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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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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

Monday 13 July (Schedule Amendment 16 July)

10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 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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Lunchtime Concert

Monday 13 to Friday 17 July

1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3

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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Book Of The Week – You're Coming With Me Lad Ep 1/5

Monday 13 to Friday 17 July

9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4

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

Monday 13 to Friday 17 July

10.45-11.00am BBC RADIO 4

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

Monday 13 July

11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4

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

Monday 13 to Friday 17 July

3.45-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4

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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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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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

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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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