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West End stars Jodie Prenger and Graham Bickley take Friday Night Is Music Night to the 60th anniversary of the King's Lynn Festival in tonight's show.

Ken Bruce is the host as Jodie and Graham celebrate the magic of the movies and remind listeners of the delights of films such as New York, New York, Meet Me In St Louis, Dirty Dancing and Toy Story. And what movie music show would be complete without a nod to iconic spy James Bond, 007?

Richard Balcombe conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra with pianist Andy Vinter.

Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Jodie Keane for the BBC

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BBC PROMS 2010
Performance On 3 – Prom 75

Friday 10 September

7.30-9.30pm BBC RADIO 3

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Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Monteverdi's Vespers. Published 400 years ago in 1610, Monteverdi's choral masterpiece is a conspectus and summation of the different styles of Venetian church music of the 1600s. Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir perform the music with which they made their BBC Proms debut back in 1968.

Tonight's Prom is presented by Martin Handley and is also broadcast live on BBC Four.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Clive Portbury

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John F Jungclaussen, UK correspondent of Die Zeit newspaper, travels to Luebeck in Northern Germany in the last programme of this series telling stories of the Blitz from around the UK. Listeners hear about the experience of being bombed from the "other side", as John tells the story of the night when one German city came under attack.

John's family come from this part of Germany and his father was born in a village near Luebeck, just a few days before the air raid.

Luebeck was bombed on the night before Palm Sunday in March 1942. The raid marked a change of tactics by the British and led to the destruction by fire of many of the medieval buildings at the heart of the city. Several hundred people were killed, and many more lost their homes.

On his journey into the past, John meets some of those people who were in Luebeck at the time of the bombing. Kurt Adler – a 14-year-old schoolboy in 1942 – remembers the terror of the raid and climbing to the top of his family home where he watched the flames of the burning city. He recalls the moment when the bells in one of the nearby churches suddenly stopped ringing – the fire had burnt through the bell ropes, sending them crashing to the ground.

Today those molten, twisted bells are preserved where they fell in St Mary's Church as a memorial to the bombing and those who died in it. John meets the pastor of the church who tells him about the work that has gone on in the intervening years to build up reconciliation between the two former enemies.

This programme is part of a season of special programmes on BBC Radio 4 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Blitz.

Presenter/John F Jungclaussen, Producer/Louise Adamson for Juniper Productions

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Each year, the Royal Geographical Society offers a prize to the most enterprising "dream travel" idea. Part of the prize is an opportunity to make a radio documentary about the trip.

Further details of this programme will be available closer to transmission.

Producer/Simon Elmes for the BBC

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What The Nun Discovered and yesterday's Afternoon Play, What The Bishops Knew were commissioned together – one explores the collapse of faith while the other explores a rebirth of faith in the Irish Catholic Church.

After 25 years as a missionary in Uganda, Sr MaryJo returns home to an Ireland she barely recognises and a Church which has lost much of its moral authority. But seeing this as a test, she sets about reasserting the core values by which she has lived her life, and rehabilitating a priest who was once her superior.

Her years in Uganda have taught Sr MaryJo lessons long overdue in the place of her birth.

The cast includes Marcella Riordan as MaryJo; Pat Laffan as Fr Paul; Lise-Ann McLaughlin as Sr Frances; Julia Dearden as Sr Agnes; Stella McCusker as Sr Bernadette; Ali White as Cathy; and Des Nealon as The Mayor.

What The Nun Discovered is written by Harriet O'Carroll. Harriet started writing short stories in 1979. They were published in anthologies, won competitions and have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and RTE Radio.

Producer/Eoin O'Callaghan for the BBC

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BBC Radio 4's tag-team talk show continues as voice of The Simpsons, face of Derek Smalls and political satirist Harry Shearer takes the microphone to interview the multi-award-winning co-creator of The Office and Extras, and famously tall comedian, Stephen Merchant.

Harry asks Stephen what it's like to be part of a creative double act with Ricky Gervais, broadcasting radio from the bushes and sharing a hot tub with playboy bunnies!

Presenter/Lee Mack, Producer/Lianne Coop for the BBC

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This is the story of the comi-tragic siege of Skylarks Residential Home for the Elderly by Francesca Joseph, improvised by members of the cast who provided the dialogue for the play.

Peter and Veronica Pleasance are residents of Skylarks Residential Home for the Elderly. They haven't spoken to their high-flying son, Edward – managing director of Trixel Technologies – for more than 20 years. When one of their son's employees, Oludayo Akano, is kidnapped in Nigeria, son Jerome Akano decides it is time for some action.

Along with his friends – Damien, who is trying to make a name for himself as an activist, and Chalky, along for the ride – Jerome attacks the residential home in order to hold Peter and Veronica Pleasance ransom in the name of Akano.

This fast-moving play hurtles towards a surprising climax.

The cast includes Karl Johnson as Peter; Marlene Sidaway as Veronica; David Hargreaves as Jack; Peter Martin as Leo; Christine Brennan as Tracy; Nathan Stewart-Jarrett as Jerome; Danny Dalton as Damien; Stefan Gumbs as Chalky; and Muzz Khan as PC Singh.

Producer/Susan Roberts for the BBC

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In Kicking Off With Colin Murray, the presenter is joined by regulars Pat Nevin and Perry Groves for a look ahead to the weekend's Premier League and Championship fixtures.

From 8.30pm, 5 Live Formula 1, presented by David Croft, Anthony Davidson and Holly Samos, is live from Monza ahead of the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday.

Presenters/Colin Murray, David Croft, Anthony Davidson and Holly Samos, Producers/Jason Swale and Mike Carr

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Cricket

Friday 10 September

10.00am-6.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary on England versus Pakistan in the first One Day International, live from the Riverside with the Test Match Special commentary team.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Signed to Domino records, Kendal-based avant-rockers Wild Beasts were one of the nominated bands for this year's Mercury Prize for their second studio album Two Dancers. The band are led by Hayden Thorpe, who is also known for his countertenor voice. Wild Beasts choose today's lunchtime playlist.

Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

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Chess is an ancient game and its popularity has spanned many centuries – but how is it faring in modern times? Simon Terrington, a self-confessed chess fanatic, explores the game in today's world and examines whether modern technology is changing the game and the way it is played.

He also questions whether people still have the time, in today's increasingly fast-paced way of life, to master this game. Simon reaffirms his love for chess by absorbing the passion it generates, from grandmasters to community club players; from the World Chess Championship to the chess boards of a Bulgarian park.

Presenter/Simon Terrington

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