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BBC Radio 1's In New Music We Trust Live

Thursday 20 January

7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 1

Nick Grimshaw introduces live sets from some of the best new bands around

BBC Radio 1 presents another In New Music We Trust Live event from the HMV Forum London. Presented by Zane Lowe and Nick Grimshaw, this exciting free concert showcases an eclectic line-up of indie, rock and experimental music.

This evening's concert sees White Lies, Jamie Woon, Sleigh Bells and Funeral Party taking to the stage and also includes a DJ set from Nero.

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In session with Bob Harris tonight is Justin Townes Earle. Son of maverick country artist Steve Earle and named after legendary Texan songwriter Townes Van Zandt, Justin won the best new artist award at the 2009 Americana Music awards.

He is in the UK to tour with his fourth album, Harlem River Blues, which has been described as a fusion of country, gospel, rockabilly and grunge.

Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth for the BBC

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Radio 2 In Concert gives listeners the opportunity to share in Gary Barlow's 40th birthday celebrations by broadcasting GB40 live from the O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire in West London.

Friends, family and fans hear Gary perform songs that span his fantastic 20-year career in a small and intimate setting. The live concert, hosted on air by Jo Whiley, allows Gary to take to the stage on his own for the first time in over eleven years to perform songs from his successful career as one of the UK's most distinguished singer-songwriters.

He is backed by a band made up of close friends and acquaintances he's met along the way – helping make it a night to remember, with profits from the night going to charity.

Presenter/Jo Whiley, Producer/BBC Radio 2 Live Music for the BBC

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Frank Renton presents highlights of the recent Brass In Concert competition. One of the premier entertainment competitions in the UK banding calendar, Brass In Concert was held at The Sage Gateshead, last November when 11 of the country's best bands played for the title.

In tonight's final programme there's award-winning music from The Tredegar Town Band, who took the trophy for Entertainment and Presentation and the Award for Best New Composition or Arrangement being premièred at the competition.

Frank Renton also presents highlights from Leyland Band's programme of wizardry and magic.

Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter for the BBC

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BBC Radio 3 broadcasts the third of four French-themed Lunchtime Concerts from last August's Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival, which focused on music written in Paris.

Recorded at Holy Trinity Church in Tattershall and at Gainsborough Old Hall, this broadcast features two piano trios by Camille Saint-Saëns and Maurice Ravel, performed by Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Alexander Chaushian (cello) and Ashley Wass (piano).

Presenter/Katie Derham, Producer/Les Pratt

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Katie Derham introduces Los Angeles Opera's production of Rossini's The Barber Of Seville. Based on the first play of the trilogy by Pierre Beaumarchais, the opera forms a prequel to Mozart's Marriage Of Figaro, which takes the second play as its plot. From the moment of its première in Rome in 1816, The Barber Of Seville became Rossini's most popular opera.

For Los Angeles Opera's production of this masterpiece, the company's chorus and orchestra are joined by a stellar line-up of soloists, including Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Florez as the Count, American baritone Nathan Gunn as the resourceful barber and American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato as the young maiden Rosina – under the baton of Michele Mariotti.

Presenter/Katie Derham, Producer/Richard Yarr

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Andy Kershaw hears music from desert communities this week

This major series accompanies BBC One's Human Planet and follows Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran as they go in search of music from some of the world's most remote locations, visiting many of the places featured in the TV series.

Today's programme is the second in the eight-part series and focuses on the music of desert communities.

In Dubai, Andy Kershaw meets the first Emirati singer to record an album in Urdu – a significant moment in Dubai where some 65 per cent of the population are sub-continent migrant workers. He also visits the labour camps where they live; marvels at an indoor ski resort; and climbs the tallest building in the world.

Andy also travels to the small town of Djanet in the far south of Algeria. Here he admires the beauty of this vast desert and listens to music inspired by the Sahara. He meets and records the Bali family and finds them mourning the recent death of their father.

In Mongolia, Lucy travels deep into the Gobi desert, sets up a recording studio in a ger (traditional Mongolian tent) and records various styles of desert song, including the extraordinary two-tone throat singing. There are also songs of Holy Mountains in one of the remotest parts of the Gobi desert, and a young artist from Ulaanbaatar who combines throat singing with beat-boxing.

Presenters/Andy Kershaw and Lucy Duran, Producers/James Parkin and Roger Short

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Glenn Mitchell examines the impact of the French television series The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe and its memorable music score.

Between 1965 and 1981, BBC One's The Adventures Of Robinson Crusoe, based on Daniel Defoe's novel, captured the imagination of thousands of children. The theme tune, with its rumbling introductory notes suggesting the rolling waves of the on-screen title sequence, remains distinctive, as does the full incidental score, comprising numerous cues that in each case represent some part of Crusoe's existence.

It was filmed in the Canary Islands as a group of mini-series based on classic novels. Unlike most adaptations of the novel, this production concentrated not merely on events on the island, but also incorporated Crusoe's other adventures, told in flashback.

In 1964, the series was shown both in Europe and, in an English-dubbed edition, on American television. By the time this version was screened on BBC One in October 1965, it had been divided into 13 25-minute episodes. The series was hugely popular with schoolboys, among them the writer and presenter of this programme, Glenn Mitchell.

The programme sets out to track down Crusoe actor Robert Hoffman, whose subsequent international career has included numerous features and the television series Dallas. Now in his seventies, he still lives in his native Salzburg.

Presenter/Glenn Mitchell, Producer/A&M Factual for the BBC

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Notes To Self is a drama about Alzheimer's disease based on real experiences and interwoven with recordings of music sessions carried out in care homes and day centres.

Doreen has been in a care home for two years. Her son, Robert, visits but finds it hard to have a meaningful relationship with his mother, unlike his partner Karen. A performance at the home reveals music to have a powerful effect on Doreen. Can this offer an opportunity for Robert to make a new connection with her?

Written by Deborah Wain, Notes To Self stars Linda Bassett as Doreen; Jeff Hordley as Robert; Cherylee Houston as Karen; Kellie Shirley as Dor; William Ash as Harry; and Ruth Alexander-Rubin as the care assistant.

The music is performed by David Barnard, James Dinsmore and Rebecca Watson with participants in the Lost Chord music session at The Linney Centre and residents and carers at the Richmond Care Home.

Producer/Nadia Molinari for the BBC

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Eleanor Oldroyd presents the day's sport news and features.

Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Mike Carr

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Tennis

Thursday 20 January

8.00am-1.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary from the night session at the Australian Open in Melbourne.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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The Walkmen are in the Manchester studios for a live session.

The band are a five-piece and rose from the ashes of Jonathon Fire Eater and The Recoys. Their new album, Lisbon, was released on The Bella Union label October 2010.

The next single taken from the album is called Juveniles and is released 10 days after the session.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

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Gideon Coe introduces concert highlights from Australia's female-fronted Howling Bells and acid jazz pioneers and cop show theme enthusiasts the James Taylor Quartet. Archive sessions come from breezy jangle merchants The Monochrome Set, Dylan Thomas-inspired Starless And Bible Black, The Rogers Sisters and quirky Japanese duo The Frank Chickens.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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