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Network Radio BBC Week 37: 11-17 September
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Network Radio BBC Week 37: Saturday 11 September 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 11 September 2010
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Zoe Ball sits in for Dermot O'Leary, presenting his Saturday afternoon show.
This week's Saturday Sessions come from: I Am Kloot, whose last album, Sky At Night, was produced by Elbow frontman and BBC 6 Music presenter Guy Garvey and nominated for the 2010 Mercury Music Prize; and Canadian indie rock band Wintersleep.
Guy Garvey can be heard on 6 Music this week on Sunday morning between 10am-12noon.
Presenter/Zoe Ball, Producer/Ben Walker for Labora TV
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BBC PROMS 2010
BBC Proms In The Park
BBC Proms In The Park, presented by Sir Terry Wogan, comes live from London's Hyde Park this evening.
Now in its 15th year, BBC Proms In The Park has become Britain's largest outdoor classical music event and is once again expected to attract around 40,000 music-lovers to join the fun and the magic of the nationwide Last Night Of The Proms celebrations.
This year's special guests in Hyde Park include award-winning soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, who performs with the winner of the BBC Radio 2 Kiri Prize, Radio 2's nationwide search for an opera star.
José Carreras makes a welcome return to Hyde Park – it is his third visit to BBC Proms In The Park – and he joins his friend Dame Kiri in duet and song. West End and Broadway star Kerry Ellis and Queen guitarist Brian May perform music from their latest collaboration, Anthem; songwriting genius Neil Sedaka closes the show with songs from a career spanning five decades; and the BBC Concert Orchestra, under the baton of Martin Yates, play a selection of popular classics.
Finally, Gareth Malone is on hand to conduct the Hyde Park crowd in the nation's biggest sing-along and the Last Night Of The Proms finale.
Presenter/Sir Terry Wogan, Producer/Bridget Apps for the BBC
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Bob Harris
Tonight's programme comes live from Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee, following the ninth Americana Music Association Awards held on Thursday (9 September).
Bob Harris chats to and hears acoustic session performances from many of those involved, including Raul Malo, formerly of The Mavericks.
Highlights of the ninth Americana Music Association Awards can be heard on Bob Harris's country music show on Thursday night at 7pm.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 11 September 2010
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Lucie Skeaping examines the inspiration, background and impact of John Gay's celebrated Beggar's Opera, which appeared in London in 1728 as a reaction to the excesses and pretensions of fashionable Italian opera at the time.
Far from the exalted realms of the ancient heroes and the classical gods, The Beggar's Opera concentrates on the worst of 18th-century London street life, featuring beggars, cut-throats, thieves and prostitutes singing the popular ballad tunes of the day.
Lucie Skeaping considers the London lust for ballads and ballad-singing at this time, and is joined by Jeremy Barlow of the Broadside Band at Lincoln's Inn Fields – the home to the first performances of The Beggar's Opera – to consider Gay's radical operatic satire the ballads inspired.
Presenter/Lucie Skeaping, Producer/Chris Wines
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Fifty years after 16 countries in Africa became independent, Lucy Duran and French journalist Florent Mazzoleni play rare tracks from that period. Music was to play a central role in the search for new identity. It was in the Sixties and Seventies that some of the continent's greatest dance music was created. Today's programme celebrates countries that became independent in the second half of 1960, including Burkina Fasso, Nigeria, Benin and Mali.
Based in Bordeaux, French writer and photographer Florent Mazzoleni has travelled all over Africa collecting music and documenting the soundtrack of the golden era of Atlantic African music.
The programme includes tracks from Florent's collection, many of which have not been re-released since their limited pressing in the Sixties and Seventies – let alone played on British radio. These are tracks that reflect a unique period in African history: a period of liberation and short-lived optimism.
Presenter/Lucy Duran, Producer/James Parkin
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Fiona Shaw and Robert Glenister read poetry and prose on the theme of summer: from John Clare's Shepherd's Calendar; Walt Whitman's "mad, naked summer night"; and Jay Gatsby's "party".
The programme includes music from George Gershwin, Dvořák, Joan Baez, Mendelssohn and Toru Takemitsu.
Readers/Fiona Shaw and Robert Glenister, Producer/Fiona McLean
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BBC PROMS 2010
Last Night Of The Proms
Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein host the traditional Last Night Of The Proms festivities, as Jiří Bělohlávek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra perform an evening of great music live from London's Royal Albert Hall. American soprano Renée Fleming – known for her roles as great operatic heroines – sings a series of intimate songs by Richard Strauss and what is perhaps her signature piece, Rusalka's romantic Song To The Moon.
Ukrainian-born viola player Maxim Rysanov performs his own arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Variations On A Rococo Theme and movements from Vaughan Williams's rarely heard Viola Suite.
Other works include the première of Jonathan Dove's joyous setting of a poem by Walt Whitman, A Song Of Joys, and Tchaikovsky's sun-drenched homage to Italy, Capriccio Italien. All this and the traditional Last Night fare look set to make it one of the musical highlights of the year.
Presenters/Sean Rafferty and Suzy Klein, Producers/Brian Jackson and Ann McKay
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BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 11 September 2010
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Paul Morley explores the music people were really listening to during the Blitz of the Second World War – and finds that there is much more to it than Dame Vera Lynn's We'll Meet Again...
Paul speaks to Tony Benn about his memories of popular music during the Blitz as he experienced it, and what other members of the public were really humming during this time of crisis. Social historian Juliet Gardiner, musicologist Tim Healey and music therapist Stewart Wood also talk to Paul about the mood of the time and why the music that evokes the war to us is often not the music that was actually being listened to.
A living room in 1940 would be more likely to resound to the tune of When You Wish Upon A Star from Pinocchio than to that of The White Cliffs Of Dover. Morley investigates what people were really singing and dancing to in the Cafe de Paris in London's West End on the night it was bombed in March 1940, and finds that it was not the American Lindy Hop swing that many people picture when they think of nightlife during the Blitz. In fact, people were still doing the foxtrot and the waltz to numbers such as Oh Johnny Oh, played by the band.
This programme is part of a season of special programmes on BBC Radio 4 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Blitz.
Presenter/Paul Morley, Producer/Victoria Shepherd for Juniper Productions
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Samuel West stars as RJ Mitchell in a moving drama by Mike Walker about the most famous British fighter aircraft in history, marking the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
Framed by recollections from veteran pilot Geoffrey Wellum, the play features specially made recordings of RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfires, including the only Spitfire still flying today to have fought in the Battle.
Inspired by real people and real events, the play traces RJ Mitchell's design from creation to legend and the fortunes of two young pilots who join a frontline Spitfire squadron just as the Battle of Britain begins.
Many factors were important in the Battle, but it was the excellence of the Spitfire which most famously evened the odds in the fight against the Luftwaffe. Mike Walker's play gives a feeling of what it was like to fly the legendary plane which became, in test pilot Jeffrey Quill's words, "a symbol of defiance and victory".
Other cast members include: Rory Kinnear as Pirate; Joe Coen as Ted; Samuel Barnett as Tony; David Horovitch as Stanley Baldwin; David Troughton as Air Marshal Dowding; Stephen Critchlow as Squadron Commander; Ben Crowe as Newsreel Announcer; Lucas Motion as Sammy; Abigail Thaw as Alice; and Ruth Wilson as Daphne.
Producer/Amber Barnfather for Goldhawk Essential Productions
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Comedian and writer Alexei Sayle's parents were, in Liverpool, unusual. Both Communists, his mother from a Lithuanian Jewish family, his father a railway union official, they gave their son Gorki's first name. For more than a decade, from the late Fifties, Alexei accompanied his parents to trade union conferences, mostly in seaside towns.
These were important times in British and international industrial politics. There were national strikes in shipbuilding and engineering; the redundancy without pay or notice of 6,000 car workers; the London bus strike; the fight for equal pay; responses to de-colonisation; the Aberfan disaster; and Barbara Castle's In Place Of Strife.
Alexei selects the choicest pieces of archive to conjure the atmosphere of these important events. Set against this is his personal story of these years, his interaction as a child with the characters involved, and his own development – politically, personally, and even physically. He brings his inside knowledge to bear, revealing how the biggest bruisers were, at the closing balls, the most deft of dancers and how comrades from France and Eastern Europe were nonplussed by their encounter with Brown Windsor soup.
The programme is repeated on Monday 13 September, the same day that the 2010 TUC Conference opens in Manchester.
Presenter/Alexei Sayle, Producer/Julian May for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 11 September 2010
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BBC Radio 5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch presents all the latest sports news and live action.
From 1pm, there's coverage of the qualifying session of the Italian Grand Prix in Monza and tennis reports from "Super Saturday" at the US Open, ahead of the men's semis and women's final. There are also updates from rugby union's Premiership, including Harlequins versus Northampton and Bath versus London Irish.
From 3pm, there's live coverage of today's 3pm Premier League kick-offs, including West Ham United versus Chelsea, Manchester City versus Blackburn and Newcastle versus Blackpool.
At 5pm, Mark presents the hour-long Sports Report, with reports and reaction from all the day's big games and the classified results read by James Alexander Gordon.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mark Williams
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Saturday 11 September 2010
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5 Live Cricket
Commentary comes from the semi finals of the 40 over league.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Commentary from the men's semi finals at the US Open comes live from Flushing Meadows, New York.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Saturday 11 September 2010
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Robert "Kool" Bell from Kool And The Gang is in conversation with Craig Charles.
Craig talks to his disco hero about the past and future, from the band's beginnings in New Jersey, through the glory days of hits including Jungle Boogie, Celebration and Ladies Night, to what they're up to now.
Presenter/Craig Charles, Producer/Hermeet Chadha for Demus
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Network Radio BBC Week 37: Sunday 12 September 2010
BBC RADIO 1 Sunday 12 September 2010
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Reggie Yates is joined by McFly on today's official chart show. The Brit Award-winning band, originally from London, are back on the scene with their new single Party Girl. Reggie also catches up with Alesha Dixon on the show.
Presenter/Reggie Yates, Producer/Adele Cross
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BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 12 September 2010
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Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to singer/songwriter Rob Halligan and talks to him about how he lost his father in the 9/11 attacks in New York.
The programme's faith guests this week are Catholic songwriting duo Boyce and Stanley who talk about their involvement with the Pope's visit to the UK. They also provide the Moment Of Reflection.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson for the BBC
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Taking a break from the stage, Jodie Prenger sits in for Paul O'Grady this week.
There's another Cocktail Hour track, the Northern Soul and Motown Triples and more of listeners' heartfelt Thank You messages. To get in touch with the show, listeners can email paulogrady@bbc.co.uk.
Presenter/Jodie Prenger, Producer/Malcolm Prince for the BBC
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Elvis Forever
In the year that the King of Rock 'n' Roll would have turned 75, Chris Evans presents a concert of Elvis's best-loved and most popular songs, live from London's Hyde Park.
Priscilla Presley will appear alongside a host of Elvis fans and musicians, including Craig David, Marti Pellow, Tony Hadley, Suzi Quatro, Scouting For Girls, Imelda May, Nell Bryden, Travis front man Fran Healy, Michael Ball, Tony Christie, Mica Paris and KT Tunstall.
"I am delighted to be appearing at Elvis Forever which I know will be a memorable celebration of Elvis's life and career," says Priscilla Presley. "He has many fans throughout the UK and we are all looking forward to this celebration at Hyde Park in London. I know Elvis would have been very pleased."
Craig David says: "Elvis was one of the coolest artists the world has ever seen. His music inspired me and to be asked to take part in this event is a real honour and something I am really looking forward to."
Marti Pellow, lead singer of Wet Wet Wet, is excited to be a part of this celebratory concert: "Elvis, like the city of Memphis, was and is a huge part of my reason for singing ... he is a singer's singer and he is known as the King of Rock 'n' Roll. Well, that kinda says it all ... if it's cool with Elvis then it's cool with me."
Spandau Ballet front man Tony Hadley says: "I'm thrilled to be a part of this event as I've always loved Elvis – an amazing man with a truly amazing voice. One of the pioneers of rock 'n' roll – what more can I say!"
Rock legend Suzi Quatro says: "I first saw Elvis on television when I was six years old, living in Detroit. From that moment on, I decided I would be just like him. It didn't occur to me that he was a guy! He definitely got me All Shook Up and I have loved him ever since. There is not, and never will be, anyone like him in this world again."
Roy Stride, lead singer of Scouting For Girls, adds: "We are so excited to be part of Elvis Presley's 75th birthday celebrations, and feel very privileged to be asked to play BBC Radio 2's Elvis Forever in Hyde Park. Elvis has always had a very special place in our hearts. We love him so much, we dedicated a song to him on our first album called Elvis Ain't Dead. We'll be playing our two favourite Elvis tunes: Hound Dog and Blue Suede Shoes. We love Elvis!"
Elvis Forever culminates in a spectacular firework finale and, over the following week, listeners can hear highlights from the concert across the station's daytime shows. The Radio 2 website (bbc.co.uk/radio2) will feature exclusive backstage footage and interviews from the event.
The concert is introduced by Richard Allinson.
Presenter/Chris Evans, Producer/Anthony Cherry for the BBC
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Last week, Brian D'Arcy looked at the contribution from women to the life of the Christian Church. This week, he turns his attention to the role of men.
While many hold positions of power and leadership, churches are working hard to attract more men into the pews, where male attendance is particularly low. Music comes from the choir and congregation of St Andrew's Church, West Tarring, featuring the voice of this year's BBC Radio 2 Young Chorister of the Year, Jacquelyne Hill.
This week's featured hymns include Christ For The World We Sing and Glorious Things Of Thee Are Spoken. The musical director is John Wardle and the organist is Richard Axtell.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Clair Jaquiss for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 12 September 2010
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Michael Berkeley's guest this week is Peter Bazalgette, the British media entrepreneur who has been a leading light in the independent TV production sector, responsible for reality shows such as the UK version of Big Brother, and lifestyle shows such as Ground Force, Changing Rooms, and Ready, Steady, Cook!
Peter Bazalgette's mother was a pianist, and his first choice is Alfred Brendel playing Schubert's Impromptu No. 3 in G flat, which his mother used to play. He was in the school choir, and remembers singing Britten's A Ceremony Of Carols, from which he has chosen Deo gracias. Peter was introduced to opera by his wife, and loves opera sung in English (as at English National Opera). He feels that Mozart's The Magic Flute is one of the most appealing and accessible operas for a newcomer, and has chosen A Man In Search Of Truth And Beauty from Act I.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Sarah Cropper
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Charles Hazlewood is joined by the BBC Concert Orchestra and composer Graham Fitkin to explore Fitkin's new BBC Radio 3 commission, Tidal.
Featuring an intriguing look into Fitkin's early work, musical influences and his current compositional techniques, the programme includes excerpts from the new work as well as the world première performance. Plus there's an inside look at a BBC Concert Orchestra education project which ran alongside this edition of Discovering Music.
Presenter/Charles Hazlewood, Producer/Sam Phillips
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In Brian Friel's classic play – one of the greats in the modern Irish canon – a faith healer returns to his native Ireland to a potentially terrible fate.
When fortune smiles, Frances Hardy's gifts are prodigious. Otherwise his devoted wife, Grace, can only watch on as he wages "a drunken feud between himself and his talent". Grace has given up a privileged background and a career in law to join Frank and his engaging wide-boy manager Teddy, touring remote corners of Scotland and Wales in a battered van. But now Frank senses that a return to his native land may be the only way to restore his waning powers. And so the fateful crossing is made, in a homecoming that will change the lives of all three for ever.
This new production for radio, directed by Peter Kavanagh, features Owen Roe, who performed the title role in Dublin and Edinburgh last year. Newcomers to the play are Lia Williams as Grace and Phil Daniels as Teddy.
Director/Peter Kavanagh
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Actor John Sessions follows the story of a sweeping medieval research project that's rewriting the history and context of early English drama.
The Records Of Early English Drama (Reed) is now one of the biggest research projects ever to have taken place in the study of English literature. Its brief is to establish the broad context from which the great drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries grew. But rather than look again at the extant texts and folios of the mystery plays and pageants of the early medieval period, a small army of Reed scholars, marshalled from their HQ at the University of Toronto, are combing through church and court records for any reference to plays, music, pageant and performance that they can find.
Very often the records are no more than court reports of wrongdoings: illegal performances, drunken revelry and bawdy performances. Occasionally there are snapshots of the plays that were put on by way of costume and performer costs, touring plans, venue preparation and even descriptions of events that took place. County by county, riding by riding the scholars are producing a brilliantly colourful picture of drama and entertainment from the early medieval period up until the closing of the theatres in 1642.
John Sessions follows Reed scholars into the archives, talks to them about the scale and discipline of their work – it can take over 10 years to cover one county – and asks scholars and performers, including Peter Holland and Mark Rylance, what all this new evidence does to their understanding and performance of early English theatre.
Presenter/John Sessions, Producer/Tom Alban
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BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 12 September 2010
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Sue MacGregor gathers together some of the Jewish children who were brought to safety in England by the Kindertransport movement of the Thirties.
From 2 December 1938 until war broke out nine months later, almost 10,000 Jewish children were rescued from Nazi persecution from Germany and the occupied territories of Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The operation became known as the Kindertransport movement.
Following the Kristallnacht attack on Jews in Germany, the British government decided to offer refuge to a limited number of Jewish children. They were sent without their parents by train and boat to England. They were only allowed to take a small suitcase and 10 Reichsmarks. When they arrived many were either placed in temporary hostels or with foster families. Many found kind homes, some were exploited as easy domestic help and others were neglected.
At first, the children had occasional written contact with their parents through the International Red Cross but, as the Second World War progressed, the communication ended.
Most of them never saw their mothers and fathers again. A small percentage were reunited with parents who had either spent the war in hiding or survived the Nazi camps but it was invariably impossible to re-establish family relationships.
Sue is joined around the table by Lord Dubs, Hella Pick, Ruth Humphries, Sir Erich Reich and Ruth Barnett.
Presenter/Sue MacGregor, Producer/Sarah Cuddon for Whistledown Productions
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Children Of The Olympic Bid Ep 1/2
Peter White returns with a new series of Children Of The Olympic Bid, which follows the London teenagers representing the sporting dreams of the nation.
When Lord Coe presented London's bid for the 2012 Games at the IOC meeting in Singapore on 6 July 2005 he was flanked on stage by a number of London teenagers. They were seen as crucial in helping secure victory over Paris – representing the sporting dreams of the nation. Peter has been following them, their families and those who train alongside them, providing a unique insight into the lives of the youngsters from very diverse backgrounds who are now making the transition from childhood to living independently – some staking all on the hope of competing in 2012.
Twenty-year-old athlete Jessica Manning, who stopped competing in heptathlons following her family's decision to move to Canada, helped lead the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. Meanwhile, 18-year-old Janani is set to take up a place at University College London – if only her uncles can talk her out of her increasing allegiance to protest groups.
Thomas Brown, a promising swimmer who narrowly missed out on competing in Beijing, is in family melt-down – and Michelle, his coach, despairs of him ever making the Paralympic 2012 team. In contrast Ellie has been selected to represent England in the Commonwealth Games. She is committed to her sport, although her family now lives in Australia where 50-metre pools are in plentiful supply.
For Amber Charles the dream of Olympic competition is a step nearer thanks to a basketball scholarship to a prestigious American university – and as if that wasn't enough, she's also fallen in love.
Presenter/Peter White, Producer/Sue Mitchell
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A View Through A Lens – The Ancient Mariners Ep 1/5
Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe, filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the fragility of life and the connections which unite society and nature across the globe.
It's November and on Bird Island in the South Atlantic Ocean John watches as Wandering Albatross chicks attempt to fly for the very first time. It takes a year to raise an Albatross chick until its wings are the largest of any bird. As well as these young chicks, one of the world's oldest birds, a grey-headed Albatross, also lives here on Bird Island. She still wears the ID ring with which she was fitted in 1959.
Glen Crossin, a biologist on the island, explains to John how it's only the skin on this Albatross's feet which shows her great age. It's thin and transparent, like the skin on Glen's grandmother's hands. As a boy, this was how Glen knew his grandmother was old.
Watching, filming and hearing stories about the Albatross – long-lived birds and among the greatest of all travellers – John is reminded of his own grandmother and is filled with respect for these two "old birds" as he considers their longevity and life experiences.
Presenter/John Aitchison, Producer/Sarah Blunt
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Poetry Please Ep 1/7
Roger McGough returns with an autumn series of Poetry Please.
Today's programme includes poems by DH Lawrence – including his great late masterpieces The Ship Of Death and Bavarian Gentians, and a pair of dazzling birds, Hummingbird and Turkey Cock – read by David Bamber.
Also featured are two new poems from Midlands veteran poet Roy Fisher.
Presenter/Roger McGough, Producer/Tim Dee for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 12 September 2010
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5 Live Sport
The day's sports coverage starts with 5 Live Sport's Sunday Roast, where Colin Murray is joined by special guests and fans in BBC Television Centre to discuss the day's action.
At 1pm there's live Formula 1 commentary of the Italian Grand Prix from Monza with David Croft, Anthony Davidson and Holly Samos.
From 4pm there's Premier League commentary of Birmingham City versus Liverpool live from St Andrew's.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Steve Houghton
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US Open Tennis
Jonathan Overend presents live commentary of the US Open Men's final from Flushing Meadows, New York, with Alastair Eykyn and David Law, plus expert analysis from Jeff Tarango.
Presenter/Jonathan Overend, Producer/Louise Sutton
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Sunday 12 September 2010
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5 Live Cricket
Uninterrupted commentary on England versus Pakistan in the second One Day International comes live from Headingley with the Test Match Special commentary team.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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5 Live NFL
In the first part of an American sport double bill, Arlo White presents commentary on the Wembley bound San Francisco 49'ers at the Seattle Seahawks, in the first weekend of the new NFL season.
Producer/Simon Crosse
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5 Live Baseball
There is more live American sporting action with baseball commentary on title-chasing Atlanta Braves against the St Louis Cardinals, at Turner Field in Atlanta.
Producer/Simon Crosse
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BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 12 September 2010
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Elbow front man and BBC 6 Music presenter Guy Garvey covers for Cerys Matthews while she's on holiday.
Presenter/Guy Garvey, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Fun Lovin' Criminal Huey Morgan chills out with the UK's most exciting jazz and hip hop artist, plus saxophonist and rapper, Soweto Kinch. They talk about Soweto's musical influences and the creation of his forthcoming album, The New Emancipation.
Former Beta Band front man Steve Mason continues his stint on Sharing Is Caring, adding to listeners' musical knowledge by introducing another of his favourite, lesser-known songs.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Becky Maxted for Wise Buddah
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New Zealand-born DJ Christopher Tubbs takes over the 6 Mix for Heads Down Radio: two hours of dance music from across the globe.
One half of the remix team Atlantic Conveyor, Chris was a DJ in his native Wellington before relocating to London to pursue his love of music. A founder member of Breaks Co-op with BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe, Chris crosses dance music genres from disco to dub via post-punk and future jazz and joins the dots between 30 years of experimental music.
Presenter/Christopher Tubbs, Producer/Rowan Collinson
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Network Radio BBC Week 37: Monday 13 September 2010
BBC RADIO 1 Monday 13 September 2010
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BBC Radio 1's Daniel P Carter presents The Story Of Linkin Park who, since forming in 1996, have sold 50 million albums, collaborated with the likes of Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes, and continued to spearhead the genres of new metal and rap rock where other bands have fallen by the wayside.
As they get set to release their fourth album Daniel hears from all six members of the band as they tell the story of their incredible journey to global stardom.
Presenter/Daniel P Carter, Producer/Alice Lloyd
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BBC RADIO 2 Monday 13 September 2010
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Phil Bailey, probably best known as one of the long-standing members of Earth, Wind & Fire, reveals his Tracks Of My Years each morning this week, picking 10 of his favourite pieces of music and talking to Ken Bruce about the reasons for his selection.
Among Phil's choices throughout the week are tracks from the Temptations, the Eagles, The Beatles and Jackie Wilson.
There's also another round of PopMaster – which can also be played online at bbc.co.uk/radio2 – the Love Song and the Record and Album Of The Week.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones for the BBC
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English singer-songwriter Lloyd Cole, who previously recorded with The Commotions, is Mark Radcliffe's and Stuart Maconie's guest tonight.
Lloyd performs a live acoustic session for the show, featuring songs from his new album, Broken Record.
Presenters/Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producer/Viv Atkinson for Smooth Operations
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Sheffield Theatre's artistic director Daniel Evans presents the second programme in a special season of documentaries celebrating The Musical, entitled Drawn From Life.
It's clearly important for the musical theatre audience to understand the characters on stage and their motivation which is why, as discussed in last week's programme, the story or, as it is called in the musical "the book", is of vital importance. It also probably explains why so many musical stories are not original but borrowed from other sources such as novels, plays and, increasingly these days, films.
The life stories of real people are always popular with composers. Some of them were already famous before becoming characters in musicals, but many were largely unknown – until becoming the subject of a successful show brought a unique kind of fame. This documentary considers the musicals that have been "drawn from life" including: Gypsy, Evita and The King And I.
Key contributors include Hal Prince, Stephen Sondheim, Patti Lupone, Paul Nicholas, Maury Yeston, Elaine Stritch, Maria Friedman, Victor Spinetti, Ruthie Henshall, Tim Rice, Elaine Paige, Richard Stilgoe, Michael Grandage and Liz Robertson.
This is the second of eight documentaries, each presented by a leading name from the world of musical theatre.
Presenter/Daniel Evans, Producer/Malcolm Prince for the BBC
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Folk singer Seth Lakeman is Jools Holland's guest on this week's programme.
Jools and his band join Seth on an impromptu version of Seth's song See Them Dance.
Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Monday 13 September 2010
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Composer Of The Week – Ole Bull
Ask most music buffs who Norway's greatest classical composer is, and you're likely to get a 100 per cent vote for Edvard Grieg. Put the same question to almost anyone in Norway itself, and you'll get the answer Ole Bull: violinist extraordinaire, prolific composer, and spearhead of the cultural revolution that enabled the likes of Grieg to carry the nation's music to the world.
As Norway celebrates Bull's bicentenary, Donald Macleod explores the life of one of music history's most exotic characters. Bull led a Byronic life, rushing around the planet giving concert performances to an adoring public, who quickly conferred on him superstar status.
He took the violin to new heights, rivalling even his contemporary Paganini, famously using an instrument which allowed him to play on all four strings at once. Bull's life was full of adventure too, as he escaped fires on river boats, street fights, bankruptcy in casinos, and a reputed near death in the River Seine. He even attempted to start a Norwegian colony in the US, modestly called "Oleana". In doing all this he created an image for himself where legend is almost indivisible from fact.
Donald Macleod has on-hand the undisputed expert on Bull's life, the composer's biographer Harald Herresthal. They meet in an unexpected location, the idyllic estate of Carreglwyd at the western end of the isle of Anglesey. It was here that Bull found some rare tranquillity while on a UK tour, and where he also composed one of his most enchanting works, which is featured in a live performance given by Calum Smart, finalist in this year's BBC Young Musician competition.
The week begins with Ole Bull's early career, when one alcoholic musician's over-indulgence gives a first chance for the eight-year-old prodigy to show what he's made of. There's also a chance to hear one of the pair of showpiece concertos which Bull composed for his own instrument.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Kerry Clark
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Petroc Trelawny presents John Adams's oratorio retelling the Nativity story, recorded at the opening night of the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival.
John Adams revisits the subject most famously rendered in music by Handel in The Messiah, giving the story a 21st-century treatment with a female perspective, and adding texts from medieval mystery plays and Spanish poetry.
Mary's experience of pregnancy in El Niño represents the pregnancy of women throughout the ages, much as the birth of Jesus epitomises the birth of all children.
El Niño was written to celebrate the new millennium in 2000, and it is a radiantly joyful large-scale work in two parts, with a vocal cast of three soloists, a countertenor trio, adult and children's choruses and orchestra, plus an electronic "sound-environment".
The performers include: Jessica Rivera (soprano), Kelley O'Connor (mezzo soprano), Willard White (baritone), Edinburgh Festival Chorus, NYCoS National Girls Choir, Theatre of Voices, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor James Conlon.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Philip Tagney
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Night Waves
Rana Mitter returns to launch the first of a new season of Night Waves, BBC Radio 3's arts and ideas programme.
The opening programme begins with a major examination of the leader whose national legacy has now come to outreach the other political titans of the 20th century: Chairman Mao.
The country Mao created, the People's Republic of China, has abandoned his economic principles and as a consequence soared to global wealth and power, but Mao remains a powerful icon in his home country. So how much does China really allow to be known about Mao's life and leadership, when so many taboos and so much censorship remains?
Rana Mitter talks to Frank Dikötter, a Hong Kong-based scholar who has written a new (some say, essential) biography of Mao's catastrophic famine of 1958-62, which has been written with access to newly opened Communist Party archives and demonstrates the mass killings and destruction of property and the environment that Mao's Great Leap Forward caused.
So should Mao be vilified as a dictatorial monster, whose policies caused the starvation and death of millions, or is, as some claim, the real story more complex, and essential for understanding the modern Chinese Communist mentality?
Rana Mitter and Frank Dikötter discuss the latest assessments of Mao by historians both inside and outside China.
Presenter/Rana Mitter, Producer/Natalie Steed
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The Essay – British Cinema Of The 40s
1939 was the year of Gone With The Wind and La Règle du Jeu, but the British film industry went into the Second World War still relatively naive. It was behind Hollywood in terms of technical accomplishment and behind France in its sophistication.
In British Cinema Of The 40s, Simon Heffer offers a fresh interpretation on old favourites in terms of their social and political message.
The early war propaganda films were predictably facile and jingoistic; but as the threat of invasion passed and attention turned to winning the war rather than simply defending the country against the Nazi onslaught, British cinema became more subtle. By the latter stages of the war, cinema became more concerned with presenting the basis for a new post-war settlement for the British people.
In five personal interpretations, Simon traces the ways in which British cinema moved from galvanising the public to challenging the established class system and arguing for social cohesion, with its consequent loss of individuality and furtherance of collectivism. In the post-war period he looks at how film reflected a reaction among the public against state control and austerity and a new challenge to supposedly common values.
In today's opening programme, Simon celebrates Went The Day Well?, an Ealing movie from 1942 based on a short story by Graham Greene, depicting how a village invaded by Germans unites to defeat them. Despite the bloodshed, what emerges is an almost Utopian vision of rural peace that suggests itself as a possible microcosm for a less class-bound future society.
Presenter/Simon Heffer, Producer/Beaty Rubens
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Jez Nelson presents American-Icelandic power trio, Tyft, in concert. Reykjavik-based guitarist Hilmar Jensson explores the borders of jazz improvisation, melodic rock and distorted heavy metal in the company of New Yorkers Jim Black on drums and Andrew D'Angelo on reeds.
Jensson formed Tyft to develop musical ideas that originated during his time living in New York, having completed his studies at Berklee College of Music in the early Nineties. Renting a flat in Brooklyn during that time, he formed a strong association with New York-based musicians such as Tim Berne, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Ben Monder, and the music of Tyft draws heavily on what has come to be called the downtown New York scene's distinctive sound world.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Russell Finch
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BBC RADIO 4 Monday 13 September 2010
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Evan Loves Tax Ep 1/3
In a major new series for BBC Radio 4, Evan Davis ventures into the maze that is the UK tax system and asks how well – or badly – the UK makes big decisions about tax.
In this first programme, Evan explores how the country has ended up trying to pay for a European-style welfare state with American-style tax levels; and meets three former Chancellors, Alistair Darling, Nigel Lawson and Norman Lamont, who talk candidly about their stints steering the tax system.
He finds out why, since the Second World War, public spending has just kept on rising, even when it was decided that paying for it by putting up income tax was unthinkable. Evan identifies the moment when that taboo descended, with the help of key players including Chris Patten and Neil Kinnock's chief economic advisor John Eatwell.
A senior advisor to Gordon Brown at both the Treasury and No. 10 reveals why he thinks New Labour missed a crucial, one-off opportunity to lift the taboo and transform the debate. Michael Jacobs argues that Labour failed to coax the nation away from seeing tax as a necessary evil towards embracing it as the foundation of a civilised society.
Along the way, Evan encounters a senior detective from HM Revenue and Customs, and learns of a startling link between newsagents in the West Midlands and organised gangs of smugglers. Evan discovers what this tells about the consequences of tax confusion.
Presenter/Evan Davis, Producer/Phil Tinline
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A History Of The World In 100 Objects Ep 1/30
Neil MacGregor returns for the third and final part of A History Of The World In 100 Objects.
This week Neil is exploring the great empires of the world around the year 1500 – from the Inca in South America to the Ming in China and the Timurids in the Middle East.
Today, he is with the great Islamic Ottoman Empire that, by 1500, had conquered Constantinople as its new capital. The object Neil has chosen to represent this empire is the personal signature of the great Ottoman ruler Suleyman the Magnificent, a contemporary of Henry VIII and Charles V.
This monogram is the ultimate expression of Suleyman's authority at this time – a stamp of state and delicate artwork rolled into one. Turkish novelist Elif Shafak and historian Caroline Finkel help explore the power and meaning of this object.
Presenter/Neil MacGregor, Producers/Anthony Denselow and Paul Kobrak
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Woman's Hour Drama – Picnic At Hanging Rock Ep 1/5
Picnic At Hanging Rock is a classic mystery, made famous by Peter Weir's Seventies film.
On St Valentine's Day, 1900, a party of schoolgirls and two governesses set off for a treat; a picnic at the geological marvel, the Hanging Rock. During the course of the afternoon, three girls and one governess disappear without trace.
This new interpretation of the iconic Australian novel goes back to the original story, recreating the strong underlying sense of horror and the supernatural that resonate in Joan Lindsay's novel.
This radio version, abridged by Polly Thomas, features music from award-winning composer and producer Jon Rose and features Year 12 students of Springwood High, New South Wales. The March Of The Men Of Harlech is played by Amanda Dalton.
Other cast members are: Penny Downie as the narrator; Fenella Woolgar as Mrs Appleyard; Elizabeth Boag as Mademoiselle; Sarah Rutherford as Miss McCraw; Simon Burke as Mr Hussey; Celeste Wong as Miranda; Anna Skellern as Irma; Andi Snelling as Edith; Lauren St Paul as Marion; Nicholas Banks as Michael; and David Palliser as Albert.
Producer and Director/Polly Thomas and Jon Rose for Somethin' Else Productions
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James Nesbitt leads the cast of Staring Into The Fridge, a kitchen comedy by Annie McCartney.
With two 20-something children and a dubious boyfriend eating her out of house and home, Maggie, who has just turned 50, is beginning to think she's losing the will to live. Things seem to be getting worse when she hears a voice speaking to her from the corner of the kitchen. It seems that the only one who understands her predicament is her ever-empty and long-suffering fridge.
But unlike poor beleaguered Maggie, this fridge has got "attitude"', and he has had enough.
Maggie soon discovers that the fridge knows rather more about what's going on in her house than she does – and he is about to put her straight. As far as her cool new friend is concerned, Maggie needs to take control of her own destiny – and that means jettisoning the freeloaders, even if it means a few tears along the way.
Other cast members are Annie McCartney as Maggie, Marcella Riordan, Mark Lambert, Katy Gleadhill, Jonathan Harden and Richard Orr.
Producer and Director/Eoin O'Callaghan
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 13 September 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark has the day's sports news and is also joined by special guests for The Monday Night Club to discuss the latest big football issues.
At 8pm, there's Premier League commentary on Stoke City versus Aston Villa, live from the Britannia Stadium.
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Steve Houghton
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BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 13 September 2010
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Andrew Collins sits in for Lauren Laverne and is joined by hot young things Summer Camp for a live session.
The duo, Jeremy Warmsley and Elizabeth Sankey, have created a buzz on the blogosphere this year and release their second single Round The Moon this month.
Presenter/Andrew Collins, Producer/Gary Bales
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Andreas Nilsson is an innovative Swedish video director who has worked with MGMT, The Knife, Royksopp and Fever Ray. His most recent project has been with Brooklyn band Yeasayer for their track Madder Red.
Andreas tells Nemone the ideas behind his video and how it came together. The clip stars Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) as a distraught owner of a sick pet. The pet happens to be an amorphous, cute one-eyed alien.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
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Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan join Marc Riley live in the BBC 6 Music Manchester studio.
Isobel and Mark have just released Hawk, their third album together and probably their most diverse yet. Featuring folk, country, blues, gospel, dream-pop and Southern soul, it is written, produced and arranged by Campbell and was recorded in such disparate places as California, Texas, Louisiana, Denmark, Edinburgh and Campbell's native Glasgow.
It follows 2006's Mercury-nominated Ballad Of The Broken Seas and 2008's Sunday At Devil Dirt.
Before this Lanegan sang with Screaming Trees and Queens Of The Stone Age. In addition, he's also found time to work with the Soul Savers and be 50 per cent of the Gutter Twins with Afghan Whig Greg Dulli.
Campbell was a long-time member of Belle And Sebastian. The duo are promoting Hawk with dates in Glasgow and London, supported by Willie Mason, who also appears on the album.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe dusts off archive concert recordings from Sixties sunshine pop band The Association, as well as a 1996 set from Britpop hipsters the Bluetones.
BBC Archive sessions come from Baaba Mal And Mansur Sek, a 1987 recording from Indie janglers Martin Stephenson and the Daintees, plus a 1981 John Peel recording from Mick Hucknall's pre-Simply Red combo The Frantic Elevators.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 13 September 2010
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The countdown is now on as the Indian capital, Delhi, prepares to host the country's first ever Commonwealth Games. This will be only the second time that Asia has played host to the event since the 1998 Kuala Lumpar games.
This will be the biggest sporting event held in India for nearly 30 years, since it held the Asia Games in 1982. In a city with a population of 14 million, due to welcome 8,500 athletes and officials plus spectators, this BBC Asian Network documentary investigates exactly how India is gearing up for the event. India hopes their hosting will be a shining example of how ready they are to enter the race for an Olympic bid – but are they?
In a country with in excess of 1.1 billion people, few Indian sportsmen are pinning their hopes on a medal. The programme asks what India needs to do to make itself a sporting giant as well as an emerging economic superpower, and whether it will be ready for the starting pistol on Sunday 3 October.
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Bobby Friction kicks off a week showcasing BBC Introducing on the BBC Asian Network. Featuring new artists, over four nights, Friction showcases a host of talent, including Jernade Miah, The Kominas and the artists who featured on the BBC Introducing stage at the London Mela.
BBC Introducing is a multi-platform initiative across BBC Radio 1, BBC 6 Music, BBC Radio 1Xtra, BBC Asian Network, BBC Switch, over 35 BBC Local Radio stations and at bbc.co.uk/introducing – all working together to provide an internal network dedicated to showcasing the hottest new talent from across the UK.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 13 September 2010
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Zainab Bangura is Sierra Leone's foreign minister and, in the 50 or so years since the country gained independence, she is only the second woman to hold the post.
This documentary tells her story and how she represents her country on the international stage. It explores her upbringing and path to political office. Her father was a strict Muslim cleric, who didn't believe in education for girls. Her mother, though illiterate, fought for Zainab to go to school.
As war swept the country in the Nineties she founded the Campaign for Good Governance, which campaigned for the elections that finally drove the junta from power and restored democratic government.
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Network Radio BBC Week 37: Tuesday 14 September 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 14 September 2010
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This week's programme features the second of a two-part special in which Jamie Cullum visits Hollywood actor, director and producer Clint Eastwood at his production studio in LA – the place where he records the scores for his films.
Clint continues to take Jamie on a musical journey of his life, revealing his true love of jazz, speaking about his favourite artists, about scoring his films and his involvement with the Monterey Jazz Festival.
In a warm, personal interview, Clint is seen from a different angle, reunited with Jamie – who he worked with on the soundtrack for the film Gran Torino – and talking passionately about the music he loves.
Jamie says: "Interviewing Clint Eastwood for my BBC Radio 2 show was a true honour. He was overflowing with stories, good humour and enthusiasm for the chance to discuss his favourite topic – music. He has spent a lifetime immersed in jazz and not only picked some great music to listen to but had superb stories to weave around them."
Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Karen Pearson for Folded Wing
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Cabaret veteran Paul O'Grady continues his celebration of the most decadent, satirical and tawdry show in town, pushing back the curtain on its post-war history.
In America, the Beat generation discovered alternative comedy in the coffee bars and cabarets of San Francisco and New York. Comedy icons from Mort Sahl to Lenny Bruce, Dick Gregory, and even Woody Allen, caught a break on the nightclub and cabaret circuit, as did international superstars such as Bette Midler and Barbra Streisand.
In swinging London, cabaret was the perfect venue as the satire boom took hold with Peter Cook's Establishment Club holding court to Hollywood stars, rock stars and even royalty. Just a few streets away, Motown's rising stars were bringing the house down at the Talk Of The Town; and Danny La Rue was turning drag into mainstream fare at Danny's.
And it wasn't just London that bore witness to the cabaret explosion. Bernard Manning's Embassy Club in Manchester was just one of the Northern working men's clubs serving up a healthy diet of pie, chips and a floor show and attracting stars from Lulu to Shirley Bassey and Tom Jones.
Cabaret suffered during the recession in the Seventies but it came back fighting with the Comedy Store and the birth of alternative comedy at the end of the decade. Paul explores the comedy, cruise ships and gay scene that has played host to cabaret since then; twirls a tassel at the Burlesque revival; and encounters the contemporary performers following in his footsteps and enjoying the current cabaret resurgence.
Jim Bowen, Barry Cryer, Lionel Blair, Jane McDonald, Alexei Sayle, Julian Clary, Paloma Faith and Immodesty Blaize all pay tribute and explain why, despite the motorway service stations, rowdy audiences and toilet cubicle dressing rooms, it was all worth it.
As Paul says: "It's not an easy life. From the minute you set foot out the door, it's hassle. Getting there, getting ready, getting on, getting home. I loved it."
Presenter/Paul O'Grady, Producer/Rebecca Maxted for Wise Buddah
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BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 14 September 2010
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Petroc Trelawny presents a recital by American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato with pianist David Zobel, recorded at the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival. The music ranges across three centuries of love songs, including songs and arias by Pergolesi, Caccini, Leoncavallo, Beethoven and Rossini.
Joyce DiDonato is among the world's most enchanting performers and the winner of many honours including the Metropolitan Opera's Beverly Sills Award.
The programme is followed by a second chance to hear music from the Proms 2010: trio sonatas by the Bach family played by Musica ad Rhenum, directed by Jed Wentz.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Philip Tagney
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BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 14 September 2010
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Neil MacGregor explores the great empires which existed around 1500 – the threshold of the modern era.
Today he is in Ming Dynasty China, with a surviving example of some of the world's first paper bank notes – what the Chinese called "flying cash".
Neil explains how paper money came about and considers the forces that underpinned its successes and failures. He explores why, as the rest of the world was happily trading in coins that had an actual value in silver or gold, the Chinese risked the use of paper. This particular surviving note, made on mulberry bark, is much bigger than the notes of today and is dated 1375.
The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, and historian Timothy Brook look back over the history of paper money and what it takes to make it work.
Presenter/Neil MacGregor, Producers/Anthony Denselow and Paul Kobrak
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Brett Westwood reports on the latest stories from the world of wildlife conservation.
From the air, a particular view of the desert of Ethiopia is punctuated by a conspicuous patch of woodland. Looking like a green island in the middle of a large golden sea of arid land, the image is incongruous.
Closer examination of the wood reveals a church in the middle and it turns out the religious people of this part of Ethiopia have made this woodland sacred. No fences, no governmental protection, no involvement of an external organisation – this wood is valued by the locals as a place to commune, think and pray. The desert around has been farmed unsustainably and the climate has stripped away the top spoil.
Saving Species brings a special report from an ecologist who has visited this sacred wood to record its biodiversity and discovers whether the most ancient approach of making species and habitats sacred could be a very modern conservation tool.
Presenter/Brett Westwood, Producer/Kirsty Henderson
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The mortality of fictional superstars literally lies in the hands of their creators. Fiona Lindsay cross-examines four famous authors to reveal their motives for murder.
At the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival 2010, Fiona conducts a forensic cross-examination of popular writers put on trial to reveal their motives for killing off their leading characters. It's an age-old friction in fiction between creator and creation. And the assassination of an author's key character is often a result of a clash of egos.
Agatha Christie kept the death of her famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, secret for 30 years, only to confess shortly before her own demise. She had no regrets and, as her biographer Laura Thompson reveals, was in no hurry to get Miss Marple on the case.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle detested Sherlock Holmes's public domination over his own life and murdered him merrily. Yet the firestorm of protest was so intense resurrection was inevitable. Holmes expert David Stuart Davies and actor Roger Llewellyn incorporate the core of this controversy in their latest play.
Colin Dexter claims he didn't kill Morse: "He died of natural causes." A nation mourned but the author is unrepentant, choosing kindly death over morose retirement.
Ian Rankin took the opposite view for the demise of Rebus, leaving the coffin lid open for a timely return. But since fictional characters are immortal, Fiona asks why kill them off at all?
Characters who become bigger than their authors, beware – they may have all the best lines, but their creator has the last word.
Presenter/Fiona Lindsay, Producer/Chris Eldon Lee for Culture Wise Productions
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Agatha Christie's The Mysterious Mr Quin Ep 1/3
Following the success of the first series of The Mysterious Mr Quin, Martin Jarvis reads more stories featuring Agatha Christie's personal favourite character.
Mr Quin assists his friend, Mr Satterthwaite, to investigate three mysteries. But one mystery remains – namely who is Mr Harley Quin?
Mr Satterthwaite, on holiday in Corsica, travels by car with his friend, the Duchess, and an Indian judge, to the top of the island known as The World's End. They are led, via perilous ravine-lined roads, by Naomi, a young, strangely distracted artist.
In a village at the summit they suddenly encounter Mr Quin and, while sheltering from a sudden snowstorm, another visiting group comprised of a well-known actress, her husband and a theatre producer. The actress tells the story of her stolen opal and the young writer imprisoned for the offence. Naomi seems unexpectedly disturbed by the tale...
Reader/Martin Jarvis, Producer/Rosalind Ayres for Jarvis & Ayres Productions
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Tracing Your Roots Ep 1/5
Sally Magnusson and genealogist Nick Barratt return to solve more family mysteries in Tracing Your Roots.
In the first of the new series, Sally goes on the trail of ancestors who vanished without trace. She unravels family scandals in search of people who left their families to start a new life somewhere else.
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 14 September 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch has all the day's sports news and live coverage from the opening round of matches in the group stage of the Champions League.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Claire Ackling
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Tuesday 14 September 2010
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5 Live Football
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary from one of the night's top matches in the Championship.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 14 September 2010
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Andrew Collins sits in for Lauren Laverne and is joined by original New York indie band Interpol for a live session. The New York band release their self-titled fourth album this month which features bass player Carlos Dengler for the last time; he left the band soon after recording was completed to pursue personal projects.
The band are famous for singles such as Slow Hands, which had a recent resurgence having been featured in an advert.
Presenter/Andrew Collins, Producer/Gary Bales
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Author Alice Echols, a former disco DJ, seeks to redress the balance for disco, placing it within its cultural context in the changing face of Seventies America in her new book, Hot Stuff – Disco And The Remaking Of American Culture.
She reveals the way in which disco transformed popular music, influencing rap, techno and trance. She also probes the complex relationship between disco and some major movements of the era of gay liberation, feminism and African American rights.
Nemone discusses the book with Alice and book reviewer Alli Catterell.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
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Legendary Scottish band The Vaselines make their second appearance in the Marc Riley studio to play tracks from their second album, Sex With An X, which is released just 21 years after the first studio album!
The Vaselines originally formed in Glasgow in 1987 and recorded two singles and one album before splitting up in 1989 – the same week the album was released. Posthumous fame beckoned, however, when Nirvana covered three of their tunes. In the meantime, founding members Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee remained active, both solo and in bands such as Captain America (aka Eugenius) The Painkillers and Suckle, before touring together in 2006.
It was an unannounced appearance at a fundraiser for Malawi Orphan Support in 2008 which brought about their latest reunion. They've since toured America, Brazil, Japan and now finally the UK.
Sex With An X was recorded in Mossley, outside Manchester, in just 13 days, with Jamie Watson in the producer's seat. Jamie also produced their first album, Dum Dum, all those years ago. The Vaselines are currently Eugene and Frances with guest musicians Stevie Jackson and Bob Kildea from Belle And Sebastian on guitar and bass, and Michael McGaughrin from the band 1990s on drums.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe breaks out concerts from rediscovered Seventies folk singer Vashti Bunyan and Evan Dando's Lemonheads, as well as sessions from The Flaming Lips, Seventies folky Tucker Zimmerman and a rare 1994 recording from US "slacker pop" band Sammy.
There's also a 1978 John Peel session from The Damned.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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Network Radio BBC Week 37: Wednesday 15 September 2010
BBC RADIO 1XTRA Wednesday 15 September 2010
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Max's show includes, at 2.30pm, a documentary investigating the phenomenon of "sexting" – sending sexually explicit messages or images, usually by mobile phone – which has hit the tabloid headlines in recent months and which appears to be a growing trend among teenagers.
According to a new report from youth charity Beatbullying, one in four 11- to 18-year-olds say they have received a "sext", either on their mobile or by email.
Max hears why sexting has become so popular. For some people it's a good way of spicing things up or staying in touch when they live in different places. Tracey Cox, a sex and relationship expert, explains how sexy messages – and social networking more generally – have now become the way many people conduct their relationships.
More worryingly, the report also discovered that 38 per cent of under-18s had received a distressing or offensive message by text or email. The fear is that the images being sent are a means of bullying the person featured in the picture – it gets sent on to people they never intended to see it and it can cause embarrassment, stigma and depression.
Max speaks to Laura from Birmingham, who sent sexts to her boyfriend that ended up being sent all around her school. She felt totally humiliated and experienced verbal abuse as a result.
Max also relates the tragic story of Jessie Logan, 18, who was so depressed as a result of being bullied over sext messages that she committed suicide.
The documentary forms part of a wider discussion during Max's show, hearing listeners' opinions on the sexting phenomenon.
Presenter/Max, Producer/Susie Warhurst for Unique Productions
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BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 15 September 2010
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Mike Harding presents an hour of the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music, including an interview with Ian McCalman of perennial Scottish favourites The McCalmans. Some 46 years and 26 albums after forming the Macs, Ian is preparing to retire from the group at the close of 2010.
In his usual wry and self-deprecating style, he talks to Mike about the group's remarkable history of entertaining folk and mainstream audiences around the world.
The original McCalmans line-up of Hamish Bayne, Derek Moffat and Ian met at the Edinburgh College of Art in 1964. The three architecture students formed a trio that quickly made a name for itself on the folk scenes in Britain and Europe. Their three-part harmonies and charming between-song banter led to record deals, television series and overseas tours that have continued uninterrupted despite two line-up changes (the second due to the death of Derek in 2001) – a testimony to the love the group has inspired in its fans over the decades.
The remaining McCalmans, Nick Keir and Stephen Quigg, will continue after Ian retires.
Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While for Smooth Operations
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The presenter of BBC 6 Music's Funk And Soul Show, Craig Charles, continues the story of one of the world's greatest guitarists, Mexican-born Carlos Santana, who burst on to the San Francisco music scene in the late Sixties, playing a unique blend of Latin rock with his band Santana.
A truly original world music ambassador, he has sold more than 90 million records, including Evil Ways, Oye Como Va, Black Magic Woman and, more recently, the multi-Grammy award winning album Supernatural, which attracted a younger generation of Santana fans.
In programme two it's 1999, and a call to Carlos Santana's old record company mentor Clive Davis sets the guitarist back on the road to the very top and the biggest success of his career.
Clive, who originally signed the Santana band to Columbia in 1969, was now heading his own label, Arista Records, and enjoying great success. Davis describes the unusual meeting with Carlos, who he hadn't spoken to for over 20 years, in a hotel in Los Angeles. Carlos's psychic advisor had asked what was missing from his life, and he replied "my teenage children don't hear my music on the radio". So, after being encouraged by the advisor to reconnect with the person who guided him when he was having hits, he called Clive Davis.
Seeing Santana was hungry for success and interested in making radio-friendly music, they set about teaming Carlos up with the new generation of hit makers including Lauren Hill, Eagle Eye Cherry and Rob Thomas, as well as rock stalwarts such as Eric Clapton. The resulting album, Supernatural, turned out to be the biggest success of his career, selling more than 27 million copies worldwide. Davis describes the blueprint, and how they used it for the follow-up, Shaman, which spawned the massive hit Game Of Love with singer Michelle Branch.
Presenter/Craig Charles, Producers/Nick Low and Simon Hodge
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Trevor Nelson invites listeners to explore the depths of his record collection, presenting an hour of the best in timeless soul, rare funky treats and modern classics. His Album Of The Week is You Send Me, a 1978 release from vibraphonist Roy Ayers which features seminal dance tracks including Can't You See Me?
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Dan Cocker for Somethin' Else
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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 15 September 2010
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As Neil MacGregor continues his look at powerful empires across the world 600 years ago, today he is with the great Inca Empire that once dominated South America – and a gold llama.
The llama helped fuel the success of the great Inca Empire that ruled over some 12 million people right down the Pacific West Coast. For a culture living at high altitude in rough terrain and without horses or pack animals, the llama proved all-important – for wool, for meat and for sacrifice.
Neil tells the story of the Inca, revealing the ways in which they organised themselves and the things that they believed in. And he recounts what happened when the Spanish arrived.
Scientist and writer Jared Diamond and archaeologist Gabriel Ramon help tell the story.
Producers/Anthony Denselow and Paul Kobrak
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Pythonesque tells the story of Graham Chapman's history with the Monty Python team. The drama recounts how he met and started writing with John Cleese; his rise through the ranks writing The Frost Report; the glory, glory years with the Pythons; and his struggle to overcome his considerable drinking demons.
The play also chronicles how the collective kindness of Messrs Cleese, Jones, Palin, Idle and Gilliam saved Chapman from oblivion and gave him the lead in arguably the two funniest British films of all time: Monty Python And The Holy Grail and Monty Python's Life Of Brian.
Written by Roy Smiles, Pythonesque is an affectionate tribute to a troubled, brilliant, kind man who was part of possibly the funniest comedy team ever.
The cast features Chris Polick as Graham Chapman, Mark Oosterveen as John Cleese, Matt Addis as Terry Jones and Michael Palin, and James Lance as Eric Idle and Terry Gilliam.
Producer/Liz Anstee for CPL Productions
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 15 September 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch has all the day's sports news and live coverage from the opening round of matches in the group stage of the Champions League.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Danny Garlick
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BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 15 September 2010
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Andrew Collins is joined by uber-producer Dave Siteck to talk about his new project, Maximum Balloon.
Starting his musical life as a key member of TV On The Radio, Siteck has lent his production talents to many artists' albums over the past decade: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars, Foals and Scarlett Johansson among them. Today he joins Andrew ahead of the release of the first album under his new Maximum Balloon moniker, which features collaborations with Holly Miranda, Theopilus London and Karen O among many others.
Presenter/Andrew Collins, Producer/Gary Bales
BBC 6 Music Publicity
It has been five years since the release of The Like's debut album, Are You Thinking What I'm Thinking? The band have now become a quartet, creating Sixties girl group anthems with the help of soul revivalists Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings. The result is a new album, Release Me, produced by Mark Ronson. The band join Nemone for a chat in the studio.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Canadian psychedelic rockers Black Mountain are fitting their session for Marc Riley in between dates on their latest UK tour. Their third album, Wilderness Heart, is out this month on Jagjaguwar Records. According to band leader Stephen McBean it's their "most metal and most folk-oriented record so far" and was apparently influenced by the following: New Order, King Crimson, Studio 54, Alex Chilton, sunshine, Janis Joplin, Please Kill Me, Shirley Collins, Mickey Newbury, jalapeno salsa, Night Of The Hunter, Cactus Taqueria, Funky16Corners podcasts, Dennis Wilson, and the house blowing up in the desert at the end of Zabriskie Point.
McBean is also the main man of the similarly named but more experimental band Pink Mountaintops.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Chouhdry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe unearths concerts from legendary punks The Ramones and American muso superhero Beck. Hip art-reggae combo The Basement 5 are also featured with a Peel session from 1980; plus there's an early recording from "cheeky cockney" period David Bowie, a session that sees him backed by Sixties studio legend Arthur Greenslade.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 15 September 2010
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Between 1960 and 1962 around 14,000 Cuban children were sent away by their parents to live in the United States in what became known as Operation Pedro Pan (Peter Pan). It was an attempt by these parents to seek a better life for the younger generation in Cuba as the Communist regime emerged. Now, 50 years later, this documentary hears the life stories of some of the Pedro Pan generation making new lives away from their loved ones and watching their country evolve from a distance.
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Network Radio BBC Week 37: Thursday 16 September 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 16 September 2010
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Bob Harris presents highlights of the ninth Americana Music Association Awards, held at the legendary Ryman auditorium in Nashville.
Among the nominations this year are Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash; Levon Helm, former frontman of The Band; and singer songwriters Patty Griffin, Ray Wylie Hubbard and Dave Rawlings.
The nominated songs of the year include The Weary Kind by Ryan Bingham, which featured in the film Crazy Heart and won an Oscar for best original song earlier this year. Honoured with lifetime achievement awards this year are Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inductee John Mellencamp, queen of rockabilly Wanda Jackson and record producer Brian Ahern.
The ceremony also features live performances from a range of artists including country pioneer Emmylou Harris, alt.country favourites The Avett Brothers and old-time jug band The Carolina Chocolate Drops.
In a round-up of the evening's events, Bob goes backstage to interview the performers, winners and nominees from Americana's big night and selects his musical highlights from the ceremony.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth for the BBC
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Frank Renton presents music and conversation from the Sunday Gala following the British Open Championships in Symphony Hall Birmingham, one of the most popular concerts of the banding year.
This year, Grimethorpe Colliery, Cory and The Black Dyke Band take to the stage, along with the BBC Radio 2 Young Brass Soloist Matthew White.
Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 16 September 2010
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In the aftermath of the publication of his much-anticipated memoirs, A Journey, Tony Blair is in extended conversation with Philip Dodd in tonight's Night Waves. The former Prime Minister has previously said: "I have tried to write a book which describes the human as much as the political dimensions of life as Prime Minister."
Philip asks about these human dimensions – Blair's attitudes to politics, money, socialism, his faith, his personal qualities and his reflections on his time at No. 10 now that he has been out of office for three years. He also asks whether, in among the life-and-death decisions that included leading Britain into an unpopular war, a Prime Minister has time for any self-reflections on how power is changing him as an individual.
Presenter/Philip Dodd, Producers/Tim Prosser and Fiona McLean
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BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 16 September 2010
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Neil MacGregor continues his exploration of powerful empires around the world in the 14th and 15th centuries in the third and final series of the history of humanity as told through 100 objects from the British Museum in London.
Today's object is a handsome jade cup that once belonged to one of the great leaders of the Timurid Empire – the great power that stretched across Central Asia, from Iran to parts of India.
The owner of the cup was Ulugh Beg, the man who built the great observatory in his capital Samarkand and who, like Galileo and Copernicus, has a crater on the moon named after him.
Neil tells the story of the Timurids and charts the influences that spread along the Silk Road at this time. Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov and historian Beatrice Forbes Manz describe the Timurid world and the extraordinary character of Ulugh Beg.
Presenter/Neil MacGregor, Producers/Anthony Denselow and Paul Kobrak
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Cerys Matthews celebrates her childhood heroine and the rebel of Swedish children's literature, Pippi Longstocking, who has captured the imaginations of children all over the world for more than 60 years.
Pippi has red hair, freckles and a nose the "shape of a very small potato". She was invented in the Forties by Swedish author Astrid Lindgren, who created the character for her daughter before later sending the idea to a publisher.
Pippi is an orphan – her mother is an angel and her father is the king of a cannibal island. She eats pancakes, drinks lots of coffee and goes to school when she feels like it. She defies all the rules, speaks out against authority and is courageous and loyal.
Nothing could have prepared Lindgren for the huge reception Pippi received; fiercely criticised on the one hand as irresponsible and seditious, and enthusiastically applauded on the other as a work of liberation and an outstanding artistic accomplishment.
Today Pippi Longstocking has become a worldwide phenomenon, a national treasure and a trade mark.
In this programme Cerys explores the many layers to the Pippi Longstocking character, with contributions from Astrid Lindgren's daughter, Karin Nyman; Britain's most famous Swede, Ulrika Jonsson; writer Ulla Lundqvist; artist Marianne Lindberg de Geer; and the voice of Lindgren herself from a Swedish Radio interview recorded in 1988.
Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Sarah Cuddon for Falling Tree Productions
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Only days after the Coalition Government gave their "mother of all budgets" the English nation is again holding its collective breath. A Chancellor's fear-filled austerity speech fades into party politics, a warm-up act to a more serious matter – football, a sport that enables the understanding of a nation.
Set in the Man of Hope pub, Paul Watson's play explores sensitive male issues, difficult lives and the sexual relationships of the pub's regulars.
Colin and Dean, lovers for years, are facing up to Colin's irascible temper and terminal cancer. John is advising Dave to leave his unfaithful wife and live with Lola, the pub's barmaid. The landlord, Gerry, also wants to woo Dave while Max, a sexually aware virgin from the local public school, seeks enlightenment from Andrea.
Greying Jonathan is in the clutches of a $55million Russian con. The football match is eventually hijacked with tragic consequence by Gareth and his gang of tin-pot car drivers. By the end, England is shamed both by its footballers and watchers.
Narrated by Paul Watson, the cast features Robert Longden as Colin, Barry Aird as Dean, Peter Benedict as John, James Allen as Dave, Tilly Vosburgh as Lola, Mark Kempner as Gerry, Matt Field as Young Max, Louise Jameson as Andrea, Michael Fenton Stevens as Jonathan, Gareth Abel as Gareth, Jacqui Sharpe as Julie, Mike Anfield as Joe, Rhys Swinburn as Wayne, and Fred Wheadon as Older Max.
Producer/Paul Watson for Pier Productions
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Four amateur scientists have turned their ideas into real experiments this year, with help from the Material World team. They were selected from 1,300 ideas sent in from around the UK, and this week they present their results in front of an audience at the British Science Festival in Birmingham.
The finalists are: Ruth Brooks, aged 69, a retired special needs tutor from Devon, whose experiment is intended to establish the homing distance of the garden snails (Helix aspersa) which decimate her plants; Sam O'kell, aged 35, a croupier from Manchester, who is testing his theory that the greatest crowd density at a gig is 6-10 ft from the front; Nina Jones, aged 17, an A-level student from Milton Keynes, who wants to find out what makes up a typical Facebook profile picture; and John Rowlands, aged 41, an aerial photographer from Anglesey who is investigating the frequency and brightness of noctilucent (polar mesospheric) clouds.
Making the final decision about the winning amateur scientist is the judging panel, made up of Professor Tanya Byron, clinical psychologist, author and broadcaster; Mark Henderson, science editor of The Times; and Professor Trevor Cox, acoustic engineer and Engineering And Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) media fellow.
Presenter/Quentin Cooper, Producer/Michelle Martin
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 16 September 2010
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SEPTEMBERFEST
5 Live Breakfast
Nicky Campbell presents 5 Live Breakfast live from the A&P Shipyard on the banks of the river Tyne, Newcastle, in the opening programme of BBC Radio 5 Live's annual Septemberfest.
5 Live Breakfast aims to take a snapshot of the economic story of the North East, once a booming industrial heartland but now heavily reliant on public sector employment, which could be disproportionately affected by the cuts in government funding.
Nicky meets A&P workers and tours what is one of the few remaining working shipyards in the North East, boasting the largest dock on the East coast of England. Through diversification, A&P survived the demise of the shipbuilding industry and the more recent recession.
Meanwhile, Shelagh Fogarty is in Edinburgh ahead of Pope Benedict XVI's first visit to the UK.
BBC Radio 5 Live's Septemberfest is in Newcastle and Gateshead from Thursday 16 to Sunday 19 September with programmes broadcasting live from Newcastle city centre, a series of off-air interactive activities in the 5 Live Igloo on Gateshead quayside and live coverage of the 30th Great North Run.
Over the four days 5 Live will broadcast many of its programmes live from Newcastle, some in front of local audiences, including the Kermode And Mayo Film Review and Fighting Talk. For more details visit bbc.co.uk/5live.
Presenters/Nicky Campbell and Shelagh Fogarty, Producer/Scott Solder
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
SEPTEMBERFEST
Gabby Logan
Gabby Logan broadcasts live from the Sir Bobby Robson Foundation in Newcastle, as part of BBC Radio 5 Live's Septemberfest.
Sir Bobby, the former Newcastle and England manager, who died last year, fought cancer five times in the 17 years following his first diagnosis. In the final 18 months of his life, he established the charitable foundation to help fund the early detection and treatment of cancer.
Gabby is live at the foundation to hear about the work they do, with Newcastle legend Alan Shearer and members of Sir Bobby's family, including his three sons.
Presenter/Gabby Logan, Producer/Heidi Dawson
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
SEPTEMBERFEST
Richard Bacon
Richard Bacon presents his afternoon show live from the Centre For Life in Newcastle as part of BBC Radio 5 Live's annual Septemberfest.
Richard is joined by a local audience and special guests, including comedian and actor Les Dennis; Dani Harmer, the star of CBBC's Tracy Beaker; and local band Maximo Park.
Presenter/Richard Bacon, Producer/Robin Bulloch
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
SEPTEMBERFEST
Tony Livesey
Tony Livesey is joined by an invited audience and special local guests for late-night entertainment and chat, live from South Shields as part of BBC Radio 5 Live's Septemberfest.
Presenter/Tony Livesey, Producer/Jonathan Aspinwall
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 16 September 2010
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Shaun Keaveny is joined live in the studio by Matt Everitt for an irreverent take on the day's music news, and by comedy legend Charlie Higson, a man who not only released two singles on The Specials' Two Tone label with his band The Higsons, but who once plastered Fry and Laurie's house and wrote and produced The Fast Show, Down The Line and Bellamy's People.
Presenter/Shaun Keaveny, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins chooses the tracks for this week's lunchtime playlist on Nemone's early afternoon show.
Edwyn is back with his seventh solo album, Losing Sleep, the first to be fully written and recorded since his stroke in 2005. It features a star-studded line-up, including Franz Ferdinand's Alex Kapranos and Nick McCarthy, Magic Numbers' frontman Romeo Stodart, the Cribs' Ryan Harman, Brooklyn band the Drums and former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr. Aztec Camera's Roddy Frame also appears.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Thursday is Roundtable day on Steve Lamacq's show and he welcomes comedian Jeremy Hardy, TV and radio presenter Matthew Wright and Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy, into the studio to chat about some interesting new releases.
Listeners can comment on the tracks by entering the Listeners' Roundtable via the BBC 6 Music website.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Paul Sheehan
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Marc Riley is in London village tonight and has Richard Hawley along for company.
Richard is a long time friend of the show, with numerous Riley sessions to his name. He even sat in Marc's chair once when the presenter was away. When he's not hanging around the 6 Music studio he records acclaimed solo albums, usually named after lost corners of Sheffield. His sixth, Truelove's Gutter, came out last year.
Richard has also collaborated with Elbow and the Arctic Monkeys and co-produced and co-wrote Tony Christie's 2008 album Made In Sheffield.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe get his hands on archive concerts from American heroes the Byrds and electro-pop group Blancmange.
There's also a selection of sessions from C86 cuties Tallulah Gosh, recorded in exactly 1986, and an XTC session from 1982 recorded for David Kid Jensen. Rock pioneers Led Zeppelin are also featured from Top Gear, circa 1969.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 37: Friday 17 September 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Friday 17 September 2010
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Friday Night Is Music Night
Beth Nielsen Chapman performs live with the BBC Concert Orchestra at London's Mermaid Theatre.
Beth sings songs from her new album, Back To Love, as well as favourites from her back catalogue. Aled Jones presents the evening and chats to Beth about her music, live on stage.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Jodie Keane
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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 17 September 2010
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Performance On 3
Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff, Petroc Trelawny presents a concert of Four Russian Moods from the BBC National Orchestra of Wales conducted by Thierry Fischer, with music by Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and Shostakovich.
This concert ranges from the demonic fury and darkness of Mussorgsky's Night On A Bare Mountain, through Rimsky-Korsakov's fragrant evocation of 19th-century Russia in May Night, to the classical grace and elegance of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations.
Ending the concert is a work composer Shostakovich said "conveys the mood of spring, joy and life". However, with the terror under which the people of Stalin's Russia lived at this time, was Shostakovich being entirely honest about his intentions in his Symphony No. 6?
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny
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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 17 September 2010
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Neil MacGregor explores vigorous empires that flourished across the world 600 years ago, visiting the Inca in South America, Ming Dynasty China, the Timurids in their capital at Samarkand and the Ottomans in Constantinople.
Neil examines the fledgling empire of Portugal and describes what the European world looked like at this time. His chosen object is one of the most enduring in art history, and one of the most duplicated – Albrecht Durer's famous print of an Indian rhino, an animal he had never seen. The rhino was brought to Portugal in 1514 and Neil uses this classic image to examine European ambitions.
Mark Pilgrim of Chester Zoo considers what it must have been like to transport such a beast; and historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto describes the potency of the image for Europeans of the age.
Presenter/Neil MacGregor, Producer/Anthony Denselow for the BBC
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The Stanley Baxter Playhouse Ep 1/3
In the first play of a new series, Gordon Kennedy, Stuart McQuarrie and Siobhan Redmond join Stanley Baxter in a comedy based on Shakespeare's Scottish play, in which Macbeth's porter becomes the hero and invites listeners to hear his version of the events that led up to the murder of King Duncan – and what just might have happened after it.
Listeners discover that it was all really Lady Macbeth's fault for marrying Macbeth and spoiling the porter's long-term plans to groom his coarse and unschooled master to be a suave, smooth operator with fine manners and a statesman-like approach to politics. His plans are foiled in a series of hilarious and cunning mishaps.
The cast stars Stanley Baxter as the Porter, Gordon Kennedy as Macbeth, Siobhan Redmond as Lady Macbeth and Stuart McQuarrie as Duncan and the Nobleman.
Rona Munro is one of Scotland's most highly regarded playwrights, with award-winning films (Ken Loach's Lady Bird, Lady Bird), television dramas (Rehab) and her Edinburgh International Festival success (The Last Witch) to her credit.
Producer/Marilyn Imrie for Catherine Bailey Productions Ltd
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Tiny is a quirky comedy by Ben Lewis about a teenager who becomes an internet phenomenon.
A nervous young man lives at the dead end of a dead-end town. On his 18th birthday, he comes into his inheritance. With a little help from an old teacher, he finds it equips him to broadcast over the internet.
Living in a house where rolling news is a constant presence, he does what comes naturally – he fires up his computer and presents the news. However, his news is different – it puts a spring in the audience's step – until his grandma starts to grow suspicious about what he is getting up to, nightly, in his bedroom, and tries to put a stop to the broadcasts.
The cast stars Joshua Jenkins as the Boy, Julia McKenzie as Grandma, Mark Heap as Sir, Peter Marinker as Grandad and Alison Pettitt as the Newsreader.
Producer/Kirsty Williams for the BBC
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In the last of the current series of the tag-team talk show, Stephen Merchant, multi award-winning co-creator of The Office and Extras, takes the microphone to interview Pulp front man and successful solo artist Jarvis Cocker.
Stephen asks Jarvis about: the perils of being a glasses wearer; his protests against pop; and what really happened during that famous Michael Jackson incident.
Presenter/Stephen Merchant, Producer/Lianne Coup for the BBC
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 17 September 2010
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SEPTEMBERFEST
Kermode And Mayo's Film Review
Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo broadcast live from the Centre For Life in Newcastle, with a local audience, as part of BBC Radio 5 Live's Septemberfest.
Mark and Simon are joined by special guests to review the latest releases and take questions from the audience.
Presenters/Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo, Producer/Robin Bulloch
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
SEPTEMBERFEST
5 Live Sport
Kicking Off With Colin Murray is presented live from the Centre For Life in Newcastle, with a local audience, as part of BBC Radio 5 Live's Septemberfest.
Colin is joined by regulars Pat Nevin and Perry Groves, plus local sporting heroes, for a special look at North East football, plus a look ahead to the weekend's sporting action.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Steve Jones
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Friday 17 September 2010
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5 Live Cricket
Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary on England versus Pakistan in the third One Day International, live from the Oval, with the Test Match Special commentary team.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 17 September 2010
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Super-dextrous "turntablist" and AV master DJ Yoda is once again pushing the entertainment envelope by taking his newest show to the biggest screen in town – the BFI IMAX in London. Fresh from AV shows through Asia, America and Brazil with the Stop Look & Listen show, audiences can expect to experience DJ Yoda's latest AV expressions in their enormity as he welds B'More, dubstep, drum and bass and reggae rhythms to film and TV scenes and a whole new selection of the finest that YouTube has to offer.
Tipped by music magazines as one of the "10 DJs you must see before you die" and voted alongside DJ Premier as "one of the top three DJs in the world", DJ Yoda represents a new brand of unmissable mix-mastery. He pops in to BBC 6 Music for a lunchtime chat with Nemone.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Purveyor of all things musically uber-new and hip, Tom Ravenscroft's show tonight features a guest mix from Warp Records' Scottish electronic producer Hudson Mohawke. Aged 15, he was the youngest-ever DMC World DJ Championships finalist. He released his most recent album, Butter, at the end of last year.
Presenter/Tom Ravenscroft, Producer/Adam Hudson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC WORLD SERVICE Friday 17 September 2010
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Chess is an ancient game and its popularity has spanned many centuries. But how is it faring in modern times?
In the final part of this documentary, 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.
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