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The
Zane Lowe Show With Dizzee Rascal
Monday 7 to Thursday 10 January
7.00-9.00pm BBC RADIO 1
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Zane Lowe is on holiday and BBC Radio 1 has invited a whole host of today's hottest bands and artists, from Dizzee Rascal to Radiohead, to come in to the studio over the next two weeks to keep his seat warm and entertain listeners in their own unique style.
Tonight, Dizzee starts proceedings and takes his turn on the mic with his able assistant, Radio 1 DJ Annie Mac. Born Dylan Mills in London's East End, Dizzee turned to music instead of crime and came up with a blend of speedy rap, grime and ragga all his own. His breakthrough album, Boy In Da Corner, was critically acclaimed, taking home the Mercury Music Prize in 2003.
Presenters/Dizzee Rascal and Annie Mac,
Producer/Philippa Marshfield
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| BBC RADIO 3 Monday 7 January 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week –
George Frideric Handel Ep 1/5
Monday 7 to Friday 11 January
12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Donald Macleod takes the first of a series of London walks to retrace the life of George Frideric Handel, the great baroque composer of the Hallelujah Chorus, the Water Music and Zadok The Priest, who made the city his home for 36 years.
Donald begins with a tour of the Handel House Museum on Brook Street and proceeds to St George's Hanover Square, the church in which Handel worshipped, played the organ and rented a pew. The final stop in this first programme is Carlisle Street in Soho and the 18th-century offices of Private Eye magazine, where art director Tony Rushton talks about former resident JC Smith, Handel's friend and amanuensis.
Highlights later in the week include a visit to Handel's decorative tomb in Westminster Abbey; the historic Banqueting House and Queen Mary's Steps on the River Thames, from which the Royal party of 1717 departed for the famous performance of the Water Music; and a traversal of the West End in search of the theatres in which Handel's operas were performed.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/David Dwight
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The Essay – Greek And
Latin Voices: Thucydides
Monday
7 to Thursday 10 January
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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BBC Radio 3's series The Essay – Greek And Latin Voices offers listeners an accessible, modern guide to some of the foundation texts of Western culture. This second Greek week of the series explores the work of the ancient historian Thucydides (c460-c395BC) who, in spite of having lived two and a half millennia ago, is perhaps as relevant to people today as he was in the 5th century BC. His brilliant account of the disastrous war that Athens waged against Sparta, the Peloponnesian War, may sound like nothing more than ancient history, but the over-riding message from this week's programmes is that Thucydides is an author who cries out to be read in the troubled days of the early 21st century.
In Monday's programme, Chris Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford and the Greek consultant on the series, explores how Thucydides's work on the Peloponnesian War furthers people's understanding of contemporary warfare, from Vietnam to Iraq.
In Tuesday's programme, Eugenia Kiesling, Professor of Military History at the United States Military Academy at Westpoint, picks up on this theme and sheds fascinating light on American military strategy today, revealing how Thucydides's Peloponnesian War has been a staple text at higher level Professional Military Education in America since 1972.
In the third programme of the week on Wednesday, Paul Cartledge, Professor of Greek History at Cambridge, examines what kind of historian Thucydides was and how people should read him – or any historian – today.
Throughout the week, actor John Rowe renders the voice of Thucydides with power and intelligence.
Presenters/Various, Producer/Beaty Rubens
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Lucy Duran introduces the first of four special programmes broadcast on the first Monday of the month and profiling all 28 nominees in the 2008 BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music in the lead up to the announcement of the winners on 17 April.
Lucy explores some of the background of the artists, introducing other music from the country the artist comes from and illustrating other aspects of their work.
Tonight, Lucy focuses on Andy Palacio and the Garifuna Collective (Belize); Anoushka Shankar (India); Bajofondo (Argentina); Balkan Beat Box (USA-Israel); Bassekou Kouyate (Mali); Bole 2 Harlem (Ethiopia-USA); and Faiz Ali Faiz (Pakistan).
More details on the Awards can be found at bbc.co.uk/radio3/worldmusic.
Presenter/Lucy Duran, Producer/Roger Short
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| BBC RADIO 4 Monday 7 January 2008 |
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Book Of The Week – The Prince Ep 1/5
Monday 7 to Friday 11 January
9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4
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Nick Robinson, the BBC's Political Editor, introduces five extracts from one of the Western world's most influential political essays, The Prince, newly translated by Peter Constantine and read by actor Peter Firth.
Niccolò Machiavelli's name was notorious for centuries after The Prince, his clever and cynical work about power relationships, written to counsel the rulers of his turbulent time in the art of statecraft. Machiavelli served the Florentine Republic as a secretary and second chancellor at the turn of the 16th century, but was expelled from public life when the Medici family returned to power in 1512. The Prince was written in 1513, a kind of job application to the newly
re-instated first family of Florence: Machiavelli wanted to get away from the farm where he was exiled and back to the heart of power.
The infamous reputation of Machiavelli's treatise rests largely on the shrewd and amoral advice he offers to any politician wanting to seize and retain power: "It is far safer to be feared than loved," he notes, and advises that: "Men must either be flattered or eliminated." The work as a whole, however, is more complex and thoughtful than its sensational reputation suggests, and these five extracts give a revealing insight into the mind of a writer who has influenced political thought and action for five centuries.
Brief introductions to each episode by Nick Robinson provide not only a historical context for the readings, but also suggest ways in which Machiavelli's words resonate in political life today – bringing a sharp eye to the various ways in which the adjective "Machiavellian" still has its uses.
Presenter/Nick Robinson, Producer/Sara Davies
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Woman's Hour Drama –
We Need To Talk About Kevin Ep 1/10
Monday 7 to Friday 11 January
10.45-11.00am BBC RADIO 4
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On a Thursday in the year 2000, 16-year-old Kevin Khatchadourian shot seven of his schoolmates, his English teacher and a cafeteria worker. However, these are not the only victims. Now, with her son imprisoned, her husband estranged, financially ruined and alienated from the life she used to lead, Kevin's mother, Eva, puts herself on trial. She must answer her own burning question: "Was Thursday my fault?"
When it was published in 2005, We Need To Talk About Kevin courted controversy not only for its hard-hitting subject, but also for its taboo-breaking exploration of motherhood. It asks difficult questions, including whether or not mothers always love their children; what happens when the parental bond fails; and whether killers are born or made. This new adaptation presents this discussion in an enhanced, dramatised form. It is a character-driven, emotional switchback ride, shot to the heart with dark humour.
The Orange Prize-winning novel has been adapted in 10 parts for BBC Radio 4 by Anita Sullivan. The cast includes Madeline Potter, Nathan Nolan and Richard Laing.
Producer/Karen Rose
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Pilot
Monday 7 January
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4
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Libby Purves, herself a keen sailor, tells the little-known story of sea pilots – the men and women who guide big ships safely home and back out to sea again.
Even in the internet age, there's still a huge, romantic buzz about a big ship. Cruise liners remain in the competitive stakes, along with skyscrapers, to be bigger and longer and have more decks and facilities than their predecessors. The sight of the huge, steel factories that are the sea-borne conveyors of millions of containers full of all those imports from China, as they manoeuvre their vast bulk round the buoys and bars of great ports, continues to draw a crowd.
This programme unpicks one corner of that romantic picture to reveal the day-to-day reality of being a valet-parking attendant for a limousine thousands of feet long on water.
Presenter/Libby Purves, Producer/Simon Elmes
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The
Stanley Baxter Playhouse Ep 1/3
Monday 7 January
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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The Stanley Baxter Playhouse presents three newly commissioned plays from leading writers Rona Munro and Michael Chaplin, in which veteran actor, comedian, impressionist and entertainer Stanley Baxter plays the starring role.
The first play in this third series of the Playhouse is The King's Kilt, by Rona Munro. In it, Stanley plays a recalcitrant Highland kilt-maker faced with the task of making a kilt for King George IV to wear on his first visit to Edinburgh in 1822.
The second in the series, transmitted the following week and also by Rona Munro, is Pasta Alfreddo At Cafe Alessandro. In this play, Stanley is a Glasgow Italian café owner who employs more than a little Italian guile and cunning to ensure that he does his personal bit to defend the honour and the environment of his beloved Italy.
The last play in the series is Flying Down To Greenock, by award-winning TV writer Michael Chaplin. It features Stanley as a Glaswegian centenarian making his first flight and remembering his life during the blitz over Clydeside.
Producer/Marilyn Imrie
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The
Garden Quiz Ep 1/11
Monday 7 January
1.30-2.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Anna Ford chairs The Garden Quiz, a new series for BBC Radio 4 which is a knockout competition to find the best all-round amateur garden expert in the country.
Anna tests contestants' knowledge on a variety of gardening subjects including garden history, design and science; gardens in poetry, books, theatre and film; and garden music, gardening myths, legends and fairy tales. The Garden Quiz features botany and folklore, gardens in art, from paintings to topiary, and there are plenty of gardening tips in the process.
The series offers something for both the hands-on and the armchair gardener.
As well as being one of Britain's most respected broadcasters, Anna Ford is herself a keen gardener and has been a trustee of the Royal Botanical Gardens at Kew, in London.
Programmes are being recorded at a variety of venues including Syon House, famous for its association with Capability Brown, and Hampton Court Palace.
Presenter/Anna Ford, Producer/Frank Stirling
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Slightly Larger Than West Virginia
Monday 7 January
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Slightly Larger Than West Virginia, a play by Hugh Costello, features a cast including Colin Stinton, Sarah Dillon, Nathan Osgood, Kieran Lagan, Katy Gleadhill, Annie McCartney and Niall Cusack.
Sam Taft was a player – a CIA bigshot – until he became one of the agents who let America's Most Wanted Saudi millionaire vanish from the caves of Tora Bora. Now, Taft has been redeployed to perhaps the most unglamorous job within the Agency – updating the annual CIA World Factbook.
So it is that Sam, at a crossroads in his life, finds himself in Ireland, a country he discovers to be not hugely different in size to West Virginia, but culturally a million miles away. Once Sam gets a taste for viewing life from the other end of the telescope, he finds there is no turning back – something his CIA handlers find just a little hard to swallow.
Producer/Eoin O'Callaghan
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Granta Stories Ep 1/5
Monday 7 to Friday 11 January
3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4 (Title amended 10 December) |
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In January 2008, Granta, Britain's most famous literary magazine (and now a major book publisher), celebrates its 100th edition. In the past 25 years, writers prominent in reportage, travel, memoir and fiction have contributed to it. It has celebrated major international writers and discovered new talents along the way.
To acknowledge this landmark, the series presents five pieces that have appeared in these editions, across the various literary genres, from famous names to emerging talents of the time.
The week begins with a story by the recent Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Doris Lessing. The Death Of A Chair is read by Barbara Marten and tells the story of a lived-in chair bought at auction, where it begins the final chapters of its life.
Cary Grant's Suit, by Todd Mcewan, is Tuesday's story and is read by Nathan Osgood. In the Alfred Hitchcock film, North By North West, the famous star wears what is probably the world's finest-ever bespoke suit. Discuss!
On Wednesday, Never Never Land, by Rodrigo Fresan, is read by Peter Guinness and is a fictional account of the childhood of Peter Pan writer JM Barrie and the family tragedy that could have inspired his most famous work.
Thursday's story, read by Janice Acquah, is Operation by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, in which a victim's photo on the wall of a police station sparks memories of happier times.
Friday's story is A New World, by VS Pritchett, read by Christopher Hannon. As the autumn of 1914 and the First World War are calling, a new world is dawning for Private Dunkley.
Producer/Justine Potter
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Sense Of Liverpool Ep 1/5
Monday 7 to Friday 11 January
3.45-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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A Sense Of Liverpool takes a fresh, new look at the city to mark its year as European Capital of Culture, through the eyes, ears and other senses of five contemporary media movers and shakers.
Since the Sixties, Liverpool's culture has been associated with The Beatles, the Merseybeat poets, Ferry Cross The Mersey, Ken Dodd, Boys From The Blackstuff and Educating Rita. Wonderful stuff, all of it, but times have changed, and so have Liverpool and its people.
This series looks at today's Liverpool, through the work of its radical young musicians, writers and comedians. It hears them (poetically, visually, musically, journalistically and humorously) exploring their city, talking to fellow Scousers and discussing its – and their – influences on them and their art, both as a place, a people and a nurturer of artistic talent.
Featured are Rastafarian poet Levi Tafari in A Writer's Feel For Liverpool; award-winning photographer Mark McNulty in A Photographer's Eye; and comedian Brendan Riley in A Comedian's Mouth. The series also features a contemporary singer in A Musician's Ear; and a journalist in A Journalist's Nose.
Presenter/Levi Tafari, Producers/Clare Jenkins and
Janet Graves
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The Egg And I Ep 1/10
Monday 7 to Friday 11 January
10.45-11.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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The Egg And I is a bitingly funny account of Betty MacDonald's early married life as the wife of a chicken farmer on a ranch a couple of hours out of Seattle, on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. Following her mother's advice to support her husband in whatever work he chooses for himself, Betty put all her youthful energy into raising baby chickens, growing, storing and cooking the produce of the land and helping her husband, Bob, to run the farm.
Highlights of living in a pristine wilderness in the shadow of the Olympic Mountains in the late Twenties include the food, the scenery and the colourful antics of the neighbours.
Low points of farming life include no radio, no telephone, the outhouse privy, chicken lice and 4am starts.
The book is abridged by Jennifer Howarth.
Producer/Mary Ward Lowery
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 7 January 2008 |
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How Crime Took On The World Ep 2/4
Monday 7 January
9.05-9.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Misha Glenny continues to chart the explosion of international crime since the fall of the Soviet bloc, and explains how and why international mafias now pose an unprecedented threat to stability and the rule of law.
Following the trail of "duty not paid" cigarettes, Glenny meets members of criminal networks in his old stomping ground, the Balkans, and explores allegations that the tobacco industry is complicit in this kind of money laundering.
He speaks to Momir Bulatovic, former President of Montenegro, who is candid about alleged state involvement in this lucrative illegal trade. Bulatovic tells Glenny: "There was so much money we were picking it up off the floor ... so I said we had to be more organised about this, let's go through Switzerland."
The whole operation was a massive enterprise. Not only was it worth millions of dollars that filled the pockets of individuals and mafia groups, but it is also believed to have funded the Balkan Wars, the most bloody conflict in Europe since the Second World War.
Presenter/Misha Glenny, Producers/Linda Pressly and
John Murphy
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