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The Movie That Changed My Life Ep 1/6

Friday 10 July (Schedule Amendment 3 July)

7.00-7.30pm BBC RADIO 2

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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BBC Radio 2 presenter Claudia Winkleman

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 PROMS 2009
Performance On 3 – First Night Of The Proms 2009

Friday 17 July

7.30-10.20pm BBC RADIO 3

• www.bbc.co.uk/proms
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Chief Conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra Jiří Bělohlávek

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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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

Friday 17 July

11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4

Arthur (John Finnemore), Douglas (Roger Allum), Carolyn (Stephanie Cole) and Martin (Benedict Cumberbatch) take to the air in Cabin Pressure

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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5 Live At The Open Golf

Friday 17 July

10.00am-3.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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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Test Match Special

Friday 17 July

10.45am-6.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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

Friday 17 July

7.55-9.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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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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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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 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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