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Network Radio BBC Week 30: 25-31 July 2009
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Network Radio BBC Week 30: Saturday 25 July 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 25 July 2009
Dermot O'Leary is joined at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios by pop group a-ha, who play new material, old favourites and take listeners' questions.
The Norwegian trio's latest album marks a return to the classic pop sound that helped bring them success around the world. Written and recorded in various major cities – from Oslo, where the band formed in 1982, to New York, where guitarist Pål now lives – Foot Of The Mountain is predominantly a synth-based album that carries echoes of the band's early signature hits Take On Me and The Sun Always Shines On TV.
There's also music from Irish singer-songwriter Lisa Hannigan, who worked with Damien Rice and toured the world for several years before gathering a band of friends together to record her 2008 debut album, Sea Sew.
Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker
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BBC Radio 2's celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing continues with Eye To The Telescope, in which KT Tunstall gives a personal take on our continuing fascination with the final frontier, set against a soundtrack of music inspired by space.
When KT Tunstall was a little girl, her physicist father used to take her to the St Andrews Observatory, thus beginning a lifelong fascination with space travel which inspired her first album, Eye To The Telescope.
She's not alone. From the early days of the space programme, artists have been intrigued by the wonders of the universe and the possibility of intelligent life beyond Earth, as well as the implications for the future. While astronauts explored the boundaries of space, musicians realised they could explore new musical frontiers and started experimenting with recording techniques and synthesisers.
Contributors include Paul Hartnoll of Orbital, Scottish band The Aliens, Dave Brock of Hawkwind and writer and film critic Kim Newman.
Presenter/KT Tunstall, Producer/Lynsey Moyes
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Bob Harris is joined in the studio by singer-songwriter and multi-media artist Fredo Viola.
Fredo spent the majority of his childhood travelling between London, Rome and Los Angeles before training to be a film director. Influenced by musicians such as Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten, Bartók, Stravinsky and Belle And Sebastian, his music has recently been used on American TV shows including CSI Miami and The OC.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson
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BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 25 July 2009
Catherine Bott presents highlights of a concert given by chamber ensemble La Risonanza, directed by Fabio Bonizzoni as part of the York Early Music Festival 2009.
The concert, recorded in the Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall in the University of York, features music by Handel and his Italian contemporaries, including Stradella, Marchitelli and Porpora.
Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Rebecca Bean
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WOMAD FESTIVAL 2009
World Routes Live From Womad 2009
Live from BBC Radio 3's own stage in Charlton Park's arboretum, Lucy Duran presents the Womad debut of one of the great voices of Central Asia, Azerbaijani singer Gochaq Askerov, as well as highlights from a set by Cimarron, a Colombian seven-piece band who play the fiercely virtuosic folk style "joropo".
Radio 3 broadcasts live from the Womad Festival for the ninth year, giving listeners the opportunity to hear performances from some of the leading lights of world music throughout the weekend, from Friday 24 July to Sunday 26 July. The Radio 3 stage continues the tradition of hosting an enticing mix of new and emerging artists.
The weekend's broadcasts are hosted by Radio 3's World Music presenters Andrew McGregor, Lopa Kothari, Charlie Gillett and Lucy Duran. Fiona Talkington presents more highlights in Late Junction over the following week, while World On 3 and World Routes also include recordings from Womad.
Presenter/Lucy Duran, Producer/Felix Carey
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Many people have probably heard Shelly Manne, even if they don't realise it, from his work on TV themes such as Daktari to his subtle playing on hundreds of film soundtracks. He and André Previn had a major hit with their album based on My Fair Lady, and he also appears on a surprising number of famous jazz discs that not only include his own bands, but also work with Sonny Rollins and Ornette Coleman.
Richard Pite helps Alyn Shipton explore the records of this musical polymath, and also gives away trade secrets; from Manne's trick of spinning a coin on the snare drum to his use of sleigh bells.
Presenter and Producer/Alyn Shipton
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BBC PROMS 2009
Prom 11 – Organ Recital
This BBC Prom, live from the Royal Albert Hall in London, launches a weekend marking 75 years since the deaths of Delius, Elgar and Holst. Organist David Titterington plays Elgar's Organ Sonata No. 1 in G major and there is also an American-inspired work by Peter Dickinson, who celebrates his 75th birthday this year.
The Royal Albert Hall's mighty Father Willis organ is ideally suited to both Elgar's quasi-symphonic organ music and to the ragtime and blues treatment by Peter Dickinson.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Brian Jackson
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The year 1934 saw the deaths of three of music's most celebrated composers. Seventy-five years on from the deaths of Elgar, Holst and Delius, David Owen Norris goes back to the newspaper archives to see how obituary writers and the public responded to their deaths.
At the time of Elgar's death, much was made of the importance of his contribution to English music. Sir Henry Wood wrote to The Times saying: "He was such a mighty figure that one cannot think of him dead. It is the greatest loss to music that could have possibly happened, and a loss from which this country will take many years to recover, for there is no one else to touch him."
A telegram was sent by the King and Queen to Elgar's daughter proclaiming "their Majesties' true sympathy in your bereavement. As master of the King's Music, Sir Edward was well known to their Majesties, who realise that this country and the world of music have lost in him a great composer, whose work will be long remembered."
The deaths of Holst and Delius later the same year attracted fewer column inches, but Delius's death did make the front page of the Daily Express, which is more than Elgar's did. Opinion at the time was divided over Holst and Delius's contribution to British music and, in Delius's case, his blindness and loneliness was commented on. The tabloids reported that "tragic" Delius was buried without a funeral but, when Norris explores contemporary accounts, he finds that, even in 1934, it wasn't always wise to believe what was printed in the papers.
Presenter/David Owen Norris, Producer/Sarah Taylor
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC PROMS 2009
Prom 12 – BBC Philharmonic
The BBC Philharmonic celebrates the music of three great British composers who died 75 years ago – Edward Elgar, Frederick Delius and Gustav Holst.
Elgar's Overture Cockaigne is a lively and colourful musical portrait of Edwardian London, depicting snapshots of cockney life, church bells, a brass band playing in the park and courting couples. Delius captures the sense of peace of the high mountains in The Song Of The High Hills, while Holst explores worlds much further afield in The Planets, with its mystical ending.
Soloists tonight include Rebecca Evans (soprano), Toby Spence (tenor) with the BBC Singers and the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Charles Mackerras.
This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 30 July at 2.15pm.
Presenter/Christopher Cook, Producer/Brian Jackson
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
WOMAD FESTIVAL 2009
Womad 2009 Live
Andrew McGregor is joined by Lopa Kothari and Lucy Duran for further coverage from the leading festival of world music, live from the site in Charlton Park in Wiltshire. There are highlights from performances by Malian diva Oumou Sangare, with songs from her acclaimed new album, Seya, and by Algerian star Kamel El Harrachi, who sings the popular chaabi style that's heard all across North Africa. There's also live music from BBC Radio 3's stage, including the UK's Jim Moray, winner of the 2008 fRoots Album Of The Year.
Presenters/Andrew McGregor, Lopa Kothari and Lucy Duran, Producer/Roger Short
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BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 25 July 2009
Soho Stories Ep 1/3
Thirty years ago, virtually every home-grown programme on British television was made by either the BBC or ITV. Today, many of the biggest and most successful – from Spooks to The Apprentice and the X-Factor – are made by independent producers.
Television executive, programme-maker and broadcaster Paul Jackson goes behind some of these multi-million pound success stories to chart the rise and rise of independent producers – from the isolated minnows of the early Eighties, to the global monoliths of today.
Far more than was recognised at the time, 1982 was a watershed year for British Television. The launch of Channel 4 was in itself significant enough – it was the first new British television channel for 18 years and it introduced a fresh and vibrant roster of new programmes and formats. But the fact that it was to be a publisher-broadcaster and made no programmes of its own effectively turned the balance of power within broadcasting on its head.
It is this transformation in just over a quarter of a century that Paul explores in this series. Paul is aided and abetted by some of those who made the transition from troublesome outsiders into possibly the most influential and powerful players in the industry today, including: Simon Cowell (X-Factor and Britain's Got Talent), Jimmy Mulville (co-founder and managing director of Hat Trick Productions), Paul Smith (Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and Slumdog Millionaire), Peter Bazalgette (Big Brother) and Sir David Frost (from the The Two Ronnies to The Nixon Interviews).
The series also features contributions from Sir Paul Fox, Lord Griffiths, Paul Bonner, Lorraine Heggessey, Simon Shaps, Erik Huggers and Peter Salmon.
Presenter/Paul Jackson, Producer/Paul Kobrak
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Screenwriter Kay Mellor (Band Of Gold, Fat Friends and Playing The Field) explores the way northern English masculinities have been portrayed in British film and television – reconciling issues of blatant sentimentality with the real-life social parallels that have informed the canon of the past 50 years.
Kay seeks to find out why northern masculinity has been drawn upon as such a rich and telling yardstick of social struggle in Britain, and examines fictional portrayals that have changed and diversified, yet stayed much the same in many ways.
From the crucial age of the Angry Young Man, marked out in This Sporting Life (1963), she looks at the contrasts and similarities between the trapped northern masculine identities portrayed in Kes and Billy Elliot.
Kay discovers that the disintegration of traditional northern male stereotypes in fiction leads to more diverse explorations. For example, the weak men in Coronation Street, Last Of The Summer Wine and Keeping Up Appearances; British-Asian northern masculinities in East Is East; the dysfunctional and proud to be Shameless Frank Gallagher; and interpretations of homosexual masculinities in Queer As Folk and Jimmy McGovern's The Street.
On Northern Men explores selected themes of masculinity and "northernness" in turn, getting under the skin of the British screen industry that has proved itself somewhat obsessed with the stereotypical benchmark of the northern male. It also graphs the relationship between changing variables of social class, heroism, "northernness" and fictional portrayals of masculinity in film and television, with supporting material in radio archive.
The programme features contributions from Jimmy McGovern, Paul Abbott and Ian Puleston-Davies.
Presenter/Kay Mellor, Producer/Sally Harrison
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
Saturday 25 July 2009
5 Live Sport
Darren Fletcher is at Ascot for King George Day, including the King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, alongside BBC Radio 5 Live's racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght, with John Hunt and Luke Harvey in the commentary box.
At 1pm, the qualifying session for Formula 1's Hungarian Grand Prix comes live from the Hungaroring circuit, with David Croft and Anthony Davidson providing the commentary. There's also live coverage of cricket's Friends Provident Trophy final live from Lord's. At 3pm, there's coverage of Harlequins versus St Helens in rugby league's Super League.
From 5pm, Vassos Alexander presents the London Grand Prix athletics live from Crystal Palace with updates from the World Championship swimming in Rome.
Presenters/Darren Fletcher and Vassos Alexander, Producer/Ben North
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Saturday 25 July 2009
Cricket
Uninterrupted coverage on the final of the domestic one-day cricket competition, the Friends Provident Trophy between Hampshire and Sussex, comes live from Lord's.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
BBC 6 MUSIC Saturday 25 July 2009
Pioneering Detroit techno DJ Derrick May presents a special edition of 6 Mix, featuring three new mixes showcasing different sides of his musical make-up and talking about his work as a producer and DJ.
May – best known for his 1987 dance anthem Strings Of Life under the name Rhythm Is Rhythm – has been an icon of the techno scene for more than 20 years, DJing worldwide to a devoted fan base and pioneering the scene's distinct, hard sound. May's work alongside Juan Atkins and Inner City's Kevin Saunderson has provided inspiration for a number of producers worldwide.
Over two hours, May plays tunes which have inspired him from the likes of Marvin Gaye, D'Angelo and Jean Michelle Jarre, alongside iconic dance tunes from Lil Louis and Hamilton Bohannon. Derrick also plays a new and exclusive 60-minute mix of his signature hi-tek soul sound, which he describes as "George Clinton meeting Kraftwerk in an elevator".
Presenter/Derrick May, Producer/Rowan Collinson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 30: Sunday 26 July 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 26 July 2009
Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to Stuart Townend, the worship leader and writer of songs such as How Deep The Father's Love, In Christ Alone, Beautiful Saviour and The Power Of The Cross. He talks about his work and his new album, Creation Sings.
During this week's show, Aled launches the Good Morning Sunday Contemporary Hymn Writers' series, featuring Graham Kendrick, Bernadette Farrell, Bishop Timothy Dudley Smith and others.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson
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Sitting in for Steve Wright, singer, actress and television personality Cilla Black presents a specially themed programme of American Love Songs.
Presenter/Cilla Black, Producer/Jessica Rickson
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Sir Tim Rice sits in for Michael Ball on this week's edition of Sunday Brunch.
Presenter/Sir Tim Rice, Producer/Fiona Day
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Elaine Paige is joined by the cast of Forbidden Broadway, the New York revue which pokes fun at all things musical, who perform a song from the show in the studio.
Elaine also talks to actress and singer Samantha Spiro about the new production of Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly!, which is being staged in the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, London.
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Brian D'Arcy considers the role of doubt and disbelief in the Christian life, in this week's programme.
With prayers, reflections and much-loved hymns, including Blessed Assurance, Thine Be The Glory and Be Still, the featured choir is the Glasgow Chamber Choir, directed by Michael Bawtree with organist David Hamilton.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 26 July 2009
BBC PROMS 2009
Prom 13 – The BBC Philharmonic's Family Prom
The BBC Philharmonic's free family Prom, broadcast live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, provides an excellent introduction to classical music and a taste of the music to be heard throughout the BBC Proms season.
The concert culminates with Benjamin Britten's showcase variations, The Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra, which provides a wonderful insight into the unique sounds of each and every orchestral instrument.
Alongside the BBC Philharmonic, a family orchestra and chorus of more than 100 people take to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall for the world première of a collaborative work, The Rough Guide To The Proms Family Orchestra.
One of the current crop of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists, 19-year-old violinist Jennifer Pike plays a rarity by Holst, A Song Of The Night, and a showpiece by Saint-Saens, Introduction And Rondo Capriccioso.
Presenter/Sarah Walker, Producer/Brian Jackson
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
WOMAD FESTIVAL 2009
Womad 2009 Live
Lucy Duran presents further live coverage from the leading festival of world music, including a live performance from BBC Radio 3's own stage by the Chinese singer and two-string lute player, Mamer, and highlights from a set by the Dhoad Gypsies Of Rajasthan.
Presenter/Lucy Duran, Producer/Felix Carey
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC PROMS 2009
Prom 14 – Elgar, Holst And Delius
Christopher Cook presents tonight's BBC Prom, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London, which concludes a weekend of concerts to mark the anniversaries of Edward Elgar, Gustav Holst and Frederick Delius, all of whom died in 1934.
Conductor David Atherton has a great affinity with British music and Holst's First Choral Symphony, a setting of poems by Keats, tonight receives its first Proms performance, more than 80 years after the première in Leeds.
Delius took his inspiration from an old Lincolnshire folksong to create his evocative Brigg Fair. The song was first transcribed and used by the composer Percy Grainger, and then became the first recorded folk song. Delius makes it his own, with 17 variations full of rich harmonies and colourful orchestrations, distilling it into the very essence of nostalgia for England's idyllic rural past.
Elgar's ever-popular Enigma Variations brought the composer the recognition he truly deserved when it was premièred in 1899. A landmark of British orchestral music, each variation depicts one of Elgar's friends – 14 people and one dog. Most famous is the variation for his publisher, AJ Jaeger, nicknamed "Nimrod". It became one of Elgar's – and England's – greatest tunes.
This Prom will be repeated on Friday 31 July at 2.15pm.
Presenter/Christopher Cook, Producer/Brian Jackson
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC PROMS 2009
Twenty Minutes – Proms Literary Festival
In the second of this year's Proms Literary Festival events, Sir Christopher Frayling and novelist DJ Taylor join Rana Mitter to discuss the key cultural events of 1934.
It was the year that two of Britain's eminent composers, Holst and Delius, died. It was also the year in which two of this country's most successful contemporary composers, Harrison Birtwhistle and Peter Maxwell Davies, were born.
To understand the wider importance of this key date, the rector of the Royal College Of Art (and former head of the Arts Council) Sir Christopher Frayling joins novelist DJ Taylor to discuss the cultural setting of the mid Thirties.
Among the topics they discuss are HG Wells's futuristic novel The Shape Of Things To Come, and the arrival in Britain of the Bauhaus designer emigrés.
The programme was recorded earlier this evening before a live audience at the Royal College Of Music.
Presenter/Rana Mitter, Producer/Laura Thomas
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Poet Michael Symmons Roberts examines the brilliant and perplexing short life of the French philosopher Simone Weil, who was born 100 years ago this year.
Weil's commitment to direct action, her mystical experiences and her exacting and fatal asceticism, mark her out from her contemporaries. Her writings were championed by Albert Camus and TS Eliot and the Archbishop Of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, is among her admirers.
Is it now time for Weil to receive renewed recognition as prophetically relevant to our present political and spiritual uncertainties?
Reader/Michael Symmons Roberts, Producer/Norman Winter
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
On the eve of the National Eisteddfod Of Wales, the annual festival of Welsh culture and language, Words And Music celebrates the land famous for its poetry and song. The programme includes the lyrical verse of Dylan Thomas, the haunting sound of the male voice choir and some of Wales's most successful pop artists.
Ruth Madoc and Owen Teale read poems by contemporary Welsh writers, including Owen Sheers and Gillian Clarke along with the work of 20th-century poets such as RS Thomas, Idris Davies and WH Davies. The recent National Poet Of Wales, Gwyneth Lewis, also performs her verse in Welsh.
As well as instrumental music from Welsh composers like William Mathias, Alan Hoddinott and Thomas Tomkins, Words And Music celebrates Wales' choral tradition, encapsulated in the beauty of Myfanwy, sung by a male voice choir. There's solo music from Wales's musical emblem – the harp – and some more surprising choices from its most successful pop artists.
Readers/Ruth Madoc and Owen Teale, Producer/Tim Prosser
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
WOMAD FESTIVAL 2009
Womad 2009 Live
Andrew McGregor, Charlie Gillett, Lopa Kothari and Lucy Duran present further highlights from the globe's leading festival of world music, live from the festival site in Charlton Park in Wiltshire.
Tonight's programme features music from Senegalese legend Youssou N'Dour, Australian Aboriginal sounds from The Black Armband project and Scottish folk from Deaf Shepherd, plus interviews and specially recorded truck sessions.
Presenters/Andrew McGregor, Charlie Gillett, Lopa Kothari and Lucy Duran, Producer/Felix Carey
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BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 26 July 2009
This week's castaway is the River Cottage chef, presenter and "real food" campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.
Hugh talks to Kirsty Young about his life, his career, his favourite music and life on BBC Radio 4's mythical desert island.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Suckling pigs – whole, month-old, milk-fed piglets – are a celebrated and celebratory part of Chinese, Spanish and Italian cuisine, but they fell from favour at the British table many centuries ago. In The Food Programme this week, Sheila Dillon investigates whether suckling pigs are ready to make a comeback.
Sheila looks into the history of the suckling pig within British culture, and its use in other cuisines today, with food historian Ivan Day, Chinese food expert Fuchsia Dunlop and Steve Downey, director of Chef Direct, who supply suckling pigs to restaurants.
Within the Chinese community suckling pigs remain a popular dish for weddings and other celebrations, and it was Chinese restaurants which proved the market for Pugh's Piglets.
Thirty years ago, Barry and Gillian Pugh were struggling pig farmers. Their "eureka" moment came when they piled their car high with piglets and drove to Chinatown with their young son in his carry-cot to search for a new market for their pigs. Ray Kershaw looks at how the business has developed, and asks what is holding British people back from appreciating more of the piglets that other cultures seem to love – is it a case of too many sentimental children's books and films, or the more prosaic matter of regulations?
Presenter/Sheila Dillon, Producer/Rebecca Moore
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Tennyson’s Maud – a tale of love, murder and madness in a haunting monodrama by one of our greatest poets – is a collaboration between BBC Radio Drama and award-winning sound designer Christopher Shutt to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
A disturbed and outcast young man roams the windswept hills haunted by his father's suicide and his mother's early death. He blames his father's old friend, the lord of the Hall, for his ruin. The young man was betrothed to Maud, the lord's daughter, when they were children, but she and her family left the area after the suicide. However, suddenly, today, there are workmen up at the Hall. Maud has come home.
Joseph Millson performs the poem and captures the rapid mood-swings of Tennyson's disturbed, dangerous and yearning protagonist – while Christopher Shutt's sound design mirrors the beauty and chaos inside the young man's head.
Maud is a piece of jewelled Victoriana, but it addresses very modern neuroses. Tennyson described the poem as "the history of a morbid poetic soul, under the blighting influence of a recklessly speculative age". His anti-hero is racked with the despair induced by a society divided by wealth; the lack of faith in politicians and leaders; and the sublimation of personal frustration into military ambition.
Maud shocked the public on its publication in 1855 in the middle of the Crimean War. Its darkness disgusted its readers, and it has only recently begun to receive critical recognition for its extraordinary mixture of hypnotically beautiful lyric poetry and wild metrical experimentation.
Reader/Joseph Millson, Producer/Abigail le Fleming
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Olivia O'Leary tells the story of the only "foreign" journalists allowed into the heart of Westminster – the Irish lobby.
For an Irish journalist in the Sixties and Seventies, Belfast was for conflict and London for politics. The cream of Irish talent made their way to London. The Irish press pack nurtured future Daily Mail diarists, speechwriters for Margaret Thatcher and even a future editor of the American National Review. They made friends wherever they went. The Irish Embassy threw parties to which all were made welcome – the St Patrick's Day invite was much sought after.
But behind the fraternising, there were serious difficulties to overcome. Irish newspapers and broadcasters took stands during the troubles. The Republic's largest selling daily, The Irish Independent, was consistent in its condemnation of the IRA, while Britain's Daily Mirror called for "troops out" and resettlement grants for unionists. The Mirror and all three local dailies were damaged by bomb blasts.
The Irish lobby journalists covered the aftermath of the Birmingham and Guildford bombings and the IRA's long terror campaign on the mainland. They knew that senior politicians they dealt with every day were targets for the IRA. They were on the receiving end of abuse and vitriol from both sides – the circles they worked in became more anti-Irish as the IRA attacks continued, and their readers and listeners often wrote in, irate at having to swallow "British propaganda" from the pens of their own correspondents.
Olivia was herself a lobby journalist for the Irish Times during the early Seventies, the time of the Guildford pub bombings. She talks to Aiden Hennigan, now in his eighties, who has been the longest-serving member of the lobby and still writes for the Irish Enquirer.
Brian O'Connell, RTE's current London correspondent, talks about how power and influence has moved from London to Brussels as the relationship between London and Dublin has changed from Empire, to conflict, to confluence.
Presenter/Olivia O'Leary, Producer/Rachel Hooper
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 26 July 2009
5 Live Sport
Eleanor Oldroyd presents 5 Live Sport live from Donington, ahead of the British round of the Moto GP.
At 1pm there's live commentary of Formula 1's Hungarian Grand Prix, live from the Hungaroring circuit with David Croft, Anthony Davidson and Holly Samos.
From 3.30pm, listeners can hear live commentary of the British Moto GP from Donington Park, plus updates from rugby league's Super League and the World Swimming Championship in Rome.
Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Adrian Williams
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Sunday 26 July 2009
Tour de France
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings listeners uninterrupted commentary of the climax to the final stage of this year's race from Monterreau Fault Yonne to Paris.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 26 July 2009
As this year's Mercury Prize nominees are announced, Matt Everitt and Julie Cullen deconstruct the shortlist to try to sort out the over-hyped from the likely winners. They also present all the biggest music news stories from the last week.
Presenters/Matt Everitt and Julie Cullen, Producer/Tom Green
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Dave Pearce plays music from 30 years of classic dance anthems from techno to electro and house to hip hop, alongside brand new unsigned bedroom producers and future floor fillers.
Dave also speaks to superstar DJ Tiesto ahead of his open-air concert in London's Victoria Park. Arguably the biggest DJ in the world right now, thanks to his spectacular live shows, Holland's Tiesto has become one of the most influential names in house music, defining the trance sound with his reworking of Barber's Adagio For Strings and the Ibiza anthem Gouryella in 1999.
Tiesto talks to Dave about what fans can expect from his live UK extravaganza, how his Ibiza residency at Privilege is progressing, remixing Calvin Harris's massive No. 1 single and the plans for his upcoming album.
Presenter/Dave Pearce, Producer/Rowan Collinson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC WORLD SERVICE Sunday 26 July 2009
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown concludes her personal journey to Zanzibar, to the idyllic island she visited as a child.
In today's concluding programme, Yasmin investigates what happened during the 1964 revolution when violence erupted on the streets of Zanzibar and the government was overthrown. The massacres of Arabs and Indians sent shock waves throughout East Africa.
For Yasmin, as a child, Zanzibar had always held out hope that people from different backgrounds and races could live at ease with each other, so unlike her home country of Uganda where Africans, Indians and Europeans led rigidly separate lives. The revolution marked both the end of those hopes, and the visits to the island of her childhood. But, as Yasmin returns, she wants to explore how far the legacy of slavery and the memories of injustice were used to fight political battles, and whether, by telling the full story, those childhood dreams of living in harmony, can be restored.
Presenter/Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Producer/Katy Hickman
BBC World Service Publicity
The Forum joins up with an American ideas community TED for a special recording at Keble College, Oxford, under the tentative headline "We're All Doomed!", as Bridget Kendall invites an astronomer, an economist and a cyber journalist to contemplate the fight for survival of stars and homo sapiens.
Astronomer Andrea Ghez discovered the super massive black hole that lurks at the centre of our galaxy and is now trying to work out what it tells us about the past and future of the Universe; economist and futurologist Ian Goldin is concerned with the systemic risks facing human civilisation: will we make it to the end of the 21st century? Also an optimist, Goldin argues that if we do make it, things can only get better and better; a view not necessarily shared by Evgeny Morozov, who has blogged his way from Belarus to New York and whose daily cyber reports paint a gloomy picture of the rise of the "spinternet" fostering a generation of "slacktivists" – not what cyber utopians had in mind for this brave new world.
Presenter/Bridget Kendall, Producer/Emily Kasriel
BBC World Service Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 30: Monday 27 July 2009
BBC RADIO 1 Monday 27 July 2009
Every weekday between 18-31 July, BBC Radio 1's Greg James is out and about in the UK livening up the summer holidays and he pops in to Jo Whiley's show.
Greg tours the country and meets people who are working during their summer holidays, while offering a helping hand with summer jobs, relieving boredom and generally getting stuck in where required – from selling ice creams to being a red coat; and from washing cars to working in the local supermarket.
Listeners have been sending in suggestions for what Greg can get up to via the Radio 1 website, and can also follow his adventures online through a video diary and blog at bbc.co.uk/radio1/gregjames.
Presenter/Jo Whiley
BBC Radio 1 Publicity
BBC RADIO 2 Monday 27 July 2009
Chad Kroeger of Canadian band Nickelback reveals his favourite music in Tracks Of My Years this week in Ken Bruce's show.
Each morning he picks two of his favourite songs and talks to Ken about his choices, which include tracks by Bob Marley, Guns 'N' Roses and Elton John.
Two more contestants also battle it out on PopMaster, and listeners can hear the Record and Album Of The Week and the Love Song.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Mark Radcliffe presents today's show solo and introduces a live session from the Brooklyn-trio Au Revoir Simone.
Made principally using keyboards, drum machines and hand percussion, Au Revoir Simone's sound is defined by their instrumentation. Their debut mini album, Verses Of Comfort, Assurance And Salvation, was recorded in Brooklyn, in their friend, producer and manager, Rod's, basement apartment.
Presenter/Mark Radcliffe, Producer/Viv Atkinson
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Dave Pearce's A-Z guide of classic disco music, which celebrates its influence on modern dance music culture, covers the letters O to R tonight, as BBC Radio 2's Disco Season continues.
Dave plays tunes from The O Jays, Vicki Sue Robinson and Rose Royce and talks about the impact they made on the disco world and how they influenced modern dance music.
Presenter/Dave Pearce, Producer/Rowan Collinson
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BBC RADIO 3 Monday 27 July 2009
BBC PROMS 2009
BBC Proms Chamber Music 2009
The seductive world of French song is a speciality of the superlative American mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and her duo partner, Malcolm Martineau, who perform in this afternoon's BBC Prom, live from London's Cadogan Hall.
The music spans a century of "mélodies Françaises" and takes in the themes of night and nature, love and childhood; and culminates in Poulenc's bittersweet melodrama of defiance and regret, La dame de Monte-Carlo.
Susan also appears with the Hallé Orchestra in Thursday night's Prom when she sings Berlioz.
This Prom will be repeated on Saturday 1 August at 2pm.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Brian Jackson
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The BBC Symphony Orchestra, with chief conductor Jiří Bělohlávek, begin the first Stravinsky ballet season at the BBC Proms with Petrushka, in tonight's concert, live from London's Royal Albert Hall.
The imaginative and colourful score tells the tale of the puppet Petrushka, whose tragedy is played out at St Petersburg's Shrovetide fair. Smetana's rustic Bohemian comedy, The Bartered Bride – whose high-spirited overture makes a perfect curtain-raiser – is also set at a Slavic fair, while Bartók's Dance Suite draws in folk dances from Hungary, Romania and as far afield as Africa.
Martinů's Concerto for two pianos, part of the Proms multiple-piano focus, was composed just after his First Symphony in 1943. It betrays some of the tensions of two years earlier – when Martinů, like Bartók, was forced to flee to the USA – but ultimately finds release in an outpouring of the composer's characteristically effervescent vitality.
Jiří Bělohlávek is hailed as one of the leading interpreters and champions of the music of Martinů, who died 50 years ago.
This Prom will be repeated on Wednesday 29 July at 2.15pm.
Presenter/Fiona Talkington, Producer/Brian Jackon
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Norman Lebrecht talks to Grammy Award-winning violinist Hilary Hahn this evening, as he continues his series of interviews.
Born in Lexington, Virginia, Hahn was a child prodigy who made her major orchestral debut whilst still in her early teens. Now celebrated for her captivating stage presence and deeply felt interpretations, Hahn's international career embraces everything from concerto appearances – performing classic and new repertoire – to recitals, recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and collaborations with singer-songwriter Tom Brosseau and folk-based singer-songwriter Josh Ritter.
Hahn tells Norman about the, sometimes harsh, realities of life on the road, the challenges of sustaining relationships, busking and the effects of the credit crunch on the classical music industry.
Presenter/Norman Lebrecht, Producer/Emma Bloxham
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BBC RADIO 4 Monday 27 July 2009
MI6 – A Century In The Shadows Ep 1/3
In a groundbreaking new series for BBC Radio 4, the BBC’s Security Correspondent Gordon Corera ventures into the heart of the British Secret Service – better known as MI6.
The Service has been shrouded in myth and mystery since it was created 100 years ago but, for the very first time, listeners hear directly from the man known as “C” – the Chief of the Secret Service – as well senior intelligence officers, their agents and their enemies. Many are breaking their silence for the first time.
The current Chief, Sir John Scarlett, tells the BBC about his career as a spy, including an operation behind the Iron Curtain. He discusses the role of the Service in the controversies over Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and rendition. He also answers the question: does MI6 really have a licence to kill?
The thee-part series will shed light on the role of MI6 and its contribution to national security over the past 100 years. It dispels some of the myths and explores where fact and fiction collide in the world of covert operations.
Programme one explores the early years of MI6 set up by Sir Mansfield Cumming, an eccentric and formidable figure, known as C, who signed his name in green ink. Programme two will look at MI6’s record during the Cold War, including the betrayals on both sides; and programme three takes listeners from the end of the Cold War to the modern day, through 9/11 and Iraq.
Presenter/Gordon Corera, Producer/Mark Savage
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The Call Ep 1/5
Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have made or received life-changing phone calls, in this new, five-part series, which kicks off today with the story of The Siege.
During the Iranian Embassy Siege in 1980, Max Vernon was one of two police negotiators called in to deal with the crisis. He was on the phone for 12 hours a day, in 20-minute bursts. In between, he would sit slumped, feeling thoroughly exhausted. There were times when the two negotiators had a gap of an hour or so but, during that time, they would go over what had been said. They would alternate who took the calls.
They were talking to people who could kill if they made a mistake, and Max and the other negotiator were kept in the dark, to some extent, so they couldn't give anything away under pressure. It was all recorded, however, and they would play it back to hear what was said. His training had prepared him for everything, except the pressure. At the end of the five days he got in his car and drove home, but doesn't remember any of the journey. When he got home, he sat in a corner and cried.
At his home in Kent, Max reflects on the call that changed his life and the lasting effect it has had on him.
Other calls in this series include: the language teacher who took a call at 4am, in which she was told that her adoption of a Thai baby had been approved; the Essex man who took a call to let him know that a heart had been found for his transplant operation; and the operators at Camelot describe some of the reactions to their calls on a Saturday night.
Presenter/Dominic Arkwright, Producer/John Byrne
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Book Of The Week –
The Accidental Billionaires Ep 1/5
This week's Book Of The Week offering is based on Ben Mezrich's latest book, The Accidental Billionaires, which charts the history of the genesis of the social networking site Facebook.
It's a story of the desire to belong, the desire to make friends and the sometimes conflicting desire to make money.
This book follows Mezrich's bestseller, Bringing Down The House, subsequently filmed as 21.
Producer/Jill Waters
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Mind Changers Ep 1/4
As Mind Changers returns for a fourth series, Claudia Hammond revisits a particular experiment in each episode and reveals the build-up, the political disputes and the personality clashes it caused.
The experiments outlined include: David Rosenhan's Pseudo-Patients experiment, where nine sane people got themselves admitted – and detained – in psychiatric hospitals. Rosenhan's paper, published in 1972, caused uproar in the psychiatric profession and led to changes in diagnostic rules.
The Hawthorne Effect, named after the factory outside Chicago where, in 1927, working conditions were varied and subsequent production measured, is featured in psychology and social science text books worldwide. Claudia reveals the details of the experiment.
Harlow's Monkeys experiment, conducted in 1958, would never get past an ethics committee today. He showed that baby monkeys preferred a milkless, cloth-covered surrogate mother to a wire one which provided milk, proving the importance of bodily contact in child-rearing.
Langer and Rodin's 1976 Arden House experiment showed that autonomy makes you happy and prolongs life. By giving different levels of autonomy to residents in a care home, choices as simple as which night to see a film, or being given a plant to care for themselves, the residents proved that freedom of choice is essential to human well-being.
Presenter/Claudia Hammond, Producer/Marya Burgess
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Russell Dixon stars in this Afternoon Play offering by Ian Potter, a comedy about old age and loneliness.
Frank lives on his own and just about copes. He has an obsession with coffee and, one day, when he thinks he has run out, he goes to the shop to buy some more, but it becomes a real odyssey.
His glasses break when he tries to tie his shoelaces and two young "scallies" offer to help him.
Producer/Gary Brown
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Joan Armatrading's Favourite Guitarists Ep 1/5
Legendary singer, songwriter and guitarist Joan Armatrading invites leading guitarists to join her and discuss their music, in this new, five-part series.
Over a conversation with her guests, guitar at the ready to illustrate their approach and techniques, listeners hear from some of the greatest guitarists of all time.
In today's opener, Joan talks to Mark Knopfler, celebrated lead guitarist of Dire Straits, who is considered the most respected intricate fingerstyle guitarist of the modern rock era. He found his "guitar voice" in his mid twenties and formed Dire Straits in the late Seventies.
Programme two features renowned American Blues singer songwriter Bonnie Raitt. In a field dominated by men, Raitt has made her way in the brotherhood of guitar since her eponymous debut album unveiled her soulful slide playing and singing back in 1971. Using the blues as a launching pad, Raitt fearlessly explored folk, R&B, Americana and world music styles.
John Williams is the guest in programme three. Regarded as the one of the finest classical guitarists of his generation, Williams has explored many different musical traditions including Spanish and jazz guitar.
Bert Jansch, a songwriter and guitarist, is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential musicians of all time, and features in the penultimate programme in this series. Since the mid Sixties, generation after generation have been left spellbound by his extraordinary groundbreaking guitar playing and classic emotive songs.
The final programme features Russell Lissack, lead guitarist of indie-rock band Bloc Party. Lissack is one of the most influential and emulated guitarists of recent times. Using his ever-expanding array of electronic effects, Russell shows how far modern technology has influenced guitar playing in the wake of the psychedelic experiments of the Sixties.
Presenter/Joan Armatrading, Producer/Susan Marling
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Just A Minute Ep 1/10
Just A Minute, the most fiendish and finicky of all panel games, returns to the BBC Radio 4 airwaves once again for a new series.
Chairman Nicholas Parsons takes control of a loquacious and rebellious bunch of players, whose task it is to speak on a subject he gives them, for one minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation.
Panellists this series include: Paul Merton, Graham Norton, Stephen Fry, Shappi Khorsandi, Charles Collingwood, Jenny Eclair, Suki Webster, Sue Perkins, Tony Hawks, Gyles Brandreth, Pam Ayres, Tim Rice, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Kit Hesketh-Harvey and Janey Godley.
Long-standing regular Clement Freud, who died in April 2009, will be very much missed and Nicholas pays tribute to him in tonight's opener.
Presenter/Nicholas Parsons, Producer/Claire Jones
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Scientist and broadcaster Professor Trevor Cox explores a new wave of "sustainable innovation" and meets the men and women attempting to emulate nature's genius.
Their goal isn't just to copy structures, but to recreate the processes and systems that evolution has taken millions of years to perfect.
Take the humble leaf, for example. It would be easy to mould or sculpt an object with the same leaf-like shape. But scientists at the University of Arizona are now taking it a step further by studying the ultra-efficient way leaves convert light from the Sun into energy, in the hope of making a molecular-sized solar cell to potentially produce all the energy people need.
Current man-made materials use huge amounts of energy and leave behind the costly problem of pollution. But nature manages to assemble itself without energy-hungry factories or toxic waste. This inspired scientists in New Mexico to make an ultra-tough, optically clear glass that self-assembles at ambient temperatures – just like mother of pearl inside the shell of an abalone sea snail. Reducing our energy needs further is Portcullis House in Westminster, which uses natural air conditioning technology copied from termites.
Researchers at the Land Institute in Kansas, meanwhile, are attempting to unravel the secrets of the prairie where plants hold the soil, resist pests and keep the soil fertile without the help of farming or fertilisers. The programme explores if man can do the same thing with crop plants and make over-worked, over-polluted land of industrialised agriculture a thing of the past.
Presenter/Professor Trevor Cox, Producer/Rami Tzabar
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Book At Bedtime – The Rapture Ep 1/5
In a merciless summer of biblical heat and destructive winds, Gabrielle Fox's main concern is a personal one: to rebuild her career as a psychologist after a shattering car accident.
But when she is assigned Bethany Krall, one of the most dangerous teenagers in the country, she begins to fear she has made a terrible mistake.
Raised on a diet of evangelistic hellfire, Bethany is violent, delusional, cruelly intuitive and insistent that she can foresee natural disasters – a claim which Gabrielle interprets as a symptom of "doomsday delusion".
But when catastrophes begin to occur on the very dates Bethany has predicted, and a brilliant, gentle physicist enters the equation, the apocalyptic puzzle intensifies and the stakes multiply.
The Rapture, which forms this new Book At Bedtime offering, is a psychological thriller that explores the dark extremes of mankind's self-destruction in a world on the brink, it is written by Liz Jensen.
Producer/Clive Brill
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 27 July 2009
Kelly Cates presents tonight's edition of 5 Live Sport and is joined by special guests for the Monday Night Club and the latest football debate and banter. Listeners can also hear regular updates from the Twenty20 cricket quarter final.
From 8.30pm, Kelly is joined by a panel of sportswomen and female journalists for 5 Live Sport's Loose Women, debating the big issues in sport.
Presenter/Kelly Cates, Producer/Steve Houghton
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Monday 27 July 2009
Twenty20 Cup Cricket
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings listeners live, uninterrupted commentary from the first two quarter finals of the Twenty20 Cup – Kent versus Durham at the St Lawrence Ground, Canterbury, from 5.30pm, and Sussex versus Warwickshire at the County Ground, Hove, from 7.10pm.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 27 July 2009
Alela Diane, the new queen of hand-crafted folk, joins Lauren Laverne this afternoon, who sits in for Cerys Matthews on the lunchtime show.
The Nevada city California-reared musician released her second album, To Be Still, this year – the follow-up to her 2006 debut, The Pirate's Gospel, which was Rough Trade's Album Of The Year.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Jax Coombes
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Marc Riley's Monday band, Sweet Baboo, make the trip from Cardiff to perform live in the studio this evening.
Sweet Baboo, aka Stephen Black, formulated in the hills of North Wales some 10 or 11 years ago. Locked inside his parents' loft, he would noodle and tinkle with his Casio keyboard, a £10 Tandy microphone, a little four-track recorder and his father's guitar. The culmination of this experimentation was the first two batches of Sweet Baboo songs.
Firmly rooted in Welsh psychedelic pop (SFA, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci) and a love of his parent's records (Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash) the songs would be early indications of the music Sweet Baboo makes today.
Stephen performs tracks from his newly released second album, Hello Wave.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe's archive search tonight uncovers concert highlights from a 1995 concert by Portishead, recorded live in the Tower Ballroom; and then a newly re-united Traffic, live at the Hammersmith Apollo in 1970.
Featured session tracks are provided by De Rosa, X-Ray Spex, Vampire Weekend and Fred Frith.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 27 July 2009
Sitaray rehearse for their opening gig in Manchester, in the first visit of the week to Silver Street. Sway reprimands the band about their playing abilities but Kuljit tells him to back off, and everyone wonders where lead singer Bobby has got to.
Sway, meanwhile, wants Kuljit to have a firm word with Bobby. Later, the band decides its useless rehearsing without a singer and start packing up, but Bobby turns up. Kuljit is relieved to see him, but will he confront Bobby about his behaviour?
Sway is played by Mark Monero, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal and Bobby by Kulvinder Ghir.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 27 July 2009
Key players and political insiders from both sides continue to tell the story of Iran's relationship with the West over the last 30 years and tonight focus on the Iranian Islamic Revolution.
The programme features interviews with two former Iranian presidents – Hashemi Rafsanjani and Mohammad Khatami – along with key Western politicians including George Shultz, Warren Christopher and Madeleine Albright. Iran and the West's involvement in the Lebanon hostage crisis, the death of Ayatollah Khomeini and the mistrust engendered by Iraq's invasion of Iran are also examined.
Producer/Norma Percy
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Network Radio BBC Week 30: Tuesday 28 July 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 28 July 2009
Sexton Blake is one of the most famous and long-lived fictional detectives and adventurers of all time, who battled opium smugglers, bandit chiefs and the Kaiser.
In his heyday, tales of Sexton Blake's adventures were more widely read than Sherlock Holmes and featured in approximately 4,000 stories by over 200 authors.
In this hour-long profile and exploration of Blake's impact, David Quantick talks to: author Michael Moorcock, who used to edit the Sexton Blake Library; Jack Adrian, a former writer and comic-book illustrator; and Kevin O'Neil, who co-created The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and other heroes.
David also examines the story of the Blake author who vanished under mysterious circumstances.
Britain's iconic sleuth explodes back into action in a new series of adventures beginning on BBC Radio 2 this Friday 31 July at 9.15pm.
Presenter/David Quantick, Producer/David Morley
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Marc Riley takes another dip into the BBC's archives and unearths another seminal interview.
This week's Time Machine travels back to 1973: the year that President Nixon ordered a ceasefire in Vietnam; the Stock Exchange admitted women for the first time; and Princess Anne married Lieutenant Mark Phillips.
It was also the year that BBC Radio 1 broadcast interviews with Pete Townshend in a series called The Story Of Pop. Presented by Alan Freeman, the 26-part show featured a mix of musicians talking about the history of popular music.
At a time when The Who were just about to release Quadrophenia, Marc revisits Townshend's take on the industry, Woodstock, The Kinks and the Mods.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Ian Callaghan
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BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 28 July 2009
BBC PROMS 2009
Prom 16 – City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra's new music director, Andris Nelsons, makes his BBC Proms debut, live, from the Royal Albert Hall, in a programme including Stravinsky's first commission for Diaghelev's Ballets Russes, The Firebird. All 11 of Stravinsky's ballets are celebrated in this year's Proms season.
After his appearance at the First Night Of The Proms, Stephen Hough returns for the second of four Proms appearances to continue his exploration of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concertos with the unfairly neglected No. 2.
And to celebrate the International Year of Astronomy, composer John Casken, celebrating his 60th birthday, transports listeners to the night sky with his evocative Orion Over Farne.
This Prom will be repeated on Monday 3 August at 2pm on BBC Radio 3.
Presenter/Donald McLeod, Producer/Brian Jackson
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Prom 17 – Monteverdi Choir
While Bach's great Passions languished unheard for almost a century after his death, his motets continued to be sung by the Leipzig choirs for which they were written.
Few modern performers know Bach's music as intimately as Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Tonight, live, from the Royal Albert Hall, he conducts the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists as they perform four Bach motets in this late-night prom, including Komm, Jesu, komm! BWV 229 and Esu, meine freude BWV 227.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawney, Producer/Brian Jackson
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Fiona Talkington's late-night music mix includes highlights from last weekend's Womad festival, with performances from Senegal's new singing star, Malick Pathé Sow, and Corsican acapella group A Filetta.
There are also tracks from the new album by Scottish folk singer James Yorkston.
Presenter/Fiona Talkington, Producer/Roger Short
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BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 28 July 2009
With Great Pleasure Ep 1/5
With Great Pleasure gives celebrities the chance to share something unique with the audience – a selection of their favourite pieces of writing.
These treasured snippets may have been gathered at any time in their lives – from childhood to the previous day's reading – and can range from poems to plays and excerpts from novels. Two actors are on hand to bring the pieces to life, and the programme is always recorded in front of an invited audience.
This new series opens with the choices of one of Britain's favourite actresses, Honor Blackman. Drawing on some of the experiences she has had in her life and her work in film, theatre and television, she presents an intriguing selection of pieces which range from poetry to Dorothy Parker and a moving political resignation speech.
Honor Blackman's choices are read by Eleanor David and Nickolas Grace.
Producer/Christine Hall
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During the Sixties and early Seventies, as the war in Vietnam threatened its borders, a new music scene emerged in Cambodia, that took Western rock 'n' roll and turned it on its head.
This music became known as Khmer Rock. However, when Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge arrived, many of the stars of this music scene were rounded up and killed.
Phnom Penh in the Sixties was a creative hotbed; artistic expression of every kind was encouraged. When the Vietnam War broke out, young singers and musicians across the border in Cambodia listened to the music on American Forces Radio and made records inspired by what they heard.
The music came to be known as Khmer Rock and the musicians making it were mostly very poor. Exposed to Western pop for the first time, they swallowed it whole – the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis, The Beach Boys, The Doors, as well as Latin dance beats and folk ballads.
Tracks were recorded, live, in one take and released on cheap cassettes. The music's keynote was abandonment and adventure.
In 1975, after taking over the country, the Khmer Rouge began one of the most brutal genocides in history. As the army closed in on the capital city of Phnom Penh, Cambodian rock 'n' rollers played at rooftop parties while bombs ignited the evening sky.
Musicians, famous and obscure, were rounded up and sent into the killing fields. Some starved to death, some were executed and others died from torture.
In 1979, an American tourist heard cassettes of these classic recordings and brought a selection back in his luggage. This led to a compilation CD, released in 1999, with no information about the singers, which became a minor cult hit on American campuses.
Presenter/Robin Denselow, Producer/Sarah Cuddon
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Three Women In A Motorhome Ep 1/3
Three stories written by Sue Teddern celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Jerome K Jerome. They tell a tale of three very different women, thrown together for a short but eventful trip in a mobile home.
The first story, Pam, is read by Lynda Bellingham. Widowed just two years ago, Pam has, parked in her Worcester driveway, the motor-home that she and her husband, Malcolm, always dreamed of owning and finally bought shortly before his death. Too symbolic to sell and too precious to use, the motor-home – which Pam cannot drive – remains untouched.
Pam's daughter, Kate, badgers her into taking a trip in the motor-home. On their short journey, Pam's illusions of what retirement on the open road would have been like are somewhat shattered. She's grieving, but also handling the demands of a daughter whose concern manifests itself as control.
The second story, Rosemary, is read by Marcia Warren. Pam wants to pop in on Rosemary, Malcolm's elderly Godmother who lives in a care home in Tewkesbury. A chance remark from Rosemary – that she hasn't been out in weeks – prompts Pam and Kate to take her along, even though they hardly know her.
Rosemary is a wise old bird who is a little irascible and really doesn't care too much for convention. She uses her skills as an ex-teacher to win over a young "hoodie" she meets in a launderette and from whom she later tries to score drugs.
In the third story, Kate, read by Rebecca Smart, Kate gives her mother, Pam, an ultimatum. The motor-home cannot sit on the driveway through another winter.
Readers/Lynda Bellingham, Marcia Warren and Rebecca Smart,
Producer/Sarah Langan
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Tuesday 28 July 2009
Twenty20 Cup Cricket
Uninterrupted commentary of the third quarter final of the Twenty20 Cup, Lancashire versus Somerset, comes live from Old Trafford.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 28 July 2009
George Lamb opens the doors of the 6 Music Hub to Aussie indie rockers Temper Trap.
Two years after they released their initial EP in their native Australia, the quartet has recorded its first album with producer Jim Abbiss, who was at the helm for debut albums by both Arctic Monkeys and Adele.
The Melbourne band aim for an atmospheric, captivating sound, created using grand guitars, pulsating rhythms and yearning vocals. Their debut album is due for release in August.
They come in to tell George about all the festival fun they've been having this summer and to play some tunes.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Alicia Brown
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Gideon Coe presents archive concerts from the second incarnation of the Jeff Beck group, recorded, live, at the Paris Theatre in 1972. Plus, the Shins play Brixton Academy in 2004.
The eclectic selection of session tracks come courtesy of Dead Can Dance, Rose Elinor Dougall and Jessy Garron And The Desperados.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Tuesday 28 July 2009
The crowd in Manchester get impatient waiting for Sitaray, in today's visit to Silver Street. There is no sign of singer Bobby and Kuljit realises he will have to cancel. He heads off to tackle the angry fans.
Later, Kuljit and Sway check out the next venue in Sheffield. Sway leaves early but Kuljit gets chatting to an attractive woman who turns out to be a singer. Kuljit tells her that he is a music producer. However, is his interest in her purely professional?
Bobby is played by Kulvinder Ghir, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Sway by Mark Monero, Leela and Crowd Member by Farzana Dua Elahe, Indy by Amerjit Deu, Makhan by Rohit Gokani and Pritam by Bhasker Patel.
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Network Radio BBC Week 30: Wednesday 29 July 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 29 July 2009
Mike Harding's guest this week is singer, songwriter and guitarist Martin Simpson.
Martin Simpson's latest album, True Stories, is a collection of songs – both traditional and originally composed – accompanied by Martin's trademark guitar and banjo style. It features guest appearances from legendary bassist Danny Thompson, pedal steel guitarist BJ Cole and Bellowhead's Jon Boden on fiddle; and is launched at the forthcoming Cambridge Folk Festival. It is the follow up to his 2007 release, Prodigal Son, which earned him the highly coveted Best Album and Best Original Song awards at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards. Martin chats to Mike about the ideas behind some of the songs.
There is also Mike's usual selection of the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music, including the latest album releases and news from the world of folk.
Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While
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Maze's Inspiration is the Album Of The Week, as Trevor Nelson presents another hour of the best soulful music.
Combining a Philadelphia soul sound with a strong appreciation of Marvin Gaye, Maze featuring Frankie Beverly was among the top R&B acts of the late Seventies and Eighties.
The distinctive Maze and their charismatic lead singer, founder, producer and songwriter, Beverly, didn't have many pop hits. However, they were extremely popular among soul and urban contemporary audiences. Inspiration lives up to its title and is generally regarded as Maze's best album.
The band still tour regularly and are booked throughout the summer in the United States.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Dan Cocker
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BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 29 July 2009
BBC PROMS 2009
Prom 18 – Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra returns to the BBC Proms, after its successful 2006 debut, led again by its British-born Principal Conductor, Jonathan Nott.
In this compelling Austro-German programme stretching across two-and-a-half centuries, composers acknowledge their debt to older masters. The UK première of German composer Jörg Widmann's Con brio, a short orchestral showpiece inspired by Beethoven, opens the Prom, live, from the Royal Albert Hall.
The concert ends with Bruckner's Third Symphony, dedicated to Wagner, his revered master. In between, there is a true gem: the third of Mozart's five violin concertos, featuring young, award-wining German soloist Arabella Steinbacher, making her much-anticipated Proms debut.
This Prom is repeated on Tuesday 4 August at 2.15pm on BBC Radio 3.
Presenter/Tom Service, Producer/Brian Jackson
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BBC PROMS 2009
Proms Composer Portrait – Jörg Widmann
Composer and clarinettist Jörg Widmann discusses his new orchestral work, Con brio – a short orchestral showpiece inspired by Beethoven and given its UK première in this evening's BBC Prom.
He also introduces performances of some of his chamber works – the UK première of Air For Horn and Fünf bruchstücke for clarinet and piano, given by musicians from the Royal Academy of Music.
He performs his own work, Fantasie, for clarinet, which was recorded at the Royal College of Music earlier this evening.
Presenter/Tom Service, Producer/Brian Jackson
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Fiona Talkington plays tracks from Karl Seglem's 25th album, Norskjazz.no. She also introduces more highlights from last weekend's Womad Festival 2009, with performances from Malagasy singer-songwriter Nogabe Randriaharimalala; and Belgium's Mec Yek, who blend Eastern European gipsy traditions with Belgian folk.
Presenter/Fiona Talkington, Producer/Roger Short
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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 29 July 2009
When Pearl takes early retirement, she takes her two best friends from work to a day at the races. The day become a roller coaster ride of emotions, changing fortunes and some unexpected revelations in this play by Amanda Whittington, adapted from her original stage production for Hull Truck.
Pearl is taking early retirement from the factory canteen and, to celebrate, she buys three tickets for Cheltenham races.
Pearl, single mum Jan and would-be footballer's wife Shelley, doll themselves up and set off for a day to remember. They buy champagne and place an accumulator bet on the Tote jackpot. The drink flows, secrets spill out, mistakes are made and love blossoms, all in the course of an afternoon.
As the day's events become increasingly fractious, the ladies' horses keep on winning. By the last race, they stand to pocket half a million pounds. However, will their luck and friendship stay the course?
Shelley latches on to a TV racing pundit who she hopes will make her famous. Jan admits to an unspoken passion for the factory foreman. And Pearl reveals that she has been having an illicit affair with a bookie.
Just when their dreams of winning veer off course, a last-minute twist means that, for the first time in their lives, they may become winners after all.
The cast includes Katherine Rogers as Pearl, Lynda Rooke as Jan and Louise Kempton as Shelley. John McAndrew plays Kevin, Robert Gwilym is Jack and Charlie Parkin is the announcer.
Producer/Sara Davies
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The National Theatre Of Brent's Iconic Icons Ep 1/3
The multi award-winning National Theatre Of Brent returns to BBC Radio 4 in the first of an occasional series celebrating the living artists deemed to be iconic icons.
In the first episode artistic director Desmond Oliver Dingle nominates legendary singer, songwriter and artist Bob Dylan.
The programme traces Dylan's path from his humble beginnings as Robert Zimmerman in Hibbin, Minnesota, through to bohemian New York, finding his inner voice and becoming a musical icon.
This new addition to the Brent canon is written by Patrick Barlow, with additional material by John Ramm, and is performed by Patrick and John in front of an audience at the Bush Hall in London.
Producer/Liz Anstee
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Reality Check Ep 1/3
BBC Radio 4’s debate programme that brings those who seek to influence policy together with those at the sharp end of policy decisions returns for a second series. Presented by Justin Rowlatt, from Newsnight and The One Show, Reality Check tackles the issues at the heart of our society. In the new series panellists will tackle universities, food and surveillance.
The series kicks off with the question: “Do we now have too many universities?”. The government set a target of 50 per cent of young people to attend university by the year 2010. It’s now clear that that policy objective will not be reached in time, although getting more people to continue their education at universities, particularly from poorer backgrounds, remains a goal.
However, even that aim has received a setback with the latest figures showing that the proportion of undergraduates from working-class backgrounds attending leading universities has fallen.
Over recent years employers have also complained that many students leave university unprepared for the job market. Other questions have also been raised about the quality of teaching on some courses and the value of degrees in certain subjects. So are we, as taxpayers, getting our money’s worth? And what about students who now have to pay £3,000 tuition fees per year – are they getting value for money?
The panel includes Dr Terence Kealey, vice-chancellor of the UK’s only degree-awarding independent (private) university, the University of Buckingham, who argues that the state should not be involved in higher education; Bob Denham, a third-year student at Bristol University who is leading a protest against tuition fees; Elisabeth Laws-Beatham, who grew up on a council estate and recently finished her degree course in English; Professor Anna Vignoles from the Institute of Education in London, who has also carried out an in-depth study into the value of university degrees; and Sally Hunt, the general secretary of the University and Colleges Union.
All five will be arguing their cases, but which will survive the Reality Check?
Presenter/Justin Rowlatt, Producer/John Murphy
BBC News Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 29 July 2009
Mark Pougatch looks ahead to the start of the third Ashes Test between old foes England and Australia, which begins at Edgbaston tomorrow. There are also regular updates from the domestic Twenty20 cricket quarter final.
At 8pm, 5 Live Golf, with 5 Live's golf correspondent Iain Carter alongside Alistair Bruce-Ball and Jamie Spence, brings listeners all the latest from the sport.
From 9pm, George Riley is joined by journalist Matthew Syed, for The State Of Swimming, 5 Live Sport's regular series examining the health of some of the nation's favourite sports.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and George Riley, Producer/Steve Rudge
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Wednesday 29 July 2009
Twenty20 Cup Cricket
Uninterrupted commentary on the last quarter final of the Twenty20 Cup, Northamptonshire versus Hampshire, comes live from the County Ground, Northampton.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 29 July 2009
Eighties legends a-ha play, live, in the 6 Music Hub. The band garnered worldwide fame and success in 1985 with their hit, Take On Me, which is estimated to have sold between seven and nine million copies.
Instead of breaking up and re-uniting, like other bands of the era, a-ha have continued to work and perform together, resulting in the release of their ninth studio album in June 2009.
The Norweigan pop trio come in for a chat with George and a live performance.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Alicia Brown
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe's archive gems are concert highlights from The Last Shadow Puppets' headline appearance at last year's Liverpool leg of the BBC Electric Proms, recorded, live, at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall.
The programme also includes the Tindersticks, recorded at the Shepherd's Bush Empire in 1997.
Session tracks come from I'm So Hollow, Woodpigeon and Jacob's Mouse.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 29 July 2009
Bobby texts Kuljit to apologise for not turning up at the previous night's gig, in today's visit to Silver Street. Sway wants Kuljit to take action.
But Kuljit has other things on his mind when he sees the attractive singer he met the night before. She reminds him they have yet to "seal the deal".
Later, Bobby is furious about a curt voicemail from Sway. He turns up at the next gig and is obviously drunk. However, he insists that he will sing. Can anyone stop him?
Bobby is played by Kulvinder Ghir, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Sway by Mark Monero, Leela by Farzana Dua Elahe, Indy by Amerjit Deu, Makhan by Rohit Gokani and Pritam by Bhasker Patel.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 29 July 2009
In the Forties and Fifties, the BBC World Service's Caribbean Voices kick started a literary tradition in the Caribbean. The door of the freelancers' room at the Langham Hotel, London, with its ochre walls and pea-green dado, was always wide open and a host of soon-to-be famous names walked through among them VS Naipaul, George Lamming, Sam Selvon and Andrew Salkey.
The second part of this series examines the evolution of writing from Caribbean Voices to the present; and looks at the role of magazines such as Bim, which served as scouts for Caribbean Voices in the Fifties. The programme looks at the relationship between readers and writers in the Caribbean and examines a range of prose from performance poetry in Barbados to the acclaimed screenplay for The Harder They Come.
Graduates of Caribbean Voices have included the Nobel Laureates VS Naipaul and Derek Walcott, but do they have anything to say to modern readers in the region? Are these writers celebrated whilst the books gather dust? Journalist Colin Grant discovers that Caribbean people are more likely to attend a poetry slam than pick up a long poem by Derek Walcott.
Presenter/Colin Grant
BBC World Service Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 30: Thursday 30 July 2009
BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 30 July 2009
Mark Radcliffe presents, live from the 2009 Cambridge Folk Festival, with music from the opening night including Adrian Edmondson And The Bad Shepherds, Pete Molinari and Mumford And Sons, plus festival guests.
This year's festival line up includes Lucinda Williams, The Saw Doctors, Los Lobos, Booker T, The Waterson Family, Eddi Reader, Martin Simpson, Bellowhead, Lau, Cara Dillon and Jim Moray.
The coverage continues with highlights from Mark in Claudia Winkleman's Arts show tomorrow.
Presenter/Mark Radcliffe, Producer/Viv Atkinson
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Irish comic Jason Byrne returns to BBC Radio 2 with the new, six-part, second series of his fast-paced, lively stand-up comedy sketch show.
This second episode, about food, considers how Rice Krispies and caramel illustrate the different relationship that men and women have with food. It also asks: what's the universal signal that means you want to leave a dinner party? And why do other people's food noises leave Jason two steps away from a prison sentence?
The show also stars actors Laurence Howarth and Anna Bengo.
Presenter/Jason Byrne, Producer/Julia McKenzie
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Barbara Orbison is Suzi Quatro's special guest in this week's show.
Barbara talks to Suzi about her late husband, the great Roy Orbison, and chooses the tracks which mean so much to her.
Presenter/Suzi Quatro, Producer/Mark Simpson
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BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 30 July 2009
BBC PROMS 2009
Prom 19 – Hallé
Although Beethoven made the idea of a symphony with a choral finale famous, Mendelssohn trumped him with his Hymn Of Praise in 1840 – its choral finale so overwhelms the three preceding orchestral movements that Mendelssohn called the result a "Symphony-Cantata". Wildly popular with the Victorians, it's not often heard today. The Hallé and its music director Mark Elder revive Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 2 in B flat major, "Lobgesang" to celebrate Mendelssohn's 200th birthday.
Before the Mendelssohn performance, two radical masterpieces by another great Beethoven fan, Hector Berlioz. His Benvenuto Cellini – Overture and La mort de Cléopâtre are heard tonight.
Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham performs with the Hallé conducted by Mark Elder.
This BBC Prom will be repeated on Wednesday 5 August at 2pm, it is also on BBC Four.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Brian Jackson
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Fiona Talkington introduces plainchant from the time of the 12th-century French abbot Bernard de Clairvaux; and more highlights from the Womad Festival, including performances from the French singer-songwriter Hindi Zahra and the Mercury-nominated ensemble the Portico Quartet.
Presenter/Fiona Talkington, Producer/Roger Short
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BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 30 July 2009
Writer Ian Samson traces the relationship between authors and their readers through the changing nature of correspondence between the two.
When Ian was a schoolboy of 15, he wrote to the author and editor of a high-toned literary magazine, asking how he might set up his own magazine. To his utter shock, the author wrote back and Ian realised for the first time that authors might actually respond to letters.
These days, readers have many more ways of communicating with the authors they admire. Interactivity has made it much easier for the reading public to ask, and expect answers to, their questions.
The barriers between an author and his or her readership have been broken down by technology; by the popularity of the literary festival; and by the marketing imperative that makes publishers drive their authors onto the "circuit" of media interviews and personal appearances. Some authors love it; some think of it as a necessary duty; others try to avoid it.
Ian hears from Susan Hill, who has written about the hundreds of emails she gets from GCSE students asking about her book on their syllabus, telling her what they think of it and requesting her to reply by the following day so they can get their essays in on time; Geoff Dyer, who has no website but has received some odd – and sometimes illegal – gifts through the post; Toby Litt; Monica Ali; Linda Grant; and the husband-and-wife team of Nicci Gerrard and Sean French, who write together as Nicci French.
Presenter/Ian Samson, Producer/Sara Davies
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Mediocre novelist Patrick Bradyn decides that his current book – the story of a charming Cambridge-graduate-turned-KGB-spy – will mark his retreat from literary circles, in Christopher William Hill's Afternoon Play offering.
But he is not to know that Hannah Olrod, his French translator, has re-worked the novel into an autobiography, leaving him with a profound moral conundrum.
The eponymous hero of the book is Charles Mabyn, a charming Cambridge graduate turned KGB spy. The character is inspired by Bradyn's own visits to the USSR, where he would occasionally visit Kim Philby in his Moscow apartment, ingratiating himself by arriving with a jar of the former spy's favourite thick-cut Oxford marmalade.
Although Patrick's novels have been unpopular in the UK, he has enjoyed some success in France, thanks to the work of his translator, Hannah Olrod. She has always harboured romantic feelings for Patrick, and is terrified that their professional relationship may now be coming to an end. Convinced that Patrick may reconsider retirement if The Ambivalent Spy is a best seller, she deliberately mistranslates the novel, altering the authorial voice from the third to the first person.
The book becomes a best seller in France and is nominated for the celebrated Prix de Proust. But when attractive Parisian publisher Delphine Barbret becomes romantically involved with Patrick, Hannah fears that her plan may have had the unintentional side effect of driving Patrick into the arms of another woman.
Marmalade for Comrade Philby stars Bill Nighy as Patrick Bradyn, Penelope Wilton as Hannah Olrod and Adrian Scarborough as shady MI5 agent Barlow.
The play is written by the award-winning Christopher William Hill.
Producer/Gordon House
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 30 July 2009
Mark Pougatch reviews the opening day's play of the third Ashes Test between England and Australia from Edgbaston, as well as the day's sports news and updates from the Uefa Europa League third qualifying round, first-leg matches.
At 8pm in the Phil Tufnell Cricket Show, Tuffers is joined by guests from the world of cricket and showbiz to discuss the latest news from the Ashes series.
From 9pm Window Shopping looks at the latest moves and gossip from the transfer market.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and George Riley, Producer/Alex Rice
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Thursday 30 July 2009
Test Match Special
Uninterrupted coverage of the opening day of the third Ashes Test between England and Australia comes, live, from Edgbaston. Commentary is provided by the TMS team, led by Jonathan Agnew.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 30 July 2009
Gideon Coe's final archive choices of the week include two concerts from the Reading Festival: Peter Gabriel in 1979 and That Petrol Emotion in 1990. Session tracks come from Frank Chickens and Scream And Dance.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Listeners have another chance to hear the extraordinary story of the song Louie Louie.
More than 50 years after its release, Steve Van Zandt tells how the song survived the wrath of the FBI to become one of the most performed, recorded and influential tracks of all time.
Recorded by Richard Berry as a b-side in April 1957, there are more than a thousand versions of Louie Louie. However, the impact of this song has been felt far beyond the music business. It scared the American establishment enough to trigger an FBI investigation by J Edgar Hoover's notorious G-Men, and it remains the subject of much heated debate to this day.
Presenter/Steve Van Zandt, Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 30 July 2009
Makhan is convinced the band is finished, but Indy tells him to be more optimistic, as the drama continues. Indy isn't so upbeat when he discovers who he is sharing a room with though.
Elsewhere, singer Leela tells Kuljit that she is impressed with his "management" style.
Later, Sway accuses Kuljit of running around with young girls instead of sorting out his problems with Sitaray. Kuljit takes a swing at Sway. Is this the end of the band and their business partnership?
Makhan is played by Rohit Gokani, Indy by Amerjit Deu, Leela by Farzana Dua Elahe, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal and Sway by Mark Monero.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 30: Friday 31 July 2009
BBC RADIO 1 Friday 31 July 2009
This Summer BBC Radio 1 returns to Ibiza for its legendary weekend, live from the "White Isle" – bringing the party island to the UK.
The weekend kicks off, live from the Ibiza Rocks Hotel, at 7pm on Friday 31 July when Pete Tong and Vernon Kay officially start the weekend with an exclusive performance from Deadmaus; a DJ set from Steve Angello; and a very special Florence And The Machine live acoustic sunset moment.
Taking over the airwaves at 9pm will be Annie Mac with the Mash Up featuring guest mixes from Pendulum and Fake Blood plus an exclusive performance by Miike Snow.
Then at 11pm there will be special sets recorded at Judgement Sunday (26 July) from Judge Jules and Kutski.
The party continues at 1am with The Essential Mix coming live from Wonderland In Eden with exclusive sets from Deadmaus and Luciano.
Rob Da Bank rounds off the night with an A-Z of Ibiza from 4-7am.
The weekend continues on Saturday 1 August from 7-9pm with Trevor Nelson live from Café Mambo Radio Studios.
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BBC RADIO 2 Friday 31 July 2009
Six well-known figures each choose their favourite movie and review it, with the assistance of expert contributors, as The Movie That Changed My Life continues.
Siouxsie Sioux chooses Hitchcock's Psycho. Siouxsie vividly recalls watching it with abject horror, but ultimately it had a profound influence on her ideas about style and music.
She regards Hitchcock as a genius whose strong visual sense is second to none: "He used 70 or more frames for that single 45 seconds in the shower and you feel as though you can remember each one – the way the water spirals down the plug – incredible."
Bernard Herrmann's score for Psycho was a direct source of inspiration for a number of her songs: "Suburban Relapse was made with aggressive strings, discordant, jarring stabs; and Staircase Mystery is a tribute to both Herrmann and Hitchcock."
Contributors to this episode include Alan Parker, Peter Bogdanovich and Paul Morley.
Producers/Kate Bland and Susan Marling
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
There's no place like Friday Night Is Music Night as Lorna Luft and friends celebrate the music of one of the world's best-loved icons, Judy Garland.
Through a career that spanned 45 of her 47 years, Judy Garland attained international stardom as an actress in musical and dramatic roles, as a recording artist and on the concert stage. It's 40 years since Judy Garland died and, in the year that also sees the 70th anniversary of the release of The Wizard Of Oz, who better to lead the celebrations of Judy's life and music than her daughter, Broadway star Lorna Luft.
Joining Lorna on stage are Linzi Hateley, Francis Ruffelle and John Barrowman, plus the 70-piece BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Mike Dixon. Music performed includes Chicago, Zing! Goes The Strings Of My Heart, Stormy Weather, Swanee, Couple Of Swells, The Man That Got Away and Lorna duetting with Judy Garland singing Over The Rainbow.
Lorna Luft And Friends Celebrate The Music Of Judy Garland was recorded at London's Mermaid Theatre at the beginning of July.
Presenter/Lorna Luft, Producer/Jodie Keane
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
The Adventures Of Sexton Blake Ep 1/6
Sexton Blake is a name synonymous with hurtling adventure and doom for villainy. Britain's most prolifically chronicled sleuth explodes back into action in a new series of thrilling adventures: 40 years after his last public incarnation.
In a series packed with incident and hilarity, Sexton Blake (Simon Jones), and his plucky assistant Tinker (Wayne Forester), aided by Mrs Bardell (June Whitfield): battle diabolical masterminds, bewitching thieves and sinister fiends, out-thinking them in the head and out-punching them in the jaw!
This cinematic audio romp is a period-set re-invention of Blake's glory years during the Twenties and Thirties and includes a cameo appearance by BBC Radio's Sixties Sexton Blake – the late, legendary and coolly dashing William Franklyn.
Producer/David Morley
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Claudia Winkleman rounds up the week's arts action and Mark Radcliffe calls in with regular updates on all the music and action from the 2009 Cambridge Folk Festival.
Also in the show Richard O'Brien, creator of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, joins Claudia to celebrate the 1975 musical cult classic; and Leeds band Dakota play live.
Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Carmela DiClemente
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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 31 July 2009
BBC PROMS 2009
Prom 20 – Scottish Chamber Orchestra
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra continue the BBC Proms Stravinsky ballet series with the complete choral version of Pulcinella, the zany Neapolitan comedy in which the composer's reworking of rediscovered 18th-century scores (reputedly by Pergolesi) resulted in the creation of a new – and wholly modern – neo-Classical style.
The bicentenary survey of Mendelssohn's symphonies continues with Symphony No. 5 in D major "Reformation" and the young French-Canadian maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin makes his BBC Proms debut, as does prize-winning American pianist Nicholas Angelich, in Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor.
This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 6 August at 2.15pm.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Brian Jackson
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC RADIO 4 Friday 31 July 2009
After the death of her husband, May struggles to come to terms with her grief but is helped by the most unlikely of allies – the hive of bees her husband kept at the bottom of their garden.
When her husband Ed dies, May goes into a kind of shock: she knows that there are people she should call, a funeral she must arrange; but she can't – she is paralysed. And more worryingly, she cannot carry out Ed's final request – following an old bee-keeping tradition, he wanted May to tell his hive of bees that he has gone – should she fail to do this, the hive could die.
However, telling the bees is more than May can manage or even contemplate. To do this, she must not only acknowledge the reality of his death, but also other long buried fears and anxieties that she would prefer not to remember.
Telling The Bees is a glimpse into the world of a woman who thinks she has lost everything, but who discovers that life must always go on.
Telling The Bees stars Kika Markham and introduces Victoria John, it is written by Rebecca Trick-Walker.
Producer/Sam Hoyle
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The Prospect Ep 1/3
The second series of the political drama The Prospect catches up with MP Bobby Khan and his family, two years after his election.
Bobby has his sights set on a ministerial post but has to settle with a very junior, unpaid post in the cabinet.
Meanwhile he has to deal with a family bombshell. His mother, Elizabeth, had a son adopted when she was 17 years old, and her son – who is caught up in a financial scam in Spain – makes an unexpected appearance, bringing danger to the Khan household.
The cast includes Zubin Varla, Barbara Marten, John McArdle, Nicola Stevenson, Bhasker Patel and Christopher Bisson.
Producer/Pauline Harris
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 31 July 2009
5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch reviews the second day's play of the third Ashes Test between England and Australia from Edgbaston, with Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott.
From 8pm there's live coverage of rugby league's Super League, including matches between St Helen and Wigan Warriors, and Leeds Rhinos versus Warrington Wolves, as well as regular updates from the Athletics Grand Prix in Stockholm.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and George Riley, Producer/Adrian Williams
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Friday 31 July 2009
Test Match Special
Uninterrupted coverage of the second day's play of the third Ashes Test between England and Australia comes, live, from Edgbaston, with commentary from the TMS team led by Jonathan Agnew.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
Rugby League
Listeners can enjoy live, uninterrupted commentary on one of the evening's top games in rugby league's Super League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 31 July 2009
The XX pop in to see Lauren Laverne and play live for her in the 6 Music Hub.
The XX are a London quartet, featuring the dual lead vocals of Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim (who also play lead guitar and bass guitar respectively), Baria Qureshi (keyboards and guitar) and Jamie Smith (beats, MPC sampler).
Bonding over a shared love of dark, emotive Eighties' guitar sounds and the high-end sheen of American R&B, The XX's unique sound comes from a wide range of influences from Aaliyah to Cocorosie; Rhianna to The Cure; Missy Elliott to The Chromatics; and Mariah Carey to The Pixies.
They are currently finishing their debut album while playing a summer of festivals and getting ready to support Florence And The Machine on tour in September.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Ricky Warwick, lead singer and guitarist of Scottish band The Almighty, talks to Bruce Dickinson about his career, his new solo album and his future plans.
The Almighty formed in 1988, melding a punk sound brought from Ricky's previous band New Model Army, over to a metal sound in the interests of keeping with the times. The group have since been on and off the music scene and, after it became more of a side project for Ricky, he teamed up with Def Leppard lead-singer Joe Elliot to record and produce the album Tattoos And Alibis in 2003.
Warwick went on to take a different approach to his music, looking back to his love of artists like Johnny Cash, Bruce Springsteen and Woody Guthrie, and released Love Many Trust Few in 2005 and Love Owes EP in 2007. Belfast Confetti is the third record from his solo career. He has since toured around the UK and is set to announce more dates soon.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Friday 31 July 2009
Bobby talks to Pritam about the recent death of his wife, in the last visit of the week to Silver Street. Bobby then apologises to the Sitaray band members for his behaviour but will they forgive him? And more importantly will the band continue?
Elsewhere Kuljit tells singer Leela that he can't be her music producer. He then heads off to make his peace with Sway after their recent fight. Sway forgives Kuljit but it seems he is less willing to forget...
Bobby is played by Kulvinder Ghir, Pritam by Bhasker Patel, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Leela by Farzana Dua Elahe and Sway by Mark Monero.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
BBC WORLD SERVICE Friday 31 July 2009
Six documentary makers from around the world have produced programmes on the central theme of "islands", each with a very different local perspective.
Hong Kong is made up of more than 260 islands, but today's documentary focuses on Chungking Mansions, a building that stands out like a shabby "island" marooned among the plush hotels of Tsim Sha Tsui, one of the busiest parts of the city.
This infamous Hong Kong tenement building was built as luxury residential flats in the early Sixties, but is now a haven for asylum seekers; commercial travellers from Africa and the developing world; and anyone who needs a cheap place to stay. This documentary reveals a slice of life in Chungking Mansions – an island in Hong Kong's teeming commercial district.
Producers/Sarah Passmore and Kate Howells
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