Wednesday 23 Dec 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
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
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
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
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
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
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
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
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
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