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| BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 4 June 2008 |
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Mike Harding
Wednesday 4 June
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2 |
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Mike Harding catches up with Bert Jansch and Jacqui McShee, from legendary British folk group Pentangle, just ahead of their 40th anniversary reunion tour of the UK.
For six years, spanning 1967-73, this folk jazz supergroup pushed boundaries and explored new musical avenues. In 2007, the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards paid tribute to Pentangle by awarding them a Lifetime Achievement Award. In a moment of folk history, Bert, Jacqui and the other three original members – John Renbourn (guitar), Terry Cox (drums) and Danny Thompson (bass) – re-formed for a special performance.
Mike chats to Bert and Jacqui to find out how the group first got together and what it's been like to revisit material that they haven't played in almost 40 years.
Pentangle can also be heard in session on Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC 6 Music on Sunday 1 June at 5pm.
Rising folk star Bella Hardy also reveals what she's currently listening to in Tour Bus Tunes. Her selections include Swedish group The Cardigans and Ella Fitzgerald.
Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While
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Trevor Nelson
Wednesday 4 June
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 2 |
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Trevor Nelson is joined by UK R&B star Craig David, who is touring the UK after the release of his fourth album late last year.
Trevor also revisits classic soul with an Album Of The Week from Chic, while other music comes from King Floyd, Marvin Gaye and Jamiroquai.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Ollie Embden
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| BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 4 June 2008 |
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Afternoon On 3 – Venice
Wednesday 4 June
1.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Venice in all its glory is celebrated throughout the week on Afternoon On 3 with music spanning four centuries.
The ducal chapel of San Marco was the most important centre for music throughout Renaissance times, reaching a peak during the Baroque period. Monteverdi, Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli and their Venetian contemporaries all feature prominently through the week.
A week of music from Venice would not be complete without a performance of the Vespers of 1610 by Monteverdi, which features in this afternoon's programme. This concert was performed by La Capella Ducale and Musica Fiata in the reverberant acoustics of Speyer Cathedral as part of the Schwetzingen Festival, using solo voices.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Helen Garrison
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Performance On 3
Wednesday 4 June
7.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Tenor Mark Padmore continues his series of Wednesday evening Schubert song cycles, specially recorded at London's Wigmore Hall for Performance On 3, with Die Winterreise, partnered by pianist Julius Drake.
The songs – settings of poems by Wilhelm Müller – depict the sorrow of the disregarded lover. After his beloved has married someone else, he quits the town and follows the river and the steep ways to a village. Having longed for death, he is at last reconciled to his loneliness. The cold darkness and barren winter landscape mirror the feelings in his heart, and he encounters various people and things along the way which form the subject of the successive songs during his lonely journey.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Anthony Sellors
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The Essay – Greek And Latin Voices Ep 3/4
Monday 2 to Thursday 5 June
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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The Essay – Greek And Latin Voices continues with an exploration of the Ancient Greek lyric poet, Sappho.
Award-winning Irish poet Eavan Boland recalls her first encounter with Sappho, as a young graduate student at Trinity College Dublin, and how she integrated the persona and poetry of Sappho into her own work. She reads from her own poem, The Journey, a celebration of the discovery of antibiotics in which the figure of Sappho, Dante-like, accompanies her on a journey to the Underworld, where she witnesses the suffering of so many women of the past.
Presenter/Eavan Boland, Producer/Beaty Rubens
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| BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 4 June 2008 |
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After The Floods – Hull: One Year On Ep 2/2
Wednesday 4 June
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4 |
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Michelle Dewberry, former winner of BBC One's The Apprentice, revisits her home town of Hull one year after the city was devastated by flooding, in the concluding part of After The Flood.
Michelle returns to the city to find out why it flooded in the first place, and what the chances are of it happening again. She investigates why the consequences of this flooding were so devastating and how effective the clean-up has been.
Michelle felt very involved in the consequences of the flooding because it touched her personally. Michael Barnett, who died trapped in a storm drain while the emergency services tried vainly to free him, was an old school friend and Michelle's brother and his young family were made homeless by the flooding. Even her old school, Sydney Smith Secondary, lay under three feet of filthy water.
The first part of After The Floods – The Toll Bar Refugees can be heard on Monday 2 June at 11am.
Presenter/Michelle Dewberry, Producers/Isobel Williams and Fiona Cotterill
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Afternoon Play – The Highest Tide
Wednesday 4 June
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4 |
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Katherine Helmond and Forrest Landis star in this atmospheric coming-of-age adventure story by American author Jim Lynch, adapted for radio by Rebecca Trick-Walker.
At night, 13-year-old Miles goes out in a boat on his own, exploring the Pacific coast near his parents' house and looking for rare sea creatures to sell to the local aquarium. One night he comes across a startling and remarkable sight: a giant squid. A news team arrives to report on this enormous monster, and Miles becomes a local celebrity. He gets carried away and predicts a freak high tide, and that even more amazing discoveries will come before it.
Forrest Landis plays Miles, with Katherine Helmond as Florence and Missy Yager as Angie. Jim Lynch's debut novel, The Highest Tide, won the prestigious Pacific Northwest Booksellers Award in 2006.
Producer/Kate McAll
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The Moral Maze Ep 1/9
Wednesday 4 June
8.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 4 |
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Michael Buerk returns with a new series of The Moral Maze, and welcomes back regular team members – writer, broadcaster and former MP Michael Portillo; journalist and Director of the Centre for Journalism Studies at Cardiff University, Ian Hargreaves; journalist and author Melanie Phillips; and religious affairs specialist Clifford Longley – for a live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories.
Each week, Michael and his guests cross-examine expert witnesses on a particular topic for a combative, provocative and engaging listen. Recent topics have included whether, as the world's people are growing hungry, it is morally acceptable to grow crops for fuel; and how far parental choice should be allowed when it comes to selecting embryos for IVF.
Presenter/Michael Buerk, Producer/Phil Pegum
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 4 June 2008 |
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5 Live Sport – Euro 2008 Preview
Wednesday 4 June
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE |
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Mark Saggers presents a round-up of all the sports news of the day, followed at 8pm by 5 Live Sport's preview of Euro 2008 – including the latest news and big-name interviews ahead of the tournament, which starts this weekend.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Haydn Parry
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Wednesday 4 June 2008 |
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Cricket – Friends Provident Trophy Quarter Finals
Wednesday 4 June
10.45am-8.00pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA |
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BBC 5 Live Sports Extra brings listeners coverage from all four cricket quarter finals of the 50-over-a-side knockout competition.
Producer/Adam Mountford
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 4 June 2008 |
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Nemone
Wednesday 4 June
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC |
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As Nemone continues her holiday, Tim Simenon from Bomb The Bass joins the lunchtime show for a chat. The band were one of the leading innovators from the Eighties and Nineties Acid House movement, and also had one of the first sample-based chart hits.
Presenter/tbc, Producer/Jax Coombes
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 4 June 2008 |
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Vinnie and Arun are competing for the flat above the restaurant, in today's visit to Silver Street. Arun ups the stakes by offering to do the onions for a month, but Vinnie reckons he can top that. Mani realises there is an opportunity here and puts both boys to work.
Jaggy and Sameer spend the evening together. Jaggy chats about his forthcoming wedding, and Sameer says he isn't looking forward to going back to work. Maybe it's time for a change of direction...
Vinnie is played by Saikat Ahamed, Arun by Naithan Ariane, Mani by Kaleem Janjua, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani and Sameer by Alex Caan.
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 4 June 2008 |
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Age Of Terror Ep 1/4
Wednesday 4 June
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE |
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Award-winning journalist Peter Taylor explores four significant militant attacks of the last 30 years, with special radio adaptations of his acclaimed recent TV series tracing the modern history and development of terrorism through these major acts of terror.
Combining interviews with the people involved and archive material, each programme analyses an event which has influenced our world, politics, psychology and culture.
Peter begins with the story of the 1976 El Al plane hijack. The Israeli plane, hijacked by Palestinian members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and German Marxist members of the Baader-Meinhof gang, was flown to Uganda. The crisis culminated after a week, with an Israeli commando raid on Entebbe airport – a resolution which has become a legendary point of reference for any national government responding to terrorism to this day.
Presenter/Peter Taylor, Producer/Neal Razzell
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