 | | BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 17 December 2008 | |
Composer Of The Week –
The Neapolitan Golden AgeEp 3/5
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. Naples had always been famed for its conservatoire system – four religious institutions dedicated to the musical training of abandoned children. But, in 1743, Il Gesu Cristo, the alma mater of the great Pergolesi, closed down, marking the beginning of a slow death for the system. As Donald Macleod discovers, however, it was by no means the end of Neapolitan music. Instead, graduates of the system travelled wider than ever across Europe. Listeners hear from Niccolo Jommeli, who peddled his farcical comedies in Stuttgart, and also Nicola Porpora, the man brought in by London to take on Handel's mighty opera outfit. Popora ultimately failed, but not before he'd given Handel some serious grief. Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Michael Surcombe BBC Radio 3 Publicity Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert – Love Brahms?Ep 2/4
Tuesday 16 to Friday 19 December
1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3 | |
BBC Radio 3's series of Lunchtime Concerts, recorded at LSO St Luke's in London, in which Brahms has the limelight (almost) entirely to himself in four programmes given by leading British-based performers, continues this afternoon. In this second concert, the Gould Piano Trio perform two of Brahms's three piano trios: the B major, Op. 8 (composed in his early twenties, but substantially revised towards the end of his life); and the powerful C minor, Op. 101, of 30 years later. Presenter/Penny Gore, Producer/Lindsay Kemp BBC Radio 3 Publicity Performance On 3 –
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Wednesday 17 December
7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3 | | | | |
Young Ukranian conductor Kirill Karabits, newly appointed Principal Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, conducts a programme of popular romantic favourites, in this edition of Performance On 3, presented by Suzy Klein. In Rimsky's opera Christmas Eve, the heroine sets her lover the seemingly impossible task of bringing her the empress's slippers from St Petersburg. After he goes to the trouble of doing so, she tells him he needn't have bothered – she loves him anyway. Virtuoso Ilya Gringolts joins the orchestra for Tchaikovsky's evergreen Violin Concerto and the concert ends with Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique, another tale of complications in love – this time, that of Berlioz himself for actress Harriet Smithson. Presenter/Suzy Klein, Producer/Edward Blakeman BBC Radio 3 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 17 December 2008 | |
Will Smith's Midlife Crisis ManagementEp 1/6
Wednesday 17 December
6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4 |  |
Comedian Will Smith stars in this brand new, six-part series which he co-wrote with Roger Drew. Will has always felt middle-aged. Now he's reached 35, the age at which he thought he'd be allowed to spend his leisure time doing jigsaws and learning how to make his own pen nibs. But middle age seems to have shifted to some time in one's fifties and, consequently, he's lost all sense of who he is. On top of this, he has yet to find a willing bride and his dream of one day playing James Bond seems to be slipping ever further out of reach. Luckily, his godfather, Peter, is on hand to help him through this period of doubt and, each week, Peter invites a guest to help Will with a different aspect of his life. Peter is played by Roger Allam and the special guests are played by Geoffrey Whitehead, Morwenna Banks, Dan Tetsell and Simon Greenall. Producer/Tilusha Ghelani BBC Radio 4 Publicity The Cornwell EstateEp 1/4
Wednesday 17 December
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
The Cornwell Estate is a four-part series drawing on Phil Cornwell's early, real-life experiences. It creates an account of life on a fictional housing estate, told from the perspective of four of Phil's creations. Each episode follows the fortunes of one of the characters as they negotiate the ups and downs of estate life and battle with authority, ex-wives, old friends, NHS surgeons, record companies, estate busybodies and meals on wheels. In the first episode, Dave Kafka has just been inside for a stretch and has now moved in with his grandfather, Syd, a big London gangster in the Sixties. However, as Dave swaggers around the estate telling people he's been doing "jobs" that he heard about inside, he gets an unwelcome visit from a job seekers allowance officer threatening to stop his benefit. Alongside Phil Cornwell, the cast includes Tony Gardner, Daisy Haggard, Felix Dexter, Geoffrey Hutchings and Cyril Nri. Producer/Andrew McGibbon BBC Radio 4 Publicity The LadiesEp 1/4
Wednesday 17 December
11.15-11.30pm BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
Written and created by Emily Watson Howes, The Ladies is a series of four narrative comedy sketches set in a ladies' public toilet. Each episode is a microcosm of female relationships and understandings about friendship, vanity, aspiration and the things tipsy women sing to themselves when they think no one's listening. The series features various women as they come and go, mirroring the continuous traffic of the ladies' room. Taken from all-female sketch show WC, which debuted at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe, The Ladies has been adapted for radio and was recorded in an intimate venue in front of a live audience. The sketches star Emily Watson Howes, Kate Donmall, Fran Moulds and Susanna Hislop. Producer/Helen Williams BBC Radio 4 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 17 December 2008 | |
5 Live Sport
Wednesday 17 December
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE | | | |  |
Mark Saggers brings listeners all the day's sports news, in this midweek edition of 5 Live Sport. From 7.45pm, there is also live coverage of the Uefa Cup group matches between Portsmouth and Heerenveen, and Hamburg and Aston Villa. Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/TBC BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity 606
Wednesday 17 December
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE | | | |  |
Tim Lovejoy presents the UK's biggest football phone in, 606, discussing the action from this evening's games. Fans can watch the debate on interactive digital TV via the Red button, and give their views to Tim by phone to 0500 909 693 (free from BT landlines), text 85058 at network rates or email 606@bbc.co.uk Presenter/Tim Lovejoy, Producer/Patrick Campbell BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity | | BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 17 December 2008 | |
Nemone
Wednesday 17 December
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC | | | | |
Nemone catches up with Sarah Millican ahead of the three-night run of her one-woman show at Soho Theatre. She finds out what else Sarah's been up to since they last met prior to Sarah's appearance at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes BBC 6 Music Publicity 6 Music Plays It Again –
My Top Ten: Roger DaltreyEp 1/2
Wednesday 17 December
12.00-12.30am BBC 6 MUSIC | | | | |
In a programme first broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1985, Roger Daltrey of The Who chooses his favourite pieces of music and talks about his life and work. The second part of this programme can be heard tomorrow. Presenter/Andy Peebles, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson BBC 6 Music Publicity | | BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 17 December 2008 | |
Krishan decides he isn't wearing a silly outfit to play Aladdin in the panto, in today's visit to Silver Street. When he then discovers who is playing Princess So-Shy, he storms out. Elsewhere, Aidan has lost his drugs and decides Kesar has got them. He starts having a go at the toddler, but is interrupted by Roopa turning up. Did she see anything? Later, Krishan is threatened by Tyrone's gang. Simran sees them and comes to Krishan's rescue, but the gang start to surround them... Krishan is played by Rahual Das, Aidan by Arkie Reece, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Tyrone by Ajay Dattani and Simran by Balvinder Sopal. BBC Asian Network Publicity | | BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 17 December 2008 | |
The Return To White Horse
Wednesday 17 December
9.05-9.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE | | | | |
While China's economy has boomed over the past 30 years, many of its 700 million farmers have been stuck in poverty. Their only hope of a wage has been far from home, in the factories and building sites of the boomtowns. Now, the huge rural hinterland has been told it needs to modernise too. In The Return To White Horse, Carrie Gracie witnesses the upheaval as a rural community in the mountains is turned into a city. She asks how easy it is to turn a community of subsistence farmers into city people and whether the new city being built on top of White Horse Village will really be able to offer them a 21st-century life. Presenter/Carrie Gracie, Producer/TBC BBC World Service Publicity | 
