Saturday 19 Dec 2009
Programme Information
Network Radio BBC Week 29: Monday 20 July 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Monday 20 July 2009
Benny Andersson reveals his favourite music in Tracks Of My Years this week in Ken Bruce's show.
Each morning the Swedish songwriter, producer and former member of the pop group Abba picks two of his favourite songs and talks to Ken about his choices.
Plus, two more contestants battle it out on PopMaster, and there are the Record and Album Of The Week and the Love Song.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones
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In the second part of BBC Radio 2’s Montreux Jazz Festival coverage, Jamie Cullum hears founder Claude Nobs’s personal favourites from the past 42 years.
Founded in 1967, the Montreux Jazz Festival has become an unmissable event for music fans in Switzerland and around the world. While jazz constitutes the festival’s historic core, other styles of music were quickly integrated. Its stages have been graced by some of music’s greats, from Miles Davis to Ray Charles, David Bowie to Massive Attack.
Claude’s dream concert includes Rachelle Ferrell in 1991, James Booker from 1978, Simply Red in 1986 and the Bill Evans Trio from 1968; and listeners are treated to spontaneous harmonica playing by Claude himself.
The series concludes in August with four half-hour programmes of highlights from the 43rd Montreux Jazz Festival.
Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Neil Myners
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BBC Radio 2's Disco Season continues as Dave Pearce delves deeper into his A to Z of classic disco music, celebrating its influence on modern dance music culture.
This week Dave focuses on the letters J to N, playing big tunes by KC And The Sunshine Band and McFadden And Whitehead, as well as digging in the crates to find lost gems by Poussez and Evelyn "Champagne" King. In addition, no disco alphabet would be complete without celebrating the letter J and the first family of disco: The Jacksons.
Presenter/Dave Pearce, Producer/Rowan Collinson
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BBC RADIO 3 Monday 20 July 2009
In this week's Classical Collection, Sarah Walker presents classic recordings that bring listeners a step closer to Napoleon Bonaparte.
From the music Napoleon loved – like the melodious Italian opera of Spontini; to the modern French style of Cherubini, which he hated; including music that celebrated him, such as Gossec's triumphant marches; and music that demonstrated against him, including Haydn's Nelson Mass – Classical Collection explores all aspects of the French Emperor through music.
In addition, Prokofiev's powerful opera War And Peace and Tchaikovsky's explosive 1812 Overture offer music that looks back upon the battle-strewn period of the Napoleonic wars.
Presenter/Sarah Walker, Producer/David Dwight
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BBC PROMS 2009
BBC Proms Chamber Music 2009
The renowned vocal ensemble The Cardinall's Musick, directed by Andrew Carwood, launches the 2009 BBC Proms Chamber Music series with a celebration of the 500th anniversary of King Henry VIII's coronation.
Richly sonorous and grand in design, the music of the time combines massive choral writing with a complex layering of solo lines. The programme's mix of sacred and secular music includes songs by King Henry himself alongside settings of texts written in his honour by leading composers of the day.
This Prom will be repeated on Saturday 25 July at 2pm.
Presenter/Suzy Klein, Producer/Brian Jackson
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BBC Proms 2009
Prom 5 – Mahler, Symphony No. 9
Begun in the summer of 1909, Mahler's last completed symphony was written at a time of crisis, following the loss of a daughter, his forced resignation from the Vienna Court Opera, the diagnosis of his own fatal heart disease and the breakdown of his marriage. Yet, while the first movement is permeated by premonitions of death and the last fades away into nothingness, the enduring impression is one of resigned, even joyful acceptance of man's fate.
One of the world's great Mahlerians, Bernard Haitink conducts the London Symphony Orchestra. This year, Dutch-born Haitink celebrates both his 80th birthday and the 50th anniversary of his UK debut.
This Prom will be repeated on Wednesday 22 July at 2pm.
Presenter/Andrew McGregor, Producer/Brian Jackson
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The Lebrecht Interview Ep 1/8
In the first in a new series of The Lebrecht Interview, Norman Lebrecht talks to harpsichordist and conductor William Christie. Founder of the early music ensemble, Les Arts Florissants, Christie is averse to personal stardom and has preserved much of his mystique. Little is known of him outside the circles of classical performance, yet, in a frank conversation, Christie talks about being perhaps one of the most influential American musicians in Paris since Leonard Bernstein, and reveals how the Vietnam War was one of the contributing factors that caused him to leave his homeland.
He reflects on the bullying he suffered from his teacher, the renowned Scarlatti scholar, Ralph Kirkpatrick, and discusses the difficult working relationship he had with director Peter Sellars whilst creating the acclaimed 1996 Glyndebourne production of Theodora. It was at that point in his career he suffered a mild heart attack which he describes as a warning about nervousness, overwork, stress and anxiety.
Christie is conducting the Glyndebourne production of Purcell's Fairy Queen at the BBC Proms, and Norman caught up with him in rehearsal, deep in the Sussex Downs.
The Lebrecht Interview is a series of eight 45-minute, one-to-one conversations between writer, broadcaster and critic, Norman Lebrecht, and some of the biggest names in classical music. Other interviewees in the 2009 season include Vladimir Ashkenazy, Hilary Hahn and Michael Kaiser. Previous seasons have included conversations with Kurt Masur, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Stephen Sondheim, Lang Lang, Steve Reich and Brigitte Fassbaender.
Presenter/Norman Lebrecht, Producer/Jeremy Evans
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A late-night concert in contemplative mode juxtaposes two very different musical meditations on the Passion of Christ. Josef Haydn's Seven Last Words – composed originally for performance in Cadiz Cathedral on Good Friday, 1786 – was first cast as a sequence of movements for instruments alone but later re-worked for chorus and orchestra. Haydn himself was devoutly religious and regarded the piece as one of his finest works.
Just over 200 years later, the present-day Scottish composer James MacMillan, whose own Catholic faith has inspired him to write some of the most powerful sacred music of modern times, composed his setting of Christ's last utterances, Seven Last Words from the Cross in 1994.
Side by side, these intense works show two contrasted but equally profound responses to the mixture of savagery and hope which characterises the Crucifixion story. The BBC Singers and Manchester Camerata are conducted by Douglas Boyd.
This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 23 July at 2pm.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Brian Jackson
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Jez Nelson presents a special edition of Jazz On 3, which focuses on the music of iconic pianist Keith Jarrett. The programme includes an exclusive interview with Jarrett, the most extensive he's given in over a decade, conducted by pianist Ethan Iverson.
Born in 1945 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Jarrett won critical acclaim as a member of Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers and Charles Lloyd's quartet in the Sixties, before joining Miles Davis's band in 1970. He's since become one of the best-known and most influential musicians in the world, winning both widespread mainstream success and critical acclaim for his work in jazz and classical music, as a band leader, solo improviser and composer.
Jarrett brings his influential trio, with bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette, to London's Royal Festival Hall for their first UK date in six years on 25 July.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Peggy Sutton
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BBC RADIO 4 Monday 20 July 2009
Book Of The Week –
In The Valley Of The Mist Ep 1/5
In The Valley Of The Mist, by Justine Hardy, tells the story of ordinary people who have lived through the 20-year-old conflict in Kashmir and is this week's Book Of The Week offering.
This Himalayan valley of water, mist and mountains was once one of India's greatest attractions, drawing tourists to its charms every summer. In 1989 it exploded into insurgency. Ordinary Kashmiris, including Mohammad Dar and his family, found themselves living inside a new and foreign world of violence.
In The Valley Of The Mist recounts how ordinary people live out the stuff of their daily lives in extraordinary times.
Hardy, a regular visitor to Kashmir when she was a child and then as a journalist, tells the stories of ordinary people who have lived through the destruction of their adored homeland since 1989.
Her book details the rise of religious fundamentalism and intolerance; the ethnic cleansing of the Hindu population of the valley; and the recruitment of a generation to jihad.
Amid the fighting, families continue to try to educate their children, find work and protect their physical and mental well-being, while attempting to build some kind of future beyond the annihilation of their old way of life.
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Winifred Robinson tracks the work of scientists, doctors and officials from the Health Protection Agency as they battle to contain the spread of swine flu and limit the possible damage of the pandemic.
The programme goes behind the scenes as the data comes in from around the world and is used to inform decisions, such as whether schools should close, at what stage foreign travel should be limited and, if there was to be a pandemic, how many people could be treated.
It is hoped that by autumn a vaccine can be developed and, in newly established regional flu centres, health-service volunteers are being trained to deal with hundreds of calls regarding those suspected of having the virus.
A major concern is that swine flu could recombine in those with seasonal flu and unleash a far more virulent strain.
The World Health Organisation estimates the number of new cases globally is increasing at around 2,000 a day and at the Health Protection facility in Porton Down scientists are working with colleagues in five centres across the globe on the production of a vaccine.
Health Protection Agency teams know that present death rates from H1N1 of between 0.3 and 1.5 per cent are fairly low, compared to the 1918 rate of 2.5 per cent. But the concern is that this could quickly change and so many of today's actions are aimed primarily at buying valuable time in which a vaccine can be developed.
The difficult balance between developing a vaccine and expanding production of anti-viral treatment is just one of the many dilemmas facing those trying to protect people from swine flu.
Presenter/Winifred Robinson, Producer/Sue Mitchell
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Round Britain Quiz Ep 1/12
BBC Radio 4's long-running quiz show returns with panellists from around the UK trying to tackle Tom Sutcliffe's fiendish and cryptic questions.
The 61st season of Round Britain Quiz gets under way with the question: "If Edinburgh's a bit hard of hearing and Inverness gives you the needle, why is Coventry proud of its achievements – and what's saucy about Hemel Hempstead?"
Chairman Tom welcomes back many of the regular players – including the South of England team with Fred Housego and Marcel Berlins; the Welsh pairing of Patrick Hannan and Peter Stead; and the formidable defending champions from the Midlands, Stephen Maddock and Rosalind Miles.
As ever, the questions tease out the panellists' knowledge of everything from the satellites of the solar system to the characters of children's fiction.
Points are awarded according to how much of each convoluted question the teams manage to unravel on their own – but help is always at hand, in the form of gentle hints and good-natured nudges from Tom. Each contest includes some of the programme's ingenious and much-loved musical connections; and regular contributions from listeners trying to outwit the teams. There are also weekly puzzles set by the chairman, which can be pondered on the programme's website until the answer is revealed the following week.
Presenter/Tom Sutcliffe, Producer/Paul Bajoria
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In the early days of Queen Victoria's reign, a young boy and a teenage girl he assumes to be a new maidservant, go on an adventure through the chimneys of Buckingham Palace.
The King Of Sootland is inspired by an obscure historical footnote about a boy who managed to live undetected for a year in Buckingham Palace, hiding in the labyrinth of chimneys and amusing himself by leaving sooty imprints behind in the beds. He became known as "Boy Cotton".
It is 1837. A 12-year-old boy startles an 18-year-old girl in a previously unoccupied bedroom and presumes her to be a new servant. When she announces she is the Queen he doesn't believe her. He tells her that he knows everything that goes on in the palace and that he has overheard a man and woman in one of the bedrooms plotting against the Queen saying she is "feeble minded". As he scampers back up the chimney, the young Victoria follows him up, insisting he takes her to that room: she wants to hear for herself.
So begins an adventure through the labyrinth of chimneys where Victoria overhears Sir John Conroy manipulating her mother and plotting to rule the land through Victoria. She is shocked and angered and understands that she must act immediately to stop this. As the dawn breaks, Victoria and the boy look over London from the palace roof. Now believing that he is indeed in the company of the young Queen, the boy challenges Victoria saying if he were the monarch he would share the wealth and make his people happy. Angered by his attack Victoria decides to leave – going down the chimneys alone. But the fires have been lit, and as the labyrinth of chimneys becomes filled with smoke and heat, Victoria struggles to find her way to safety.
Producer/Nadia Molinari
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In July 1969 Americans won the race to land on the Moon. Four decades later, the UK is one of the countries with serious plans to return to our nearest neighbour in space.
As part of BBC Radio 4's programming to mark the 40th anniversary of the Moon landings, Richard Hollingham tells the story of the British MoonLite project and the lunar ambitions and achievements of the other space exploring nations.
Landing on and exploiting our nearest neighbour in space continues to be a goal for both scientists and politicians in many nations. There's no longer the need just to land on the surface, put up a flag and then go home again. Forty years on there are plans to send robots to do the science – we still know very little about the composition of the Moon – or people to build structures that could be used as service stations on the way to other planets.
This programme compares Moon programmes now and then and explores how the motivations of the teams have changed over the decades.
The programme focuses on MoonLite – a robotic mission created by space scientists at University College London and the University of Surrey. It will send probes into the Moon's surface that will reveal details that have never before been explored, and the mission could be ready for launch in 2012.
The programme follows the MoonLite team as it campaigns to get their mission launched and begins to design and test the probes.
Producer/Martin Redfern
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Book At Bedtime –
The First Men In The Moon Ep 1/5
The First Men In The Moon, by HG Wells, offers a very different picture of Earth's satellite than the one encountered by Neil Armstrong when he took his small step onto the Moon's surface on 20 July 1969.
Read by Tim Pigott-Smith, this Book At Bedtime offering describes how penniless businessman Mr Bedford has retreated to the Kent coast to lick his wounds, consider his future and write a play. There, he meets the brilliant Cavor, an absent-minded scientist on the brink of developing a material that can negate the power of gravity. Cavor soon succeeds in his experiments, and tells a stunned Bedford that the invention makes possible one of the oldest dreams of humanity: a journey to the Moon.
With Bedford motivated by money, and Cavor by the desire for knowledge, the two embark on the expedition. But neither man is prepared for what they find – freezing nights, boiling days and sinister alien life: a world on which they may be trapped forever.
The First Men In The Moon is part of BBC Radio 4's programming marking the 40th anniversary of the first landings on the Moon.
Reader/Tim Pigott-Smith, Producer/David Roper
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BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Monday 20 July 2009
Test Match Special
Uninterrupted commentary of England versus Australia, on the fifth day of the second Ashes Test comes, live, from Lord's.
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BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 20 July 2009
Lauren Laverne sits in for Cerys Matthews and is joined by comedienne Sally Phillips to discuss the new series of the BBC One comedy Jam And Jerusalem, in which she stars.
Written by award-winner Jennifer Saunders, this entertaining series stars some of the best-loved names in British comedy including Dawn French, Joanna Lumley, David Mitchell, Maggie Steed and Sue Johnston.
After her big break, as the receptionist in I'm Alan Partridge, Sally went on to co-create Smack The Pony, an all-female, double Emmy Award-winning comedy show. In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. She also appeared in Bridget Jones's Diary as "Shazzer" and featured in the Eddie Izzard-penned sitcom Cows.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Marc Riley welcomes Leeds-based band Wild Beasts on to his show tonight, who perform live in session.
Wild Beasts are Tom Fleming, Benny Little, Chris Talbot and Hayden Thorpe. The band were formed in Kendal in 2002 but moved to Leeds and signed to Bad Sneakers Records and are now currently with Domino Records. Two Dancers is the second Wild Beasts album which was co-produced by the band and northern enigma Richard Formby in remote Norfolk earlier this year. Two Dancers follows the band's widely celebrated debut album Limbo, Panto, released in 2008, which features the single Brave Bulging Buoyant Clairvoyants, placed 17th in a national independent record labels chart.
The show also features Peel sessions from XTC, New Order and Close Lobsters.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhary
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 20 July 2009
In another attempt at getting her sons to bond with Hassan, Shazia takes them all on a picnic, in the week's first visit to Silver Street. Rehan is having serious doubts about his mother's new man, while Danyal, on the other hand, is more occupied with constantly texting someone.
Mani later rings Shazia with some gossip about Roopa but the news has a strange effect on Danyal.
Meanwhile, Rehan discovers Hassan has a bit of a temper and worries that history is about to repeat itself...
Hassan is played by Youssef Kerkour, Shazia by Shobu Kapoor, Rehan by Rez Kempton, Danyal by Jag Sanghera and Mani by Manab Ray.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 20 July 2009
Iran And The West –
From Khomeini To Ahmedinejad Ep 1/3
Key players and political insiders from both sides tell the story of Iran's relationship with the West over the last 30 years, in this new, three-part documentary.
The first episode examines the inside story of the beginning of the Islamic Revolution in Iran over 30 years ago, including the fall of the Shah and his life of exile, the return of the Ayatollah Khomeini to Tehran, the storming of the US embassy and the subsequent hostage crisis.
Eye-witness accounts of this first decade of Iran's revolutionary history are retold through archive recordings and recalled by those who helped shape events, including President Jimmy Carter. Other contributors include former vice president Walter Mondale; ex-deputy secretary of state, Warren Christopher; and former national security adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski. The other side of the story is told by top Iranians: Ayatollah Khomeini's close adviser, his first foreign minister, Ebrahim Yazdi; his negotiator with the US, Sadeq Tabatabai; and the founder of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, Mohsen Rafiqdoust.
Producer/Norma Percy
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