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Following their successful summer stint, comedian and actress Liza Tarbuck and Fun Lovin' Criminal and regular BBC 6 Music presenter Huey Morgan sit in for Jonathan Ross this week and are joined by British indie rock band The Noisettes, who perform live in the studio.

Presenters/Liza Tarbuck and Huey Morgan, Producer/Fiona Day

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Welsh rockers Stereophonics

Dermot O'Leary brings listeners live session tracks from The Low Anthem and Stereophonics this week and impressionist Alastair McGowan also joins him in the studio to talk about his favourite music.

The Low Anthem are a folk trio from Rhode Island whose second album, Oh My God, Charlie Darwin, was described by Rolling Stone magazine as "solemnly beautiful" and has been shortlisted for Uncut's award for the most inspiring album of the last 12 months.

Welsh rock band Stereophonics have just released their seventh studio album, Keep Calm And Carry On. Last month's homecoming gig at Cardiff castle sold out in just 40 minutes and the band set out on a UK Arena tour early next year.

Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker

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Eighties icons Spandau Ballet

Following on from The Spandau Ballet Story documentary last week, which looked at the story of the British Eighties New Romantic band, BBC Radio 2 give listeners a chance to enjoy the recently re-formed group in concert for the network at BBC Broadcasting House. The show was recorded last week and features classic hits and tracks from their new album, Once More.

Producer/Sarah Gaston

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Thea Gilmore plays the After Midnight Acoustic Session this week for Bob Harris.

Thea's new winter album, Strange Communion, name-checks Jona Lewie and Julie Andrews; references the poetry of TS Eliot and Louis MacNiece; includes cover versions of obscure songs by Elvis Costello and Yoko Ono; has a duet with Mark Radcliffe; and opens with an invocation to a pagan sun God.

Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson

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Jules Massenet wrote his four-act opera Werther after reading Goethe's novel, The Sorrows Of The Young Werther, while in Bayreuth to hear Wagner's Parsifal. The score was finished in 1887 but the director of the Opéra-Comique in Paris rejected it on the grounds that is was too gloomy for his audiences. So, the first performance was not until 1892 in Vienna. Now, though, it is perhaps Massenet's most popular opera, giving an insight into the deep recesses of the human psyche although on the surface it appears to be a straightforward tale of love and death.

Werther is a story of impossible love between the two central characters; Werther, a passionate young poet and Charlotte, the eldest daughter of a local family. Werther is in love with Charlotte but she has already promised her dying mother that she will marry another man, Albert. Though devastated when he finds this out, Werther cannot ignore his feelings for Charlotte – his passion becomes obsessive, and her love for him, though reciprocated, is simply impossible once she is married. Finally, and tragically, Werther's obsession leads him to take his own life and, in doing so, he destroys the lives of Charlotte and her family.

Tenor Paul Nilon plays the obsessive Werther, and mezzo-soprano Alice Coote is Charlotte. This new production by Opera North is directed by Tom Cairns and is conducted by Opera North's music director, Richard Farnes.

Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Rebecca Bean

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This "composed feature" by Nina Perry explores the icy landscapes of Greenland, Iceland and the Highlands of Scotland, through recordings of environmental sounds; interviews with people going about their day-to-day lives; and music that expresses cultural and emotional connections to the weather.

Winter's thaw into spring is a time most often associated with renewal and hope, yet paradoxically, in light of climate change, melting ice has taken on the more ominous connotation of disappearing ice mass and rising sea levels.

Among the voices heard are an Icelandic writer, a Greenlandic fisherman, a drama therapist and an ice-climbing fiddle-playing mountain rescuer from the Cairngorms. Their words are interwoven with spectacular recordings of the Greenland ice sheet and a specially composed musical soundscape to reveal the emotional resonance of the thaw.

Producer/Nina Perry

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Continuing his fascination with maverick American radio DJs, Nick Barraclough tells the story of Alan Freed, the "Pluggers" and the Payola scandal which blew up 50 years ago.

Alan Freed was one of the most popular DJs of the Fifties. Also known as Moondog, Freed became internationally known for promoting black rhythm and blues under the name "rock 'n' roll" – a term he is credited with creating. Black artists including Bo Diddley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry would salute him for his pioneering attitude in breaking down racial barriers among the youth of Fifties America.

Freed also promoted dances and concerts featuring the music he was playing on the radio and was one of the organisers of The Moondog Coronation Ball, in 1952, which was regarded as the first rock 'n' roll concert.

But, in the late Fifties, Freed came into conflict with The American Society of Composers and Publishers (ASCAP) as they wouldn't allow their published songs to be played on what they considered to be increasingly vulgar rock 'n' roll radio. Investigations were widened and DJs who had accepted payments for playing records were scrutinized. TV presenter and DJ Dick Clark and Alan Freed were brought up for questioning and sentenced.

Freed refused to accept responsibility, insisting he had accepted payment from a record company because it was "given with gratitude" rather than to pay for plays. He was sacked and took to drink. He died bitter and penniless in 1965, aged 43.

The programme hears from Alan Freed's children Lance and Alana Freed, American TV celebrity Clay Cole, Freed biographer John Jackson and Nashville Radio DJ Gerry House.

Presenter/Nick Barraclough, Producer/Sarah Cuddon

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Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, MD and How I Met Your Mother) plays Tennessee teacher John Scopes; and Ed Asner (Lou Grant) plays prosecution lawyer William Jennings Bryan in a new version of The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, adapted from the original trial transcript by Peter Goodchild.

In 1925, the same year that Franz Kafka's novel The Trial was first published, this real-life case was one of the most unusual trials ever seen in a US courtroom. It took place in Dayton, Tennessee, then a small town with a population of less than 2,000, and yet the two lawyers ranged against each other were prestigious. Counsel for the prosecution was three-time democratic candidate William Jennings Bryan, a Christian Fundamentalist. The defence was Chicago lawyer and declared agnostic, Clarence Darrow, who had recently saved two brutal child killers from the death penalty in a high-profile case.

Earlier that year Tennessee had passed The Butler Act, a law forbidding anyone "to teach any theory that denies the story of the divine creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals." In other words, the teaching of evolution was outlawed.

In the stifling heat of July 1925, in a courtroom hung with banners proclaiming "Read Your Bible Daily", 24-year-old John Scopes, a part-time teacher, stood trial.

Producer/Kate McAll

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Every day for three months, BBC Radio 4 recreates 1989 in sound – drawing on the BBC and other vivid news archive and the music of the time.

These daily programmes, presented by Sir John Tusa, re-trace the year's major political, cultural and social events as they happened.

Just some of the big stories from the news this week in 1989 include: MPs relishing their day in the limelight as TV cameras are permitted in the House of Commons; Lebanon's President Muawad is killed 17 days after being elected; the Conservative party is facing a leadership challenge as Margaret Thatcher announces she is happy to contest two more elections; school children in Buckinghamshire organise a protest against Nestle for its promotion of dried milk in the Third World; Czechoslovakia's Prime Minister has his first meeting with the country's leading dissident Václav Havel; and Michael Buerk reports from Ethiopia where millions are facing starvation.

A weekly omnibus edition is broadcast on Sunday evenings.

Presenter/Sir John Tusa, Producers/Russell Finch and Barney Rowntree

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BBC Radio 4 presenter Mark Lawson

From The West Wing to The Thick Of It, politics lends itself to high drama. Politicians themselves often write thinly disguised versions of their own experiences as fiction, and films and TV are awash with fictionalised versions of the political world.

Mark Lawson delves into the seamier side of politics to look at the fascinating line where fact meets fiction, in this edition of Archive On 4. Mark asks if such fictional programmes represent a truthful portrayal of the machinations of government and if fiction can influence those in positions of power.

Presenter/Mark Lawson, Producer/Mark Rickards

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5 Live Sport

Saturday 21 November

12.00noon-7.20pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch presents an afternoon of live sport kicking off with Premier League commentary of Liverpool versus Manchester City live from Anfield at 12.45pm, plus regular updates from Hearts versus St Johnstone in the Scottish Premier League (kick-off 12.30pm).

At 2.30pm, there's rugby union commentary as England take on New Zealand in the Autumn International series with Ian Robertson and England World Cup winner Matt Dawson, plus regular updates of Wales versus Argentina from the Millennium Stadium. There's also coverage of the day's 3pm football kick-offs, including Chelsea versus Wolves and Sunderland versus Arsenal in the Premier League and Rangers versus Kilmarnock in the Scottish Premier League.

At 5pm there's commentary of Manchester United versus Everton, live from Old Trafford, plus regular rugby union updates from Scotland versus Australia at Murrayfield.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mark Williams

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Football

Saturday 21 November

2.45-5.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary of one of the afternoon's top games in the Premier League.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Rugby Union

Saturday 21 November

5.00-7.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

• www.bbc.co.uk/rugbyunion

Uninterrupted commentary of Scotland versus Australia comes live from Murrayfield in the Autumn Internationals.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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DJ and producer Erol Alkan returns for the latest instalment of his 6 Mix residency. Currently limbering up to support 2ManyDJs on their European tour throughout December, Erol has also been busy in the studio recording the follow up to his recent single, Wavves.

On the latest edition of his show, there's a heady brew of new music from around the world, including hot electro remixes, exclusive dubplates and bands he's discovered on his travels, plus another secret mix set.

Presenter/Erol Alkan, Producer/Rowan Collinson

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Trying, by Erin Browne, is the winning play from the BBC World Service and British Council International Radio Playwriting Competition 2009 for English as a first language.

Erin's play was described by the judges as "exquisite", "human" and "spare" and is a tender three-hander about co-dependency and moving on. Sisters Lena and Chels are getting by just fine, awaiting the arrival of Chels's baby. Then Lena has to go and fall in love with the girl in the bookshop...

The all-American cast stars Melanie Bond (Quantum Of Solace), Sarah Goldberg (A Prayer For Owen Meany, BBC Radio 4) and Sasha Pick (The Road To Guantanamo).

The 2009 competition saw 1,200 script submissions, from which the two first prizes were chosen: for the best play with English as a first language and with English as a second language. The distinguished panel of judges included writer Kwame Kwei-Armah and actor Vincent Ebrahim.

The Prison Graduates, which won first prize for English as a second language, will be broadcast at the same time next week.

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The Surgery With Aled – Open Surgery Special With Max

Sunday 22 November

10.00pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 1 and BBC 1XTRA

• www.bbc.co.uk/bullyproof

BBC Radio 1's Aled Haydn-Jones and BBC 1Xtra's Max present a Surgery special which draws together all the elements of the stations' six-week long social action campaign, Make Yourself Bullyproof, which has put bullying firmly under the spotlight.

For the past six weeks The Surgery has been tackling the issues around bullying – including confidence and being different – and has been giving advice on how to cope with bullying.

This special three-hour show is simulcast on BBC Radio 1 and BBC 1Xtra and covers all aspects of bullying and how to "make yourself bullyproof".

Aled and Max are joined by Dr Emily Lovegrove who is on hand to offer advice throughout the show. The Surgery team also take calls from listeners about their experiences of bullying.

Presenters/Aled Haydn-Jones and Max

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This week, Irish singer Ronan Keating sits in for Steve Wright and presents a themed show with the best love songs that almost made it to No. 1.

Presenter/Ronan Keating, Producer/Jessica Rickson

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Brian D'Arcy celebrates the feast of Christ The King. It's the last Sunday in the church's year before Advent and it's a celebration of the completion of Christ's journey on Earth and in Heaven.

The featured singers come from Lancashire churches and the musical director is Neil Shepherd. The organist this week is Peter Jebson and hymns include Rejoice The Lord Is King and Lord Enthroned In Heavenly Splendour.

Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty

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Soprano Carolyn Sampson

Marking the 350th anniversary of Purcell's birth, and forming the crowning moment of BBC Radio 3's celebrations, James O'Donnell directs the Choir of Westminster Abbey and St James's Baroque in a programme of some of Purcell's greatest choral music, with soloists including Carolyn Sampson (soprano) and Neal Davies (bass).

A master of song, theatre music, sacred and chamber music, Henry Purcell has stood as a point of cultural reference for succeeding generations of British composers and musicians, from Handel to Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten. He died young, at the age of 36, and was deeply mourned by his contemporaries and the community around Westminster Abbey, where he lived, worked and is buried.

Both the Te Deum, Jubilate and Hail, Bright Cecilia! were composed in the 1690s for the annual celebrations of the feast of St Cecilia, the patron saint of music, which took place at St Bride's Church, Fleet Street and at Stationers' Hall, near St Paul's Cathedral. The Funeral Sentences were earlier works composed for an unknown occasion, perhaps the funeral of fellow composer Henry Cooke. A second setting of Thou knowest, Lord (also to be performed in this concert), was composed in 1694 for the funeral of Queen Mary II, which took place in Westminster Abbey itself. A year later it was heard again at Purcell's own funeral. His body now lies buried in the north aisle of the building.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Lindsay Kemp

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This week's Living World looks at ivy and bugs.

Common ivy flowers in autumn are the most important late-season nectar source for more than 70 insect species. Butterflies, bees, hoverflies and gnats, and myriad beetles and bugs take up one of the richest sources of rocket fuel known in nature. Often overlooked, ivy is unique in Britain as the only member of a very large and important family of exotic tropical and sub-tropical flowering plants.

Lionel Kelleway travels to the north of Wales where he meets Ray Woods near Llandeilo to explore a long-abandoned church and scheduled ancient monument as they slowly succumb to the grip of ivy. Joining them will be the entomologist Phil Ward, to expand on insect decline in the UK.

This programme demonstrates the importance of the 40 ivy species in the country, including the moths that rely on thickets of ivy together with the bats that eat them.

Presenter/Lionel Kelleway, Producer/Andrew Dawes

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Sir Stuart Rose, Executive Chairman of Marks And Spencer

This week's castaway is Sir Stuart Rose, Executive Chairman of Marks And Spencer.

Kirsty Young talks to Stuart about his life, his favourite music and how he would cope on BBC Radio 4's mythical island.

Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle

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5 Live Sport

Sunday 22 November

12.00noon-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Colin Murray presents an afternoon of live sport plus the latest sports news, with regular updates of Dundee United versus Celtic in the Scottish Premier League from 12.30pm.

At 1.30pm there's live Premier League commentary of Bolton versus Blackburn, followed by Tottenham Hotspur versus Wigan from White Hart Lane at 3.20pm (kick-off 3pm).

At 5pm there's second-half commentary of Stoke City versus Portsmouth live from the Britannia Stadium.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Ben North

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Cricket

Sunday 22 November

7.45am-4.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary of South Africa versus England, in the second One Day International match of England's tour, comes live from Centurion Park, Pretoria, with the Test Match Special commentary team.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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NFL American Football

Sunday 22 November

9.00pm-12.30am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Arlo White presents coverage of week 11 of the NFL season.

Arlo is also joined by Neil Reynolds and Greg Brady with all the news from around the NFL.

Presenter/Arlo White

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Jon Richardson is joined by one of the UK's best-known comedians, Stephen K Amos.

The show kicks off with The Happy Hour, an hour of good deeds and happy thoughts all designed to start Sunday morning off on a good note. Regular sidekick and lovable rogue Matt Forde joins Jon from noon with another exclusive interview.

Presenter/Jon Richardson, Producer/Adam Hudson

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Matt Everitt and Julie Cullen report from the star-studded Mencap Little Noise Sessions, which showcase an eclectic mix of artists this year, including Editors, Paloma Faith and Lost Prophets. They also look back over the week in music news with comment and analysis of the biggest stories.

Presenters/Matt Everitt and Julie Cullen, Producer/Tom Green

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Ken Bruce is joined this week by German artist, musician, record producer and designer of The Beatles's Revolver album cover, Klaus Voormann. His choices on Tracks Of My Years include songs by Nilsson, Coldplay, Marvin Gaye and John Lennon.

Plus there's PopMaster, the Love Song and the Album Of The Week.

Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones

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BBC Radio 2 presenter Jeremy Vine

Jeremy Vine highlights some of the issues facing people affected by dementia on his show all week.

The programme looks at prevention, the financial abuse of elderly people with dementia, discusses the best ways to care for a loved one and talks to listeners who have recently been diagnosed with the illness about how they are coming to terms with it.

There will be further sources of information and support for people affected by dementia at bbc.co.uk/radio2 and through the BBC Radio 2 helpline 0800 022 022. Calls are free from most landlines. Some networks and mobile operators will charge for these calls.

Presenter/Jeremy Vine, Producer/Phil Jones

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Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie talk to ABC front-man Martin Fry, who recently performed the band's debut album, The Lexicon Of Love, in its entirety, 27 years after it was first released.

Presenter/Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producer/Viv Atkinson

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Jools Holland is joined by soul singer-turned-actress Joss Stone who talks about her new album, Colour Me Free, and joins Jools and the band for an impromptu version of Son Of A Preacher Man.

Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston

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Curtis Stigers continues Benny Goodman's story in the late Forties, when the big band business in America is in decline. There are real tensions among the bandleaders, which come to a head on a Hollywood film-stage when Benny Goodman trades punches with one of his more traditional rivals, Tommy Dorsey.

The bandleaders are all under economic pressure but Benny wrestles with the new style, bebop and the idea of modernism. He starts his own bebop band, with exciting young players and arrangers, including Wardell Gray, and studies a different playing technique with the British clarinettist Reginald Kell.

Benny's drive to play and lead bands sustains his career through to the Eighties and he continues to play until his death on Friday 13 June 1986 at the age of 77.

Presenter/Curtis Stigers, Producer/Graham Pass

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The Essay

Monday 23 to Friday 27 November

11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3

Nowadays, Mary Wollstonecraft is recalled mainly as a proto-feminist. Described as a "hyena in petticoats" and an "unsex'd female" in her day, she was to become a role model in the 20th-century fight for gender equality. Mary knew she was ahead of her time. In 1797, the year of her death, she wrote: "Those who are bold enough to advance before the age they live in and to throw off, by the force of their own minds, the prejudices which the maturing reason of the world will in time disavow, must learn to brave censure."

In this, the first of this week's five programmes on Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd, President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge and an internationally renowned scholar of early women writers, considers her alongside other great thinkers of the Enlightenment. She places Wollstonecraft's passionate belief in feminism within the context of a broader, radical belief in social reform, from state politics to inheritance, slavery, land ownership, capitalism and education.

Presenter/Janet Todd, Producer/Beaty Rubens

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Book Of The Week – Family Britain Ep 1/5

Monday 23 to Friday 27 November

9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4

Family Britain continues David Kynaston's ground-breaking series Tales Of A New Jerusalem, telling the story of Britain from VE Day in 1945 to the election of Margaret Thatcher in 1979.

As in Austerity Britain an array of vivid, intimate and unselfconscious voices drive the narrative. It's a story of ordinary citizens, as well as ministers and mandarins; of consumers as well as producers; of the provinces as well as London; of the everyday as well as the seismic; and of the mute and inarticulate as well as the all too fluent opinion-formers.

This history offers an intimate, multilayered, multi-voiced, unsentimental portrait of a society and how it evolved during these 34 years.

Producer/Jane Greenwood

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1989 – The '89 Generation

Monday 23 November

11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4

In 1989, the political journalist Anne McElvoy was a young Times reporter in East Berlin. In this programme she talks to leading British politicians to discover what impact the revolutions of 1989 had on them, both personally and in shaping the political worldview they now use to govern.

Anne compares notes with Culture Secretary Ben Bradshaw, then a BBC reporter in West Berlin, and plays him archive of his younger self interviewing Berliners selling bits of the Wall to tourists. German-born Labour MP Gisela Stuart talks about the emotional impact of watching the Wall fall, on TV in Birmingham. And Conservative Party chairman Eric Pickles tells Anne how, in 1968, he was a teenage communist – but was so angry at the sight of Soviet tanks crushing the Prague Spring that he joined the Conservative Party. He talks about his feelings on watching the final overthrow of Communism in Prague 21 years on.

Anne brings together former London Mayor Ken Livingstone and shadow schools secretary Michael Gove, who spent part of the of winter of 1989 as a picket, to consider the impact of 1989 on their personal politics.

Tory front-bench thinker David Willetts recalls how Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stunned guests at a lunch held by his think-tank in December 1989. When the Wall fell she responded with joy, but a few weeks later she was greeting the prospect it opened up – a united Germany – with vehement hostility.

Finally, Anne talks to Foreign Secretary David Miliband, his Conservative shadow William Hague and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg about the effect that the death of Communism still has today on British foreign policy.

Presenter/Anne McElvoy, Producer/Phil Tinline

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A Very Scottish Homecoming Ep 1/5

Monday 23 November

3.45-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Homecoming Scotland has been a year-long celebration of Scots and Scottishness, linked to the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns.

As a Scot now living in London, Aasmah Mir heads home to find out how well the five central themes of whisky, golf, ancestry, great minds and Robert Burns himself sum up modern Scotland.

Over the five programmes Aasmah takes each of these themes in turn. Through visits to events and interviews she explores whether they are part of an image of Scotland that looks good in the tourist brochures but has no real significance in Scottish lives.

In the first programme, Whisky, Aasmah explores the crucial role the drink plays in Scotland's economy. She visits the Whisky Live event in Glasgow and finds out that, when it comes to a "dram", it's more popular with Indiana and Taiwanese business men than in the pubs and clubs of Scotland.

Presenter/Aasmah Mir, Producer/Peter McManus

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5 Live Sport

Monday 23 November

7.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

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 8.45pm there's second-half Championship commentary on Preston versus Newcastle live from Deepdale.

From 9.30pm 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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Tennis

Monday 23 November

2.15-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
8.45pm-12.30am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary of the ATP World Tour Finals comes, live, from the 02 Arena, as the world's top eight men's singles players and doubles pairings battle it out at the end of season Championship, which is being held in London for the first time.

The commentary team is led by Jonathan Overend alongside David Law, Alastair Eykyn, Vassos Alexander and Russell Fuller with expert analysis from David Felgate, Annabel Croft and special guests.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Marc Riley's live band is Frightened Rabbit. Hailing from Glasgow, this is a return visit for them to "Riley Mansions". They pop in to perform their new single Swim Until You Can't See Land and tell Marc how 2009 has been for them.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

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Gideon Coe plays classic sessions from British psychedelic soul outfit Traffic from 1967; Cathal Coughlan's Irish poppers with a social conscience Microdisney, recorded in 1983; Mark Kozelek from Red House Painters in a solo spot; and folk from Woodpigeon.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Jaggy is unhappy about the cost of sending Kesar to private school, in the week's first visit to Silver Street. Simran reckons renting out the Santorini villa will help, but Jaggy doesn't think it's that simple. Simran's response gets Jaggy thinking...

Sway is on the phone to Nadia, who surprises him by saying her parents asked after him. They are interrupted by Kuljit shouting in the distance. Sway has to end the call and heads over to find out exactly what is going on.

Jaggy is played by Jay Kiyani, Simran by Balvinder Sopal, Sway by Nicholas Bailey, Nadia by Sohm Kapila and Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal.

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Owen Bennett Jones continues his examination of the turning points in the relationship between Christianity and Islam. In this week's programme, he considers the Ottoman Empire.

In particular, Owen focuses on the time of Suleiman The Magnificent, a towering figure in the rivalry between Christianity and Islam, and the crucial Siege of Malta in 1565.

Presenter/Owen Bennett Jones, Producer/David Edmonds

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City squares have played vital roles as gathering places in many countries across Eastern Europe. Outlook examines how these spaces played a critical part in the events surrounding 1989 and the collapse of the iron curtain.

The series hears from the people who know, love, work and live in these squares, as well as those who have a connection to them or who shared the fervour of 1989 in them.

As well as examining the events of 1989, Outlook finds out what has since changed in these spaces, and what they mean now for people in these cities. Among the spaces examined are Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, Prague's Wenceslas Square, Bucharest's University Square, Warsaw's Bank Square and Budapest's Heroes' Square.

This edition of Outlook is part of BBC World Service's 1989 – Europe's Revolution coverage, marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Ray Benson, founder and lead singer of Grammy Award-winning western swing band Asleep At The Wheel, continues to chart the history and development of this style of music, as part of BBC Radio 2's celebration of this year's Country Music Association awards.

This week, Ray travels to the small farming town of Turkey, deep in the heart of the Texas panhandle – the hometown of legendary western swing bandleader Bob Wills. That this unassuming tiny farming settlement was home to one of the most important figures in Texan music is impressive enough, but pass through Turkey on the last weekend in April and this little town, with a population of just 500, is transformed into a place of pilgrimage for western swing fans from all over the world.

Ray sees the impact of western swing music on Turkey and finds out what keeps fans coming back year after year. Listeners also hear from Bob's daughter, Rosetta Wills, and some of the Texas Playboys themselves about life on the road with Bob and the secret of his huge success.

Presenter/Ray Benson, Producer/Al Booth

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The London Philharmonic Orchestra and Vladimir Jurowski give the first concert in their festival, Schnittke – Between Two Worlds. Tonight's concert reflects the two worlds of the festival's title, whether in the battle between paganism and Christianity of Wagner's Parsifal or in Faust's dilemma as he contemplates selling his soul to the devil in the UK première of Schnittke's The History Of D. Johann Faustus.

The concert begins with Haydn's Symphony No. 22, nicknamed The Philosopher because of the dialogue that seems to take place in its first movement.

Schnittke's The History Of D. Johann Faustus was conceived as a hugely amibitious opera, and one that the composer never completed. It is an imaginative and dramatic work scored for chorus, orchestra, electric guitars, crumhorn, zither and lute.

Anna Larsson (contralto), Marco Lazzara (counter-tenor) and Markus Brutscher and Stephen Richardson (bass baritone) are among tonight's soloists.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Elizabeth Arno

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Philip Dodd travels to Munich, in tonight's edition of Night Waves, to meet Hans Magnus Enzensberger, one of Germany's greatest living poets – considered, by many, to be Bertolt Brecht's natural successor and an intellectual admired across the continent as of one of Europe's sharpest minds.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger is not only an important poet, he is a radical cultural essayist and one of Europe's leading political thinkers. He was born in 1930, and his verse and his many essays all bear the stamp of his engagement with the world. Enzensberger's latest book, The Silences Of Hammerstein, is no exception. It is an extraordinary blend of documentary, collage and fictional interviews which tells the story of General Kurt von Hammerstein – one of the very few men in Germany's military elite who refused to bow to Nazism and share in its spoils.

In this extended conversation, recorded at Hans Magnus's home in Munich, Philip speaks to him about his life in writing.

Presenter/Philip Dodd, Producer/Zahid Warley

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When Berlin was reunified symbolically in November 1989, the world saw images of ecstatic Berliners celebrating a new freedom of movement across their city.

But, after the initial jubilation had died down, it became evident that living, working and actually moving around Berlin had become a frustrating experience.

Council chiefs faced a task without precedent in any city in the world. The great symbolism of the fall of Communism had been replaced by a more practical but no less crucial question: how to reunite the infrastructure and fabric of a vast city that had been divided for 30 years.

Public transport in the two halves of the city was in chaos, so the main arteries of Berlin became clogged with Trabants (an East German car).

Utility companies faced similar problems. Drinking water in the old East did not conform to European Commission bathing standards, while using the telephone was often an infuriating experience. Gas leaks were common in the East and trees often died.

Rosie Goldsmith speaks to the key figures involved in the costly task of restitching the city, as well as ordinary Berliners who recall everyday life after the fall of the Wall. City officials knew that rebuilding their infrastructure was vital to making citizens feel that they were part of a city – and a country – that was physically as well as symbolically reunited.

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Fallout From The Shore explores how the Hollywood version of Nevil Shute's novel On The Beach, released in December 1959, starring Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner, brought dystopia to the big screen and destroyed the author, who hated the film.

Lifelong Nevil Shute fan Libby Purves considers the impact of this ground-breaking film, which reduced cinema-goers to tears with its bleak vision of a post-apocalyptic world.

Set in a near future, On The Beach is about the aftermath of a nuclear war in the northern hemisphere which has killed everybody. The trade winds are carrying lethal radiation south to the shores of Australia and the last survivors await their inevitable death. Kramer wanted his film to be a terrifying warning to the world and it had the desired effect – at the Melbourne première members of the Salvation Army were on hand to offer counselling to the traumatised audience.

Behind the scenes the mood was no less intense. The morally upright Shute and the film's campaigning "message" director, Stanley Kramer, clashed over the transition from book to screen. Kramer instigated changes to appease his backers and the mainstream audience which left Shute "apoplectic", according to his daughter, who tells the programme how her father never really recovered.

In Kramer's corner, his widow reveals her husband's motives for making those changes and also the personal battle he fought to get the film made.

On The Beach gave Fred Astaire his big break as a straight actor, playing the tormented, hard-drinking scientist Julian Osborne. His daughter tells the programme about her father's delight at finally getting the chance to perform without his top hat and tails.

Presenter/Libby Purves, Producer/Paula McGinley

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Singer, songwriter, record producer and world-music expert Justin Adams travels to Cairo, where he grew up, to re-live the story of the woman whose voice dominated the culture and politics of the Middle East in the 20th century, Umm Kulthum.

Umm Kulthum has been described as a combination of "Ella Fitzgerald in terms of rendition and improvisation, a public persona such as Eleanor Roosevelt – a very dignified public figure who clearly had the good of the masses at heart in her enterprises – with the audience of Elvis Presley".

At the height of her powers, there was scarcely an Egyptian who didn't tune in to Umm Kulthum's monthly radio broadcasts. Her incredible voice and skilful handling of Egypt's nascent mass media made her the most prominent celebrity in the Arab world, and her close friendship with both the royal circle of King Farouk I before the revolution and President Nasser in its wake gave her unprecedented political influence with universal appeal across the country and beyond.

Justin Adams is Robert Plant's songwriting partner and a prominent expert on North African music. He is the album producer of Touareg desert blues band Tinariwen and a former-collaborator with Jah Wobble. As the son of a British diplomat, he grew up in Cairo during Kulthum's so-called "golden age", where he fell in love with her unique voice. Now he travels back, talking to those that knew her to find out more about this icon of the Arabic world.

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Home Planet Ep 1/8

Tuesday 24 November

3.00-3.30pm BBC RADIO 4

Home Planet returns for a new eight-part series tackling queries about the world and human interaction with it.

The weekly, recorded programme explores people's relationship with the planet covering issues from environmental concerns to a scientific understanding of the world. It tackles topics such as protecting biodiversity and the many subtleties of climate change and more philosophical ones such as the meaning of infinity.

The content is dictated by listeners' emailed, written or telephoned questions. Listeners set the agenda and topics can be about something they've noticed in their backyards or more global ideas, theories and hypotheses.

Listener's questions, recorded or read out, are discussed by three studio experts, drawn from different scientific and environmental backgrounds and representing a wide range of perspectives.

Listeners can email their questions to home.planet@bbc.co.uk or telephone the audience line on 03700 100400.

Producer/Toby Murcott

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Vent Ep 1/6

Tuesday 24 November

11.00-11.30pm BBC RADIO 4

Following last week's one-off, one-hour special, the dark comedy Vent, detailing the problems of a newly-disabled man, returns for a third series.

Starring Neil Pearson, Leslie Ash, Fiona Allen and Josie Laurence, Vent is an original comedy about life-threatening illness and is based on the experiences of Vent's author, Nigel Smith.

Producer/Gareth Edwards

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Mark Pougatch presents all the day's sports news and brings listeners live Champions League group stage coverage, including Arsenal versus Standard Liege, Debrecen versus Liverpool and Rangers versus VfB Stuttgart.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Adrian Williams

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Tennis

Tuesday 24 November

2.15-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary of the ATP World Tour finals comes live from London's 02 Arena.

The commentary team is led by Jonathan Overend, alongside David Law, Alastair Eykyn, Vassos Alexander and Russell Fuller, expert analysis comes from David Felgate, Annabel Croft and special guests.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Tennis

Tuesday 24 November

8.45pm-12.30am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Further uninterrupted commentary of the ATP World Tour finals comes live from London's 02 Arena.

Jonathan Overend is on hand once more to provide the commentary, alongside David Law, Alastair Eykyn, Vassos Alexander and Russell Fuller, expert analysis comes from David Felgate, Annabel Croft and special guests.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Welsh singer-songwriter and BBC 6 Music presenter Cerys Matthews

Acoustic ensemble Port O Brian perform live tracks from their new album, Threadbare, for Cerys Matthews this afternoon.

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Brit-blues band Gomez perform live in concert at Glastonbury 2003 and Gideon Coe also brings listeners archive sessions from Scottish grungers Eugenius, former Pipette Rose Elinor Dougall and the eclectic and enigmatic Kevin Ayers.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Bibi's cousin has emailed photos of potential wives for Jungli and Chunky, although Bibi isn't impressed, as the drama continues. Zenab suggests putting profiles up on matrimonial websites instead, but will Bibi think this is worth a go?

Elsewhere, Sway discovers Kuljit packing – he needs some time away to clear his head. Later, Jodie says she was going to leave Kuljit, despite what happened between her and Sway and says that Sway knows where she is if he still wants her.

Bibi is played by Indira Joshi, Zenab by Sudha Buchar, Sway by Nicholas Bailey, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal and Jodie by Vineeta Rishi.

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Isaac Hayes's Hot Buttered Soul is Trevor Nelson's Album Of The Week, as he brings listeners another hour of soulful music.

Released in 1969 on the Stax subsidiary record label Enterprise, Hot Buttered Soul remains an undeniably seminal record. Its songs stretched far beyond the traditional three to four-minute industry norm and included long instrumental sections, in which session group Bar-Kays steal the spotlight.

It also introduced an iconic new persona for soul, with Hayes's tough, yet sensual, image and marked his transformation from a session musician and songwriter to a veritable soul star.

Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Dan Cocker

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Ballylenon Ep 1/6

Wednesday 25 November

11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4

The parish of Ballylenon is happily described as sleepy, but behind the facades and net curtains is a world of envy, intrigue and comeuppance.

Ballylenon is a battleground and the town's most formidable combatants, the Maconchys, are two sisters bent on parochial, if not world, domination.

Miss Vera Maconchy, operator of the 10-line manual telephone exchange, is proud to be known as the ears and tongue of Ballylenon. Her sister, Muriel, postmistress and owner of the corner shop, knows the news before it happens – and often makes it happen. If communication is power, the Maconchys, together with their close confidant, Phonsie Doherty, have it all.

But while these three would dominate reactionary thinking, a dangerous liberal tendency is championed by Vivienne Boal, Rev Samuel Hawthorne and ex-local policeman, Guard Gallagher. The antagonism between these camps is only ever thinly veiled.

Vera Maconchy is played by Stella McCusker, Muriel Maconchy by Margaret D'Arcy, Phonsie Doherty by Gerard Murphy, Vivienne Hawthorne by Annie McCartney, Rev Samuel Hawthorne by Miche Doherty and Stumpy Bonner by Gerard McSorley. The pianist is played by Michael Harrison.

Ballylenon is written by Christopher Fitz-Simon.

Producer/Eoin O'Callaghan

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BBC Radio 4 presenter Laurie Taylor

Laurie Taylor discusses and questions whether new technologies and techniques can influence party politics, in this week's edition of Thinking Allowed.

Barack Obama famously used new technologies with great success in his 2008 election campaign. From MySpace and Facebook, text messages to email, Laurie discusses with Rachel Gibson, professor of political science at the University of Manchester, if new media will reinvigorate next year's UK General Election in the same way it did for Obama's web 2.0 campaign.

Other matters discussed in the programme are thinking on the spot and under the spotlight and how performing musicians can give new insights into negotiation, learning and decision-making.

Howard S Becker is a professional jazz player and an acclaimed sociologist and joins Laurie to discuss what jazz and music can teach the rest of the world.

Presenter/Laurie Taylor, Producer/Pam Rutherford

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5 Live Sport

Wednesday 25 November

7.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch brings listeners all the day's sports news and has live coverage of Manchester United versus Besiktas and FC Porto versus Chelsea in the Champions League group stage and Hull versus Everton and Fulham versus Blackburn in the Premier League.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mark Williams

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Tennis

Wednesday 25 November

2.15-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary of the ATP World Tour finals, live from London's 02 Arena.

The commentary team is led by Jonathan Overend, alongside David Law, Alastair Eykyn, Vassos Alexander and Russell Fuller. Expert analysis comes from David Felgate and Annabel Croft, among other special guests.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Laura Gibson makes a return to the Manchester studios to play live for Marc Riley this evening. Only a couple of months ago, Laura played a solo session for Marc. He was so impressed he invited her back to perform with her full band.

Laura is a US folk singer and songwriter, born and bred in Coquille, Oregon. She currently records for the independent US label Hush Records. In 2008, she toured the United States as the opening act for Colin Meloy and also contributed vocal harmonies to his Colin Meloy Sings Sam Cooke EP.

Laura performs tracks from her new album, Beasts Of Season.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

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Gideon Coe presents live archive from Grant Lee Buffalo and a 1984 session from Everything But The Girl, in tonight's show.

Also featured in session are Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake and Washington post-rock trio Trans Am, recorded in 2000.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Simran helps Jaggy practice for a poker game, in today's midweek visit to Silver Street, and is impressed he knows to quit while he is ahead.

Bibi, meanwhile, has some responses to the matrimonial profiles she posted for Jungli and Chunky – but will she like them? Later, Zenab and Bibi get competitive about Eid.

Elsewhere, Nadia phones Sway to say she'll book a flight soon. Zenab later asks Sway if it is enough that Nadia's parents are just "OK" about his relationship with her.

Simran is played by Balvinder Sopal, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani, Bibi by Indira Joshi, Zenab by Sudha Buchar, Nadia by Sohm Kapila and Sway by Nicholas Bailey.

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The story of Romanian agriculture is the focus of this week's edition of Discovery. Before the Second World War, Romania was primarily an agricultural nation. In 1948, a Communist government came to power and nationalised land and livestock. At the same time, scientific and technological resources were made available to the new state and collective farms.

By the time the Communist regime fell in 1989, the government had built a comprehensive network of 120 agricultural research institutes. Spread across the country, these institutes provided the collective farms with scientific advice about all aspects of farming – from animal nutrition to cereals and from wine to mechanisation.

Following the Revolution in December 1989, the government had to unpick the intertwined political and scientific legacies of Communist agriculture. Co-operative farms were dissolved and most of the collectivised land returned to its original owners. The network of research institutes no longer receives any money directly from central government.

While Romanians understand the political need to return land to its original owners, there's now a growing realisation that large-scale farming, backed up by scientific advice, is a good model for efficient and productive farming.

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.

Reporter/Tim Whewell, Producer/John Watkins

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Miles Davies, swing and jazz piano are the topics of this week's The Blaggers Guide To Jazz, as David Quantick presents another episode of his fast-paced, comical guide to the mystical, magical and misunderstood world of jazz.

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This evening Suzi Quatro looks back to the year 1981 with music from Heart, Christopher Cross and Don McLean.

It was the year that Ronald Reagan took the oath as America's 40th President and he survived an assassination attempt a couple of months later. The US-Iran agreement freed 52 hostages held in Tehran since 1979 and MTV went on the air running round-the-clock music videos starting with Video Killed The Radio Star.

The Supreme Court ruled to allow television cameras in the courtroom, Ordinary People won the Oscar for best picture and Pac-Man mania swept the country.

Presenter/Suzi Quatro, Producer/Mark Simpson

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In the third concert of their Bohemian Rhapsodies series, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Stefan Solyom performing the most Wagnerian of Dvořák's symphonies: No. 7, dark and immensely powerful.

The SSO begins the concert with the most substantial of Dvořák's symphonic poems, a graphic musical portrayal of a Czech folk tale composed right at the end of the composer's life, as was Martinů's Fifth Piano Concerto, which is performed tonight by young Czech pianist, Ivo Kahanek.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Simon Lord

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Mike Brearley, former England cricket captain and President of the British Psychoanalytical Society

Mike Brearley, former England cricket captain and President of the British Psychoanalytical Society, delivers a talk on "Narcissism and Leadership" at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival 2009 in front of an audience at The Sage, Gateshead.

Brearley was one of England's greatest cricket captains, losing only four of his 31 test matches in charge, and his skills were behind that most famous of cricketing stories – England's 1981 comeback at Headingley. Australian fast-bowler Rodney Hogg described Mike Brearley as having a "degree in people". In fact, he has a degree in classics and moral science and started life as a lecturer in philosophy at Newcastle University.

Since leaving cricket, Brearley has excelled in another field of inquiry into human motivation: psychoanalysis. In this talk, he draws on his unique experience as captain and as clinician to tackle a key subject for our time. He asks how successful leaders can lead from the front without becoming obsessed with their self-image, suggesting that being liked is not the same as being good, and he fields questions from his audience across all aspects of the subject from Plato to Botham.

Presenter/Anne McElvoy, Producer/James Cook

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Ian Peacock uncovers the curious life of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who bequeathed to the world the notoriously gothic opening line: "It was a dark and stormy night..."

Ian explains that there is more to Bulwer-Lytton than simply being the patron saint of Victorian gothic kitsch. He was hugely popular in his lifetime with works like Pelham and The Last Days of Pompeii.

Ian's focus is on Bulwer-Lytton's stormy life, writing and popularity. He visits Knebworth Hall, Lytton's home for many years and the source of some of his darker writing, and speaks to Professor John Sutherland to assess his literary merits.

The programme also features readings, particularly from the book that opened with those famous dark and stormy lines, the novel Paul Clifford.

Presenter/Ian Peacock, Producer/Tom Alban

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Mister Gee presents this edition of Bespoken Word from Cardiff University.

It features an extended set from Brit School graduate Laura Dockrill who regularly gigs with Kate Nash and has just published her second book, Ugly Shy Girl.

Also featured in the programme is Siadwell from the TV comedy series Naked Video and the winner of the BBC Radio 4 Slam competition, Dizraeli, who will make listeners listen to rap with new ears.

Presenter/Mister Gee, Producer/Graham Frost

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5 Live Sport

Thursday 26 November

7.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Eleanor Oldroyd has the latest sports news and is joined by special guests for The Headline Hour; discussing the latest big sports issues making the news.

At 8pm, The World Cup Files takes a look at one of nations hoping for glory in South Africa 2010.

From 9pm, Jonathan Overend presents 5 Live Tennis, live from the ATP World Tour Finals at the O2 Arena, as the world's top eight men's single and doubles players battle it out at the end-of-season Championship, which is being held in London for the first time.

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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Tennis

Thursday 26 November

2.15-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
8.45pm-12.30am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can enjoy full uninterrupted commentary on two sessions of the ATP World Tour Finals live from the 02 Arena, London.

The commentary team is led by Jonathan Overend alongside David Law, Alastair Eykyn, Vassos Alexander and Russell Fuller with expert analysis from David Felgate, Annabel Croft and special guests.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Gideon Coe's archive gems this evening come courtesy of Badly Drawn Boy at Glastonbury in 2004 and politically aware indie from McCarthy, recorded in 1986.

Hatfield And The North and The Witch And The Robot are featured in session archives.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Jodie is annoyed by Sway's lack of action in today's episode of Silver Street. She appreciates that he is worried about Kuljit, but Sway knows what he needs to do.

Meanwhile, Bibi visits Zenab with homemade sweets, but it is obvious that there is another reason for her visit; Zenab offers tea and advice.

Simran tells Jodie that Jaggy isn't happy about spending money on a big birthday party for Kesar. Later Jaggy asks Sway if he fancies making a few hundred pounds.

Jodie is played by Vineeta Rishi, Sway by Nicholas Bailey, Bibi by Indira Joshi, Zenab by Sudha Buchar, Simran by Balvinder Sopal and Jaggy by Jay Kiyani.

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Brian Matthew turns the spotlight on Roy Fox, as he continues the series celebrating the golden age of British dance bands.

Fox, a Californian émigré, came to Britain in 1930 as "The Whispering Cornettist" and put together one of the sharpest bands on the scene. With a dapper manner and a past that included affairs with the likes of Jean Harlow, he brought to the role of bandleader a sophisticated elegance unmatched by others.

For this series, writer Tony Staveacre has scoured the BBC's sound archive and interviewed many musicians and friends to assemble a vivid portrait of an era that author Robert Graves called "The Long Garden Party".

The series includes contributions from Fox; band members; and experts such as Russell Davies and Brian himself, who knew many of the figures in the series personally.

Presenter/Brian Matthew, Producers/Tony Staveacre and Roy Oakshott

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Friday Night Is Music Night

Friday 27 November

7.30-9.15pm BBC RADIO 2

Stephen Sykes, BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Soloist Of The Year 2009, takes to the stage with the BBC Concert Orchestra for this week's Friday Night Is Music Night.

Stephen is the first soloist from the south of England to win the prize, and also the first trombonist. Joining him on stage is tenor Christian Jon Billet, who recently performed at Radio 2's Thank You For The Music ... A Celebration Of The Music Of ABBA. He performs numbers from his new Mario Lanza album.

Martin Yates conducts and Clare Teal presents tonight's box of delights, live from the Watford Colosseum.

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Jo Whiley sits in for Claudia Winkleman to present a round-up of the week's arts action.

In tonight's show, Mexican flamenco-rock duo Rodrigo Y Gabriela join Jo for an intimate live performance of their music. Rodrigo Sánchez plays lead guitar and Gabriela Quintero plays rhythm guitar.

Arturo Brachetti, the world's fastest quick-change artist, according to The Guinness Book Of Records, also appears is on the show. Brachetti, who switches from the Queen to James Bond to Harry Potter in a flash, reveals how he manages to morph into 80 different characters on stage, every night, and talks about his favourite and trickiest characters.

Presenter/Jo Whiley, Producer/Carmela DiClemente

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Performance On 3

Friday 27 November

7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3

David Robertson conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in three great works of musical mourning in this live concert from London's Barbican Centre.

Josquin, born around 1450, was among the most influential and highly regarded composers of his day. His elegy Nymphes des bois, for unaccompanied voices, is one of the great threnodies of the Renaissance. It serves as a magnificent precursor to Mozart's sublime Requiem.

Before that, Pierre Boulez's dramatic Rituel, written in 1975 for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, sees eight groups of musicians spread around the performance space. Boulez dedicated it to the memory of his friend and colleague Bruno Maderna, one of the great Italian composers of the post-war era.

Elizabeth Watts (soprano), Anna Stephany (mezzo-soprano), Ed Lyon (tenor) and Jonathan Lemalu (bass-baritone) are tonight's soloists.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Ann McKay

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Food Programme presenter Sheila Dillon

The BBC Radio Food And Farming Awards celebrates it's 10th anniversary with an all-star line-up, including Raymond Blanc, Alex James and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, plus two very special guests.

After sifting through thousands of nominations, the judges have spent the last few weeks travelling around the UK visiting this year's finalists, watching them at work and tasting their food.

In the year of The Food Programme's 30th anniversary, this special programme will reveal the winners in the nine different categories. Find out who is producing the nation's best takeaway, which pupils are being served the best school meals and who has won the much coveted title of BBC Food Personality Of The Year.

The Food Programme presenter, Sheila Dillon, will host the awards, joined by the awards special guests. Further details of the special guests will be announced on Wedneseday 11 November.

Presenter/Sheila Dillon, Producer/Dan Saladino

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Tracy-Ann Oberman stars as The Leader in Shirleymander, a tragic comedy depicting the principal events of Shirley Porter's time as "The Westminster Whirlwind" in the Eighties.

The play explores the events that led to her fall from grace and, in doing so, dramatises how, in her two terms as Leader, Porter turned the Conservative flagship council into a mire of paranoia, fear and political corruption.

Shirleymander is written by Gregory Evans and also stars Maggie Stead as Wet; Bruce Alexander as the District Auditor; Joseph Cohen-Cole as the Senior Council Officer; Piers Wehner as the Executive Director; Stephen Hogan as deputy; Sagar Arya as the Doctor; Ewan Hooper as QC, Father; Philip Fox as the Chairman; John Biggins as Labour Councillor; and Tessa Nicholson as the interviewer.

Producer/Marc Beeby

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Colin Murray is joined by Pat Nevin and Perry Groves for Kicking Off With Colin Murray previewing the weekend's football, including Arsenal versus Chelsea, Aston Villa versus Tottenham Hotspur and Portsmouth against Manchester United.

From 9.30pm, Colin Murray 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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Cricket

Friday 27 November

12.15-8.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

The Test Match Special team present uninterrupted commentary of South Africa versus England in the third One Day International, live from the Newlands, Cape Town.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Tennis

Friday 27 November

8.30pm-12.30am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary of the ATP World Tour Finals continues live from the 02 Arena, London.

The commentary team is led by Jonathan Overend alongside David Law, Alastair Eykyn, Vassos Alexander and Russell Fuller with expert analysis from David Felgate, Annabel Croft and special guests.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Graham Coxon, one of the finest guitarists and singer songwriters of his generation, returns from the triumphant Blur reunion tour to play live tracks from his critically acclaimed seventh solo album Spinning Top.

The album is an intriguing opus, influenced by Coxon's immersion in the world of folk geniuses Davy Graham, John Martyn and Bert Jansch, resulting in 15 songs that form a narrative of a man's journey from birth to death.

Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Jax Coombes

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Former Iron Maiden front-man and BBC 6 Music presenter Bruce Dickinson

Maryland rockers Clutch take over the Rock Show tonight selecting some of the tracks that have influenced them over the years.

Formed in 1991, Clutch were inspired by the likes of Led Zeppelin and Faith No More. Nearly 20 years later, they're still going strong and have just received rave reviews for their latest album, Strange Cousins From The West, which achieved Top 40 status on the Billboard Top 200.

As well as picking out some great tracks, Clutch talk about the making of their new record and what it's like to run their own label. They also discuss the reception to their performances when they played six dates in the UK earlier this month.

Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan

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Zenab is at the Pumpworks in the final visit of the week to Silver Street. Jodie lets slip that Chunky was upset because his date left while he was in the bathroom. Later Bibi mentions that Chunky seems out of sorts, but will Zenab tell her what she knows?

Elsewhere Jaggy tells Sway that he misses Simran when she is away. Sway replies that he is really missing Nadia. Later Sway gets a reality check during a phone call with Nadia and rushes off, having made a big decision...

Zenab is played by Sudha Buchar, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Bibi by Indira Joshi, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani, Sway by Nicholas Bailey and Nadia by Sohm Kapila.

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