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Network Radio BBC Week 44: 31 October-6 November
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Network Radio BBC Week 44: Saturday 31 October 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 31 October 2009
Dermot O'Leary has live sessions from Air and American electronic band Passion Pit, while style guru and TV presenter Gok Wan joins him in the studio and shares his favourite records.
For Air's sixth album, Love 2, Jean-Benoît Dunckel and Nicolas Godin dispensed with producers and built their own studio, where they spent the best part of a year with drummer Joey Waronker. Some of the album's rockier tracks provide a fresh contrast to earlier, more minimalist recordings on which drums were barely evident.
Passion Pit formed in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2007 and released their first album, Manners, earlier this year. They recently embarked on a tour around America, Europe and Japan.
Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker
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BBC 6 Music presenter Cerys Matthews takes a historical tour through one of the music industry's most renowned buildings – the BBC's Maida Vale Studios.
Cerys meets the building's history makers past and present. As well as encountering soon-to-be-famous performers, she bumps into regular visitors to the studio, such as Johnny Marr, Rick Wakeman and Jools Holland, and also talks to the unsung heroes who help make dreams come true – the sound engineers.
Cerys explores the history of the building, from its transformation from a roller-skating rink to a studio, through the perils of the war years when the BBC played its own valuable part, through the introduction of "needletime", and on to the present day.
She visits Studio 1, the home of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and meets the people who've played a key role in the orchestra's history before finding out what really happened in the legendary Radiophonic Workshop.
Cerys then descends into the heart of the building to the lower corridor, where she discovers the old John Compton organ before finding the BBC Big Band in Studio 3. This room was instrumental to the success of BBC Radio 2 in the early days, as it was the home of all the live music that was created for the network's shows, such as Gloria Hunniford, Jimmy Young and Music While You Work.
Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Charlotte Wright
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This week, Bob Harris is joined by Tinariwen, a band of Touareg musicians who originate from the Sahara Desert region of northern Mali. Bob plays tracks from their latest album, Imidiwan: Companions.
The 30-year musical and social history of Tinariwen is a fascinating and inspiring tale. They began as a loose collection of displaced Touareg musicians and centred on Ibrahim Ag Alhabib who, although born in Mali, grew up in the refugee camps near the Malian border in Algeria and later around the southern Algerian city of Tamanrasset.
Coming together in the late Seventies with a shared passion for everything from traditional Touareg music and poetry to Western rock and pop artists such as Hendrix, Santana, Bob Marley and Led Zeppelin, the collective steadily built their reputation in and around the Sahara Desert. By the end of the Nineties, Tinariwen's reputation had begun to spread beyond their Saharan stronghold; in 1999 the band played a few gigs in France and in 2001 they played at the first Festival In The Desert in Mali, where they were heralded as the stars of the show.
Success came swiftly after this point; by the end of 2001 the band had performed at Womad and the South Bank in London and released their debut album, The Radio Tisdas Sessions. In the last eight years the band have played more than 700 concerts in Europe and released a further two albums, Amassakoul in 2004 and Aman Iman in 2007, picking up a number of awards along the way.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson
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BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 31 October 2009
For more than 20 years, the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group has been a leading light in the UK's contemporary music scene. One of the group's innovations is its commissioning scheme, Sound Investment. Since 1991, for a modest fee, the Group's audiences have been able to take a share in paying for a new work: up to 30 individuals can commission a composer. The opening concert of their 2009/10 season (from which tonight's Hear And Now has taken four works) features three collectively funded premières.
Diego Masson conducts Simon Holt's revised version (for chamber ensemble) of the Goya-inspired Capriccio spettrale and two further premières by Birmingham-based composers. Richard Causton's Chamber Symphony and Vic Hoyland's Hey Presto!... moon – flower – bat. Hoyland was the first composer to be commissioned by the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group in 1989, and his new piece quotes from the oldest music in the programme, Bruno Maderna's 1962 Oboe Concerto No. 1, played by Nicholas Daniel.
Presenter/Tom Service, Producer/David Papp
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BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 31 October 2009
Open Country Ep 1/14
Queen's Brian May uncovers the story of an Oxfordshire village captured in time by a Victorian photographic pioneer.
When Brian discovered a set of old photographic prints in his loft he immediately recognised their importance. The Queen guitarist has been fascinated by 3-D images since collecting cereal packet picture cards as a boy. The photos Brian found were stereoscopic images of village life taken by photographic pioneer TR Williams.
A little detective work revealed all the images to be 3-D pictures of the tiny Oxfordshire village of Hinton Waldrist, taken in the 1850s.
For Open Country, Brian joins presenter Helen Mark for a time-travel tour of the village. He discovers how the people and wildlife of this community have changed since Williams recorded these evocative images of blacksmiths, spinners and farm workers.
Local wildlife experts introduce him to the new species that have arrived in the Thames; local farmers explain how they've changed the landscape; and villagers reflect on the lives of their ancestors.
Meanwhile, Brian and an expert on the history of 3-D images take and develop their own stereoscopic images of Hinton Waldrist today.
This is the first in a new series of BBC Radio 4’s countryside programme. Later in the series, presenters Helen Mark and Matt Baker will be visiting the site of Britain’s largest ever explosion – the Hanbury Crater in Staffordshire, they’ll be investigating the effects of open-cast mining in Lanarkshire and following a young vet’s first weeks on-call in rural Devon.
Presenter/Helen Mark, Producer/Alasdair Cross
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Now Wash Your Hands tells the story of the original Izal medicated toilet paper.
Recorded in South Yorkshire, where the toilet paper was made, this programme hears from Izal's workers, including a champion toilet-roll roller; the woman who dealt with rejects; the apprentice who labelled 5,000 rolls a day; the marketing man who went on to become mayor; and the quality assurance manager who counted the number of sheets on random rolls, weighing, measuring and testing absorbency.
This toilet roll was distributed freely to authorities throughout the Empire to advertise the company's world-beating disinfectant, Izal, a compound that killed everything from measles to cholera. It was a pioneer in the decades between carbolic acid and the less-toxic germicides – and antibiotics – now taken for granted.
Demand for the toilet paper grew, resulting in a toilet-paper making factory in Chapeltown, and it boomed until the late Sixties. It was still found in public conveniences everywhere until the Eighties.
Presenter Sally Goldsmith, owner of a piece of Izal toilet paper, is a songwriter and has written some original songs to celebrate the manufacture and blossoming of this toilet roll; a remnant of an age of austerity, taking its place somewhere between torn-up newspaper and the multi-ply-aloe-vera rolls of today.
Presenter/Sally Goldsmith, Producer/Frances Byrnes
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BBC Radio 4 continues to recreate 1989 in sound – drawing on the BBC and other news archive and music of the time. The daily programmes, presented by Sir John Tusa, re-trace the year's major political, cultural and social events as they happened.
In this week's stories, shadow energy secretary Tony Blair demands the scrapping of electricity privatisation plans; President Bush agrees to meet President Gorbachev on his boat in the Mediterranean for unofficial talks; President Ortega of Nicaragua breaks a 19-month ceasefire with US-backed Contra rebels; and a coroner overseeing the inquest into the death of Beverly Lewis demands better community care for the mentally ill.
In an unprecedented move, KGB officers take questions from the public on live TV; protests in East Germany force the resignation of the Mayor of Leipzig and five government hardliners and a backlash against East German refugees begins in West Germany; and Margaret Thatcher is judged to be the least popular Prime Minister since polling began.
This week also saw Sony Walkman celebrate its 10th birthday and supporters of women's ordination holding an overnight vigil outside Lambeth Palace.
Presenter/Sir John Tusa, Producer/Robert Abel
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Ian McMillan presents a portrait of Ken Campbell and looks at his career in film and on stage and television.
Campbell was a writer, actor, director and comedian, known for his work in experimental theatre and once referred to as "unclassifiable". His adaptation of the science-fiction trilogy Illuminatus! lasted nine hours and he also staged the play cycle The Warp, which lasted 22 hours.
As well as his theatre career, Campbell worked extensively on television, both as an actor and a presenter for a series of science programmes on Channel 4, examining physics and cognitive science.
In this programme, Ian visits Campbell's Epping Forest home, complete with his copious library and a mural of Prince Philip meeting the tribe of Vanuatu – the South Pacific tribe whose language Campbell used for his version of Macbeth.
Richard Eyre and Jim Broadbent discuss his work in the theatre, including the production which opened the Cottesloe Theatre and the road show which performed in pubs across the country, and whose members included Sylvester McCoy and Bob Hoskins.
Ian remembers the day when Campbell involved guests of a radio programme in a discussion about the artistic merits of paintings made by parrot droppings.
Presenter/Ian McMillan, Producer/Robyn Read
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Saturday 31 October 2009
Formula 1
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary of the third practice session of the final race of the Formula 1 season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, live from the Yas Marina circuit.
This is followed, at 12.55pm, by uninterrupted commentary of the qualifying session.
Producer/Jason Swales
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Rugby League
England face Australia in rugby league's Four Nations tournament, with live commentary on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra from the DW Stadium in Wigan.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Cycling
Live commentary from the second day of the UCI Cycling Track World Cup comes from the Manchester Velodrome.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Saturday 31 October 2009
Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish bring their usual award-winning shenanigans to listeners on Saturday morning, including commands for Black Squadron (Adam and Joe's early rising fans), Text The Nation and Song Wars.
For more information, listeners can check out their blog at bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamandjoe.
Presenters/Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, Producer/James Stirling
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Craig Charles showcases highlights from a special night of music, recorded live at Maida Vale as part of the BBC's 75-year celebration of the studios. Music is provided by the show's own Fantasy Funk Band, made up of suggestions from the Funk And Soul audience, and includes James Taylor on Hammond, the Haggis Horns, Eddie Roberts from the New Mastersounds on guitar, Ernie Maconie on bass, Mike Bandoni on drums and John Turrell and Dionne Charles on vocals.
It's the funkiest way to celebrate Maida Vale's 75th birthday!
Presenter/Craig Charles, Producer/Hermeet Chadra
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Pioneering DJ Derrick May returns to 6 Mix with three new and exclusive DJ sets, showcasing tunes from his musical past, present and future. Derrick – best known for his 1987 dance anthem Strings Of Life under the name Rhythm Is Rhythm – has been an iconic name on the techno scene for more than 20 years, DJing worldwide to a devoted fan base.
Hailing from Detroit, Michigan, May's work, alongside fellow DJs Juan Atkins and Inner City's Kevin Saunderson, has provided the catalyst for a number of producers worldwide. In his second 6 Mix of the year, Derrick plays classic house tunes which have inspired him, from Fingers Inc and Lil Louis to jazz from Herbie Hancock and upfront music from John Tejada. He also talks about his work as a DJ and where's he's heading musically.
There's also a new hi-tech soul mix and, in the second hour of the show, Derrick gets on the decks for an exclusive May Day club mix, featuring Liaisons Dangereuses,Patrick Cowley and hot tunes from his own Transmat label.
Presenter/Derrick May, Producer/Rowan Collinson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 44: Sunday 1 November 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 1 November 2009
Aled Jones hosts the final of BBC Radio 2's annual competition which sees each chorister sing two verses of a hymn and an anthem in front of an audience of 1,800 people at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
Lindsay Gray, Director of the Royal School of Church Music, chairs the panel of judges which includes vocal coach and singer Carrie Grant. The evening also features a special performance by Only Men Aloud, last year's winners of BBC One's Last Choir Standing.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Clair Jaquiss
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BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 1 November 2009
World-renowned and much sought-after designer and architect John Stefanidis chooses Marietta's aria from Korngold's opera, Die tote stadt, sung by soprano Renee Fleming to open his selection for Private Passions.
He is drawn to India for its vivid colours, which he has used in his own fabric designs and also choses a raga played by Ravi Shankar.
Having worked a great deal in Russia and loving the poetic concision of Pushkin, as well as finding inspiration in the designs and colours of the great royal palaces of St Petersburg, John also chooses the polonaise from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Sarah Cropper
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Charles Hazlewood and the BBC Concert Orchestra take up a Latin American theme with a look at the music of Mexico in the concert hall. As Latin American rhythms became universally popular in the first half of the 20th century, and countries such as Mexico strove to reflect their own voice on the world stage, so a new pallette of musical colours and ideas found its way onto the concert programme.
Charles focuses on two works by Mexican-born composers. Jose Pablo Moncayo's Huapango is a short orchestral piece based on popular rural dances from his native country and has become his most often-performed piece. Silvestre Revueltas's Sensemaya draws on the mythology of the ancient Mayan civilisation and is a symphonic poem infused with Latin American colours. The piece also reflects the composer's interest and understanding of Western European music from the first half of the 20th century.
Finally, to end this programme, a nod towards Mexico from a North-American master: Aaron Copland's El salon Mexico came about as a result of a visit to Mexico and hearing popular music played in late-night bars and cafes.
Presenter/Charles Hazlewood, Producer/Chris Wines
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Lia Williams stars in a new version of Henrik Ibsen's sensuous drama, The Lady From The Sea, adapted for radio by Frank McGuinness and directed by Hannah Eidinow.
Before her marriage to Dr Wangel, Ellida, his second wife, had promised herself to a sailor who then disappeared. Years later, Ellida's family life is strained. Her relations with her stepdaughters are poor and she has no child of her own. She seems unhappy with her life.
Then the sailor reappears to make his claim on her promise. Faced with a decision about what to do, she persuades her husband that she must have the chance to make her choice.
Producer/Catherine Bailey
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
There have been several recent, high-profile controversies about artists' depictions of the child nude, including, most recently, the removal of a photograph of a 10-year-old Brooke Shields from an exhibition at Tate Modern.
In contemporary Western societies, it seems that pictures of children cause more uproar than any other subject for art. But the child nude has been around since antiquity and, in tonight's Sunday Feature, Laura Cumming explores whether this is predominantly a 21st-century panic.
The programme traces the history of the child nude through a range of art works from antiquity to the present day. Along the way, the programme consider works by Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Lewis Carroll, Balthus, Tierney Gearon and Nan Goldin, among others.
Laura examines what can be learnt from these images about changing attitudes to childhood, to censorship and to art and considers how best to square a desire to protect children from exploitation with a belief in freedom of expression.
Presenter/Laura Cumming, Producer/Emma Harding
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BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 1 November 2009
This week's castaway is television presenter Jerry Springer.
Born in 1944, in Highgate underground station during an air raid, Jerry became a household name with The Jerry Springer Show.
Prior to the show, which was notorious for couples revealing their infidelities, Jerry worked in politics as an aide to Robert F Kennedy and became mayor of Cincinnati in 1977.
He appeared in the musical Jerry Springer – The Opera, which was based on his show and caused controversy when it was aired on BBC Two.
Jerry 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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Bel Ami Ep 1/2
Bel Ami is a story of political corruption and spin set in the newspaper world of 19th-century France.
This two-part drama portrays the inexorable rise of Georges Duroy – Bel Ami – a charming and utterly ruthless man of little talent but plenty of ambition.
Duroy will trample over anyone to get money and power. He is blessed with good looks and charm, which he uses to satisfy his lust for status and women. He meets his match in Mademoiselle de Marelle, the pleasure-seeking, bored wife of an older businessman.
When Duroy, an ambitious, lowly railway clerk, meets up with his ex-army colleague, Charles Forestier, his fortunes change forever. He soon worms his way into a job at Forestier's newspaper, the influential daily, La Vie Francaise.
As his career takes off, he turns his attention to Madeleine, Forestier's wife, the power behind her husband's journalistic success. When she is widowed, he swiftly makes his move and marries her, at the same time taking on his deceased friend's position at the paper. But this is just the beginning of Duroy's foray into seducing women to gain wealth and power.
Written by Guy de Maupassant, Bel Ami has been adapted for radio by Frances Byrne and it stars Jonathan Slinger as Bel Ami and Emma Fielding as Mademoiselle de Marelle.
Producer/Polly Thomas
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James Naughtie and readers discuss Orange Prize-winning novel When I Lived In Modern Times with its author Linda Grant.
Linda Grant won the 2000 Orange Prize with When I Lived In Modern Times, her novel about a young Londoner who becomes embroiled in the Zionist conflict with the British in Israel after the Second World War. Linda Grant is known for bringing a strong Jewish identity to most of her writing.
By birth, the character of Evelyn is the daughter of a courtesan – a Jew of Latvian heritage and an anonymous, absent American. By design, she is variously a terrorist's accomplice, a would-be artist, a devout Christian, the British wife of an officer, an orthodox Jewish lady from Paris and, in the end, her mother's true daughter.
A visit to Tel Aviv as the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the state of Israel approached, inspired the book. Linda says that, in order to understand Israel, one has to visit Tel Aviv.
James Naughtie chairs the discussion and a group of readers ask the questions, which in this edition includes a Second World War refugee from Eastern Europe.
Presenter/James Naughtie, Producer/Dymphna Flynn
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Sean Street conducts a literary exploration into the sonnet High Flight, John Magee's poem about flying.
High Flight has been adopted as the official poem of both the Royal Canadian Air Force, with whom Magee flew during the Second World War, and the RAF.
It occupies a special place in the heart of astronaut Michael Collins. And it has been cited at moments of public mourning, most notably by Ronald Reagan after the Challenger tragedy of January 1986. But it has also been set to music by John Denver, been referenced by numerous films and even found its way into an episode of The Simpsons.
Sean Street tells the story of the poem and its young author, killed, aged 19, during a training flight over Lincolnshire in December 1941. He traces its origins and Magee's background in the USA and Britain and then reveals how the poem was disseminated widely within months of Magee's death, courtesy of an exhibition promoted by the Library of Congress, coming to the attention of film actor and pilot Tyrone Power, who recited it to his friend, the future President.
Sean visits Rugby School where, like Rupert Brooke before him, Magee won the Poetry Prize; he hears from veterans of the Royal Canadian Air Force; talks to composer Bob Chilcott about his setting of the sonnet for the King's Singers; and reflects upon the poem's enduring qualities with former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion.
Presenter/Sean Street, Producer/Alan Hall
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 1 November 2009
5 Live Sport
Colin Murray presents an afternoon of live sport, plus the latest sports news.
From 1pm, there's live Formula 1 commentary of the final race of the season, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with David Croft, Anthony Davidson and Holly Samos. There are also regular updates from Dundee United versus Rangers in the Scottish Premier League.
At 2.30pm, there are updates from the day's rugby union Premiership matches, and reports from cycling's Track World Cup at Manchester Velodrome and the New York Marathon.
From 4pm, there is live Premier League commentary as Birmingham take on Manchester City at St Andrews.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Graham McMillan
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Sunday 1 November 2009
Cycling
Live commentary comes from the final day of the UCI Cycling Track World Cup at the Manchester Velodrome.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
Football
Uninterrupted Championship commentary comes from Cardiff City versus Nottingham Forest, live, from Cardiff City Stadium.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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NFL American Football
Arlo White presents commentary of the Philadelphia Eagles versus the New York Giants, live, from Lincoln Financial Field.
Arlo is joined by regular contributors NFL journalist Neil Reynolds and Greg Brady, plus there are regular updates from around the NFL.
Presenter/Arlo White
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BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 1 November 2009
The Music Week's Matt Everitt and Julie Cullen speak to the great and the good of music on the red carpet of the Q Awards. They also check out the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studio's 75th anniversary celebrations.
Presenters/Matt Everitt and Julie Cullen, Producer/Tom Green
BBC 6 Music Publicity
An unearthed, live concert from Black Sabbath scares the post-Halloween jeebees outta y'all. First aired on New Year's Day, 1970, this slice of Sabs has never since been broadcast.
Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Producer/Henry Lopez Real
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Dave Pearce presents 30 years of classic dance tunes from disco to electro, rave and trance.
Rocky from DJ duo X-Press 2 also joins Dave to talk about spending two decades on the decks. Best known for their N0. 1 hit, Lazy, with David Byrne, X-Press 2 have been at the vanguard of dance music for 20 years, from DJing at clubs like Shoroom to having hits with London X-Press and collaborating with Lambchop's Kurt Wanger and Afrika Baambaata.
There is also a brand new bedroom producer and a selection of Dave's big tunes from club land.
Presenter/Dave Pearce, Producer/Rowan Collinson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 44: Monday 2 November 2009
BBC RADIO 1 Monday 2 November 2009
The third of a 10-part series exploring the music and pop cultural moments defining the first decade of the new millennium – as seen through the eyes of BBC Radio 1.
In this hour-long documentary, 2002 is presented by Fearne Cotton who meets Ricky Gervais, the man responsible for The Office – one of the most important British TV series of the decade. Ricky discusses his highs and lows and what it's like to have made one of the most defining programmes in the last 10 years.
Fearne also looks back at the start of music reality TV, the much-hyped musical genre that was Electroclash and the year's popularity for bootlegs and mash-ups.
Next week's show, 2003, will be presented by Huw Stephens, who profiles the emergence into the mainstream of The White Stripes, The Libertines, The Darkness and other music and pop cultural milestones.
Producers/Alice Lloyd and Louise Kattenhorn
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BBC RADIO 2 Monday 2 November 2009
Ken Bruce is joined by Welsh vocalist and Eighties pop-diva Bonnie Tyler, who will be picking her Tracks Of My Years.
There's also PopMaster, the Love Song and the Album Of The Week, which this week is Brit award-winning singer-songwriter and former member of British boy-band Take That, Robbie Williams's new solo album Songbook.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones
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Last month, Jeremy Vine invited listeners to vote for their favourite children's bedtime story. Joined this week by former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen, Jeremy guides listeners through the shortlist of the final eight contenders and, on Friday, reveals the outcome of the listeners' vote for their favourite.
Presenter/Jeremy Vine, Producer/Phil Jones
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Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie are joined by John "Johnny Rotten" Lydon, who has re-formed Public Image Limited with original members Lu Edmonds and Bruce Smith. They talk about the band's upcoming live gigs, PiL's first performances together for 17 years.
Presenters/Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producer/Viv Atkinson
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In the third episode of the series marking the centenary of clarinet virtuoso and bandleader Benny Goodman, American singer/songwriter and musician Curtis Stigers looks at Benny's career from mid-1936, after which Benny's reputation built quickly, on disc, in theatres and ballrooms, and on radio.
He looks at the formation of the Benny Goodman Quartet and one of the most famous musical events of the last century – Benny's Carnegie Hall concert of 16 January 1938.
Presenter/Curtis Stigers, Producer/Graham Pass
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BBC RADIO 3 Monday 2 November 2009
Composer Of The Week – Nielsen Ep 1/5
Through his work as conductor, teacher, writer and composer, Carl Nielsen became the most influential Danish musician of his time.
From modest beginnings on the island of Funen, where as a 14-year-old he got his first proper job as a military musician, Neilsen studied at the Copenhagen Conservatoire and worked as a violinist at the Royal Theatre.
Today he is best known for the six symphonies he composed over the course of his life, although in Denmark he's more celebrated for his vast output of songs. This week Donald Macleod dips into both genres, exploring some of Nielsen's other popular works, such as the choral piece Springtime In Funen, his Wind Quintet and Flute Concerto, highlights from his two operas Saul And David and Maskarade in addition to featuring some of his lesser-known piano, choral and chamber music along the way.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Deborah Preston
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Ilan Volkov returns to conduct the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra in his new role as Principal Guest Conductor, opening with Strauss's scintillating tone poem on the amorous adventures of anti-hero Don Juan.
Austrian pianist Stefan Vladar plays Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, and the concert ends with the soaring arc of Sibelius's final, single-movement Symphony.
Also on tonight's programme, to celebrate the 75th birthday year of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, the orchestra perform his newly commissioned work Overture – St Francis Of Assisi. Sir Peter first had ideas to write an opera on the subject 25 years ago and was recently inspired to take up the theme again in this concert overture following visits to Italy and re-reading St Francis's own writings.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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The Essay – A Five Day Journey Ep 1/5
This week in The Essay, writer Robert Macfarlane walks the length of the South Downs, exploring its chalk paths and its ghosts. In Monday's programme he walks through Hampshire in monsoon rain and sunshine, reflecting on the relationship between paths and stories, and how old paths were imagined in 19th and early 20th-century England as ghostly spaces of time-warp and spectres. He considers how paths might be thought of as sculptures, a kind of democratic art-form; and he meets a man who has been on the road for seven years, since the death of his wife.
In later programmes throughout the week, as he continues his walk, Macfarlane explores poet Edward Thomas's love-affair with paths and tracks and explores the sometimes eerie relationship between walking, collecting and creation.
Presenter/Robert Macfarlane, Producer/Tim Dee
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BBC RADIO 4 Monday 2 November 2009
Book Of The Week –
The Secret Lives Of Somerset Maugham Ep 1/5
Acclaimed biographer Selina Hastings sheds new light on the complex character and secret life of Somerset Maugham who, for almost 60 years, was one of the most famous writers in the world but kept much of his private life hidden.
A hugely successful playwright and author of more than 100 short stories and 21 novels, Maugham became a master of concealment.
A disastrous marriage to Syrie Wellcome prompted Maugham's extensive visits to the Far East. Predominantly homosexual and in love with the charming but dissolute Gerald Haxton, these trips inspired many of his short stories. A talented linguist, during both World Wars Maugham moved in literary and theatrical circles in London, New York and Hollywood, throwing parties at his villa in the South of France and mixing with legends of the era, including Thomas Hardy, HG Wells and Winston Churchill.
On the surface, Maugham's life was one of luxury and decadence. The reality, however, was quite different. Selina Hastings is the first biographer to have been given access to his extensive private correspondence as well as to important family testimony, which sheds a fascinating new light on this complex and extraordinary man.
Producer/Joanna Green
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Woman's Hour Drama – Singleparentpals.com Ep 1/5
Six months ago Tom's wife walked out on him, leaving him with a crisis of confidence.
Now he only sees his six-year-old daughter Lily at weekends. But on one occasion, in desperation he turns to the message board forum of singleparentspals.com when Lily needs to use a public toilet. A swift response comes from Rosie 200 miles away, and this is the start of a combative, supportive, long-lasting and long-distance relationship.
Rosie is a Bolton care-worker whose ex-husband traded her in for a younger model last year leaving her to bring up 11-year-old Calum alone.
Tom is played by Kris Marshall, with Maxine Peake as Rosie and Singleparentpals.com was written by Sue Teddern.
Producer/David Hunter
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Ray Furlong meets members of Spain's one-million-strong British ex-patriot community to find out what the recession means for them.
The Spanish economy has been harder hit than any other in the European Union, leading to a significant downturn in construction and tourism, upon which the expansion of the Mediterranean resorts has long relied.
Now, with repossessions and divorces on the increase, Ray hears from those British ex-pats for whom the dream of a life in the sun has been overshadowed by brute economics.
With more concrete having been poured in Spain over the last decade than in the UK, France and Germany combined, it's not surprising that there is a huge oversupply of unsold newly built properties, as well as an increasing proportion of repossessed homes.
Pre-dating this, is the scandal known as "land grab" – the largely unregulated development of rural land along the Costa Blanca, Costa Brava and Costa del Sol, resulting in illegally built properties, and some ex-pat estates that can resemble ghettoes. The recession has confounded many who came to Spain in order to begin a new chapter in their lives.
The programme hears from people who have found themselves living in illegally-built property; some who are living on 30 per cent less income; and a lawyer who says the economic climate has led to an increase in divorce applications from ex-pats.
Producer/Mark Smalley
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Award-winning historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the hidden history of private life in Britain over 400 years. In the final week, she focuses on the 19th and 20th centuries.
Amanda looks at how homes responded to the huge forces of change outside and explores alternative models of home in the 20th century. She suggests that people are extremely conservative.
The first programme, Domestic Education In The Moral Home, explores the long tradition of home education – for centuries the only education available to girls. Amanda's research suggests that in fact home education could often be very thorough, thanks to the tireless efforts of some mothers.
In the second programme, The Garden Indoors, she explores why 19th-century women were obsessed with having plants and fish tanks in their front rooms.
Exporting Home, in programme three, draws on first-hand accounts of women settling in India and attempting to recreate home in the imperial bungalow.
The penultimate programme, Dunroamin' – Suburban Bliss, examines the idea of suburbia, and the final programme, Alternative Homes, explores the flat, the bedsit and alternative visions of home in the 20th century.
Presenter/Professor Amanda Vickery, Producer/Elizabeth Burke
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Aping Evolution Ep 1/2
Girls like pink better because in the Stone Age they needed to be good at picking berries and women have better sex with rich men... or so some evolutionary psychologists would have people believe. Some critics say evolutionary psychology isn't science, it is conjecture.
Professor Steve Jones takes a sceptical look at the evidence for and against a new science. Evolutionary psychology seeks to explain human behaviour from the hunter gatherers or our nearest relatives, the chimpanzee and has some seductively simple theories.
The argument is that people have stone-age brains in 21st-century skulls, and this can account for everything from the violence that some men show towards their step-children, to why racism exists.
These two programmes will look at the history of the new science, at the methods used and ask if it can explain the human drive to language, religion and culture.
Steve Jones is Professor of Genetics at University College, London, he is the author of many popular science books and the Daily Telegraph's View From The Lab.
Presenter/Professor Steve Jones, Producer/Geraldine Fitzgerald
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 2 November 2009
5 Live Sport
Arlo White presents all the day's sport news and is joined by John Motson and Steve Claridge for The Monday Night Club discussing all the latest football issues.
From 8.45pm there's second-half commentary of the Championship clash between Sheffield United and Newcastle United, live from Bramall Lane.
At 9.30pm, 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/Claire Burns
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BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 2 November 2009
The Smoking Fairies, aka Jessica Davies and Katherine Blamire's brand of haunting folk-blues, have been enchanting critics across the country.
The girls recently supported Richard Hawley and Dead Weather at Jack White's personal request and released their EP Frozen Heart. They visit the studio to talk to Cerys Matthews and play some live tracks.
Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Jax Coombes
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Marc Riley's live studio guests are Darren and Jack from Hefner, who play live in the BBC 6 Music Hub. They join the show with their guitar and pedal steel on the eve of the re-release of their 2000 EP, We Love The City.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe's selection this evening includes Birmingham soundscapers Broadcast in concert and a 1972 session from Arthur Brown and his band Kingdom Come. Also unearthed from the BBC archive are sessions from the Go-Betweens, Decoration and German/Danish drone rockers 18th Dye.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 2 November 2009
Roopa hates being stuck at home with no job and Krishan isn't helping, as the drama continues. Later Rita discovers that Jas's internship in New York has been extended for six months. She now wants to know what Roopa's plans are.
Meanwhile, Deepika puts her foot in it with Jodie when she criticises the wrong person.
Elsewhere, Vinnie is shocked to discover that Kuljit and Jodie's relationship is over. Kuljit seems alright, but is he just putting a brave face on things?
Roopa is played by Rakhee Thakrar, Rita by Bharti Patel, Deepika by Babita Pohoomull, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal and Krishan by Rahual Das.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 2 November 2009
The Strand, BBC World Service's daily arts and entertainment show, features a special week of readings from George Orwell's Animal Farm. South African actor, director and playwright John Kani will read extracts of this classic novel about a revolution gone wrong.
In Orwell's famous satire of Soviet Russia, written during the Second World War and published in 1945, the animals of Manor Farm take up trotters against their human masters.
When Manor Farm's prize-winning boar, Old Major, summons a meeting of all the farm animals, he inspires them to work for revolution and the overthrow of mankind. After Old Major's death, the cleverest of the animals, the pigs, assume command and turn his vision into a fully developed philosophy, which they call Animalism. With the principles of Animalism in mind and the credo, "Four legs good, two legs bad", the animals soon turn the dream of revolution into a reality and throw their drink-sodden farmer, Mr Jones, off the farm.
They rename the farm, Animal Farm, and look forward to a new era of co-operation and harmony. But it's not long before the animals' initial idealism becomes corrupted.
This edition of The Strand is part of BBC World Service's 1989 – Europe's Revolution coverage, marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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Network Radio BBC Week 44: Tuesday 3 November 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 3 November 2009
Jeremy Vine marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall by looking at its history, from construction in 1961, to the day it was finally breached on 9 November 1989.
Jeremy visits the city to examine what remains of the Wall and speaks to those who lived on both sides – East and West. He visits some of the key locations in the Wall's history, including: Checkpoint Charlie; the Brandenburg Gate; Bernauer Strasse, which was cut in two in 1961; and Mauerstrasse, where the largest remaining section of the Wall exists today. Jeremy finds out why the Wall was constructed in the first place, why it came down and asks whether the psychological scars of a divided Germany still remain.
The programme contains first-hand testimony from Germans who escaped from the East and those who helped them. It also considers what it was like to live in a state controlled by the secret police or Stasi and hears from a political reformer who was held in the notorious Hohenschönhausen prison.
There are interviews with escapee Joachim Neuman, who spent two years working on tunnels under the Wall to bring his girlfriend to the West; and escapee Irmgard Muller, who escaped from East Berlin under a false passport to be with her husband. We also hear from West Berliner Horst Seeliger, who was in East Berlin on November 9 1989, and one of the first people to cross back through the border into the West; and Vera Lengsfeld, an East German reformist politician who was imprisoned by the Stasi.
Additional contributors include historian Frederick Taylor; Sunday Times journalist Peter Millar and veteran BBC reporter Brian Hanrahan, who both covered the fall of the wall; and Ben Bradshaw, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, who was a young BBC reporter in Berlin in 1989.
Presenter/Jeremy Vine, Producer/Simon Jacobs
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Michael Aspel concludes 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 world-wide 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 is loved throughout the world. Her charmingly elaborate, shyly delivered introductions to her songs are as distinctive as her trademark glasses.
Nana has sung on many of 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, created tensions and unhappiness and threatened her most precious possession – her voice.
In the final episode of the series, Nana fights to get her career back on track, enters politics and embarks on a two-year farewell tour.
Presenter/Michael Aspel, Producers/Lisa Meyer and Brian King
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BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 3 November 2009
Philip Dodd talks to Foreign Secretary David Miliband in an extended interview recorded in front of an audience at The Sage, Gateshead, as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival.
David Miliband, MP for South Shields, has made a rapid ascent to the top of Government, becoming Foreign Secretary at the age of 41. His family background is distinctive: his father was an influential political historian; his mother survived by being sheltered from Nazi oppression; and his brother sits alongside him in Cabinet.
In a wide-ranging interview, he discusses his philosophical outlook, cultural cornerstones and personal values.
Presenter/Philip Dodd, Producer/Anthony Denselow
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The Scottish Chamber Orchestra celebrates the 75th birthday year of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies with a performance of his Fourth symphony. The orchestra have enjoyed a long and fruitful relationship with "Max" and they gave the first performance of this symphony at the BBC Proms 20 years ago. Tonight's conductor, Oliver Knussen, was in the audience for the première. It forms the central point in Sir Peter's cycle of seven symphonies, and is the only one composed for a chamber orchestra.
The concert opens with Knussen's own miniatures, which are based on two Tudor puzzle canons, with his own variations superimposed, and scored for two opposing chamber orchestras. Following this, young Dutch mezzo Helena Rasker sings Mahler's touching and lyrical songs on the poems of Friedrich Rückert, which inspired him to write some of his most profound music.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 3 November 2009
Barrister Paul Moore was head of regulatory risk at troubled bank HBOS. However, he says he was sacked when he tried to warn bosses about reckless consumer lending.
When the bank started to fall apart, Paul made the decision to speak out about what he had seen, despite a gagging order from the bank.
His shocking allegations were to see apologies from banking heads and the resignation of his former boss from his regulatory post.
Paul tells Michael Buerk about how his Catholic faith helped him make the choice to blow the whistle.
Presenter/Michael Buerk, Producer/Amanda Hancox
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1989 – A German Story Ep 1/3
Three of Germany's finest, award-winning feature-makers have come together to present their very personal take on the changing face of Germany since 1989. In this series, Thomas Franke, Helmut Kopetzky and Jens Jarisch author and shape three completely different views of the old and new Germany.
In the first programme, Under One Flag, Thomas Franke travels with members of the former East German army to Kosovo, where they are serving as peacekeepers, to unpick the process of the unification of two armies.
Next week, Helmut Kopetzky tells the life story of Wolf Kaiser in The Sad Death Of Mack The Knife. Seventeen years ago, Helmut made a long and revealing recording with one of East Germany's biggest stars, Wolf Kaiser, a stalwart of Brecht's Berliner Ensemble and veteran of many TV shows and films. A matter of weeks later, Kaiser died after throwing himself from his balcony. Under Communism, he had been a state hero. In the West, he felt that he was merely a washed-up, old actor.
In the final programme, Jens Jarisch returns to the canvas of his beloved Berlin to examine places that changed – or stayed the same – as Germany metamorphosed around them. He looks at places like Schoppenstube on Schonhauserallee, Berlin's legendary gay bar before and after 1989; and the Tränenpalast, which switched from being the GDR's station farewell spot for loved ones, to a hip night club.
Presenters/Jens Jarisch, Thomas Franke and Helmut Kopetzky, Producer/Simon Elmes
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Poet and closet campanologist Ian McMillan pursues a childhood dream of visiting the UK's oldest manufacturing business, the Whitechapel Bell Foundry.
The foundry has a list of head craftsmen going back over five centuries. Big Ben was their greatest ever challenge, so large that the Tower of Westminster had to be built around this giant of instruments. Built to the clockmaker's specification, and contrary to Whitechapel's blueprint, the bell cracked almost immediately. The resulting bodged repair gives Big Ben the characteristic "bong" many have come to love.
But many of Whitechapel's stories are much more Earthbound. Harold Rogers is probably one of the UK's oldest bell ringers. Aged 90, he still rings regularly at the church in south-west London where he met his bell-ringing wife.
The programme meets the colourful characters behind this typically proud East-End institution. Nigel masterminds the moulding; Steve and his young apprentice prefer the relative tranquillity of the handbell workshop, full of the delicate sounds of miniature bells being tuned to perfection. Leading them all is Alan, the Master Founder, who inherited the business from his father and his grandfather before him.
He tells of the foundry's unique work during the war, turning its skills to the production of submarine detection equipment for the Admiralty. And, from the foundry's safe, Alan pulls some remarkable documents charting the foundry's history, including the inside story on what really went wrong with Big Ben.
Presenter/Ian McMillan, Producer/Michael Surcombe
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All In The Mind Ep 1/8
Claudia Hammond returns with a new series of All In The Mind.
From the latest discoveries in neuroscience, the most revealing experiments in psychology and human behaviour, to the big, important debates in mental-health care, All In The Mind explores the wonderful and mysterious workings of the human brain.
Presenter/Claudia Hammond, Producers/Fiona Hill
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 3 November 2009
5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch presents all the day's sports news. From 7.45pm, there is live Champions League group stage coverage of Manchester United versus CSKA Moscow and Athletico Madrid versus Chelsea.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Graham McMillan
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BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 3 November 2009
Marc Riley unveils a trio of musical joy with Grizzly Bear, Daniel Johnston and Laura Marling, live, in the studio in Manchester.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe presents Gang Of Four in session from 1979 and, from the same year, Big In Japan, plus bluesman Billy Boy Arnold in session in 1977 and haunting American singer Joan As Police Woman with Edgar Broughton, live, in concert.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Tuesday 3 November 2009
Krishan wants revenge after discovering that Roopa embarrassed him on Facebook, in today's visit to Silver Street. He is curious when he overhears "Bunty" on the phone to a client. Krishan wants a job too but Rita says it's difficult. Just look at poor Roopa! Will Krishan tell Rita what he knows?
Roopa makes her way to Parkside hoping for work. Deepika tells her to watch this space but then suddenly becomes all ears when Roopa divulges an interesting piece of information...
Krishan is played by Rahual Das, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Rita by Bharti Patel, Deepika by Babita Pohoomull and Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed.
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Network Radio BBC Week 44: Wednesday 4 November 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 4 November 2009
Trevor Nelson's Album Of The Week is Honey by The Ohio Players.
In 1975, The Ohio Players were one of R&Bs most successful acts, and were inescapable for anyone who listened to "black radio" at the time. This album kept the band's commercial momentum going thanks to such hard-driving funk as Love Rollercoaster (a song that was heavily sampled by rappers in the Eighties and Nineties and covered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1996), Fopp and the playfully jazz-influenced hit Sweet Sticky Thing.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Dan Cocker
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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 4 November 2009
As Britain's first major motorway, the M1, celebrates its 50th year, performance poet and musician John Hegley presents a poetic meditation on the 200-mile stretch of road that is the backbone of Britain.
Fifty years on from the opening of the six-lane highway in November 1959, John Hegley with his mandolin in tow, spans the spine of the London-to-Yorkshire motorway, and admires it for the extraordinary work of architecture, sociology and glimpse on the modern world it undoubtedly is.
Growing up in nearby Luton, this road is particularly familiar to John. Many of his childhood excursions involved car journeys on "the motorway" and it marked the boundary of his paper round. John's brother Marcel, a former "ton-up boy" as bikers attempting to do 100mph were known, tells how he used to put his Ducati through its paces on the M1 before the 70mph speed limit was introduced in 1965.
John also reveals many more little-known facts such as why there is no Junction 3, through narrative and specially composed verse.
On his quest to get under the skin of the M1 he meets the people whose daily lives are shaped by the road including Michael Clapham, MP for Barnsley West and Penistone, and Chris Marshall, a road enthusiast who sees romance in the M1.
John considers the gastronomy of the motorway with motorway service stations, past and present – and of course, no road trip would be complete without a stay in a motorway hotel.
Presenter/John Hegley, Producer/Emily Palmer
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Ivan And The Dogs by Hattie Naylor is based on the extraordinary true story of a boy adopted by a pack of wild dogs on the streets of Moscow.
When he was four years old Ivan Mishukov walked out of the flat of his drunken arguing parents and went to live on the streets of Moscow. There he was adopted by a pack of wild dogs and spent two winters on the streets with them.
When the play begins, Ivan is 11 and has never told anyone of his time with the dogs – until one night his foster mother promises him another dog if he will tell his story.
His tale takes listeners though the backstreets of Moscow at a time when the idea of life itself is being devalued; where glue-sniffing children fight for territory in underground sewers; and drunks often freeze to death in the winter. Amid this human catastrophe, Ivan learns that only his dogs can really be trusted and he embarks on an extraordinary relationship of mutual need.
Ivan is played by 13-year-old Tom Glenister.
Producer/Paul Dodgson
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Thinking Allowed Ep 1/3
In a special three-part series made in association with the Open University, Thinking Allowed explores the dark, winding corridors of White Collar Crime, from its late addition to the statute books, to the increasing difficulty in securing a conviction.
Presenter Laurie Taylor, discusses why people of high status are perhaps more likely to get shorter and easier jail sentences, and what underpins the notion that crimes committed by professionals at work should not be investigated by the police.
He also looks at what cultural factors lead professional people into committing crimes and whether class still plays a role in prosecution and conviction.
Laurie speaks to academic experts in the field, explores the latest sociological research and hears from professionals on both sides of the law about the culture, practice and often non-prosecution of White Collar Crime.
The first programme looks at The Culture Of The Crime, next week's programme looks at Regulating The Crime, and the final programme in this series explores Punishing The Crime.
Presenter/Laurie Taylor, Producer/Charlie Taylor
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 4 November 2009
5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch presents all the day's sports news and from 7.45pm there's live Champions League group-stage coverage of Olympique Lyonnais versus Liverpool, Arsenal versus AZ Alkmaar and AFC Unirea Urziceni versus Rangers.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mark Williams
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Football
Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted Premier League commentary on West Ham United versus Aston Villa, live from Upton Park.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 4 November 2009
Marc Riley's live studio guest is Euros Childs, former lead singer of Welsh indie band Gorky's Zygotic Mynci. Euros Childs recently released his fifth album and is on tour with Yo La Tengo.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe presents another chance to hear David Bowie in session with veteran bandleader Arthur Greenslade.
There's also a timely archive concert from Gorkys Zygotic Mynci (listeners can hear Euros Child, who also features on tonight's Marc Riley's show, in his former glory), and archive sessions from Boston-based lung-busting bluesman Barrence Whitfield And The Savages and Portland folk-rock ensemble The Decemberists.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 4 November 2009
Jodie gives Roopa until the weekend to decide if she wants to work in the cafe, but gets annoyed when Deepika offers Roopa her opinion, as the drama continues.
Later, Krishan reveals Roopa's "secret job" during an argument. Roopa denies everything but will Rita believe her?
Elsewhere, Kuljit reassures Jodie that they can still be friends. Later Deepika and Kuljit have a heated business meeting at the cafe. Deepika notices Kuljit's attention is focused elsewhere and offers sarcastic advice...
Jodie is played by Vineeta Rishi, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Deepika by Babita Pohoomull, Krishan by Rahual Das, Rita by Bharti Patel, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal and Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 4 November 2009
A Dollar A Day Ep 1/3
In a new three-part series, BBC World Affairs correspondent Mike Wooldridge explores factors that keep a billion people trapped in permanent poverty.
The first episode focuses on Nicaragua and the experiences of Justa, a woman whose life has been blighted by domestic violence and sexual abuse. Now destitute, she and her granddaughter are dependent on the meagre remittances her daughter can send from abroad. Thirty years after the Sandinista revolution, the promise of a better life for women like Justa remains unfulfilled.
Presenter/Mike Wooldridge, Producer/Ruth Evans
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Network Radio BBC Week 44: Thursday 5 November 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 5 November 2009
Texan singer-songwriter Charlie Robison is Bob Harris's session guest this week. His latest album, Beautiful Day, was written during the breakdown of his marriage to Emily Erwin of The Dixie Chicks and reflects the anger, sadness, hope, resilience and liberation that came with the dissolution of a relationship. It ends with a cover of Bruce Springsteen's Racing In The Street.
Charlie was born in Houston and raised in Bandera, Texas. Before embarking on a solo career he was in the bands Chaparral, Millionaire Playboys and Two Hoots And A Holler. He released his first album, Bandera, in 1994. His brother Bruce is also a singer-songwriter and the two have frequently worked together as songwriters and performers.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth
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This week, Suzi Quatro reflects on the music and events of 1971 with tracks from Sonny And Cher, The Chilites and Janis Joplin.
This was the year the US lowered the voting age to 18; Intel introduced the microprocessor; Pittsburgh won the 1971 World Series; All In The Family debuted on CBS; Jim Morrison from The Doors died in Paris; and the cost of a first-class stamp was six cents.
Presenter/Suzi Quatro, Producer/Mark Simpson
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BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 5 November 2009
Fifty years after the death of the composer Bohuslav Martinů, the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and its dynamic young conductor Kirill Karabits are contributing to a revival of his music with The Frescoes Of Piero Della Francesca. Martinů was inspired by an encounter with Piero's work on a visit to Italy, and this suite glows with an intensity that evokes the atmosphere, serenity and layers of colour of the frescoes themselves.
The central work in the concert is Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, which contains both rich expansive melodies and technical fireworks for the violin, performed by prominent French virtuoso, Renaud Capuçon.
One of Sibelius's most popular symphonies rounds off the concert. He began writing his Second Symphony whilst holidaying in Italy. Mediterranean warmth penetrates the work, but there is also tension, which finally releases in the finale with a flood of triumphant brass.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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Tonight's Nightwaves features a debate recorded as part of Free Thinking 2009 – Sport Versus The Arts: Which Is The Greatest Human Achievement?
Its cerebral advocates claim global sport is a triumphant blend of high drama, athletic grace and operatic personalities, but in tonight's programme a panel discuss whether today's sport really is the noblest of endeavours – or just an over-hyped money market. They question whether the arts can they still be dismissed as elitist when season tickets cost a fortune, while great national museums and galleries are free. These questions are becoming increasingly relevant as the London 2012 Olympics, and all its funding consequences, loom.
A panel of outspoken enthusiasts from both the sports and arts worlds tackle the issues in front of an audience at The Sage, Gateshead – just over the Tyne from Newcastle's home-ground, St James's Park. They are Simon Pryde, presenter of BBC Newcastle's Total Sport; Ed Smith, former test cricketer and now journalist and author of What Sport Teaches You About Life; Bill Feaver, art critic and author of The Pitmen Painters (on which the play of the same name is based); Edith Hall, historian of ancient Greece; and Martin Kelner, author and sports writer.
Presenter/Philip Dodd, Producer/James Cook
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BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 5 November 2009
Off The Page Ep 1/7
In the first of a new series of Off The Page, Dominic Arkwright invites guests to write and argue about the idea of "leaving the comfort zone".
These days people are encouraged to push themselves – to do better, try harder, eat healthier, change jobs, move house, climb mountains, run marathons – to get out of their comfort zone.
Joining Dominic to explore why this is and to reveal where they feel outside their comfort zones are writer and comedian Rhona Cameron, mountaineer Andy Cave and journalist Agnes Poirier.
Presenter/Dominic Arkwright, Producer/Miles Warde
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Highly acclaimed writing and performing comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls return to BBC Radio 4 with a stirring, moving and comic Afternoon Play recorded at the BBC Radio Theatre.
This is the story of the botched plot to blow up Parliament by Guy Fawkes – and his subsequent interrogation in the Tower Of London.
Starring Kevin Eldon as Guy, The Penny Dreadfuls are also joined on stage by Miles Jupp and Andy Pugsley.
The Penny Dreadfuls are David Reed, Humphrey Ker and Thom Tuck.
Producer/Julia McKenzie
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 5 November 2009
5 Live Sport
Eleanor Oldroyd has the latest sports news and is joined by Matt Dawson and guests for The Headline Hour; discussing the latest big sports issues making the news.
At 8pm, there's Uefa Europa League group stage commentary on Everton versus Benfica live from Goodison Park, plus updates from Roma versus Fulham and Hamburg versus Celtic.
At 10pm two of 5 Live Sport's pundits get some sporting issues off their chests in And Another Thing.
Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Steve Rudge
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BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 5 November 2009
Gideon Coe features performances from two American acts, LA's Sparks and Washington's Trouble Funk, both live at Glastonbury in 1987. Plus, four archive sessions from The Associates, Throwing Muses, First Aid Kit and late-Sixties British whimsy from Fairfield Parlour.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 5 November 2009
Krishan finds one of Roopa's business cards and gives "Bunty" a call, as the drama continues. Krishan later tells Rita, who is furious with Roopa, and ultimately him too.
Elsewhere, Kuljit still can't win Deepika over. He then notices that she has cancelled the OAP fitness classes and warns her it won't go down well. He's right, Kamla is on the warpath when news of the cancelled classes reaches her.
Krishan is played by Rahual Das, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Rita by Bharti Patel, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal and Deepika by Babita Pohoomull.
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Network Radio BBC Week 44: Friday 6 November 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Friday 6 November 2009
This two-part documentary, which concludes tonight at 9.15pm, reflects on Ronnie Scott, the man, musician and humourist, and the impact that American jazz had on the British jazz scene, as his famous jazz club turns 50.
The highs and lows of the club (which opened in 1959), while jazz went in and out of fashion, are examined, along with the club's place in jazz history and its continued importance today, in a programme which includes rare archive interviews with Ronnie himself.
New interviews include Sonny Rollins, Diana Krall and Monty Alexander as well as leading UK musicians such as Courtney Pine, Guy Barker and Claire Martin, among many others.
Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Phil Critchlow
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Listeners have another opportunity to hear the BBC Concert Orchestra swing with the Ronnie Scott's Big Band in an evening of music celebrating Ronnie's 50th Anniversary.
In a concert recorded earlier this year, Roderick Dunk conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra while Pete Long wields the baton for the Ronnie Scott's Big Band at London's Mermaid Theatre. Clare Teal presents, and joins in with the singing celebrations.
Soloists Georgina Bromilow and Lianne Carroll, together with the Ronnie Scott's Singers, perform such numbers as Orange Coloured Sky, I Got Rhythm, What Is This Thing Called Love, Kalamazoo and It's Too Darn Hot.
This concert was first broadcast in January 2009.
Presenter/Clare Teal, Producer/Al Booth
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Jo Whiley sits in for Claudia Winkleman this week and is joined by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto, who talks about his movie soundtracks from films such as Merry Christmas Mister Lawrence and The Last Emperor.
Soap star Denise Black talks about her new role as a jazz singer, Sir Michael Caine chats about his new film Harry Brown and there's a film round-up with Nev Pierce.
Presenter/Jo Whiley, Producer/Carmela DiClemente
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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 6 November 2009
Performance On 3
The BBC Symphony Orchestra's concert is broadcast, live, from the Barbican Hall in London and features a work by young British composer/conductor Ryan Wigglesworth. Although only just 30, he has already forged an international reputation. He scored a critical hit in 2008 by deputising at short notice for James Levine at Tanglewood Festival and received plaudits last February when he made his BBC Symphony Orchestra debut, and again following his BBC Proms world première last July.
Tonight's programme sees the world première of his orchestral song-cycle Augenlieder, sung by soprano Claire Booth. This is set alongside two dramatic overtures by Beethoven and masterpieces by Stravinsky – the strikingly original Symphonies Of Wind Instruments, which has a foundation in Russan Orthodox Church music, and his neoclassical Symphony in C.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 6 November 2009
Lives In A Landscape Ep 1/6
Award-winning presenter Alan Dein returns for a new series of Lives In A Landscape with more offbeat stories from contemporary Britain.
In this series Alan presents Play For Tomorrow, which tells the story of a bunch of teenagers living in suburban Grimsby who play together in a band. With parents heading off on holiday and one of the band members quitting the group, the summer seems set to be slow-moving and full of the sound of other people's lawn-mowers. Second year sixth-form studies seem almost enviable, but so far away.
Alan explores The Secret Life Of The Village Of Knighton, which teeters on Offa's Dyke between England and Wales. He looks at exactly what Knighton's identity is.
The story of The Physiotherapist And The Acrobat tells the tale of a long-distance love affair that developed when a houseboat-dwelling London therapist was called in to help fix acrobat Howie's ailing knee.
Alan explores how the Scottish island of Canna's 21st-century connections produced more downloads than they'd expected in The Electric Islands.
Other stories coming up in the series include: the ex-RUC officers who have formed a creative writing group through which many are exorcising some of the horrific situations they've found themselves in; and the story of two Peckham lads who have found fortune in a BMX park created by local dads. Now the boys attend an elite Manchester sports academy and are hoping they'll make it to the World BMX championships in France.
Please Note: the running order of this series is yet to be confirmed.
Presenter/Alan Dein, Producer/Simon Elmes
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The Richest Man In Britain Ep 1/6
Mark Williams, Russell Tovey and Lynda Bellingham star in Nick Hornby and Giles Smith's The Richest Man In Britain.
Dave Mabbutt, former drummer with long-gone Seventies rock band The Infinite Shamen is rich – Bill Gates-rich, Roman Abramovich-rich, or maybe as rich as both combined. Back when his band were the hottest prog-rock property on Earth, Dave attempted to shed his huge earnings by donating to hapless innovators and inadvertently found himself launching the likes of Virgin, Starbucks and Damien Hirst. Money pours into his account but Dave is not liberated by wealth – he is miserable. Isolated and largely clueless about the way the world works, he is enormously powerful without noticing or recognising it.
The people with most influence over him are Dom, his young eager-to-please personal assistant, and his ungrateful cantankerous mum.
The series is mostly set in Dave's house. Designed by the man who did Stansted Airport, it is large enough to warrant its own parliamentary constituency, has its own radio station, amusement park, elephant enclosure, library and even its own branch of a high-street stationer.
The Richest Man In Britain paints a world that is larger than life. Each week, Dave resolves to bring himself back into contact with reality and find a sense of purpose. Every time, he fails.
Mark Williams stars as Dave Mabbutt, Russell Tovey plays Dom and Lynda Bellingham plays Dave's mum. The series also stars Noddy Holder, Ayesha Antoine, Phil Cornwell, Kerry Fox, Geoffrey McGivern, Oriane Messina and Rosamund Pike.
Producer/Lucy Armitage
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This fascinating play focuses on the case of footballer Tony Kay, who fell swiftly from grace after being convicted of match-fixing.
In 1965, Kay was the golden boy of football – a David Beckham of his day. He had transferred from Sheffield Wednesday to Everton for a record fee and was destined for greatness. However, at the height of his fame, fortune and popularity he was arrested for match-fixing, found guilty, imprisoned and banned from playing for life by the FA.
Michael McLean's play follows the course of events leading up to Kay's trial, imprisonment and release. It looks at his relationship with the other players accused, Peter Swan and David "Bronco" Layne, and with his Everton manager Harry Catterick.
Tony Kay himself also appears. Now resident on Merseyside, the one-time footballer offers his personal insight into the story. Over 40 years ago he was among the first football celebrities in an age increasingly obsessed with money and the outward trappings of wealth.
Tony Kay is played by Mikey North (Coronation Street). Writer Michael McLean lives on Merseyside and is an Everton supporter with detailed knowledge of the case.
Producer/Martin Jenkins
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 6 November 2009
In Kicking Off With Colin Murray, Colin is joined by regular guests Pat Nevin and Perry Groves to preview the weekend's football, including Tottenham versus Sunderland, Manchester City versus Burnley and Chelsea versus Manchester United.
From 9.30pm Colin is joined by Tim Lovejoy for Murray And Lovejoy's Sports Express. Colin and Tim take a quick-fire look at the current burning issues in sport.
Murray And Lovejoy's Sports Express is also available as a podcast to download at bbc.co.uk/5live.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Louise Sutton
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BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 6 November 2009
Described as "the sound of a new South Africa", BLK JKS (pronounced Black Jacks) is a rock band from Johannesburg. Though the band has been together half a decade, they're just now starting to make waves in the music press. Their new album Robots avoids easy genre tags, snaking through kwaito, progressive, post-punk and psychedelic rock. It features vocals delivered in English, Zulu and other South African tongues.
The band comes in to 6 Music towers to play a special live performance for Cerys Matthews.
Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Jax Coombes
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Bruce Dickinson steps aside and invites both veterans and upcoming bands into the studio to take over the show for an hour. Underground-favourite Liam from the Cancer Bats joins metal novice Austin from Rise To Remain and established rock show regular Biff Byford from Saxon to talk about the second Hellfire Festival, at which they will all perform this weekend.
They also enthuse over music that's inspired them and select tracks to play from fellow Hellfire artists, as well as spinning the disks that have motivated and moved them over the years.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Friday 6 November 2009
Roopa tells Rita how she really feels, in the week's final visit to Silver Street. Rita apologises for putting pressure on her and is relieved when Roopa tells her she has made a decision.
Over at the bonfire, Rita warns Deepika it's a big mistake falling out with the community, but Deepika doesn't seem bothered.
Later, a drunken Kuljit embarrasses Deepika. Vinnie jumps to Kuljit's defence saying he has been through a rough time lately, but Deepika is furious. Can Vinnie calm her down?
Roopa is played by Rakhee Thakrar, Rita by Bharti Patel, Deepika by Babita Pohoomull, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed and Jodie by Vineeta Rishi.
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