Thursday 24 Dec 2009
Programme Information
Network Radio BBC Week 26
Highlights 27 June-3 July 2009
South Of My Days
Sunday 28 June on BBC RADIO 4
Greta Scacchi presents a portrait of the late Australian poet Judith Wright, whose work celebrated the arresting beauty of the Australian landscape and championed a new relationship between Australia's colonial settlers and its indigenous people
GLASTONBURY 2009
The Nation's Playlist At Glastonbury
Saturday 27 to Sunday 28 June on BBC RADIO 1, BBC RADIO 2 and BBC 6 MUSIC
Danny Wallace heads to Somerset to mingle with the crowds as part of BBC Radio's coverage of Glastonbury 2009. BBC 6 Music offers continuous coverage during the festival hours
A Funny Sort Of Sound
Saturday 27 June on BBC RADIO 4
Julian Clary celebrates musical one-trick wonders and speciality acts that rely on the element of surprise to capture the audience's attention
WIMBLEDON 2009
5 Live At Wimbledon
Saturday 27 June to Friday 3 July on BBC RADIO 5 Live
Clare Balding and Mark Pougatch serve live, third-round commentary from the All England Lawn Tennis Club
The Sunday Feature – Travelling The Great Divide: The New US-Mexico Border
Sunday 28 June on BBC RADIO 3
Claudine LoMonaco, border correspondent for Arizona Public Radio, takes a trip along the US–Mexico border, now regarded by many as a low-grade war zone
Night Waves
Monday 29 June to Thursday 2 July on BBC RADIO 3
A week of letters reflects four landmark events from July 1969 – the Moon landing, the Manson Family murders, The Woodstock festival and the release of the film Medium Cool about the Democratic National Convention – from the point of view of American journalist Michael Goldfarb
The Essay – Postcards
Monday 29 June on BBC RADIO 3
The Observer's drama critic, Susannah Clapp, a collector and sender of postcards, reflects on the cards she has collected from writers and artists over many years, which form both a personal snapshot and an account of literary lives
Book Of The Week – The Last Champion:
The Life Of Fred Perry
Monday 29 June to Friday 3 July on BBC RADIO 4
As Wimbledon enters its second week, Book Of The Week charts the colourful life of the last British men's champion, Fred Perry, from his domination of the sport in the Thirties to his business and private life
Women's Hour Drama – Sacred Hearts
Monday 29 June to Friday 3 July on BBC RADIO 4
A new, 10-part adaptation of one of Sarah Dunant's renowned Italian Renaissance novels, set in a convent in the Italian city of Ferrara in 1570
Stonewall – The Riots That Triggered The Gay Revolution
Tuesday 30 June on BBC RADIO 2
In June 1969, a police raid on a gay bar in Greenwich Village led to a week of rioting between the New York gay community and riot police. Forty years on, Tom Robinson asks why the word Stonewall still has such a powerful resonance for gay people around the world
Afternoon Play – Torchwood: Asylum
Wednesday 1 to Friday 3 July on BBC RADIO 4
John Barrowman stars as Captain Jack Harkness in three new extraterrestrial investigations
Look Away Now
Wednesday 1 July on BBC RADIO 4
Garry Richardson hosts a new series of the topical show where sport meets comedy
Bespoken Word
Wednesday 1 July on BBC RADIO 4
Presented by Mister Gee, Bespoken Word is dedicated to performance poetry and features Adrian Mitchell, who died in December 2008 and was nicknamed the Shadow Poet Laureate
The Grandfather Of Self-Help
Thursday 2 July on BBC RADIO 4
Historian Kate Williams looks at the work of Victorian author Samuel Smiles, whose book, published 150 years ago, outsold both Mill's On Liberty and Darwin's Origin Of The Species
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