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In today's concert, recorded at the City Of London Festival, three members of the BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme come together in the church of St Anne and St Agnes to perform Tchaikovsky's Piano Trio in A minor, Op 50. Jennifer Pike (violin), Andreas Brantelid (cello) and Shai Wosner (piano) perform the trio written in memory of Tchaikovsky's friend and mentor, Nikolay Rubinstein.

Presenter/Jonathan Swain, Producer/Lindsay Kemp

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The Austrian pianist Till Fellner continues his immense journey through the complete piano sonatas of Beethoven. In this recital he contrasts the three Op 10 sonatas with the massive sonata Op 106, the Hammerklavier, one of the most challenging solo works in the entire piano repertoire.

The pieces are followed by performances from past seasons of the BBC Proms.

Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Janet Tuppen

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Tonight's Late Junction selection includes Ngbaka singers from Central Africa with a song for the spirits of the ancestors; the fiddle and footwork of Quebecois musicians Lisa Ornstein and André Marchand; alongside Tango by Argentinian Otros Aires and Igor Stravinsky.

Plus Ross Daly and his group Labyrinth feature with the dance music and songs of Crete; and the Hildegurls perform the music of 12th-century mystic Hildegard of Bingen.

Presenter/Verity Sharp, Producer/Elizabeth Arno

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In Living Memory Ep 1/4

Wednesday 15 July

11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4

On 22 May 1971, 47 women bought return train tickets from Dublin to Belfast. It was a Saturday, and the carriages were typically full of women on shopping trips looking for bargains in the North.

But the members of the Irish Women's Liberation Movement (IWLM) had a different shopping agenda. They went to buy contraceptives; and then returned to Connolly Station in Dublin to confront customs officers.

The sale of contraceptives was illegal in the Republic, and the IWLM wanted to make a protest. They invited the world's media, and the story of The Contraceptive Train earned a place in Irish history.

Not all IWLM members supported the stunt – some thought this was the wrong kind of publicity and refused to join in.

The IWLM was short-lived. Set up in the autumn of 1970, it had disbanded by the following summer. For most of its short life, the group was small, just a dozen or so key members who met on Monday nights in Mrs Gaj's restaurant in Dublin.

In this programme presented by Chris Ledgard, members of the IWLM explore their memories of the day's events. They include the writers Mary Kenny, Nell McCafferty and Mary Maher.

Presenter and Producer/Chris Ledgard

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Tim McInnerny plays Sir Alec Douglas-Home in a fictional account based on a reported incident.

When the diaries of the late Lord Hailsham were decoded in 2008, cryptologists from GCHQ were faced with the startling revelation that, in the spring of 1964, a posse of students at Aberdeen University had attempted to kidnap the then Prime Minister, Sir Alec Douglas-Home.

Martin Jameson's fictionalised account of this event, set in a country house on the outskirts of Aberdeen, describes what might have happened – The Night They Tried To Kidnap The Prime Minister.

Having been appointed to the premiership by Macmillan in 1963, Alec Douglas-Home is not doing well. He is having problems sticking to his brief and Labour leader Harold Wilson is making short work of him at Prime Minister's Question Time.

At the Christmas recess, Douglas-Home is told to come up with a philosophy to define exactly what his premiership would mean and he sets out to address a series of public meetings in person.

He spends the whole of that spring touring the country. In April, he addresses a meeting in Aberdeen and returns early to the house where he is staying. Upon opening the front door he stumbles upon a group of students.

Starring Tim McInnerny the cast includes Chris Starkie as Robbie, Michelle Duncan as Sheila, Benjamin Askew as Eric and Grainne Dromgole as the girl.

Producer/Jeremy Mortimer

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5 Live Sport

Wednesday 15 July

7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Self-confessed golf fan Chris Evans presents BBC Radio 5 Live's Open Golf Preview Show, live from Turnberry, Scotland. Chris will be joined by special guests and a live audience to look ahead to the tournament which begins tomorrow.

There's also a preview of the second Ashes Test between England and Australia with Mark Pougatch at Lord's.

Presenters/Chris Evans and Mark Pougatch

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Restless sonic chameleons the Fiery Furnaces revolve around the brother-and-sister duo of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, whose prickly childhood relationship and musical family set the stage for their playful, unpredictable music.

They talk to Cerys Matthews about the concepts of their music and their new LP, I'm Going Away.

Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Jax Coombes

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Danyal and Rehan discuss whether Hassan is right for their mother, in today's visit to Silver Street. Elsewhere, Hassan worries that the boys don't like him but Shazia is confident they do, even though they haven't said anything yet.

A Bollywood film crew has set up and everyone wants a piece of the action – including Bina. Later, Danyal quizzes Bina about Shazia's new man.

Elsewhere Shazia chats to Rehan but will he tell her how he and Danyal really feel?

Danyal is played by Jag Sanghera, Rehan by Rez Kempton, Hassan by Youssef Kerkour, Shazia by Shobu Kapoor and Bina by Sana Raja.

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In the final part of this documentary, acoustician Professor Trevor Cox travels to one of the most densely populated and noisiest cities in the world, Hong Kong. Here he meets engineers at the Environmental Protection Unit, who have pioneered new approaches to noise pollution in the light of research by the World Health Organisation about its dramatic affects on health.

He also meets the artists behind the city's first sound festival and visits historic areas of Hong Kong whose distinctive soundscape will soon be lost to commercial redevelopment.

The Save Our Sounds website has launched an innovative interactive sound map on which audiences are able to record and upload sounds to become part of a sonic world-view and an online archive of global noises.

Producer/Karen Holden

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