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BBC ELECTRIC PROMS 2009
BBC Electric Proms – Smokey Robinson

Saturday 24 October on BBC RADIO 2

Smokey Robinson takes to the Roundhouse stage, with the BBC Concert Orchestra and his band, for an Electric Prom celebrating 50 years of Motown records

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The Wire – Me And Cilla

Saturday 24 October on BBC RADIO 3

Emerging Newcastle talent Lee Mattinson's play stars Charlie Hardwick, Trevor Fox and James Baxter and is set as the inhabitants of a Newcastle two-up two-down prepare for a Christmas party

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Saturday Play – Bullitt

Saturday 24 October on BBC RADIO 4

Jason Isaacs plays a detective under pressure, in a radio version of Robert L Pike's atmospheric detective novel

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MAIDA VALE @ SEVENTY FIVE

From Sunday 25 October across BBC RADIO

On Friday 30 October all of the BBC's radio networks broadcast programmes from the historic Maida Vale studios to celebrate its 75th birthday. As part of the celebrations, BBC Radio 1 plays 75 exclusive archive tracks taken from the past few decades of Radio 1 sessions at the world-famous studios, while Radio 2 features live performances by Jamie Cullum, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and a special production of Brief Encounter, starring Jenny Seagrove

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BBC RADIO 2 – FAITH IN THE WORLD WEEK

Sunday 25 and Tuesday 27 on BBC RADIO 2

This year's BBC Radio 2 Faith In The World Week focuses on how children are taught about faith in Good Morning Sunday, Sunday Half Hour and Growing Up With God, in which former hostage John McCarthy asks if it's right to bring up children to believe

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Private Passions – Stewart Copeland

Sunday 25 October on BBC RADIO 3

Legendary Police drummer Stewart Copeland discusses the music that has influenced him throughout his life, from his childhood in Beirut in the Sixties to his years as a rock star

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FREE THINKING 2009
Words And Music – Family Portraits

Sunday 25 October on BBC RADIO 3

Gina McKee and Donald McBride read poems inspired by family life and are joined by Newcastle-based folk singer Emily Portman and concertina and Northumbrian pipes legend Alistair Anderson

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NFL American Football

Sunday 25 October on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

New England Patriots take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFL as the sport comes to Wembley Stadium for the third time

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FREE THINKING 2009
Night Waves

Monday 26 October on BBC RADIO 3

Ken Livingstone meets an audience at The Sage, Gateshead, and discusses whether there are lessons that cities on the banks of the Tyne and Wear could learn from the big one by the Thames

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Baroque And Roll – Townshend On Purcell

Tuesday 27 October on BBC RADIO 4

Discussing The Who's illustrious career, guitarist and songwriter Pete Townshend reveals a love of Henry Purcell

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Bleak Expectations

Thursday 29 October on BBC RADIO 4

Mark Evans's epic Victorian comedy is back for a third series of plots, disguises, escapes, tragedies and triumphs, in the style of Dickens after too much gin

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