Tuesday 29 May 2012
Programme Information
Network Radio BBC Week 20
Highlights 16-22 May 2009
Opera On 3 – Les Contes d'Hoffman
Saturday 16 May on BBC RADIO 3
Offenbach's The Tales Of Hoffman, featuring Mexican tenor Rolando Villazon, launches an eight-week series of operas recorded from the current season at the Royal Opera House
Eurovision Song Contest 2009
Saturday 16 May on BBC RADIO 2
Ken Bruce provides commentary at Europe's greatest, live, song competition in the Olympic Stadium, Moscow
Getting The Gongs
Saturday 16 May on BBC RADIO 4
Steve Punt explores the growing trend for industry award ceremonies
Archive Hour – A Laureate's Legacy
Saturday 16 May on BBC Radio 4
Andrew Motion tells the story of The Poetry Archive
5 Live Sport
Saturday 16 May on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
With the dust barely settled on their Champions League semi-final, Manchester United and Arsenal face each other again in a potential Premier League decider at Old Trafford, with full commentary on 5 Live Sport
Love Where You Live
Monday 18-Friday 22 May on BBC RADIO 2
BBC Radio 2 launches its initiative to celebrate the spirit of the community with a range of on-air programming throughout the week
Gideon Coe
Monday 18 to Thursday 21 May on BBC 6 MUSIC
Gideon Coe unveils an array of rediscovered cult sessions
Afternoon Play – Rumpole And The Penge Bungalow Murders
Tuesday 19 May on BBC RADIO 4
Rumpole pens his memoirs and recalls his first murder case. Timothy West plays the older Rumpole and Benedict Cumberbatch plays the younger
Happy Birthday Tommy Walker
Thursday 21 May on BBC RADIO 4
BBC Radio 4 revisits The Who's seminal rock opera with new interviews from Roger Daltrey and Ken Russell
A Jazz Celebration For Ascension Day
Thursday 21 May on BBC RADIO 4
An Ascension Day jazz service from the church of St Martin in the Fields in Trafalgar Square features the Mass In Blue by young composer Will Todd
Bonjour Mr Aznavour
Friday 22 May on BBC RADIO 2
Petula Clark presents a new, four-part series on one of the last great French chansonniers, Charles Aznavour
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