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Don't Start Me Talking About... The Beatles Ep
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Friday 13 June
7.00-7.30pm BBC RADIO 2 |
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John, Paul, George and Ringo – they changed the world, but how did they change our lives? This latest addition to BBC Radio 2's oral history series tells the story of The Beatles in the words of their fans, offering a unique insight into the way the Fab Four impacted on the everyday and the commonplace.
Don't Start Me Talking About... The Beatles captures the thoughts of some of the band's earliest fans and the people swept along by Beatlemania during the Sixties and beyond. How did The Beatles change attitudes to music, sex and drugs? And what effect did they have on the way people dressed, or looked at the world?
Producer/Mark Hagen
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Friday Night Is Music Night
Friday 13 June
7.30-9.15pm BBC RADIO 2
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Paul Gambaccini introduces tonight's edition of Friday Night Is Music Night from LSO St Luke's, featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra performing a selection of music by Clive Richardson, Aram Khachaturian and, in his centenary year, the American master of Light Music, Leryo Anderson.
Tonight's guests include The Diamond Divas – aka sopranos Caroline Childe, Chloe Wright and Matilde Wallevik – and BBC Radio 2 Folk Singer of the Year Julie Fowlis.
Presenter/Paul Gambaccini, Producer/Jodie Keane
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 3 Friday 13 June 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Paul Hindemith Ep 5/5
Monday 7 to Friday 13 June
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Donald Macleod concludes his look at the rise and fall of Paul Hindemith, in this week's final Composer Of The Week offering.
At the time of his death in 1963, Hindemith was regarded as one of the most respected musicians of the time, but he had lost all influence on the next generation. As if to confirm this, Hindemith spent much time in his later years on a project completely out of kilter with the concerns of the avant-garde, working on his opera Harmonie der Welt. In it, Johannes Kepler, the 17th-century astronomer, philosopher and musician, tries to come to terms with the function of the artist in society.
Kepler's obsession with the harmony of the spheres and attempts to relate mathematical proportions in the structure of musical sounds to proportions in the orbits of the planets was a theme which Hindemith found attractive, having himself developed a universal musical system based on fundamental acoustical principles. The opera is "the consummation of his artistic and philosophical beliefs".
Presenter/Donald MacLeod, Producer/Megan Jones
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Performance On 3
Friday 13 June
7.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 3
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The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra (CBSO) bids a fond farewell to its outgoing Music Director, Sakari Oramo, with a performance of two life-affirming masterpieces.
Janácek's Sinfonietta, which the composer said was intended to express "contemporary free man, his spiritual beauty and joy, his strength, courage and determination to fight for victory", is followed by Beethoven's final symphonic statement – the Ninth "Choral" Symphony – an anthem for humanity with its famous vocal setting of Schiller's Ode To Joy.
The CBSO is joined for the Beethoven piece by the CBSO Chorus and soloists Lisa Milne (soprano), Jane Irwin (mezzo-soprano), Gordon Gietz (tenor) and Matthew Rose (bass). Today's concert was recorded at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, on 11 June at the culmination of a European tour.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Jazz Library
Friday 13 June
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 3
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Jazz drummer Roy Haynes explores his personal Jazz Library with Alyn Shipton this evening.
Now 83 years old, there are few more respected figures in jazz drumming than Roy Haynes. His wealth of experience has led to a vast recorded legacy, and he guides Alyn through some of his personal highlights. He is particularly illuminating on what it was like to take over from Elvin Jones in the classic Coltrane Quartet, when Jones was temporarily in prison, and also recounts his experiences with Charlie Parker and Bud Powell.
Haynes's recent bands feature a remarkable cast list of star names including Kenny Garrett, Roy Hargrove and his trumpet-playing son, Graham Haynes. Starting with his big band discs with Luis Russell in the Forties, Haynes brings listeners right up to date with his latest work from 2006.
Presenter and Producer/Alyn Shipton
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Jazz On 3
Friday 13 June
11.30pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Jez Nelson presents a concert by cult Australian improvising trio the Necks, recorded at a sell-out gig at London's Vortex jazz club in May.
Necks have garnered a huge fan base worldwide for their unbroken, wholly improvised sets and unearthly, minimalist textures. The band is Chris Abrahams on piano, Tony Buck on drums and Lloyd Swanton on bass.
Three of Australia's most in-demand players, Abrahams, Buck and Swanton have played on over 200 albums collectively. As a group, Necks have released over a dozen albums, and their soundtrack to Rowan Woods's 1998 film The Boys was named best soundtrack album at the prestigious Australian Recording Industry Association awards.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Robert Abel
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 4 Friday 13 June 2008 |
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Afternoon Play – Septimus Greabe
Friday 13 June
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Set in the 19th century after William Wilberforce has successfully campaigned to ban the slave trade, Septimus Greabe is today's Afternoon Play offering.
Wilberforce now turns his attention to morality at home. His Society for the Suppression of Vice – the SSV – employs seedy Septimus Greabe to investigate the private lives of suspected sinners. Septimus is assisted by the idealistic Adam Wright, who falls for Wilberforce's rebellious daughter, Hannah. Adam suddenly finds himself under investigation by the unscrupulous Septimus, who will stop at nothing to protect the SSV and the lucrative income it provides him.
David Troughton plays Septimus Greabe, Will Keen plays Thomas Buxton, Kellie Shirley plays Hannah, Paul Jesson plays John Bowles, Joseph Merceron plays Nigel Cooke and Perdita Avery plays Eva Bowles.
Producer/Clive Brill
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 13 June 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Friday 13 June
4.45-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents a packed evening of sporting action and brings listeners live commentary from Zurich, as World Cup holders Italy play Romania at 5pm. There is also live commentary from Berne, as France face Holland in one of the biggest games in the group stages of the tournament. Kick off is at 7.45pm.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Haydn Parry
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Friday 13 June 2008 |
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Tennis
Friday 13 June
12.00-5.00pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Listeners can hear commentary from the quarter-finals of the Artois Championships, the pre-Wimbledon tournament, at London's Queen's Club.
Producer/Steve Rudge
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
Cricket And Rugby League
Friday 13 June
5.15-9.15pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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BBC 5 Live Sports Extra brings listeners uninterrupted commentary on the Twenty20 international between England and New Zealand, live from Old Trafford.
There's also second-half commentary on the match between St Helens and Bradford in the engage Super League.
Producer (Cricket)/Adam Mountford
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 13 June 2008 |
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Friday 13 June
9.00-10.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Bob Dylan begins a trip Around The World this week. Selections include Down In Mexico by The Coasters; Warren Zevon's Werewolves Of London; Sous le ciel de Paris by Edith Piaf; and Blue Canadian Rockies by The Byrds.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/XM Satellite Radio
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Bruce Dickinson's Rock Show
Friday 13 June
10.00pm-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC
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Bruce Dickinson welcomes crossover, genre-hopping outfit Senser to his Rock Show this evening.
Renowned for their support of anti-racist organisations such as the Anti-Nazi League, the band has performed at major festivals in the past, including Glastonbury and Reading, as well as supporting Moby on tour.
Their lead vocalist, Heitham Al-Sayed, treats listeners to an exclusive play of tracks taken from their forthcoming, as yet untitled, album and chats about how their UK tour is going and whether it is a challenge to stay at the cutting edge of alternative music.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Friday 13 June 2008 |
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Krishan finds a snake at the City farm and asks Pradeep what to do with it, in this final visit of the week to Silver Street. Krishan is told to use his initiative so decides to take it home. However, he manages to scare the life out of Roopa and then Arun discovers the snake on his bed.
Vinnie, meanwhile, is just about to settle down with a dvd and a bottle of beer when there is a knock at the door. It's Arun, and it looks like he's here to stay.
Krishan is played by Rahual Das, Pradeep by Ashvin-Kumar Joshi, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Arun by Naithan Ariane and Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Friday 13 June 2008 |
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Bomb Hunters
Friday 13 June
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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More than 30 years after the end of the Vietnam War, Bomb Hunters tells how people living in Xieng Khuang, in Laos, manage to cope in a land still littered with unexploded landmines and bombs.
In the town of Phonsavan, people use shell casings as fences. Unexploded bombs are forged into axes, sickles, cow bells, rice cookers, belt buckles, ladders and boats and cluster bombs with tripod-shaped fins are fitted with light bulbs and used as lamps.
The problem is that people who have grown up with bombs in their houses often don't appreciate the danger when they come across them outside. Scrap metal is the region's new cash crop and increasing numbers of people, almost half of them children, are injured or killed while scavenging for bomb casings and other armaments.
Presenter/Angela Robson
BBC World Service Publicity
Heart And Soul – What
Happens When I Pray?
Friday 13 June
3.30-4.00pm BBC WORLD SERVICE |
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Presenter John Sutherland, a police superintendent from London who believes in the power of prayer, takes a look at the process and meaning of prayer across the religious spectrum, in this edition of Heart And Soul.
John explores the diversity of prayer, listening to voices from across the full range of religious belief, from Quakers who worship in silence to the rich prayer ritual of Buddhists and Muslims, and unpicks the role of prayer in the modern world – where many sceptics regard it as a waste of time.
Presenter/John Sutherland, Producer/Anne Khazam
BBC World Service Publicity
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