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Wednesday 3 December 2008

BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 3 December 2008

Tom McConville, primarily known as The Newcastle Fiddle Player, is one of today's leading fiddle players. Tonight, Mike Harding features an interview with the singer and musician as well as tracks from his two recent albums, Tommy On The Bridge and Tommy On Song.

Seth Lakeman recently described Tom as "One of the greatest violinists I've ever heard, and by far the biggest influence in my music – a true master." While Kate Rusby says: "When my schoolmates had boy bands on their Walkmans, I was listening to Tom McConville."

Mike chats to Tom to find out a bit more about his early years being brought up in a Newcastle pub, who first inspired him to pick up a fiddle, and to sing, and what it has been like to work with artists such as Richard Thompson, Kieran Halpin and Bob Fox throughout his long and distinguished career.

Mike also features his usual selection of the latest in folk, roots and acoustic based music, including news of artists currently on tour and the latest album releases.

Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While

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BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 3 December 2008

Petroc Trelawny hosts the the eagerly-anticipated British Composer Awards, the Oscars of the contemporary music scene, now in their sixth year, in tonight's edition of Performance On 3.

Composers, both British and international, who have had UK premières during the year, can celebrate and be celebrated. On the shortlist are a host of established figures alongside a new generation of younger composers, and with 12 different categories – Chamber, Orchestral, Stage and Liturgical among them – the Awards give a unique overview of contemporary British music-making in all its diverse glory.

Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/David Papp

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W.N. Herbert was born in 1961 in Dundee and his work is highly original and ambitious. One of his poems, for instance, is a 40-page recasting of Wordsworth's The Prelude as the life of Stan Laurel, who was born on the edge of the Lake District.

Today's Essay sees Herbert talk about Edwin Morgan, still active at the age of 88 following serious illness, and often regarded as Scotland's national bard. The last remaining figure in that generation of post-Hugh MacDiarmid titans, including Norman MacCaig and Sorley MacLean, Morgan is the poet, Herbert claims, who articulates most fully how various Scottish poetry can be and how distinct from English and Irish writing it is.

Presenter/W.N. Herbert, Producer/Julian May

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Verity Sharp brings listeners another edition of Late Junction this evening.

Tonight's selections include Paprika Balkanicus, a London-based group of musicians from Romania, Serbia and Slovenia with their virtuosic arrangements of traditional and Gypsy music from the Balkans and Eastern Europe; Adjiban-born Kouame Sereba, player of the "do-do", an ancient West-African mouth bow; and a recording of American composer Alvin Lucier's "Music for piano with one or more snare drums", in which the piano resonates with snare drums positioned throughout the space of the performance.

Presenter/Verity Sharp, Producer/Felix Carey

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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 3 December 2008

Poet and writer Dylan Thomas
at his BBC post during the
Second World War

The Art Of Conversation is a newly-discovered, un-broadcast piece by Dylan Thomas, written during the War, when Thomas was employed by the BBC to write radio talks and features.

This short piece of wartime propaganda was recently discovered by Thomas's biographer, Andrew Lycett, at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas. It's a witty take on the decline of conversation, featuring contributions from Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Dr Johnson, which frequently reminds the listener that "careless talk costs lives". Written and set more than 60 years ago, it also conjures 21st-century resonances in its acerbic digs at empty chat and meaningless communication.

Details of the cast are yet to be confirmed.

Producer/Alison Hindell

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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 3 December 2008

Mark Saggers presents all the day's sports news and has live coverage of the evening's Uefa Cup and fifth round Carling Cup games.

Presenter/Mark Saggers

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606 Wednesday 3 December 10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Tim Lovejoy presents the UK's biggest football phone-in and invites listeners to discuss the action from this evening's games.

Fans can watch the debate on interactive digital TV via the Red button and share their views with Tim by phoning 0500 909 693 (free from BT landlines), texting 85058 at network rates or emailing [email protected].

Presenter/Tim Lovejoy, Producer/Patrick Campbell

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BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 3 December 2008

Gideon Coe plays concert highlights from Julian Cope and The Teardrop Explodes at their 1981 appearance in Guildford Civic Hall, in tonight's programme, and brings listeners a set from The Bees, recorded at Auto Festival in 2002. Session tracks come from US new-folk man Devendra Banhart, recorded for Gideon in 2004, and Super Furry Animals recorded for 6 Music in 2004.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock

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There's another chance for listeners to hear this two-part programme, first broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1988, as Neil Tennant of The Pet Shop Boys chooses his favourite pieces of music and talks to Andy Peebles about his life and work. Among his selections are T Rex, Dusty Springfield, The Beatles and David Bowie.

Presenter/Andy Peebles, Producer/Frank Wilson

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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 3 December 2008

Kamla celebrates his birthday with a meal at Saffron Rays, in this midweek visit to Silver Street. Kamla and Greg are in party spirits but Vinnie is less enthusiastic. Later, Jas decides it's time to talk to Vinnie about how their relationship ended, but can they still be mates?

Jas, meanwhile, worries that Roopa is avoiding her. Arun later overhears Roopa on the phone to Aidan talking about a bruise. He demands to know what is going on but Roopa refuses to talk about it.

Kamla is played by Surendra Kochar, Greg by Allen Lidkey, Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed, Jas by Hema Mangoo, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Arun by Naithan Ariane and Aidan by Arkie Reece.

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BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 3 December 2008

Tired Of TerrorEp 1/2 Wednesday 3 December 9.05-9.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE

The 1987, Kashmir state elections were widely believed to be rigged in favour of the Indian central government, which spurred thousands of young Kashmiris to cross over into Pakistan to begin an armed fight against what they believed to be an Indian occupation of the Kashmir Valley.

The insurgency thrived for nearly 20 years, but, recently, militants have been giving up their arms and coming home. Indian journalist Rupa Jha travels to Kashmir to talk to some of the former militants, in this new, two-part series.

Rupa asks: why they took up arms in the first place; what led them to relinquish them; how they view their future; and how their past has affected their children. Do these men really make up the first Muslim conflict to turn non-violent or is their present interest in peace simply a temporary lull?

Rupa is invited to celebrate the festival of Eid in the home of former commander Zaffer Akbar Bhatt, who runs a party fighting for the rights of ex-militants in Kashmir. She talks to a former militant turned newspaper columnist as he prepares his latest piece and visits the martyrs' graveyard.

Presenter/Rupa Jha, Producer/Kathleen McCaul

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