 | | BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 25 May 2008 | |
Elaine Paige On Sunday
Sunday 25 May
1.00-2.30pm BBC RADIO 2 | | | |  |
Singer and actress Sarah Brightman joins Elaine Paige this week to chat about the release of her new album, Symphony, and her career in musical theatre, which features appearances in Cats and The Phantom Of The Opera. Sarah also discusses her Essential Musicals, which include Tommy (concept album 1969), The Sound Of Music (Broadway 1959), the film Moulin Rouge! (2001), the film The Wizard Of Oz (1939) and the film Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961). A selection of Sarah's Essential Musicals can be heard on air this afternoon and all of her choices are available on Elaine's showpage at bbc.co.uk/radio2. Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince BBC Radio 2 Publicity Sunday Half Hour
Sunday 25 May
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2 | | | | |
Brian D'Arcy celebrates the life of St Augustine, the first Archbishop of Canterbury, with music from the choir of Canterbury Cathedral, directed by David Flood. The programme features the voice of BBC Radio 2's Young Chorister of the Year 2007, Joel Whitewood, and the organist is Timothy Harper. Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty BBC Radio 2 Publicity Janice Long
Sunday 25 May
12.00-3.30am BBC RADIO 2 | | | | |
Paul Weller joins Janice Long in the studio for a chat and to play a selection of his favourite records. Janice also plays tracks from Paul's ninth studio album, which is released at the beginning of June. The album features the likes of guitarist Steve Cradock, Noel Gallagher and Gem Archer from Oasis, Little Barrie and Graham Coxon. Presenter/Janice Long, Producer/Samantha Cooper BBC Radio 2 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 25 May 2008 | |
Private Passions
Sunday 25 May
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3 | | | | |
Businessman and economist Lord Terry Burns, chairman of Abbey National, shares his Private Passions with Michael Berkeley this afternoon. Lord Burns is a keen music-lover. He studied music at A Level, played the clarinet in the Durham County Youth Orchestra and, for the last 25 years, has been getting together with friends once a month to play in a recorder quintet. He loves period instruments and is a great fan of John Eliot Gardiner, who conducts three of his Private Passions choices: Purcell's Fairy Queen, Monteverdi's Vespers and a Bach cantata. Lord Burns has also chosen extracts from two Stravinsky ballets – The Firebird and The Rite Of Spring – vintage recordings of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, conducted by Toscanini; Mozart's The Marriage Of Figaro, conducted by Carlos Kleiber; a Bach partita for solo violin, played by the young British violinist Rachel Podger; and the second movement of Debussy's String Quartet, which he studied at school. Lord Burns began his career at the London Business School, where he attracted the attention of Margaret Thatcher and, in 1980, he moved to the Treasury as Chief Economic Adviser, and later as Permanent Secretary. After leaving the Treasury, he was awarded a life peerage in 1998 and has since worked in the private sector. He has been Chairman of Abbey National since 2002. Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Martin Cotton BBC Radio 3 Publicity The Early Music Show – Lufthansa Festival 2008
Sunday 25 May
1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3 | |
English group Concordia under their director, viol player Mark Levy, have been universally praised for their performances of the music of William Lawes – a composer widely regarded in his day. He was musician to King Charles I, but was killed serving in the Royalist Army at the Siege of Chester in 1645. Concordia's programme – recorded earlier this month at the Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music – reflects the festival theme of music of war and peace (The Triumph Of Peace) with a selection of consort music and songs by Lawes, alongside music by Purcell, Gibbons and Jenkins. The programme also offers a rare chance to hear Jenkins's musical depiction of the Siege Of Newark. Concordia are accompanied by one of the rising stars of the early music world, soprano Elin Manahan Thomas. This is the second of two concerts recorded at this year's festival by the Early Music Show, presented by Lucie Skeaping. Presenter/Lucie Skeaping, Producer/Chris Wines BBC Radio 3 Publicity Drama On 3 – The Vertical Hour By David Hare
Sunday 25 May
8.00-9.40pm BBC RADIO 3 | |
Indira Varma stars in The Vertical Hour, this afternoon's Drama On 3 offering from David Hare. Nadia Blye knows exactly what her stance is on Iraq. A former war reporter and professor of International Relations at Yale, she has advised the President and seen action in Sarajevo and Baghdad. She is sure of her place in the world and her opinion of it – until, that is, she meets an equally opinionated and lethally charming man, her boyfriend's father, over a weekend in Shropshire. His intervention has far-reaching consequences for them all. David Hare's play pits personal philosophies against global politics and premièred on Broadway in 2006. It also made its UK première at the Royal Court earlier this year. This BBC Radio 3 production stars the same cast which appeared at the Royal Court. Jeremy Herrin directs a cast of Indira Varma, who stars as Nadia Blye, Joseph Kloska, Anton Lesser, Wunmi Mosaku and Tom Riley. The original music is composed by Nick Powell. Producer/Catherine Bailey, Director/Jeremy Herrin BBC Radio 3 Publicity Sunday Feature – Paradise Or Nightmare:
Lawrence In Cornwall
Sunday 25 May
9.40-10.35pm BBC RADIO 3 | | | | |
This week's Sunday Feature offering explores the period that DH Lawrence spent in Cornwall, between March 1916 and October 1917. Lawrence originally described the Cornish landscape as "lovelier than paradise", although he and his wife were abruptly expelled from the county following accusations of suspicious behaviour and spying. Presenter John Worthen, Lawrence biographer and professor of Lawrence Studies at Nottingham University, travels to Zennor in Cornwall to visit the house Lawrence lived in and stays in The Tinners Arms where Lawrence and Frieda also lodged. At the core of the programme are two previously unbroadcast interviews with Stanley Hocking, son of the owner of the farm just below the cottage which Lawrence often visited, shedding light on the reasons behind Lawrence's expulsion and his character at the time. Though only 16 at the time, Stanley recalls how Lawrence and Frieda stood out in the local community – Frieda with her bright-red stockings and Bavarian costume (she was German by birth) and Lawrence "with a red beard and a slouched hat, thin and frail". Lawrence's time in Cornwall was brutally interrupted when he and Frieda were accused of suspicious behaviour and of spying for the Germans because of the German attacks on shipping off the coast. They were expelled in three days. Lawrence described his anger and shock at this treatment in the chapter Nightmare in one of his later novels, Kangaroo. John discusses the legacy of the Cornish period with Lawrence experts Mark Kinkead-Weekes and Christopher Pollnitz. Other contributors to the programme include Lawrence professor Fiona Becket, who discusses Women In Love, much of which he wrote in Cornwall, and the relevance of Lawrence today. Presenter/John Worthen, Producer/Richard Bannerman BBC Radio 3 Publicity Words And Music – Chains Of Desire
Sunday 25 May
10.35pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 3 | | | | |
Words And Music – Chains Of Desire presents a sequence of poems, prose, letters and music connected by the theme of erotic love, which can bind with chains as well as give wings. Neil Pearson and Clare Higgins read poetry and prose from Catullus, who captured the more bawdy aspects of ancient Rome, to Andrew Marvell, who urges his coy mistress to "tear our pleasures with rough strife", to Juliet's great speech while she is impatiently waiting for Romeo. There is a sequence of Baudelaire, Flaubert and Proust which points to the fact that late Romantic and slightly decadent French literature is the place you want to be if you want to experience the full Heaven and Hell of desire. Overly-romantic, but bored, Emma Bovary gets her husband to take her to Donizetti's Lucie de Lamermoor. Proust's Remembrance Of Things Past is an encyclopaedic examination of love in all its various forms. There are two contrasting poems by Keats, Ode On Melancholy and To Sleep, and two contemporary poems which contrast the act of sexual intercourse. For Robert Haas it leads him to disappointedly feel the "mortal singularity of the body", while for Sharon Olds it leads "beyond the other places, beyond the body". Music featured in the programme includes pieces by Beethoven, Dvorak, Rimsky-Korsakov, Orff and Wagner. Readers/Neil Pearson and Clare Higgins, Producer/Clive Portbury BBC Radio 3 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 25 May 2008 | |
Following the success of A Guide To Garden Birds last year, Brett Westwood turns his attention to the birds of our woodlands and forests and presents a practical and entertaining guide to help identify those birds. Recorded on location in the Forest of Dean, Brett is accompanied by keen birdwatcher, writer and broadcaster Stephen Moss and wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson. Each week, the series focuses on a different group of birds, from classic species such as nuthatch and treecreeper to common warblers like chiffchaff and willow warbler and conifer specialists such as siskin, goldcrest and crossbill. Not only is there advice on how to recognise the birds visually, but also on how to identify them from their calls and songs. This entertaining and practical series helps to distinguish blackcaps from garden warblers and chiffchaffs from willow warblers. It will appeal not only to complete bird-watching novices, but also to those who are eager to learn more about our woodland visitors. An interactive webpage, where listeners can find more information about the birds in the series and listen to the calls and songs of the birds discussed, will also be available. Presenter/Brett Westwood, Producer/Sarah Blunt BBC Radio 4 Publicity | | BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 25 May 2008 | |
Live At Midnight
Sunday 25 May
12.00-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC | | | | |
Chris Hawkins welcomes listeners to Vintage American Bandstand, a series of concerts recorded in America for BBC Radio 1 during the Seventies. This week, Santana take to the stage with a fantastic performance recorded in New York in 1978. Tracks featured include I'll Be Waiting, Evil Ways and the classic She's Not There. Presenter/Chris Hawkins, Producer/Chris Carr BBC 6 Music Publicity | 
