty Rubens
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Fado star Mariza performs with her band at the Prince Regent's Theatre in Munich, in a concert recorded last November for Bavarian Radio.
Presenter/Mary Ann Kennedy, Producer/Roger Short
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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 17 July 2009
Steve Carver becomes a coach holiday courier and takes a party of 34 people on a six-day tour of South Devon.
In search of the perfect holiday job, last summer, in Dancing Round The Med, Steve Carver tried his hand at being a gentleman host on a cruise ship.
This summer, as the recession bites and with a thought for the environment, Steve is trying his hand as a coach holiday courier, courtesy of Johnsons Coaches based in the Midlands.
They run coach holidays all over Britain and the continent throughout the year. Their staff are experienced, their customers loyal and mainly over the age of 70.
On a wet June morning, Steve cheerily greets his passengers as they board the bus but, within five minutes, some customers are complaining they've been given the wrong seats, while others are concerned their luggage has not been loaded.
Steve has the skill and experience of fellow courier, Val, and driver Paul, to fall back on when the going gets tough. Val knows when indigestion is disguising itself as a heart attack and can remain cool when customers complain their room in a hotel in the centre of Cardiff has no sea view. Paul confides how to put a positive spin on getting lost and why one should never underestimate the power of a boiled sweet.
Producer/Lucy Lunt
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Cabin Pressure Ep 1/6
John Finnemore's comedy Cabin Pressure returns for a second series.
Set in a small airline business, Cabin Pressure shows the flipside of the glamorous world of international air travel. Its business consists of small cargo runs, stag nights, shifting a panther for the odd oil sheik, bussing over a load of journalists to a freebie in Monte Carlo and trying to avoid getting diverted to Birmingham.
Run by forbidding divorcée Carolyn Knapp-Shappey, her two pilots are the smooth and experienced Douglas; and the struggling, almost-competent pilot and sweaty man Martin. All-round help is provided by Carolyn's son, Arthur.
Carolyn, played by Stephanie Cole, is, at last – at the age of 64 – free of her husband, but pleasingly not free of his private jet. She is now ready to show the world what she's made of by running the slickest, most successful, most profitable charter air firm ever seen. And were it not for her crew, plane, and passengers, she would succeed.
An ex-stewardess, she is continually frustrated by the incompetence or irresponsibility of the sort of pilots who are prepared to work for the money she's prepared to pay.
Martin is played by Benedict Cumberbatch, Douglas by Roger Allam and Arthur by John Finnemore.
Producer/David Tyler
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Incident At Boulonvilliers, set in June 1982, tells the story of three British tank crew members who return to Normandy to revisit the scene of one of their battles from the Second World War.
During the trip, the attention of Arthur Roddis, Frank Baldry and Tommy Benson turns to one memory which stands out in particular: when their Sherman tank was disabled and they were forced to spend 24 hours in a small French village. The men witnessed the forced head-shaving by young resistance fighters of three women – a grandmother, mother and daughter – who ran a hotel bar and were accused of collaborating with the Nazi officers.
The three men's recollections clash, so they decide to try to find the small village. The woman running the bar turns out to be the 19 year old they witnessed having her head shaved all those years ago.
She speaks a little English and, just as the men are about to leave, she begins to tell the truth behind the events of that day. The three men are left to deal with what they have been told and admit to some uncomfortable truths about that day in 1944.
The cast includes David Hargreaves, Geoffrey Whitehead, Michael Mears, Ella Smith and Gabrielle Reidy. Incident At Boulonvilliers is written by Dave Sheasby.
Producer/David Hunter
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 17 July 2009
5 Live At The Open Golf
4.00-7.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
John Inverdale presents a busy day of live sport from Turnberry, Scotland, with the second day of the Open and updates from the second day's play of the second Ashes Test at Lord's.
Golf correspondent Iain Carter leads the commentary team at Turnberry alongside John Murray, Clare Balding, Alistair Bruce-Ball, Russell Fuller, Conor McNamara and Vassos Alexander. They are joined by three-time Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, Ryder Cup player Andrew Coltart and former tour players Mark Roe and Jay Townsend. Chris Evans is also on hand to report from out and about on the course.
Mark Pougatch, Pat Murphy and Geoff Boycott will have regular updates from Lord's on the second day of the second Test between England and Australia.
Coverage of both events continues at 4pm.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Graham McMillan
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Mark Pougatch, Clare Balding and Darren Fletcher present the day's sports news and review all the day's action.
Mark is joined by Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott at Lord's to look back at the second day's play of the second Ashes Test between England and Australia, while Clare Balding reports from the opening day of the Open Golf in Turnberry.
From 8pm, Darren Campbell is joined by BBC Radio 5 Live's athletics correspondent, Mike Costello, from the Golden League in Paris for 5 Live Track And Field to discuss the big stories in athletics.
At 9pm, 5 Live Boxing with Steve Bunce looks ahead to Amir Khan's first world-title fight against Andreas Kotelnik in Manchester tomorrow evening.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch, Clare Balding and Darren Fletcher, Producer/Ben North
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BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Friday 17 July 2009
Test Match Special
Uninterrupted coverage of the second day of the second Ashes Test between England and Australia comes live from Lord's. Jonathan Agnew leads the Test Match Special commentary team alongside Christopher Martin-Jenkins, Jim Maxwell and Henry Blofeld, with expert summarisers Ian Chappell, Angus Fraser, Phil Tufnell and Jason Gillespie.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Rugby League
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted live commentary from the match between Leeds Rhinos and Hull Kingston Rovers from Headingley in the Super League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 17 July 2009
Steve Lamacq kicks off BBC 6 Music's coverage of this year's Latitude Festival with a live broadcast from the on-site BBC Radio Arena.
The Latitude festival, a four-day event in Southwold, Suffolk, from Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 July, features eclectic music, arts and comedy, and will be featured across BBC Radio.
A plethora of guests join Steve including Friday night headliners the Pet Shop Boys, who pop by for a chat. Other exclusive sessions, comedy performances and spray-painted sheep also feature as Lammo visits possibly the UK's poshest festival, for the first time.
BBC Radio brings comprehensive coverage of the 2009 Latitude Festival across Radios 2, 4 and 6 Music and BBC online with a mix of music, chat, comedy and arts programming.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Gary Bales
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The Rock Show welcomes guitarist Omar and lead singer Cedric from Grammy Award-winning rock band The Mars Volta to the show.
Hailed by New Yorker magazine as "perhaps the most musically adventurous act currently signed to a major label," The Mars Volta formed in 2001.
Tackling themes such as abandonment and addiction, the band have just released their fifth album, Octahedron. They have an impressive reputation for live performances (having supported the Red Hot Chili Peppers in the past) and tell Bruce how their special outdoor show at Somerset House on Monday 13 July went.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Friday 17 July 2009
Jungli is pitching to Bollywood producer Peter for a catering contract, in the last visit of the week to Silver Street.
Meanwhile, star Jonni is flustered by someone's surprise visit to the set. He takes his frustration out on poor Roopa but later realises he needs her as a smokescreen...
Later, Danyal is shocked to discover the identity of the handsome stranger he has been flirting with; and Jonni gets nervous when he thinks they have been seen together...
Jungli is played by Adil Ray, Peter by Pal Aron, Jonni by Divian Ladwa, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar and Danyal by Jag Sanghera.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Friday 17 July 2009
BBC World Service continues its series from six documentary makers from around the world who have produced a programme on the same central theme of "islands". Each documentary provides a very different local perspective on this topic. In Death Diminishes Me, the interpretation of this theme is based around the isolation suffered by those living with HIV.
Fifteen funerals within five years – that is the situation Shane found himself enduring in the early Nineties when his friends started dying from Aids-related illnesses.
Shane is one of five HIV-positive men from New Zealand who share their personal reflections and stories in Death Diminishes Me as they work towards self-acceptance. This programme looks at what isolates people from, and what connects them to, their family, friends and each other.
Producer/Gareth Watkins
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