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From his home in Perthshire, Desmond Carrington rummages through his collection of 250,000 titles and this week takes music from British films as his theme.

Presenter/Desmond Carrington, Producer/Dave Aylott

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This evening, Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie have live music from Fyfe Dangerfield of the indie rock band Guillemots, who has just released his debut solo album, Fly Yellow Moon.

Presenters/Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producer/Viv Atkinson

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In a few weeks' time, British film producer David Puttnam, with broadcaster and author Brian Sibley will be bringing the story of the first 100 years of cinema up to date. But for now, listeners can sit back, dim the lights and open the popcorn, as BBC Radio 2
re-broadcasts their original 1999 programme charting the history of the silver screen.

This programme considers Hollywood's great film-factories: Paramount, Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, Universal and MGM. Contributors include Angela Lansbury, Dirk Bogarde, Fred Zinneman and Leslie Bricusse.

Presenters/David Puttnam and Brian Sibley, Producer/Malcolm Prince

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Tonight's Late Junction selection includes a French Haitian love song from André Toussaint; the music of rural Angola played on the coroa mouth bow; a track from glitch maestro Oval; banjoist Bela Fleck sparring with Madagascan guitar hero D'Gary; and the striking microtonal choral singing of Tahiti. Plus Anonymous 4 and the Chilingirian Quartet performing Sir John Tavener's Come And Do Your Will In Me.

Presenter/Verity Sharp, Producer/Felix Carey

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This week, A History Of The World In 100 Objects looks at the growing sophistication of humans around the globe between 5000 and 2000 BC.

Today, Neil MacGregor describes the discovery of The Standard of Ur, a set of mosaics from the ancient Mesopotamian City of Ur, now in Southern Iraq.

One of the most spectacular discoveries of ancient royal goods, the magnificent gold and silver jewellery was found nearly 100 years ago at a royal burial site in the City of Ur at the heart of one of the first great civilisations in the world. It leads Neil to contemplate the nature of kingship and power in Mesopotamia.

One of the objects buried alongside the dead was The Standard of Ur, a set of mosaic scenes mounted on a single box that show powerful images of battle and regal life and that remain remarkably well preserved given its 4,500-year history.

Contributors include sociologist Anthony Giddens on the growing sophistication of societies at this time, and archaeologist Dr Lamia Al-Gailani Werr who considers what Ancient Mesopotamia means to the people of modern-day Iraq.

Presenter/Neil MacGregor, Producer/Anthony Denselow

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Paul Gambaccini, the New York-born music broadcaster who has worked in BBC radio since the early Seventies, presents a selection of some of the pieces of writing which have inspired, moved and entertained him.

The readings are brought to life by Kathryn Akin, John Guerrasio and Philip Rosch.

Presenter/Paul Gambaccini, Producer/Christine Hall

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The Right Ingredients is a delicate and beautiful tale by Pat Davis about a mother trying to come to terms with bereavement.

Jake, a carpenter, met Lisa, an artist, when he drifted from London to Cornwall, trailing a drug habit, debts and dreams. Lisa turned his life around and they were happy until their six-year-old daughter Lily died in an accident. Jake was driving and although he was not at fault, he blames himself.

Lisa is deep in grief. She has asked Jake to move out, has stopped seeing people, even her best friend Ella, she won't answer the phone and is hardly eating. One day when she goes into town she realises she has forgotten her shopping list. She panics but then another shopper hands her a list that is sitting in the bottom of the trolley thinking it is her lost list. Lisa decides to use that instead. This abdication of responsibility and abandoning herself to chance, somehow anchors her and she decides to keep using other people's lists.

Lisa and her mother often made a cake together. It was a shared ritual and it was a tradition that her mother had continued with Lily. So when Lisa finds a key ingredient on one of her found lists, she decides to make the cake again.

Week by week and little by little Lisa begins to accumulate the ingredients for the recipe. As she does so, she begins, tentatively, to re-connect with the world around her.

The cast stars Jasmine Hyde as Lisa, Joseph Cohen-Cole as Jake, Helen Longworth as Ella and Kate Layden as Mum.

Producer/Tracey Neale

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A Georgian Trilogy Ep 1/3

Tuesday 2 to Thursday 4 February

3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4

In the autumn of 2008, shortly after the conflict between Russia and Georgia, writer James Hopkin travelled to Georgia with a journalist's commission and to give a reading in Tbilisi. Sweet Talk commissioned James to write three stories inspired by his experiences. The resultant trilogy takes the life and work of the great Georgian artist Niko Pirosmani as its linking thread and gives listeners' three colourful tales from one of Britain's finest young writers.

Today's story, A Peacock In Sulphur is read by Allan Corduner. From Mirzani to Tbilisi to Paris, it tells of the life and times of artist Niko Pirosmani.

Tomorrow, The Wurst Express From Kakheti is read by Tom Goodman-Hill. Soso is a Georgian poet living in Berlin on a three-month visa. He is delivering food to impoverished artists in the Moabit district when he hears shattering news from his homeland.

The final story on Thursday, The Soul Is Missing Fairy Tales! is read by Ben Miles. A tour bus of journalists, writers and artists breaks down on the infamous military highway from Vladikavkaz to Tbilisi. It is only nine days since the Russian army withdrew from parts of Georgia, but there are rumours of a return.

Readers/Allan Corduner, Tom Goodman-Hill and Ben Miles, Producer/Rosalynd Ward

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In the final programme of this current series of Great Lives, Richard Dawkins joins Matthew Parris to discuss the life of Bill Hamilton, one of the greatest evolutionary theorists of the 20th century.

Presenter/Matthew Parris, Producer/Beatrice Fenton

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5 Live Sport

Tuesday 2 February

7.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch presents all the day's sports news and live commentary of one of the evening's FA Cup fourth-round replays, plus updates from the Scottish League Cup semi-final, Hearts versus St Mirren.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Claire Burns

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BBC 6 Music presenter Lauren Laverne

Supergrass's Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey come into the studio in their new incarnation as covers band Hot Rats. They join Lauren Laverne for a live session and a chat about what they've been up to.

Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales

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Nemone interviews North Carolina-based trio the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a young string band in the centuries-old Piedmont banjo and fiddle musical tradition.

Described by Rolling Stone as "revisiting, with a joyful vengeance, black string-band and jug-band music of the Twenties and Thirties – the dirt-floor dance electricity of the Mississippi Sheiks and Cannon's Jug Stompers", the band are currently in the UK promoting their new album Genuine Negro Gig.

Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

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Gideon Coe presents Warren Zevon in concert plus a Faith No More live set from 1995.

Archive sessions from Birmingham's perfect pop group Felt, new US "psyche folk" band Antlers in session from 2009, Welsh songstress Cate Le Bon playing for Marc Riley in 2009 and, from 1968, there's a rare Top Gear session from Ten Years After.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Simran tells Darren that business at the salon is gloomy, as the drama continues. She then asks lots of questions about where to find Cyrus. Darren warns her to move on and leave things alone, but will Simran listen?

Elsewhere, Deepika turns up at the Crown in need of a drink. Nadia is throwing her weight around at the house plus Deepika is still shocked about Darren's past. Sean lends Deepika an ear and then gives her some friendly advice...

Simran is played by Balvinder Sopal, Darren by Samuel Kindred, Deepika by Babita Pohoomull, Sean by Lloyd Thomas and Brian by Gerard McDermott.

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