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| BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 13 May 2008 |
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Icons Revisited – Dusty Springfield Ep 3/5
Tuesday 13 May
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Dusty Springfield is the subject of this week's Icons Revisited as Johnnie Walker continues to host a special season of programmes featuring some of BBC Radio 2's finest music profiles.
Johnnie tells the story of one of the finest singers to come out of Britain. Never confined to a genre, Dusty's voice was as suited to jazz as it was to Pet Shop Boys' electronica, but it was as the queen of white soul that she was acclaimed.
Featuring many of Dusty's biggest hits, the programme includes contributions from Neil Tennant, Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach.
A Girl Called Dusty was last broadcast in 2001, two years after the singer's death.
Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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| BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 13 May 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Frédéric Chopin Ep 2/5
Monday 12 to Friday 16 May
12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Donald Macleod continues to explore the life of Frédéric Chopin, and today explores how he came to the notice of the world, firstly with his variations on La ci darem la mano, which can be heard here in a performance by Emanuel Ax. Celebrity fans included Robert Schumann, whose review of the variations has gone down in history: "Hats off, gentlemen, a genius." Today's vintage recording comes from Artur Rubinstein – the Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise, Op 22, recorded in London in 1935.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Kerry Clark
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Afternoon On 3 – Jansons And Friends
Tuesday 13 May
2.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Choral music by Brahms and Verdi is a feature of this week's programmes showcasing the work of Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons. Today he conducts Verdi's Ave Maria (from the Four Sacred Pieces) and Brahms's little-known Gesang der Parzen (Song Of The Fates); plus a magical overture by Weber and Hindemith's famous piece, Symphonic Metamorphoses, inspired by Weber.
Hindemith himself was an inspiration for German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann, who – unlike Hindemith – stayed in his native country under the Nazis, but went into a kind of "internal exile". The music he wrote, much of it inspired by anger at the horrors of Nazism, was hidden away in a bottom drawer and is only gradually being performed now. Hartmann finished Symphony L’Œuvre, featured in today’s Afternoon On 3, in 1939, but its German première didn't take place until February this year. Today's performance is by the Bavarian
Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Emilio Pomarico.
The programme also features performances by the Latvian Radio Chorus, and a concert by conductor Bernard Haitink with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, whose Principal Conductor is none other than Mariss Jansons.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/David Gallagher
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 13 May 2008 |
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The Frost Collection Ep 1/3
Tuesday 13 May
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Sir David Frost and guests look back at some of the most memorable interviews of Sir David's own long career. With a panel of distinguished guests from the worlds of politics and entertainment, Sir David recalls some of his own favourite moments from five decades in broadcasting.
Although he originally found fame fronting a satirical show, by the mid-Sixties, Sir David was known as one of television's most fearless interviewers, pioneering a more personal and confrontational interviewing style. He soon built up worldwide fame as a broadcaster on the strength of his high-profile interviews with politicians, celebrities and decision-makers.
Over the years, he's met and interviewed many famous figures, from American Presidents and British Cabinet Ministers to world leaders, sporting legends and stars from the world of entertainment.
In this three-part series, Sir David selects extracts from some of his own favourite interviews, which range from Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Mary Whitehouse and John Lennon to his 12-hour in-depth grilling of Richard Nixon. The interviews shine an intriguing light on the relationship between the media and internationally important figures.
Presenter/Sir David Frost, Producer/Paul Bajoria
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The Blues Dance
Tuesday 13 May
1.30-2.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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The unregulated world of the Blues Dance – or Jamaican private club – is a vital chapter in the black history of Britain. Despite its anti-social image, the Blues Dance has had a significant influence on the popular music scene today. Film-maker and DJ Don Letts presents The Blues Dance story from the inside. With musician friends and historians, he reveals the force and cultural impact of this distinctly Caribbean phenomenon.
From the Sixties, Blues Dance took hold across Britain. Large terraced houses in neglected areas, "shebeens" and local school halls were used as venues for all-night parties. Crowds gathered to listen and dance to heavy bass lines of reggae that pumped out from wardrobe-sized speakers.
This programme charts the history of the Blues Dance from the mid-Fifties, when the first wave of West Indian immigrants set up informal basement parties in West London to raise money, through to the Seventies, when they gained prominence across the UK.
Contributors include Linton Kwesi Johnson, Vivien Goldman, Jazzie B (Soul II Soul), King Tubby, Trevor Sax (Saxon Sounds), Daddy G (Massive Attack), Ali Campbell, Caroline Coon, Lenny Henry and Tippa Irie.
Presenter/Don Letts, Producers/Sue Clark and Kate Bland
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Afternoon Play – Women Of An Uncertain Age
Tuesday 13 May
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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When a mutual friend dies, three middle-aged women throw caution to the wind and pursue what they really want, as opposed to what they think they should want. Women Of An Uncertain Age is a funny and touching play about what it's really like to survive the menopause.
This is the third in a trilogy of plays about sex and age by Rony Robinson and Sally Goldsmith. As with the earlier plays, the writers have researched the subject, come up with stories based on real experience, and dramatised them through dialogue and poetry.
Clare, Heather and Kat are thrown together by the death of their friend, Janice. All three are beginning to experience the menopause; all three want change and are restless. The outwardly confident Clare sets out to help her friends – encouraging Heather to write the book of poetry she has always dreamed of and paying for Kat to have proper piano lessons. In return, Kat helps Clare find her long-lost teenage love on the internet but, as Clare waits to meet him, she asks herself if the spark will still be there. Meanwhile, Heather makes a radical decision as Kat triumphantly plays her first public concert.
Rony Robinson is a journalist, playwright and presenter for BBC Radio Sheffield. Recent programmes for BBC Radio 4 include a series which he compiled and narrated about the Berwick Kailer pantomimes in York.
Sally Goldsmith is a songwriter, singer and musician and has written all the original poems in the play. She specialises in developing projects within the community and received the Arts Council Year of the Artist Award for As We Walked Out, a piece researched with South Yorkshire walkers.
Producer/Polly Thomas
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Divided Britain – Teaching Tolerance
Tuesday 13 May
8.00-8.40pm BBC RADIO 4
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The area of Lancashire around Burnley and Pendle contains pockets of some of the worst deprivation to be found anywhere in Britain. It is also marked by intense suspicion between the Asian and white communities.
Local resident Kay is married to an Asian man but says she now feels threatened on her own streets: "There's not a lot of places you can walk without being spat at ... whites feel suffocated, you feel bullied."
Youth worker Mashuq Hussain says: "They think it's a no-go zone – you go in there and you are going to get attacked. I think the problem now is that the white community isn't coming to meet us halfway. We don't have the language barrier any more ... we are quite empowered ... but there still seems to be that lack of understanding of the Asian community."
It's against that polarised background that the education authority, two years ago, introduced a radical re-organisation of schools, designed both to improve classroom performance and to bridge the ethnic divisions in the area.
Marsden Heights Community College, in Pendle, is one of eight new schools that have been created through a series of amalgamations, re-locations and complete rebuilds, costing £250m.
In this BBC Radio 4 special, Gerry Northam reports on the College's progress to date. Encouraged by the results of a recent Ofsted inspection, head teacher Mike Tull says things are improving academically. However, with an increasing majority of Asian-heritage pupils, he is struggling to attract children from the white community, where many parents are opting for other schools in the area: "It would be very easy to term it as the emotive phrase 'white flight'," he says.
"Obviously we are anxious to avoid that. We are sharing our excellence as widely as we can around the community in a bid to secure a fully comprehensive mix in terms of ability, ethnicity and social background. We don't want the scales to be tipped against us in any way."
Presenter/Gerry Northam, Producer/Sally Chesworth
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Mouth Trap Ep 1/4
Tuesday 13 May
11.00-11.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Are you a professional woman who wants it all and has it all, who isn't ashamed to buy another pair of shoes? Are you a full-time mum with a variety of interests who isn't ashamed to drop out of the rat race for the sake of the kids? Are you a professional mum with a variety of shoes who isn't ashamed to drop her kids in the rat race?
Whoever you are, you have a busy, exciting, empowering lifestyle and are invited to listen to Mouth Trap – a stimulating show for stimulated women (and the right sort of men), which deals with the issues that really matter.
Mouth Trap is a new magazine programme that takes the language and grammar of media aimed at women in order to poke fun at the mixed messages, hypocrisy and confusion that surrounds being a 21st-century woman.
Mouth Trap is written by and stars Katy Brand and Katherine Parkinson, who play the two hosts, Susan Blakeley (Brand) and Frankie Maybury. Their inane banter provides a hub around which topical discussions and daring out-and-about features circle.
The cast also includes Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Zoe Gardner and Gareth Tunley.
Producer/Lucy Armitage
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 13 May 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Tuesday 13 May
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers hosts live coverage of the Coca-Cola Football League play-offs, as well as a full round-up of the day's big sports stories.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Haydn Parry
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Tuesday 13 May 2008 |
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The news of Fatima's death spreads. The police take Dr Masud in for questioning but he won't tell Shazia why, as the Asian drama continues.
Kuljit tells the police what he knows about Talib and is shocked to see Dr Masud there. Kuljit thinks he's another person Talib has stitched up.
Sway, meanwhile, is appalled at his friend's prejudice and wonders if Kuljit should be at Fatima's funeral, as it seems he doesn't have Zak's best interests at heart...
Dr Masud is played by Saeed Jaffrey, Shazia by Shobu Kapoor, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Talib by Rachid Sabitri and Sway by Mark Monero.
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