Tuesday 29 May 2012
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Network Radio BBC Week 35
Highlights 29 August-4 September 2009
BBC Radio 2 Live In Blackpool –
Radio 2 Live At The Lights
Friday 4 September on BBC RADIO 2
BBC Radio 2 celebrates the launch of the 2009 Blackpool Illuminations with a live concert starring JLS, Madness, Tony Christie, Paloma Faith and Pixie Lott
BBC PROMS 2009
New Generation Artists Celebration Weekend
Saturday 29 August on BBC RADIO 3
This year the BBC Proms mark the 10th anniversary of BBC Radio 3's New Generation Artists scheme with a three-day, 12-concert weekend at London's Cadogan Hall
Adam & Joe
Saturday 29 August on BBC 6 MUSIC
The comedic kings return to the Big British Castle with their own brand of Sony Award-winning witty ramblings
Ace & Vis – Live From The Notting Hill Carnival
Bank Holiday Monday 31 August on BBC 1XTRA
BBC 1Xtra broadcasts an exciting schedule of special programmes and highlights from the Notting Hill and Leeds Carnivals
Twenty Minutes – The Annual General Boiled Egg Panic
Bank Holiday Monday 31 August on BBC RADIO 3
A BBC Radio 3-commissioned memoir from Alexei Sayle, who remembers the bank holidays of his youth
The Essay – Secret Places In Four Quartets
Bank Holiday Monday 31 August to Thursday 3 September on BBC RADIO 3
Poet and critic Craig Raine investigates the connection between the places which inspired TS Eliot's Four Quartets
Tracing Your Roots
Bank Holiday Monday 31 August on BBC RADIO 4
A programme looking at wartime losses, marking the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War
Operation Pied Piper
Tuesday 1 September on BBC RADIO 2
This docu-drama about Operation Pied Piper – the secret code name given to the mass evacuation of more than three million children during the Second World War – features testimonies from evacuees
Twice Ken Is Plenty – The Lost Script Of Kenneth Williams
Tuesday 1 September on BBC RADIO 4
Listeners can enjoy a recently unearthed and never-before-performed script found among the possessions of Kenneth Williams, written in 1966 by Kenneth Horne and Mollie Millest
World Stories – Muslims Fighting For Israel
Friday 4 September on BBC WORLD SERVICE
Rachid Sekkai talks to Muslims currently serving in the Israeli Defence Force and hears about the conflicts they face, at home and on duty
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