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| BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 6 January 2008 |
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Good Morning Sunday
Sunday 6 January
7.00-9.00am BBC RADIO 2 |
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Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to the Rev Peter Owen Jones, who shares his adventures from his new BBC Two television series Extreme Pilgrim. Aled also talks to Dr Savi Arora, the Sikh podcaster and blogger.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson
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Elaine Paige On Sunday
Sunday 6 January
1.00-2.30pm BBC RADIO 2 |
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Elaine Paige continues to celebrate the best of Broadway, Hollywood and the West End.
This week, Elaine's special guest is Michael Feinstein, the American singer, pianist and musicologist. Michael's Essential Musicals include Goldilocks (1958), Finnian's Rainbow (1947) and Hello Dolly (1964).
All five of Michael's choices can be heard on the BBC Radio 2 website at bbc.co.uk/radio2.
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Sunday Half Hour – Epiphany
Sunday 6 January
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2 |
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Brian D'Arcy reflects on the visit of the Wise Men to the Christ child in this week's Sunday Half Hour.
Hymns and carols for Epiphany are sung by choirs from across the UK. This week's guest singers are from St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow. Frikki Walker directs the music with organist Oliver Rundell. Hymns include The First Nowell, Brightest And Best Of The Sons Of The Morning and As With Gladness Men Of Old.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Clair Jaquiss
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| BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 6 January 2008 |
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The Early Music Show –
Charpentier's Medée
Sunday
6 January
1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Lucie Skeaping devotes today's edition of The Early Music Show to Euripides' great tragedy of Medea, and the setting by the French composer Charpentier with libretto by Thomas Corneille.
Charpentier was over-shadowed by his famous contemporary Lully, the celebrated court composer to Louis XIV, and it is really only in the last few decades that his music has been rediscovered.
Lully was considered the best musical dramatist in France and the loyal Lullistes made sure that Charpentier's masterpiece was sidelined after its publication in 1694. Apart from its appearance in Lille in 1700, the opera was forgotten about until a 1984 production by Robert Wilson and Michel Corboz at the Opéra de Lyon.
Lucie tells the tale through parts of the recording by Les Arts Florissants, directed by William Christie. The music is considered some of Charpentier's most magnificent and colourful, and one can only imagine the spectacle the drama created through its use of stage machinery and fireworks in the 17th century.
Presenter/Lucie Skeaping, Producer/Rebecca Bean
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The Choir
Sunday 6 January
6.30-8.00pm BBC RADIO 3 (Copy update 13 December) |
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Aled Jones talks to W Stephen Smith, author of A Naked Voice, and Valerie Lippoldt-Mack, who have both written self-help guides on how to be an effective member of a choir.
Aled also looks back and forward at the wide-ranging use of choral music in computer games, film, television and advertising. He meets composer Debbie Wiseman, who regularly writes choral music into her film and television soundtracks; and Jesper Kyd, who persuades computer-games publishers to finance the use of choirs in the soundtracks for games such as Halo 3.
There's also a look ahead to the 150th anniversary this year of the Hallé Choir and the choral compositions of Judith Weir, whose work features in this year's BBC Symphony Orchestra Composer Weekend.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Simon Jordan
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Drama On 3 – The Picture
Man By David Eldridge
Sunday 6 January
8.00-9.05pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Neil is a decent, upstanding member of society who will help a lady carry a suitcase and have a friendly word for people he meets in the streets and parks around Walthamstow, London, where he lives.
If only society were different – if only he didn't have to get into an argument with a man who wouldn't give up his seat on the Tube for a pregnant woman, or ask a guy who's playing loud music to move on. However, when he stops an old man from being mugged and takes a picture of the prospective muggers on his phone that leads to their arrest, he becomes a bit of a local hero.
David Eldridge's play strips away the layers of Neil's character until it is gradually revealed he is not quite the man he wants people to think he is.
Producer/Sally Avens
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Sunday Feature – Bosphorus Battles
Sunday 6 January
9.30-10.15pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Tom de Waal travels up the Bosphorus on the bridge of the oil tanker Forward Pioneer with a maritime pilot navigating this narrow strait that runs through the middle of Istanbul, in tonight's Sunday Feature. During the course of his journey, Tom explores the city from the perspective of the Turks, who have lived along this crucial stretch of water for centuries, and also the seafarers, traders and conquerors who have come to Istanbul by water.
What Tom discovers is layer upon layer of meaning and trauma underpinning the way that Turks view the world today. This is a place that great powers far away have always coveted. The so-called "Eastern Question" that featured in 19th-century international politics – in essence, what would Russia, Great Britain and France do when the Ottoman Empire fell – has left Turks with a feeling that they do not really control their most important city.
Turkey is still living, against its will, with the problems of the end of the 19th century. In the Middle East, and in the Balkans, Turkey lives constantly with the consequences of the collapse of the Ottoman Empire.
Presenter/Tom de Waal, Producer/Neil Trevithick
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| BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 6 January 2008 |
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On Your Farm Ep 1/7
Sunday 6 January
6.35-7.00am BBC RADIO 4 |
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A 77-acre estate lies just north of Watford where a herd of 30 oxen roam freely, devotional music is played whilst cows are hand-milked and women in saris pass by a painted wagon adorned with flower garlands. This is a daily scene at Bhaktivedanta Manor, the UK headquarters for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Donated by the late George Harrison, it is home to Krishna Devotees from across the world and Syamasundara dasa, the farm's manager, who runs the Cow Protection Project.
In the first of a new series of On Your Farm, Adam Henson shares a day with the Devotees exploring how their devotional, vegetarian approach challenges notions of traditional farming.
The Cow Protection Project was developed in 1973 and was the first of its kind in Europe. It aims to show how cows and bulls living in a cruelty-free environment will give milk and provide agricultural work and transport beyond their "useful working" life, and are then cared for until they live out their natural life.
Presenter/Adam Henson, Producer/Nicola Humphries
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Desert Island Discs Ep 15/27
Sunday 6 January
11.15am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4 |
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BBC Radio 4's Today presenter John Humphrys shares his Desert Island Discs with Kirsty Young this week.
John has been a presenter on Today since January 1987. During his BBC career he has also worked as a foreign correspondent in both America and Africa, as a diplomatic correspondent and as a presenter of BBC One's Nine O'Clock News. He has also presented Panorama and currently fronts BBC Radio 4's On The Ropes and Mastermind on BBC Two.
John has a reputation for a no-nonsense style of interviewing and has received numerous awards, including Journalist of the Year in 2000 and a Gold Sony Radio Award in 2003.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
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Wide Awake At Bedtime Ep 1/4
Sunday 6 January
2.45-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4 |
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Poet-presenter Stewart Henderson observes children as they take a midnight walk through botanical gardens, a guided tour through the human body or settle down to sleep next to a tank full of sharks, in this new, four-part series.
Stewart talks to the children as they ponder a museum's objects or exhibitions, which take on a life of their own after dark, and then writes a sleepover-inspired poem and reads it to the children.
In today's opener, a troop of Brownies from Manchester sleep next to a huge tank of sharks at Hull's award-winning aquarium, The Deep. In programme two, a group of Year 9 students explore the theme of space at Thinktank, Birmingham's interactive Museum of Science. Stewart joins another group of children for a nocturnal visit to Eureka!, the Museum For Children, in programme three, and then sets out into the night, torch at the ready, with the Midnight Ramblers when they stay at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Kew, London, for the final programme.
Presenter/Stewart Henderson, Producer/Eve Streeter
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The Age Of Innocence Ep 1/4
Sunday 6 January
3.00-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4 |
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Edith Wharton's novel,The Age Of Innocence, is dramatised by Jane Rogers and explores the dilemma of desire versus duty in 19th-century New York.
Newland Archer is a child of his time, obsessed with etiquette, appearances and the society circuit of 1870s New York. He is engaged to the beautiful May Welland, but his life takes an unexpected turn when he meets May's unconventional cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska.
Ellen has returned to her New York family having left her debauched husband. New York society shudders at the scandal but Newland decides he cannot allow Ellen's reputation to taint May's family. He works to obtain social acceptance for Ellen and, on behalf of the clan he is marrying into, he persuades her not to get a dishonourable divorce.
As they spend more time together, the passion grows between them. Ellen is everything May is not – intelligent, mysterious and experienced. Newland is torn between his yearning for a woman that society says he cannot have and his responsibility to the woman he has taken to be his wife.
Producer/Nadia Molinari
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A Poet's Song Ep 1/4
Sunday 6 January
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4 |
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Paul Farley explores the differences and similarities between songwriters and poets, with the help of fellow poet Jo Shapcott, in a new series of A Poet's Song.
Jo and Paul write lyrics for two very different "bands" – one writes for jazz singer Jamie Cullum, and the other writes lyrics for up-and-coming rapper Doc Brown.
This programme follows the progress of collaborations as they work together – from initial tentative meetings through rehearsals to finished songs. As the collaborations begin, Paul finds out what expectations and prejudices bards have about bands and vice versa and, as they reach their conclusion, he learns what truths about the creative process have been uncovered along the way.
Presenter/Paul Farley, Producer/Aasiya Lodhi
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