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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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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

Sunday 12 July

1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3

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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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

Sunday 12 July

4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 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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5 Live Sport

Sunday 12 July

12.00noon-7.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

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

Sunday 12 July

7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

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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Test Match Special

Sunday 12 July

10.45am-6.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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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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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BBC 6 Music presenter Dave Pearce

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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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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