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In Concert – Elbow Homecoming Gig

Thursday 27 October

8.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 2

Rock band Elbow

Jo Whiley presents a very special homecoming gig with Elbow broadcast live from Manchester Cathedral. The Bury band perform classic hits as well as songs from their latest album, Build A Rocket Boys, accompanied by the Halle Youth Choir.

In support is local indie folk band, the Slow Show. The band has been chosen by BBC Introducing, which champions unsigned, undiscovered and under-the-radar musicians, giving the best new artists broadcast opportunities across the BBC.

The gig will also be available to view live from 9pm via the BBC Red Button and at bbc.co.uk/radio 2. Listeners can tune in to BBC Radio 6 Music, home of Guy Garvey's Finest Hour, from 10pm to hear the gig encore on Gideon Coe's show.

Presenter/Jo Whiley, Producer/Sarah Gaston for the BBC

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Conductor Charles Hazlewood rounds up his exploration of the links between seemingly unconnected pieces of music, starting from an iconic pop track. This week, the starting point is Jimi Hendrix's All Along The Watchtower, as Charles examines how the key ingredients of this music can be found in other genres too.

Presenter/Charles Hazlewood, Producer/Nicky Birch for Somethin' Else

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In the third programme this week of recent studio and concert performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, German cellist Nicolas Altstaedt plays the Cello Sonata by Debussy, British tenor Ben Johnson sings songs by Liszt and the Escher String Quartet from America perform Brahms's Second Quartet in A minor.

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Radio 3 Live In Concert

Thursday 27 October

7.30-10.00pm BBC RADIO 3

Continuing their exploration of the life and work of Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, the Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen perform music from his fairytale ballet The Wooden Prince and the Second Piano Concerto with pianist Yefim Bronfman, live from London's Royal Festival Hall.

Unusually, this orchestral concert begins with just three players as soloists performing Bartók's jazz-inspired Contrasts written for American clarinettist Benny Goodman. This is followed by a tale of enchantment and infatuation as Bartók's music to the ballet The Wooden Prince tells a story of a princess who falls in love with the wooden effigy of a handsome prince rather than the prince himself.

After the interval there's the folk-inspired Dance Suite and, to finish, the Second Piano Concerto with a soloist who has already recorded an award-winning disc of all three Bartók concertos with tonight's conductor.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Brian Jackson

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Fiona Talkington introduces a Late Junction session with Norwegian pianist Christian Wallumrod and his ensemble, featuring Dublin-born viola virtuoso Garth Knox.

Christian Wallumrod draws his influences from Norwegian folk music, jazz and composers such as John Cage and Morton Feldman. He also plays harmonium and toy piano, blending with the trumpet, drums and strings of his ensemble.

When Garth Knox was in his twenties he was invited by Pierre Boulez to join his Ensemble Intercontemporain in Paris, and later spent several years with the Arditti Quartet – his years with them included the première of Stockhausen's celebrated Helicopter Quartet. He is now seeking to create a new repertory for the viola, embracing influences from Baroque music, folk and the blues.

Presenter/Fiona Talkington

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This programme explores the legacy of musician and broadcaster Jack Jackson through the eyes of three generations of his family.

It uncovers another Jackson dynasty overflowing with musicians, record producers and artists, all striving to preserve his memory and make their own impression on the world.

Jackson's career in entertainment spanned 50 years and he is recognised today in the Sony Radio Hall of Fame. Jackson formed his band in the Thirties and became a disc jockey in 1948 and he is also cited as the man who gave the BBC the nickname "Auntie" and the first voice heard on ITV.

Jack Jackson died in 1978 but his spirit is very much alive in the daily life of generations of Jacksons. His memory has touched every branch of the Jackson family tree, but as this programme reveals they all respond to his influence in a variety of different ways.

Producer/Stephen Garner for the BBC

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Eleanor Oldroyd has a comprehensive round-up of the day's sporting news.

At 8pm in 5 Live Sport special, Pressure, Michael Vaughan examines pressure's role in top-level sport. He looks at coping techniques, replicating pressure in training and applying it to a competitor's advantage.

From 9.30pm there's boxing news and discussion in 5 Live Boxing.

Presenters/Eleanor Oldroyd and Michael Vaughan, Producer/Mike Carr

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Gideon Coe

Thursday 27 October

9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC

In the second hour of the show, Gideon Coe switches live to Manchester Cathedral where the multi-platinum selling band Elbow – fronted by 6 Music's own Guy Garvey – are performing songs from their award-winning back-catalogue for BBC Radio 2's In Concert.

BBC Radio 6 Music listeners can exclusively enjoy the encore of this homecoming gig, as it happens, in the august surroundings of the cathedral.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Henry Lopez Real

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