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Sarah Kennedy
Monday 2 to Friday 6 June
6.00-7.30am BBC RADIO 2
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Special guests including Irish singing star Daniel O'Donnell join Sarah Kennedy this week to explain why faith is a feature of their lives and work in Pause For Thought.
Also reflecting on the moments of inspiration that prompted a reappraisal of their spirituality are: fitness guru Rosemary Conley; comedy double act Cannon & Ball; Charlotte and Daisy from classical girl group All Angels; and Cash In The Attic presenter Alistair Appleton.
Presenter/Sarah Kennedy, Producer/Carmela DiClemente
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Jools Holland
Monday 2 June
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Jools Holland is joined by Billy Bragg, along with Kirsty MacColl's mother, Jean, for a programme remembering the talented singer-songwriter.
Jean talks about the book she has written, charting her daughter's life, music career and untimely death, and Billy performs A New England, the song he wrote and with which Kirsty had a Top 10 hit in 1985. He also joins Jools and his Rhythm Section for a performance of I Keep The Faith, from his new album, Mr Love & Justice.
Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston
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Brass Britain Ep 3/4
Monday 2 June
11.30pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Brassed Off star Stephen Tompkinson continues this celebration of the UK's long love affair with brass music with a look at what that film did for brass banding in Britain. Contributors include composers Nigel Hess and Michael Nyman, who reflect on how brass bands have permeated popular culture, from film and TV scores to pop music.
Presenter/Stephen Tompkinson, Producers/Rosemary Foxcroft and Ashley Byrne
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| BBC RADIO 3 Monday 2 June 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week –
François Couperin (1668-1733) Ep 1/5
Monday 2 to Friday 6 June
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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François Couperin belonged to a dynasty of musicians that is to France what the Bach family is to Germany. From the late 16th century to the middle of the 19th century, four generations of Couperins held important positions in the musical life of France, with half a dozen in Royal service. However, François's nickname – "Couperin le Grand" (Couperin the Great) – distinguished him from other members of this extraordinary clan. Today, he is best known for his exquisite and plentiful harpsichord music, organ works and gorgeous sacred choral music, which feature througout this week's programmes.
Donald Macleod begins the composer's story by exploring the rise of the Couperins, from rural life in Chaume-en-Brie to their establishment as professional musicians in Paris.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Johannah Smith
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Afternoon On 3 – Venice
Monday 2 June
2.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Venice in all its glory is celebrated throughout this week in Afternoon On 3, which features music spanning four centuries.
Arias heard for the first time during the 19th century in the city's famous opera house, La Fenice, are a major feature of this afternoon's programme. There is also a chance to hear an acclaimed musical recreation of one of Venice's most famous events,"Lo Sposalizio" – celebrating the wedding of Venice to the Adriatic Sea – performed by The King's Consort. Beginning as a simple devotional service, offering prayers to San Nicolò to ask for his continued protection of mariners, the ceremony grew into a large festival which included the symbolic wedding.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Helen Garrison
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Performance On 3
Monday 2 June
7.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 3
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The Ulster Orchestra gives a concert of much-loved music from around the world, under the baton of Kenneth Montgomery, recorded at Belfast's Waterfront Hall.
The evening begins with Aaron Copland's popular classic, El salón México, an evocation of a Mexican dance hall, packed with Latin American rhythms with which Copland hoped to capture the "humanity, dignity and charm" of the Mexican people.
Belfast-born pianist Barry Douglas joins the Orchestra for Beethoven's tenderly lyrical Fourth Piano Concerto, and the concert ends with Prokofiev's Fifth Symphony – music which, as the composer put it, "glorifies the human spirit". Written in wartorn Moscow in 1944, it was a tremendous success.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Anthony Sellors
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The Essay – Greek And Latin Voices Ep 1/4
Monday 2 to Thursday 5 June
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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There are more Greek And Latin Voices on the airwaves as The Essay returns with an exploration of Ancient Greek lyric poet, Sappho, perhaps the most intriguing of all the authors covered in the series.
Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos from around 630BC and her talents as a musician and poet were hugely celebrated in ancient times. Of the nine books of lyrics she is said to have composed, just a single poem survives complete, the rest are fragments. However, mere mention of her name continues to conjure up ideas of love, desire, sex, marriage and lesbianism.
In the first essay of the week, Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Oxford and Greek consultant to the series, introduces Sappho's work, discussing the challenge of piecing it together from numerous scattered fragments found on ancient papyri, and reflects on its appeal to contemporary audiences.
Presenter/Christopher Pelling, Producer/Beaty Rubens
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World On 3
Monday 2 June
11.15pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Lopa Kothari presents highlights of a concert by Malian singer, percussionist and n'dan player Adama Yalomba, recorded in Belgium last year.
Adama Yalomba grew up in a farming village in rural Mali. His father was a farmer but was also a virtuoso on n'dan, a six-stringed instrument that is traditionally played to welcome home those who have been abroad. Adama became an accomplished singer, percussionist and n'dan player himself and formed his own band.
Lopa also introduces Brazilian songs from Gilberto Gil, a track from the new CD by the so-called "king of falafel techno", Max Pashm, and an outrageous take on English nursery songs by veteran Bollywood singer Asha Bhosle.
Presenter/Lopa Kothari, Producer/Roger Short
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| BBC RADIO 4 Monday 2 June 2008 |
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Book Of The Week – Clean Ep 1/5
Monday 2 to Friday 6 June
9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4
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BBC Radio 4 submerses itself in Katherine Ashenburg's unsanitised history of washing.
Today it's taken for granted that the daily shower is a routine ritual for most Westerners, but we haven't always thought that way. From the Romans' bawdy baths to lice-ridden French aristocrats and 21st-century germophobes, the history of civilisation has never looked so dirty...
Brimming with literary references, examples of some fantastically euphemistic advertising and tales of downright mucky monarchs, Katherine Ashenburg peeks behind the shower curtain of Western history to get to the grubby bottom of how our notion of what's "clean" has shifted throughout the ages.
Writer Ashenburg has worked as an academic, CBC Radio producer and as arts and books editor for the Globe And Mail. She has written for the New York Times and her books include The Mourner's Dance.
Readers to be confirmed.
Producer/Clive Brill
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
After
The Floods – The Toll Bar Refugees Ep
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Monday 2 June
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4 |
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Last June, the North of England experienced some of its worst flooding for 60 years. In this series, BBC Radio 4 hears from two communities who have been struggling to get their lives back to normal ever since.
Reporter Kate Betts tells the stories of the residents of Toll Bar, a village near Doncaster, in the first programme. When villagers were forced out of their homes by flooding last June, 50 families decided to accept the local council's offer to house them on a nearby caravan site so that they could stay together as a community. As the one-year anniversary approaches, Kate learns how they coped and hears from those who remain on the site, wondering when they will be able to move back into their homes.
Listeners can hear the second part of the series, After The Floods – Hull: One Year On on Wednesday 4 June.
Presenter/Kate Betts, Producer/Sarah Taylor
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The Maltby Collection Ep 1/6
Monday 2 June
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Julian Rhind-Tutt and Geoffrey Palmer return in a new series of the sitcom set in a museum, written by David Nobbs, creator of Reginald Perrin.
Rod Millett (Rhind-Tutt) continues his battle to modernise the beleaguered London museum, negotiating love interests, mid-life crises, count-the-dog competitions and a wedding along the way.
The cast also includes: Rachel Atkins, Ben Willbond, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Geoffrey McGivern, Julia Deakin, Michael Smiley, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Chris Pavlo and Barry Cryer.
Producer/Colin Anderson
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Afternoon Play – Shredder
Monday 2 June
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Gwen Taylor stars as Bella, a woman who wants an obituary to die for, in Juliet Ace's play.
Bella realises that she needs to cover her tracks if she's to keep her children in happy ignorance of her life's murkier moments, so she invests in a shredder. Starting with her birth certificate, which reveals her unfortunate real name, Bella sets about destroying the past. She hopes to have sanitised her life before she reaches her 70th birthday – an occasion her children plan to celebrate with a party and some rather surprising guests.
The cast also includes Stephen Thorne, Avril Elgar, Helen Longworth, Nyasha Hatendi, Steve Hodson and Stephen Critchlow. Juliet Ace has written for EastEnders and The Archers, as well as a number of single plays for radio.
Producer/Jane Morgan
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Spy Stories Ep 1/5
Monday 2 to Friday 6 June
3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4
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A week of outstanding American and British readers treat listeners to a treasure trove of classic spy stories from the 1800s to the present day.
The week begins with Alphonse Daudet's The Child Spy, read by Martin Jarvis. Set during the Siege of Paris in 1870, it features a young boy whose attempts to raise a few francs provoke the most terrible consequences.
On Tuesday, American actor Stacey Keach reads Parker Adderson, Philosopher, by Ambrose Bierce. It describes an encounter between a dignified Confederate general and a captured spy during the American Civil War.
Wednesday's A Double Double-Cross, by Peter Cheyney, is read by Rosalind Ayres. In this romantic tale of counter-espionage, a beautiful French spy and an affable British Intelligence agent find themselves in competition with each other.
Ted Allbeury's The Rocking-Horse Spy is read by big-screen star Alfred Molina on Thursday. A modern tale of espionage, it begins with a chance encounter at the Science Museum in London that leads to an agonising moral dilemma.
The week would not be complete without an appearance by Britain's most famous spy and, on Friday, Martin Jarvis brings 007 to the airwaves as he reads Ian Fleming's Risico, in which James Bond is sent to Rome to investigate a case of drug-trafficking.
Readers/Various, Producers/Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 2 June 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Monday 2 June
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE |
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Arlo White presents an evening of sports news and debate. At 8pm, the Monday Night Club tackles the main football issues. At 9pm, 5 Live Boxing packs a punch with all the latest news and big-name interviews. The evening also features news from the French Open tennis at Roland Garros.
Presenter/Arlo White, Producer/Ed King
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Monday 2 June 2008 |
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French Open Tennis
Monday 2 June
10.00am-7.00pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Sports Extra serves up live commentary from the second week of the Grand Slam tournament at Roland Garros.
Producer/Steve Rudge
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 2 June 2008 |
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George Lamb
Monday 2 June
10.00am-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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British electro-rockers Does It Offend You, Yeah? perform live in the 6 Music Hub and chat to George Lamb.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
6 Music Plays It Again –
Purple Reign: The Prince Story Ep 1/4
Monday 2 June
9.30-10.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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As Prince prepares to celebrate his 50th birthday, 6 Music gives listeners another chance to hear Mica Paris tell his story.
In the first programme, Mica examines Prince's best releases of the Eighties, from the controversial funk rock of Dirty Mind to the breakthrough success of 1999 and the epoch-defining Sign O' The Times. She also explores his work as a producer for such artists as Sinead O'Connor, The Bangles and Alicia Keys.
The programme features contributions from Chaka Khan, Alexander O'Neal and former member of The Time, Jimmy Jam, plus members of The Revolution.
Presenter/Mica Paris, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 2 June 2008 |
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Nadia and Simran catch up over coffee, as the Asian soap returns for another week. Nadia tells Simran that she wishes her folks would accept Sway being around, and Simran confides that she had to take drastic action to repair the relationship with her father.
Meanwhile, Krishan is hanging around the café again. Jodie notices a necklace and thinks that it's another surprise gift from Kuljit. Later, Roopa says that she has one just like it – and that the bracelet Jodie is wearing looks just like the one Rita has lost...
Nadia is played by Sohm Kapila, Simran by Balvinder Sopal, Krishan by Rahual Das, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi and Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar.
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Asian Network Report – I Dream Of Bollywood
Monday 2 June
6.30-7.00pm BBC ASIAN NETWORK |
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In a special documentary as part of BBC Asian Network's Bollywood Month, Love Bollywood presenters Raj and Pablo ask whether a British Asian could be the next Shahrukh Khan.
Actor Upen Patel reflects on his journey from Wembley to Mumbai and what it was like to star in the 2007 film Namastey London. It's not been an easy ride, he explains, as prejudices and his Hindi have held him back. Raj and Pablo also hear from Geeta Basra from Portsmouth, who talks about being one of Bollywood's sexiest item girls and her ambition to be a female lead.
With a new Bollywood acting school opening in Ealing later this year, Asian Network Report asks whether the path will become a little easier for the ordinary, working-class British Asians who dream of Bollywood – or whether model looks, family connections and pots of money are the only way in.
Presenters/Raj and Pablo, Producer/Perminder Khatkar
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 2 June 2008 |
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Countdown To The Olympics Ep 1/2
Monday 2 June
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Gerry Northam investigates claims that the abuse of human rights and civil liberties in China have worsened in the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games.
When China won the bidding war to host the Olympics, its political leaders had to promise to clean up its human rights record or risk at best censure or at worst cancellation. However, with weeks to go, Beijing smog seems of more concern than issues of freedom, equality and justice. Tibet has proved to be a bit of an embarrassment – one can hardly ignore pictures of protesting and injured monks – but widespread claims of internal injustice do not seem to have been given the same oxygen of publicity as the mounting sense of athletic ambition and patriotic pride.
The International Olympic Committee says now that the Olympics and human rights are an unhealthy and unhelpful mix and that the Olympics "transcend politics". This seems to contrast with the Olympic Charter, which demands respect for "universal fundamental ethical principles" and the promotion of a "peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity".
Many believe that behind the Olympic gloss and glamour there lies a story of human rights abuses that governments and the International Olympic Committee are ignoring for the sake of the success of the Games in the short term and business interests in the long term.
Presenter/Gerry Northam, Producer/David Coomes
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