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Tuesday 29 May 2012

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Network Radio BBC Week 11
Highlights 13-19 March 2010

American blues rock guitarist and singer Joe Bonamassa

Paul Jones Presents Joe Bonamassa

Monday 15 March on BBC RADIO 2

Listeners can enjoy highlights from a specially recorded gig for BBC Radio 2 with American blues-rock guitarist and singer Joe Bonamassa

Ali – When Cassius Met The Beatles

Saturday 13 March on BBC RADIO 4

John Wilson reports from Miami on the background to a unique encounter between 20th-century legends The Beatles and Cassius Clay, the boxer who became Muhammad Ali

5 Live Sport

Saturday 13 March on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

An afternoon of Six Nations action includes the battle between Scotland and England, live from Murrayfield

Private Passions – Lee Hall

Sunday 14 March on BBC RADIO 3

Playwright Lee Hall, best known for the hit film and musical Billy Elliot, shares his musical choices with Michael Berkeley

The Classic Serial – Clarissa: The History Of A Young Lady

Sunday 14 March on BBC RADIO 4

Richard Armitage plays the rake Robert Lovelace in Hattie Naylor's dramatisation of Samuel Richardson's novel, also featuring Zoe Waites, Alison Steadman, Deborah Findlay, Miriam Margolyes and Julian Rhind-Tutt

Scott Mills

Monday 15 March on BBC RADIO 1

Scott Mills is set to undertake the challenge of a lifetime when he embarks on a week of "miles from hell", a series of surprise, grim missions, all in aid of Sport Relief

Behind The Brel – The Story Of A Musical Genius

Tuesday 16 March on BBC RADIO 2

Marc Almond celebrates Jacques Brel, one of the great songwriters of the 20th century

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Tuesday 16 March on BBC RADIO 4

In this new comedy the Showstopper! team create an improvised musical on the spot – taking inspiration from the live studio audience's suggestions

5 Live At Cheltenham

Tuesday 16 March on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

John Inverdale presents live coverage of the opening day of the biggest week in the National Hunt calendar, Cheltenham Festival 2010

Performance On 3

Wednesday 17 March on BBC RADIO 3

John Adams conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in the European première of his City Noir, the concert also features music by Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky

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