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| BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 5 June 2008 |
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Bob Harris Country
Thursday 5 June
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Harris features a live session from the Felice Brothers on his Country show this evening.
An authentic outlaw country band from the Catskill Mountains of New York, Ian, James and Simone Felice are three brothers (of seven children) who formed the band in 2006 with their friend Christmas Fraley, who was previously a travelling dice player.
Over the last two years, they have spent time touring America in a dilapidated school bus, experiencing life on the road "with arrests and genuine panhandler fun".
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Thursday 5 June
11.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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It's Ladies' Night on tonight's edition of Theme Time Radio Hour, as Bob Dylan turns his attention to the theme of Women's Names.
Music featured on the programme includes: Peggy Sue by Buddy Holly; Lola by The Kinks; Mandy Is Two by Billie Holiday; Claudette by Rob Orbison; Mona by Bo Diddley; and Zindy Lou by The Chimes.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Phil Hughes
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| BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 5 June 2008 |
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Performance On 3
Thursday 5 June
7.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 3
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Charles Hazlewood conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra in an all-Satie programme recorded at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall on Tuesday 3 June.
Tonight's Performance On 3 gives full rein to Satie's quirky eccentricity, including the iconoclastic ballets Parade – requiring a siren, a revolver and a typewriter – and Relāche, which created a stir for exposing the pretentiousness of "serious" theatre. Along with echoes of the music hall, the "grimaces" written for a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and the ever popular Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes, this rare all-Satie selection proves how serious the composer was about the absurd – despite Debussy's description of him as "a gentle Medieval musician lost in this century".
One of the most fascinating figures in music, Satie lived his early adulthood in poverty. "We didn't eat every day, but we never missed an aperitif," claimed a friend. A bohemian and scandalist, he cultivated interests in mysticism and gothic art, took to eating only "white food" and calmly continued to challenge the comfortable complacency of bourgeois society.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Anthony Sellors
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Night Waves Landmark
Thursday 5 June
9.45-10.30pm BBC RADIO 3
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Matthew Sweet and guests explore Lawrence Of Arabia and the stories behind its making, as part of a Night Waves Landmark series which examines great cultural works.
A century after the birth of film director David Lean, Night Waves takes an in-depth look at his 1962 epic. Its hero is the enigmatic British soldier Thomas Edward Lawrence and stars Peter O'Toole in the title role, alongside Omar Sharif and Alec Guinness. The film was nominated for 10 Oscars and won seven, including Best Director for Lean.
Presenter/Matthew Sweet, Producer/Sally Spurring
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The Essay – Greek And Latin Voices Ep 4/4
Monday 2 to Thursday 5 June
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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BBC Radio 3's The Essay – Greek And Latin Voices concludes this evening with the final essay of the week exploring the life and work of the Ancient Greek lyric poet Sappho.
Although Sappho's talents as a musician and poet were hugely celebrated in ancient times only one poem, of the nine books of lyrics Sappho is said to have composed, has survived complete – the rest are fragments. This adds to her enigmatic image and is perhaps one of the things which make her so appealing to contemporary audiences.
Barbara Graziosi, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Durham, considers why people sometimes value the fragmentary over the whole.
Presenter/Barbara Graziosi, Producer/Beaty Rubens
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| BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 5 June 2008 |
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Things Fall Apart
– Chinua Achebe's Lament
Thursday
5 June
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4 |
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Fifty years ago, Chinua Achebe's first novel, Things Fall Apart, set the literary landscape ablaze by depicting a previously unseen Africa.
Its themes of how a culture becomes corrupted, the clash of civilisations and father-son tensions still resonate and Achebe's success is such that the book has sold more than 10 million copies and has been translated into 55 different languages.
In this celebration of the novel, Zina Saro-Wiwa travels to New York to meet Chinua to find out why he believes the book has such a lasting legacy. Zina also speaks to Orange literary prize-winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie who, some say, is Achebe's 21st-century daughter.
Presenter/Zina Saro-Wiwa, Producers/Elizabeth Idienumah and Mark Rickards
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Material World
Thursday 5 June
4.00-4.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Modern astrophysics is tackling fundamental questions such as "What is the origin and fate of our Universe?", "How were its basic blocks assembled?" and "Are we alone?" To tackle these issues, modern astrophysics relies on the combined power of both space and ground-based observatories, which collect data covering the whole electromagnetic spectrum – from gamma-rays to very low radio frequencies and the new world of neutrinos and gravitational waves.
A major component in this worldwide strategy is to deploy huge ground-based optical collectors with exquisite image quality – dubbed ELT (Extremely Large Telescopes). One is planned for North America and Europe has proposed its own. In this week's edition of Material World, Quentin Cooper is joined by researchers who are at the forefront of plans for the creation of Europe's first ELT.
Presenter/Quentin Cooper, Producer/Fiona Roberts
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 5 June 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Thursday 5 June
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents sports news and debate including French Open tennis and the first day of the Third Test between England and New Zealand.
At 8pm, Darren Gough's cricket show debates the sport's main issues with big-name guests.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Mark Williams
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Thursday 5 June 2008 |
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Cricket – Test Match Special
Thursday 5 June
10.45am-6.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Jonathan Agnew leads the commentary on the opening day of the Third Test between England and New Zealand at Trent Bridge.
Presenter/Jonathan Agnew, Producer/Adam Mountford
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 5 June 2008 |
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George Lamb
Thursday 5 June
10.00am-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Californian folk four-piece Port O'Brien guest on George Lamb's show today and perform live in the 6 Music Hub.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 5 June 2008 |
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Bill hasn't been sleeping since Fatima's accident but hopes things will improve after tomorrow's inquest, as the Asian drama continues. Dr Masud tells Bill he's off to the surgery to clear his desk, but he gets a pleasant surprise when he arrives.
Jaggy and Simran, meanwhile, discover a cancellation means they could bring their wedding forward to August. Simran starts to panic, however, and things get worse when she realises she is losing control of the most important day of her life.
Bill is played by Robin Bowerman, Dr Masud by Saeed Jaffrey, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani and Simran by Balvinder Sopal.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Thursday 5 June 2008 |
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One Planet – Carbon Trading Ep 1/2
Thursday 5 June
10.30-11.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Major flaws in carbon offsetting, the UN's main mechanism for dealing with climate change, are investigated in this One Planet two-parter.
Carbon offsetting allows the developed world to offset its carbon emissions by paying for emission-cutting projects in the developing world. Integral to this is the "additionality" test whereby the developing world projects must show that without the additional (carbon-credit) money, the projects would not, and could not be, implemented.
If these projects would have taken place in any case, then no emissions are being saved and millions of dollars will have been wasted.
Presenter/Mark Gregory, Producer/David Edmonds
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