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Zane Lowe returns tonight with the final instalment of Masterpieces – a series dedicated to the albums Zane has crowned "masterpieces" for the way they altered the musical landscape at the time of their release.

In this show, Daft Punk's 2001 release Discovery is re-examined. The innovative dance duo further pushed the envelope of dance music with the album's hybrid of synth-pop, electro and disco, spawning international hit singles One More Time and Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, and a willingness to create a strong aesthetic look never before seen in the genre.

As well as playing the album in its entirety from start to finish, unedited and uninterrupted, Zane has a rare interview with the normally reclusive duo where they discuss the concept behind Discovery and how it has influenced dance music ever since.

Presenter/Zane Lowe, Producers/Rob Lewis and Kat Wong

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Radio 2 Live In The Morning – Leona Lewis

Thursday 3 December

9.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 2

X-Factor winner and multi-platinum-selling artist Leona Lewis

Leona Lewis performs live from the BBC Radio Theatre in Ken Bruce's show today, as part of the Radio 2 Live In The Morning strand.

Leona won The X Factor in 2006 and has since gone on to become a multi-platinum-selling artist. Her debut album, Spirit, entered the album chart at No. 1 and became the fastest-selling debut album in the UK. Her second album, Echo, was released last month.

Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones

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Bob Harris is joined on his Country show this evening by the 2009 Americana Music Award nominees for new band, Sarah Borges And The Broken Singles.

In a session recorded in Nashville, in September, the band performs live songs from their latest album, The Stars Are Out.

Based in Boston, Sarah released her first album in 2005. An admissions officer at a music college, she continued her day job and played the local bars at night – earning a reputation as an energetic live performer. Her country influenced follow-up, Diamonds In The Dark, was released in 2007.

With their latest album, Sarah Borges And The Broken Singles have moved towards a more pop-tinged sound which includes cover versions of songs from Smokey Robinson, The Magnetic Fields and Evan Dando.

Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth

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David Quantick continues his fast-paced, comical guide to the mystical, magical and misunderstood world of jazz and tonight covers vocal jazz, jazz fusion and the experimental musician Sun Ra.

Presenter/David Quantick, Producer/Simon Poole

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The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Ilan Volkov round off their series celebrating the great tradition of Czech music – appropriately with a festive piece featuring no fewer than 12 trumpets, Janáček's glorious Sinfonietta – in this concert live from City Halls, Glasgow.

The orchestra is joined by one of America's finest pianists and a past winner of the Chopin International Piano competition, Garrick Ohlsson, for a rare performance of Martinů's Piano Concerto No. 4 Incantation, with its irresistible combination of dreamy lyricism and driving energy. Ohlsson himself calls it "a vigorous emotional rollercoaster". These two extraordinarily individual works are offset by the more restrained beauty of Dvořák's poetic Legends, which overflows with melodic invention.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen

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This year is the 40th anniversary of the Moon landings but it's also the 400th anniversary of the first modern European story of a trip to the Moon – astronomer Johannes Kepler's astonishing science fiction novella, Somnium – The Dream, written in the summer of 1609, in Prague.

In 1609, Kepler was at the height of his powers publishing his laws of planetary motion which would later help the Moon landings. But he was also a man with dangerous ideas. Just like Galileo, Kepler supported the new astronomy which put the Sun at the centre of the solar system, instead of a static Earth. Kepler's story was a mind-blowing thought experiment, to shift the reader's frame of reference to the Moon so they could see that Earth never stood still. Unlike Galileo, it wasn't his own life he endangered with his ideas – it was his mother's.

Orwell prize-winning author and journalist Andrew Brown interviews author Ken Macleod; Avery Meiksin, Professor of Theoretical and Computational Astrophysics at the Royal Observatory of Edinburgh; and the author of Kepler's Witch, Professor James Connor.

Presenter/Andrew Brown, Producer/Louise Yeoman

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The jobs that defined men are disappearing – the opposite sex trounces them in exams and there's speculation that we won't even need men for reproduction in the future. With primary school teaching being an overwhelmingly female vocation and the rise in the number of single-parent families, many boys are growing up without significant male role models. And the current debate over paternity leave and paternity rights suggests that society is confused about what it means to be a modern father.

Richard Moss, of the BBC's Politics Show, hosts a heated debate at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival on whether the 21st century is a hostile environment for men, and examines the sort of future that lies ahead for the male gender.

On the panel, in front of an audience at The Sage, Gateshead, are writer and journalist Beatrix Campbell; assistant Bishop of Newcastle, Paul Richardson; Roger Olley of Fathers Plus; and Baroness Julia Neuberger, who argue over the place of men in today's and tomorrow's world.

Presenter/Richard Moss, Producer/Tim Prosser

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Celebrating 50 years of Ronnie Scott's, Paul Merton looks back over five decades of Britain's most famous jazz venue and examines the impact of the club on the world of music.

After the Second World War, jazz musician Ronnie Scott became frustrated by having nowhere to play his music so, together with his business partner, Pete King, he opened a small cellar club in London's Soho.

Ever since his trips in the late Forties to the jazz clubs of New York's 52nd Street, Scott dreamed of opening his own London venue. His vision came true when the first Ronnie Scott's club opened in Soho in 1959. The initial plan was to provide a base for British jazz musicians to jam. However, the club quickly developed a reputation for featuring the best in modern jazz and provided a platform for the world's greatest jazz musicians. It became a Mecca for Jazz fans and a popular hang-out for many comedians and actors, such as Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers.

Ronnie Scott's has remained at the forefront of the jazz community and, from its earliest days, changed the landscape of jazz in the UK. In 1965, it relocated a short distance from Gerrard Street to Frith Street, where it remains one of the world's most celebrated jazz rooms, complete with its own studio and record label.

With new interviews recorded on location at Ronnie Scott's, and supported by a wealth of BBC archive and jazz recordings, this programme features a selection of music and personalities associated with the venue during its 50-year history.

Presenter/Paul Merton, Producer/Stephen Garner

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Neil Brand's drama takes place in the hothouse atmosphere of a repressed society ripe for change and in the almost gladiatorial arena of the stand-up stage, in today's Afternoon Play.

It builds on Neil's increasing interest in all sides of the comedy world and his work in recent years with Paul Merton's Impro Chums, Kilkenny comedy festival and the Comedy Store.

Important elections are on the horizon in the ex-Soviet state of Khovakhia and there is a real chance that the oppressive Moscow-facing regime could be toppled. Katya Kalugin is sharp, witty and ambitious, and the country's first successful female stand-up comedian.

Katya's career and profile take a further leap forward when she is taken under the wing of legendary US comedian Doug Stokowski, who is curiously stranded in Khovakhia during his world tour.

He grooms Katya towards angrier, more radical material which is fuelled by the mysterious abduction of her best friend, radical academic Pavel. Introduced to the mushrooming underground opposition movement Greenshoots, Katya agrees to perform at their pre-election rally. But it is only when she takes to the mic that anyone will know whether she will follow the pro-Western line encouraged by Doug, or speak out for her own vision of a 21st-century Khovakhia.

Katya Kalugin is played by Perrier Comedy Award-winning comedian, actor and writer Laura Solon.

Producer/David Hunter

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BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Eleanor Oldroyd

Eleanor Oldroyd brings listeners 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, Ian Dennis presents South Africa 2010, live from Cape Town, previewing tomorrow's World Cup draw.

Eleanor is also joined by former Olympians Steve Parry and Katherine Merry, at 9pm, for London Calling, looking ahead to the London 2012 Olympics.

At 10pm, two of 5 Live Sport's pundits get some sporting issues off their chests in And Another Thing.

Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd

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Sparrow And The Workshop perform live in session on Marc Riley's show this evening.

Sparrow And The Workshop are a three-piece alt folk/country/indie outfit based in Glasgow, formed in the dew of January 2008 under the heavy fog of yeast from the Tennent's Factory. The American/Scottish/Welsh trio play a stripped-down drum kit, a crashbox, a very white bass, a smallish acoustic guitar, a mellow-yellow electric slide guitar and, occasionally, an old French violin.

Tinged with elements of country and folk, but incorporating a huge range of references from motor city to Seattle, their sound ranges from punky and harsh to sparse and sensitive, allowing boy/girl vocal duets, various instrumentation and a penchant for storytelling to shine through.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

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Listeners have been treated to a double helping of Marc Riley all this week and, tonight, he continues to dip into the BBC's archives to unearth some more seminal and tantalizing rock interviews, as there's another chance to hear this series first broadcast on BBC Radio 2.

David Bowie and Bono are the artists under the spotlight.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Frank Wilson

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It's Jaggy's poker night but Kuljit seems to be stalling, in the penultimate visit of the week to Silver Street. With Kuljit out of the way, Sway drives Jodie to a secret location so they can spend some quality time together.

At the game, Brian and Kenny trade competitive insults. Kenny then raises the stakes and Jaggy raises them further. Not to be outdone, Brian has a challenge for Kenny. Tensions mount, but who will win the game?

Jaggy is played by Jay Kiyani, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Sway by Nicholas Bailey, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Brian by Gerard McDermott and Kenny by Brian Croucher.

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