 | | BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 18 December 2008 | |
Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour
Thursday 18 December
11.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2 | | | | |
From 10 down to zero, Bob Dylan's musical Countdown this week includes Ten Commandments (From Man To Woman) by Prince Buster, Nine Below Zero by Sonny Boy Williamson II, Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes, A Six Pack To Go by Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys, Five Long Years by Eddie Boyd and We Three (My Echo, My Shadow And Me) by The Ink Spots. Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Phil Hughes BBC Radio 2 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 18 December 2008 | |
Composer Of The Week –
The Neapolitan Golden AgeEp 4/5
Monday 15 to Friday 19 December
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3 | | | | |
Donald Macleod continues his series of snapshots from this remarkable period of music-making, exploring the lives of the composers in Naples whose revolutionary pieces left the rest of Europe trailing. It's 1770 and all is not well in Neapolitan music. Traveller Charles Burney makes a visit to the opera only to find "such a bawling Stentor, with a throat so inflexible, as surely never existed before". Donald Macleod introduces listeners to some composers in hot water as well. Giovanni Paisiello has had cold feet about his impending marriage and, when he tries to wriggle out of the contract, he finds himself thrown in jail. And Nicola Fiorenza has been thrown out of his teaching position at the Loreto Conservatoire for maltreating his students. Today's programme also features music by one man who found a warm welcome when he returned to Naples: Nicola Porpora, whose Notturni per i Defunti remains one of the most moving works of the period. Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Michael Surcombe BBC Radio 3 Publicity Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert – Love Brahms?Ep 3/4
Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 December
1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3 | |
People either love Brahms or they don't, but there is no doubting that his music sits right at the heart of the classical chamber repertoire. In this series of BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concerts, recorded at LSO St Luke's in London, Brahms has the limelight (almost) entirely to himself in four programmes given by leading British-based performers. The third concert welcomes BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists the Aronowitz Ensemble for a performance of Brahms's muscular Piano Quintet. It is complemented by Bruckner's Intermezzo for string quintet. Presenter/Penny Gore, Producer/Lindsay Kemp BBC Radio 3 Publicity Performance On 3 – Choral Christmas
Thursday 18 December
7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3 (Copy change 17 December)
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Live from Lancing College in Sussex – the institution which commissioned this work 60 years ago and the location of its world première – the BBC Concert Orchestra, BBC Singers and Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral perform Benjamin Britten's cantata St Nicolas, conducted by Paul Brough. St Nicolas presents a series of legendary incidents in the life of Nicolas, patron saint of children, sailors and travellers. The part of Nicolas is sung by Daniel Norman. It was originally sung by Peter Pears, Britten's long-term lover, a former pupil of Lancing College and later a member of the BBC Singers. The choirs transform themselves into various contrasting characters during the drama and relate the adventures with the conviction of eyewitnesses while tying the story together. The concert also includes Britten's Ceremony of Carols – originally composed for the boys of Westminster Cathedral, and a wonderful vehicle in tonight's performance for the Choristers of St Paul's Cathedral – and Herbert Howells's popular carol anthems, performed by the BBC Singers, which include the gently lyrical A Spotless Rose and Here Is The Little Door. During the interval of this live broadcast, Louise Fryer presents an episode of Twenty Minutes which explores how Britten's St Nicolas came to be written. The piece was commissioned to celebrate the centenary of Lancing College, and this documentary feature uses Britten's letters and other archival materials and talks to some of the surviving members of the first performance to hear more about this remarkable piece and the effect it had on those who first performed it. The performance of St Nicolas will be filmed in high-quality vision so that music-lovers can watch as well hear the concert at bbc.co.uk/radio3. It will also be the first Red button offering for television from BBC Radio 3. Presenter/Suzy Klein, Producer/Michael Emery BBC Radio 3 Publicity FREE THINKING
Night Waves – Free Thinking: Liverpool – Cathedral City
Thursday 18 December
9.15-10.00pm BBC RADIO 3 |
One of the most distinctive features of Liverpool's grand cityscape is the fact that not one but two cathedrals – Anglican and Catholic – overlook the city from their elevated positions at opposite ends of Hope Street. The cathedrals are a product of Liverpool's dual religious heritage: if they once symbolised bitter competition, they're now actively engaged in multi-faith co-operation. As part of this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking – A Festival Of Ideas, cultural critic and broadcaster Susan Hitch explores the history, architecture and significance of the two cathedrals with the new Chair of the National Trust, Simon Jenkins, architectural historian Gavin Stamp, Sister Anthony Wilson, Artistic Director of the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral, and canon Anthony Hawley from the Anglican Cathedral. They discuss how the huge Gothic cathedral came to be built as late as the 20th century, and why Edwin Lutyens's ambitious plans for the Metropolitan Cathedral ended up as what some locals affectionately refer to as "Paddy's Wigwam". As cathedrals now host art exhibitions, restaurants and corporate events, the panel asks what the role of these great buildings is today. Tonight's Night Waves is recorded in front of an audience at BBC Radio Merseyside. Presenter/Susan Hitch, Producer/Eliane Glaser BBC Radio 3 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 18 December 2008 | |
Oscar Marzaroli – The Man Who Captured Scotland
Thursday 18 December
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4 |
Ricky Ross takes a look at the life and work of photographer Oscar Marzaroli. Marzaroli was an Italian-born Scottish photographer and film-maker whose work documented a disaffected nation in the throes of regeneration. Marzaroli's black and white images of post-war Scotland, and in particular of his home city of Glasgow, captured ordinary people struggling against poverty and social deprivation, and yet he retained a strong sense of local pride and community spirit. During a time of controversial rebuilding, alongside a rising tide of Scottish nationalism, his photographic record has become a historical documentation of a lost society. Singer-songwriter and Deacon Blue front man Ricky Ross discusses Marzaroli's life, career and legacy with the photographer's family, colleagues and contemporaries, including author William McIlvanney. Presenter/Ricky Ross, Producer/Lizzie Foster BBC Radio 4 Publicity Afternoon Play – Miracle Worker
Thursday 18 December
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
Hannah Bradley is only 17, but she's a spiritual healer, in today's Afternoon Play, Miracle Worker. This doesn't seem strange to her as it's what she was brought up to be. She loves helping people and is gratified by their gratitude – she enjoys being a bit of a celebrity. Her mother, Maxine, organises it all, booking the venues and taking the donations. Hannah feels she doesn't have special powers, she's just a conduit for other worldly energy, and this is channelled through her spiritual guide – her dead sister, Lucy. Hannah hasn't really had a childhood – she's been the emotional prop for her brittle mother. It's just been Hannah, Maxine and Lucy. Into this emotional triangle comes a breath of fresh air – Sam. Hannah hasn't really had a proper friend before. Maxine and Lucy feel threatened, and when Sam is apparently cured of her disabling asthma, Hannah feels exhilarated. But when Sam has another near-fatal attack, Hannah has a major crisis of confidence. Sue Jenkins (Brookside) and Lucy-Jo Hudson (Coronation Street and Wild At Heart) head the cast. Producer/Gary Brown BBC Radio 4 Publicity Pilot
Thursday 18 December
3.00-3.30pm BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
Libby Purves tells the little-known story of sea pilots, the men and women who guide big ships safely home and out to sea again. Even in the 21st century there's still a romantic buzz about a great ship. Cruise liners remain in the competitive stakes along with skyscrapers to be bigger and longer and have more decks and facilities than their predecessors. And the sight of the huge steel factories that are the seaborne conveyors of millions of containers, full of all those imports from China, as they manoeuvre their vast bulk round the buoys and bars of our great ports, continues to draw a crowd. This programme unpicks one corner of that picture to reveal the day-to-day reality of being a valet-parking attendant for a limousine thousands of feet long ... on water. Presenter/Libby Purves, Producer/Simon Elmes BBC Radio 4 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 18 December 2008 | |
5 Live Sport
Thursday 18 December
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE | | | | |
Mark Saggers presents all the day's sports news and, from 7.45pm, introduces live coverage of the UEFA Cup group matches between Racing Santander and Manchester City, and Tottenham and Spartak Moscow. Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/TBC BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity | | BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 18 December 2008 | |
It's the Silverhill Rangers Christmas party and Kenny isn't happy as Sandra has roped him into dressing up as Santa, as the Asian drama continues. He thinks he looks ridiculous, but how will the kids react? Rozena scans the newspaper for coverage about the football club doing their bit for the community panto, but isn't impressed with what she finds. Things get worse when Jaggy makes a comment about Rozena having children. She wonders whether Sameer has broken their agreement and spilt the beans about her pregnancy. Kenny is played by Brian Croucher, Sandra by Anita Dobson, Rozena by Pooja Ghai, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani and Sameer by Alex Caan. BBC Asian Network Publicity | | BBC WORLD SERVICE Thursday 18 December 2008 | |
One Planet – The Battle Against Bluetongue
Thursday 18 December
10.30-11.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE | | |
The deadly insect-borne virus bluetongue affects sheep, cattle, goats, buffalo, deer, dromedaries and antelope, and can be transmitted to a new host in one bite. In Asia and Africa the battle against the virus has already been lost. Susie Emmett investigates what is being done to combat bluetongue in Europe. She meets farmers whose terrible losses sparked the race to develop a vaccine; researchers, in government and private laboratories, who have fought hard to win the race to market a huge quantity of the vaccine; and the veterinarians and farmers' leaders who oversaw a massive campaign to deliver and administer on an unprecedented scale a fragile (and some say unproven) vaccine to every farmed animal at risk in Western Europe. Susie also interviews the meteorologists whose spies in the sky focus on the winds that could blow clouds of biting midges ahead of the vaccination line. Presenter/Susie Emmett, Producer/Patrick Harvey BBC World Service Publicity | 
