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| BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 14 May 2008 |
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Mike Harding
Wednesday 14 May
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Mike Harding is joined by Irish folk singer Cara Dillon and her husband and producer Sam Lakeman.
Having taken an 18-month career break, following the birth of twin sons, Cara Dillon has returned with major plans for 2008, including a new single and album, a major tour of the UK and the release of her debut DVD, The Redcastle Sessions.
Jim Moray, the recipient of several BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, selects his top five Tour Bus Tunes, including tracks by Chris Wood and Andy Cutting and rising star Laura Marling.
Mike also presents his pick of the latest in folk, roots and acoustic-based music.
Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While
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| BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 14 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 greatest influential composers of piano music. In the run-up to BBC Radio 3's The Chopin Experience, Donald Macleod continues to explore the composer's life and music. Listeners can enjoy his music – beloved of pianists the world over and the pinnacle of 19th-century romanticism – including a vintage recording each day.
On Wednesday, Donald explores Chopin's love life. George Sand may have been the most important woman in Chopin's life, but she was by no means the only one, as today's stories of unrequited love reveal. Music includes the Polonaise Brilliante in C major, Op 3, played by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, Maurizio Pollini performing some of the Op 10 Etudes, and today's vintage recording, the Fantaisie in F minor, Op 49, performed by Solomon.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Kerry Clark
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Performance On 3 – City Of London Sinfonia
Wednesday 14 May
7.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 3
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As part of the Brighton Festival, the City of London Sinfonia gives a Vaughan Williams anniversary concert with its director Richard Hickox, one of the foremost interpreters of British music.
Opening with the ever-popular Wasps Overture, the programme includes the Songs Of Travel, in their less well-known orchestral arrangement, with the Canadian baritone Gerald Finley.
The concert culminates in a performance of the rarely heard musical drama Riders To The Sea. The text is based on a tragic, one-act play by Irish playwright JM Synge, which centres on a grief-stricken Irish fishing community. For all its brevity, it has been called the "English Pelleas" for its equal matching of music and text.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Janet Tuppen
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 14 May 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Wednesday 14 May
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers hosts live football as the season reaches its climax with coverage of the UEFA Cup Final from the City of Manchester Stadium and the Coca-Cola Football League play-offs.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Haydn Parry
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 14 May 2008 |
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Marc Riley's Brain Surgery
Wednesday 14 May
7.00-9.30pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Marc welcomes experimental pop group School Of Language to the studio for a chat and to perform a live session.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
6 Music Plays It Again
Wednesday 14 May
9.30-10.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Stuart Maconie presents a profile of the idiosyncratic Icelandic singer, composer, actress and producer Björk Gottmundsdottir.
The profile concludes tomorrow, Thursday 15 May, on BBC 6 Music.
Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 14 May 2008 |
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Roopa is being comforted by Aidan who offers to go to Fatima's funeral with her. As they wait, Roopa tells Aidan how well she got to know Fatima in such a short time.
Zak is released from police custody and heads home with a heavy heart.
Later, Zak tells Jamil that he can't face the funeral. Jamil says Fatima would understand. This makes Zak feel worse but it's debatable whether he will change his mind.
Roopa is played by Rakhee Thakrar, Aidan by Arkie Reece, Zak by Jetinder Summan and Jamil by Shiv Grewal.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 14 May 2008 |
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Chico Mendez – Father Of The Forest
Wednesday 14 May
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Twenty years after Chico Mendes's assassination in 1988, BBC World Service marks the life and the legacy of the green activist.
Mendes fought to stop the logging of the Amazon Rainforest. He founded a national union of rubber tappers in an attempt to preserve their profession and the rainforest it relied on.
With exclusive interviews with the Mendes family and surviving supporters, this documentary reflects on how the changing face of the rainforest galvanised Chico Mendes into action. It examines how his actions highlighted the plight of the Amazon internationally and how he can be credited with preserving vast tracts of land. Currently, more than eight million acres of rainforest are protected.
Those closest to him talk about the day Mendes was assassinated and how world-wide media coverage of that tragic event led to the creation of an environmental campaigning force in Brazil, which is supported by the Mendes family to this day.
Producer/Kevin Dawson
BBC World Service Publicity
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