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| BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 24 April 2008 |
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Thursday 24 April
11.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Dylan's weekly instalment of his Theme Time Radio Hour continues with the subject of Rich Man Poor Man.
Bob's diverse selection of tunes includes Tony Bennett's Rags To Riches, On The Nickel by Tom Waits, Freddie King's The Welfare Turns Its Back On You and Rich Woman by Little Millette and His Creoles.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/Phil Hughes
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| BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 24 April 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Vivaldi Ep 4/5
Thursday 24 April
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Donald Macleod continues to showcase Antonio Vivaldi as the Composer Of The Week.
He explores Vivaldi's friendship with German violinist Johann Georg Pisendel, and discovers why so much of the Italian composer's music eventually came to light in a library in Dresden. Music includes Vivaldi's Nisi Dominus of 1738, which was rediscovered only five years ago.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Barstow
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Performance On 3
Thursday 24 April
7.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 3
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"It's good! Awfully emotional, too emotional, but I love it." So said Sir Edward Elgar, rightly, about his own Violin Concerto, considered by many to be one of his finest and most demanding works. In this concert, given by the New York Philharmonic in the city's Avery Fisher Hall with conductor Michael Christie last month, the soloist is the celebrated Israeli-born violinist Pinchas Zukerman, who describes the Concerto as being as English as strawberries and clotted cream.
It's a work he loves, despite the challenges: "It lies well on the violin. Elgar was a fiddle player, you know; he knew how to write. And he had help from Fritz Kreisler along the way and you don't get better than that."
The other work on the programme is Copland's Third Symphony which Serge Koussevitzky, who conducted the première in 1946, declared as being "...the greatest American symphony. It goes from the heart to the heart." In it, Copland quotes one of his most famous pieces, Fanfare For The Common Man, as a preamble to the fourth movement.
Presenter/Tom Service, Producer/Brian Jackson
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| BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 24 April 2008 |
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Nigel Balchin – The Small Back Room Boy
Thursday 24 April
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Nigel Balchin – The Small Back Room Boy re-evaluates the life and career of the writer and scientist.
In the Thirties, Balchin had been recruited from the Institute of Industrial Psychology to work for Rowntrees of York. He came up with the concept of the Black Magic box, the brand name Kit Kat and he also invented bubble-filled chocolate known to millions as Aero.
He began contributing to Punch magazine and published his first novels, No Sky, Simple Life and Lightbody And Liberty.
His most famous book, The Small Back Room, concerned the work of a military scientist in the Second World War, whose specialised knowledge of enemy booby-trapped bombs comes into conflict with Government petty bureaucracy and alcoholism. However, few people realised that Balchin was a real-life scientist who had been employed as one of the first industrial psychologists.
At the outbreak of war he was recruited as a scientific advisor by the War Office, where he rose to the rank of Brigadier General. Here, he experienced the bureaucracy that fed into his Back Room novel which marked the beginning of his success as a writer.
Producer/Bob Dickinson
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Fifteen Ways To Leave Your Lover
Thursday 24 April
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Samantha and Rob are one of those couples who can't live with, or without, each other, in this new comedy for BBC Radio 4.
They have been together, and apart, since they first met at a school disco. Every time they break up they say it will be the last time, but it never is.
Over the course of their relationship they have 15 major and minor break-ups, which form the scenes of the play. As they age and their lives change, the nature of each break-up is different: the first one being a teenage spat on the night they meet and the final one a quiet, defeated admission that they simply can't live together any more.
They get married, nearly divorce and start over again. They produce two children who alternately break them up and keep them together as they struggle to cope with the demands of parenthood. Samantha changes from a wide-eyed virgin with aspirations to travel the world into a disillusioned career woman, while Rob transforms from a naïve cricket fan who dreams of bowling for England into a grumpy, middle-aged, bald bloke.
Even during their final break-up there is a glimmer of hope when a memory of that first night decades ago reminds them how far they have come together; perhaps it's not the end after all.
Starring Alex Kelly and Nick Fletcher, Fifteen Ways To Leave Your Lover is written by Carolyn Scott-Jeffers.
Producer/Peter Leslie Wild
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 24 April 2008 |
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Nemone
Thursday 24 April
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Belgian brothers David and Stephen Dewaele, who make up Soulwax, join Nemone to talk about their upcoming performance at the Ether Festival of art and technology where they will take over the spaces and foyers of the Royal Festival Hall for a one-night party.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Thursday 24 April
10.00pm-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe plays an amazing mix of live music, including concert highlights from Streets, David Bowie and Secret Affair, and session tracks from Explosions In The Sky recorded in 2002.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 24 April 2008 |
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Katie is getting ready for her big day in this afternoon's visit to Silver Street. Fatima has painted Katie's hands with henna and Simran gives her some jewellery to pin into her hair.
Elsewhere, Roopa tells Siobhan about the argument with her parents, but is left surprised by Siobhan's reaction.
Meanwhile, Katie's wedding car arrives but there is a slight hitch with the driver. Katie panics as the wedding is due to start in 15 minutes. Can Fatima save the day?
Katie is played by Alison Carney, Fatima by Gia Avan, Simran by Balvinder Sopal, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar and Siobhan by Toyah Willcox.
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Thursday 24 April 2008 |
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One Planet – Documentary Bursary Scheme:
Recycling In Mumbai
Thursday 24 April
10.30-11.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE |
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Hindi Service presenter Shivani Sharma asks whether Mumbai's notorious Dharavi slum deserves its reputation as a model for global recycling.
More than 80 per cent of Mumbai's plastic waste is recycled in Dharavi. However, plans are afoot to replace the slum with a mixture of high-rise buildings, shopping malls and small workshops. Shivani Sharma looks at the politics behind the decision and at the lives and livelihoods of the people who live there.
BBC World Service's annual Documentary Bursary Scheme is a chance for staff from the BBC's non-English language services to make programmes in English for broadcast on the English network. This year's series is on the theme of the environment.
Presenter/Shivani Sharma, Producer/Julian Siddle
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