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| BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 15 May 2008 |
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Thursday 15 May
11.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour heads to the American South, with the State of Tennessee providing this week's unifying theme.
Demonstrating the popularity of songs about Memphis, and a fair sprinkling of tunes with Tennessee in the title, tonight's featured artists include Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke, Hank Williams, Arrested Development, Mott The Hoople and King Curtis.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/Phil Hughes
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| BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 15 May 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Frédéric Chopin Ep 4/5
Monday 12 to Friday 16 May
12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Frédéric Chopin was a prodigy, a virtuoso pianist and one of the best-loved and influential composers of piano music there's ever been. In the run-up to BBC Radio 3's The Chopin Experience, in which the network broadcasts every note written by the great Polish composer, Donald Macleod explores Chopin's life, his prodigious early years, his fragile health and his dalliances with women. The programmes feature his music – beloved of pianists the world over and the pinnacle of 19th-century romanticism – and include a vintage recording each day.
In today's programme, Donald tells the story of Chopin's famous relationship with writer George Sand, and their many summers together at her country house at Nohant, as well as holidays in Majorca. Music includes Chopin's Cello Sonata, with Martha Argerich and Mstislav Rostropovich, and a vintage recording of Ballade No. 4 by Ukrainian pianist Alexander Uninsky.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Kerry Clark
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Afternoon On 3
Thursday 15 May
2.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Claude Debussy completed only one opera, but what an opera it was! Pelléas And Mélisande, first staged in Paris in 1902, is like nothing ever composed before – a beautiful, dream-like drama in which the music rarely rises to loud climaxes and the characters' enigmatic relationships are expressed in vocal lines that closely mirror the natural accents of the French language.
Not everything in Debussy's musical language is unprecedented, however. He claimed to be reacting against Wagner (who was the overbearing presence in operatic life at the end of the 19th century), but there are plenty of echoes of the German's music dramas in Debussy's work – the seemingly doomed love story of Pélleas And Mélisande has something in common with those quintessentially Wagnerian lovers, Tristan And Isolde.
Today's performance features a production from the city where the opera was premièred, conducted by Bernard Haitink, and with a cast led by top Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/David Gallagher
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Performance On 3 – Ulster Orchestra
Thursday 15 May
7.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 3
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Tonight's Performance On 3 is a concert of music designed to impress, performed by the Ulster Orchestra and a conductor who is one of the many young talents to come from Finland, Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen.
The concert opens with Haydn's Symphony No. 96, composed to dazzle audiences in London. This is followed by another piece designed to make an impact – the virtuosic third Piano Concerto by Prokofiev, which also shows off the composer's sharp wit. The pianist is another young talent, Alex Kobrin, who won the prestigious Van Cliburn International competition in 2005, and who has been touring with major orchestras ever since. The final work in the concert, Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony, demonstrates the composer's lighter side, albeit with an undercurrent of subversiveness.
Presenter/Ian Skelly, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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| BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 15 May 2008 |
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The Man From The McCarthy Agency
Thursday 15 May
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Matthew Sweet reveals the untold story of Harold McCarthy, arguably the most powerful British film critic of the 20th century – despite the fact that his name never appeared in a newspaper byline.
From the Thirties to the Sixties, McCarthy supplied reviews of 11,000 films to independent cinema managers from Cork to Calcutta – reviews that shaped what cinema-goers saw on the screen. His reports, simply headed The McCarthy Agency, were broken down into a highly sophisticated ratings system, and contain the most complete record of every film shown in Britain over that 30-year period.
McCarthy's unique archive has only recently come to light and, with the help of Harold's family, Matthew Sweet goes on the trail of The Man From The McCarthy Agency. Along the way he talks to the antiquarian bookseller who originally found the archive, hears from film critics and historians about McCarthy's place in British cinematic history and, rifling through the goldmine of 11,000 reviews, he uncovers a lost world of forgotten cinema, to which McCarthy's work is now the only guide.
Presenter/Matthew Sweet, Producer/Aasiya Lodhi
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Material World
Thursday 15 May
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Even when we're dead and buried, our skeletons can tell a story. They reveal clues about our gender, age, what we ate, how we lived and how we died.
In the field of palaeopathology, or the study of ancient diseases, archaeologists have learned to read the bones and spot the tell-tale signs of tuberculosis and leprosy. But now they're using genetics to dig deeper, and the results could potentially help find new ways to deal with TB today.
Quentin Cooper is joined by archaeologist Charlotte Roberts and geneticist Terry Brown, who have joined forces to try to discover how the TB bacterium has evolved over the centuries. As the project gets under way, they discuss the history of TB; their plans to find, extract and piece together ancient DNA; and what this will reveal about tuberculosis evolution and its ultimate origins.
Presenter/Quentin Cooper, Producer/Pam Rutherford
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Heresy Ep 1/6
Thursday 15 May
6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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David Baddiel, the creator and original host of the show that dares to commit heresy, hands over the reins to Victoria Coren for the brand-new fifth series, overthrowing popular prejudices and ruthlessly examining received opinions.
Each week, Victoria is joined by a panel of guests drawn from Britain's wittiest and most opinionated broadcasters, writers and comedians, as they rip apart the everyday assumptions people tend to take for granted, mixing thoughtful discussion with irreverent humour.
Topics from the worlds of news, sport, popular culture, politics and the arts are all up for grabs. Previous examples include: "It's what's on the inside that counts"; "Prog rock is overblown, pretentious nonsense"; and "Men who go off with young girls and buy Porsches in mid-life crises are pathetic".
In the opening episode of the new series Victoria is joined by former host David Baddiel, among a selection of other original thinkers. Guests on previous series include Jonathan Ross, Zoe Williams, Frank Skinner, Germaine Greer, Russell Brand, Armando Iannucci, Matt Lucas, Alan Davies, David Aaronovitch, Stewart Lee, Peter Bradshaw, Lee Mack, Jimmy Carr and John O'Farrell.
Presenter/Victoria Coren, Producer/Alison Vernon Smith
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Nebulous Ep 1/6
Thursday 15 May
11.00-11.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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The year is 2099. Professor Nebulous returns with his team of inept eco-troubleshooters for a third series of the sci-fi sitcom written by Graham Duff. Nebulous follows the adventures of KENT – the Key Environmental
Non-Judgemental Taskforce – in their struggle against alien threat and ecological disaster.
In the first episode, Genesis Of The Aftermath, Nebulous travels back in time to the day of his greatest experiment. But even given a second chance, can he prevent the destruction of the Isle of Wight?
David Warner is this week's special guest star and the cast includes Mark Gatiss as Professor Nebulous; Graham Duff as Rory; Rosie Cavaliero as Paula Breeze; Graham Crowden as Sir Ronald Rolands; Paul Putner as Harry; Julia Dalkin as Gemini; and Matt Wolf as Clown Father.
Producer/Ted Dowd, Director/Nicholas Briggs
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 15 May 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Thursday 15 May
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers hosts live coverage from the Coca-Cola Football League play-offs, with the second leg of the first semi-final in the League One battle to reach the Championship.
There is also a comprehensive round-up of the day's other sports news, including reaction from the first day of the First Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Francesca Bent
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Thursday 15 May 2008 |
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Test Match Special
Thursday 15 May
10.45am-6.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Jonathan Agnew heads the Test Match Special team with uninterrupted commentary on the first day of the First Test between England and New Zealand, live from Lord's.
Coverage continues tomorrow at the same time on 5 Live Sports Extra.
Presenter/Jonathan Agnew, Producer/Adam Mountford
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 15 May 2008 |
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George Lamb
Thursday 15 May
10.00am-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Seminal US indie band Dinosaur Jr, originally from Massachusetts, whose distorted yet melodic rock was a big influence on Nirvana, formed back in 1984 and were leading lights on the indie scene for some 13 years. After an
eight-year break they re-formed in 2005 and they perform live in the BBC 6 Music Hub ahead of their show in Camden, north London, later tonight.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
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Steve Lamacq
Thursday 15 May
4.00-7.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Tim Burgess from The Charlatans joins Steve Lamacq in this week's Roundtable, discussing the week's new releases.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Gary Bales
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Marc Riley's Brain Surgery
Thursday 15 May
7.00-9.30pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Current darlings of the indie scene, London's Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong, perform in session for Marc Riley.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 15 May 2008 |
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Shazia is furious with Dr Masud for jeopardising her career and wonders if she should make a public statement, but it's too late – the press are outside, as the Asian drama continues.
The journalists accuse Dr Masud of funding terrorist activities. Shazia is told things will get a lot worse if she doesn't give them her side of the story...
Meanwhile, Zak is still hiding away in his room. Nadia tries to talk to him, but Zak just wants to be left alone.
Shazia is played by Shobu Kapoor, Dr Masud by Saeed Jaffrey, the main journalist by Helen Longworth, Zak by Jetinder Summan and Nadia by Sohm Kapila.
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