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Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to singer-songwriter Judie Tzuke in this week's programme, as she reflects on a career that spans over 30 years.

Rabbi Pete Tobias also explains more about the Jewish harvest festival of Shavuot, which falls this week.

Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson

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This week's show includes music by Malcolm Arnold, Betty Driver, Glenn Miller and Vaughan Williams.

Plus Alan Titchmarsh's A-Z Of Operetta reaches E and looks at the life of singer Nelson Eddy.

Presenter/Alan Titchmarsh, Producer/Bridget Apps

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Brian D'Arcy celebrates the feast of the Ascension

Brian D'Arcy celebrates the feast of the Ascension with hymns, prayers and reflection.

This week's featured choir is the Blossom Street Singers directed by Hilary Campbell. The organist is Andrew Earis and hymns include Alleluia Sing To Jesus and Crown Him With Many Crowns.

Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty

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American composer John Adams, one of the most successful contemporary composers of operas and orchestral works, talks to Michael Berkeley about the music that makes him tick.

John Adams's best-known works, often on contemporary or controversial themes, include the operas Nixon In China, based on Richard Nixon's epoch-making 1972 meeting with the Chinese leader Mao Tse Tung; The Death Of Klinghoffer, about the terrorist hijacking of the cruise liner Achille Lauro and the murder of an elderly American passenger; and Doctor Atomic (2005), which deals with Robert Oppenheimer and the building of the first US atomic bomb. His minimalist orchestral and ensemble works have entered the contemporary repertoire and earned him a wide international audience.

John's musical tastes encompass popular American masterpieces such as Sousa's The Stars And Stripes Forever, Duke Ellington's The Tattooed Bride and the Beach Boys' Good Vibrations, as well as a series of extraordinary works written towards the end of composers' lives: a late Beethoven string quartet; Schubert's last great piano sonata; Hagen's monologue from Act One of Wagner's opera Gotterdammerung; and Debussy's elusive ballet score, Jeux.

Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Sarah Cropper

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Broadcaster and journalist Edward Seckerson tells the remarkable story of the use of the early telephone to relay live entertainment and news direct to subscribers' homes in the late 19th and early 20th century.

The gasps of admiration at Alexander Graham Bell's 1876 invention had barely died away before the new medium was being seen not just as a means of conversation, but as an instrument for relaying live music. As soon as 1881, live performances from two Paris opera houses were being transmitted to a great electrical exhibition at the French capital's Palais d'Industrie. The big, bold sound of opera was particularly suited to overcoming the technical shortcomings of the earliest telephone equipment.

Opera was to have an honoured place in entertainment-by-telephone history. In London, for example, Covent Garden performances could be accessed live in private homes, gentlemen's clubs and hotels. Opera was standard fare for telephone subscribers in Budapest. In the USA, one piece of educational expertise saw subscribers "taught" operas by an interweaving of spoken libretto and recordings of arias.

The Pleasure Telephone also looks at the breadth of other entertainment offered via the telephone at this time. The most astonishing developments took place in Budapest, where the Telefon Hirmondo company offered what we would now fully recognise as a radio station.

Presenter/Edward Seckerson, Producer/Andrew Green

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Poetry Please Ep 1/10

Sunday 16 May

4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Roger McGough introduces requests for poems learnt by heart while at school, in the first of a new series of Poetry Please.

The programme, called Old Chestnuts Warmed Up, includes classic works by AA Milne, Thomas Hardy and some anonymous writers.

Presenter/Roger McGough, Producers/Mark Smalley and Tim Dee

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In Perpetual Love Affair, Selina Cadell reads a selection of Jan Morris's travel writing about Venice.

Henry James felt that the inevitable relationship with Venice was "a perpetual love affair". In this piece about the city, travel writer Jan Morris notes particularly the children of Venice and its cats.

The programme is abridged and produced by Christine Hall.

Reader/Selina Cadell, Producer/Christine Hall

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5 Live Sport

Sunday 16 May

12.00noon-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Colin Murray presents 5 Live Sport with the latest sport news and live action.

There's live coverage of the second League Two semi-final play-off first-leg match, at 1.30pm. At 1pm there's also F1 coverage of the Monaco Grand Prix.

Listeners can also hear coverage of the Blue Square Conference play-off final at Wembley, with the winners securing a place in the Football League.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Adrian Williams

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Listeners can hear an hourly rerun of the overnight WBA light-welterweight title fight as Amir Khan defends his title against American Paulie Malignaggi at Madison Square Garden, New York.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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World Twenty20 Cricket

Sunday 16 May

4.00-7.45pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
8.45pm-12.15am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on the men's final (4pm) and women's final (8.45pm) of the ICC World Twenty20, live from Bridgetown, Barbados, comes from the Test Match Special team.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Comedian and actor Peter Serafinowicz joins Adam Buxton to create a tape of songs which are funny, intentionally or not. Peter made his name on British TV in a number of classic comedies including Black Books, Spaced and Smack The Pony and went on to host his own show, appropriately titled the Peter Serafinowicz Show.

Presenter/Adam Buxton, Producer/James Stirling

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Fun Lovin' Criminal and BBC 6 Music presenter Huey Morgan

One of the most seminal rock 'n' roll albums of all time, The Rolling Stones's Exile On Main Street, gets a reissue this year accompanied by 10 unearthed tracks. In the biggest interview of his radio career, Huey Morgan hangs out with his hero, one of the most famous men in rock, Mick Jagger.

Huey quizzes Mick about the making of the album which, in his eyes, defined them as a band. What was that long hot summer of 1971 like, living in tax exile in the South of France, recording in Keith Richard's infamous rented mansion, Villa Nellcote? From Rip This Joint to Tumbling Dice, Torn And Frayed and All Down The Line – how did the songs come about and how were they recorded in that sweltering basement, once a former residence of the Nazis?

Mick has been occasionally dismissive of the album which had a lukewarm reception when it came out, but has gone on to be hailed as a masterpiece. How does he feel about it now? As well as picking apart the record Huey finds out about the new cuts and talks about Stones In Exile, a new documentary to be aired on the BBC about the making of the record. He also asks about upcoming plans for the band – when will they be back out on the road?

Rolling Stones fans can also hear BBC Radio 2's documentary on the making of Exile On Main Street, Exile Of The Stones, on Radio 2 on Wednesday 19 May at 10pm.

Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Rebecca Maxted

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DJ and producer James Lavelle takes over the 6 Mix, playing tracks from his eagerly awaited new UNKLE album. James, who in his own words, became a DJ "because I couldn't break dance and I was no good at graffiti", founded influential hop-hip and electronic label Mo' Wax in the mid Nineties, releasing DJ Shadow's seminal Endtroducing album.

In 1998 he joined forces with Shadow to release the album Psyence Fiction under the name UNKLE, collaborating with Thom Yorke, Richard Ashcroft and the Beastie Boys on the record. Since then, Lavelle has released five other UNKLE albums, as well as carving out a career as an international DJ with a long-time residency at London's Fabric nightclub.

In his 6 Mix, James plays tracks from the new UNKLE album Where Did The Night Fall, and talks about collaborating on the record with Mark Lanagen, Sleepy Sun and Autolux. There's also an hour-long club mix from James, playing a selection of upfront new music he's found on his DJ travels.

Presenter/James Lavelle, Producer/Rowan Collinson

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The Live Music Hour features Skunk Anansie live at the Glastonbury Festival in 1999, plus sessions from Powerhouse and Daisy Chainsaw.

Presenter/Chris Hawkins, Producer/Claire Slevin

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