Tuesday 29 May 2012
Programme Information
Network Radio BBC Week 4
Highlights 24-30 January 2009
Origin of the species...
DARWIN SEASON
Darwin – My Ancestor
Tuesday 27 January on BBC RADIO 4
Writer Ruth Padel, Charles Darwin's great-great-granddaughter, embarks on a quest to explore aspects of her ancestor's genius
Bruce Springsteen On Songwriting
Saturday 24 January on BBC RADIO 2
The legendary Bruce Springsteen shares his views in an interview from his New Jersey home
Opera On 3 – Live From The Met: Orfeo Ed Euridice
Saturday 24 January on BBC RADIO 3
James Levine conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera with mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe as Orfeo and sopranos Danielle de Niese and Heidi Grant Murphy as Euridice and Amor
Burns The Brand
Saturday 24 January on BBC RADIO 4
Presenter Fred MacAulay estimates the monetary value of famed poet Robert Burns
My Dark Places
Saturday 24 January on BBC WORLD SERVICE
Renowned crime-writer James Ellroy's exploration of his mother's real-life murder is dramatised for radio by Steve Chambers and stars Toby Stephens
Creating Burns's Reputation
Sunday 25 January on BBC RADIO 3
Burns scholar Professor Robert Crawford investigates how the Scottish Bard crafted his own reputation
Private Passions – Tariq Ali
Sunday 25 January on BBC RADIO 3
Michael Berkeley's guest is Pakistani-born writer and film-maker Tariq Ali
Desert Island Discs
Sunday 25 January on BBC RADIO 4
Kirsty Young's guest this week is prolific novelist Alan Sillitoe
Afternoon Play – McLevy
Tuesday 27 January on BBC RADIO 4
Brian Cox returns to solve more crimes as Victorian detective James McLevy
In Tune – Live From Hoddinott Hall
Friday 30 January on BBC RADIO 3
Sean Rafferty presents this special edition of In Tune from BBC Hoddinott Hall, the brand new, purpose-built home of the BBC National Orchestra and Chorus of Wales at the Wales Milennium Centre in Cardiff Bay
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