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Folk artist Dick Gaughan will be presented with a lifetime achievement award at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards

Mike Harding presents highlights of the 2010 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards show from The Brewery in London EC1. The Folk Awards, now in their 11th year, celebrate the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music from the past 12 months and acknowledge significant contributions to music through the presentation of lifetime achievement awards.

This year Nanci Griffith and Dick Gaughan, two artists who have influenced generations of musicians and music fans alike, will be presented with lifetime achievement awards and both will perform in the show.

Grammy-winning Texan Nanci Griffith has built a worldwide reputation for her sensitive songwriting and has made 18 albums: Dick Gaughan's career includes spells with acclaimed groups Boys Of The Lough and Five Hand Reel and his songs have been interpreted by artists spanning the folk genre, including Billy Bragg, Christy Moore, Mary Black, Roy Bailey and Capercaillie.

BBC Scotland's ground-breaking TV series The Transatlantic Sessions, which has brought together the finest folk and traditional musicians from Scotland, Ireland and North America, is to be given the Good Tradition Award for its continuing contribution to folk music.

The Awards show will also feature performances by the 2009 Best Group Lau and by six-times-nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist Martin Simpson. Irish singer Cara Dillon will perform a song from her latest album, while Best Live Act nominees The Bad Shepherds and Best Duo nominees Show Of Hands will also provide live music.

Guest presenters include musician Richard Hawley, poet Ian McMillan and BBC 6 Music's Tom Robinson.

Full information on the nominations can be found at bbc.co.uk/radio. Extensive online features and a photo gallery will also be available.

Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While

BBC Radio 2 Publicity

Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim

Daniel Barenboim conducts all five of Beethoven's Piano Concertos and some of Schoenberg's seminal orchestral works in four concerts with the Berlin Staatskapelle, being broadcast in Performance On 3 between 3 and 9 February, recorded at London's South Bank Centre.

Both Beethoven and Schoenberg are composers who summarised the musical traditions that went before them, while pointing to radical new developments, and Barenboim sees parallels between them in forging new paths that were to have, in his words, "lasting, irrevocable consequences for the future of composition".

In the first concert of the series, Barenboim pairs works written a century apart, when both composers were in their mid twenties. Beethoven's vivacious C major Piano Concerto was one of the works with which the young enfant terrible wowed the aristocracy of Vienna in the 1790s, while Schoenberg's audacious Pelleas And Melisande is a piece scored for huge orchestra, which teeters on the edge of tonality.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Juan Carlos Jaramillo

BBC Radio 3 Publicity

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.

In today's programme, Neil MacGregor arrives at the great Indus Valley civilisation in present-day Pakistan and examines 4,500-year-old stone stamps from a city building boom of the period.

The ancient city of Harappa lies around 150 miles north of Lahore in Pakistan. It was once one of the great centres of a civilisation that has largely disappeared; one with vast trade connections and boasting several of the world's first cities. At a time when another great civilisation was being forged along the banks of the river Nile in Egypt, Neil investigates this much less well-known civilisation on the banks of the Indus Valley.

Neil introduces listeners' to a series of little stone stamps that are covered in carved images of animals and probably used in trade. The civilisation built more than 100 cities, some with sophisticated sanitation systems, large-scale architecture and even designed around a modern grid layout. The great modern architect Sir Richard Rogers considers the urban planning of the Indus Valley, while the historian Nayanjot Lahiri looks at how this lost civilisation is remembered, by both modern India and Pakistan.

Presenter/Neil MacGregor, Producer/Anthony Denselow

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

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Weekend Warriors No-Longer Ep 1/2

Wednesday 3 February

11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4

Martin Bell investigates how the part-time Territorial Army is surviving full-time warfare.

Once upon a time the men and women of the Territorial Army were reportedly dismissed as "weekend warriors", or an eccentric drink club whose members liked to play with guns and go on the occasional camping weekend. Today, military chiefs admit that they couldn't fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan without them.

Since 2003, thousands of the TA establishment have served, with some doing two and even three tours of duty – and 18 (at the time of publication) have been killed in action.

Martin Bell has spent a year following members of the TA from getting their call-up papers, through their pre-deployment training, doing their tour and then back to their civilian jobs to find out how the "part-time" army is surviving full-time warfare. Martin explores what the future holds for the country's reserve forces.

Presenter/Martin Bell, Producer/Phil Pegum

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

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Moral Maze Ep 1/9

Wednesday 3 February

8.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 4

Michael Buerk returns with a new series of The Moral Maze, with Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor, Michael Portillo and Claire Fox on the panel to grill the witness, live, on the moral and ethical dimensions to a story in this week's news.

Presenter/Michael Buerk, Producer/Phil Pegum

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

5 Live Sport

Wednesday 3 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 Rangers versus St Johnstone in the Scottish League Cup semi-final.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Claire Ackling

BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity

Nemone welcomes Marcus Brigstocke to the studio. One of Britain's finest comedians and broadcasters, Marcus Brigstocke, is bringing his critically acclaimed show God Collar to London's legendary Vaudeville Theatre in February 2010.

The award-winning comedian is a firm favourite with comedy fans and God Collar promises to be as sharply observant and quick-witted as his much-loved catalogue of work.

Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

BBC 6 Music Publicity

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Gideon Coe presents The Kinks in concert from 1973 plus a Wedding Present set from 1988.

There are also archive sessions from jangly C86 obscurists The Fizzbombs, a new session from Sean O Hagan's much respected High Llamas during 2009, recent folk-indie band Table for Marc Riley in 2009 and Brett Marvin And The Thunderbolts from 1970.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson

BBC 6 Music Publicity

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Listeners have another chance to hear the extraordinary story of the song Louie Louie. More than 50 years after its release, Steve Van Zandt tells how the song survived the wrath of the FBI to become one of the most performed, recorded and influential tracks of all time.

Recorded by Richard Berry as a B-side in April 1957, there are more than 1,000 versions of Louie Louie. However, the impact of this song has been felt far beyond the music business. It scared the American establishment enough to trigger an FBI investigation by J Edgar Hoover's notorious G-Men, and it remains the subject of much heated debate to this day.

This programme was first broadcast on BBC Radio 2 and concludes tomorrow.

Presenter/Steve Van Zandt, Producer/Frank Wilson

BBC 6 Music Publicity

Darren needs a heart-to-heart and turns to his mum, as the drama continues. Sandra tells Darren she is proud of him regardless of what he has done in the past.

Meanwhile, Sean is pleased to see a more accommodating side to Deepika, but Arun isn't in a good mood; what is he so angry about?

Elsewhere, Simran tries to sell one of Jaggy's prized possessions to raise some much needed cash and gets a step closer to finding Cyrus...

Darren is played by Samuel Kindred, Sandra by Anita Dobson, Sean by Lloyd Thomas, Deepika by Babita Pohoomull, Arun by Naithan Ariane, Simran by Balvinder Sopal and Brian by Gerard McDermott.

BBC Asian Network Publicity

Mark Whitaker examines the efforts being made around the world to use school history textbooks to help heal the wounds of conflict through the next generation.

The final programme of this two-part series examines the disputed role of textbooks in the process of European integration. Mark begins in Bosnia, where he looks at the work of the Council of Europe and the Organization For Security And Co-operation In Europe to create multi-perspective textbooks and explores how vitally important a country's method of teaching history can be when they are being considered for EU membership.

He discovers that, 15 years after the civil war ended, each of Bosnia's different ethnic groups still hangs on to a separate history curriculum that conveys mistrust of people from other ethnic backgrounds; he even finds schools where two separate histories are taught.

Mark then moves to the heart of the European Community and meets with leading historians to analyse the continent's first trans-national history textbooks, which were written by teams of French and German historians. They cover the period from 1815 to the present, and contain the same text in two languages.

He asks whether this is a model for the future of history teaching in Europe. Should the nation-state remain the focus in different member countries, or should some sort of common European curriculum be developed?

In the final part of the programme, Marks hears from people who think "nationalist" history should be consigned to the past; from those who are thinking about what a core European history curriculum might be; and from those, especially in Britain, who argue that an emphasis on national history is important for the integration of minority communities.

Presenter and Producer/Mark Whitaker

BBC World Service Publicity