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Tonight's show features a live session where each track is hand-picked from the BBC archives. Previous archive sessions have included performances by Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk and the John Surman Octet. After a huge email response to the Jazz Ship archive featuring Cannonball Adderley, Jamie has unearthed more musical gems.

Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Karen Pearson for Folded Wing

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As women find themselves increasingly at the centre of religious news around the world – from Tahir Square, Cairo, to the ban on wearing headscarves in France and Belgium, and the arguments over women bishops in the Church of England – Shelagh Fogarty speaks to women of different faiths to find out what their religious culture and beliefs mean to them.

National Gallery theologian Tina Beattie explains the historical depictions of famous religious women, as Shelagh explores whether customs and religious discipline, including what they wear, actually empower women. She also explores the extent to which women are able to participate in their own acts of worship and talks to Canon Lucy Winkett.

Shelagh draws together all her experiences and considers whether women are beginning to enjoy their religious identity, distinct from that of men, and whether they are served by religion and valued as spiritual people.

Presenter/Shelagh Fogarty, Producer/Mark O'Brien for the BBC

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In the first of four programmes this week featuring recent studio and concert performances by members of the Radio 3 New Generation Artists scheme, Swiss pianist Francesco Piemontesi plays Mazurkas by Chopin; Dutch baritone Henk Neven sings a group of Schumann songs; and the ATOS Trio from Germany perform one of Beethoven's early piano trios.

Producer/Lindsay Kemp

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Radio 3 Live In Concert

Tuesday 25 October

7.30-10.00pm BBC RADIO 3

The Scottish Ensemble, Scotland's premier virtuoso string ensemble, join forces with Perth-born pianist Alasdair Beatson at the Perth Concert Hall to perform a contrasting programme of Mendelssohn and Stravinsky.

Written when Mendelssohn was only 14 years old, his concerto for violin, piano and strings is a joyful counterpoint to the neo-classical elegance and energy of Stravinsky.

Producer/Lindsay Pell

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Jim Al-Khalili is joined by astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, as the series where Jim invites a scientist to discuss their life and work continues.

Aged 19, Jocelyn spotted some "scruff" amidst reams of data from a DIY radio telescope. Nicknamed LGM-1 (Little Green Man – 1), the scruff was highly suggestive of extra terrestrial intelligence; others dismissed it as man-made error. But Jocelyn presented it as the first ever evidence of pulsars and her two male colleagues were awarded the Nobel Prize. Jocelyn is a devout and active Quaker.

She talks to Jim about her life and about how her passion for astrophysics developed.

Presenter/Jim Al-Khalili, Producers/Anna Buckley and Geraldine Fitzgerald for the BBC

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Actress Alison Steadman

When a community savings system goes wrong, disaster looms for one struggling family in this hard-hitting new play from Karen Brown, starring Alison Steadman.

Thomas and Anne Lally have taken over the local tontine scheme from Thomas's mum, Marie. A run of bad luck culminates in Thomas being on crutches and so not able to work. Anne reveals that she has been dipping into the tontine savings – and now owes thousands to their friends and neighbours. The family have to make the money back. The grim reality is that they are too much in debt to ever reach their target.

Tontines run successfully in small communities, where trust and responsibility are still respected. The Tontine collector is given regular payments every week. The savers can call on the money in an emergency or often at Christmas, paying back a small fee on any loan.

Producer/Polly Thomas for the BBC

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Just William – Rightin' Wrongs Ep 1/3

Tuesday 25 to Thursday 27 October

3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4

Martin Jarvis chooses and performs three more Richmal Crompton stories about her immortal hero, William Brown.

Today, in The Pennymans Hand On the Torch, the Outlaws are intrigued by some eccentric newcomers to the village who plan to persuade everyone to return to the simple life.

On Wednesday, in The Knights Of The Square Table, William and the Outlaws decide that "rightin' wrongs" could be a profitable undertaking – a shilling for big ones and sixpence for little ones.

In the final episode, William Helps The Cause, William, running a "quiet" stall at the bazaar, manages unwittingly to bring a criminal to justice while wearing stilts.

Just William – Rightin' Wrongs is read and adapted by Martin Jarvis.

Reader/Martin Jarvis, Producer/Rosalind Ayres for Jarvis and Ayres Productions

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Warhorses Of Letters Ep 1/4

Tuesday 25 October

11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 4

Stephen Fry and Daniel Rigby star in Warhorses Of Letters

Stephen Fry stars as Napoleon's horse in this comedy with Daniel Rigby as Wellington's horse, in a love story of two horses divided by war, told through their letters to each other.

Deep in the British Library tucked into the slipcover of a book on the history of Blenheim Palace a packet of extraordinary letters has been discovered.

"Dear Marengo brackets Napoleon's horse close brackets, I've never written a letter like this before..." thus begins the first passionate letter from Copenhagen, the Duke of Wellington's horse, to his hero Marengo in this epistolary equine love story.

The first episode charts the early days of their romance and the beginning of the Peninsular Campaign. As their love blossoms, the shadow of impending combat looms over the two heroes.

Warhorses Of Letters is written by novelists Robert Hudson and Marie Phillips.

Director/Steven Canny, Producer/Gareth Edwards for the BBC

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5 Live Sport

Tuesday 25 October

7.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch rounds up the day's sport and looks ahead to the evening's League Cup fourth-round football.

From 7.45pm there's live football commentary from the fourth round of the League Cup, with a place in the quarter finals at stake.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mike Carr

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Cricket

Tuesday 25 October

9.45am-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on India versus England in the fifth One Day International comes live from Kolkota.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Football

Tuesday 25 October

7.40-9.45pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary on Arsenal versus Bolton Wanderers in the fourth round of the League Cup.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Shaun Keaveny is joined in the studio by legendary director John Landis, who talks about his extraordinary career and his new book about movie monsters.

John has directed some of the most popular movies of all time, including Three Amigos, The Blues Brothers and Coming To America. He chats with Shaun about the history of monsters in film and how people's nightmares have continued to be populated by these fantastic creatures of every shape and size.

Presenter/Shaun Keaveny, Producer/Lisa Kenlock

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Mark Radcliffe is joined by musician Thomas Dolby.

Born Thomas Robertson, teenage experiments with an assortment of keyboards, synthesizers and cassette players earned him the nickname "Dolby". That same fascination later drove him to become an electronic musician and multimedia artist whose hits included She Blinded Me With Science (1982) and Hyperactive (1984).

The advent of the web enabled Thomas to take his experiments with music and technology further and the release of his latest album, A Map Of The Floating City, is accompanied by an online game in which players explore a fictional map and can haggle for merchandise and downloads.

Presenter/Mark Radcliffe, Producer/Lizzie Hoskin

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Following the release of Coldplay's fifth album, Steve Lamacq speaks to Chris Martin about working with Brian Eno and the inspiration behind the album.

Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Paul Sheehan

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Ahead of his delivery of the inaugural Peel Lecture, Pete Townshend's full, frank and fearless account of his career as a musician and his life in the rock business is revisted on BBC Radio 6 Music.

This documentary was first broadcast on BBC Radio 2 in August. The Peel Lecture will broadcast live from the Radio Academy Radio Festival, in Salford, on Monday 31 October 2011.

Presenter/Pete Townshend, Producer/Frank Wilson

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