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BBC Radio 2 presenter Trevor Nelson

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

BBC Radio 2 Publicity

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

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

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

BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity

Football

Wednesday 11 November

7.40-9.45pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted Premier League commentary of West Ham United versus Aston Villa comes live from Upton Park.

Producer/Jen McAllister

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity

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

BBC 6 Music Publicity

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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

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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

BBC 6 Music Publicity

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.

BBC Asian Network Publicity

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

BBC World Service Publicity