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RADIO 1 Saturday 10 May 2008 |
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Radio 1's Big Weekend
Saturday 10 May
7.00am(Sat)-5.00am(Sun) BBC RADIO 1
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Today, BBC Radio 1 kicks off its annual free flagship event, Radio 1's Big Weekend, from Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent, live to listeners across the weekend. Today's line-up is topped by the Queen of Pop, Madonna, who headlines tonight. Joining Madonna are some of the biggest artists around performing throughout the day, such as Usher, The Fratellis, Duffy, Robyn, The Feeling, Scouting For Girls, Editors, Ting Tings, The Futureheads and many more.
Nihal launches the proceedings at 7am with his weekend breakfast show live from London, looking forward to what listeners and viewers can expect to hear and see on BBC Television throughout the day. Nihal hands over to Vernon Kay at 10am for a Radio 1's Big Weekend warm-up show from London, with some live phone-ins from Radio 1 DJs. Vernon hands over to Annie Mac at 1pm to kick off the live coverage from the Radio 1's Big Weekend site itself. Annie brings listeners live highlights from the event and also chats to bands backstage and reflects what's going on around the site and on-stage. There are also acoustic sets from the day.
Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates take the reins at 4pm, with the low-down on what's been happening on-stage throughout the day and some behind-the-scenes gossip, plus acoustic sets from the site. Scott Mills and Trevor Nelson take over at 7pm for the big run-down of the day's highlights in Mote Park across all the stages, with artists and Radio 1 DJs dropping in. At 9.15pm, Madonna comes live from the Main Stage with an exclusive performance of six tracks from her new album, Hard Candy, including the
No. 1 single, 4 Minutes.
At 11pm, Radio 1 is live from Radio 1's Big Weekend Official Aftershow at Studio 5 at Maidstone TV Studios for a massive dance party. Pete Tong and Annie Mac host the official Aftershow tonight with a six-hour special bringing listeners a DJ set every hour from Pete Tong, Laurent Garnier, Nic Fanciulli, Annie Mac, Danny Rampling and Simian Mobile Disco until 5am.
Presenters/Nihal, Vernon Kay, Annie Mac, Fearne & Reggie, Scott Mills, Trevor Nelson and Pete Tong
Producers/Richard Murdoch, Jocelin Stainer, Glenn Middleditch, Laura Sayers, Phil Stocker and Rachel Barton
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| BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 10 May 2008 |
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When Charles Met Wyclef
Saturday 10 May
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Take a conductor and BBC Radio 2 presenter with a love of hip hop, and an award-winning musician, producer, rapper and former member of The Fugees, and put them in a New York studio to talk about, and play, music.
The results of this unique meeting can be heard in When Charles Met Wyclef as Charles Hazlewood goes on a musical journey with one of his heroes, Wyclef Jean. Together, their collaborations and musical tastes are as eclectic as they come.
Wyclef reveals how he got away with playing rock songs in church, how he came to collaborate with Kenny Rogers, why he loves Pink Floyd and if there's any hope of a Fugees reunion.
Presenter/Charles Hazlewood, Producer/Julia Hayball
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| BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 10 May 2008 |
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Music Matters
Saturday 10 May
12.15-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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In the lead-up to BBC Radio 3's The Chopin Experience next weekend (17 and 18 May), Tom Service has a rare interview with the celebrated and often-controversial Polish pianist Krystian Zimerman, who is among the most feted Chopin performers of modern times. After winning the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition in 1975, Zimerman went on to perform with a variety of stars, from Bernstein and Rubinstein, to Abbado and Rattle, and has achieved cult status.
He talks to Tom about the importance of his relationship with the orchestras he works with, something which he has found problematic in the past, as intense rehearsal regimes are vital to Zimerman's preparation.
He also explains why he struggles with the recording studio: "I'm not happy with recordings at all and I don't advise anybody to buy my records." He discusses his reluctance to choose programmes until shortly before a performance – "I have to have a motivation... that I want to play this piece at this moment" – and how the loyalty of his audience is key to gaining trust in his interpretations: "I need the audience for these pieces because I never play for myself... the interpretation is made... together with the people... it's like a love act between the audience and the player."
He also touches on his need to express his political viewpoint while on the concert platform, and the criticism this has stirred up. Conversation ranges from his night-time practising, to why he can only listen to his own performances while driving around in the car.
Presenter/Tom Service, Producer/Emma Bloxham
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The Early Music Show – Bach In Cöthen
Saturday 10 May
1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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The six years that JS Bach spent working for the young Prince Leopold of Anhalt in the German court at Cöthen from 1717 resulted in some of his most memorable instrumental music, although it was a period of mixed fortune and tragedy.
In the young Prince he found an enthusiastic and sympathetic employer and his salary was double that of his previous post in Weimar. However, upon accepting the job, he found himself briefly jailed by his previous employer who was angered by the composer's defection, and musical life itself in Cöthen was uninteresting by Bach's previous standards. As a Lutheran court, there was no choral tradition to speak of and Bach had to abandon writing church music in favour of instrumental and orchestral music.
Bach's time at Cöthen was also marred with tragedy: he returned there from a trip to Carlsbad with the Prince to find that his wife had died suddenly and been buried in his absence.
Catherine Bott takes a closer look at this period in Bach's life and the music which resulted from it.
Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Sam Philips
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World Routes
Saturday 10 May
3.00-4.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Jameela Siddiqi introduces the second of two special World Routes programmes from the Phoenix Theatre at Leicester's Darbar South Asian Music Festival, which took place at the beginning of April.
This week, Jameela introduces two contrasting vocal styles: Uday Bhawalkar sings in the austere North Indian Dhrupad style, while Shashwati Mandal Paul practices the lighter, more energetic Punjabi style known as Tappa. There is also a recital by young sitar virtuoso Purbayan Chatterjee, with Yogesh Samsi on tabla.
The Darbar was the princely court in ancient India where rulers would meet to discuss affairs of State, and to listen to performances from their court musicians. For the past three years, the Darbar South Asian Music Festival has been seeking to recreate this atmosphere, with performances by leading Indian musicians in small-scale, atmospheric surroundings.
Presenter/Jameela Siddiqi, Producer/Roger Short
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Jazz Line-Up
Saturday 10 May
4.00-5.30pm BBC RADIO 3
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Claire Martin talks to American jazz singer and pianist Diane Schuur and introduces highlights of a concert by Brazilian pianist and singer Elaine Elias from the legendary Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.
Diane Schuur was born blind, learnt to play the piano by ear and developed her voice from a very early age, making her public debut at the age of 10. A long-time fan of Dinah Washington and other jazz singers of the Forties and Fifties who have influenced her work, Diane's career has spanned three decades and she has received two Grammy Awards along the way.
Brazilian pianist and singer Elaine Elias plays music from her current album Plays Bill Evans – a tribute to pianist Bill Evans. In her teens, Elaine painstakingly transcribed all Bill Evans's notes and it inspired her to re-arrange his music.
Presenter/Claire Martin, Producer/Keith Loxam
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Opera On 3
Saturday 10 May
6.30-8.30pm BBC RADIO 3
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Love, lust and death are the order of the day in Richard Strauss's one-act opera, Salome, which sets out to shock. In this new production from the Royal Opera House, recorded earlier this year, director David McVicar heads into Freudian territory, disturbing audiences in a way similar to the impact of the first performance.
Much-celebrated German soprano Nadja Michael takes the title role, and imposing baritone Michael Volle is the prophet Jokanaan, or John the Baptist.
Salome, the adolescent daughter of Herodias, has been brought up in a heavy, threatening atmosphere, and her affections have been tainted by the insidious gaze of her step-father, Herod. Jokaanan is imprisoned below ground in a cistern, but he speaks out against the immorality of Herod and his wife and prophesies the coming of Jesus. Salome is fascinated by him and, when she orders him to be brought before her, she is filled with the desire to kiss him. Jokanaan is disgusted and refuses to look at her, which drives her crazy.
When Herod asks Salome to dance for him, he grants her anything she wishes. However, he hasn't banked on her request – the head of Jokanaan.
When Strauss saw Oscar Wilde's play he instantly saw its musical potential. The psychological aspects of the infamous Biblical story, already present in the Wilde text, are highlighted in the lushness of the music and orchestration, and this production, according to its Swiss conductor Philippe Jordan, "laid bare Strauss's monster orchestra with feverish intent".
Presenter/Suzie Klein, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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Work In Progress – Anthony Minghella
Saturday 10 May
8.30-8.40pm BBC RADIO 3
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In a special tribute to Anthony Minghella, who died in March, BBC Radio 3 presents two episodes from the series Work In Progress, which offers insight into the creative process from writers, directors and artists. Recorded in 1999 as Minghella was putting the final touches to The Talented Mr Ripley, both offer a revealing look into Minghella's creative thinking as he transfers Patricia Highsmith's novel to the big screen.
In the first programme, Minghella explains the hermit-like process of painstakingly developing a screenplay, shaping and bending the plot for a different medium, and reveals the exhilaration and excitement of the "carnival atmosphere" and camaraderie of directing a film.
In the second programme, Minghella talks about the importance of music in his life and in his films. "Music was a very vibrant ingredient in my life. I originally saw my early plays as being a format for music," he says. He goes on to discuss the importance of the score for The Talented Mr Ripley and his close collaboration with Lebanese-born classical composer Gabriel Yared, sharing his belief that the composer should be part of the production process as early as possible.
The score for The Talented Mr Ripley was nominated for a Bafta and an Academy Award in 1999 and Yared and Minghella went on to collaborate on other film scores including The English Patient and Cold Mountain.
Producer/Clare McGinn
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Hang Up By Anthony Minghella
Saturday 10 May
8.40-9.05pm BBC RADIO 3
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BBC Radio 3's tribute to Anthony Minghella continues with his play Hang Up, first broadcast on Radio 3 in 1987.
Written specially as a ballet score for the London Contemporary Dance Theatre, and choreographed by Jonathan Lunn, Minghella's short play about a late-night phone call between two lovers is a study of lost innocence, deception and treachery and stars Anton Lesser and Juliet Stevenson. After working with Minghella, Juliet Stevenson wanted to know why he didn't direct more often, and when the BBC came calling rather insistently for a screenplay, he asked if he might also direct, resulting in 1991's contemporary romantic comedy Truly Madly Deeply, also starring Stevenson.
Hang Up won the Prix Italia for Radio Fiction in 1988; the judges said that it was "a radio drama of great emotional intensity and psychological subtlety as it represented the complex and contradictory aspects of the relationship between a young couple through a night-time telephone conversation".
Producer/Jeremy Mortimer
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BBC Singers – Sounds Of Sweden
Saturday 10 May
9.05-10.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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It's often been said of the Swedish that every third person is a member of a choir, and that more people engage in choral singing than attend football matches. True or not, Sweden is certainly a country with a highly developed choral culture, many excellent choirs and numerous composers committed to writing for voices.
This concert, conducted by young Dutchman Peter Dijkstra (Artistic Director of the Swedish Radio Choir and a rising star in the conducting firmament), gives a bird's-eye view of the activities of four of them.
It includes one piece by Sven-David Sandström, paying tribute to Henry Purcell, and another – Lobet den Herrn – that nods in the direction of JS Bach. Also on the programme are De Profundis, a piece by Ingvar Lidholm that perhaps reinforces some prejudices about the cheery nature of the Swedish character; Jan Sandström's lively setting of the Gloria, which uses Latin-Amercan rhythms; and a thought-provoking piece – Vinamintra Elitavi – in a completely invented language through which the composer, Thomas Jennefelt, invites listeners to bring their own meaning to words and music.
Producer/Michael Emery
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Between The Ears – Out Of The Mouths
Saturday 10 May
10.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 3
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Out Of The Mouths is the first programme in a new season of BBC Radio 3's innovative feature series, Between The Ears.
How do children transform their first coos and babbles into recognisable speech? What is the primeval urge that drives people to articulate their responses and how do they find their own voice? Out Of The Mouths paints a soundscape of the acquisition of language from a baby's viewpoint – illustrating the way in which the infant's first noises become sounds, then babbles, words and then sentences.
Woven amongst this soundworld are contributions from language and child experts, often heard from a distance, as a baby would hear them. Out Of The Mouths explores how a baby begins to make sense of its mother's voice, first as a meaningless collection of sounds, then developing an ability to segment and pick out key words and, finally, a reciprocal understanding.
This experimental feature has followed several children through different stages of their linguistic development, from babyhood through to three- and four-year-olds, and blends together fly-on-the-wall recordings of them with their parents. There are also assorted memories from other parents about their children's language learning.
Contributors include Professor Michael Tomasello, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig who heads the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, and James Law, Professor of Language and Communication Science at Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh.
Producer/Emma Kingsley
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| BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 10 May 2008 |
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1968 – MYTH OR REALITY?
Day-By-Day
Saturday 10 May
4.55-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Sir John Tusa continues to trace, day by day, the major political, cultural and social events of 1968 as they happened, drawing on the BBC and other vivid news archive and the music of the time.
This week's programmes reflect the week which saw a general strike bring Paris to a halt while crucial Vietnam peace talks take place in the city, the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey, student riots in Bonn and a UK newspaper strike.
US Presidential candidates try to woo farmers, Bob Hope tries to work out how much he's worth and reporters witness the devastating aftermath of the battle of Saigon. Four die when part of a high-rise block collapses in London; a TV documentary tries to work out why everyone is always going on strike; and HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, apologises for offending Australians.
This series is part of BBC Radio 4's 1968 – Myth Or Reality? season, marking the 40th anniversary of a remarkable year which saw extraordinary upheavals worldwide.
Please note: A weekly omnibus edition of Day-By-Day is broadcast on Sunday evenings.
Presenter/John Tusa, Producers/Lucy Dichmont, Robert Abel and Sam Bryant
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Archive Hour – The Terrible Truth
Saturday 10 May
8.00-9.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Throughout the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies, record companies and health educators published a steady stream of specially produced "documentary" albums. Whatever the era, the process of growing up has always been a time of experimentation. To help educate youngsters and alert their parents, a raft of public service films, documentaries and records were produced. Some were broadcast on television, others sold in record stores, shown in the cinema or projected to sniggering children in school assembly.
In The Terrible Truth, Tom Robinson takes a nostalgic look back at these educational productions and reflects that while their tone and style may have changed, the messages are still relevant.
Presenter/Tom Robinson, Producer/Jo Meek
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 10 May 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Saturday 10 May
12.00-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Eleanor Oldroyd presents live coverage of the Coca-Cola Football League play-offs, plus all the day's sports news including final qualifying for the Turkish Grand Prix.
There is also coverage of the final round of matches in rugby union's Guinness Premiership.
Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Steve Rudge
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Saturday 10 May 2008 |
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5 Live Formula 1
Saturday 10 May
9.00-10.05am: Third Practice Session BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
11.55am-1.15pm: Qualifying Session BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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David Croft presents live from Istanbul with uninterrupted commentary on the third practice session and qualifying session for the Turkish Grand Prix.
Presenter/David Croft, Producer/Jason Swales
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Saturday 10 May 2008 |
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Worldplay – The Shawl By David Mamet Ep 2/6
Saturday 10 May
8.00-9.00pm BBC WORLD SERVICE
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John Mahoney, best known for his role as Frasier's father in the long-running TV comedy, stars in a radio adaptation of David Mamet's The Shawl.
An amateur psychic and his protégé mount an elaborate scheme to defraud a young woman of her inheritance. However, their séance to contact the girl's recently deceased mother takes an unexpected, mysterious turn.
Written in 1985, The Shawl is an early example of Mamet's fascination with confidence tricksters.
The programme includes an interview in which John Mahoney discusses his long experience of performing in Mamet's plays.
The play is part of BBC World Service's Worldplay season on the theme of mystery, which features plays from broadcasters in America, Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand and the UK.
Director/Scott Zigler, LA Theatreworks, Los Angeles
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