Friday 25 Dec 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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