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Sunday 11 May 2008

BBC RADIO 1 Sunday 11 May 2008

Radio 1's Big Weekend Sunday 11 May 5.00am-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 1

BBC Radio 1 brings listeners the second day of its annual, free, flagship event – Radio 1's Big Weekend from Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent. Today's line-up is topped by The Kooks, plus Nelly, Adele, Newton Faulkner, Goldfrapp, The Raconteurs, The Zutons, Hot Chip, Pendulum, Gallows and Justice.

At 5am, for those still not ready for bed, Radio 1 brings listeners highlights from the previous day, including a selection of DJ-stage performances from Fatboy Slim, Chris Moyles vs Judge Jules, Zane Lowe vs Scott Mills, Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso, Herve & Sinden, Dave Spoon and Kissy Sell Out.

At 7am, Nihal takes over with his weekend breakfast show, live, from London, looking back on yesterday's highlights and forward to what listeners can expect from the day. Nihal hands over to Dick & Dom at 10am, with some live phone-ins from Radio 1 DJs looking forward to what's to come.

Annie Mac takes over at 1pm, live, from the Big Weekend site. Annie brings listeners highlights from the weekend so far and chats to bands back stage.

Radio 1's Chart Show with Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates comes live from the Big Weekend site at 4pm, bringing listeners the low-down on what's been happening on stage throughout the weekend, plus acoustic sets from the site.

Scott Mills and Nick Grimshaw take over at 7pm for the big run-down of the weekend's highlights.

At 11pm, Radio 1 rounds off the day's coverage with a selection of highlights from DJ-stage performances including Pete Tong vs Vernon Kay, Pendulum, Justice, Zane Lowe, Dave Pearce, Tim Westwood, Rob da Bank, Kutski and Basshunter, plus 1Xtra's Cameo vs DJ Q and Mistajam.

Presenters/Nihal, Dick & Dom, Annie Mac, Fearne & Reggie, Scott Mills and Nick Grimshaw

Producers/Richard Murdoch, Jocelin Stainer, Glenn Middleditch, Laura Sayers, Megan Carver and Rhys Hughes

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BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 11 May 2008

The cast of the London production of Jersey Boys are Elaine Paige's special guests this week.

They join Elaine to talk about their careers and about Jersey Boys – which tells the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. They also reveal their Essential Musicals.

Actor Ryan Molloy, who plays Frankie Valli, picks On The Town (Broadway, 1944) as his Essential Musical, while Glenn Carter, who takes the role of Tommy DeVito, chooses Chess (London, 1986). Philip Bullcock plays Nick Massi and picks the film Bugsy Malone (1976), and Stephen Ashfield, who plays Bob Gaudio, selects Boy George's Taboo (London, 2002).

In addition to their Essential Musicals, the cast performs two exclusive numbers from Jersey Boys.

Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince

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Brian D'Arcy marks the festival of Pentecost with a selection of hymns.

The featured choir is the Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir, directed by Stephen Jackson. The organist is Sean Farrell. Hymns include: Breathe On Me Breath Of God; Come Down O Love Divine; and Spirit Of God.

Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty

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BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 11 May 2008

Michael Berkeley is joined by actor Colin Salmon, who has appeared as M's chief of staff in three James Bond movies: Die Another Day; The World Is Not Enough; and Tomorrow Never Dies. Salmon is also a musician. He plays the cornet and is passionate about many different types of music.

His eclectic choices for Private Passions include: brass music with Leonard Salzedo's Divertimento For 3 Trumpets And 3 Trombones and Ronald Binge's Cornet Carillon; jazz with Miles Davis's The Pan Piper, Billy Strayhorn's Lush Life and Duke Ellington's Isfahan; Richard Strauss's song, Morgen, sung by Jessye Norman; a movement from Coleridge Taylor's Folksong Suite for solo cello; a Round Dance from Bartók's Five Pieces For Children; and Jaheim's Fabulous.

Colin Salmon has appeared in the series Soldier, Soldier, Silent Witness and Prime Suspect II, and his latest TV role was in BBC One's much-acclaimed Anthony Minghella adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency.

Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Sarah Cropper

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Lucie Skeaping takes a look at Bach's career during the composer's 27 years in Leipzig.

In April 1723, after the preferred candidates, Telemann and Graupner, had withdrawn, Bach was offered the post of Cantor at St Thomas's School in Leipzig, a role he would remain in for the rest of his life. Working for the council, he often found himself in conflict with the authorities. Nevertheless, during his early years in the German town, he composed prodigious quantities of church music, including four or five cantata cycles, the Magnificat and two Passions. He was by this time renowned as a virtuoso organist and his fame as a composer gradually spread more widely when, from 1726 onwards, he began to bring out published editions of some of his works.

After six years in Leipzig, Bach's interest seemed to move away from sacred music at the same time as he took over the direction of the collegium musicum that Telemann had founded in Leipzig some 25 years earlier.

Bach's family also grew prodigously whilst in the town. Thirteen children were born to his new wife, Anna Magdalena, whilst they were resident there.

Presenter/Lucy Skeaping, Producer/Sam Philips

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Drama On 3 presents a new Michael Hasting adaptation of The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.

In 1957, Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa, the last member of a great Sicilian family, died, childless, impoverished and unknown, leaving behind him the recently completed manuscript of a novel. The following year, the novel, The Leopard, was published to acclaim and is now recognised as one of the finest works of 20th-century literature. Five years after its publication, Luchino Visconti made his celebrated film, starring Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

The Leopard documents the changes in Sicilian society during the unification of Italy in 1860, through the eyes of an aristocratic family headed by Don Fabrizio. Michael Hasting's new adaptation views the Prince through the prism of his family, servants and his confessor, and takes the story to its conclusion, 20 years after Don Fabrizio's death.

Stanley Townsend and Hayley Atwell lead the cast.

Producer/Nicholas Newton, Director/Lucy Bailey

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Frances Stonor Saunders talks to historians from Israel, Palestine and beyond, about the life and ideas of the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl.

In the monochrome photo that captures the announcement of the creation of the State of Israel, 60 years ago in May 1948, a large portrait looms over the table of assembled politicians. It is that of Theodor Herzl, a journalist who visited Palestine only once, who spoke little Hebrew and who once proposed that the Jewish homeland should be situated in Uganda.

When Theodor Herzl died, aged 44, in 1904, the idea which had become his life's work had divided his supporters and seemed destined to remain an unrealistic dream. One hundred years later, Herzl's idea – the State of Israel – is a reality, but a reality which divides world opinion as strongly as ever.

Unlike other discarded political ideologies of the early 20th century, Herzl's ideas seem of more importance than ever. Today, he is both idolised for laying the foundations of Israel and criticised for having colonial assumptions.

War and conflict may have accompanied Israel's 60-year existence – but Herzl's novel, Old New Land, predicted the Palestinian Arabic population would welcome with open arms his vision of a European-style nation-State for Jews in the Middle East.

The programme includes extracts from Herzl's diary, in which he kept a vivid record of his meetings with the great and the good of the turn of the 20th century, from Joseph Chamberlain and the King of Italy to the working men of London's East End.

Presenter/Frances Stonor Saunders, Producer/Matthew Dodd

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Words And Music reaches the outer orbit with a wide range of music and poetry on the theme of space.

Miranda Richardson reads a selection of poetry from Walt Whitman as well as Lorca's A Game Of Moons, George Herbert's The Star and Craig Raine's A Martian Sends A Postcard Home.

Tim McMullan reads a selection including Auden's Moon Landing, Arthur C Clarke's vivid description of The Moons of Saturn and Edwin Morgan's poem The First Men On Mercury. There is also an extract from Douglas Adams's legendary The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

The eclectic span of music evoking the sound of space ranges from Brian Eno's evocative Apollo: Atmospheres and Holst's The Planets Suite to Jan Garbarek's haunting Song Of Space and Frank Sinatra's Fly Me To The Moon.

Readers/Miranda Richardson and Tim McMullan, Producer/Jessica Isaacs

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BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 11 May 2008

Desert Island Discs Sunday 11 May 11.15am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4

Singer and songwriter Annie Lennox is the first of Kirsty Young's castaways in this new series of Desert Island Discs.

Annie Lennox has sold millions of records – as a solo artist and as one half of The Eurythmics – and her musical career has spanned more than three decades. Well known for her soaring voice and striking looks, she remains enormously successful and influential.

Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle

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Actor and comedian John Sessions asks whether there was more to Alexander Pope's poetry than witty heroic couplets and quotable aphorisms. He sets out to reveal the hidden emotional depths of his poetic hero.

The phrase "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" comes from Pope's poem Eloisa To Abelard which was published in 1717. One of his earliest works, the poem expresses Abelard and Eloisa's yearning for a love that forever eludes them. Pope believed that, for himself, romantic love was out of reach. His body was shrunken and twisted in childhood by tuberculosis of the spine. An enemy even referred to him as a "hump-backed toad".

Nevertheless, Pope triumphed as the major poet of the 18th century, the creator of phrases that have become so cosily familiar that they are often attributed to Shakespeare or the Bible: "A little learning is a dangerous thing"; "Hope springs eternal"; and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread".

John Sessions looks beyond the rhyming couplets to reappraise Pope's work and asks if it is possible to find an emotional and sensual heart beating beneath all the formality and razor-sharp wit.

John talks to contemporary poets, academics, local historians and fellow Pope aficionados to construct a very personal and affectionate portrait of a much-neglected poet.

Presenter/John Sessions, Producer/Emma Harding

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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 11 May 2008

Mark Pougatch presents a packed programme of sport on the final day of the Barclays Premier League season, with live commentary of key matches from 3pm.

Before this, at 1pm, 5 Live's Formula 1 commentary team – David Croft, Maurice Hamilton and Holly Samos – are in Istanbul bringing live coverage of the Turkish Grand Prix.

From 5pm, there is a comprehensive round-up of the day's results and stories from across the country, including manager and player interviews.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mark Williams

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Listeners can enjoy an afternoon of uninterrupted commentary on one of the top Premier League matches on this, the last day of the season.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 11 May 2008

The best of the BBC archives this week comes from Splinter, recorded at the Golders Green Hippodrome in North London.

Billy Elliot and Bobby Purvis, collectively know as Splinter, were the first band to be released on George Harrison's label, Dark Horse, in 1974.

Presenter/Chris Hawkins, Producer/Chris Carr

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