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Network Radio BBC Week 13: Monday 29 March 2010
BBC RADIO 1 Monday 29 March 2010
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Ashley Walters takes BBC Radio 1 listeners to a young offenders' institute to hear what incarceration is really like for UK youths. Featuring freestyles from inmates, and the thoughts of prisoners, family members and victims of crime, Life In Jail, a BBC Three co-commission, reveals what really goes on behind the walls.
BBC Radio 1 Stories explores the musical back-stories of listeners' favourite artists, eras, genres and scenes. Previous episodes of the series have included International Radio 1 and The A-Z Of Vampire Weekend.
Presenter/Ashley Walters
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BBC RADIO 2 Monday 29 March 2010
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English songwriter Roger Greenaway joins Ken Bruce this week to discuss his Tracks Of My Years each morning.
There's also the Popmaster music quiz and the Record Of The Week and Album Of The Week.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Phil Jones
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Clare Teal presents the BBC Big Band in concert performing the music of Henry Mancini and Burt Bacharach. The programme features guest singer Ian Shaw with I'll Never Fall In Love Again and I Say A Little Prayer.
Presenter/Clare Teal, Producer/Bob McDowall
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Jools Holland is joined by the multi-talented entertainer Rolf Harris, who celebrates his 80th birthday this year. Rolf joins Jools and the band for an impromptu version of his hit, Sun Arise.
Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston
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BBC RADIO 3 Monday 29 March 2010
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Listening to his music, many would think 16th-century William Byrd was the very model of an Elizabethan citizen, a refined character capable of producing some of the most beautiful music ever composed for the church as well as inventive keyboard and vocal pieces which charm the ear and mind in equal measure. But, as Donald Macleod discovers, Byrd was also a complex man who pushed the religious mores of his age to the limit and simultaneously indulged in a lifetime of petty-fogging legal cases.
The week begins with a fresh look at Byrd's musical beginnings. New research has revealed that he grew up in Lincoln, not London as previously thought, and also allows listeners a fascinating glimpse of his bookcase – home to the most controversial texts of the day.
Later in the week, Donald also looks at his Catholic defiance. Listeners hear how Byrd was repeatedly reported to the authorities for failing to attend church, and even prevented his servants from worshipping.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Kerry Clark
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Belief Ep 1/5
Joan Bakewell returns to BBC Radio 3 each evening this week talking to artists, thinkers and public figures about their belief.
In this first programme, Joan discusses belief with Christian feminist novelist, writer and theologian Sara Maitland. Sara has most recently written of her journey into quietness and solitude in A Book Of Silence and now lives in prayerful isolation in a cottage on the Scottish moors.
In tomorrow's programme, Junaid Bhatti bridges the worlds of finance and Islam. On Wednesday, Joan talks to Emma Restall Orr, who practises and teaches about Druidry, a branch of Paganism. On Thursday, there's another chance to hear Joan talk to Mark Haddon, author of the bestselling book The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time.
In Friday's programme, Joan speaks to James Jones, the Bishop of Liverpool, an evangelical who engages with major issues of social justice, urban planning and the environment.
Presenter/Joan Bakewell, Producer/Norman Winter
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BBC RADIO 4 Monday 29 March 2010
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Book Of The Week – Burying The Bones Ep 1/5
Lindsay Duncan reads Burying The Bones, Hilary Spurling's biography of Pearl Buck, one of the most influential American writers of the mid-20th century.
Her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Good Earth, recreated the lives of ordinary Chinese people and became a worldwide bestseller when it was published in 1932. As a phenomenally successful writer, she was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, and civil-rights campaigner Pearl did more than almost anyone else in her lifetime to change Western perceptions of China.
Born to American missionaries at the end of the 19th century, Pearl grew up in an imperial China unchanged for thousands of years. Her father was zealous in his calling to convert the Chinese to Christianity and his family came a poor second to his work. His wife bore seven children, but only three survived. Pearl spoke Chinese before she learned English and her friends were the children of Chinese farmers. She took it for granted that she was Chinese herself until she was eight years old, when the terrorist uprising known as the "Boxer Rebellion" forced her family to flee for their lives.
Pearl wrote about the realities of the only world she knew in The Good Earth. It was one of the last things she did before being finally forced out of China to settle for the first time in the US. She was unknown and penniless with a failed marriage behind her, a disabled child to support, no prospects and no way of knowing that The Good Earth would sell tens of millions of copies. It transfixed a whole generation of readers just as Jung Chang's Wild Swans would do more than half a century later.
As a teenager, Pearl witnessed the first stirrings of Chinese revolution and, as a young woman, she narrowly escaped being killed in the deadly struggle between Chinese Nationalists and the newly formed Communist Party.
Burying The Bones is abridged by Alison Joseph.
Reader/Lindsay Duncan, Producer/Kirsteen Cameron
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Woman's Hour Drama – David Golder Ep 1/5
David Suchet stars in David Golder, this week's Woman's Hour Drama, a portrait of a man who has a killer instinct when it comes to business – not for his own self-interest but because of his pathological desire to provide for a family he knows does not care for him and which ultimately destroys him.
Written by Irène Némirovsky, the story begins with international financier Golder turning his back on his business partner of many years, Simon Marcus. Without Golder, Marcus's oil business deal falls through and, penniless, Marcus commits suicide.
After attending Marcus's funeral, Golder goes to his luxurious villa in Biarritz where he sees his wife, Gloria, spoilt daughter, Joyce, and the freeloaders he despises who fill the villa. His wife just wants to make sure he keeps working to fund her extravagant lifestyle. Even after suffering a heart attack he carries on working, while Gloria plots with Golder's doctor to keep him and his money under her control. Joyce wants a new fast car and then announces that she plans to live in Madrid with one of the hangers-on so despised by Golder.
The family begins to fall apart, Golder's marriage breaks down, his daughter begs him for help and Golder secures the oil deal and makes himself a very rich man before taking a fateful trip to his childhood home in Russia.
Golder is played by David Suchet and Anna Francolini is the voice of Irène Némirovsky. Elizabeth Bell plays Gloria, Golder's wife, and Francesca Dymond his daughter, Joyce. The story is dramatised by Ellen Dryden.
Producer/Ellen Dryden
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Claudia Hammond investigates the latest research into the working of the five-year-old brain and asks whether they are really designed to cope with today's classrooms.
The programme asks if a deeper understanding of brain development could help educationalists get better results in the classroom and, if so, why aren't they listening? Claudia talks to the researchers challenging the educational establishment and finds out why education policy often takes so long to catch up with the scientific evidence.
Presenter/Claudia Hammond, Producer/Alexandra Feachem
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Afternoon Play – Arabian Afternoons Ep 1/3
Arabian Afternoons are three contemporary dramas inspired by tales from The Arabian Nights.
A king called Shahrayar, once betrayed in love, has a custom where he enjoys his brides on their wedding night and then kills them at dawn. But one woman, Shahrazad, manages to survive, night after night, by telling the king stories.
These three afternoon plays are framed by Shahrazad's voice as she describes rare and strange places for her husband, the murderous king.
The stakes are high – as each tale comes to a close, Shahrazad will learn whether it has earned her a night's reprieve. But Shahrazad's tales are set in 2010, not medieval Arabia. In all the tales, Sirine Saba plays Shahrazad and Shahrayar is played by Kevork Malikyan.
Monday's tale, The Casper Logue Affair, written by Sebastian Baczkiewicz, is an absurd black comedy thriller set in Baghdad. Junior diplomat Bob Goldacre is in trouble: the American businessman he was looking after has vanished from a Baghdad street. Young Iraqi couple Aseera and Rahim are in even more trouble, because they had something to do with it. As the suspects pile up, Goldacre has his work cut out if he wants to save his career and make sure that justice is done.
Betsabeh Emran is Aseera, Sargon Yelda is Rahim, Trevor White is Goldacre, Bruce Alexander is Hammond, Nathan Osgood is Casper, Rufus Wright is Kindermann, John Biggins is Carlton and Alison Pettit is Charlene.
In Rachel Joyce's story, The Porter And The Three Ladies, Shahrazad has one last night to tell a story before the king kills her in the morning. She chooses one about freedom: the adventures of an out-of-luck journalist, Joe, who has been sent by his ruthless editor to find the story that sells newspapers or else he will lose his job. But what Joe discovers in Damascus are three beautiful women with a terrible secret. But will their story save Joe's job and will Joe's story save Shahrazad for another day?
Stephen Tompkinson plays Joe, Joanna Monro is Margot, Indira Varma is Mira, Jasmine Jones is Affyah and Melissa Advani is Juliba.
In Wednesday's tale, A Dish Of Pomegranates, by Peter Jukes, Ajib is stopped by security officers as he tries to fly out of Ben Gurion airport on his way home to the US. They don't think his story adds up, so Ajib has to try to make them believe his story, which might be tricky for even him to believe.
William El-Gardi is Ajib, Betsabeh Emran is Orit, Zubin Varla is Rafi, Allan Corduner is Howard and Keely Beresford is Julia. Other members of the cast include Stefan Kalipha, Mozaffar Shafeie, David Seddon and Rufus Wright.
Producer/Abigail le Fleming
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Click On Ep 1/5
Simon Cox returns for another series exploring the ways the digital world is changing how people live their lives.
Whether it's the device in your pocket, on your desk or built into nearly every part of the world around us, technology is part of the fabric of people's daily lives.
Each week, Simon presents a blend of stories ranging from the very latest cutting-edge developments to the day-to-day practical ways technology impacts on everyone.
As well as responding to the technology stories of the week, the series carries a range of features including subjects such as cyber warfare and whether it will be the "weapons of mass destruction" of the future; whether technology is enabling criminals to continue their activities beyond prison walls; evaluating technologies aiming to translate foreign languages; and the use of three-dimensional animations by forensic teams to show how crimes have allegedly taken place.
Presenter/Simon Cox, Producer/Peter McManus
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The Unbelievable Truth Ep 1/6
David Mitchell hosts the fifth series of the acclaimed general knowledge-based comedy panel game in which four comedians are encouraged to tell lies, and compete against one another to see how many items of truth they are able to smuggle past their opponents.
Each panellist has to deliver a lecture on a given topic, for example Elizabeth I, cats, or the human body, which must be entirely untrue, except for five unlikely facts. The job of their opponents is to challenge if they think they've detected an item of truth.
The series features the comic talents of Graeme Garden, Marcus Brigstocke, Lucy Porter, Henning Wehn, Phill Jupitus, Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith, Catherine Tate, Liza Tarbuck, Susan Calman, Fred MacAulay and Charlie Brooker.
The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the team behind BBC Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.
Presenter/David Mitchell, Producer/Jon Naismith
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Presenter Tom Heap investigates Masdar City in Abu Dhabi, which may be the world's first eco-city.
As more and more people are living in cities, Tom visits Abu Dhabi to see if oil money can build a green vision and to find out if the world's first eco-city has become a reality.
Architects, developers and visionaries have been promising eco-cities for the past decade. Dongtan was supposed to be the green Shanghai; the Thames corridor was supposed to be a linear eco-city; Florida is building a car-free city for 100,000; and eco towns were to spread around the UK. But time and time again, economic reality intrudes, plans are shelved or diluted and another commuter suburb is thrown up with a token turbine.
Billions of US dollars have been committed by the government to ensure Masdar City in Abu Dhabi is the first zero-carbon conurbation. And Norman Foster has been employed to create a car- and skyscraper-free city powered by the sun. If anyone can do it then the hugely ambitious rulers of Abu Dhabi are the men to back.
With the great and good of the sustainability movement gathered together in Masdar City in early 2010, it's a perfect opportunity to test the concept.
Presenter/Tom Heap, Producer/Helen Lennard
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Book At Bedtime – Dancing Backwards Ep 1/10
This week's Book At Bedtime is Salley Vickers's new novel, Dancing Backwards, read by Dame Eileen Atkins.
Violet Hetherington's husband has recently died. Alone, she decides to take a cruise-ship crossing to visit her old friend, Edwin, in New York.
As she journeys across the Atlantic, the quiet Violet begins to blossom, learning to ballroom dance and befriending a famously seething theatre critic. In her time alone, she reminisces about her early adulthood as a student at Cambridge. It's at Cambridge that she met Edwin. Edwin, it soon becomes clear, is someone she's betrayed and someone of whom she is both terrified and desperate to see again. The story that unfolds about the young Violet holds the secret to that betrayal.
Reader/Dame Eileen Atkins, Producer/Kirsty Williams
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 29 March 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman has all the day's sports news and is joined by special guests for the Monday Night Club to discuss the latest big issues in football.
At 8pm there's Premier League commentary of Manchester City versus Wigan, live from Eastlands, with regular updates from Newcastle's game against Nottingham Forest in the Championship.
From 10pm, Mark is joined Tim Lovejoy for Football Express, taking a quick-fire look at the latest big football stories.
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Francesca Bent
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Monday 29 March 2010
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Swimming
Uninterrupted commentary from the British Championships and Commonwealth Trials comes live from Sheffield.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Football
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary on Newcastle United versus Nottingham Forest in the Championship.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 29 March 2010
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Phoenix, French pioneers of all things electro indie pop, join Lauren Laverne for a live session in the BBC 6 Music studios. Their 2009 album, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, was a career high point for the Parisians both critically and commercially, picking up a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Album in January this year.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales
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Gideon Coe presents music from Orbital and Jeff Buckley, both recorded live at the Glastonbury Festival in 1995. There are also BBC session tracks from American singer-songwriter Kurt Vile, recorded for Marc Riley, a BBC 6 Music session from Speck Mountain, the legendary "agit" post-punk group The Au Pairs recorded for John Peel in 1980 and, from 1970, a super-rare recording of UK progressive rockers Fairfield Parlour.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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Paolo Hewitt tells the story of The Who – the band whose final gig may be this week. They are due to perform Quadrophenia at the Royal Albert Hall for the Teenage Cancer Trust, but Pete Townshend's tinnitus may get the better of him and bring their touring days to a close.
This programme was first broadcast in 2002.
Presenter/Paolo Hewitt, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 29 March 2010
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Ravi Shankar may be about to turn 90 but he's still inspiring today's British Asian DJs and artists. BBC Asian Network celebrates his birthday and looks at how he brought Indian music to the world stage, paving the way for generations to come. Performing in front of hippies "getting high" in the Sixties to collaborating with underground DJs and pop musicians in the Noughties, Ravi Shankar has worked hard to have the art of the sitar respected.
In this Asian Network Report Special, musicians Karsh Kale, Bishi and Diamond from Swami explain how Shankar has inspired them and why, at 90 years of age, his influence is still relevant today.
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One of the first British Asian bands, Asian Dub Foundation, is reforming for a one-off concert as part of the Bangladesh Day celebrations in East London. Bobby Friction features this very special performance in his show this evening.
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