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Jazz Library – Anthony Braxton
Friday 11 January
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Anthony Braxton, one of the most wide ranging and experimental musicians in contemporary music, defies categorisation – his roots are in the Sixties jazz of the AACM (Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians) in Chicago where he recorded For Alto, an album entirely made up of a solo alto saxophone improvisation.
This is the launch pad for a wide-ranging exploration of the essential Braxton jazz albums by Alyn Shipton and his guest, critic Brian Morton. From tuba ensembles to graphic scores and "ghost trance music", many aspects of the work of this fascinating instrumentalist and composer are examined.
With one of the most sizeable catalogues in jazz, including not only records on which he plays a range of woodwind instruments and piano, but also those on which he performs compositions for singers, orchestras and jazz ensembles of all sizes, Braxton makes the perfect subject to offer guidance to listeners as to suitable starting points.
Brian has written extensively on Braxton's output in the Penguin Guide To Jazz, and both he and Alyn have presented BBC Radio 3 concerts of his music, meaning they can give an informed and critically adept path through this most individual body of work.
Presenter and Producer/Alyn Shipton
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Jazz On 3
Friday 11 January
11.30pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3 |
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Jez Nelson presents a gig by the improvising quartet Mujician, comprising reeds player Paul Dunmall, pianist Keith Tippett, bassist Paul Rogers and drummer Tony Levin. The group are distinguished by their unique approach to wholly-improvised performance in which the music is not discussed or rehearsed in advance.
The group's sixth and most recent album, There's No Going Back Now, released in 2006, features a single 45-minute improvisation demonstrating the level of mutual understanding the group have gained by collaborating regularly for nearly two decades.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Robert Abel
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| BBC RADIO 4 Friday 11 January 2008 |
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Juba FM
Friday 11 January
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4 |
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Juba FM is this afternoon's play, written by John Tuckey, about a young African journalist at a turning point in her life.
Shima Paul is in her early twenties and returns to Juba from exile in Nairobi in late 2004, hoping the pending peace deal will herald a new, independent South Sudan. Shima and her mother fled when she was seven years old, after her father had been killed. At Juba FM, her warmth and sharp sense of humour make her instantly popular. She has a powerful ambition, driven by idealism, to play a full part in creating the new and free country. While she understands the politics intellectually, she is naïve in the realities, and, as a returnee, she is both in and out of Juba society.
In South Sudan, Western journalistic practises are not encouraged as news reports amount to reading out the government's press releases. Shima has her own ideas about finding stories but her methods and reports start to alienate a government minister.
The cast is to be confirmed.
Producer/David Ian Neville
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The News Quiz Ep 1/8
Friday 11 January
6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4 |
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Sandi Toksvig returns with a new series of The News Quiz and takes a sideways look at the week's news, with guests including Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Fred MacAulay, Mark Steel, Armando Iannucci and Carrie Quinlan.
Producer/Katie Tyrrell
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The Monstrous Mother
Friday 11 January
9.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 4 |
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Cathy is 12 years old and on the cusp of puberty, which she is far from happy about. In fact, Cathy is not happy about a lot of things. There's her step-mother, Virginia, for a start, a woman she loathes because she is not her real mother. Her real mother, Philippa, who is also Virginia's sister, disappeared six years ago. Cathy has always believed that she was abducted by a psychopath, but this is an idea largely fuelled by her feckless father, Frank, and his love of horror films – which he has shared with his impressionable, intelligent daughter.
Virginia and Frank are trying to make a go of things, and Frank is trying to write a thesis – on horror films – that will secure him tenure at the college where he teaches. Virginia, meanwhile, is trying to cope with Cathy's increasingly tempestuous behaviour, the rather useless Frank and their new baby, Nathan – Cathy's half-brother. And that's another thing Cathy isn't happy about. She wants to remain Frank's only child, to maintain the bond they have together, with no outside interference.
It's already a pretty turbulent household – one that provides plenty of fertile material for Cathy's horror-obsessed imagination. Then Philippa makes a totally unexpected
re-appearance, and things take a horrifying turn.
The Monstrous Mother is written by Mike Harris and features a cast including Jemma McKenzie-Brown, Ben Crowe, Alison Pettitt, Amanda Lawrence, Georgia Russell, Jessica Dunn and Jordan Clarke.
Producer/Marc Beeby
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