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Desmond Carrington dips into his personal record collection of some 250,000 titles once more, this time in search of music related to a "bandstand" theme.

Desmond celebrates the talents of brass and silver bands, as well as the military on display.

Presenter/Desmond Carrington, Producer/Dave Aylott

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Claudia Winkleman has a special report from the Cannes Film Festival in this week's Arts Show. She is also in discussion with art critic Estelle Lovatt.

Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Jessica Rickson

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Ian McMillan presents BBC Radio 3's cabaret of the spoken word, this week featuring a brand new commission from Tracy Chevalier.

Tracy shot to fame with her second novel, Girl With A Pearl Earring, which sold 4 million copies worldwide and was turned into a film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johansson.

Her writing since then has taken in the lives of other historical and cultural figures, from poet William Blake in Burning Bright to fossil hunter Mary Anning in Remarkable Creatures.

Tracy is one of a host of celebrated novelists, including recently Lionel Shriver, Neil LaBute, Sue Townsend and Neil Gaiman, to have written for The Verb, which every week features a new piece of short fiction specially commissioned for the programme.

Presenter/Ian McMillan, Producer/Laura Thomas

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Neil MacGregor concludes the first week of the second part of his global history as told through objects from the British Museum with the story of Caesar Augustus, represented by a 2,000-year-old bronze head.

Concluding a week of examinations of powerful rulers from Alexander the Great in Egypt to Asoka in India, Neil today explains how the power and God-like status of Augustus was enshrined in a larger-than-life bronze head with striking eyes.

He describes how Augustus dramatically enlarged the Roman Empire, establishing his image as one of its most familiar objects. Historian Susan Walker and Mayor of London Boris Johnson help explain the power and methodology of Augustus.

Presenter/Neil MacGregor, Producers/Philip Sellars, Paul Kobrak, Anthony Denselow and Jane Lewis

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i-Shrine explores how the internet and technology is changing the way people deal with death.

Today people leave vast data legacies of the lives they have lived. i-Shrine explores what happens to these legacies of data.

Producer/Peregrine Andrews

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BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Colin Murray

Colin Murray presents Kicking Off With Colin Murray talking about the latest sports news with special guests and looking ahead to forthcoming sporting action.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Louise Sutton

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Rugby League

Friday 21 May

7.55-9.45pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can enjoy live uninterrupted commentary of the Super League match between St Helens and Hull Kingston Rovers.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Full-bodied friend of the show, Nick Frost joins Shaun Keaveny live in studio to talk about playing the lead role of John Self in a new BBC Two adaptation of Martin Amis's Money.

Matt Everitt has the day's music news, a listener gets a wake-up call in My Morning Racket, and Shaun asks listeners for their Earworms – songs that are stuck on repeat in their heads.

Presenter/Shaun Keaveny, Producer/Nic Philps

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

Formed in London in 1969, UFO evolved from a trippy outfit dabbling in cosmic space rock to one of the world's greatest purveyors of classy, anthemic hard rock.

In fact UFO could be the archetypal hard rock band, complete with preening front-man, mercurial lead guitarists and a bass player whose antics are the stuff of legend (rock lore has it that Sharon Osbourne wouldn't allow Pete Way anywhere near Ozzy, as he was a bad example).

The band has worked with the likes of George Martin and, in 1979, released one of the all-time classic live albums, Strangers In The Night.

UFO enjoyed intermittent success in the Eighties and Nineties, when American guitarist Vinnie Moore joined in 2004 he brought not only his considerable talents to UFO but also a much needed stability. Subsequently the band is enjoying something of a renaissance, with current album The Visitor giving them the most critical acclaim they've had in years.

Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan

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