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Network Radio BBC Week 43: 24-30 October
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Network Radio BBC Week 43: Saturday 24 October 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 24 October 2009
This week, Dermot O'Leary has live sessions from Imogen Heap and Brendan Benson and also speaks to Dame Shirley Bassey fresh from her performance at the BBC's Electric Proms.
Imogen Heap is a British-born, Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist who has recorded with Guy Sigsworth as Frou Frou, as well as producing solo material. Her third album, Ellipse, recently charted at No. 5 on the US Billboard charts, her most successful to date following exposure on film and TV soundtracks including Garden State and The O.C.
Brendan Benson is a Detroit-born singer-songwriter who has released four solo albums and collaborates with Jack White in The Raconteurs. His latest solo album, My Old, Familiar Friend, combines many facets of his music: American, anglophile, rock and the pop. It was recorded in Nashville and London, produced by Gil Norton (Pixies, Echo And The Bunnymen, Foo Fighters) and mixed in LA by Dave Sardy (The Rolling Stones, LCD Soundsystem, Oasis).
Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker
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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. He performs brand new arrangements of some of his greatest hits, alongside tracks from his new album, Time Flies When You're Having Fun.
Smokey was one of Berry Gordy's first signings to the Motown Records label, which operated out of the Hitsville USA studio in Detroit. He delivered a string of hits with his band The Miracles including the singles The Tracks Of My Tears and Tears Of A Clown.
With pounding rhythm tracks, jubilant string arrangements and that intoxicating, instantly recognisable falsetto, Smokey's recorded output is emblematic of the Motown sound. He was also the primary songwriter for The Temptations from 1963-6, penning classics such as My Girl and Get Ready.
Paul Gambaccini introduces this special celebration of Motown, 50 years after Smokey first sang for the label. He also interviews Smokey in Paul Gambaccini With America's Greatest Hits on BBC Radio 2 immediately after the live performance at 9.15pm.
Presenter/Paul Gambaccini, Producer/Sarah Gaston
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Bob Harris's After Midnight live session comes from Lorraine McIntosh and Ricky Ross, who, after more than two decades in and out of the Scottish pop band Deacon Blue, decided to make an album together.
The tracks are both written and sung by the pair and the album was recorded in the Red Star Studio in Silver Lake, Los Angeles. Mark Howard, who has previously worked with Bob Dylan and Tom Waits, was hired to produce and with his help, Ricky and Lorraine hand-picked a band that included drummer Steven Nistor (Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse), bass player Daryl Johnson (Emmylou Harris, the Neville Brothers) and Doug Pettibone on pedal steel and banjo. Completing the line-up was guitarist and backing vocalist David Scott (of The Pearl Fishers), who produced Ricky's last solo album, Pale Rider. The resulting album, entitled The Great Lakes by McIntosh Ross, combines echoes of their Celtic homeland with the sound of the American south.
In the final hour of the show Bob pays tribute to one of his heroes, Roger Scott, and commemorates the 20th anniversary of his death at the age of 46. Best known for presenting an afternoon radio show on London's Capital Radio from 1973 until 1988, Roger ended his illustrious career at the BBC in 1989.
Bob will be playing some of Roger's favourite artists alongside links from his career and excerpts from the special radio documentary recorded for the BBC by Johnny Beerling and Philip Swern towards the end of Roger's life, in which he talks us through his career, including his bedside position at John and Yoko's peace protest in Montreal.
Archive comes from American and Canadian Radio stations such as WPTR 1540 in Albany and CFOX in Montreal, the Three O Clock Thrill, Cruising and All Time Top 100 on London's Capital Radio and both his Seventies Bob Baker and final Scott On Sunday shows for BBC Radio 1. Contributors include Tim Blackmore MBE, the first Director of the Radio Academy and who was also head of music and programmes at Capital during Roger's time there.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson
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BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 24 October 2009
Bizet's Carmen is one of the most popular of all operas. It also continues to tempt the world's finest singers. In this recent revival of Francesca Zambello's colourful production from the Royal Opera House, the Latvian mezzo-soprano Elina Garanca sings the title role. Starring opposite her is the Sicilian/French tenor Roberto Alagna, for whom Don José has long been a special role.
Carmen and José's doomed relationship lies at the heart of this opera. The performance is conducted by Bertrand de Billy.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Mark Lowther
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
"Are we meant to take more than we give, or are we meant to be kind? And if only fools are kind, Alfie, then I guess it's wise to be cruel."
Preparations are under-way in a Newcastle two-up two-down for the perfect Christmas party. Cilla Stephenson's making the buffet, her husband Ringo's "apparently" at his pantomime rehearsal, and son Alfie is upstairs trying on his new outfit. But every seasonal scenario has a dark lining. In a house of secrets, can any of these fantasists succeed in a festive game of truth Buckaroo? When their individual glass bubbles come crashing into one another with an almighty and irreparable smash, Cilla Black's lyrics help them give voice to their wounds.
Me And Cilla, a bold new piece from exciting emerging Newcastle talent Lee Mattinson, stars Charlie Hardwick, Trevor Fox and James Baxter.
Producer/Katherine Beacon
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BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 24 October 2009
Detective Frank Clancy, head throbbing from days without sleep, is assigned to protect an important mafia witness Johnny Rossi. He's been put on the case by his nemesis, Assistant District Attorney Chalmers. But when Rossi is found dead, Clancy has only a matter of hours to find the killer before Chalmers finds out.
When Robert L Pike's atmospheric detective novel was turned into a film starring Steve McQueen, it was relocated from its original slummy New York setting to the more glamorous San Francisco. This adaptation goes back to the original novel.
Clancy is woken in the middle of the night to be told there's a problem with Rossi, the mafia-hoodlum-turned-state-witness being guarded in a hotel room. When Clancy arrives at the hotel, Rossi is still alive and being put into an ambulance. He places a trusted cop on guard outside Rossi's hospital room.
Later Lieutenant Clancy returns to find Rossi dead in the hospital bed, a kitchen knife sticking in his chest. It seems the murderer must have disguised himself as a doctor to get past the guard. Clancy persuades a frightened Dr Willard, who had operated on Rossi, to hide the body in a basement storeroom for 24 hours, and hopes that will be enough time to solve the murder and save his career.
Narrated in the first person by Clancy, Jason Isaacs plays the under-pressure detective. The book has been adapted by Adrian Bean.
Producer/Pauline Harris
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Presented by Sir John Tusa, 1989 – Day-By-Day recreates the year's major political, cultural and social events through archive and music from the time.
Looking back at this week's news from 1989, Egon Krenz is officially installed as East Germany's new leader and Zsa Zsa Gabor and US TV evangelist Jim Bakker are both sent to jail.
The BBC's Panorama investigates whether a crack crisis is about to hit Britain; and a recently freed South African activist sends wry thanks to Margaret Thatcher.
Nigel Lawson resigns after six years as Chancellor of the Exchequer prompting a further drop in the value of the pound; President Gorbachev promises unilateral disarmament in the Baltic; and Nirvana record their first session for BBC Radio 1.
Margaret Thatcher's leadership style comes under fire after a quick cabinet reshuffle; the IRA admits killing a British soldier and his six-month-old baby in West Germany; and new East German premier Egon Krenz agrees to release reformist protestors.
A pro-democracy rally in Prague turns violent after police move in; a Northern Irish peace train is held overnight due to a bomb scare; and Prince Charles calls on politicians and business leaders to tackle global warming.
Walter Sisulu addresses 70,000 at the biggest ever African National Congress rally; East Berlin's Communist party chief tells socialists "we need to practice democracy" while riots in Moscow follow a demonstration outside the KGB headquarters; and the Bishop of London warns the church against an invasion of female priests.
Presenter/Sir John Tusa, Producer/Robert Abel
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 24 October 2009
OCTOBERFEST
Fighting Talk
Colin Murray presents a special edition of the points-for-punditry sports panel show in front of a live audience at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull as part of BBC Radio 5 Live's Octoberfest.
Colin will be joined on the panel by NFL broadcaster Greg Brady, journalist and broadcaster Martin Kelner and sports commentator John Rawling.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Simon Crosse
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OCTOBERFEST
5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch presents an afternoon of sport, live from the KC Stadium, Hull, as part of BBC Radio 5 Live's Octoberfest.
The action kicks off with commentary of the Midlands derby between Wolves and Aston Villa live from Molineux at 12.45pm, plus updates of Hamilton versus Celtic in the Scottish Premier League (kick off 12.30pm).
From 3pm there's coverage of Tottenham Hotspur versus Stoke City, plus updates from the rest of the games around the country, including Hull versus Portsmouth and Birmingham versus Sunderland in the Premier League, and Rangers versus Hibernian in the SPL. There are also updates from London Irish versus Leicester in rugby union's Premiership from 3.15pm.
At 5.30pm there's commentary of the Premier League's late kick-off, Chelsea versus Blackburn, plus updates from Gloucester versus Wasps in rugby union's Premiership.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mark Williams
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Saturday 24 October 2009
5 Live Football League
Listeners can enjoy commentary on a leading game in the Championship, plus reports and score updates from across the Football League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Rugby League
Uninterrupted international commentary of Australia versus New Zealand in the Four Nations tournament comes, live, from the Twickenham Stoop.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Saturday 24 October 2009
Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish present the highlights of Super Song Wars performed at the BBC Electric Proms, where listeners joined the boys on stage at the London Roundhouse to sing along to a Song Wars classic composition. There's also all the usual Black Squadron antics and Text The Nation
Presenters/Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, Producer/James Stirling
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Legendary DJ and producer Andrew Weatherall returns for the next instalment of his 6 Mix residency. In his latest show, he plays an eclectic mix of new music, from unsigned artists and underground guitar bands to punk and rockabilly, plus new musical discoveries from his travels round the world. In the final 30 minutes of the show he throws open the doors to his Saturday Night Disco for an exclusive live mix, playing upfront club tunes and new remixes fresh from his studio.
Presenter/Andrew Weatherall, Producer/Rowan Collinson
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Listeners can enjoy the pick of the best new online music by unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar artists, recommended by listeners, bands and BBC presenters.
Tom Robinson chats to Fangs, allegedly the best-looking band to come out of Glasgow since Franz Ferdinand. They pride themselves on their pithy self-description: pin-ups, protagonists, androgynists, style icons and blood-sucking monsters!
Also on the show are exclusive session tracks recorded by The October Game. The four-piece write songs inspired by nature, books, films, music and art, mixed with elements of post-rock and folk and the result is a truly unique form of alternative rock music. They're busy boys, being in the middle of a UK tour and also recording their second album at home in leafy, suburban Bedfordshire. The record's due out this year on Carmandie Records.
Presenter/Tom Robinson, Producer/Louise Orchard
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Network Radio BBC Week 43: Sunday 25 October 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 25 October 2009
At the start of Faith In The World Week on BBC Radio 2, which this year focuses on Growing Up With God and how children are taught about faith, Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo.
Michael talks about the research and background to his new book, The Kites Are Flying, which is based on a television reporter's extraordinary experience in the West Bank and reveals how children's hopes and dreams for peace and unity can fly higher than any wall built to divide communities and religions.
Deborah Hollamby also 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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To mark BBC Radio 2's Faith In The World Week, Sunday Half Hour continues exploring the notion of Growing Up With God. Brian D'Arcy finds out how religious faith is passed down to the next generation and through hymns, reflection and prayer, he explores Christianity's core beliefs and discovers how – and what – children are taught today.
Hymns include Now Thank We All Our God, Teach Me My God And King and Loving Shepherd Of Thy Sheep.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 25 October 2009
Michael Berkeley's guest today is Stewart Copeland, legendary drummer with The Police and now a composer. Stewart has written two operas, and recently provided the music and narration for a spectacular performance of Ben Hur at the O2 Arena in London.
In conversation with Michael, Stewart discusses the music that has influenced him throughout his life, from his childhood growing up in Beirut in the Sixties (his American father worked for the CIA) to his years as a rock star with one of the most famous bands of the early Eighties.
He talks about his unusual drumming technique and his interest in chord progressions and rhythmic patterns, illustrating his thoughts with a wide range of music from Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin and the Prelude to Wagner's Tannhauser, to Paul Simon's Diamonds On The Soles Of Her Shoes and Desmond Dekker's reggae number Israelites which, he says, inspired the style of The Police.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Sarah Cropper
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Today, people think of a "jig" as simply a dance but, back in Shakespeare's time, the word described a short musical farce featuring songs, dancing and slapstick comedy. Performed in the London theatres as "afterpieces", jigs provided light relief at the end of some great drama or tragedy – a satirical, subversive and often downright obscene antidote to the plays which preceded them. Penned by the great comedians of the day and through-sung to popular tunes, jigs had their origins in the clowning, dancing and misrule of rural festivals and folk tradition.
Performing jigs today often requires considerable detective work as tune titles are rarely given, and others are untraceable. The texts are laden with period references and innuendo. What went on between the lines, though – the dance steps, the gestures and instrumental interludes – belonged to each individual performer, much like the ornamentation of baroque concertos.
Lucie Skeaping explores this forgotten, often bawdy world and the music which caused such uproar.
Presenter/Lucie Skeaping, Producer/Sam Phillips
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Following the death of Russian artist Victor Hartmann in 1873, Modest Mussorgsky attended an exhibition of his close friend's work and was inspired to compose a piano suite depicting some of the paintings, drawings and designs that he had seen. Mussorgsky composed the Pictures At An Exhibition suite very quickly and it became a potent example of his Russian nationalist sentiments and his desire to "realistically" capture pictorial ideas in music. The piano suite cried out to be arranged for orchestra and one who took up the challenge was Frenchman Maurice Ravel, who made his remarkable orchestration in 1920. The work has never waned in popularity since.
Charles Hazlewood joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and pianist Ashley Wass at the Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff for an examination of both the original and orchestral versions of Pictures. This afternoon's programme looks at the images that so fired Mussorgsky's imagination and finds out more about this complex and often misunderstood 19th-century composer.
This programme will also be filmed for web streaming at bbc.co.uk/radio3.
Presenter/Charles Hazlewood, Producer/Chris Wines
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Matthew Sweet hosts an evening of conversation and debate around BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival of ideas, which has taken place this weekend at The Sage, Gateshead. An array of guests including Professor Tanya Byron, Dan Cruickshank, David Miliband, Mike Brearley, Ken Livingstone, Lisa Jardine, William Orbit, Julia Neuberger, Peter Flannery, Gina McKee and many others joined audiences at The Sage for debate, conversation and performance.
Tonight, Matthew is joined by a round table of guests who have been at The Sage all weekend, to reflect on the interviews, lectures and audience comment that they've heard – in particular on this year's key theme at Free Thinking – The 21st-Century Family. They assess if the complex and thought-provoking questions thrown up by the powerful speakers have elicited any answers.
Matthew goes on to introduce this year's Free Thinking drama, specially written for the festival by Newcastle writers Fiona Evans and Karen Laws, and performed at the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. The drama tackles the family theme and explores the line between personal and public responsibility.
Presenter/Matthew Sweet, Producer/Martin Smith
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Ian McMillan presents a special edition of this Sony-winning programme recorded in front of an audience at The Sage, Gateshead, as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival 2009.
Mixing poetry and music inspired by family life, there are readings from County Durham-born actress Gina McKee (star of Notting Hill and Our Friends In The North) and Live Theatre's Donald McBride, reading poems by Philip Larkin, John Clare, Sylvia Plath and Newcastle's own, Thomas Whittle.
The programme also includes a new commissioned dramatic dialogue by Free Thinking writer-in-residence, Karen Laws. They are joined by members of the Northern Sinfonia playing music by Purcell, Haydn and Dvořák, and by Newcastle-based folk singer Emily Portman and concertina and Northumbrian pipes legend Alistair Anderson.
Presenter/Ian McMillan, Producer/Elzabeth Arno
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BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 25 October 2009
This week's castaway is Professor Colin Pillinger, who is probably best known as the leader of the Beagle 2 project, which set out to land a British-built spacecraft on Mars on Christmas Day, 2003.
The aim of the mission was to search for evidence of life on Mars but it was never certain if the probe made it to the surface of the "Red Planet".
Professor Pillinger has been involved in space exploration for some 40 years since he joined the Nasa Apollo programme in 1968.
He speaks to presenter Kirsty Young about his life, his favourite music and describes how he would cope on BBC Radio 4's mythical island.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 25 October 2009
5 Live Sport
Colin Murray presents an afternoon of live sport plus the latest sports news and regular updates from the Premier League clash between Bolton and Everton from 1.30pm.
At 2pm there's live commentary of Liverpool versus Manchester United from Anfield with updates from Manchester City versus Fulham.
From 4.15pm there's more Premier League action as West Ham take on Arsenal at Upton Park.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Adrian Williams
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Sunday 25 October 2009
Football
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted Premier League commentary of Manchester City versus Fulham, live from the City of Manchester Stadium.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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NFL American Football
The NFL returns to Wembley Stadium for the third occasion as the New England Patriots take on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in a regular season clash.
Arlo White presents live commentary with regular contributors NFL journalist Neil Reynolds and Greg Brady.
Presenter/Arlo White
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BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 25 October 2009
Jon Richardson is joined by actor and now musician Paddy Considine. The show kicks off with The Happy Hour, which is all about the good things in life, full of reasons to be cheerful and stories of good deeds, all designed to put a smile on listeners' faces on a Sunday morning.
Regular sidekick, the lovable rogue Matt Forde, joins Jon from midday with his top tips and funny noises, and comedian Al Pitcher joins Jon for the last half hour to give the lowdown on the Pitcher Picture Gallery. The show ends with the song that best sums up this week's picture.
Presenter/Jon Richardson, Producer/Adam Hudson
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BBC 6 Music's resident music journalist supremos, Matt Everitt and Julie Cullen, present highlights from the week of "new musical moments" taking place at Camden's Roundhouse for the BBC Electric Proms, and a celebration of 50 years of the country's most important jazz venue – Ronnie Scott's.
Presenters/Matt Everitt and Julie Cullen, Producer/Tom Green
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Huey Morgan takes a break from speaking to iconic rockers to invite a new band in to guest on the show.
Signed to Back Yard Recordings (the home of Gossip and Chromeo), Teenagers In Tokyo gained a solid live reputation in their home town of Sydney, supporting the likes of !!!, CSS, The Slits and Gossip.
Darker and more brooding than the aforementioned artists, Teenagers In Tokyo take their cues from punk, grunge and goth with a splash of more uplifting disco to lighten the mood occasionally. The band has recently relocated to London to record their debut long player with Bat For Lashes producer David Kosten. The album is due for release in early 2010.
Consisting of the stylish Samantha Lim on lead vocals, Miska, Linda and Sophie on keys, bass and guitar and lone male Rudy on drums, and coming hot on the heels of the similarly melancholic The XX, the band seem to have a promising 2010 in front of them.
Huey talks to them following their release of double A-side, Isabella/Long Walk Home, and ahead of the release of their second single.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Becky Maxted
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 43: Monday 26 October 2009
BBC RADIO 1 Monday 26 October 2009
Nick Grimshaw presents the second programme in a series which explores the music and popular culture moments which defined the first decade of the new millennium.
This documentary about the year 2001 charts the arrival of The Strokes to the UK and the big come-back of indie guitar bands. Nick also takes a look at the dominance of UK Garage in 2001 and its scene leaders – So Solid Crew – plus the landmark launch of the first iPod.
Outside of music, Nick interviews Idris Elba (British actor from The Wire) about the American TV dramas that made their mark in the year and the debut Harry Potter film.
Next week's programme focuses on 2002 and is presented by Fearne Cotton, who meets Ricky Gervais, the man behind The Office, one of the decade's most important British comedies. Fearne also looks behind the musical landmarks that defined the year 2002.
Producers/Alice Lloyd and Louise Kattenhorn
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BBC RADIO 2 Monday 26 October 2009
Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce and is joined by London-born, multi Grammy Award-winning producer and instrumentalist William Orbit, who produced Madonna's 1997 album, Ray Of Light, which sold 16m copies, worldwide. William picks his Tracks Of My Years.
There is also PopMaster, the Love Song and the Album Of The Week, which this week comes from Girls Aloud member, X Factor judge and fashion icon Cheryl Cole and her new, debut, solo album release, 3 Words.
Presenter/Zoe Ball, Producer/Gary Bones
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Paul Jones celebrates the 75th anniversary of the BBC's Maida Vale Studios with the best of his recent sessions from the studios, as well as a brand new session from English blues-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist Aynsley Lister, who performs tracks from previous albums as well as from his new release, Equilibrium.
Presenter/Paul Jones, Producer/Paul Long
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To celebrate the 75th anniversary of the BBC's Maida Vale Studios, Clare Teal introduces performances from the BBC Big Band, recorded at Maida Vale from the Seventies right up to the present day. The programme is followed by the opportunity to listen to Harry Connick Jnr and his big band, in concert, at the historic venue back in October 2007.
Presenter/Clare Teal, Producer/Bob McDowall
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American singer/songwriter and musician Curtis Stigers presents a six-part series celebrating the centenary of clarinet virtuoso and bandleader Benny Goodman, born on 30 May 1909.
For generations, Benny Goodman was known to the world as The King Of Swing (a title awarded to him in the Thirties) but he was much more than that. Goodman was one of the finest clarinet players in the world and practised his art at the highest levels in both jazz and classical music. He was a bandleader who strove for and achieved perfection through tireless rehearsals of the various jazz ensembles he created over the decades. He was also a driven and complex man. Despite the fact that he died over two decades ago, in 1986, stories of his unpredictable behaviour are legendary.
The second programme in this series charts Goodman's career from 1928, when Benny left for New York as a member of the Ben Pollack band. However, when the work dried up and Pollack and his band retreated to Chicago, Benny was soon back in New York and constantly in demand for a whole variety of recording sessions, from jazz to vaudeville. During this time, he worked with Red Nichols, great trombonist Jack Teagarden and played in several Broadway shows, including the Gershwin Brothers' Strike Up The Band.
His first regular band took up a residency at Billy Rose's Music Hall, before winning a spot on a new radio show called Let's Dance. The band now featured exciting soloists, such as trumpeter Bunny Berigan and drummer Gene Krupa and Benny also hired the arranger Fletcher Henderson.
When the radio series came to an end, Benny took the band on a cross-country tour to California. Despite the lack of success of the tour, Benny was determined to see it through and, when they opened at LA's Palomar Ballroom on 21 August 1935, a transformation occurred and the swing era was born.
Presenter/Curtis Stigers, Producer/Graham Pass
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BBC RADIO 3 Monday 26 October 2009
As part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival, Ken Livingstone goes to the North East of England to meet an audience at The Sage, Gateshead. In the past, Ken Livingstone has said: "The divide within cities is vaster than the divide between them." Night Waves investigates whether this is really true and asks whether the north-south divide has faded.
In conversation with Night Waves presenter Anne McElvoy – who was born in County Durham and is now a columnist on the London Evening Standard – Ken Livingstone has a chance to assert what he believes to be the challenges facing the modern metropolis. He also discusses whether there are actually lessons that cities on the banks of the Tyne and Wear could learn from the big one by the Thames.
Presenter/Anne McElvoy, Producer/Tim Prosser
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FREE THINKING 2009
The Essay – Free Thinkers Of The North East Ep 1/5
Five essays about free-thinking figures and places in North-East England whose ideas challenged their times include diplomat Gertrude Bell and Newcastle's Literary and Philosophical Society. In a first for The Essay, the presenters of each programme, including poet Sean O'Brien, have recorded their essays in front of an audience as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival of ideas, based this year at The Sage, Gateshead.
In Monday's programme, writer and filmmaker Graeme Rigby looks back at city of Newcastle boss T Dan Smith, whose architectural Brasilia of the North captured the headlines in the Sixties. Jailed for corruption in 1974, he has all but been written out of history, but Free Thinking examines the ideas and regional ambitions of this extraordinary politician to see if they still resonate today.
Presenter/Graeme Rigby, Producer/Allegra McIlroy
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BBC RADIO 4 Monday 26 October 2009
Book Of The Week – Dear Mr Bigelow Ep 1/5
Dear Mr Bigelow is a selection of weekly pen-pal letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an unmarried woman working at the Public Baths in Bournemouth, to a wealthy American widower, living on Long Island, New York.
Frances Woodsford and Commodore Paul Bigelow never met, and there was no romance between them. She was in her forties when he died, aged 97. Yet their epistolary friendship was her lifeline.
The "Saturday Specials" as Frances dubbed them, are packed missives, sparkling with comic genius, bringing to life the ups and downs of life in post-war England. She recounts her travails at the baths; the hilarious weekly Civil Defence classes as the Cold War advances; her attempts to shake off an unwanted suitor; life at home with mother, and Mac, her charming, ne'er-do-well brother; as well as national events from the Coronation to Suez.
Frances started to write to Mr Bigelow as a way of thanking his daughter for the very welcome clothes parcels she sent from America.
The readings are introduced by the author, who continues to live in Bournemouth, now well into her nineties. Extraordinarily, in 2006, Frances's letters to Mr Bigelow came to light and were returned to her.
The reader is Sophie Thompson and the abridger is Doreen Estall.
Reader/Sophie Thompson, Producer/Justine Willett
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Winifred Robinson tracks the work of those whose job it is to protect the nation from the swine flu pandemic.
Managers, doctors and nurses are beginning the huge vaccination programme – encountering numerous problems as they go.
Some of those at the Health Protection Agency (HPA), from scientists to consultants, have kept audio diaries to demonstrate the work underway – the international tracking of the virus and the emerging reports of treatment-resistant strains.
At a local level, Dr Philip Monk, from the HPA in Leicester, is sure that early efforts to contain the spread of swine flu bought some precious extra time. Every extra day was useful in tackling a disease with initially unknown effects. Each day's delay in spread meant an extra day to plan and equip and to develop the vaccine.
This programme takes listeners behind the scenes as the data coming in from around the world is used to decide who should get the first batches of vaccine.
The fear is that this second wave of swine flu cases will put greater pressure on the NHS, with staff going off sick with swine flu just as hospitals have to admit the worst cases. The vaccination offers the best chance to cut the numbers with the illness but supplies are limited and, while some people who are not in obvious danger are worried and clamouring for the jab, others who really should be immunised are reluctant to accept it.
Winifred finds out how difficult decisions and tricky delivery problems are handled.
Presenter/Winifred Robinson, Producer/Sue Mitchell
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In PG Morgan's play, three people fly to Bangkok on an all-expenses-paid trip to take part in a hospital drugs testing experiment.
Nick is an actor whose last big job was in a recently axed soap, Lynne needs to repay debts caused by her secret addiction and Rob is a veteran drugs trail guinea pig and has a family to support.
The lobby of the International Medical Centre where they sit to fill in their consent forms is impressive and reassuring. However, once through the door, in the rather Spartan ward, doubts begin to surface.
Lying in a hospital bed, thousands of miles from home, being injected with a mystery drug suddenly seems like quite a bad idea – but it's too late now. Then the injections begin – and everything starts to unravel.
Steffan Rhodri plays Nick, Shelly Rees is Lynne, Brendan Charleson is Rob, Britta Gartner plays Alison and Narinder Samra is Dr Zubir.
Producer/Kate McAll
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Award-winning historian Professor Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the hidden history of private life in Britain over 400 years. This is the fifth week in a six-week series, and focuses on the 18th century.
Professor Vickery has explored letters, diaries, household-account books and transcripts of court records for witchcraft, burglary and arson trials. Through these, the programme hears the voices of men and women of very different backgrounds, talking about their daily lives.
Professor Vickery explores the invention of interior design and taste, and the role of interior decor in creating both social prestige and a successful marriage.
On Monday, Magnificence explores letters detailing the scandalous divorce of the Prime Minister and his wife. It's a tragic and scandalous tale – a story which casts a searchlight on the way home and furnishings are vital to status, especially at the top of society.
On Tuesday, Taste is about the marriage of wealth and virtue. This programme dramatises an intimate set of diaries by an 18th-century countess which give an insight into how ideas of taste were connected with the making of a marriage.
Science And Nature At Home, on Wednesday, features: a room constructed entirely of feathers; a hermitage in the garden of a Lincolnshire vicarage; and Alexander Pope's grotto. This programme explores a series of follies, and looks at how grand and eccentric homes reflected wider 18th-century ideas about science and nature.
Courtship And Setting Up Home, on Thursday, is the story of two marriages, and how the husbands prepared new houses for their brides. The programme examines how doing up a home together was part of the project of a happy marriage – and how denying the wife any creative role destroyed a happy partnership.
Neat And Not Too Showy, on Friday, is about the homes of people lower down the social scale, and their ideas about how they wanted them to look. One record features a shopkeeper's views of his local stately home and how unimpressed he was by all the paintings of nude women. The programme explores middle-class taste – through a series of funny and revealing letters to wallpaper company Trollope And Sons.
Presenter/Amanda Vickery, Producer/Elizabeth Burke
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Book At Bedtime – Heartland Ep 1/10
Book At Bedtime returns to the Black Country in 2002, for award-winning writer Anthony Cartwright's second novel, Heartland.
Cinderheath is in a state of flux, a mosque is about to be built on the site of the disused steel works, the Tipton Three are in Guantanomo, kids run wild on the estate and schoolboy Rob is stabbed in a gang attack.
Within this furnace, the mosque football team is playing the Cinderheath Sunday side to decide the local league title and the press declares that this is a match which could spark a race war.
Rob's uncle, Jim, a Labour Councillor, is fending off a challenge from the BNP in the forthcoming local elections.
Rob scarcely recognises the community of his childhood, where he and his friend, Adnan, were once inseparable.
Readers/Alex Jones, David Holt and Seeta Indrani, Producer/Jane Marshall
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 26 October 2009
Arlo White presents all the day's sport news and is joined by special guests for The Monday Night Club, discussing all the latest football issues.
At 9pm, Arlo is joined by Mark Clemmit and guests for 5 Live Football League with the latest news and reaction from the Championship and Football League.
Presenter/Arlo White, Producer/Ben North
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Monday 26 October 2009
Football
Uninterrupted Championship commentary comes from Reading versus Leicester City, live, from Madejski Stadium.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 26 October 2009
Marc Riley's live band is Electricity In Our Homes. Formed and based in London, the band takes inspiration from Talking Heads, Sonic Youth and Prince.
They wear identical minimal attire and their live shows are an exercise in conciseness, often teetering on the edge of chaos. They've been compared to acts as diverse as Captain Beefheart, DNA and Can, all among Marc's favourite bands. This promises to be a session not to be missed.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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BBC 6 Music continues to bring listeners Bob Dylan's legendary radio show.
Bob takes Cops And Robbers as his theme. His musical choices include songs from the Nat King Cole Trio, The Crickets, The Byrds, The Equals and Smiley Lewis.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/Frank Wilson
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David Quantick examines Bristol's music scene and its impact, beginning in the Eighties, a decade that saw the likes of The Pop Group, Pigbag and Panic, and moving on to the evolution of the Wild Bunch collective, Massive Attack and the birth of trip hop.
The series concludes with a look at the intense period of time between 1994 and 1996 when Bristol was the centre of the musical world, and a credible, slowed-down, hip-hop beat was essential for any pop tune.
This programme was first broadcast in 2004.
Presenter/David Quantick, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 26 October 2009
Vinnie is annoyed by Jodie interfering with redecorating Saffron Rays, in today's visit to Silver Street. Kuljit phones to invite Jodie to the cinema but she insists that she is too busy. Later, Sway reckons he knows the real reason that Jodie said no.
Elsewhere, Roopa is annoyed about being back at home and Krishan isn't helping. She could do with a job. Bina knows a way they could both make some real money but will Roopa have the guts to do it?
Vinnie is played by Saikat Ahamed, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Sway by Mark Monero, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar and Bina by Sana Raja.
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Konnie Huq investigates how women in the UK's South-Asian community are at a high risk of developing mouth cancer as a result of using gutka, more commonly known as chewing tobacco.
Gutka is currently more popular than ever before in the UK. According to the National Cancer Intelligence Network, which has revealed the first national report into cancer rates within ethnic groups, Asian women are 80 per cent more at risk of developing mouth cancer than white women.
Hazel Nunn, a specialist health advisor with Cancer Research told Asian Network Reports that these results were: "Somewhat surprising, given that Asian men are more likely than Asian women to smoke." She went on to explain that smoking is the No. 1 risk factor for oral cancers in terms of the number of cases across the board but that this reports suggests that factors such as chewing tobacco and areca nut are more important than was first thought.
It's not just women who are at risk – the documentary also features insightful contributions from within the Asian community, including a teenager who claims that he first tried it at the age of five.
Konnie also hears from Rispal Chana, an NHS nurse working for Birmingham's Stop Smoking Services. She says that many clients have successfully quit cigarettes which are linked to mouth cancer. However, when it comes to chewing tobacco and areca nut, the battle has only just begun. Rispal tells how she has also heard reports of children as young as 11 and 12 regularly chewing paan with areca nut and says that it is common to see these mixtures sold alongside sweets in local stores.
Konnie finds out how gutka has now been exposed as a serious health risk and investigates whether these revelations will have any impact on the community.
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Network Radio BBC Week 43: Tuesday 27 October 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 27 October 2009
American songwriter Jimmy Webb plays a live session for Zoe Ball as she sits in for Ken Bruce. Jimmy Webb has been writing hit songs for 40 years, including Wichita Lineman and Galveston for Glen Campbell. He performs some of his classic hits, including The Highwayman, live in the studio.
Presenter/Zoe Ball, Producer/Gary Bones
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As part of BBC Radio 2's Faith In The World Week, John McCarthy explores the relationship between childhood and faith. Despite being baptised as a child, religion never really captured his attention until he read the Bible while a hostage in Lebanon. Now with a child of his own and plenty of questions about faith unanswered, he's keen like many parents to put his own child on the right track and asks if it's right to bring up children to believe.
The programme includes visits to faith-based schools, a Christian baptism and a Jewish Bat Mitzvah ceremony, a family-friendly mosque and a club for young people with no religion at all. It also indulges in some godly play and features "Camp Quest" and a humanist naming ceremony, alternative options for those who question or reject religion's answers along with the voices of children themselves and a soundtrack of music reflecting childhood from the cradle to the verge of adulthood.
Presenter/John McCarthy, Producer/Norman Winter
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Michael Aspel continues the story of how a poor, shy, bespectacled Greek girl became one of the most successful female singers of all time.
During her 50 year career, Nana has achieved worldwide sales of more than 300m records in 15 different languages, leaving Madonna and Celine Dion trailing behind her. She is a heroine in her native Greece, and loved throughout the world. Her charmingly elaborate, shyly delivered introductions to songs are as distinctive as her trademark glasses.
Nana has sung on all the great stages of the world, but her success has not come without a price. Her attempt to balance her professional and domestic life, and later a political career as well, created tensions and unhappiness and threatened her most precious possession – her voice.
In episode two, Nana Mouskouri reflects on how she changed her image, when she hit the big time and how she buckled under the pressure. The programme includes contributions from many stars of the music world who played significant roles in her life and career, including Michel Legrand, Harry Belafonte, Charles Aznavour and Quincy Jones.
Presenter/Michael Aspel, Producers/Lisa Meyer and Brian King
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BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 27 October 2009
Bernard Haitink conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony and Mahler's Das lied von der erde, in a concert recorded at London's Barbican Hall.
Schubert began his Symphony in B minor in 1822, six years before his death, and although he finished only two movements, they have become some of the best-loved music in the repertoire. Mahler's preoccupation with symphonies and song-cycles converged in Das lied von der erde (The Song Of The Earth). A moving farewell to life, it premièred soon after his death in 1911.
Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Tony Sellors
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From the infamous Myra Hindley to the shocking recent case of paedophile Vanessa George, society is both fascinated and horrified by the minds of women involved in these most serious crimes – especially when they involve abuse of children. BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival pushes aside the media frenzy around this topic and offers the perspective of an inside expert.
Dr Gwen Adshead is Consultant Psychotherapist at Broadmoor high security psychiatric hospital and works with people in violent and frightening states of mind. In a talk she has called The Woman's Right To Be Evil, Dr Adshead attempts to confront some of the most uncomfortable implications of our attitudes to violent women.
Recorded in front of an audience at The Sage, Gateshead, as part of Free Thinking Festival 2009, the programme is hosted by Night Waves presenter Philip Dodd.
Presenter/Philip Dodd, Producer/Lisa Davies
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FREE THINKING 2009
The Essay – Free Thinkers Of The North East Ep 2/5
This week's series of Free Thinking essays continues with a look at Gertrude Bell, who was instrumental in drawing up the controversial map of modern Iraq in 1921, the consequences of which still resonate today. She was also an archaeologist, linguist and the greatest female mountaineer of her age.
Born in County Durham in 1868, Gertrude Bell was the first woman to gain a first in modern history from Oxford and the first female army officer to work for British Military Intelligence. And yet, she was opposed to votes for women.
Writer Kitty Fitzgerald gets inside the mind of a north-east enigma.
Presenter/Kitty Fitzgerald, Producer/Allegra McIlroy
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BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 27 October 2009
At the age of 28 Alex Bell made the remarkable decision to battle social services for permission to adopt a baby with Down's Syndrome.
Now 25 years later she has single-handedly adopted and fostered seven children with the condition and two with other disabilities. She still cares for them all at her home.
Michael Buerk talks to her about how that choice has transformed her life.
Presenter/Michael Buerk, Producer/Amanda Hancox
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Science Vs The Stradivarius tries to discover if modern technology can identify the elusive components that give Stradivarius violins their unique voice.
Scientists submit Stradivarius violins to a battery of tests such as CT scans and electron microscopy. Some are in pursuit of a component in the particular wood, others believe it's in the varnish and have burnt original samples to find out.
Professor of Acoustic Engineering at Salford University, Dr Trevor Cox, meets musicians, instrument makers and scientists to investigate.
Trevor meets violinist Tasmin Little who plays on different violins, including a Stradivarius, to see if he can tell the difference. He also visits Professor Colin Gough at the University of Birmingham, who has tested the frequency resonance of the Stradivarius violin's strings and talks to Joseph Nagyvary, scientist and elite violin-maker himself, who has made a detailed study of violins since the Sixties.
Trevor also talks to violin-maker Terry Borman in America who has used medical imaging to get exact measurements of the Stradivarius and apply them to his own craftsmanship.
Many of today's greatest violinists perform on Stradivari in preference to modern instruments and some violins have recently changed hands for more than a million pounds. However, Brian Moore, Professor of Psychology at Cambridge argues that players are predisposed to prefer traditional genuine instruments and it is very difficult to do a blind test on them, because signals such as smell or touch can influence their choice subconsciously.
Presenter/Dr Trevor Cox, Producer/Erika Wright
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Art Attack Ep 1/2
In light of the recent assault on the Mona Lisa with a teacup, this programme tries to find out why people attack art.
In two programmes, art historians and broadcasters Tim Marlow and Lawrence Pollard investigate centuries of attacks on art works from the earliest times to the present day.
They chart the reasons why and tell the stories of some of the most sensational and provocative attacks. They also explore how the wilful destruction of art is as old as art itself and how it shows no signs of stopping.
In the first programme, Tim Marlow looks at some of the most renowned attacks on art carried out in the name of politics and religion. He speaks to Professor Eamon Duffy in the Lady Chapel at Ely Cathedral, which was desecrated in the 16th century during the Reformation.
On 10 March 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson attacked Velazquez's Rokeby Venus with an axe at the National Gallery in London. Her motive was to bring to public attention the cruelty and hypocrisy of the Government's treatment of Emily Pankhurst. Professor Lynn Nead discusses the wider political issues of this act and the public outrage that followed.
The Bamiyan Buddhas, which were arguably Afghanistan's most important historical monument, were destroyed by the Taliban in 2001, causing an international outcry.
In the second programme Lawrence Pollard investigates some of the more bizarre assaults on contemporary art including attacks on Marcel Duchamp's Fountain which has been both urinated on and whacked with a hammer. In this age of anti-art, it is increasingly common for vandals to claim their actions as "art".
Lawrence also visits the Tate Liverpool for its Joyous Machines exhibition, which features the work of Jean Tinguely – one of the most radical, inventive and subversive sculptors of the mid-20th century. Discussing his work is Michael Landy, artist and co-curator of the exhibition whose own work has been influenced by the artist and his constructive and destructive tendencies.
Presenters/Tim Marlow and Lawrence Pollard,
Producers/Alison Crawford and Sara Davies
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His music became the sound of a generation and sold more than 100m records.
But what is not so well known is that the music of rock star Peter Townshend was influenced by a Baroque composer.
Discussing The Who's illustrious career, Pete reveals that a love of Henry Purcell has been at the centre of his songwriting.
As guitarist and songwriter of The Who, Pete helped write the rule book of Sixties pop music. By the Seventies he'd sold millions of records, racked up nearly 30 hit singles and composed the landmark rock opera, Tommy.
Although much is already known about this internationally famous band it is surprising that throughout this incredible career Pete Townshend took inspiration from a composer born 350 years ago this year.
Over the course of this half-hour documentary, Pete explains how Purcell influenced his songwriting. He was originally turned on to Purcell by his manager Kit Lambert. It was Kit's recommendation of Purcell's Gordian Knot Untied that struck the loudest chord with Pete, awakening him to a lineage in English music that seemed strangely familiar. Immersing himself in the music, he set about writing The Who's first album.
Since then Purcell has often inspired Pete's work. Through an exclusive new interview Pete reveals how he drew on Purcell's dramatic genius for his most intriguing compositions. From his first mini "rock opera" to his masterpiece Tommy and from his enduring Lifehouse project through to his current musical endeavour, there has always been a Purcellian presence.
Baroque And Roll – Townshend On Purcell is a unique look at the music of one of England's most revered composers from one of England's most celebrated songwriters.
Presenter/Pete Townshend, Producer/James Hale
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The Fantastic Book Of Everybody's Secrets Ep 1/3
Each of these stories for the Afternoon Reading, taken from The Fantastic Book Of Everybody's Secrets by Sophie Hannah, contains a mystery that must be solved.
Rooted in the detail of everyday life, these are intriguing, chilling tales with a twist that uncover dark obsessions and strange longings behind the most ordinary relationships.
The Octopus Nest, read by Helen Bradbury, is a domestic chiller about a young family's brush with an unidentified stalker. Claire and Timothy have no idea why there's a strange woman appearing in so many of their family photographs. As Claire investigates further, she stumbles across the answer, but it's too shocking to compute.
In Friendly Amid The Haters, read by Kathryn Hunt, a woman asks a highly recommended joiner to re-hang some doors, but when she challenges his laid-back approach with sarcasm, he flips and she is left in fear of her life. Worse still is that she somehow feels she deserves her shame and humiliation.
In You Are A Gongedip, read by Charles Swift, William is a self-absorbed writer who needs his routines. When his daily contemplative bike ride is interrupted by a curious figure in a snood, he is irritated and annoyed. He finally shakes her off but vastly underestimates her capabilities. Months later she exacts the revenge of a jilted lover using the very means by which he earns his living: language.
Readers/Helen Bradbury, Kathryn Hunt and Charles Swift, Producer/Karen Rose
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The fall of the Berlin Wall made revolution look easy. But behind the scenes, people power and the sudden end of Cold War certainties posed all kinds of political and security challenges.
In a special discussion as part of BBC Radio 4's 1989 season, Sir John Tusa discovers what happened with key insiders from the British, German, US, Soviet and other governments.
Among those taking part are Horst Teltschik, German chancellor Helmut Kohl's right-hand man who rushed back with him to Berlin from a visit to Poland; Andrei Grachev, adviser to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev; Jack Matlock, then US Ambassador in Moscow; and Miklos Nemeth who, as Prime Minister of Hungary, made key decisions that began to weaken the Iron Curtain before the Berlin Wall fell.
All had ringside seats and real influence as the revolutions erupted, Germany rushed towards reunification amid widespread international angst, and everyone wondered whether Gorbachev would survive the apparent collapse of Soviet power. They will reveal the inside story of those momentous weeks.
Presenter/John Tusa, Producer/Chris Bowlby
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Dr Phil Hammond finds out how the use of metaphorical language in health care is increasingly accepted as a powerful aid to healing.
Through interviews with patients, doctors, coaches and therapists, Phil discovers why doctors should pay closer attention to the answer to their routine question: what does it feel like?
He is persuaded that the public should be wary of metaphors used by others to describe health problems and their solutions – and why developing our own metaphors could give us the best chance of recovery and healing.
He looks at the inter-therapy debate about metaphor since the psychiatrist Milton Erikson first discovered the usefulness of investigating the description of one thing in terms of another. Above all, he confirms what he says he already knew from his experience as a comedian, writer, broadcaster, doctor and parent: the central importance of storytelling as a means of conjuring up metaphor and thereby adding meaning to our lives.
Among those Phil talks to are Dr Grahame Brown, musculo-skeletal specialist at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Birmingham. He quotes evidence to show that using language alone, including the use of powerful metaphors, helps him save 100 people from surgery for every six that truly need joint replacement.
Phil also meets Jan Alcoe, who decided, when being treated for cancer, that she didn't want to hear her doctors' version of the story about her therapy: the toxic chemicals, the depressing survival statistics. Creating her own metaphors allowed her to believe in the healing potential of her body, and, she believes, enhanced her recovery. Dr John Launer, senior lecturer in primary care at the Tavistock and author of the influential book, Narrative Based Primary Care, explains the new and growing field of narrative-based care.
Presenter/Dr Phil Hammond, Producer/Jane Feinmann
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 27 October 2009
5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch presents all the day's sports news and live League Cup fourth-round commentary.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Graham McMillan
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Tuesday 27 October 2009
Football
Uninterrupted commentary of Tottenham versus Everton comes, live, from White Hart Lane in the fourth round of the League Cup.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 27 October 2009
Tap Tap grace the Manchester Hub to play a live session for Marc Riley.
Tap Tap is Tom Sanders from Pete And The Pirates. Originally from Reading but now living in London, Tap Tap released a new album, On My Way, in September on Stolen Recordings.
After the 2007 album Lanzafame Tom Sanders was pretty busy with Pete And The Pirates. Over the last two years he has written songs in tour vans, hotels and occasionally at home, and has released his second album.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Tuesday 27 October 2009
Sway accuses Jodie of avoiding Kuljit by finding excuses not to be at the cafe, as the drama continues.
Roopa, Bina and Krishan are painting the Sheesha Lounge but Krishan is left to it, as Bina successfully uses her charm on Vinnie.
Bina tells Roopa to at least try adult chat-line work, she will make money! They enter the cafe to find Kuljit winding up Sway about early morning calls from Nadia in Pakistan. Suddenly Jodie blurts out a proposition...
Sway is played by Mark Monero, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Bina by Sana Raja, Krishan by Rahual Das and Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed.
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Network Radio BBC Week 43: Wednesday 28 October 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 28 October 2009
Mike Harding's guest this week is singer, musician and broadcaster Julie Fowlis.
Julie was voted Folk Singer of the Year at the BBC Folk Awards in 2008 and, last year, she became the first Scottish Gaelic artist to feature on the BBC Radio 2 Playlist with her Gaelic translation of Beatles song Blackbird.
Julie was the first person to receive the honour of being made Scotland's Gaelic Ambassador, Tosgaire na Gàidhlig, bestowed on her by the Scottish Parliament in 2008. She has presented her own series, Fowlis And Folk, on BBC Radio Scotland for the past two years and also presents regularly on Scotland's new Gaelic digital TV channel, BBC ALBA.
Mike Harding chats to Julie and plays tracks from her third solo release, Uam, including a stunning duet version of traditional ballad Wind And Rain, in which Julie sings in Gaelic and fellow Scottish singer Eddi Reader sings in English.
Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While
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To celebrate the 75th anniversary of Maida Vale, BBC 6 Music and BBC Radio 2 presenter Steve Lamacq showcases an eclectic mix of session artists who have performed at the famous studio for BBC Radio 2.
His selection spans the genres, embracing rock, country, big band and organ music along the way.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Paul Long
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BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 28 October 2009
Christoph von Dohnányi conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a concert at London's Royal Festival Hall to celebrate his 80th birthday. Mendelssohn's Hebrides and Brahms's Symphony No. 3 frame Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Yefim Bronfman as soloist.
When Brahms finished his Second Piano Concerto, he sent the score to a friend, with a note saying: "I am sending you some little piano pieces." These "little pieces" turned out to be a huge, four-movement concerto, which met with instant success when first performed with the composer as soloist in 1881, as did his Third Symphony, which followed two years later. The symphony is bound together with Brahms's musical motto theme – the notes F-A-F, standing for frei aber froh, meaning "free but happy".
Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Tony Sellors
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The multi Grammy Award-winning composer and music producer William Orbit is a one-man phenomenon. He is most famous internationally for his innovative collaborations with Madonna and Blur, as well as his best-selling modern dance adaptation of Barber's Adagio for Strings. However, Orbit has a surprisingly wide range of interests.
Orbit joins this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival of ideas with a new concept: William Orbit's Guide To Listening. Recorded in front of an audience at The Sage, Gateshead, Orbit reflects on his understanding of the world of sound, and explores how the listener might hear things in a new way.
Presenter/Matthew Sweet, Producer/Tim Prosser
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This week's series of Free Thinking essays continues with a look at Victorian inventor and industrialist William Armstrong who, his new biographer, Henrietta Heald, argues, is a forgotten British hero.
Armstrong brought global fame to the Tyne, employing thousands in the manufacture of machinery, ships – and guns. He also created the first house in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity. He epitomised the dynamism of his age and attracted many epithets, from "visionary genius" to "merchant of death".
Presenter/Henrietta Heald, Producer/Fiona Mclean
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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 28 October 2009
M1 Magic
To mark the 50th anniversary of the M1, Juliet Gardiner tells the extraordinary tale of how "Motorway One" came to be built, slashing through countryside and by-passing public consultation in ways that would perhaps be unlikely today.
Some of the men who helped build it speak for the first time about the technical difficulties they faced and how it felt to be involved in making a phenomenon.
On its opening in 1959, with no street lighting, no crash barriers and few cars, the M1 was seen as the start of a brave new world – a stretch of tarmac that would combine speed and safety to transform the nation.
Juliet puts interviewees back in touch with the M1, quite literally. Robin Soper, a young engineer on the St Albans-Rugby stretch, is given the Science Museum's core sample of the M1 to handle. Peter Fells, an engineer on the 12-mile St Albans stretch, talks through photographs he took during construction.
Human geographer Dr Peter Merriman is taken to the gateway of the M1. Having spent 12 years writing Driving Spaces - A Cultural-Historical Geography Of England's M1 Motorway, Dr Merriman feels the tarmac under his feet and the wind from traffic in his hair. Keith Millard, one of the first intake of AA patrol cadets, gets to drive up the start of the motorway in a 21st-century version of the vehicle in which he sped out to rescue drivers in 1961.
And economist Sir Christopher Foster, who helped construct the retrospective justification for the M1 for the treasury in the Sixties, considers how amazing it is that the country's first full motorway came so late.
Presenter/Juliet Gardiner, Producer/Josie Barnard
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 28 October 2009
5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch presents all the day's sports news and live League Cup, fourth-round commentary.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Claire Ackling
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Wednesday 28 October 2009
Football
Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary of Chelsea versus Bolton, live, from Stamford Bridge, in the fourth round of the League Cup.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 28 October 2009
Joining Marc Riley in the Manchester Hub is live band Ex Lovers. The Londoners negotiate the M6 and Manchester's one-way system to entertain and impress. Their new EP, You Forget So Easily, is currently released for download.
The EP was recorded with producer Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur, Peter Doherty), who approached the band after seeing them supporting Peter Doherty at Shepherd's Bush Empire for an NME awards show.
The band have recently toured with Emmy The Great, Golden Silvers, Pete And The Pirates and The Cheek (formerly Cheeky Cheeky And The Nosebleeds).
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 28 October 2009
Roopa tells Jodie she'll think about her job offer, as the drama continues. Later, Roopa nervously agrees to take a call from one of Bina's adult chat-line customers. Bina says she is a natural.
Kuljit offers to cook for Jodie and she can't think of a suitable excuse so reluctantly agrees. Kuljit later suggests that, if he plays his cards right, he won't be sleeping on Sway's sofa much longer. Sway offers him some friendly advice but will Kuljit take it?
Roopa is played by Rakhee Thakrar, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Bina by Sana Raja, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal and Sway by Mark Monero.
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Network Radio BBC Week 43: Thursday 29 October 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 29 October 2009
In the run up to the BBC's celebration of the 75th anniversary of its studios in Maida Vale tomorrow, BBC Radio 2 presents an evening of programmes starting at 7pm with the opportunity to hear American blues singer-songwriter Bonnie Raitt performing live at the historic venue back in 1999.
This is followed at 8pm by an hour's worth of highlights from Radio 2's Live In The Morning session archive, presented by Ken Bruce, which precedes a programme featuring a selection of Maida Vale sessions recorded by various Radio 2 Introduces alumni including Duffy, Adele, Mika, Paloma Faith and Daniel Merriweather.
At 11pm, there's another opportunity to hear David Bowie performing an hour-long session live at the historic venue back in 2002, including a couple of live rarities in The Bewlay Brothers and The Alabama Song.
This leads into the day of Maida Vale celebrations, which kicks off on BBC Radio 2 with The Stereophonics playing live for Janice Long, ahead of the release of their new album, Keep Calm And Carry On.
Janice's association with the BBC's north west London studios spans a quarter of a century, with artists such as Morrissey, Kasabian, Primal Scream, Paul Weller, The Zutons and Nerina Pallot all playing sessions there for her Radio 2 show.
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BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 29 October 2009
Stéphane Denève conducts the Royal Scottish National Orchestra at Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall in a programme featuring some of the most sumptuous scores in the orchestral repertory.
Henri Dutilleux's Symphony No. 1 shows all the exquisite orchestration and glowing colours characteristic of the composer, who is still producing music in his ninth decade.
Leif Ove Andsnes joins the orchestra as soloist in Rachmaninov's Fourth Piano Concerto and Stravinsky's dazzling Firebird, which drives tonight's programme towards an intoxicating, powerful finish.
Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Tony Sellors
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Rana Mitter hosts a public debate as part of this year's Free Thinking festival entitled: Is The West Losing Its Nerve?
The West has been the world's dominant economic and cultural force for nearly 500 years. But with the rise of India and China as economic and cultural powers, and American and European industries struggling in the recession, Rana asks if we are witnessing its decline.
Rana brings together a varied panel to argue this key question in a debate recorded in front of an audience at The Sage in Gateshead. His guests are prominent philosopher and defender of the Enlightenment AC Grayling, international business entrepreneur Paul Callaghan, professor of politics Baroness Haleh Afshar and sculptor Alexander Stoddart – well known for his defence of classical cultural values.
Presenter/Rana Mitter, Producer/Kirsty Pope
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Poet Sean O'Brien charts the profound contribution to Newcastle's cultural life of the Literary And Philosophical Society. Founded in 1793, the society grew into one of the most important intellectual institutions of its age. A place of talking, thinking, reading and listening, its history and membership have long been at the heart of Tyneside culture.
This is part of a series of Free Thinking essays recorded at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival at The Sage, Gateshead.
Presenter/Sean O'Brien, Producer/Allegra McIlroy
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BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 29 October 2009
Reece Shearsmith's Haunted House Ep 1/2
Comedy actor Reece Shearsmith hosts a series of energetic and witty illustrated discussions on horror, presented to an audience inside a haunted house.
Since early childhood, Reece has had a fascination with horror and his abiding enthusiasm for this subject comes to the fore in this two-part series examining a collection of ghostly and macabre themes.
Broadcasting either side of Halloween, Reece is joined by guests and fellow horror enthusiasts Mark Gatiss, Vic Reeves, Yvette Fielding and Mike Roberts at the reputedly haunted Sutton House in Hackney to discuss the influence the genre has had on them and their overall impact on the history of horror.
This week's episode, An Appointment With Fear, examines some classic scary moments from British radio and television and explores the ingredients for a classic horror story.
Next week, Films, Fangs And Frightening Fellas profiles horror at the movies, considers whether vampires are scary and recalls the legendary Hollywood actors that sent a celluloid shiver down the spine.
Presenter/Reece Shearsmith, Producer/Stephen Garner
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Bleak Expectations Ep 1/6
The epic Victorian comedy series written by Mark Evans is back with more of the remarkable adventures of Pip Bin. He battles his evil ex-guardian Mr Gently Benevolent in six more chapters of plots, disguises, inventions, escapes, tragedies and triumphs in the style of Charles Dickens after a drop too much gin.
The third series begins several years after the death – for the second time – of Mr Benevolent. All seems well as Pip Bin enjoys fame and wealth for his hugely popular invention, the bin, until...
The first episode, A Lovely Life Re-Kippered Again Once More, features a séance with Britain's shortest, fattest spiritualist, Small Medium Large – and the return from the dead of Mr Benevolent, who possesses a pigeon and sets out to frame Pip for murder. This brings him to the attention of Inspector Whackwallop of Scotland Yard and his Victorian crime-fighting tools, including state-of-the-art security paintings and the forensic science of bottom prints.
Richard Johnson, Anthony Head, and Geoffrey Whitehead lead a magnificent cast including Tom Allen, James Bachman, Sarah Hadland, Susie Kane and Mark Evans. Also guest starring in this series are Raquel Cassidy as Miss Sweetly Delightful and Jane Asher as Mr Gently Benevolent's evil mother.
Producer/Gareth Edwards
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 29 October 2009
Eleanor Oldroyd presents the latest sports news and is joined by Clare Balding and some of the BBC's sports correspondents for The Headline Hour, discussing the latest big sports issues making the news.
At 8pm, Eleanor is joined by Steve Parry and guests to look ahead to the London 2012 Olympics in London Calling.
From 9pm, Mike Costello and Steve Bunce look ahead to the WBA heavyweight decider between David Haye and Nikolai Valuev in Nuremburg on Saturday 7 November.
At 10pm two of 5 Live Sport's pundits air their views about some sporting issues in And Another Thing.
Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Steve Rudge
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BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 29 October 2009
Lammo's Roundtable panel this week includes former Frankie Goes To Hollywood front man Holly Johnson and Luke Haines, whose former life as a Britpop lead singer with The Auteurs was chronicled so brilliantly in his 2009 book, Bad Vibes. The panel argues the virtues of the week's latest releases.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Gary Bales
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Marc Riley is joined in the Manchester Hub this evening by the Hornblower Brothers, all the way from Brighton.
The band formed in the seaside city, by way of Halifax, Bexley, Stafford and Southampton. Built out of primary school friendships in Halifax (dual guitar/vocal duo Nathaniel and ex-marching band member Alistair), before moving south to Brighton and meeting up with James (bass) and Gary (keyboards, melodica), The Hornblower Brothers struggled for months to find a drummer, and after a brief dalliance with an iPod, finally settled on a local busker who used upturned dustbins as his instrument of choice.
The band was finally born and they released their debut EP, Adventures In The National Geographic, at the end of September.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 29 October 2009
Bina thinks Roopa would be crazy to work at Pumpworks when she can get rich on adult chat-lines, in today's episode of Silver Street. Later the girls laugh when they see what Krishan has done to the Sheesha Lounge. Vinnie helps Krishan wipe the smile of their faces.
Elsewhere, Kuljit plays romantic music for Jodie after dinner and snuggles up to her on the sofa. Jodie says they need to talk, but will she tell Kuljit what he wants to hear?
Bina is played by Sana Raja, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Krishan by Rahual Das, Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal and Jodie by Vineeta Rishi.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
BBC WORLD SERVICE Thursday 29 October 2009
This special edition of Assignment focuses on the work of a pioneering hospital and medical workers in Pakistan, struggling to make women's health a priority.
Most women in Pakistan cannot afford to get proper, basic care during pregnancy. Maternal mortality rates are among the highest in the world.
Assignment travels to Karachi to look at the work of doctors, nurses and midwives in the poorest parts of the city who, every day, try to save the lives of women in childbirth; and to rural areas where health facilities can be non-existent and the only people women can rely on are untrained helpers.
Assignment asks why so many women still die during childbirth.
Presenter/Jill McGivering, Producer/Caroline Finnigan
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Network Radio BBC Week 43: Friday 30 October 2009
BBC RADIO 1 Friday 30 October 2009
BBC Radio 1 helps celebrate the 75th anniversary of the famous Maida Vale Studios with a day of special concerts and broadcasts from the venue.
As part of the celebrations Radio 1 plays 75 exclusive archive tracks taken from sessions recorded for the station at the world-famous studios. Starting with The Chris Moyles Show and continuing throughout the day, exclusive tracks include classics from the John Peel Sessions and Radio 1's legendary Live Lounge. Listeners can expect to hear anything from Beyoncé to Blur and Girls Aloud to Snoop Dogg.
In addition, today, Fearne Cotton presents her show live from Maida Vale, hosting a special Live Lounge performance from Snow Patrol.
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BBC RADIO 2 Friday 30 October 2009
MAIDA VALE @ SEVENTY FIVE
Radio 2 Live – Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum and his band perform live at the BBC's Maida Vale studios to help celebrate the famous venue's 75th anniversary. The jazz singer-songwriter plays tracks from his career and showcases material from his new album, The Pursuit.
The Pursuit is Jamie's fifth album and first new solo record in four years. Named after Nancy Mitford's classic novel The Pursuit Of Love, it combines his enduring love of jazz and its timeless standards with modern influences.
Producer/Sarah Gaston
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
MAIDA VALE @ SEVENTY FIVE
Friday Night Is Music Night
Friday Night Is Music Night comes live from Maida Vale Studio One as part of the BBC's celebration of 75 years at this famous recording venue. Ken Bruce presents special guest Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and welcomes the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Barry Wordsworth to the stage.
This famous building began life in 1909 as the Maida Vale Roller Skating Palace And Club. The BBC's connection began in 1934, when it converted the rink to accommodate the BBC Symphony Orchestra and four other music recording studios. The Orchestra made its first broadcast from the studios on 16 October 1934. During the Second World War the studios became a major recording centre for broadcasts and monitoring. The building was severely damaged by bombing in May 1941.
After the war the BBC carried out a full re-fit to accommodate more studios. In Studio One the Symphony Orchestra played host to many great classical artists, conductors and composers. It has also been the home of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, the BBC Big Band, the BBC Singers, the BBC Radio Orchestra and the John Peel Sessions, as well as a drama production studio.
In tonight's show, Ken recounts the story of this remarkable building and recalls many of the great names associated with Maida Vale.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Bridget Apps
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MAIDA VALE @ SEVENTY FIVE
Brief Encounter
Jenny Seagrove stars as Laura Jesson in a special production of Brief Encounter, live from the BBC's Maida Vale studios.
Jenny takes on the role made famous by Celia Johnson in the 1945 film adaptation of Noel Coward's classic tale of forbidden love. This particular radio version is faithful to Coward's original screenplay which has been locked in the BBC vaults since 1947.
Producer/Anthony Cherry
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
MAIDA VALE @ SEVENTY FIVE
Claudia Winkleman's Arts Show
Claudia Winkleman celebrates 75 years of music history live from the studios in Maida Vale with a special line-up of artists and guests and reflects on those who have performed there over the years, such as Bing Crosby, The Beatles and Coldplay.
American singing sensation Nell Bryden and chart-topping indie band Scouting For Girls provide live music from the studios and Claudia also gives a unique insight into the wonderful sounds and creations that have come from the Maida Vale Radiophonic workshops – from Doctor Who to Blake's 7 to The Living Planet – with guest Elizabeth Parker.
Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Carmela DiClemente
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
BBC RADIO 3 Friday 30 October 2009
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Colin Currie in the première of Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara's percussion concerto, Incantations, and Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony.
Rautavaara's orchestral idiom has ranged from luscious post-romanticism to electronic sampling, and his vocal and chamber works cover a similarly broad range of styles. His dreamy, magical control of what seems like a distant musical world has made him one of the most performed European composers of today. The piece forms a striking overture to one of the grandest, most noble pieces in the repertory – Bruckner's Eighth Symphony, the last the composer completed.
Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Tony Sellors
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Ian McMillan presents a special edition of BBC Radio 3's cabaret of the spoken word, recorded in front of an audience at The Sage, Gateshead, as part of the network's Free Thinking festival.
Dramatist and writer Peter Flannery made his name as resident playwright at the Royal Shakespeare Company in the late Seventies. It was there that he wrote Our Friends In The North, which he later adapted into a multi-award-winning TV series starring Christopher Eccleston, Daniel Craig and Gina McKee. More recently, he received plaudits for his ambitious drama The Devil's Whore, set during the chaos of the English Civil War. In 1997 he received the Dennis Potter Award for television writing.
Peter talks to Ian about his writing career and offers a sneak preview of a new work in progress.
Kachi Ozumba's novel, The Shadow Of A Smile, received plaudits last year for its portrayal of corruption and unfair imprisonment in the author's native Nigeria. The novelist has made Newcastle his home and talks about his struggle to understand Geordie when he first arrived in the city and how, as his familiarity with the dialect grew, he began to use pidgin Nigerian-English in his novel.
Presenter/Ian McMillan, Producer/Laura Thomas
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC Newcastle and BBC Radio 3 audiences are choosing the historical Free Thinker Of The North East who they believe is most deserving of a special event at this year's Free Thinking festival at The Sage, Gateshead.
Whether writer, inventor, scientist or artist, the favourite candidate, to be decided on the eve of the Free Thinking weekend, will be the subject of this specially commissioned essay.
Producer/Natalie Steed
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Charlie Gillett introduces a session by Malian Ngoni wizard, Bassekou Kouyate. With his band, Ngoni ba, Bassekou has created a new line-up as a quartet with a rock band's style of playing. The ngonis (a lute-like instrument) they play are still acoustic as in the old days, but Bassekou invented a bass ngoni even lower in pitch than the ngoni ba (low ngoni), added extra strings to make the instruments harmonically more flexible, and even plugs in an occasional wah-wah pedal. In the process he has opened up the magic of an age-old music to people all over the world.
Presenter/Charlie Gillett, Producer/James Parkin
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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 30 October 2009
The BBC's business editor Robert Peston speaks to some of Britain's biggest business names to discover whether their traumatic childhoods might have primed them for success.
Robert talks to Stuart Rose, executive chairman of Marks And Spencer, who speaks candidly about the impact of his mother's suicide on his business career.
Damon Buffini, the boss of private equity company Permira, describes his childhood on a council estate in Leicester being brought up by his mum.
"Curry King" Sir Gulam Noon tells of the loss of his father and older brother during his childhood in Bombay. And billionaire Vincent Tchenguiz describes the impact of his childhood in Iran.
Robert asks whether the disruptions and traumas experienced by these men have helped make them entrepreneurs – and, if this is the case, do psychologists have an explanation?
Presenter/Robert Peston, Producer/David Stenhouse
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 30 October 2009
MAIDA VALE @ SEVENTY FIVE
Mayo
Simon Mayo broadcasts live from the BBC's famous Maida Vale studios as part of a day of special concerts and programmes to mark the 75th anniversary of the venue.
Presenter/Simon Mayo, Producer/Robin Bulloch
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
Colin Murray is joined by regular guests Pat Nevin and Perry Groves to preview the weekend's football in Kicking Off With Colin Murray. This weekend they will be looking forward to Arsenal versus Tottenham, Everton versus Aston Villa and Manchester United against Blackburn Rovers.
At 9pm, David Croft, Anthony Davidson and Holly Samos present 5 Live Formula 1, previewing the final race of the season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
From 9.30pm, Colin is joined by Tim Lovejoy for Murray And Lovejoy's Sports Express in which they take a quick-fire look at the current burning issues in sport. Murray And Lovejoy's Sports Express is also available for download as a podcast at bbc.co.uk/5live.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Louise Sutton
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Friday 30 October 2009
Formula 1
12.55-2.35pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary on the first and second practice sessions of the final race of the Formula 1 season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, live from the Yas Marina circuit.
Producer/Jason Swales
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
Cycling
Live commentary from the opening day of the UCI Cycling Track World Cup comes from the Manchester Velodrome.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 30 October 2009
Bruce Dickinson welcomes Gibraltar's finest flamenco rockers, Breed 77, to the Friday Rock Show.
With a 10-year career, four albums and endless world tours under their belts, Breed 77 have succeeded in putting Gibraltar on the hard-rock map. Prior to that, the country came closest to rock importance when John Lennon and Yoko Ono were married there in 1969.
Mixing their native Mediterranean influences with contemporary rock and metal, the band write in both English and Spanish, and have shared the stage with the likes of Black Sabbath, Megadeth and Metallica.
Having last graced the UK with their presence two years ago, when they performed at the BBC Electric Proms, they now return to showcase their new album, Insects. They'll also be telling Bruce about their forthcoming UK tour which kicks off in November.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Friday 30 October 2009
The same man keeps ringing Roopa on the chat-line phone, as the drama continues. It's fun at first but then he stops being so friendly.
Meanwhile, Kuljit is devastated when Jodie breaks up with him. Later, Sway tells Jodie that he drove off when Sway tried to talk to him and won't answer phone calls. Does Kuljit know they slept together? Jodie puts Sway out of his misery, but then fires a question at him. Will Sway tell her the truth?
Roopa is played by Rakhee Thakrar, the caller by Rob Swinton, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Sway by Mark Monero and Bina by Sana Raja.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
BBC WORLD SERVICE Friday 30 October 2009
Public Places, Private Lives concludes its short series of portraits of well-known places, focusing on the lives and stories of people who come to these famous spaces – not to gaze as tourists, but for work or for their own private reasons.
The second programme focuses on the Taj Mahal and meets a range of people for whom one of the most important sites in India is part of their daily landscape. These include a local businessman, who has had a shop in front of the Taj all of his life and remembers when it was used as a meeting spot for families introducing prospective brides and grooms, at a distance, in arranged marriages.
Other portraits include the tour guide, who remembers playing cricket in front of the main gates and who now dreams of finding a love comparable to that of the Emperor Shah Jahan and his wife Mumtaz Mahal, for whom the white mausoleum was built.
Although new security measures have made it increasingly difficult for people to visit the Taj Mahal without following strict rules, and in some ways the place has been given over to tourists, there are still those who maintain a private connection with it, and keep it as a place for dreams.
Producer/Katie Burningham
BBC World Service Publicity
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