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Zoe Ball sits in for Dermot O'Leary this week and welcomes guests Eels, the versatile US rockers led by a man called E, Mark Oliver Everett; and American singer-songwriter Dylan LeBlanc, whose first album, Paupers Field – released last month on Rough Trade Records – features vocals from Emmylou Harris.

Presenter/Zoe Ball, Producer/Ben Walker for Labora TV

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Welsh comic Rhod Gilbert's audience comedy show features regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah Millican, who takes a weekly look at The Six Stages Of Woman.

This third episode of six features live music from Kid British, including hits Lost In London, Winner and upcoming single Two Out Of Seven. The guest comedian is If.comeddie Award winner Mark Watson.

Listeners can join Rhod for his Rant on irritating products, delve into Rhod's Confessions, where Lloyd Langford impresses the girls with his French, and see if Greg Davies can tempt them with his Indecent Proposal involving the Chuckle Brothers.

Presenter/Rhod Gilbert, Producers/Julia McKenzie and Lianne Coop for the BBC

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Ricky Ross, of Deacon Blue fame, sits in for Bob Harris this week.

Joining him are Roddy Hart And The Lonesome Fire, who perform in session for tonight's show.

Glaswegian singer/songwriter Roddy Hart's self-recorded demo Home Tapes brought him to the attention of Kris Kristofferson, who invited Roddy to open for him on his UK tour. Kristofferson then added vocals to Hart's Bookmark, his debut studio album, alongside former Fairground Attraction vocalist, Scottish singer Eddi Reader.

Hart has opened for other artists including Ray Davies, Jeff Beck, John Prine, Ray LaMontagne, Teddy Thompson, Rosanne Cash, Glen Campbell and Deacon Blue.

This year has so far seen Hart touring to promote his most recent album, Sign Language, and more recently producing Hello! I'm Tommy Reilly – the second album by Tommy Reilly.

Presenter/Ricky Ross, Producer/Mark Simpson for the BBC

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Lucie Skeaping introduces highlights of a concert recorded in Greyfriar's Kirk as part of this year's Edinburgh International Festival. Ensemble Florilegium are joined by a quartet of young Bolivian singers in music recently unearthed from the Christian missions of Chiquitos and Moxos Indians in Eastern Bolivia.

Presenter/Lucie Skeaping, Producer/Rebecca Bean

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Mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato sings Idamante in Mozart's masterpiece Idomeneo

Donald Macleod presents Mozart's Idomeneo from the Edinburgh International Festival with a star-studded cast and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Sir Roger Norrington.

The dramatic Idomeneo is one of Mozart's earlier masterpieces, revealing a gloriously dramatic struggle of love versus duty, an insoluble love triangle and the intervention of a sea monster and Neptune himself.

Tenor Kurt Streit takes the title role, with mezzo soprano Joyce DiDonato as Idamante, soprano Rosemary Joshua as Ilia, soprano Emma Bell as Elettra, tenor Rainer Trost as Arbace, tenor Keith Lewis as Sacerdote and bass Jan Martinik as La Voce.

Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Tony Cheevers

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This vivid account of an adolescent boy's struggle with acne and grief is written by Chris Wilson, winner of the Alfred Bradley Radio Bursary Award.

In this quirky and touching play, Andrew Logan has a terrible and frightening relationship with his acne, as well as an increasingly distant relationship with his father and an unsettling and dismal view of his "evil Auntie Jeanette" – who sometimes resembles a man in drag.

The cast is yet to be confirmed.

Producer/Pauline Harris

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Ramblings Ep 1/6

Saturday 18 September

6.00-6.30am BBC RADIO 4

Clare Balding takes a walk on Hampstead Heath with a group of inner-city Londoners who are being encouraged to discover the green places of their city, many for the first time, in the first of the new series of Ramblings.

The residents of the Harrow Road are part of an initiative called It's My Country, designed to help them discover the joys of walking.

Presenter/Clare Balding, Producer/Lucy Lunt for the BBC

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Punt PI Ep 1/4

Saturday 18 September

10.30-11.00am BBC RADIO 4

Steve Punt turns super sleuth once again, taking possession of the keys to BBC Radio 4's very own detective bureau and bringing mystery and intrigue back to Saturday mornings.

In the first programme, Punt looks into the phantom settlement of Argleton. Search the web for this quintessentially English place name and internet maps show that it lies just outside the town of Ormskirk in Lancashire. But when the super sleuth travels to locate it on the ground, all he finds is an empty field. It turns out that Argleton doesn't actually exist!

Punt sets out to crack the mystery of how a non-existent place can appear in online maps. From the Domesday Book to Google Headquarters, Punt's quest takes him through a thousand years of history and into the murky world of plagiarism. He questions all the key players – and as he zeroes in on the truth, he discovers that in the cartographic realm nothing is quite as it seems.

Also in this series, Punt travels to the Polish-Czech border to investigate one man's theory that the Nazis had developed flying saucer technology. And he scrutinises a wax cylinder which is reputed to carry the only recording of Queen Victoria's voice.

Presenter/Steve Punt, Producer/Laurence Grissell for the BBC

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The White Man's Burden is a radio adaptation of Paul Theroux's stage play about the young Rudyard Kipling's humiliating final months as an American resident.

The great English writer plans to settle in Vermont with his American wife, but a clash with his brother-in-law results in death threats, a court case and public scandal.

The drama stars Nicholas Boulton as Rudyard Kipling; Teresa Gallagher as Carrie Kipling; Nathan Osgood as Beatty Balestier; Sasha Pick as Mary Hackett; David Rintoul as Howard and Hitt; Paul Marinker as Conland and Judge Newton; and John Guerrasio as Fitts.

The White Man's Burden has been directed and adapted for radio by Emma Harding.

Producer/Emma Harding for the BBC

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Dr Brian Cox presents a tribute to fellow physicist Richard Feynman

Following on from his archive portrait of Carl Sagan, physicist Dr Brian Cox presents a tribute to Richard Feynman in this week's Archive On 4.

Widely regarded as the finest physicist of his generation and the most influential since Einstein, Feynman did much to popularise science through lectures, books and television, including his dramatic revelation before the world's media in which he demonstrated the exact cause of the Challenger Shuttle explosion in 1986.

Described as the "Mozart of physics", Feynman's amazing life and career seemingly had no end of highlights including a shared Nobel Prize for his unique contribution to the field of Quantum Electrodynamics. He became the most celebrated, influential and best known American physicist of his generation – something that would continue until his death from cancer in 1988.

At the same time as his scientific reputation was building, Feynman's unconventional attitude and behaviour were helping to create his reputation for eccentricity. When bored of writing equations on chalk boards or lecturing in his lab, he would go off in search of inspiration down at the local strip club, watching the go-go girls and scribbling his calculations on napkins.

His eccentricity would at times infuriate his colleagues but it was simply a natural consequence of how he thought.

Brian explores how, though few ever understood mathematics or physics like Feynman, he truly believed that science was simply too important to be left exclusively to scientists, and his energy and humour was essential in getting the public interested and inspired.

Presenter/Dr Brian Cox, Producer/Rami Tzabar for the BBC

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Danny Baker serves up his original mix of Saturday morning sports entertainment featuring fans and special guests, providing the perfect warm-up to the day's sporting action.

Presenter/Danny Baker, Producer/Clare Davison for Campbell Davison Media

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Fighting Talk

Saturday 18 September

11.00am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Colin Murray presents from Gateshead's Sage Theatre, as a panel of experts win points for punditry in front of a live audience.

Presenter/Colin Murray

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5 Live Sport

Saturday 18 September

12.00noon-6.06pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch presents all the build-up to the day's sport and Premier League action.

From 12.45pm there is live coverage from Stoke City versus West Ham United from the Britannia Stadium, plus updates from Inverness CT versus Hearts in the Scottish Premier League.

At 3pm the team gear up for more live coverage from the top-flight kick-offs including Everton versus Newcastle. There is also more coverage from the Scottish Premier League as Rangers take on Dundee United at Ibrox; plus regular rugby union updates from Wasps versus Leicester and cricket from the ECB 40-Over final at Lord's.

At 5pm Mark presents the hour-long Sports Report with news and reaction from all the day's big games, the classified results read by the legendary James Alexander Gordon, and updates from the Premier League's late kick-off, Sunderland versus Arsenal (5.30pm).

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mark Williams

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606

Saturday 18 September

6.06-8.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Derby County midfielder Robbie Savage joins Mark Chapman direct from the pitch following Derby's match with Barnsley to present the nation's most popular football phone-in, 606.

Darren Fletcher provides updates from Sunderland versus Arsenal in the Premier League as Mark and Robbie take calls on the day's big talking points from the Premier League, Championship and Football League matches. Plus the team read out the best tweets, texts and Facebook comments.

Presenters/Mark Chapman and Robbie Savage, Producer/Jo Tongue for Somethin' Else

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5 Live Cricket

Saturday 18 September

2.30-9.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on the final of the 40-Over League comes live from Lord's with the Test Match Special commentary team.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Craig Charles devotes the show to Soundway Records, specialists in African and South American music. Craig talks to compiler Hugo Mendez about working for a niche label and how he sets out to rediscover forgotten musical gems from the Sixties and Seventies.

Presenter/Craig Charles, Producer/Hermeet Chadha for Demus

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The 2010 Worldplay season – an annual collection of plays from broadcasters around the world all based on the theme of money – continues with this LA Theatre Works' production recorded in front of a live audience.

Hollywood star Nathan Lane plays Davis Mizlansky, a cunning movie producer with a slippery conscience who faces a classic Hollywood dilemma: what happens when the art of the deal turns into a battle for the ultimate double-cross?

Playwright Jon Robin Baitz drew upon years spent in the seedy underbelly of Hollywood to create the hilarious and unsavoury characters in his play, Mizlansky/Zilinsky.

The play also stars Paul Sand as Sam Zilinsky, with Harry Shearer, Richard Masur, Rob Morrow, Grant Shaud, Robert Walden and Kurtwood Smith. The director is Ron West.

Producing Director/Susan Albert Loewenberg for LA Theatre Works

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