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BBC Radio 1 presenter Fearne Cotton

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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Radio 2 Live – Jamie Cullum

Friday 30 October

7.00-7.30pm BBC RADIO 2

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

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Friday Night Is Music Night

Friday 30 October

7.30-9.15pm BBC RADIO 2

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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Brief Encounter

Friday 30 October

9.15-10.30pm BBC RADIO 2

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

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Claudia Winkleman's Arts Show

Friday 30 October

10.30pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2 (Copy update 28 October)

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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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Mayo

Friday 30 October

1.00-4.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

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

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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

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Formula 1

Friday 30 October

8.55-10.35am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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

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Cycling

Friday 30 October

6.55-10.20pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Live commentary from the opening day of the UCI Cycling Track World Cup comes from the Manchester Velodrome.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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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

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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.

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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

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