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Tuesday 29 May 2012

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Network Radio BBC Week 28
Highlights 9-15 July 2011

Richard E Grant and Sally Hawkins star in the Saturday Play

Saturday Play – The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Revolution

Saturday 9 July on BBC RADIO 4

Comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls present a play about the French Revolution starring Richard E Grant as Robespierre and Sally Hawkins as Marie Antoinette's daughter

5 Live Formula 1 – 2011: British Grand Prix

Sunday 10 July on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

David Croft presents live Formula 1 commentary of the British Grand Prix from Silverstone

Joanna Lumley On Broadway

Monday 11 July on BBC RADIO 2

Recent Broadway star and Tony Award-nominee, Joanna Lumley, makes her BBC Radio 2 presenting debut by taking a historical, theatrical and musical journey down New York's iconic Broadway

Sacred Sites

Monday 11 to Friday 15 July on BBC RADIO 3

Lopa Kothari explores the power of the voice in different kinds of religious worship

BBC Radio 2 In Concert

Thursday 14 July on BBC RADIO 2

British soul sensation Beverley Knight performs live from the BBC's Radio Theatre in London

David Rodigan

Thursday 14 July on BBC RADIO 2

David Rodigan showcases his love for all types of reggae music, roots, ska and rocksteady, from the Sixties to the present day, in this new 10-part series

Inside The Ethics Committee

Thursday 14 July on BBC RADIO 4

Joan Bakewell and the panel return for a new series and consider how to make medical decisions for an unconscious woman who is pregnant

Open Golf

Thursday 14 July on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

John Inverdale hosts live golf coverage of the first round of the Open Championship from Royal St George's in Kent

Friday Night Is Music Night

Friday 15 July on BBC RADIO 2

The cast of new musical Shrek – Nigel Lindsay, Richard Blackwood, Nigel Harman and Amanda Holden – are live from London's Hackney Empire, joined by the 70-piece BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Richard Balcombe

BBC PROMS 2011
Prom 1

Friday 15 July on BBC RADIO 3

New British music, Brahms, Liszt and lavish choral works are some of the musical threads that trace their way through the 117th season of the BBC Proms, all of which are represented in this opening concert, live from the Royal Albert Hall in London

Scheduling information in Network Radio Programme Information is subject to change.

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