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Network Radio BBC Week 50:
12-18 December 2009
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Network Radio BBC Week 50: Saturday 12 December 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 12 December 2009
Film critic Ambrose Heron joins Zoe Ball this morning to review the big-screen version of Maurice Sendak's classic children's story Where The Wild Things Are. He also discusses the remastered versions of The Wizard Of Oz, It's A Wonderful Life and talks about the DVD release of the latest Harry Potter film, Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince.
Presenter/Zoe Ball, Producer/Mark Simpson
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett of Little Feat have joined forces to form an acoustic duet. Tonight they play for Bob Harris in the After Midnight Acoustic Session.
They first played together on the album Dixie Chicken some 25 years ago. Since then they have played together, or individually, on numerous recording sessions for Little Feat and artists including Bonnie Raitt, Taj Mahal, Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, Dionne Farris and The Wallflowers.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson
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BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 12 December 2009
Opera On 3 Live From The Met – Il Trittico
Opening a new season of Live From The Met, Stefano Ranzini conducts a production of Giacomo Puccini's ever popular triple bill.
Three very different operas are linked by soprano Patricia Racette, who stars in all of them. Il Tabarro tells the story of a love affair which, when discovered, leads to murder. Suor Angelica is the tragic tale of a nun, banished to a convent after having an illegitimate child. This is followed by the light relief of Gianni Schicchi, in which the eponymous hero upsets the grasping Donato family by impersonating their recently deceased relative, ostensibly to ensure that the family gets his properites, but in fact taking the best of them for himself.
Opera On 3 Live From The Met is presented by Margaret Juntwait with guest commentator Ira Siff. There will be live backstage interviews and the Met Quiz during the two intervals.
Presenter/Margaret Juntwait, Producer/Ellie Mant
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Stephen Gill follows the ancient manufacturing process of a bonshou, the huge bell found in every Buddhist temple, and captures the awesome physical and symbolic power of tons of suspended bronze, struck on the side by a swinging tree-trunk.
Stephen weaves stories into the recordings, of famous bells, haiku poems about them and, most importantly, the sounds of these bonshou, each of which has a unique voice.
There is the Gion bonshou, which at 80 tons (six times the weight of Big Ben) is the heaviest in the land – it takes 20 monks to swing the beam to sound it. Ikkō Iwasawa, who runs the foundry that cast the largest bell in Japan, explains the mystery of creating such huge bells as one is being cast.
The Reverend Eishou Kawahara, the head priest of Rengein, whose bell can be heard for 40 kilometres, reveals their spiritual meaning and the impact they have on people. Each "Old Year" is rung out with 108 booms from every bonshou throughout the land. Each has its own voice and character. Every Japanese person has the right to one strike, which consumes the sins of the old year and purifies them for the new.
Presenter/Stephen Gill, Producer/Julian May
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 12 December 2009
Shaun Ley recounts how the political circumstances of the late Seventies resulted in three of television's most popular series – Dr Who, Secret Army and The Professionals – each losing at least one episode, which had been filmed but was not broadcast.
With the help of some of the programme makers and the series' stars, including Tom Baker, Tony Booth and Clifford Rose, Shaun looks at what happened to the episodes that were shelved.
As Britain struggled with the financial crisis of the late Seventies, the politics of the extreme left and the extreme right, and the power of the broadcasting unions, TV bosses cancelled episodes of three of their most popular shows. It raises issues about censorship, popular culture, the politics of the times and the attitudes of broadcasters.
The final episode of the hit series Secret Army was filmed and completed but has never been broadcast. Shaun tries to find out why. London Weekend Television approved all of the scripts for the first series of The Professionals but, in March 1978, took fright at one storyline. Industrial conflict also played a key role in the shelving of some Doctor Who programmes.
Presenter/Shaun Ley, Producer/Jane Ashley
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
In the Saturday play, The Middle, a close-knit family is brought to its knees by one momentary indiscretion.
Clare is the golden middle sister in a family headed by a formidable matriarch. She marries Martin. Hopelessly in love, they can't contain their happiness at having found each other. Clare's family adore Martin too and he is smitten with them all – they are charming, funny and welcoming. But in the heady early days of their marriage, Martin makes a mistake which knocks everyone off balance, and suddenly this fun, attractive, sparky group slithers into despair.
The Middle is a modern tragedy. It charts betrayal, infatuation, denouncement, banishment and death.
Clare is played by Emma Cunniffe, Ben Miles plays Martin, Anna Madeley is Nicky, Eve Matheson is Justine and Paola Dionisotti plays Luca.
Producer/Mary Peate
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 12 December 2009
Ahead of tomorrow's BBC Sport Personality Of The Year Awards, Fighting Talk broadcasts from Sheffield in front of a live audience. Colin Murray is judge and jury as a panel of experts battle it out for points for punditry on the week's top sporting stories.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Simon Crosse
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
5 Live Sport
Arlo White presents an afternoon of live sport, kicking off with live commentary on Stoke versus Wigan from the Britannia Stadium from 12.45pm, with regular updates from Motherwell's game against Celtic in the Scottish Premier League.
There's also live coverage of all the day's 3pm kick offs including Chelsea against Everton and Tottenham Hotspur versus Wolves in the Premier League and Rangers versus St Johnstone in the SPL.
From 5.30pm there's further Premier League commentary on the game between Manchester United and Aston Villa live from Old Trafford.
Presenter/Arlo White
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Saturday 12 December 2009
5 Live Football League
Listeners can enjoy live commentary from one of the day's top matches in the Championship, plus reports and score updates from across the Football League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Rugby Union
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra presents uninterrupted commentary of the European Rugby Cup match between Scarlets and Leinster, live from Parc y Scarlets.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Saturday 12 December 2009
World Drama –
The Inheritance Of Loss By Kiran Desai Ep 1/2
Kiran Desai's Booker Prize-winning novel is dramatised for the first time for radio and leads up to the January edition of World Book Club, in which Kiran will discuss the novel.
Set near the Himalayas, it's the story of three people, each dreaming of another time. Orphaned Sai comes to her grandfather's house when her astronaut parents are killed in a car crash in Russia. A retired judge, he's living an isolated life with his dog and cook and has no need of the uncomfortable memories she stirs up. As Sai begins to grow up – and fall in love – so civil unrest starts to encroach on her life.
The Inheritance Of Loss stars Ayesha Dharker (The Terrorist; Bombay Talkie), Vincent Ebrahim (The Kumars At No. 42) and Paul Bhattacharjee (Dirty Pretty Things). The cast also includes Harvey Virdi, Pooja Ghai, Inam Mirza, Ronny Jhutti, Melissa Advani, Stephen Hogan, Kate Layden, Zubin Varla, Nickul Hathi, Ravi Aujla, Nicholas Khan, Antony Bunsee, Stephen Hogan, Rehan Sheikh and Badi Uzzaman. It is directed by Marion Nancarrow.
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Network Radio BBC Week 50: Sunday 13 December 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 13 December 2009
This week, Elaine Paige talks to dancer and actress Donna McKechnie about her starring role in the original Broadway production of A Chorus Line. Donna also reveals her favourite Essential Musicals, including tracks from Company, Showboat, Follies and Oklahoma!.
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Every year, tens of thousands of Christmas cards are sent wishing family and friends a peaceful Christmas. This week, Brian D'Arcy explores what the peace of the Advent season really means and where it can be found.
The featured choir is Beverley Chamber choir, directed by Mark Pybus. The organist is Jeffrey Makinson and hymns featured include Be Still My Soul and For The Healing Of The Nations.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 13 December 2009
Michael Berkeley meets Turner Prize-nominated conceptual artist and film-maker Sam Taylor-Wood, whose latest work, Nowhere Boy, is a film about the early life of John Lennon.
Much of her work has been inspired by music, from opera to Bach, and her choices today range from the opening of Gluck's opera Orfeo ed Euridice and Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, to an Indian raga, Nina Simone singing Wild Is The Wind and film scores by Ry Cooder and Michael Nyman.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Steve Waters's contemporary drama, starring Will Paxton and Sarika Chatterjee, imagines a government in crisis as it deals with the biggest storm to hit Britain since the Fifties.
This new version of the highly acclaimed play, originally staged at The Bush Theatre, is a chilling prediction of life in the near future. As Britain faces catastrophic floods and politicians and scientists argue over what action to take, a young scientific adviser urges immediate action.
Producer/Peter Leslie Wild
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Pablo Neruda is a literary Che Guevara – an idolised figure, much loved, but not much scrutinised. Sunday Feature reassesses Neruda, taking a close look at his work and his life; in particular his role in getting refugees out of fascist Spain, and what this unknown but highly significant story reveals about him.
In 1938, while Neruda was a diplomat representing Chile in Paris, he chartered a ship, the SS Winnipeg, to convey 2,000 Spanish Republicans to Chile. Standing on the quay in a white hat, waving them off, he wrote the poem Let Me Explain A Few Things, in which he disowned his previous romantic and lyrical self and committed himself to exposing the world's injustices.
It has been alleged, however, that Neruda was a kind of reverse Schindler, with a list of people who were not going to get on the Winnipeg. As a diplomat, he had access to passports and he made sure that these went only to those who shared his particular left-wing beliefs (which were Stalinist). According to Neruda's critics, the anarchists and more moderate socialists were rejected and were therefore interned in France. Many were executed soon after the Nazis arrived.
Nick Rankin investigates this episode in Neruda's life, talking to his latest biographer, Adam Feinstein; writer Stephen Schwarz; anarchist publisher Stuart Christie; poet Jane Duran; and also to Victor Pey in Santiago, who was one of those who sailed on the Winnipeg.
Presenter/Nick Rankin, Producer/Julian May
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BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 13 December 2009
Lord Sebastian Coe talks to Kirsty Young about his life, his career, his favourite music and how he might cope on BBC Radio 4's mythical desert island.
Born in 1956, Lord Coe achieved world-wide fame as a British middle-distance runner, winning Olympic gold medals in 1980 and 1984. He set eight outdoor and three indoor world records and was the first man to break the 1 minute 43 second and then 1 minute 42 second barriers in the 800metres.
He was widely considered to have been one of the greatest middle-distance runners of all time. Audiences revelled in the great rivalry between, then, Seb Coe, and fellow British athlete Steve Ovett.
After retiring from athletics, Sebastian served as a Conservative MP from 1992 to 1997 and became a life peer in 2000.
As Lord Coe, he led London's bid to host the 2012 Summer Olympics and later became chairman of the London Organising Committee overseeing the development of the London Olympic Games.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 13 December 2009
5 Live Sport
Colin Murray presents an afternoon of live sport featuring, from 1.45pm, live Championship commentary on the match between Middlesbrough and Cardiff. There are also updates from the day's European Rugby Cup matches between Harlequins and Sale from 12.45pm and Bath against Edinburgh from 3pm.
From 4pm there's Premier League commentary on Liverpool against Arsenal, live from Anfield.
Presenter/Colin Murray
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
5 Live At The BBC Sports Personality Of The Year 2009
John Inverdale is backstage with Clare Balding, Matt Dawson and Steve Parry at BBC Sports Personality Of The Year in Sheffield. Discussing the sporting year, John will be speaking to the award winners and guest presenters as the night unfolds.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Steve Rudge
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Sunday 13 December 2009
NFL American Football
Arlo White presents coverage of Dallas Cowboys versus San Diego Chargers from the Cowboys Stadium.
Arlo is also joined by Neil Reynolds with all the news from around the NFL.
Presenter/Arlo White
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BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 13 December 2009
The Music Week gets Christmassy with singing siblings Martha and Rufus Wainwright as they put on their Not So Silent Night spectacular at London's Royal Albert Hall.
Presenters/Julie Cullen and Matt Everitt, Producer/Tom Green
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Bob Dylan takes a "Big Clearance Sale" as his theme this week and plays songs that he was unable to fit into previous shows. His bargain-basement tracks include songs by Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys, Clarence "Frogman" Henry and Dusty Springfield.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 50: Monday 14 December 2009
BBC RADIO 1 Monday 14 December 2009
This week The Chris Moyles Show brings some festive cheer to listeners in a surprise location somewhere in the UK.
Tune in to the show to find out where they'll be visiting and what they'll be up to.
Presenter/Chris Moyles
BBC Radio 1 Publicity
The penultimate episode of this 10-part series, exploring the music and pop cultural moments defining the first decade of the new millennium – all through the eyes of BBC Radio 1 – is presented by Tim Westwood.
In the hour-long documentary he takes listeners back to a year that saw Jay Z controversially headline Glastonbury and the election of the first African-American president. Tim also looks at why 2008 was all about band reunions, with the likes of Blur reforming; and Kings Of Leon recall their journey from indie hipsters to becoming the biggest band of the year.
The Ting Tings, one of the 2008's biggest breakthrough acts, give their views of the pros and cons of hype, something that helped propel them to dizzy heights with hits including No. 1 pop anthem That's Not My Name.
BBC Radio 1 Stories is part of a new line-up of documentaries, a brand-new review show and In New DJs We Trust that sits at the heart of the weeknight schedule at 9pm.
Presenter/Tim Westwood, Producers/Alice Lloyd and Louise Kattenhorn
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BBC RADIO 2 Monday 14 December 2009
David Essex chooses his Tracks Of My Years each morning this week, selecting his favourite music.
Throughout the week he talks to Ken Bruce about his choices, which include The Beatles' In My Life, Snow Patrol's Chasing Cars, Ben E King's Stand By Me and The Beach Boys' God Only Knows.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Jools Holland is joined by Australian singer Daniel Merriweather for this week's show.
Daniel – who performed a Radio 2 Introduces session earlier this year for Dermot O'Leary's show – joins Jools and Jools's band to perform their version of the Howlin' Wolf song Spoonful.
Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston
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The Animals' lead singer Eric Burdon concludes his examination of the life, music and legacy of seminal American folk singer Huddie (Lead Belly) Ledbetter, who had a major influence on popular music on both sides of the Atlantic during the 20th century.
This second programme looks at how Lead Belly's violent streak landed him in serious trouble on several occasions. In 1918 he killed a man and was jailed for murder for 30 years but, as legend would have it, he managed to sing himself out of prison, not once but twice. On the second occasion though, his freedom probably had far more to do with prison overcrowding than it did with his musical talents. But it was his time in prison in the Thirties that would help him land the big time.
Folklorists John and Alan Lomax had been touring jails recording prison songs for the Library of Congress when they discovered Lead Belly. On his release, they introduced him to the New York folk scene and the "King of the 12-string guitar" would record for a variety of record labels; become known for a broad range of folk, blues and protest songs; and even present his own radio show.
Lead Belly died in 1949 but his legacy lives on. Within months of his death, Pete Seeger and the Weavers had released Goodnight Irene and his influence would soon seep into swing, skiffle and later rock 'n' roll. Among those celebrating the life and times of Lead Belly in this series are: Bryan Ferry; Nile Rodgers; Eric Burdon; Woody and Arlo Guthrie; Pete Seeger; Lonnie Donegan; British Sea Power; Billy Childish; and Lead Belly's relatives Tiny Robinson and Alvin Singh.
The series also includes archive of Lead Belly singing to children, performing on his Forties radio show and rare interviews with his producer Henrietta Yurchenco and Alan Lomax, the man who discovered Lead Belly.
Presenter/Eric Burdon, Producer/Ashley Byrne
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BBC RADIO 3 Monday 14 December 2009
Listeners are invited to celebrate live music-making with Louise Fryer and the BBC Performing Groups throughout this week. There are five BBC Orchestras and the BBC Singers – the UK's only full-time professional choir – and this week they can be heard in concert each day on BBC Radio 3, performing a wide variety of music ranging from Haydn symphonies and Mozart violin concertos to Hollywood film scores and Christmas carols.
Today's programme includes highlights from one of the most popular concerts of the year in Scotland – The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra's Christmas Classics presented by local favourite Jamie MacDougal at the Aberdeen Music Hall. Seasonal favourites by Leroy Anderson and Malcolm Arnold feature alongside extracts from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker and John Williams's magical score for the film ET.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Helen Garrison
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The debut of young British conductor Robin Ticciati as principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, this programme pairs the expansive richness of Brahms's Symphony No. 2 with the dark depth of Mahler's folk-inspired song-cycle Des knaben wunderhorn, performed tonight by Czech soprano Magdalena Kožená.
Given that Henze's Symphony No. 1, which opens tonight's programme, was the work of a youthful 21-year-old man who had just lived through the horrors of Hitler's Germany, it's surprisingly pastoral and light-hearted.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Juan Carlos Jaramillo
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Jean Paul Sartre was once the ubiquitous voice of Western literary opposition; DH Lawrence an essential interpreter of the soul of the 20th century; Bertrand Russell the popular philosophical genius of the age; and Bertolt Brecht the poet who mocked capitalism's hypocrisies.
Night Waves spends a week considering some of the "dead white males" who have seen their reputations wither in the last decades. In the face of the collapse of communism, lurid biographical revelation, the authority of feminism and time itself, these grand male voices have seen their intellectual influence diminish – or even collapse.
Most are still on compulsory reading lists, quoted by professional critics, maybe even the subject of TV adaptations – but they don't bestride the popular intellectual landscape as the colossi they once were. Each night, Night Waves asks a panel of high-profile guests to consider these dead white males and asks if they are worth reviving – or are they sacred monsters we have rightly slain.
Presenters/Philip Dodd, Matthew Sweet, Rana Mitter and Anne McElvoy, Producer/Matthew Dodd
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Jez Nelson presents a gig by the widely feted group Trio VD recorded at the Seven Arts Centre in their hometown of Leeds on the eve of their debut album launch. Formed by Chris Sharkey on guitar, Christophe de Bezenac on saxophone and Chris Bussey on drums, the group unleash a fiery mix of free jazz, heady rhythms, riffs and electronic noise with tracks from their highly anticipated album Fill It Up With Ghosts.
Trio VD met while studying jazz at Leeds College of Music. Since their first performances in early 2006 they've made a commotion wherever they go, including taking the BBC Introducing stage by storm at last year's London Jazz Festival. Jazzwise said the Vortex's audience was "shocked, awed and thrilled" to see such a "truly mesmerising band" and Mike Flynn from Time Out describes their impact on the British jazz scene as "earth-shattering, taking a sledgehammer to preconceived limitations of jazz..."
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Peggy Sutton
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BBC RADIO 4 Monday 14 December 2009
Scumdog Millionaires Ep 1/5
In Mike Walker's financial thriller, a fraud investigator is exploring the possibility that a rogue banking institute might be about to send the financial world into a spiral ... if it exists.
When the Financial Service Authority's principal fraud investigator, Angela Chapman, decides she will use whatever means necessary to reveal this potential black hole, she targets Tim Ng, one of the sharpest minds in hedging and derivatives.
Chapman offers Tim a straight deal. Though she has something on him, she agrees that she'll dump the charges, if he agrees to work for her.
The FSA wants to use his particular skills and, though he doesn't quite pick this up, they're obviously interested in his father, a major Hong Kong banker. Tim is in no position to argue.
Walking round the city, Angela lays down the story: those financial figures in the public eye are purely scapegoats, taking the public blame, but behind what the tabloids refer to as these "Scumdog Millionaires", and behind the big banks and investment houses, there are rumours of another house, carrying even bigger risks which, if true, could be the final nail in the coffin of the UK economy.
Tim is to find out what he can about this investment house, if it even exists. But there are soon those, his father among them, who demonstrate that they are prepared to do whatever it takes to prevent him from lifting the lid on a deficit so unimaginably large, that no one in the global financial community would survive its discovery.
Written by Mike Walker, the cast includes David Tse as Tim and Lizzie McInerney as Angela Chapman.
Producer/Eoin O'Callaghan
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off Ep 1/4
He's back; but this time, he's got a computer! Budleigh Salterton's most famous citizen has been grounded by both the Home Office and his father, so he's set up GWH Travvel – two ms, two gs, two vs – a bit of a mix up at the printers.
Run from his bedroom in Budleigh Salterton, with the help of his feckless mate Toby Buntstick and the hindrance of his sister Charlotte, it's a one-stop travel-advice-events-management-website service, where each week, his schemes range far and wide.
Whether it's roaming the country lecturing would-be overlanders on how to pack a rucksack or finding someone a zebra for a corporate promotion, GWH Travvel stays true to its motto – "we do it all, so you won't want to".
Marcus Brigstocke stars as Giles Wemmbley-Hogg in this comedy written by Brigstocke and Jeremy Salsby.
Producer/David Tyler
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Ian McDiarmid stars in Iain Heggie's satirical play about an impecunious lawyer, set in late 18th-century Glasgow.
It's Glasgow 1780. The city is booming but there is war in America and wealth is dependent on the import and export of American tobacco. This pressing question is not addressed by Enoch Dalmellington, resident of Virginia Street. He is more concerned about marrying off his pious humourless daughter, Euphemia; being able to afford his pew at the Tron Kirk; and what to do about Mistress Zapata's predictions about Glasgow in 2008 when "women will be attending university, no one will be allowed to smoke tobacco in public places, the poor will all have water closets and Virginia Street will become a hotbed of sodomy".
Dalmellington represents the ambiguities of Scottish society since the Union. He detests the corruption of Glasgow's merchants but can't resist being bought off by them – he dreams of Scottish independence but is too canny to mention it. And there's a wake-up call to a city whose history has always been more rich, varied and morally ambiguous than the dominant narrative of victimhood allows.
Heggie's satirical stage monologue premièred at Oran Mor in Glasgow, in 2007, and subsequently transferred to the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh.
Producer/Jeremy Mortimer
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Book At Bedtime – Ingoldsby Legends Ep 1/10
The Ingoldsby Legends are a series of comedy supernatural outpourings.
This collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry was supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually the pen-name of Richard Harris Barham.
The legends were first printed in 1837 as a regular series in Bentley's Miscellany and later in New Monthly Magazine. The legends were illustrated by John Leech and George Cruikshank. They proved immensely popular and were compiled into books published in 1840 and 1843. They remained popular through the Victorian era but have since fallen out of fame.
As a priest at the Chapel Royal, Barham was not troubled with strenuous duties and he had ample time to read and compose stories. Although based on real legends and mythology, such as the "hand of glory", they are usually deliberately humorous parodies or pastiches of medieval folklore and poetry.
The best known poem is the Jackdaw Of Rheims about a jackdaw who steals a cardinal's ring and is made a saint.
Producer/Clive Brill
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 14 December 2009
5 Live Sport
Arlo White presents the day's sport news and is joined by special guests for The Monday Night Club to discuss all the latest football news and issues.
From 8.45pm there's second-half Championship commentary of West Brom versus QPR live from the Hawthorns.
At 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
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BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 14 December 2009
Cerys Matthews welcomes Victoria Bergsman into the studio to talk about her solo project, Taken Trees.
Victoria is the former lead singer of The Concretes and the vocalist on Peter, Bjorn And John's Young Folks single.
For her latest album East Of Eden Victoria travelled to Pakistan to record with Sufi musicians. The album includes a track called My Boys, a cover of the Animal Collective song My Girls.
Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Rock out with Marc Riley's session guests Kurt Vile And The Violators. Jimmy from Doves recommended Kurt Vile's current album to Marc while they were on a whale-watching trip and Marc has never looked back. He booked them for a session practically on the spot and he's been playing Freak Train of the current album Childish Prodigy.
Kurt Vile is also guitarist with War On Drugs and is from Philadelphia. He signed to Matador Records in May 2009 as a solo artist.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe plays the summery sounds of French band Tahiti 80 in concert from 2001 at the Roskilde Festival and archive session tracks from the Beach Boys-esque High Llamas, Owl Service and mid-Eighties Bristol indie legends The Flatmates.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 14 December 2009
Rozena wastes no time getting back to business, in the week's first visit to Silver Street. She turns up at the football club where Jaggy and Darren aren't exactly pleased to see her. Rozena then proves she is no stranger to multi-tasking...
Elsewhere, Sway collects Nadia from the airport. She has good news; her parents seem more accepting of their relationship – they could even think about getting married. It's all too much for Sway and he finally tells the truth, leaving Nadia shocked and furious...
Rozena is played by Pooja Ghai, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani, Darren by Samuel Kindred, Sway by Nicholas Bailey and Nadia by Sohm Kapila.
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Network Radio BBC Week 50: Tuesday 15 December 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 15 December 2009
Hard Times –
The Short, Sad Life Of Stephen Foster Ep 1/2
Beth Nielson Chapman, Nanci Griffith, Roger McGuinn and Thomas Hampson are among the artists paying tribute to the first great American songwriter Stephen Foster, in this new two-part series, presented by Michael Feinstein.
Stephen Foster (1826-1864) was the first songwriter to earn his living solely through his music rather than subsisting, as other songwriters did at the time, by teaching or performing. His life marks the start of popular music as it is recognised today.
It was the whirlwind success of Oh Susanna, written when Foster was 21, which led him to his chosen career. The song spread like wildfire from his native Pittsburgh to New York, then to California where it became the anthem for the Gold Prospectors – "the '49ers". Probably no single song had been so popular before but, despite that, Foster never saw a cent from the 30 arrangements which 16 different publishers copyrighted.
As well as Oh Susanna, Foster was the author of Camptown Races, Beautiful Dreamer, Jeannie With The Light Brown Hair, My Old Kentucky Home, The Old Folks At Home and Hard Times Come Again No More? He drew on African-American sources; European balladry; Italian opera; as well as utilizing polka, waltz and even blues in his melodies.
Foster was also determined to replace what he called "the trashy and really offensive words" of the ubiquitous black-faced minstrels. His 1850 Nelly Was A Lady was a breakthrough – no white songwriter had ever called a black woman "lady" before.
Personally, Foster's life was a tragedy – his marriage broke up, he became a drunk, roomed in poverty on the Bowery and ended up selling his original songs for the price of his next drink. And when the martial beat of the Civil War took hold, his beautiful but sentimental songs seemed out of step with the times.
Foster died at the age only 37, after a fall – in his wallet was 38 cents and a scrap of paper that read: "Dear friends and gentle hearts." But his real legacy was the foundation of American popular song.
Artists such as Nanci Griffith, Beth Nielson Chapman and Roger McGuinn have all done versions of Foster songs and reveal what they personally love in his music and why they feel it's still so relevant today. Biographer Ken Emerson talks about the key aspects of Foster's personal life and Deane L Root, musicologist and director of the Centre for American Music, explains the musical context of the time and why what Foster was attempting to do was so ground-breaking.
Presenter/Michael Feinstein,
Producers/Katrina Fallon and Patrick Humphries
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 15 December 2009
Defining The Decade – A Googling We Go Ep 1/3
Edward Stourton looks back over the defining themes of the decade: Who would have thought when the millennium dawned that it would end with both British and American troops dying in Afghanistan? Would you have believed that millions would be communicating and doing business over the internet? And would you have agreed that climate change was a greater threat than terrorism?
This has been a decade when history has been on fast forward. Now, as we near the end of the decade, Edward looks at the big picture, charting the revolutions in science, technology and politics. How significant was 9/11, what are the underlying themes of the past 10 years and what does it all add up to?
Ten years ago the internet was in the cyber equivalent of the Stone Age. Then along came Google. The internet search engine has revolutionised what it means to go online and now accounts for 70 per cent of all information searches in the world. Its story parallels that of the internet itself, imagined by visionaries, embraced by the public and harnessed – not always successfully – by enterprise. But some of the promise has faded, leaving us with a complex world with both moral and legal pitfalls.
This programme features contributions from Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google; Martha Lane Fox, government digital inclusion champion; and Internet guru Cory Doctorow.
Presenter/Edward Stourton, Producer/Mark Savage
BBC News PublicityOne hundred miles east of Nova Scotia lies a 30-mile long sand dune, Sable Island, which has a population of two people (who work in the weather and research station) and 300 wild horses. Sean Street reveals how this remote place, a dune adrift in the Atlantic, is providing vital information and has gained a powerful presence in the imagination.
In the middle of the world's worst weather systems, held tentatively in place by ocean currents, Sable Island is the perfect place to monitor climate change, as well as air and sea pollution.
Sean examines wreckage from some of the 500 plus ships that have come to grief on the island. At the Natural History Museum, in Halifax, he witnesses the unpacking of the latest consignment of bones and specimens – extraordinary ancient walrus skulls – collected by Zoe Lucas, who has been on the island for decades. He meets artist Roger Savage who had to tie his easel down, clamp his paper and battle with the scouring sand as he captured the landscape of the place in his paintings. And he meets a man who dedicated years to studying the rare Ipswich Sparrow which only nests on the island.
However, getting to and from Sable is quite difficult – with access restricted by the Canadian government, no harbour or regular air service, the wind blowing almost constantly and recurrent thick fog – will Sean actually manage to reach Sable Island?
Presenter/Sean Street, Producer/Julian May
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Comedy historian Glenn Mitchell profiles Harry Worth, whose comedy performances as a genial, bumbling middle-class man in series such as Here's Harry are still revered today.
This year sees the 20th anniversary of Worth's passing at the age of 71. Two years earlier, he'd recorded a lengthy interview with Glenn talking about his career, influences and hopes for the future. This interview forms the centre of this tribute and includes contributions from producers William G Stewart, John Ammonds and actor Jonathan Cecil, as well as classic comedy moments from the Harry Worth archive.
Originally a miner, Yorkshire-born Harry Illingsworth – latterly "Worth" to fit on theatre billings – sought escape by moonlighting as a ventriloquist in amateur dramatic societies and concert parties. During the Second World War he served in the RAF as a fitter, eventually joining a gang show in India. On his demob, Harry preferred to remain a ventriloquist rather than return to the pits or continue as a fitter, and auditioned successfully for the Windmill Theatre. Work in variety, summer season and pantomime included two years on tour with Laurel And Hardy.
The programme charts Worth's early career; his latter success on television and radio success in series such as Here's Harry, My Name Is Harry Worth and Oh Happy Band; and examines the origin and impact of his famous window-reflection routine.
Presenter/Glenn Mitchell, Producer/Stephen Garner
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Lorraine Ashbourne and Rosie Cavaliero star in today's Afternoon Play, written by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding, set in and around Bev's hairdressing salon, Highlites, where a little lie spreads through the village like wildfire.
Most people hope to leave a hair salon feeling better about themselves – not at Highlites. Chief stylist Beverley, the most evil and motiveless agent of destruction since Lex Luther, makes everyone she meets feel just a little bit worse.
Lorraine Ashbourne (The Street) stars as Beverley with Rosie Cavaliero (Jam And Jerusalem) as her teflon sidekick, Shirley, in this story of a little lie that grows wildly out of hand.
Producer/Jessica Dromgoole
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Too Much Happiness Ep 1/3
Too Much Happiness presents three powerful stories from the new collection by Alice Munro, the superlative Canadian Short Story Writer who was awarded this year's Mann Booker International Prize.
Alice Munro is a past master of the art of the short story; a writer who focuses on small details and yet encompasses the whole of a life in a glance.
Tuesday's story, Free Radicals, tells of a newly widowed woman who is herself dying, alone in the home she and her husband made their own after she had played the role of "home wrecker" and replaced his first wife. But it is the first wife that she must look to when a stranger threatens her at her own kitchen table.
Wednesday's story is Some Women. At the Crozier house a man lies dying. When his wife is at work, his stepmother lays on a form of distraction and the young girl brought in to help care for him begins to understand the complexities of adult life.
On Thursday, Wood is the story of a marriage and a moment in time when what was lost is regained – and the mixed emotions that this engenders. A late afternoon in a snowy wood and a casual, careless slip are all it takes.
This series is abridged by Sally Marmion.
Reader/Barbara Barnes, Producer/Di Spiers
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Matthew Parris invites Rich Hall to talk about his hero, Tennessee Williams, as BBC Radio 4's acclaimed biographical series continues.
Presenter/Matthew Parris, Producer/Beth O'Dea
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The New Art Of Diplomacy Ep 1/2
James Naughtie asks if the British Foreign Office is fit for purpose in a changing world, in this new, two-part series.
Long into the 20th century, large parts of the world map were coloured pink. The British Empire stretched from the Caribbean to the Far East and diplomacy – on famous occasions – was carried out at the point of a gun. Needless to say, the UK no longer has its empire and its diplomats have had to alter their tune. But even in just the last decade the enormous changes around the world have had not only an impact on British foreign policy but also on those who are responsible for putting much of that policy into practice, the diplomats.
We now have a world where borders are being rubbed out. Terrorism, climate change and financial crises are clear indicators of the growing inter-connectedness of the globe. At the same time we've seen a growth of national self interest. Negotiation and the power of diplomacy is, arguably, as important as ever.
How are British diplomats facing up to a changed world, where world leaders and governments can – and do – talk directly to each other, and where government departments have developed their own foreign policy units, circumventing the Foreign Office? Other bodies, too, like non-governmental organisations and pressure groups, have moved into the foreign policy sphere. So where does that leave traditional diplomacy, carried out by career diplomats? Or is there, in fact, a greater need than ever for experienced diplomats to negotiate the deals that preserve British interests in this complicated world of instant communication?
In this two-part series for BBC Radio 4, James Naughtie goes into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office headquarters in King Charles Street in London and visits one of its most important outposts, in the Indian capital, Delhi, to watch diplomacy in action. He asks if British diplomats can ensure (as the former Foreign Secretary Lord Hurd once said) that Britain continues to "punch above its weight." Is the Foreign Office fleet of foot enough to transform itself to confront new global challenges or is the art of good diplomacy the same as it's ever been? And what of the impact of financial constraints imposed on the Foreign Office by the Treasury? Have these undermined British diplomacy? If so, at what cost?
Presenter/James Naughtie, Producer/John Murphy
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 15 December 2009
5 Live Sport
Arlo White presents all the day's sports news and live coverage of the night's Premier League matches, including Manchester United versus Wolves and Birmingham versus Blackburn.
Presenter/Arlo White
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Tuesday 15 December 2009
Football
Listeners can enjoy live commentary from one of the night's top matches in the Premier League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 15 December 2009
Adopted Mancunian Jesca Hoop is live in session tonight. Her new single, Four Dreams, is out next week and is being championed by both Marc Riley and Guy Garvey. It is taken from her current album, Hunting My Dress, which was released in November.
Jesca has received notable endorsements from Tom Waits (she was his nanny) and Guy, who became so enchanted by her music that he invited her onto his radio show. They got on like a house on fire, so he continued his open-house policy by extending an invite to join the Elbow US tour in April 2008, which led to a UK tour in October 2008, followed by another US tour in August this year. He also lends his subtle yet inimitable vocal strength to a track on the album Murder Of Birds.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe's archive gem comes from Elvis Costello, recorded live at the Hammersmith Palais in 1982. Among the archive session tracks are recent guest Jah Wobble and the Invaders Of The Heart, Sarah Records stalwarts Heavenly, Pop Group offshoot Maximum Joy from 1982 and Sheffield's sadly defunct Long Blondes.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Tuesday 15 December 2009
Nadia angrily confronts Jodie about "stealing" her man, as the drama continues. Sway tells Jodie he feels bad about hurting Nadia but is that the only thing he regrets? Later, Rozena checks on Nadia, who insists she is fine.
Elsewhere, Jaggy wants to go to an exclusive poker game but Darren worries the stakes are too high. Jaggy insists Darren put in a call at least. Darren later returns with an update but is it what Jaggy wants to hear?
Nadia is played by Sohm Kapila, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Sway by Nicholas Bailey, Rozena by Pooja Ghai, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani and Darren by Samuel Kindred.
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Network Radio BBC Week 50: Wednesday 16 December 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 16 December 2009
Trevor Nelson plays another hour of soulful tunes and this week his Album Of The Week is Soul II Soul's 1989 release, Club Classics Vol. One.
Produced by Jazzie B and Nellee Hooper, this debut offering from Soul II Soul features the vocals of Caron Wheeler on three tracks, including Keep On Movin' and Back To Life, which topped the UK single charts.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Dan Cocker
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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 16 December 2009
Maxine Peake and Dan Stevens star in Deborah Davis's Afternoon Play offering. Dina and Jake have been living together for three years when their daughter Sky is born. Jake is a confident and easygoing dad who combines looking after Sky with his job as a freelance furniture designer.
Dina, softly spoken and a worrier at the best of times, has recently gone back to work and is suffering withdrawal symptoms from Sky. On the evening that Sky falls out of her cot, Dina and Jake are both at home. They rush their injured daughter to hospital where she is kept in intensive care.
Doctors inform them that their daughter's injuries were not an accident; police take them in for questioning; and social workers seize control of their daughter. The balance in their relationship shifts as Jake finds it increasingly difficult to cope with the situation, his anger with social workers and medical experts evident. Dina, meanwhile, gradually assumes an iron grip and inner calm to deal with the world she has entered.
Dina is played by Maxine Peake with Dan Stevens playing Jake. Other members of the cast include Kate Layden, David Hargreaves, Melissa Advani, Joseph Cohen-Cole, Tessa Nicholson, Rhys Jennings, Nigel Pilkington and Piers Wehner.
Please note: This Afternoon Play was originally billed in BBC Week 47 Programme Information.
Producer/Tracey Neale
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Laurie Taylor explores the history of clothing behind bars, in this week's edition of Thinking Allowed.
From arrows on prisoner's suits in the 19th century, or black and white stripes, to the orange jumpsuits worn by inmates of Guantanamo Bay detention camp, it is believed that the uniform prisoners wear reflects and boosts the power penal institutions have over prisoners' lives. Some regimes used prison clothing to punish and to humiliate, but waves of reform changed that.
Through detailed research and interviews with the incarcerated, Juliet Ash, tutor in Textiles Design History at the Royal College of Art, takes Laurie on a fascinating journey through the history of prison clothing.
Presenter/Laurie Taylor, Producer/Pam Rutherford
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Unreliable Evidence Ep 1/4
Clive Anderson brings together some of the country's most eminent legal minds for a new series of Unreliable Evidence, in which government ministers, senior judges and lawyers, academics and other experts discuss important legal issues behind national and international events.
Subjects under consideration throughout this series include A British Bill Of Rights And Responsibilities, where Clive and the panel look back on 10 years of the Human Rights Act and forward to the prospect of it being either replaced by or supplemented with a Bill Of Rights And Responsibilities.
Too Much Information Versus Protection Of Children looks at details of a 13-year-old's sexual misdemeanour with a classmate – which will remain on his record and prevent him getting a job as a teacher or child care worker. The team explore whether the law can protect people in respect of concerns about government databases.
Law And Faith looks at the interface between religious law and the law of the land.
And Dirty Little Settlements discusses concerns that justice is often being denied as the spiralling costs of civil court cases are resulting in increasing numbers of people being forced into small out-of-court settlements.
Presenter/Clive Anderson, Producer/Brian King
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 16 December 2009
5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman presents all the day's sports news and brings listeners live coverage of the night's Premier League matches, which include Liverpool versus Wigan and Tottenham Hotspur versus Manchester City.
Presenter/Mark Chapman
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Wednesday 16 December 2009
Test Match Special
Ball-by-ball commentary of the opening day's play of the first Test between South Africa and England comes live from Centurion Park, Pretoria.
Jonathan Agnew leads the commentary team, alongside Simon Mann and Gerald De Kock, and expert summary comes from Ashes-winning England captain Michael Vaughan, Geoffrey Boycott and Vic Marks.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Football
Listeners can hear live commentary from one of this evening's top matches in the Premier League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra PublicityBBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 16 December 2009
Richard Hawley joins Lauren Laverne for a very special Christmas-themed performance, live in the BBC 6 Music Hub. Sheffield's finest torch singer performs some of his favourite Christmas standards as the countdown to Christmas continues.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe continues to delve deep into the archive and this week brings listeners concerts by artists Kathryn Williams and the Psychedelic Furs.
There's also another chance for listeners to hear session tracks from Welsh Super Furries cohorts Neon Neon, Jesse Garon And The Desperados and the Voluntary Butler Scheme.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Marc Riley travels back in time to 1977 when Sid Vicious joined band-mate Johnny Rotten to chat with BBC Radio 1 presenter John Tobler about their new album, Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols.
Listeners can hear key parts of the interview and Marc also speaks to Tobler about how he feels about the Pistols interview more than 30 years on.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 16 December 2009
Rozena is concerned to see an upset Nadia back at work, in the midweek visit to Silver Street. Sway later tells Rozena that he and Jodie are together now, but how will Rozena react?
Elsewhere, Jaggy meets the man behind the exclusive poker games. As Jaggy drinks champagne he wonders if "playing his cards right" at the poker game will give him the lifestyle he wants.
Nadia, meanwhile, leaves a message for Sway.
Rozena is played by Pooja Ghai, Nadia by Sohm Kapila, Sway by Nicholas Bailey, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi and Jaggy by Jay Kiyani.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 16 December 2009
Internet Cafe Hobo Ep 1/2
Nick Baker embarks on a journey around the world to undertake an ambitious multi-media project that aims to draw a map round the world, using internet cafes and the stories of the people in them.
Launching in December, the first two episodes follow Nick as he enlists the help of web users around the world to find stories and track down a global network of cafes to inform his route.
Presenter and Producer/Nick Baker
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AC Grayling questions the world's leading scientists about their work, as Exchanges At The Frontier, recorded as part of a unique series of events created by BBC World Service and the Wellcome Collection, continues.
This week, AC Grayling is in conversation with Patricia Churchland, a neurophilosopher based at the University of California, San Diego, whose research explores the impact of neuroscience on our understanding of human nature and morality. They discuss the neurological basis of the self and whether there can be such a thing as free will.
Presenter/Anthony Grayling, Producer/Charlie Taylor
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Network Radio BBC Week 50: Thursday 17 December 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 17 December 2009
David Quantick's comic take on the mystical, magical and misunderstood world of jazz draws to a conclusion this week, with a look at Nina Simone, drums and Latin jazz.
Presenter/David Quantick, Producer/Simon Poole
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BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 17 December 2009
The Vatican Secret Archives are infamous for what people believe is hidden within them. Located in the Vatican City, they are the central repository for all of the acts promulgated by the Holy See, as well as state papers, correspondence, papal account books and many other documents and artefacts which the church has accumulated over the centuries.
In the 17th century, under the orders of Pope Paul V, the Secret Archives were removed from the Vatican Library and remained closed to Vatican outsiders until the late 19th century, fuelling rumours and conspiracy theories of what might be secreted away there.
But while what is contained within the archives is fascinating, it is how these treasures of history are cared for and maintained that is the real surprise.
John Waite visits the Vatican Secret Archives Conservation Laboratory to learn that, far from hiding the treasures of history, the Church is leading the way in preserving and conserving these priceless artefacts.
John meets the head of the laboratory Dr Alessandro Rubechini, to talk through why the Church sees it as part of its role to protect, preserve and maintain the collection. They also speak about how the archive is being made more open following Pope Benedict XVI's decision, in June 2006, to grant access.
The programme also hears from art historians, archivists and leading conservators in the UK about the importance of the work being undertaken by the Vatican – and how their techniques are being used by other laboratories around the world.
Presenter/John Waite, Producer/Neil Gardner
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 17 December 2009
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.
From 8pm there's Europa League group-stage commentary of Everton versus Bate Borisov, live from Goodison Park.
At 10pm, two of 5 Live Sport's pundits get some sporting issues off their chests in And Another Thing.
Presenters/Eleanor Oldroyd and Mark Pougatch
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Thursday 17 December 2009
Test Match Special
Ball-by-ball commentary of the second day's play of the first Test between South Africa and England comes live from Centurion Park, Pretoria. Jonathan Agnew leads the commentary team alongside Simon Mann and Gerald De Kock, with expert summary from Ashes-winning England captain Michael Vaughan, Geoffrey Boycott and Vic Marks.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 17 December 2009
Gideon Coe brings listeners concerts from The Ramones in Sheffield in 1987 and PJ Harvey at the V Festival in 1998. Archive session highlights include tracks from My Bloody Valentine, Cabaret Voltaire, Blonde Redhead and "synth folk" from the Sargasso Trio.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Marc Riley's Time Machine travels back to 1983 when The Police were interviewed by David "Kid" Jensen just after the release of their album, Synchronicity.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 17 December 2009
Jodie gives Sway some advice on his job hunting, as the drama continues. She also tells him to ignore another call from Nadia. Elsewhere, Nadia tells Rozena she can convince Sway he has made a mistake, she just needs him to talk to her...
Meanwhile, Jaggy is ecstatic after Rangers win their football match. As he gets ready for his big poker game Jaggy insists he is on a winning streak but Darren has a word of warning for him...
Jodie is played by Vineeta Rishi, Sway by Nicholas Bailey, Nadia by Sohm Kapila, Rozena by Pooja Ghai, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani and Darren by Samuel Kindred.
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Network Radio BBC Week 50: Friday 18 December 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Friday 18 December 2009
Sir Terry Wogan entertains his loyal band of TOGs (Terry's Old Geezers) over breakfast for the final time in the last ever Wake Up To Wogan.
Sir Terry first took over the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show in April 1972, at the tender age of 34, and quickly gained popularity with his wry observations and warm banter. His first spell on the show ended in 1984 but he returned to the airwaves in January 1993 and established Wake Up To Wogan as the nation's most-listened-to breakfast show.
While Chris Evans will be setting his alarm for an earlier shift, which kicks off on Monday 11 January 2010, the Togmeister is moving to Sundays between 11am-1pm where he beings a new live show from the BBC's Broadcasting House with special guests and musical performances from Sunday 14 February 2010.
Presenter/Terry Wogan, Producer/Alan Boyd
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In the last programme of this series celebrating the Great British Dance Bands, Brian Matthew recounts the final chapters of the Lew Stone story and marks the end of an era in British popular music.
This concluding episode reveals how a modest maestro became a musical survivor by adapting to the huge changes in British popular music after the First World War. It features contributions from composer Gordon Langford; singer Helen Mack, who recalls the wartime concerts and broadcasts that kept the nation dancing in a time of peril; and Lew Stone's widow Joyce who adds her own vivid reminiscences of a golden age of dance music.
Presenter/Brian Matthew, Producers/Tony Staveacre and Roy Oakshott
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Ken Bruce presents Friday Night Is Music Night live from the Mermaid Theatre in London with special guests 2007 X-Factor finalist Rhydian and the BBC Radio 2 Young Choristers Of The Year, Laurence Kilsby and Jacquelyne Hill.
Jacquelyne, who sings at St Andrews, Tarring in West Sussex and Laurence, who sings at Tewkesbury Abbey/Dean Close Preparatory School were announced as Radio 2's Young Choristers Of The Year after singing at the final which took place at St Paul's Cathedral in London in October.
Roderick Dunk conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in this evening of music which features a feast of seasonal classics.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Bridget Apps
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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 18 December 2009
The BBC Symphony Orchestra explores the output of American maverick composer George Crumb as part of the orchestra's Total Immersion series at the Barbican Centre in London.
Born just over 80 years ago in Charleston, West Virginia, Crumb is hard to categorise; he's a sonic inventor and a true pioneer. There's a haunting sense of the mystical and spiritual about his work but it's also theatrical, rich in references to non-Western music and composers such as Bach and Chopin, extraordinarily beautiful in sound and delicate in texture.
The orchestra, conducted by Martyn Brabbins, perform his 1968 Pulitzer Prize-winning piece Echoes Of Time And The River, which explores the nature of the passing of time, with the performers processing around the stage in four lines, each at different speeds. Pianist Joanna MacGregor joins them in playing his Little Suite For Christmas, AD 1979, inspired by Giotto's frescoes in the Scrovegni Chapel.
The orchestra are joined by soprano Claudia Barainsky, the Trinity Boys Choir and the New London Chamber Choir for a performance of Crumb's largest work in terms of performing forces, Star-Child, which traces a blazing, inspired vision from apocalyptic darkness to redeeming light.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Juan Carlos Jaramillo
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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 18 December 2009
Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! Ep 1/6
Count Arthur Strong – one-time variety star, now sole proprietor and owner of Doncaster's Academy Of Performance – is a show-business legend, raconteur and lecturer extraordinaire. He stars in a sitcom with regular sidekick Wilfred Taylor, Master Butcher and a host of other characters.
Each week in this new series, listeners' hear a confused and muddled "day in the life" of Count Arthur Strong. From taking an acting role in a "Murder Mystery" evening for local aristocracy, to joining the gym for the "free six-pack", there's never a dull moment with Count Arthur Strong.
All the false starts and nervous fumbling are badly covered up by a delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance , he's an expert in everything from the world of entertainment to the craft of cookery – all in all, everyday life with Arthur is an enlightening experience.
Steve Delaney stars as Count Arthur Strong and is supported by his Radio Repertory Company, Alastair Kerr, Dave Mounfield and Mel Giedroyc.
The series is recorded in front of a live audience at Komedia Brighton.
Producer/Mark Radcliffe
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
In Angela Clarke's debut radio play, Sonia has made caring for her disabled son her life's work – but Jack, who is 18 and has cerebral palsy, longs for something more.
When Sonia breaks her leg and hand trying to knock down the bathroom door after Jack, attempting to shower independently, becomes trapped inside, she realises that she must call on social services for some support. When carer Les bursts on the scene, both Jack and Sonia's lives change dramatically.
Unconventional, fun-loving and forward-thinking, Les sees in Jack a man who is trapped – not by cerebral palsy, but by his mother. Les introduces Jack to the charms of life which a young man should be embracing – wine, women and song.
A war of independence is born; as Jack's world opens up, Sonia's reduces. But Sonia is not going to let go of her son without a fight – and Les is in the firing line.
Angela Clarke's play is a touching drama about a mother and son and the difficulty of letting go.
The cast stars Julia Ford, Paul Henshall, Paul Wyett, Angela Clarke and Annabelle Dowler.
Producer/Nadia Molinari
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 18 December 2009
Colin Murray is joined by Pat Nevin and Perry Groves for Kicking Off With Colin Murray previewing the weekend's football, including Arsenal versus Hull, Fulham versus Manchester United and West Ham United versus Chelsea.
From 9.30pm Colin Murray is joined by Tim Lovejoy for Murray And Lovejoy's Sports Express. 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 RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Friday 18 December 2009
Test Match Special
Ball-by-ball commentary of the third day's play of the first Test between South Africa and England comes, live from Centurion Park, Pretoria.
Jonathan Agnew leads the commentary team alongside Simon Mann and Gerald De Kock, with expert summary from Ashes-winning England captain Michael Vaughan, Geoffrey Boycott and Vic Marks.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Swimming
Live coverage of the first day's competition of "Duel In The Pool", as Britain's top swimmers join the best in Europe to take on the American team in Manchester.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 18 December 2009
Bruce Dickinson welcomes Northern Irish rockers The Answer to the show.
It's been a momentous year for the blues-influenced quartet. They've released their second album Everyday Demons to rapturous reviews and supported AC/DC on their mammoth world tour.
Influenced by the likes of Free, Led Zeppelin and Cream the guys have now performed with the Rolling Stones, The Who and Aerosmith.
Bruce talks the band about their amazing year, their thoughts on the current state of classic rock and what their plans for 2010 include.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Friday 18 December 2009
Nadia tries to persuade Sway to give them another chance, in the week's final visit to Silver Street. She'll even cut her ties to her family if that's what he wants. Jodie arrives as Nadia is leaving but she has a question for Jodie before she goes...
Elsewhere, the poker game is intense. Darren warns Jaggy the stakes are too high and he should quit but Jaggy won't listen. It's down to Cyrus and Jaggy, but who has the winning hand?
Nadia is played by Sohm Kapila, Sway by Nicholas Bailey, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Darren by Samuel Kindred, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani, Cyrus by Nigel Hastings, Degsy by Rhys Jennings and Coop by Piers Wehner.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Friday 18 December 2009
It's estimated that up to one million people were killed during communism in Eastern Europe, but there is no clear figure about the number of people who were imprisoned, persecuted or spied on.
In this final part of the documentary that examines the different approaches taken by countries across Eastern Europe to deal with the legacy of communism, the BBC World Service's European Affairs correspondent Oana Lungescu visits secret police archives in Romania and the Czech Republic.
She discovers that while the archives contain vast amounts of intimate information on millions of people, the files of those in power today are sometimes incomplete. She confronts one of Romania's most powerful men – a senator and media mogul – charged with collaborating with the secret police under communism. He reveals his own secret file, which he says will finally clear his name.
Presenter/Oana Lungescu, Producer/Neal Razzell
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