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Dermot O'Leary presents a special Radio 2 Introduces performance from burgeoning star Elvin, recorded in the BBC Radio Arena at the Latitude Festival.

Radio 2 Introduces is a regular part of Dermot's show, where he hand-picks an "under the radar" artist to feature on the programme and the Radio 2 play list. Past artists have included Adele, Duffy and, more recently, Pixie Lott, Paloma Faith and Daniel Merriweather.

BBC Radio 2's Latitude programming continues in Janice Long's show on Sunday 19 July, from 12.00midnight.

The website bbc.co.uk/latitude features broadcast and line-up information.

BBC Radio 2's website, bbc.co.uk/radio2, features extensive content including pictures, videos and exclusive material, plus behind-the-scenes material with Claudia Winkleman and Dermot O'Leary.

Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker

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Neil Armstrong was the first astronaut to step out of the lunar module in July 1969

BBC Radio 2 celebrates the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing with a season of programming beginning with Moonbathing, in which Charles Hazlewood looks at the musical legacy of the space age.

As the space race intensified, musicians captured the hopes and fears of the era through sonic experimentation and songs about rocket men and the mysteries of the Moon.

In the company of Quincy Jones, Roger McGuinn, Les Paul and Daniel Lanois, Charles takes a trip through the music of space, from Haydn and Bernard Hermann to Joe Meek and Brian Eno. Along the way he discovers an unreleased soundtrack to 2001 – A Space Odyssey and finds out what the astronauts themselves were listening to as they headed towards the Moon.

Stanley Kubrick famously used Also Sprach Zarathustra and The Blue Danube in the soundtrack to 2001 – A Space Odyssey. But there is an interesting sidebar to this story. Composer Alex North was originally commissioned by the director to produce a score for the film which was never used. However, the recordings were recently issued on CD and provide a fascinating glimpse of what might have been.

Tracks featured in the programme include Les Paul's How High The Moon, Pink Floyd's Astronomy Domine, Frank Sinatra's Fly Me To The Moon, David Bowie's Space Oddity, Hey My Spaceman by The Byrds, Elton John's Rocket Man, Quincy Jones's Walking In Space and Gustav Holst's Mars from The Planets Suite.

BBC Radio 2's Moon And Space Season continues on Tuesday 21 July with a broadcast of Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of The War Of The Worlds, recorded at the O2 Arena. On Saturday 25 July, Eye To The Telescope gives KT Tunstall's personal take on the continuing fascination with the final frontier.

Presenter/Charles Hazlewood, Producer/Owen McFadden

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Catherine Bott explores the musical climate of Venice around the time of Vivaldi's birth.

On 4 March 1678, an earthquake shook the roots of Venice and, in the midst of this turmoil, Vivaldi was born.

The city was relatively late in developing itself as a musical power. But, by the time of the birth of the city's most famous musical son, it had become an extraordinary melting pot of music, producing hundreds of operas, alongside instrumental and church music.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Sam Phillips

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Moshe Morad introduces specially recorded performances from the 2008 Jerusalem International Oud Festival, including old Turkish folk songs interpretted by Erkan Ogur and Ismail Demirioglu, recorded in the Jerusalem Theatre.

This performance features songs of the ashik, ballads that are hundreds of years old.

The duo performs the songs in lyrical and expressive contemporary interpretations, accompanied by improvisations influenced by Sufi music – creating a new genre of Turkish folk music.

There is also a session by Cretan lyra virtuoso Ross Daly who is joined by Israeli percussionist Zohar Fresco and Yurdal Tokcan from Turkey on oud.

Presenter/Moshe Morad, Producer/James Parkin

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BBC PROMS 2009
Prom 2 – Haydn, The Creation

Saturday 18 July

7.00-9.00pm BBC RADIO 3

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Launching the BBC Proms first Saturday, and to mark the joint anniversaries of Haydn and Darwin, the Gabrieli Consort and Players perform Haydn's great oratorio, The Creation.

Haydn's hymn to God's "glorious work" burst into life 60 years before Darwin's On The Origin Of Species. However, its masterly depiction of each new-created phenomenon – from primordial chaos to blinding first light and the arrival of mankind – has proved as enduring a part of the repertoire as the Handel oratorios which inspired it.

Paul McCreesh conducts massed Gabrieli forces in a recreation of the giant versions that Haydn himself directed in the last decade of his life.

Rosemary Joshua (soprano) and Mark Padmore (tenor) are just two of the soloists with the players and choirs conducted by Paul McCreesh.

This Prom is repeated on Tuesday 21 July at 2.30pm.

Presenter/Louise Fryer

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BBC Proms 2009
Prom 3 – Stan Tracey, Genesis

Saturday 18 July

10.15-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3

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Almost two centuries after Haydn celebrated God's "glorious work" in The Creation (Prom 2), living legend Stan Tracey – known to his fans as the "godfather of British Jazz" – also went back to the beginning, brilliantly recreating the biblical version of the Big Bang as a big band suite.

Now the former Ted Heath Orchestra member and long-time resident pianist at Ronnie Scott's brings his 1987 ode to creation to the BBC Proms for the first time.

Presenter/Geoffrey Smith

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Sara Mohr-Pietsch talks to the composers whose three world premières are the focus of the second programme from this year's Aldeburgh Festival.

"One myth is enough for a lifetime," says Harrison Birwistle about his continuing obsession with the Orpheus story. His chamber opera, The Corridor, explores the moment when Orpheus turns round and loses Euridice forever, with soprano Elizabeth Atherton, tenor Mark Padmore and the London Sinfonietta conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth.

The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, conducted by Oliver Knussen perform two more works: Elliott Carter's new settings of Ezra Pound (On Conversing With Paradise sung by baritone Leigh Melrose) are, incredibly, the product of his 101st year. Poetry also inspired tonight's only purely instrumental piece by the comparatively youthful Helen Grime, more than 70 years Carter's junior. Her work, A Cold Spring, also receives its world première tonight.

Presenter/Sara Mohr-Pietsch, Producer/David Papp

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In the offices of the Institute of Black Policy Research, a political think tank, expectations are running high.

After a successful campaign to establish a new government position of Minister for Race, a new goal must be set in this the "Year of Obama".

But deep divisions between colleagues soon appear once Kwaku, the founder of the organisation, throws down a controversial gauntlet: to campaign for reparations exclusively for African Caribbeans.

But Kwaku is not just driven by political and historical anger, he is also experiencing deep grief following the death of his father. As he seeks to repair, too late, his relationship with his father, he risks losing his family and destroying his life's work.

First staged at the National Theatre in 2007, this updated radio production of Statement Of Regret by Kwame Kwei-Armah reunites Don Warrington, Colin McFarlane, Ellen Thomas, Oscar James and Trevor Laird from the original cast. They are joined by Nyasha Hatendi, Janice Acquah, Jimmy Akingbola and Damian Lynch.

Producer/Alison Hindell

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Ska legend Graham "Suggs" McPherson

Suggs returns to his childhood haunt, London's Soho – which in its heyday was a vortex of louche living, artistic creativity and non-conformity – to take a look at the changing face of this "square mile of sin".

For decades, London's Soho was regarded as Britain's capital of sleaze and vice, but also a place where artists, writers, musicians and actors came to drink, philosophise and drink some more.

For this programme, Suggs returns to Soho, where he spent much of his unconventional childhood, and where his jazz-singer mother still lives. He was introduced to the delights of the Colony Club as a six year old, and, as a musician, he continued to haunt the district.

Recording both on location and mining the BBC archive, Suggs hears from Soho characters, past and present, including Jeffrey Bernard, George Melly, Quentin Crisp, Marty Wilde, Jessie Matthews and David Bowie.

Suggs investigates how this unique community, complete with red-light district and village school, functions today. He finds out whether Soho still is, or ever was, a source of inspiration or whether it is merely a creative vacuum.

Presenter/Suggs, Producer/Justine Willett

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5 Live Sport

Saturday 18 July

12.00noon-7.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

John Inverdale presents, live, from Turnberry for the third day of the Open Golf Championship.

Iain Carter John Murray, Clare Balding, Alistair Bruce-Ball, Russell Fuller, Conor McNamara and Vassos Alexander commentate. Analysis comes from three-time Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, Mark Roe, Jay Townsend and Andrew Coltart. Meanwhile, Chris Evans is out and about speaking to the players as they prepare for their third rounds.

On a busy day for sport, Mark Pougatch is at Lord's for the third day of the second Test between England and Australia. With him is Geoff Boycott, Alec Stewart and Jason Gillespie.

Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Alex Rice

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Test Match Special

Saturday 18 July

10.45am-6.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary of England versus Australia on the third day of the second Ashes Test from Lord's.

Producer/Jennifer McAllister

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Liz Kershaw is joined by Ivor Novello song writing award-winner Scott Matthews, who talks about his fantasy party in It's My Party, playing three tracks and discussing his three fantasy guests.

During the show, Liz plays the song she would most like to hear by Marc Bolan and, this week, The Super Furry Animals album Radiator is discussed with listeners.

Jeff Simpson also gives his take on the week's cinema releases in Homeboy Simpson At The Cinema.

Presenter/Liz Kershaw, Producer/Adam Hudson

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Lauren Laverne is joined by Nashville-based country experimentalist Cortney Tidwell who has just released her second album, Boys, on City Slang Records.

Cortney has just finished her European tour, which culminated with the release of her first single from the album, Watsuii.

Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Adam Hudson

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Chris Hawkins presents All About Eve, recorded at the Town And Country Club, London, in 1991. The recording features tracks Wild Hearted Woman, Touched By Jesus and Road To Your Soul.

All About Eve's 1998 debut album, entitled All About Eve, brought the band a gold disc and provided them with four hit singles.

The second album, Scarlet And Other Stories, proved equally successful and their unbroken string of hits continued in 1989 with Road To Your Soul, Remember and Scarlet.

Presenter/Chris Hawkins, Producer/Frank Wilson

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