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| BBC RADIO 2 Friday 16 May 2008 |
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Friday Night Is Music Night
Friday 16 May
7.30-9.15pm BBC RADIO 2
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Friday Night Is Music Night is live from LSO St Luke's in London this week, with Ken Bruce introducing the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth.
This week's special guests are best-selling Irish singer/songwriter Brian Kennedy, and the winner of BBC Two's Classical Star series, pianist Sophie Cashell.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Jodie Keane
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| BBC RADIO 3 Friday 16 May 2008 |
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Performance On 3 – RPS Awards
Friday 16 May
7.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 3
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The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards in the UK for live classical music. The 2008 event, hosted by Petroc Trelawny and Sara Mohr-Pietsch, took place last night (Thursday 15 May) at the Dorchester Hotel in London and this special edition of Performance On 3 features the evening's highlights.
There is coverage of the winners' presentations and speeches, interviews, music and a keynote speech from former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway. The announcements include the winner of the BBC Radio 3 Listeners' Award: nominees included conductors Jiří Bĕlohlávek and Mark Elder; singers Christine Brewer, Alice Coote and Mark Padmore; pianists Steven Osborne and Llyr Williams; cellist Stephen Isserlis; viola player Lawrence Power; and jazz pianist and composer Gwillym Simcock.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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Jazz Library – Clark Terry
Friday 16 May
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 3
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Jazz trumpeter Clark Terry looks back over his recording career with Alyn Shipton. As well as being an inspirational trumpeter, and one who pushed the boundaries of technique by learning to play two horns at once, to finger left-handed and play the instrument upside down, Terry is a genuinely funny man, whose record Mumbles is a celebrated example of wordless humour that sends up the old-time blues singers.
Terry relates first-hand experiences of working with Duke Ellington and recalls such friends as Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson and Oscar Peterson.
Presenter and Producer/Alyn Shipton
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Jazz On 3
Friday 16 May
11.30pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Jez Nelson presents a gig by trumpeter Ralph Alessi's group This Against That, featuring guest Ravi Coltrane on saxophone, recorded at this year's Cheltenham Jazz Festival. They are joined by Andy Milne on piano, Drew Gress on bass and Mark Ferber on drums.
A veteran of 15 years on the New York scene, Alessi has secured a reputation as one of the jazz world's most formidable players, playing with the likes of Steve Coleman and Uri Caine. Since moving to New York in 1991 from his native California, Alessi has become a key figure in the city's jazz and improvised music scene. As well as releasing four albums as a leader – including two with This Against That – he has collaborated with some of improvised music's key names, including Don Byron, Sam Rivers and Fred Hersch, and founded the School For Improvisational Music in Brooklyn.
Second son of jazz legends John and Alice, Ravi Coltrane has emerged as one of the saxophone's unique voices, having played with some of jazz's biggest names including Jack DeJohnnette, Rashied Ali and Elvin Jones. His label, RKM Music, released the debut album of Alessi's This Against That.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Somethin' Else
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| BBC RADIO 4 Friday 16 May 2008 |
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Where Next – A Soldier's Journey
Friday 16 May
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4
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As a follow-up to the documentary Soldier's Haven last year, Simon Weston catches up with two soldiers badly injured in Iraq and Afghanistan to find out what has happened since and what the future holds for them.
The programme focuses on the differing fortunes of two soldiers. Gunner Anthony Makin lost his leg when he was blown up in Afghanistan. One year on, he's fully functioning on his prosthetic leg and about to start pre-deployment training for front-line Iraq with 29 Commando. Simon talks to his commander and colleagues during training and finds out his hopes and fears for the future.
Gunner Peter Hire was blown up in Iraq. Blind in one eye, deaf in one ear and with a brain injury, Peter knows it could take a decade to get back to normal. He's being discharged from the Army on medical grounds and is back in the South Wales valleys, living with his mum and trying to get his life back on track. He can't get a job and was devastated to leave the Army.
The programme also looks at the wider context and issues that greet soldiers returning from conflicts. Simon explores compensation and medical provision, asks if the Government is breaking the military covenant and finds out what can be done to change things.
Presenter/Simon Weston, Producer/Sian Price
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Paul Temple And The Madison Mystery Ep 1/8
Friday 16 May
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4 |
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One of the great radio detectives returns to the airwaves. April 1938 saw the first transmission on the BBC's Midland Regional Programme of a thriller: Send For Paul Temple, written by Francis Durbridge. For the next 30 years, the suave private detective and crime novelist Paul, together with his glamorous Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after baffling case in one of radio's most enduringly popular series. Unfortunately, recordings of many of the early series are lost to the archives.
In 2006, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a brand-new production of one of the missing Temples – the ninth series, Paul Temple And The Sullivan Mystery, from 1947. Now, Paul Temple is back again and, as before, the production uses the unchanged original scripts, and was recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects as well as much of the original incidental music.
Returning from America by ocean liner, the Temples enjoy the company of their fellow First Class passengers, only to find one of them dead the next morning. When Paul and Steve return home to London, Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard is waiting to plunge them into one of their most thrilling and dangerous adventures yet: the pursuit of a ruthless gang of bank-note counterfeiters.
Once again, Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson play Paul and Steve Temple. The cast also includes Gareth Thomas, Angus MacInnes, Robin Laing, Emma Currie, Lucy Paterson, Nick Underwood, Greg Powrie, Eliza Langland, Richard Greenwood, Michael Mackenzie and Jimmy Chisholm.
Producer/Patrick Rayner
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Afternoon Play – Forty Three, Fifty Nine: Yara
Friday 16 May
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Yara, a young woman apparently on the run from a sex trafficking ring, is hit by a car. The driver, Grant, a talkative, middle-aged city worker, late for a meeting, offers to help her escape. As they drive – and then run – through London and her pursuers close in, her true (and deadly) intentions become shockingly clear.
Forty Three, Fifty Nine is an occasional series of dramas inspired by real events. Each story follows just one person's perspective in a seemingly continuous take, contained within 43 minutes and 59 seconds – the length of the transmission slot. Yara is the second in the occasional series to be aired on BBC Radio 4. The first, the story of a Russian dissident on the run from assassins, was broadcast last October.
The play's author, Mike Walker, has written a number of prize-winning dramas including Sony winners Different States and Alpha. He is currently working on an adaptation of Charles Dickens's Dombey And Son for Radio 4.
Producer/John Dryden
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 16 May 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Friday 16 May
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Pougatch presents live coverage from the second leg of the second Coca-Cola League One play-off semi final, plus there's an E.on FA Cup final preview with studio regulars Gabrielle Marcotti and Steve Claridge.
There is also news of the second day of the First Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Ed King
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 16 May 2008 |
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Shaun Keaveny
Friday 16 May
7.00-10.00am BBC 6 MUSIC
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Shaun Keaveny is joined in the studio by his latest Band Beeatches – "willing" slaves happy to respond to Shaun's every whim – The Duke Spirit. Front woman Leila Moss and the band come in to make the tea and talk to Shaun about life, the US tour they've just finished and their plans for the summer.
Presenter/Shaun Keaveny, Producer/Louise Orchard
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George Lamb
Friday 16 May
10.00am-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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English rock band Spiritualized make a welcome live appearance in the 6 Music Hub.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Friday 16 May
9.00-10.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Bob Dylan takes Head To Toe as his theme this week. His exploration of the human body takes him from I've Got You Under My Skin by Louis Prima and Keely Smith to Loretta Lynn's Fist City, via Finger Poppin' Time by Hank Ballard And The Midnighters and Brain Cloudy Blues by Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/XM Satellite Radio
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Bruce Dickinson's Rock Show
Friday 16 May
10.00pm-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC
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Californian melodic death metal band DevilDriver join Bruce Dickinson on his Rock Show this evening.
Influenced by the likes of Metallica, Johnny Cash and Slayer, the guys are currently touring around the world with
36 Crazyfists, Arch Enemy and Opeth. Formed back in 2002 and signed to Roadrunner Records, the five-piece's name reportedly refers to the bells that Italian witches used to drive away evil forces.
Bruce chats to the guys about their second album, The Last Kind Words, how their recent UK performances were received and about their now legendary appearance at last year's Download Festival, where they attempted a world record for the "largest circle pit" ever at a festival.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Friday 16 May 2008 |
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Simran calls in on the Akhtars to pay her respects, in the week's final visit to Silver Street. Zak's phone keeps ringing and he rejects the calls before announcing he needs some fresh air.
Zak runs into Talib, who asks why Fatima isn't returning his calls. Zak shouts out that Fatima is dead and it's Talib's fault. Zak then attacks Talib, forcing him to defend himself. Simran stops the fight and takes a broken Zak home to clean him up before Khatija sees him...
Simran is played by Balvinder Sopal, Zak by Jetinder Summan and Talib by Rachid Sabitri.
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Friday 16 May 2008 |
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Global Perspective – Escape From Time
Friday 16 May
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Barbara Bogaev considers the various routes people take to escape the relentless march of time.
A neuroscientist explains the ways in which the brain is able to stretch time during periods of stress and peak performance. A civil war re-enactor immerses himself so convincingly in the past that he achieves the elusive high of "period rush".
Barbara also explores a project that looks 10,000 years into the future to help gain perspective on the present.
Presenter/Barbara Bogaev, Producer/Queena Kim
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Heart And Soul – Environmentalism
Friday 16 May
3.30-4.00pm BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Environment Correspondent Matt McGrath compares the attempts of traditional religious leaders to protect the planet with that of the "fire and brimstone" climate change movement.
With its prophets of doom and apocalyptic visions, its zealots and its doubters, climate change has become a mantra for the converted, with its own set of commandments on how to live one's life.
Matt asks whether this new faith is proving more successful than established religions in inspiring people to take care of the planet.
Presenter/Matt McGrath, Producer/Katy Hickman
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