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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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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

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Actress Lia Williams

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

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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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Former Mayor of Cincinnati and TV personality Jerry Springer

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

Sunday 1 November

3.00-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4

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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5 Live Sport

Sunday 1 November

12.00noon-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Colin Murray

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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Cycling

Sunday 1 November

2.35-4.15pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Football

Sunday 1 November

4.55-7.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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

Sunday 1 November

9.00pm-12.30am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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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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

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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

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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

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