Saturday 19 Dec 2009
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Network Radio BBC Week 31: Sunday 2 August 2009
BBC RADIO 1 Sunday 2 August 2009
BBC Switch Road Trip, a week of teen-focused fun from around the UK, is launched today. From Monday 3 to Friday 7 August, DJs Annie Mac, Nick Grimshaw and Aled Haydn-Jones travel around the UK, appearing at some great under-18s' club nights and meeting UK youngsters. The team also gains exclusive access to some favourite teen artists and goes behind the scenes at one of the country's best-loved TV soaps.
Tonight's show brings all the news from the Underage Festival in London's Victoria Park and rising UK star Tinchy Stryder, who performed at the festival earlier in the day, pops into the studio for a chat.
Throughout the week there will be live inserts in Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show (Monday-Friday, 10am-12.45pm) and Nick Grimshaw's evening show (Monday-Thursday, 10pm-12midnight) also features news from the trip.
Presenters/Annie Mac and Nick Grimshaw, Producer/Megan Carver
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BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 2 August 2009
This week, Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to jazz singer-songwriter Melody Gardot and Rabbi Pete Tobias.
Melody's second studio album was released earlier this year to critical acclaim, but she only started singing seriously following an accident, when she received music therapy to aid her recovery.
Rabbi Pete Tobias discusses the week's news from a faith and ethics perspective and gives the Moment Of Reflection.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Elaine Paige talks to Patina Miller in this week's programme.
Patina, the American star of the new West End production of Sister Act, talks to Elaine about her Essential Musicals, which include Sunday In The Park With George, Hair and Spring Awakening.
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Brian D'Arcy explores the impact of change and transformation in people's lives – and the world around them – through well-loved hymns and reflections.
This week's featured choir is the Leeds Methodist Choir, directed by Paul Dewhurst. The organist is Thomas Leach and hymns include O Love Divine How Sweet Thou Art and Tis Good Lord To Be Here.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 2 August 2009
BBC PROMS 2009
Prom 23 – Evolution
Sarah Walker introduces a Darwin-inspired, Evolution-themed BBC Proms extravaganza for children and families celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth. The Prom includes a world première from drum-and-bass DJ-turned-classical-composer Goldie.
CBBC presenters Gemma Hunt and Barney Harwood host this family Prom inspired by the natural world, with special guest Sir David Attenborough. Mankind is represented in Copland's iconic Fanfare; and the concert ends in a galaxy far, far away with John Williams's unforgettable music for Star Wars.
DJ and drum and bass producer Goldie renews his acquaintance with the BBC Concert Orchestra after last year's conducting competition, Maestro, on BBC Two. This time, however, he's trying his hand as a composer. His Darwin-inspired BBC commission, Sine tempore, is his first work for classical orchestra.
Goldie's musical journey can be followed in Classic Goldie, a two-part series which is on BBC Two on Friday 31 July at 9pm, and Friday 7 August at 9pm.
Presenter/Sarah Walker, Producer/Neil Varley
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
In Darwin's day, before the roar of traffic filled the streets of London, one might just have heard the roar of jungle animals. From medieval times, the city has been home to exotic captive creatures from around the world. Many were presented to Kings and Queens as symbols of Royal power. Others were tortured and killed for the entertainment of a blood-thirsty public.
Richard Foster takes a walk on the wild side and discovers lions in the Tower, an elephant with toothache in The Strand and a camel dancing on London Bridge.
Presenter/Richard Foster, Producer/David Gallagher
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Lucie Skeaping presents a concert of organ music recorded at Stift Zwettl Abbey in Lower Austria. Ton Koopman performs solo works by JS Bach and Spanish composer Pablo Bruna, as well as two concertos by Handel and Haydn, with the orchestral accompaniment provided by Koopman's own ensemble – Amsterdam Baroque.
Stift Zwettl Abbey is part of a sprawling Medieval Cistercian monastery that nestles in the bend of the River Kamp. Over the centuries it has been plundered and rebuilt many times, and it now houses a huge collection of manuscripts and artefacts looked after by the 23 or so monks who live there, and who still manage the surrounding agricultural land, fish farm and vineyards. Each summer, they play host to an annual organ festival, which was the occasion for this recording.
In the second part of the programme, Catherine Bott presents the second of her four features from the Young Artists' Showcase at the 2009 York Early Music Festival.
Presenters/Lucie Skeaping and Catherine Bott, Producer/Les Pratt
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BBC PROMS 2009
Prom 24 – BBC Symphony Orchestra
Berlioz's spectacular and gargantuan Te Deum sees conductor Susanna Mälkki marshalling vast massed choirs of adults and children, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and organist Simon Preston. At its 1855 Paris première, the work involved almost 1,000 performers. The concert, which is broadcast live from London's Royal Albert Hall, also includes a world première BBC commission, From Trumpet, by young Paris-based British composer Ben Foskett. This is followed by Beethoven's Fourth Symphony.
This Prom is repeated on Friday 7 August at 2.15pm.
Presenter/Penny Gore, Producer/Ann McKay
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
As part of the Proms Literary festival's Victorian season, former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion introduces a personal choice of poems by another Poet Laureate, Alfred Lord Tennyson. Actress Fiona Shaw performs Andrew's choices, including excerpts from In Memoriam and The Lady Of Shallot, in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music.
Two hundred years after Tennyson's birth in 1809, Andrew Motion talks to Matthew Sweet about the poet being much stranger than originally thought. He was a troubled figure, rhapsodic in his poetry, both antiquated and modern. In his life he was touched by great joy and tragedy, yet he was always willing to grasp the great issues of the Victorian age; history, faith and evolution.
Presenter/Andrew Motion, Producer/James Cook
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Two hundred years after the birth of Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet Ruth Padel investigates who he really was and explores the way in which his legacy is felt today, especially in music, poetry and fiction. In conversation with figures as diverse as poet and former Laureate Andrew Motion; novelists Andrew O'Hagan and Adam Foulds; poet Jo Shapcott; rock musician Dani Filth; and academics Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and Angela Leighton, she hears how the figure of Tennyson has been an inspiration to them.
To many people today, Tennyson is an iconic image of the Victorian era. He is known as Queen Victorian's Poet Laureate – an imposing figure with a beard and cape and the author of long poems, often based on myths and legends. But this image hides other facets of Tennyson and obscures the fact that many creative artists today are drawing on his work.
Ruth investigates the real Tennyson behind the image of grandeur – a man whose family members were prone to breakdowns, alcoholism and madness. And she hears how these concerns led to Tennyson's ability to articulate neurosis and loss in his work even though, as Poet Laureate, he became an establishment figure.
Presenter/Ruth Padel, Producer/Emma Kingsley
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BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 2 August 2009
This week's castaway is interior designer Nicky Haslam.
Nicky speaks to presenter Kirsty Young about his life and his favourite music and also describes how he thinks he would cope on BBC Radio 4's mythical island.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
In Scotland's first Homecoming Year, Sally Magnusson discovers why Scottish genealogy records are some of the best in the world.
Genealogist Nick Barratt unearths misty ancestral tales and clan history queries in a special edition of Tracing Your Roots, recorded at the Strathclyde University International Genealogy Festival in Glasgow.
Presenter/Nick Barratt, Producer/Claire White
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Ruth Ep 1/3
Orphaned just before her 16th birthday, Ruth Hilton is apprenticed by her guardian to the tyrannical Mrs Mason – dressmaker to the gentry – in director Ellen Dryden's adaptation of Mrs Gaskell's controversial novel.
The work is hard and unrelenting. Although Ruth's sewing leaves much to be desired, her striking beauty, modesty and grace prove very useful to her employer.
She is sent to the Grand Ball at the Shire Hall to wait in the ante-chamber to the ballroom, with her sewing kit, ready to do any running repairs to the ladies' dresses. At the ball, Ruth attracts the attention of Mr Bellingham, a handsome, bored, young gentleman with an eye for beauty.
She encounters him again when out on an errand for Mrs Mason, when he dashingly saves a boy from drowning. He recognises Ruth, who had tried, unsuccessfully, to help the boy, and asks her to meet him after church to report on the boy's progress. These Sunday meetings become a regular feature. Mrs Mason always escapes from the workroom on Sundays, leaving the apprentices to make their own arrangements. Ruth, with no family to go to, spends wretched Sundays with little or no food and no fire, even in the depths of winter. Her trysts with Bellingham become the exciting highlight of her week.
Disaster strikes, though, when Mrs Mason sees them together. She dismisses Ruth on the spot and orders her never to come near her establishment again. Bellingham declares his love for Ruth and she shyly admits that she loves him. But she wonders if their love will survive...
Ruth was Mrs Gaskell's second novel and it outraged the public. The cast features Laura Rees as Ruth, Anton Lesser as Benson, Anne Reid as his sister, Faith, Marcia Warren as Sally, Rory Kinnear as Bellingham, David Schofield as Mr Bradshaw and Amy Ewbank as his daughter, Jemima.
Producer/Richard Blake
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet Sean O'Brien explores Ulysses, one of his greatest and best-loved poems, from the singular story of its tragic origins to its many meanings for readers today.
Tennyson's much-loved and frequently anthologised poem has always been a favourite of award-winning poet Sean but he has never fully analysed why.
The poem starts with the Greek hero on the shores of Ithaca, justifying his reasons for leaving his faithful wife, Penelope, once more, to set off and travel again. It ends with the famously rousing lines: "To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield."
Sean sets out to learn more about the poem and its enduring appeal. He hears from Homer scholar Oliver Taplin and Dante scholar Martin McLaughlin about Tennyson's sources for the poem and its surprisingly ambiguous hero, and then learns from Victorian experts Seamus Perry, Robert Douglas Fairhurst and Linda Hughes, about the tragedy in Tennyson's young life that led him to write this poem about an old man, when he was just 24.
This is a poem about bereavement and death but, as poet Vicki Feaver explains, it is also about the personal struggle in everyone between comfort and adventure, between the familiar and the unknown, between accepting life as it is and striving ever onward.
Producer/Beaty Rubens
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 2 August 2009
5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch is at Edgbaston in Birmingham, with live coverage of the fourth day of the third Ashes Test between England and Australia. Alongside Mark, providing expert analysis, are Pat Murphy, Jason Gillespie and Dominic Cork.
There's also regular rugby league updates from Bradford Bulls versus Harlequins and Castleford Tigers versus Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League.
From 6pm there's live coverage of the final day of the World Swimming Championships in Rome, with Bob Ballard, Steve Parry and Karen Pickering.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Graham McMillan
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Sunday 2 August 2009
Test Match Special
Uninterrupted coverage of the fourth day's play of the third Ashes Test between England and Australia comes live from Edgbaston, Birmingham, with commentary from the Test Match Special team, led by Jonathan Agnew.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 2 August 2009
Madness singer and Muswell Hill's favourite son Suggs takes over the Month Of Sundays on BBC 6 Music during August. He makes a welcome return to the station as a DJ, having been part of the launch line-up in 2002, playing listeners his favourite tunes and those that have influenced his hugely successful career as a musician.
Suggs and Madness recently performed for 6 Music on an open top bus as part of the Camden Crawl.
Presenter/Suggs, Producer/James Stirling
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Listeners can enjoy Fairport Convention's original vocalist Judy Dyble in conversation with Stuart Maconie on the Freak Zone tonight.
They discuss Judy's career, from the original incarnation of Fairport Convention through to cult acid-folk outfit Trader Horne, via the quirky pre-King Crimson band Giles, Giles And Fripp, on the eve of the release of her new solo album, Talking With Strangers.
Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Producer/Henry Lopez-Real
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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