Tuesday 29 May 2012
Programme Information
Network Radio BBC Week 3
Highlights 16-22 January 2010
A History Of The World In 100 Objects
Monday 18 January on BBC RADIO 4
In this major new 100-part series, which continues through 2010, Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum, presents the story of humanity's two-million year journey through the things it made and left behind, with contributors including Sir David Attenborough, Amartya Sen, Ahdaf Soueif, Michael Palin, Wangari Maathai, The Archbishop Of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams and Sir James Dyson
The Man Machine –
Kraftwerk, Krautrock And The German Electronic Revolution
Saturday 16 January on BBC RADIO 2
Jarvis Cocker presents the story of one of popular music's most influential groups
Opera On 3 Live From The Met – Carmen
Saturday 16 January on BBC RADIO 3
Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Elina Garanca and Roberto Alagna in Bizet's classic love story, broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York
Drama On 3 – Season Of Migration To The North
Sunday 17 January on BBC RADIO 3
Tayeb Salih's wry and sensual masterpiece is dramatised by Philip Palmer and stars Beru Tessema and Zubin Varla
Ruthless And Brilliant
Sunday 17 January on BBC RADIO 4
Following her own experiences of a mastectomy, Jenni Murray asks what it takes to wield the knife and speaks to the doctors whose work may save lives, but also fundamentally changes them
Performance On 3
Monday 18 January on BBC RADIO 3
Oliver Knussen conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in music by Hans Werner Henze, in a concert recorded at the Barbican Hall, London
The De-Railing Of Transport 2010
Monday 18 January on BBC RADIO 4
Chris Ledgard investigates what happened to the 10-year transport plan published in July 2000, which offered a magic solution to traffic problems
David Puttnam's Century Of Cinema
Tuesday 19 January on BBC RADIO 2
British film producer David Puttnam and broadcaster and author Brian Sibley look at 100 years of cinema
The House That Chekhov Built
Tuesday 19 January on BBC RADIO 4
Actor Michael Pennington journeys to Yalta, Ukraine, where the campaign to save playwright Anton Chekhov's derelict former home is under way, to tie in with the 150th anniversary of his birth
Tennis
Tuesday 19 January on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary of the night session at the Australian Open, live from Melbourne Park
Night Waves
Friday 22 January on BBC RADIO 3
Rana Mitter hosts a debate about the Enlightenment and the place of faith in our global society
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