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Network Radio BBC Week 45: 7-13 November
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Network Radio BBC Week 45: Saturday 7 November 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 7 November 2009
Jonathan Ross is joined by Welsh comedian Rhod Gilbert, who releases his first DVD this month, and former Smiths' front-man Morrissey, who released his ninth studio album, Years Of Refusal, earlier this year.
There's also live music from jazz musician Jamie Cullum.
Presenter/Jonathan Ross, Producer/Fiona Day
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This week, Dermot O'Leary features live tracks from Will Young and Jimmy Webb and also chats to Dave Grohl about the release of the Greatest Hits album from American rock band the Foo Fighters.
Young first rose to fame as the winner of ITV's Pop Idol in 2002 and, after four multi-platinum albums, he releases a Greatest Hits album this month. Never one to fit the manufactured pop-star mould, Young has also appeared as a panellist on Question Time, alongside Dame Judi Dench in the Stephen Frears film Mrs Henderson Presents and also in a sell-out Noel Coward revival at Manchester's Royal Exchange.
American singer-songwriter Webb is the composer behind popular hits such as Wichita Lineman, The Highwayman and By The Time I Get To Phoenix. He is the only artist ever to receive Grammy Awards for music, lyrics and orchestration and has also written for film and television. His latest album, which features The Webb Brothers, was released last month.
Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker
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Chris Stuart presents highlights from the annual Royal British Legion Festival Of Remembrance, in the year when the UK bade farewell to its last First World War veteran, Harry Patch, and marked the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War.
This is a time when the nation once again offers its thanks and pays tribute to all those who risk their lives in the service of their country. The nation remembers the great sacrifice made by all who have died as a result of conflict, and the pain and suffering of those left behind, especially in the act of Remembrance when thousands of poppies are dropped, representing the lives lost not only in the two World Wars, but also in more recent conflicts.
As well as the annual displays of rousing military band music from, among others, the Royal Marines and RAF, the evening features male vocal group The Soldiers, all three of whom are on active service in Her Majesty's Forces and who released their first album at the end of October. Other voices include Jamie Cullum, Faryl Smith and Hayley Westenra. Joined by the Fron Male Voice Choir, Hayley sings the much-loved favourite of another Forces' sweetheart, We'll Meet Again, made famous by Vera Lynn.
Remembrance Sunday 2009 is marked on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 4 tomorrow.
Presenter/Chris Stuart, Producer/Rosemary Foxcroft
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On 8 August 1991, British journalist John McCarthy was freed in Beirut by the militant group Islamic Jihad, after more than five years in captivity.
Now Patron of the Medical Foundation For The Care Of Victims Of Torture, John presents Behind Enemy Lines, a documentary which sheds light on the experiences of other survivors of captivity; hostages, civilian detainees and prisoners of war, conflict and conscience. The programme includes John's first meeting with journalist Alan Johnston, who was held in Gaza for four months.
Listeners will be notified of the potentially disturbing content of the programme before transmission.
Presenter/John McCarthy, Producer/Hilary Robinson
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Sir Cliff Richard And The Shadows reunited for an arena tour to celebrate their 50th anniversary earlier this year. As part of BBC Radio 2's Great British Songbook, listeners have the chance to enjoy Cliff, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch and Brian Bennett in a recording of their Wembley Arena concert from Friday 23 October.
Initially called The Drifters, The Shadows were formed as a backing band for Cliff in 1958. Together, they dominated the charts in the late Fifties and Sixties, notching up seven No. 1 hits before splitting up in 1968 to pursue separate careers. This tour is the first time they have performed together in 20 years and the group have said the Wembley performance is their last ever UK show.
Producer/Sarah Gaston
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BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 7 November 2009
Opera On 3 – The Turn Of The Screw
Leading this performance of David McVicar's acclaimed production of Britten's chamber opera, The Turn Of The Screw, live from English National Opera, is veteran conductor Sir Charles Mackerras, who knew and worked closely with Britten in the Fifties and has been a leading interpreter of the work for more than 50 years.
He is joined by a cast including soprano Rebecca Evans as the Governess, Michael Colvin (tenor) and Cheryl Baker (soprano) as the ghosts Peter Quint and Miss Jessel, and treble Charlie Manton as the boy, Miles.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/David Papp
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BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 7 November 2009
Johnny Vegas asks whether Benidorm is the elephant's graveyard for entertainers who just don't know when to call it a day, or a shining tribute to the glory of comedy that came before. And he tries to fathom if this is the fate that awaits him.
Johnny is at a turning-point in his professional status. He has a thriving career but knows, deep down, that audiences are getting younger and his shelf life within showbusiness could be too close to perishable for comfort.
He sees that, with the demise of the great British Working Men's Clubs, and the unforgiving nature of popular culture, many household names have followed their audiences to the Spanish coast, where they are still revered and can play once more to packed houses of grateful punters.
Presenter/Johnny Vegas, Producer/Sally Harrison
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The novel All Quiet On The Western Front, published in 1929, quickly established itself as one of the greatest anti-war novels of all time, selling more than two million copies in 25 languages.
It is a First World War story told from the German point of view about four 18 year olds and their company on the Western Front, fighting in the trenches over a period of years.
The schoolboys, which they essentially still are, go to war only to be disabused of all notions of Kaiser and country. All finally perish in the mud of Flanders.
The story is told from the perspective of Paul Baumer, who leads listeners through years of fighting, resting behind the lines, going on leave, fraternising with local girls, arguing about the meaning of their lives and, in the end, dying.
Alongside the inevitable carnage there is a reflective, more lyrical, quality to this story as these young Germans try to understand what they are involved in and how they must come to terms with the sheer waste of their youth.
The novel has been dramatised by Dave Sheasby.
Producer/David Hunter
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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.
This week's events from 1989 include the first crossings of the Berlin Wall; the Church of England Synod voting to ordain women priests; the politburo resigning in East Germany; and the Army being called in to answer 999 calls in Britain.
On 9 November, 1989, East Berlin's party chief declares all citizens can leave immediately and, at 9pm, the first border crossings take place; the news causes spontaneous cheers in the West German Bundestaag and messages of support from Moscow and Washington.
Hundreds of thousands of East Germans arrive in West Berlin amid scenes of shock and joy. Bulldozers tear down sections of the Berlin Wall to make more crossing points. The mayors of East and West Berlin shake hands at a new border crossing at Potsdamerplatz.
Elsewhere, El Salvador declares a curfew as fighting between troops and leftist rebels leaves 78 dead in the capital; and pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy returns to Moscow for the first time in 26 years to conduct the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Some 300,000 protestors meet in Leipzig to demand further reforms from the East German government; bidding starts for the Berlin Wall, with an American coin dealer offering $50m – he plans to quadruple his money by selling chunks – and new EU regulations demand tough new health warnings on tobacco packets ... to the dismay of French manufacturers.
Presenter/Sir John Tusa, Producer/Peter Law
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From Fact To Fiction Ep 1/8
To complement BBC Radio 4's news and current affairs output, this weekly series presents a dramatic response to a major, current news story.
The form and content is entirely led by the news topic so listeners can expect drama in a number of different guises, as well as poetry and prose.
The 15-minute drama is created from scratch in the days leading up to transmission; an instant reaction to the mood of the moment.
This breadth of approach is echoed in the range of writers that have participated so far. They include: David Edgar, Amelia Bullmore, Mark Lawson, Bonnie Greer, Laura Solon, Will Self, Alistair Beaton, Lemn Sissay, April de Angelis, Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Adrian Mitchell, Stewart Lee, John Sergeant, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Kate Mosse and Lin Coghlan.
Previous series have also featured actors such as Philip Glenister, Tracy-Ann Oberman, Samuel West, David Soul, Henry Goodman, Alistair McGowan, Robert Bathurst, Stephen Mangan and Sally Hawkins.
Producer/David Hunter
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Actor and entertainer John Barrowman tells the story of Irving Berlin's ground-breaking army show that came to bomb-ravaged London in 1943, before setting out on a world tour that raised military morale from Glasgow to Guam.
The Second World War production This Is The Army was born out of one of Berlin's earlier shows, written for the First World War. It featured a unit of soldiers, many with a theatrical background, who sang, danced and pattered their way through every theatre of war in which the US army was involved.
For the first time in American history, it was an integrated mixed-race unit. And rather than stay safely back in the States raising money for army welfare, Berlin encouraged the top brass to take his show as near to the front lines as possible.
In this programme, the show's choreographer, Robert Sydney, and Berlin's daughter, Mary Ellin Barrett, recall how the show was put together and the effect it had in places as far afield as Washington DC and Tehran, via Bristol, Birmingham, Glasgow, London and the fiercest area of fighting in the south of Italy, shortly after the British and American landings there.
Also remembering the show are members of the audience in Birmingham, Glasgow and London, where a young airman by the name of Denis Norden was spellbound by the sheer dazzle of the show at The Palladium.
Producer/Tom Alban
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 7 November 2009
5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch presents today's show live from Twickenham, ahead of the opening match of rugby union's autumn test series between England and Australia. There's regular updates from the day's early football kick-offs; the Edinburgh derby between Hearts and Hibernian in the Scottish Premier League (kick-off 12.30pm) and the South Wales derby, Swansea City versus Cardiff (kick-off 12.45pm) in the Championship.
At 2.30pm there's commentary of England versus Australia, live from Twickenham, with Ian Robertson, Alastair Eykyn and England World Cup winner Matt Dawson. There are also updates of the afternoon's 3pm football kick-offs including Manchester City versus Burnley and Tottenham versus Sunderland in the Premier League and Rangers versus St Mirren in the Scottish Premier League.
At 5.30pm there's commentary of the Premier League's late kick-off between Wolves and Arsenal, live from Molineux, plus regular rugby league updates as England face New Zealand in the Four Nations tournament from the Galpharm Stadium, Huddersfield.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mark Williams
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Saturday 7 November 2009
Football
Uninterrupted Championship commentary of the South Wales derby between Swansea City and Cardiff City comes live from the Liberty Stadium.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Football
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary on one of the afternoon's top matches in the Premier League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Rugby Union
Uninterrupted commentary of Wales versus New Zealand comes live from the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, with Jonny Saunders, Nick Mullins and former Welsh captain Robert Jones.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Rugby League
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted second-half commentary of England versus New Zealand in the Four Nations tournament, live from the Galpharm Stadium, Huddersfield.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Cycling
Live commentary from the Paralympic World Track Cycling Championships comes from the Manchester Velodrome.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Saturday 7 November 2009
In this new edition of World Book Club, Harriet Gilbert talks to acclaimed Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswaany about his bestselling novel The Yacoubian Building. The novel was the Arab world's No. 1 bestseller for five years running after it was published in 2002.
The Yacoubian Building interweaves the stories of a group of diverse characters who live and work in downtown Cairo. It is a moving study of politics and power, sex and revenge, and centres on the apartment block, the Yacoubian building, which still stands in Cairo today. The novel offers a compelling yet daringly scathing portrayal of modern Egypt since the 1952 Revolution.
Presenter/Harriet Gilbert, Producer/Karen Holden
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Network Radio BBC Week 45: Sunday 8 November 2009
BBC RADIO 1 Sunday 8 November 2009
Sunday 8 November sees the return of the BBC's flagship event for teens – BBC Switch Live. Taking place at London's Hammersmith Apollo, it features performances from some of the biggest music stars in the teen world – including Black Eyed Peas, The Saturdays, N-Dubz, Alexandra Burke and Pixie Lott.
Switch DJs Nick Grimshaw and Annie Mac race back from the event to the BBC Radio 1 studios for a special, five-hour BBC Switch Live extravaganza, from 7pm. They are joined by Switch Live performers JLS and fellow Switch presenters – The 5:19 Show's Tom Deacon and The Surgery presenter Aled Haydn-Jones.
Nick and Annie bring listeners exclusive, live tracks from the event as well as interviews with the acts themselves and winners from the BBC Switch Live awards, announced at the event. Tom will be dishing the dirt and sharing backstage gossip while Aled shall be asking his celebrity friends for their top advice tips for teens.
Producer/Megan Carver
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BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 8 November 2009
REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 2009
Good Morning Sunday
On Remembrance Sunday, Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to Sir Ranulph Fiennes, whose father was killed in action in the Second World War, before Sir Ranulph was born.
Grammy Award-winning guitarist and singer-songwriter Mark Knopfler talks about a song he has written for his Uncle Freddie, a piper of the First Battalion, Tyneside Scottish, the Black Watch, Royal Highland Regiment, who carried his pipes into action and was killed with them at Ficheux, near Arras, in May 1940, aged just 20. Entitled Piper To The Ends, it is the closing track on his fifth studio album.
Aled is also joined by author and former RAF pilot John Nichol, who has served around the world and was shot down and held captive during the first Gulf War.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson
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Brian D'Arcy introduces some favourite hymns for Remembrance Sunday to commemorate and honour all those who have lost their lives in conflicts around the world. Through reflection, music and prayer, he pays tribute to those who have sacrificed their lives in current and past wars.
This week's featured choir is the Trinity Boys' Choir, directed by David Swinson, with organist David Thorne. Hymns featured include O Valiant Hearts, O God Our Help In Ages Past and O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 8 November 2009
Michael Berkeley's guest today is the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Democrats Dr Vincent Cable.
Music is integral to Vince's life. His first wife, who died in 2001, was an accomplished musician and teacher, and two of their three children have inherited their mother's talent.
Vince himself loves all kinds of musical activity, from opera to ballroom dancing. His choices include several great singers – Luciano Pavarotti, the German bass Gottlob, Nicolai Gedda and Angela Gheorghiu.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley
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Hailed by Nelson Mandela as "South Africa's cultural ambassadors", multi Grammy Award-winning, a cappella vocal group Ladysmith Black Mambazo are in the UK until late November on one of their longest-ever UK tours.
The Choir this week seizes the opportunity to hear them in concert, with Aled Jones presenting music from their show at the Hall For Cornwall, Truro.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Dominic Jewel
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As Russians fight off the Nazis in the savage 1942 siege of Leningrad, three teenagers are thrown together in a war-torn apartment block. Having lost everything from their pasts, they forge a triangular relationship that binds them together, and a new hope that keeps them alive – the promise of a better future. The drama charts the rise and fall of their hopes for each other and themselves, and of the cost of this promise to them all.
Ruth Wilson (who recently appeared as Stella in the Donmar Warehouse production of A Streetcar Named Desire), Harry Lloyd and Russell Tovey star in this adapatation by Nick Dear, originally written for the Tricycle Theatre's production of the play in 2002.
The Promise is part of BBC Radio 3's 1989 Season, which features an array of programmes marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most potent symbols of the Cold War.
Producer/Sasha Yevtushenko
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Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dariusz Rosiak and David Vaughan investigate the idea that oppression spurs the imagination and that censorship can be a muse. They look specifically at Poland and the Czech Republic, presenting cultural portraits of two famous centres of artistic activity, Warsaw and Prague.
David Vaughan, who was the editor of Radio Prague for many years, meets artists who were active in the Communist era, such as author Ivan Klima, whose work was banned, and young novelist Petra Hulova.
In Warsaw, Dariusz Rosiak, one of Poland's best-known radio journalists, talks to Agnieszka Holland, one of Poland's most prominent film makers who made To Kill A Priest, a film about the 1984 murder of Polish priest Father Popieluszko by the secret police.
These two portraits of the cultural ecology of Warsaw and Prague reveal how artists in Eastern Europe are, after struggling with totalitarianism, now grappling with the challenges of freedom.
The Muse Of Censorship is part of BBC Radio 3's 1989 Season, which features an array of programmes marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most potent symbols of the Cold War.
Presenters/Dariusz Rosiak and David Vaughan, Producer/Julian May
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Berlin may not be as beautiful as Paris; it may not have the brash allure of Rome; or even London's muscularity; but no one can think of the 20th century without thinking of Germany's capital. It was on the front line between two of the most powerful ideologies of modern times – Communism and Capitalism. It was Hitler's stage when he seized power in 1933. And it now stands poised between a resurgent Russia in the East and a Europe forging a new identity in the West.
Actors Henry Goodman and Liz Shepherd read prose and poems to evoke the city's history, with a rich array of music, including Strauss, Mendelssohn, Schoenberg and Bach.
Words And Music is part of BBC Radio 3's 1989 Season, which features an array of programmes marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most potent symbols of the Cold War.
Readers/Henry Goodman and Liz Shepherd, Producer/Zahid Warley
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BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 8 November 2009
Living World Ep 1/5
John Walters is a naturalist, a writer, a photographer, a painter, a radio enthusiast and a talented observer of wildlife.
John takes Lionel Kelleway onto Dartmoor to find the last of the season's grasshoppers and crickets.
Most people think that grasshoppers and crickets are the sound of the summer. But John reveals that their behaviour changes and becomes much more visual in the last of the summer rays.
And the great surprise is finishing the programme on John's allotment where, under his shed, he finds the greatest cricket in Europe, the giant green bush cricket.
Presenter/John Walters, Producer/Andrew Dawes
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REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 2009
Ceremony Of Remembrance From The Cenotaph
In the year when the UK said farewell to its last First World War veteran, Harry Patch, and the 70th anniversary of the beginning of the Second World War is marked, Nicholas Witchell sets the scene in London's Whitehall for the solemn ceremony when the nation remembers the sacrifice made by so many in the First and Second World Wars, and in other, more recent, conflicts.
The traditional music of remembrance is played by the Massed Bands and, after the Last Post and the two-minute silence, Her Majesty the Queen lays the first wreath on behalf of the nation and Commonwealth. The Bishop of London leads a short Service of Remembrance. Then, during the March Past, veterans recall past conflicts and listeners hear from those serving in the armed forces around the globe today.
Presenter/Nicholas Witchell, Producer/Simon Vivian
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Mark Whitaker presents the fourth series of annual 15-minute vignettes for Remembrance Sunday.
This programme is not just about how the poppy became the symbol of remembrance in Britain, it is also a deeper analysis of why it rapidly became such a strong and enduring symbol. The programme also looks at France's rather less ubiquitous flower of remembrance, the blue cornflower. Through these two floral symbols, the programme seeks an insight into the two nation's different approaches to remembering those who have died in past conflicts.
The programme visits Ypres, where the symbol of the poppy is everywhere; the nearby battlefield where Canadian John McCrea penned one of the best-known poppy poems, In Flanders Field; and listeners are taken inside the British Legion's poppy factory in Richmond.
The programme then goes to Verdun, scene of the longest and most devastating battle in French history, to visit the awe-inspiring ossuary – where the bones of thousands of French and German soldiers lie together.
Professor Jay Winter gives his penetrating insights into different traditions of remembrance. Listeners hear from a French farmer, near the Somme, who has painstakingly researched, for decades, the course of the war across the plateau he now farms and where he still regularly uncovers remnants of the Great War.
Presenter/Mark Whitaker, Producer/Mike Hally
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REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY 2009
The Two Minute Silence
Every Remembrance Day, during the two-minute silence, Clare Jenkins's mother remembers her father, Clare's grandfather, who was wounded during the early days of the First World War on the Mons Retreat from Belgium.
Meanwhile, Bill Stewardson thinks of a far more recent conflict, the one taking place in Iraq. His 21-year-old son, Alex Green, was killed by a sniper in Basra two years ago.
In this programme, Clare Jenkins talks to her mother, to Bill Stewardson and to others about their personal reasons for respecting the two-minute silence.
The programme includes Billy Stanger from Orkney who has played The Last Post at Remembrance Day services in Kirkwall for the past 57 years; Dave "Charley" Brown, a veteran of both the Falklands conflict and the Northern Ireland Troubles, who now works for the South Atlantic Medals Association which helps Falklands veterans and their families; and David Cotterrell, professor of fine art at Sheffield Hallam University and official war artist for the British troops in Afghanistan, who has marked the two-minute silence both in Camp Bastion and, inadvertently, at Sheffield railway station, on his return from the front line.
It may be 90 years since King George V decreed: "All locomotion should cease, so that, in perfect stillness, the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious dead." However, the silence still resonates with millions, not just in Britain but around the world.
Presenter and Producer/Clare Jenkins
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Adventures In Poetry Ep 1/6
Adventures In Poetry returns with a new series of six programmes. Each programme, presented by Peggy Reynolds, focuses on a single poem and tries to view it from as many different perspectives as possible.
The series begins with Adlestrop by Edward Thomas.
Adlestrop is made up of only 16 short and simple lines, yet it evokes far more than just the mood of a single moment and has been much loved by many for almost 100 years. The poem captures the moment when a train stops unexpectedly at a small Cotswold station on a summer's day.
Thomas only worked as a poet for short time before he was killed at Arras in 1917. Perhaps the poem is known, in part, because of the modesty of Thomas's output and because his life was so tragically cut short by war. However, it also evokes the lost world of the English countryside and a human mood that was swept away.
The station at Adlestrop has gone too, though the railway line is still there and Peggy Reynolds is joined on a bridge over the tracks by Jonathan Davidson, railway buff and poet, and by Anne Harvey, who has long loved and studied the poem and champions Edward Thomas.
Natalie Seddon of Oxford University and Andy Clements of the British Trust for Ornithology discuss Thomas's lines in the light of what is known about bird-song.
Subsequent programmes in the series focus on: Robert Frost's Mending Wall; Robert Browning's My Last Duchess; John Keats's On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer; Philip Larkin's An Arundel Tomb; and Anna Bradstreet's To My Dear And Loving Husband.
Presenter/Peggy Reynolds, Producer/Tim Dee
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 8 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's 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 8 November 2009
Football
Uninterrupted Premier League commentary of Wigan Athletic versus Fulham comes, live, from the DW Stadium.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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NFL American Football
Arlo White presents commentary of the New York Giants versus the San Diego Chargers, live, from the Giants Stadium.
Arlo is joined by regular contributors NFL journalist Neil Reynolds and Greg Brady, plus regular updates from around the NFL.
Presenter/Arlo White
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BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 8 November 2009
Huey Morgan meets Blur lead guitarist and acclaimed solo artist Graham Coxon to talk about his seventh solo release, the primarily acoustic and blues-influenced The Spinning Top.
It's been a hectic year for Coxon as Blur spectacularly re-formed, accompanied by much media hype, performing at Glastonbury, T In The Park, Oxegen and London's Hyde Park.
Huey talks to Coxon about guitars, the Blur reunion, the inspiration behind his latest solo release and his upcoming tour dates.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Becky Maxted
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Stuart Maconie hosts a very special event, recorded at the BBC's Radio Theatre, which sees the UK première of radio musical The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman, written by Sparks.
Originally commissioned by the Swedish National Public radio, Sveriges Radio, Ron and Russell Mael wrote and produced an original radio musical called The Seduction Of Ingmar Bergman, a musical fantasy based on internationally acclaimed film director Ingmar Bergman. Stuart presents this first UK playback to an audience of the musical followed by a Q&A with the Sparks brothers.
Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Producer/Henry Lopez Real
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Bob Dylan chooses questions as his theme.
The chosen tracks include: Who Do You Love? by Bo Diddley; Who's That Lady? by The Isley Brothers; Marvin Gaye's What's Going On?; and What Is This Thing Called Love? by Billie Holiday.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/Frank Wilson
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Network Radio BBC Week 45: Monday 9 November 2009
BBC RADIO 1 Monday 9 November 2009
The fourth in a 10-part series exploring the music and pop cultural moments that defined the first decade of the new millennium – seen through the eyes of BBC Radio 1 – is presented by Huw Stephens. The year 2003 saw The White Stripes break into the mainstream and The Libertines become the big indie darlings. Former Libertines drummer Gary Powell contributes to the programme.
Huw also talks to Frankie Poullain, former bassist of The Darkness, the cliché-laden rock band who debuted in 2003 becoming hugely successful before crashing and burning in the course of making two albums.
Huw delves into the online revolution of MySpace and the emergence of future pop superstar Dizzee Rascal from the underground grime scene.
Presenter/Huw Stephens, Producers/Alice Lloyd and Louise Kattenhorn
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BBC RADIO 2 Monday 9 November 2009
As part of BBC Radio 2's Great British Songbook, Ken Bruce is joined this week by English songwriter and record producer Guy Chambers, who is perhaps most well known for his music collaborations on the solo projects of former Take That star Robbie Williams. Guy will be picking his Tracks Of My Years and has chosen songs composed solely by British songwriters including The Beatles, Kate Bush and Led Zeppelin.
There's also PopMaster, the Love Song and the Album Of The Week.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones
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The Jeremy Vine Show
To celebrate 20 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Jeremy Vine broadcasts his show live from the German capital and talks to people who experienced life behind the wall about their memories of the day it fell.
Presenter/Jeremy Vine, Producer/Chris Walsh-Heron
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In the fourth episode of the series which celebrates the centenary of clarinet virtuoso and bandleader Benny Goodman, American singer/songwriter and musician Curtis Stigers looks at Benny's career following his huge success at Carnegie Hall in January 1938, when trouble was brewing between Benny and his star drummer Gene Krupa.
Johnny Mercer entered the picture as lyricist on the big Goodman hit, And Then Angels Sing, and became a regular on Goodman's Camel Caravan radio show. Star trumpeter Harry James departed to start his own band while his wife, Louise Tobin, became Benny's new girl singer.
BBC Radio 2 celebrates the birth centenary of lyricist Johnny Mercer later on this week with Friday Night Is Mercer Night.
Presenter/Curtis Stigers, Producer/Graham Pass
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BBC RADIO 3 Monday 9 November 2009
Composer Of The Week – Satie Ep 1/4
He's the writer of one of the most famous piano pieces ever written; yet away from the famous Gymnopédie, Erik Satie still divides opinion like no other composer. For some, Satie is a surreal, neglected genius – as the composer of piano works with titles like Desiccated Embryos and Three Pieces In The Shape Of A Pear – not to mention the infamous Vexations, designed to be repeated 840 times in succession. For others, he's just a show off who covered up his ineptitude with a series of bad jokes.
Donald Macleod examines Satie's roots on the sleepy Normandy coast, through his apprenticeship in the boozy dives of Montmartre (where he met Claude Debussy, one of his closest friends), his tempestuous, poverty riddled affair with the artist Suzanne Valadon, and his decision to go back to music school at the tender age of 39.
By the end of his life, Satie, the one-time renegade, had become the toast of the musical establishment, working with legends like Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau and director René Clair.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Steven Rajam
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1989 SEASON
Night Waves
Night Waves hosts a live debate from Berlin on the 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall. Philip Dodd and a roundtable of writers, journalists and artists discuss whether the loss of the Wall has left a gaping hole in German intellectual life.
The Berlin Wall divided Germany, divided families and divided East and West Europe. The collapse of the Communist State with its Stasi apparatus and the reunification of Germany were momentous events.
But, arguably, the Wall's demolition also removed a central focus for Germany's thinkers. It acted as the lynchpin for a whole host of powerful books, films, articles and plays grappling with what it meant to be German – in both East and West – and the 20 years since have not thrown up an equally powerful pre-occupation to understand the nation.
Philip Dodd's guests live in Berlin include Dresden-born novelist Ingo Schulze, who made his name writing about eastern Germany in the aftermath of the Wall's destruction, and the historian of Germany Karen Leeder.
Presenter/Philip Dodd, Producer/Zahid Warley
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1989 SEASON
The Essay – The World Turned Upside Down Ep 1/5
Passports, garden chairs, cars or contraceptives. Five essayists from former Warsaw Pact nations reflect on the changing use and meaning of an apparently banal object – an object that unlocks a wider story about how daily life in their country was transformed by the dramatic events of 1989.
In this week's series of The Essay, contributors from Hungary, East Germany and three other former communist countries remember 1989 and the changes that a year of revolutions brought about – changes to the economy, the media and all aspects of public and private life. Comparing life under and after Communism, each essayist chooses an object which encapsulates change.
In Monday's programme, Hungarian journalist Valeria Toth measures out her life in passports. The multiple passports of communist Hungary, included red for travel to Warsaw Pact nations, blue for travel outside the Soviet bloc and red with a blue stamp for non-aligned Yugoslavia. Special one-way passports were used to expel troublesome citizens and passport anxiety continued into 1989, when thousands of East Germans entered Hungary and the ditch beside the border filled with discarded passports. Finally, a new era dawned in which – unthinkably – it's even possible to occasionally forget your passport.
The Essay is part of BBC Radio 3's 1989 Season, which features an array of programmes marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most potent symbols of the Cold War.
Presenter/Valeria Toth, Producer/Julia Johnson
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Jez Nelson and Kevin Le Gendre mark the fall of the Berlin wall 20 years ago, featuring an exclusive session recorded in the city with BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, trumpeter Tom Arthurs. Joining him is Philipp Gropper, saxophonist for promising young German band Hyperactive Kid, together with Swedish bassist Petter Eldh and Swiss drummer Marc Lohr.
Trumpeter, flugelhornist and composer Tom Arthurs currently splits his time between London and Berlin, a city that has become a cultural and musical hub of Europe, attracting musicians from around the world for its stylistically diverse jazz and improvised music scene.
Jazz On 3 is part of BBC Radio 3's 1989 Season, which features an array of programmes marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most potent symbols of the Cold War.
Presenter/Jez Nelson
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BBC RADIO 4 Monday 9 November 2009
Book Of The Week – The Magnetic North Ep 1/5
Acclaimed writer Sara Wheeler journeys to the collar of lands around the Arctic Ocean, searching for the truth behind the perceptions of this "place of greatest dignitie".
Sara completes a series of journeys to the semi-inhabited fringes of the Arctic, taking part in adventures such as herding reindeer with Lapps, smashing through the ocean on board a Russian icebreaker and following the huge Trans-Alaskan pipeline across the Arctic Circle. She examines some of the myths and legends of this sparsely populated area and how preconceptions match up to the reality.
Sara draws on a wide range of sources – explorers' diaries, oral histories of indigenous people, current writing on climate change, as well as her own observations, to explore the Arctic and what it says about the world today.
Reader/Adjoa Andoh, Producer/Eilidh McCreadie
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Woman's Hour Drama – Our Mutual Friend Ep 1/20
Pauline Quirke, Lee Ross, Alex Jennings, Neil Stuke, Daisy Haggard and Patrick Kennedy are among the 22-strong cast of a new dramatisation of Charles Dickens's last complete novel.
Nicola Miles-Wildin, who is partially disabled and a wheelchair user, plays the part of Jenny Wren, the disabled dolls-dressmaker.
According to the terms of his father's will, John Harmon will inherit a fortune built on the collection and recycling of waste: but only if he marries Bella Wilfer, a beautiful but mercenary and wilful girl whom he has yet to meet. However, when a body floating in the Thames is identified as that of John Harmon, his inheritance passes instead to the humble Boffins, and the effects spread throughout London society.
This story features a wider social canvas than any of Dickens's other works and marks a great return to some of the truly Dickensian characters of his early fiction. The well-meaning Boffins collect a motley crew of dependents almost as soon as they inherit their fortune.
Adapted by Mike Walker, all 20 episodes of Our Mutual Friend will be available on the BBC iPlayer after broadcast until a week after the final broadcast.
Jason Watkins is Mr Boffin, Pauline Quirke is Mrs Boffin, Jamie Foreman is Rogue Riderhood, Lizzy Watts is Lizzie Hexham, Patrick Kennedy is Eugene Wreyburn, Lee Ross is Silas Wegg, Alex Jennings is Charles Dickens, Daisy Haggard is Bella Wilfer, Carl Prekopp is John Rokesmith and Neil Stuke is Bradley Headstone.
Producers/Jeremy Mortimer and Jessica Dromgoole
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Comedian Ed Byrne asks why students are turning their backs on the union bar and heading to the High Street for a night out.
Cheap, loud and cheerful, the union bar has long been part of university culture and the focal point of student social life. The student circuit has launched many famous comedians and bands, and provided a living for others whose best days are behind them.
But from Bristol to Aberdeen, union bars have been shutting down. Unable to compete on price with pub happy hours and off-licence promotions, union officers are turning to juice bars and even gyms to make money.
Ed Byrne, stand-up comic and regular panellist on Mock The Week and Have I Got News For You, was once Vice President of the Student Union at Strathclyde University, where he studied horticulture.
In this programme, Ed heads back to Glasgow to find out what has happened to his bar. He looks back on union bar culture in his day, talks about student gigs and tries to find out why, around the UK, the student social scene has been shifting from the union to the city centre.
Presenter/Ed Byrne, Producer/Chris Ledgard
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Carine Adler's comic play, about three sisters and their mother who gather at their family home after the death of the father, stars Sian Thomas.
Gilda is a charming, eccentric, unpredictable Romanian-Jewish septuagenarian whose larger-than-life personality towers over her three daughters.
When her husband Walter dies, Gilda returns from hospital with her three daughters. The sisters' reaction to Walter's death could not be more different.
Amy, the eldest, cries inconsolably and her claustrophobia seems to worsen, while middle-child Nathalie tries to control Gilda's life and looks everywhere for her father's will. The youngest, Clarissa, gets stoned, writing awful poetry to be read at the funeral.
Gilda plays each daughter off against one another, telling them individually that they are her favourites, bestowing a special present to each one.
Lies and secrets collide when it transpires that Amy has to face the fact that Walter may not have been her biological father. The two younger siblings are keen to explore this possibility, wondering if they shouldn't get more of the inheritance if they're daddy's "real children". Gilda is having none of it, "Who cares who the father is – it's the mother who's important". In fact Gilda, idiosyncratic as ever, has plans of her own that don't involve any of the daughters.
Sian Thomas plays Gilda, Pippa Haywood is Amy, Kathryn Hunt is Natalie, Claire Bleasdale plays Clarissa and Jonathan Keeble plays both Frank and the therapist. The trumpet player is Jamie Prophet.
Producer/Pauline Harris
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Whatever Happened To The Teapots? Ep 1/5
In the Eighties, Roger Law and Peter Fluck of Spitting Image went to Stoke-on-Trent to get some Margaret Thatcher teapots made. Now Roger Law returns to meet the craftsmen and potters who worked with him and find out what has happened to their great industry. He discovers that Stoke has a lot on its plate.
Fluck and Law's Margaret Thatcher teapots have become collectors' items, much to Roger's amusement: people pay a considerable amount of money for the privilege of pouring tea through the former Prime Minister's nose.
This programme explores what happened to the craftsmen who worked in the potteries in the Eighties. With the recent demise of Wedgwood it seems as if the industry is facing a threat to its very existence.
Roger Law is passionate about ceramics and spent time in China working with the craftsmen who perfected the art of production. Now he is returning to Staffordshire to see how British potteries can survive in the 21st century against competition from the Far East and the difficulty of global recession.
In Stoke-on-Trent and the surrounding towns, Roger meets those whose jobs are at risk and those who have found innovative ways to reinvent their industry. He examines how taste changed in the Sixties, leading to the demise of the once-popular china dinner service traditionally given as a wedding present.
Producer/Mark Rickards
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Poet Lemn Sissay looks for the lost memories of his time in social care as a child.
Lemn was in children's homes in Lancashire from the ages of 11 to 17 and grew up as a "child of the state".
Since losing touch with his foster parents when he went into his first children's home, he has had no one in his life to remind him about his childhood.
In this programme he tracks down the people – staff, social workers and old friends, who remember him to help him fill in the gaps in his memory.
Lemn also looks for the lost social services files written about him while he was in care, and in an emotional journey tries to make sense of his past and the decisions made about him by the care system.
Presenter/Lemn Sissay, Producers/Lisa Meyer and Brian King
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Book At Bedtime – The Glass Room Ep 1/10
Simon Mawer's story set in Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War forms this week's Book At Bedtime and is read by Greta Scacchi.
High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a marvel of steel, glass and onyx. Built specially for newly weds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, a Jew married to a gentile, it is one of the wonders of modernist architecture.
But the radiant honesty and idealism of 1930 that the house seems to engender quickly tarnishes as the storm clouds of the Second World War gather. Eventually, as Nazi troops enter the country, the family, accompanied by Viktor's lover Kata and her child Marika, must flee.
Yet the family's exile does not signify the end of this spectacular building. Possession slips from hand to hand, from Czech to Nazi to Soviet and finally back to the Czechoslovak state, the crystalline perfection of the Glass Room always exerting a gravitational pull on those who know it.
It becomes a laboratory, a shelter from the storm of war and a place where the broken and the ruined find some kind of comfort until, with the collapse of Communism, the Landauers are finally drawn back to the place where their story began.
Reader/Greta Scacchi, Producer/Karen Rose
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 9 November 2009
5 Live Sport
Arlo White presents all the day's sport news and is joined by special guests for The Monday Night Club discussing all the latest football issues.
At 8pm there's live Premier League commentary on Liverpool versus Birmingham from Anfield. At half time Arlo is joined by Mark Clemmit for 5 Live Football League with the latest news and reaction from the Championship and Football League.
Presenter/Arlo White, Producer/Claire Ackling
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BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 9 November 2009
Steve Lamacq launches the very first Metal World Cup.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the release of the first Iron Maiden EP, Lammo will be wading through the iron sea of metal all this week, to finally discover who rules the roost in the genre of metal, decided in the fantasy "Metal World Cup".
Presenter of BBC 6 Music's Rock Show, and lead singer of the mighty Iron Maiden, Bruce Dickinson joins Steve on Monday to discuss his guide to the runners and riders in the first round – look out for dark horses Saxon, possible favourites Metallica and Black Sabbath and, of course, Iron Maiden.
For the rest of the week, esteemed judges from the world of rock will be joining Steve to pick the winners from every match ... just how will Deep Purple get on against Girlschool? All will be revealed in Friday's show.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Gary Bales
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Marc Riley's first Brighton band of the week, The Miserable Rich, are given a hearty welcome back to Manchester.
The Miserable Rich, whose name derives from an experience they had playing at the wedding of two ultra-rich aristocrats in Rome, grew from a "bedroom electro-songwriter project". Cellist/pianist William Calderbank and singer/percussionist James de Malplaquet formed their string quintet intending to "produce quirky acoustic modern music". Their bar-room chamber music has been described as "pop music that could soundtrack a nursery rhyme created by Tim Burton".
Alongside The Miserable Rich, are founder members of a wider movement called the Willkommen Collective, a group of Brighton-based bands who share various members, including The Leisure Society, Sons Of Noel and Adrian And Shoreline.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe presents Birmingham soundscapers Broadcast in concert and a 1972 session from Arthur Brown and his band Kingdom Come. Gideon has also unearthed sessions from the Go-Betweens, Decoration and German/Danish drone rockers 18th Dye from the BBC archive.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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Journalist and broadcaster Paul Sexton, who has written about soul for more than 25 years, travels to Memphis to tell the story of The Reverend Al Green, possibly the last great soul man.
This programme was first broadcast in 2005.
Presenter/Paul Sexton, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 9 November 2009
Mary discovers that Mani doesn't know that Jodie and Kuljit have split up, in the week's first visit to Silver Street. Meanwhile, things are still awkward between Sway and Jodie. Sway later learns that Kuljit might not be coping as well as they all think.
Elsewhere, Simran has big plans for Kesar's birthday but Jaggy is worried...
Later, Jodie tells Simran that Kuljit isn't the one for her; she is about to reveal who is when they are interrupted. Will Jodie get a chance to share her secret?
Mary is played by Carole Nimmons, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Sway by Nicholas Bailey, Simran by Balvinder Sopal and Jaggy by Jay Kiyani.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 9 November 2009
The Crescent And The Cross Ep 1/4
The borders between Christendom and the Islamic world have shifted for over a millennium and at several key moments have erupted into war. The list of combatants from the past includes: Richard the Lionheart, Saladin, Suleiman the Magnificent, the Mahdi, Gordon of Khartoum, George Bush and Osama bin Laden.
This new four-part series, presented by Owen Bennett Jones, examines several turning points in the relationship between Christianity and Islam: covering Muslim Spain, the Crusades, the Ottoman Empire and the struggle for Africa.
It has recently become fashionable to argue that the gulf between Islam and Christianity is deep and eternal, this series assesses whether such a claim can survive the scrutiny of history.
Presenter/Owen Bennett Jones, Producer/David Edmonds
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Network Radio BBC Week 45: Tuesday 10 November 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 10 November 2009
As BBC Radio 2 continues to mark the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, comedian Richard Herring irreverently intertwines the fall of Communism with the rise of David Hasselhoff.
In 1989, David Hasselhoff was between jobs. TV show Knight Rider had been cancelled a few years earlier and Baywatch had yet to rescue his career. So he decided to become a pop star, with some success. His single, Looking For Freedom, reached No. 1 in Austria, Switzerland and West Germany, helped by Hasselhoff's idea of bringing the talking car from Knight Rider on stage with him.
Meanwhile, communist Hungary removed its travel restrictions with Austria, allowing thousands of East German tourists to escape to Austria and enter West Germany. While weekly protests grew, Hasselhoff's song pumped away relentlessly in the discos of West Berlin. On 9 November 1989, the Wall fell and to ring in the new era, there was no question who would best symbolize a new beginning and freedom – The Hoff. After spending almost two months at No. 1, David Hasselhoff performed Looking For Freedom live on top of the Berlin Wall in front of hundreds of thousands of Germans – and walked into the history books.
Richard Herring casts an eye back over this extraordinary episode in modern history and gets into the swing of things by taking a ride in a Trabant and learning the Lipsi Dance, the German Democratic Republic's official answer to rock 'n' roll. He also speaks to key figures in the Berlin music scene including the Klaus Renft Combo, who were banned by GDR authorities, and Berliners whose lives were affected by the Wall.
The programme features interviews with the producer of Looking For Freedom, fans who witnessed Hasselhoff atop the Wall and The Hoff himself.
Presenter/Richard Herring, Producer/Simon Barnard
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That Western Swing Thing Ep 1/5
As part of BBC Radio 2's celebration of this year's Country Music Association awards, Ray Benson, founder and lead singer of Grammy Award-winning western swing band Asleep At The Wheel, charts the history and development of this style of music.
In this new five-part series, he celebrates the people who created, developed and refined the "western swing" sound, and joins some of the players, enthusiasts and fans keeping this unique part of America's musical history alive for the next generation.
In the Thirties, when the urban dance halls of America were ringing to the swing sounds of Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and Count Basie, a unique form of dance music was taking hold in the rural south west. Exposed to big band influences through the radio, rural string bands took jazz and big band music and adapted it for their traditional instruments. Country fiddles, banjos and steel guitars played alongside horns, drums and pianos. Also feeding into this music were the diverse cultural influences prevalent in Thirties Texas and Oklahoma.
This was an area filled with the sounds of different communities. Czech and German polka, Mexican mariachi, Cajun and blues were all part of the soundtrack of the south west and fed into the new style, which would later become known as "western swing" – a sound that became the lifeblood of the Texan dancehall for the next 20 years.
The first programme explores the cultural and musical background of the American south west, which gave rise to the development of this music. Ray explores the rural dance halls of Texas, hears some of the music that surrounded western swing bandleader Bob Wills during his early career and examines Wills's relationship with former cigar salesman Milton Brown, which led to the formation of The Light Crust Doughboys – the precursors to the western swing sound.
The series features contributions from Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett and The Hot Club Of Cowtown, plus former members of Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys, Johnny Gimble, Herb Remington, Bobby Koefer, Louise Rowe and Leon Rausch.
Presenter/Ray Benson, Producer/Al Booth
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BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 10 November 2009
The career of American writer Michael Goldfarb was changed by 1989. In the late Eighties he was a cultural correspondent covering the outpouring of expression triggered by Gorbachev's Glasnost. Then came the fall of the Wall, the convulsions of a superpower collapsing and the demise of a global ideology.
Five years later, Goldfarb had swapped the arts for the military, and covered the conflicts in Iraq and Bosnia, which had been triggered by the new world order.
Michael writes four short essays for Night Waves and looks back on how 1989 changed both his life and the world.
This programme is part of BBC Radio 3's 1989 Season, which marks the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, one of the most potent symbols of the Cold War.
Presenter/Michael Goldfarb, Producer/Matthew Dodd
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BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 10 November 2009
Rhodri Davies was born into an upper-class family with close connections to the Royal Family. He served in the Household Cavalry and later married and had two sons. But he'd always had a secret; he'd always thought of himself as a girl. Late in life he made the choice to change sex – with devastating consequences.
Now known as Miranda Ponsonby, she tells Michael Buerk how she made that difficult choice.
Presenter/Michael Buerk, Producer/Amanda Hancox
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In this programme, writer, comedian and rock drummer Andrew McGibbon tells the true story of a 150-year-old cymbal and explores the magic of cymbals – plates of bronze and tin alloy metal beaten into a concave shape and "tuned" on a lathe.
A Cymbal Tale tells the story of cymbals: how they are made and the dazzling varieties they come in; how they evolved from their first recorded appearance in Ancient Assyria and China to their arrival in Europe in the 1670s; their restrained use in orchestras and marching bands; their unlimited deployment in the avant-garde and jazz of the 20th century; and finally to the present day, where mass produced, contemporary cymbals form part of every rock drummer's kit.
Andrew speaks to leading orchestral percussionist Heather Corbett from the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, as she rehearses a cymbal-featured composition by John Adams during the BBC Proms; Archeomusicologist, Richard Dumbrell from the British Museum on the oldest cymbals yet found, which are currently stored in the British Museum; and John Keeble from Spandau Ballet who explains the fabulous layout of his live cymbal array and what cymbals mean to him as he prepares for Spandau Ballet's comeback.
Andrew also talks to cymbal manufacturers such as Zildjian to further explore the intriguing delights of the cymbal – and how many consider it a beautiful thing to behold, and very satisfying to hit!
Presenter/Andrew McGibbon, Producer/Nick Romero
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This funny and touching play by James Graham looks at the not-entirely-congenial world of Albert Einstein's final years.
Towards the end of his life, Einstein was convinced that if he could just come up with his elusive unified field theory – his famed "theory of everything" – he could amalgamate his ideas – space with mass, mass with sound, sound with light, light with love, love with hate, terror with fear – everything. But as his visitor, Bucky, points out – how can he unify the cosmos when he can't even unify his socks!
The real bogey getting between Albert and lucidity is altogether more personal and grave. Albert has been negligent of his two sons since he abandoned them and his wife years ago for another woman. Eduard is schizophrenic and Hans is dismayed that all communications from Albert are chiding or correctional in tone and that he hasn't visited for many years. Perhaps more hurtful, as the letter that Bucky brings makes clear, the ageing, ever-more eccentric, genius has now cut both boys out of his will.
The well-intentioned Bucky tries to find out why this is as, surely, Albert should move now to rectify the wrongs before he dies?
Victor Spinetti plays Albert, reprising his role from an earlier version of this award-winning play at West London's Finborough Theatre, and Richard Laing plays Bucky.
Producer/Peter Kavanagh
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The Diaries Of Edith Appleton Ep 1/3
Three readings to commemorate Remembrance Day feature extracts from the diaries of Edith Appleton, a nurse working close to the front line during the First World War.
Edith Elizabeth Appleton, known as Edie, was born in Deal, Kent in 1877. She served in France for the duration of the war and, throughout her time there, she kept a handwritten diary detailing all the horrors of war, including the first use of poison gas. But Edie also records some rare lighter moments; how she and her colleagues spent their time off duty and what life was really like for nurses on the Western Front.
After the Armistice in November 1918, she joined 42 Ambulance Train and, in February 1919, was appointed to the staff of Dame Maud McCarthy, Matron-in-Chief, at Boulogne. She was demobilised on 22 December 1919 and after the war she worked at Bedford College in London.
Edie, who died in 1958 at the age of 81, was awarded the Military OBE, the Royal Red Cross and the Belgian Queen Elizabeth medal. In 1926 she married Lieutenant Commander John Bonsor Ledger, they had no children.
Reader/Rachel Atkins, Producer/Joanna Green
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Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up! Ep 1/4
Jo Caulfield returns to BBC Radio 4 with a new show where she, once again, portrays her unique mix of waspish likeability and foot-in-mouth populism – but always with charm.
In the new show, Jo will, as ever, be failing to Shut Up about love, marriage, dating, celebrity, newspapers, money, cats, sex, pubs, parties and, quite possibly, Scotland.
Presenter/Jo Caulfield, Producer/David Tyler
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 10 November 2009
Mark Pougatch presents all the day's sports news and from 8.30pm is joined by football journalists Brian Woolnough, Henry Winter and Shaun Custis for The Report Card; giving their mid-term assessment of the football season.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Graham McMillan
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BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 10 November 2009
Soy Un Caballo are live in session on Marc Riley's show this evening. They're a Belgian couple who have a Spanish name meaning "I Am A Horse". Muller and Thomas Van Cottom live in Brussels from where they write, perform and record songs with musicians such as Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Will Oldham), members of Raymondo and producer Sean O'Hagan. The band's debut album is titled Les heures de raison.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe's archive selections tonight include Edwyn Collins in concert plus a loud session from Grindcore pioneers and John Peel favourites – for whom they recorded four sessions – Extreme Noise Terror.
More soothing sessions follow from Cocteau Twins and State Broadcasters and Leicester's psychedelic blues rockers Family.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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Paul Sexton tells the story of Al Green's fateful meeting with Memphis artist and producer, Willie Mitchell, and their subsequent collaboration, as the series continues.
This programme was first broadcast in 2005.
Presenter/Paul Sexton, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Tuesday 10 November 2009
Sway's big studio booking has arrived at the cafe, as the drama continues. Meanwhile Simran is shocked when she hears Jodie's confession about her new love interest.
Elsewhere, Mary declines Deepika's olive branch. Mary is planning to make life even harder for the new Parkside Manager and heads off to tell Vinnie what he needs to do...
Jaggy has produced a financial spreadsheet and confronts Simran about credit card bills, but how will she respond?
Sway is played by Nicholas Bailey, Simran by Balvinder Sopal, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Mary by Carole Nimmons, Deepika by Babita Pohoomull, Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani and Apache Indian by himself.
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Network Radio BBC Week 45: Wednesday 11 November 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 11 November 2009
Trevor Nelson's Album Of The Week is Never Say Never by Brandy.
Shortly after the release of her eponymous debut in 1995, Brandy became a star. In 1998, there was much more riding on the second record than the debut and, fortunately, she followed through with Never Say Never, delivering an album that rivals her first. Brandy finds a middle ground between Mariah Carey and Mary J Blige; it's adult contemporary with a slight streetwise edge.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Dan Cocker
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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 11 November 2009
Tim Samuels has always thought he would settle down with a nice Jewish girl in Britain – but with his single Jewish friends pairing up rapidly and no sign of love in his life, Tim, aged 33, takes decisive action.
He is heading for the bright lights of New York City. He wants to find a Jewish princess with that New York get up and go – someone who will get his British sense of humour and still have lovely teeth: think comic Sarah Silverman.
He's going to put the word out on the New York Jewish singles circuit – an advert announcing that he's coming over for a week on an intense dating mission. He'll scramble around for something impressive to say in the advert before setting off for a week of power-dates.
But will Tim find a New York girl who's not averse to rainy weekends watching soccer on the box?
Presenter/Tim Samuels, Producer/Mohini Patel
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Forty years after man landed on the Moon, the surviving astronauts reveal what it was really like to be part of the Moon mission in this sketch show/mockumentary from Nick Mohammed.
Nick also appeared in the BBC One sitcom Reggie Perrin and can currently be seen in the Bafta-nominated BBC children's comedy sketch show Sorry I've Got No Head. His first series for BBC Radio 4, Quarters, was broadcast last year.
This show will be recorded at the University of Bedfordshire as part of Radio 4's university tour pilot.
Presenter/Nick Mohammed, Producer/Victoria Lloyd
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 11 November 2009
Mark Pougatch presents all the day's sports news and, from 8pm, 5 Live Cricket takes a look ahead to England's winter tour of South Africa, including the first Twenty20 international on Friday.
At 9pm listeners can enjoy The World Cup Files – Brazil. This new strand takes a historical look at some of the contenders for South Africa 2010, starting with the most successful team in World Cup history, Brazil.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Ben North
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Football
Uninterrupted Premier League commentary of West Ham United versus Aston Villa comes live from Upton Park.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 11 November 2009
Brighton band Brakes make the trip to Manchester to play a live in session for Marc Riley.
Brakes have just released their new live album, Rock Is Dodelijk, a collection of live tracks hand-picked by the band, partly from a show in their home town of Brighton, from August 2008, and partly from a May 2009 show in Cologne, Germany.
Their live set is notorious for its rambunctious energy and ear-splitting immediacy so let's hope Marc is ready for it!
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe's archive concert tracks come from New Mexico quartet The Shins and vintage sessions from The Fall from 1981, Terry Hall's post-Specials and Fun Boy 3 band The Colourfield, Kent prog-rockers The Soft Machine and John Martyn from 1992.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
In the third episode of this documentary series about the life of Al Green, Paul Sexton tells how Green's life took a dramatic turn in 1973. Green also speaks candidly about his life and beliefs.
This programme was first broadcast in 2005.
Presenter/Paul Sexton, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 11 November 2009
Jaggy and Simran view a potential private school for Kesar, as the drama continues. Simran thinks it's perfect but Jaggy has some concerns: will they find some middle ground?
Meanwhile, Vinnie goes flat out in his attempts to impress Deepika, but is struggling to help her with the one thing she really needs.
Jodie asks Sway if he understands why she finished with Kuljit, Sway claims to, but then heads off to answer a call from his girlfriend...
Jaggy is played by Jay Kiyani, Simran by Balvinder Sopal, Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed, Deepika by Babita Pohoomull, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Sway by Nicholas Bailey and Apache Indian by himself.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 11 November 2009
This edition of Discovery examines the German partition and reunification as seen through the lens of one of the country's most prestigious companies, Carl Zeiss. Like Germany itself, Carl Zeiss was split in two in 1945. The history of the two factories, both specialising in optical technologies, encapsulates post-war political, social and technological separation, and subsequent re-unification.
Reporter Tim Whewell charts the history of the company, founded in 1846, which built a global reputation for producing high-quality microscopes, scientific instruments, cameras and lenses. Originally based in Jena in Eastern Germany, the company was divided at the end of the Second World War, with the Americans taking top Zeiss scientists West, to Oberkocken, and the people's enterprise, VEB Carl Zeiss Jena, continuing in the GDR.
Like Germany itself, where early post-war hopes lingered that the country wouldn't be divided, both parts of the Carl Zeiss company initially struggled to maintain contact. But the bitterness and mistrust of the Cold War soon created deep political, economic and social divisions and the two parts of the company became bitter international rivals, arguing about who owned the Carl Zeiss trademark on the world market.
Then in November 1989, 20 years ago, the Berlin Wall came down and, while Germany reunified, Carl Zeiss in Oberkocken was determined that it, too, should be reunited with Carl Zeiss in the East.
For this episode of Discovery, Whewell speaks to the key figures who negotiated the subsequent unification of Carl Zeiss; to the workers in Jena, many of whom lost their jobs; and to current staff and the company's leadership about the impact of this merger.
This edition of Discovery is part of BBC World Service's 1989 – Europe's Revolution coverage, marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Presenter/Tim Whewell
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Network Radio BBC Week 45: Thursday 12 November 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 12 November 2009
As part of BBC Radio 2's celebration of this year's Country Music Association Awards, Bob Harris takes a guided tour through much-loved building The Ryman Auditorium, in downtown Nashville, as part of BBC Radio 2's celebration of the 43rd annual Country Music Association Awards.
Accompanied by celebrity tour guides, including Emmylou Harris, Sam Bush, Ricky Skaggs and Marty Stuart, Bob discovers the magical atmosphere of country music's "mother church" and hears performances from the building's history. He goes backstage to the themed dressing rooms, experiences the famed stage acoustic at first hand, wanders through the museum and talks to country fans who visit the auditorium from all over the world.
The Ryman Auditorium is the most important building in Country Music history. Opened in 1892, it was originally called the Union Gospel Tabernacle, a church built by hell-raising steamboat captain Tom Ryman, who was converted to religion after attending a revival with Southern evangelist Samuel Jones. Following Ryman's death, the building took his name and became the South's leading music venue, featuring performers such as Charlie Chaplin, Rudolph Valentino and Sergei Rachmaninov.
In 1943, it became the home of the long-running WSM radio show, The Grand Ole Opry, staging performances from country legends including Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton and, for one night only, Elvis Presley. When the Opry moved out of town in the mid Seventies, The Ryman became vacant and fell into disrepair. Over the next 20 years, the venue was used for various film sets, including Coal Miner's Daughter (the Loretta Lynn biopic starring Sissy Spacek), Honky Tonk Man (Clint Eastwood) and Nashville (Robert Altman).
However, it was not until Emmylou Harris recorded her Grammy Award-winning live album at the venue in 1992 that public interest in The Ryman was re-awakened, and it was saved from imminent demolition. Newly refurbished, but still with its original wooden pews, it re-opened in 1994, and now plays host to performers from every genre of music, including Tony Bennett, Coldplay, Elvis Costello and Neil Young. Since 1999, it has once again welcomed The Grand Ole Opry Radio Show, during the winter months and, each year, celebrates its country music roots when it hosts the Americana Music Association awards show.
On Friday 13 November, at 10pm, Dale Winton celebrates the CMA awards, live, from Nashville, in Dale's Pick Of The CMAs on BBC Radio 2.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth
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The Blaggers Guide To Jazz Ep 1/6
David Quantick takes a comic look at the mystical, magical and misunderstood world of jazz in a new, six-part series of The Blaggers Guide.
The series explains the basic terminology, provides a guide to the major players, as well as some of the places synonymous with the genre.
This first episode focuses on Duke Ellington, the saxophone and bop.
Presenter/David Quantick, Producer/Simon Poole
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BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 12 November 2009
Professor Lisa Jardine is one of Britain's most prominent, public intellectuals. She's a professional historian, regular broadcaster and Chair of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority – a controversial job for any public figure.
In this lecture, entitled "Newfangled Families", delivered to an audience at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival at The Sage, Gateshead, Lisa Jardine argues that the science of reproduction will create some of the century's most challenging ethical dilemmas, unleashing profound moral choices and complex emotions. As a historian, she reflects on the lessons to be learnt from ethical dilemmas of the past.
Presenter/Lisa Jardine, Producer/Kirsty Pope
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BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 12 November 2009
The Railway Siding by Jonathan Holloway is a contemporary ghost story set on the overnight train from Haverfordwest to Paddington.
Jack Gittes is an out-of-work architect with tricky domestic issues hanging over him. However, when an exciting yet challenging design project for a new health centre comes his way, Jack's last-minute inspiration takes him on a late-night train journey to London to deliver the drawings within the deadline.
Onboard the train, Jack encounters a garrulous guard who regards rail travel as occupying its own hermetic world. Jack also encounters another passenger, an attractive, stylish young woman in Forties clothing. Their conversation is curiously stilted, not always connecting. Fortified by cups of tea which Jack fetches from the Guard's compartment, she tells of her previous intention to leave her suburban husband and children for a rendezvous with her lover at Reading station. But she did not alight at Reading and is now on her way back to the domestic life she hasn't the heart to shatter.
The train pulls into a dark and misty siding near Swindon to allow freight trains to pass and, on a second tea run, Jack tells the Guard about his fellow female passenger. But, when they return to the carriage, she is nowhere to be seen and the Guard has a rather chilling historical tale to tell about a woman called Hope Cairns.
Arriving at Paddington, the very reality of the journey is challenged for Jack but his encounter with Hope encourages him to make an effort to salvage his marriage and perhaps his sanity.
The cast stars Sam Dale as Jack, Lydia Leonard as Hope and Ewan Hooper as the Guard. Mark Lewis stars as the Stationmaster.
Producer/David Hunter
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 12 November 2009
Eleanor Oldroyd has the latest sports news and is joined by Iain Carter and guests for The Headline Hour – discussing the latest sports issues making the news.
At 8pm, there's a Winter Olympics Special, taking a look ahead to Vancouver 2010.
From 9pm, Matt Dawson and guests present 5 Live Rugby, with the latest news and reviews from rugby union's autumn internationals.
At 10pm, two of 5 Live Sport's pundits get some sporting issues off their chests in And Another Thing.
Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Patrick Whiteside
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BBC Radio 5 Live's Gavin Lee reports on a unique attempt at reconciliation that brings together individuals who were pitted against each other by the "war on terror".
Presenter/Gavin Lee, Producer/Edward Main
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BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 12 November 2009
Marc Riley's live studio band are Swedish indie-poppers Sad Day For Puppets.
They promise to be an interesting listen with songwriter Martin Källholm sighting the no-nonsense rock of Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy, Kiss and Aerosmith as his inspiration.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe presents a classic concert from Talk Talk and archive sessions from Belgian surrealists Deus, the enigmatic Danielle Dax, Aerial M (aka American indie legend Dave Pajo) and Greenwich Village icon (and novelty hit-maker) Melanie.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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In the final episode in the series, a number of Al's friends and colleagues talk about the challenges of working with enigmatic star Al Green.
This programme was first broadcast in 2005.
Presenter/Paul Sexton, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 12 November 2009
Simran thinks she has come up with a way to pay for Kesar to go to private school, in today's visit to Silver Street. Jaggy needs convincing but agrees to think about it. Later, Simran asks Jodie's advice on another idea she has for saving money.
Later, Sway's celebrity studio guest chats to Jodie about relationships. He mentions the facts that Sway seems pretty loved-up about his girlfriend in Pakistan. Jodie listens awkwardly as he adds there must be some good men in the world who aren't already taken.
Simran is played by Balvinder Sopal, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani, Sway by Nicholas Bailey, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Mary by Carole Nimmons and Apache Indian by himself.
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Network Radio BBC Week 45: Friday 13 November 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Friday 13 November 2009
To celebrate the centenary of the birth of award-winning lyricist Johnny Mercer – the man responsible for such classics as Moon River and In The Cool, Cool, Cool Of The Evening – BBC Radio 2 presents a special evening in his honour: Friday Night Is Mercer Night.
In the first programme of the evening singer and actor Clarke Peters explores how Johnny's birthplace, Savannah, Georgia, influenced his songs.
Although Johnny found fame in Hollywood and on Broadway, he came from a very different background to most of his fellow songwriters. While they were often urban New Yorkers, Johnny was a country boy at heart and took every opportunity to go back to his beloved Savannah in the American South.
The images with which he was surrounded, such as moss, birds, pine trees, trains and, of course, deep rivers, made their way into songs like Moon River, Blues In The Night and Lazybones. His early experiences of African-American music and rhythms led him to an understanding of jazz idioms and an ability to mix the vernacular with the abstract.
Clarke Peters tells the story of Johnny's earliest years in Savannah and how the place influenced him throughout his life. There are new interviews with singer Andy Williams, lyricist Alan Bergman and jazz pianist and singer Daryl Sherman, as well as Johnny's daughter Amanda and his niece Nancy. In addition, archive contributions include Johnny Mercer himself, Bing Crosby and Henry Mancini.
Presenter/Clarke Peters, Producer/Emma Kingsley
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Friday Night Is Mercer Night
A special edition of Friday Night Is Music Night, presented by American singer-songwriter and saxophonist Curtis Stigers, continues the centenary celebrations for lyricist Johnny Mercer, live from London's Mermaid Theatre.
An all-star line-up from the world of television and musical theatre, including Nigel Harman (Guys And Dolls/EastEnders), Sally Ann Triplett (Mamma Mia!), Ruthie Henshall (Woman In White) and Curtis Stigers himself, bring the Mercer songbook to life, accompanied by the 70-piece BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Tony award-nominated Larry Blank.
The concert features some of Johnny's most famous songs, including Hooray For Hollywood, Autumn Leaves, Jeepers Creepers, Fools Rush In, Come Rain Or Come Shine and Moon River.
Between 8.15pm and 8.30pm, Sir Richard Rodney Bennett looks at Mercer the performer in a programme during the interval of the concert – Mercer Sings Mercer.
Johnny didn't just write songs, he performed them as well, making numerous records throughout his life. He was a renowned interpreter of other people's songs and became a top radio star, with appearances on many of the best-known American music radio shows of the time. Sir Richard Rodney Bennett – who has recently released a CD of his own versions of Johnny's songs – analyses his particular brand of showmanship, and, with the help of Johnny's recordings, asks what made him a unique performing talent. This interval programme is produced by Emma Kingsley.
Presenter/Curtis Stigers, Producer/Jodie Keane
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Barry Manilow presents a personal view of Johnny Mercer in the final programme of Friday Night Is Mercer Night, celebrating the centenary of the birth of the award-winning lyricist.
After Johnny's death, his widow, Ginger, found a selection of his lyrics which appeared never to have been set to music. She approached Barry Manilow and asked him to compose melodies for them. Manilow's first song with the lyrics, When October Goes, has become a standard and many others followed, recorded by the likes of Nancy Wilson, Monica Mancini and Barry himself.
In this programme, Barry talks about the work he did to set the lyrics, featuring examples from recordings and others which have never before been released.
In addition, he tells the story of Johnny's later years and analyses how his genius developed. Johnny kept finding opportunities to write, even when the fashion for musical films was fading. There's a glimpse into his personal relationships, including an affair with Judy Garland, and there are insights into his final pieces and his last recordings.
New interviewees include singer Andy Williams; conductor and composer André Previn, who wrote a London stage musical with Johnny; and lyricist Alan Bergman, to whom Johnny was a mentor.
Presenter/Barry Manilow, Producer/Emma Kingsley
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Dale's Pick Of The CMAs
Live from Nashville, country music fan Dale Winton celebrates the biggest night in the country music calendar – the 43rd Annual Country Music Association Awards.
Dale introduces highlights from the Awards ceremony held in Nashville on Wednesday evening, including the best performances and backstage interviews with this year's winners. During his visit, he also catches up with some of country music's biggest stars, including four-time female vocalist winner Reba McEntire and Hootie And The Blowfish front man and now chart-topping country artist Darius Rucker.
The nominations for this year's CMAs are dominated by singer, songwriter and guitarist Brad Paisley who, in addition to co-hosting the ceremony with Carrie Underwood, is nominated for six awards including entertainer, male vocalist and best album. Other acts nominated for multiple awards include Jamey Johnson, George Strait and Zac Brown. Taylor Swift, who tours the UK later this month, has four nominations, including one for the evening's most coveted award, entertainer of the year.
Swift also performs at the Awards as part of a line-up which includes Tim McGraw, Reba McEntire, Sugarland, Keith Urban, George Strait, Vince Gill, Brad Paisley and Brooks And Dunn.
Presenter/Dale Winton, Producer/Al Booth
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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 13 November 2009
The BBC Symphony Orchestra performs live at the Barbican Hall in London featuring a work by young British composer/conductor Ryan Wigglesworth.
Although only just 30, Ryan 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 Russian Orthodox Church music, and his neoclassical Symphony in C.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 13 November 2009
Kirsty Young's guest this week is prominent lawyer and writer Anthony Julius.
Anthony is perhaps best known for representing Diana, Princess of Wales in her divorce from HRH the Prince of Wales and for his defence of historian Deborah Lipstadt in the libel case brought by David Irving.
Anthony speaks to Kirsty about his life, his favourite music and how he would cope on BBC Radio 4's mythical island.
Desert Island Discs has been moved from its usual Sunday slot this week to make way for programmes marking Remembrance Sunday 2009.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 13 November 2009
With England's friendly international against Brazil in Qatar on the agenda, Colin Murray is joined by regular guests Pat Nevin and Perry Groves to preview the weekend's football, in Kicking Off With Colin Murray. There are also regular updates from rugby union's autumn international between Wales and Samoa from the Millennium Stadium, with Iain Carter.
From 9.30pm, Colin is joined by Tim Lovejoy for Murray And Lovejoy's Sports Express, in which 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 13 November 2009
Martha Wainwright plays tracks from her new release, Martha Wainwright's Piaf Record – an album of Edith Piaf covers.
The daughter of American folk/blues musician Loudon Wainwright III and Canadian folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle, Martha, along with her older brother, Rufus, was raised in Montreal, Canada.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Alicia Brown
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Japanese punk metal rockers Electric Eel Shock join Bruce Dickinson on tonight's Rock Show.
Formed in Tokyo a decade ago, the trio came together through a mutual obsession with Black Sabbath. They are now considered to be one of rock's hardest working bands. In their early days they recorded and released their own albums, paying their way by selling merchandise and their self-recorded album, Slayers Bay Blues, at gigs which, of course, they booked themselves.
On tour almost constantly since the start, EES have now performed in more than 30 countries and return to play more dates around the UK this autumn. They talk to Bruce about how they funded their new album, Sugoi Indeed, and their love of fishing.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Friday 13 November 2009
Vinnie finally convinces Mary to go to the quiz weekend, as the drama continues. They could really use Bill on the team too. Later, Vinnie finds himself eating humble pie when Deepika throws a spanner in the works.
Elsewhere the big studio booking ends well. Sway thinks Kuljit did a great job considering what he is going through. Jodie then tells Sway that she knows about his loved-up calls with Nadia, is he sure that's where his heart really lies?
Vinnie is played by Saikat Ahamed, Mary by Carole Nimmons, Deepika by Babita Pohoomull, Sway by Nicholas Bailey, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi and Apache Indian by himself.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Friday 13 November 2009
Seventy years after the start of the Second World War there remains an overwhelming impression of a conflict fought on the battlefields of Europe by white troops, however Britain's war effort was bolstered by soldiers from across the Empire and Commonwealth. Often overlooked is the contribution of one million African troops who participated in the conflict, fighting their way through the jungles of Burma, across the Libyan deserts and in the skies over London.
For Africa, this war began in 1935, when Italian forces backed by Eritrean troops invaded Ethiopia. Ethiopian guerrilla forces, known as the Patriots, continued fighting even after Emperor Haile Selassie fled to England. After 1939 Britain began an intensive programme of recruiting soldiers from across its African colonies – some were conscripted by force, while others were only too keen to sign up. An intensive schedule of training turned raw recruits, many of whom had never left their own village, into soldiers.
This new documentary, presented by Martin Plaut, features the first-hand accounts of African troops who participated in the war. For many of them the experience of leaving home to fight on foreign soil transformed them.
Those who went to India included men who met, talked to and were inspired by Mahatma Gandhi. When they finally returned home they found little had changed, but their own experiences were entirely new and some went on to fight for the liberation of their own countries from colonial rule.
Presenter and Producer/Martin Plaut
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