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BBC Radio presenter and journalist Claudia Winkleman

With theatre audiences at an all-time high, the musical continues to take centre stage in 2011. Ghost – The Musical and Shrek are just two of many new productions opening on the London stage this year. And The Lion King set the record for the highest takings in West End history for the second year in a row in 2010.

With the curtain about to rise on Andrew Lloyd Webber's new production of The Wizard Of Oz, Claudia accompanies some of the cast and crew along the Yellow Brick Road to discover more about the latest stage adaptation of one of the world's best-loved movies.

Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Jessica Rickson for the BBC

BBC Radio 2 Publicity

Performance On 3

Friday 4 February

7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3

Presented live from the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, François-Xavier Roth conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Viktoria Mullova in Beethoven's Violin Concerto and in music by Liszt and Bartók.

An enduring favourite with audiences, Beethoven's Violin Concerto is performed tonight by acclaimed violinist Viktoria Mullova. From a concerto with one soloist to another with nearly 100, Bartók's Concerto For Orchestra spotlights every member of the orchestra – an Everest for orchestras the world over.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Tony Sellors

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Distinguished film, television and stage actor Sir Patrick Stewart OBE

Ahead of BBC Radio 4's Classic Chandler collection (beginning tomorrow with hardboiled crime novel The Big Sleep), Patrick Stewart stars as Raymond Chandler and Adrian Scarborough is Billy Wilder in this entertaining glimpse inside the Hollywood film industry.

In 1944, the two men came together to work on a screen adaptation of James M Cain's novel, Double Indemnity. Billy Wilder is a 36-year-old German Jewish émigré, just making his name as a director, and Raymond Chandler is a reformed alcoholic with a developing reputation as a novelist but absolutely no experience of writing for movies. The play follows their famously difficult collaboration.

Double Jeopardy is dramatised by Stephen Wyatt.

Producer/Claire Grove for the BBC

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To top

David Eldridge's play follows a marriage as it falters over 25 years of political change.

Gillian and Ray meet at university. She is from a privileged background. His father works in a hardware shop and his mother is a dinner lady. Despite this disparity, they embark on a relationship.

As their lives progress, listeners are given an intimate portrait of the ups and downs of marriage and the political and social changes that help shape their lives.

Like Minded People is written by David Eldridge and stars Ruth Wilson as Gillian and Tom Brooke as Ray.

Producer/Sally Avens for the BBC

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

5 Live Sport

Friday 4 February

7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Colin Murray previews the weekend's sport, plus the build-up to the start of the Six Nations first match tonight between Wales and England, in Kicking Off.

From 7.45pm, there is live Six Nations rugby union commentary of Wales versus England, plus regular Championship updates from Reading versus Queens Park Rangers.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Mike Carr

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Football

Friday 4 February

7.40-9.45pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary on Reading versus Queens Park Rangers in the Championship.

Producer/Jen McAllister

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity

Nemone's lunchtime playlist is chosen by this week's 6 Mixers – Hercules And Love Affair.

Their self-titled debut was named as Breakthrough Album Of The Year in The New York Times and featured in Pitchfork's Top 10 albums of 2008, with single Blind also gaining critical acclaim.

The new album, Blue Songs, has main man Andy Butler shifting the focus gently away from the New York house and disco forms of the debut – relocating to Denver and recording the album in Vienna with techno-producer Patrick Pulsinger. Kim Ann Foxman returns on vocals and is joined in starring roles by Venezuelan singer Aerea Negrot, fan-turned-collaborator Shaun Wright and Kele Okereke (Bloc Party).

The band hand-pick tracks by artists including Cabaret Voltaire, Brian Eno, OMD, Yazoo and Meat Beat Manifesto.

Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

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