Tuesday 29 May 2012
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Network Radio BBC Week 42
Highlights 17-23 October 2009
BBC ELECTRIC PROMS
From Tuesday 20 October on BBC RADIO 1, BBC 1XTRA, BBC RADIO 2, BBC 6 MUSIC and BBC TWO
Robbie Williams opens this year's BBC Electric Proms with his first live UK performance since 2006; other highlights include performances by Dizzee Rascal, Dame Shirley Bassey, Doves, Magazine and Metronomy
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DIWALI ON BBC ASIAN NETWORK
Saturday 17 October on BBC ASIAN NETWORK
BBC Asian Network celebrates the festivities of Diwali throughout the day with celebrities, live music and a Diwali Diary by Adil Ray
Private Passions – Ian Rankin
Sunday 18 October on BBC RADIO 3
Award-winning Scottish crime writer Ian Rankin shares his musical Private Passions
Drama On 3 – The Threepenny Opera
Sunday 18 October on BBC RADIO 3
HK Gruber conducts the BBC Philharmonic in a new production of the Brecht/Weill masterpiece, recorded specially for radio, starring Zubin Varla and featuring the Manchester Chamber Choir
Classic Serial – Howards End
Sunday 18 October on BBC RADIO 4
John Hurt narrates this two-part adaptation of EM Forster's classic
Benny Goodman – King Of Swing
Monday 19 October on BBC RADIO 2
American singer/songwriter and musician Curtis Stigers celebrates the centenary of clarinet virtuoso and band-leader Benny Goodman
1929 – Crash, Bang, Wallop
Tuesday 20 October on BBC RADIO 2
Kirsty Wark explores the remarkable artistic response to the Great Depression
Gormley On Epstein
Tuesday 20 October on BBC RADIO 4
One of Britain's leading artists, Antony Gormley, pays tribute to the sculptor Jacob Epstein on the 50th anniversary of his death
Radio 2 Live – Michael Bublé
Wednesday 21 October on BBC RADIO 2
The Canadian singer-songwriter and Grammy Award winner performs a special concert with his Big Band for BBC Radio 2
OCTOBERFEST
From Thursday 22 October on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
Three days of special programmes broadcast live from Hull, in front of local audiences with free off-air activities, comprise BBC Radio 5 Live's Octoberfest
FREE THINKING 2009
Night Waves Special – The Free Thinking Lecture
Friday 23 October on BBC RADIO 3
Launching BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking festival of ideas, Professor Tanya Byron delivers the opening lecture on this year's festival's main theme: the 21st-century family
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