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Network Radio BBC Week 45
Highlights 7-13 November 2009
Woman's Hour Drama – Our Mutual Friend
Monday 9 to Friday 13 November on BBC RADIO 4
Pauline Quirke, Alex Jennings, Neil Stuke and Patrick Kennedy star in this new dramatisation of Charles Dickens's last complete novel
1989 – Day-By-Day
Saturday 7 to Friday 13 November on BBC RADIO 4
The first crossings of the Berlin Wall are among the featured events from 1989, as BBC Radio 4 continues to recreate 1989 in sound, drawing on the BBC and other vivid news archive and the music of the time
BBC SWITCH LIVE 2009
Sunday 8 November on BBC RADIO 1
The BBC's flagship event for teens comes from London's Hammersmith Apollo and features performances from Black Eyed Peas, The Saturdays, N-Dubz, Alexandra Burke and Pixie Lott
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 2009
Sunday 8 November on BBC RADIO 2 and BBC RADIO 4
In the year when the UK bade farewell to its last First World War veteran, Harry Patch, BBC Radio marks Remembrance Sunday with several programmes
- Programme copy (Good Morning Sunday)
- Programme copy (Ceremony Of Remembrance From The Cenotaph)
- Programme copy (Poppies Are Red, Cornflowers Are Blue…)
- Programme copy (The Two Minute Silence)
The Choir – Ladysmith Black Mambazo
Sunday 8 November on BBC RADIO 3
Aled Jones presents music from Ladysmith Black Mambazo's – "South Africa's cultural ambassadors" – concert at the Hall For Cornwall, Truro
1989 SEASON
Drama On 3 – The Promise By Alexei Arbuzov
Sunday 8 November on BBC RADIO 3
Nick Dear's adaptation of The Promise forms part of BBC Radio 3's 1989 Season which marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, other programmes include Sunday Feature – The Muse Of Censorship, Words And Music, Nightwaves, The Essay and Jazz On 3
The Crescent And The Cross
Monday 9 November on BBC WORLD SERVICE
This new series examines turning points in the relationship between Christianity and Islam, covering Muslim Spain, the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire and the struggle for Africa
How David Hasselhoff Brought Down The Wall
Tuesday 10 November on BBC RADIO 2
British comedian Richard Herring irreverently intertwines the fall of Communism with the rise of David Hasselhoff
FREE THINKING 2009
Night Waves
Thursday 12 November on BBC RADIO 3
In a lecture entitled "Newfangled Families", Professor Lisa Jardine argues that the science of reproduction will create some of the century's most challenging ethical dilemmas
Friday Night Is Mercer Night
Friday 13 November on BBC RADIO 2
BBC Radio 2 hosts an evening of programmes to celebrate the centenary of award-winning lyricist Johnny Mercer – the man responsible for classics like Moon River
- Programme copy (Pardon My Southern Accent)
- Programme copy (Friday Night Is Mercer Night)
- Programme copy (Manilow And Mercer)
Africa's Forgotten Soldiers
Friday 13 November on BBC WORLD SERVICE
This new documentary features first-hand accounts from the, often overlooked, African troops who fought in the Second World War
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