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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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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

Thursday 16 July

8.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 2

• 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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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

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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

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Inside The Ethics Committee Ep 1/4

Thursday 16 July

9.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 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

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Crossing Continents – Pakistan Ep 1/9

Thursday 16 July

11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4

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

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Journey to Armenia – Komitas:
The Saddest Sound In The World Ep 1/2

Thursday 16 July

11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4

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

5 Live At The Open Golf

Thursday 16 July

10.00am-7.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

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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Test Match Special

Thursday 16 July

10.25am-6.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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

BBC 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity

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

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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