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BBC Radio 1's Annie Mac

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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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

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Daughter of Judy Garland and singer in her own right, Lorna Luft

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

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The Adventures Of Sexton Blake Ep 1/6

Friday 31 July

9.15-9.30pm BBC RADIO 2

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

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Claudia Winkleman

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 PROMS 2009
Prom 20 – Scottish Chamber Orchestra

Friday 31 July

7.30-9.45pm BBC RADIO 3

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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

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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

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The Prospect Ep 1/3

Friday 31 July

9.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 4

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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5 Live Sport

Friday 31 July

7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch reflects on the Ashes

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

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Test Match Special

Friday 31 July

10.45am-6.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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

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Rugby League

Friday 31 July

7.55pm-9.45pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can enjoy live, uninterrupted commentary on one of the evening's top games in rugby league's Super League.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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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

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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

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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.

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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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