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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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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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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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Music Director of English National Opera Edward Gardner

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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Tarantino's Jukebox Ep 1/ 2

Saturday 11 July

10.30-11.00am BBC RADIO 4

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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Buzz Aldrin takes one small step…

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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Yes It's The Ashes Ep 2/6

Saturday 11 July

11.00am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

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

Saturday 11 July

12.00noon-7.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

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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Ashes 606

Saturday 11 July

7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

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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Test Match Special

Saturday 11 July

10.45am-6.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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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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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