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BBC Radio 1 Presenter Chris Moyles

Listeners can enjoy 12 hours of the best bits of The Chris Moyles Show from 2009.

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BBC Radio 2 DJ Alan Carr and Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle look at the Great British Songbook Of The Noughties.

Over three hours, Alan and Nadine play the best British songs from this decade, including suggestions from Radio 2 listeners. With a playlist that includes Coldplay, Will Young, Amy Winehouse and, of course, Girls Aloud, they reflect the work of some of Britain's greatest songwriters and share their own stories from the Noughties.

This is the final show in a series of programmes where British artists and DJs reflect on the Great British Songbook of each decade from the Sixties to the Noughties. The Great British Songbook is Radio 2's celebration of the work of British songwriters.

Presenters/Alan Carr and Nadine Coyle, Producer/Bequi Sheehan

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BBC Radio 2's Elvis Season continues with another chance to hear about "The King", in the words of his fans. This programme, first broadcast in August 2007 as part of Radio 2's long-running oral history series, offers an insight into the way Elvis impacted on everyday lives.

Producer/Mark Hagen

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American soul star Aretha Franklin

Singers Madeline Bell, Liane Carroll and Kym Mazelle continue the New Year celebrations from the Mermaid Theatre in London alongside the BBC Concert Orchestra and Guy Barker and his Big Band with Ella, Aretha, Dusty & Me.

Actor Michael Brandon presents this celebration of the music made famous by these three musical greats in a special edition of Friday Night Is Music Night.

Presenter/Michael Brandon, Producer/Ruth Beazley

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Lopa Kothari presents highlights from last summer's Womad Festival, held in July, including sets broadcast for the first time. With music from English folk music's young radical Jim Moray, Algerian chaabi singer Kamel El Harrachi and Guinea's kora maestro Ba Cissoko.

Presenter/Lopa Kothari, Producer/Roger Short

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At the height of its success, in the Eighties, satirical TV puppet show Spitting Image was commanding audiences around the world. The Russians decided that they would like to have their own version of the satirical show and a mysterious fax landed on the desk of its co-creator, Roger Law. Then a team arrived from Moscow to learn the magic art of making political puppets. Roger went to Moscow to help set up the show, and can remember vodka with breakfast and not very much else.

Roger decides that now is the time to dig out the paperwork from 20 years ago and head off to Moscow again on a mission to find out what happened to the TV producers and to their satirical ambitions.

Armed only with a handful of faxes, letters and a puppet of Mikhail Gorbachev for company, he heads to the bitter cold of a Moscow winter and discovers more than he bargained for.

This is a story of intrigue, betrayal, international espionage and rubber puppets!

Presenter/Roger Law, Producer/Mark Rickards

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Today's play is a radio version of John Keats's sensual narrative poem of the ill-starred love affair of the serpent Lamia, a "palpitating snake" who falls in love with Lycius, a Corinthian youth. Knowing that she could never get near him in her current form, Lamia strikes a bargain with the god, Hermes. She will help Hermes find the nymph he is chasing, if he agrees to turn her into a beautiful woman. Transformation complete, Lamia finds Lycius and seduces him in her new female form. They set up an amorous love nest away from prying eyes, but Lycius is eager to show his love off and arranges a great wedding celebration to which most of Corinth is invited.

With their love on display, it is only a matter of time before Lamia's artificial world comes crashing down. The uninvited arrival of Lycius's wily old tutor Apollonius fills Lamia with terror. It is not long before Apollonius sees Lamia for what she really is and denounces her as a serpent in front of the entire wedding party, much to the horror of the two lovers.

Lamia is narrated by Paterson Joseph with original music by John Harle (BBC's A History Of Great Britain).

Producer/Susan Roberts

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Technology – you can run from it but you can't always hide. Big In Samoa is Marcy Kahan's comedy starring Tom Goodman-Hill and Hugh Bonneville about how the internet found one man and hunted him down.

In the Seventies, Cal (Tom Goodman-Hill) had dreams of a life in music and made a record. It had a small cult following and was then consigned to oblivion. Cal went on to make an erratic living and have an erratic love life. His family, siblings and old friends regard him as the loser in their midst.

Cal has now taken refuge in a retro-life – long-playing records, no mobile phone, no computer – resisting the internet, the zeitgeist. Even his nephew, Theo, whom he adores, can't persuade his Luddite uncle into signing up to the 21st century.

When Rafe (Hugh Bonneville) searches for Caleb's name on the internet, he discovers 32,000 hits – Cal's long-deleted recording has become a cult; he is big in Western Samoa! Determined that Cal will take advantage of his new-found fame, Rafe becomes his agent and books him into a gig in Samoa, through Dina, the head of Cal's fan club.

In Samoa, Cal begins a relationship with Dina who introduces him to the delights of instant texts, surfing and social networking. Cal thinks the net is wonderful. But things can't go smoothly for Cal and, in the middle of his concert, he is attacked by Rafe on stage!

Will technology help Cal sort out his life or end up breaking his heart?

Producer/Sally Avens

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Film critic Mark Kermode

Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo look back at the films of 2009, featuring Mark's review of some of the year's biggest movies; including Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen, Slumdog Millionaire and Star Trek.

There's also another chance to hear from some of the stars of this year's hits, including Meryl Streep, Eric Cantona and Michael Sheen.

Presenters/Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, Producer/Robin Bulloch

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Peter Allen takes a look back at his broadcasts with the British military in 2009, from Catterick Garrison to visiting the troops in Afghanistan.

Presenter/Peter Allen, Producer/John Cary

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Colin Murray is joined by Pat Nevin and Perry Groves for Kicking Off With Colin Murray previewing the weekend's action, including the FA Cup third-round ties.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Steve Houghton

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Lauren Laverne presents a run down of the great hopes featured in the BBC Sound of 2010 poll, from the shortlist announced earlier in December. Last year La Roux, Florence And The Machine and Temper Trap all featured heavily in the poll. Who will be this year's bright stars?

Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales

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Steve Lamacq looks ahead to the music that will be big in 2010, featuring new music and interviews with some of his tips for the top.

Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Paul Sheehan

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Following on from Shaun Keaveny's conversation with Jimmy Page (a repeat of Jimmy Page And The BBC Sessions), Bruce Dickinson looks at the massive influence of Led Zeppelin on the world of rock music, both stylistically and musically.

Bruce discusses and plays music from the likes of Europe, Soundgarden and Whitesnake, plus countless others who have been inspired by the mighty Zeppelin.

In the second hour of the show Bruce replays BBC Radio 2's Led Zeppelin Special from Masters Of Rock, originally broadcast in 2003, where Bruce presented a mix of old and new archive interviews.

Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan

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After Zak's outburst, Mary consoles Jodie and Sway with a drink, in the week's final visit to Silver Street. Meanwhile Imran escorts a drunken Deepika back to his place, but why is she still there in the morning?

Elsewhere, Jodie and Sway are on a cleaning mission at the barge when they get a visit from Deepika.

Zak agrees to go back to Scotland alone but only if Nadia promises she won't harm herself again. Can Nadia convince him that she won't?

Zak is played by Jetinder Summan, Mary by Carole Nimmons, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Sway by Nicholas Bailey, Imran by Narinder Samra, Deepika by Babita Pohoomull and Nadia by Sohm Kapila.

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Jyväskylä School for the Visually Impaired in Finland teaches children to master the art of using sound to navigate. Here, the walls and other surfaces are covered with a variety of objects that make stimulating noises.

The school's aim is to avoid a reliance on high-tech and expensive navigational aids, by honing the children's natural abilities. The children learn to navigate their way around the nearby forests as they go ice fishing on the frozen lake, guided by the Finnish soundscape of crunching snow.

This documentary explores attitudes towards disability, examining the Finnish state's support system for the visually impaired and follows the children in their daily life, lessons and workshops.

Producer/Joe Acheson

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