Programme Information

Wednesday 11 June 2008

BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 11 June 2008

Trevor returns with another hour of the very best in soul music.

The Album Of The Week is a classic from 1975 – Donald Byrd's Places And Spaces.

Other music on the night comes from Andre 3000, Nuyorican Soul, and Alicia Keyes, while Your Jam gives listeners a chance to pick their favourite soulful track.

Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Ollie Embden

BBC Radio 2 Publicity

top^

BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 11 June 2008

Donald Macleod attempts to unravel Hindemith's stance on the political changes in Thirties Germany. At first, it seems he didn't take the National Socialist dictatorship seriously, writing to a friend: "They are idiots, they won't last."

Very reluctant to leave his beloved Germany, he tried throughout the Thirties to work out a way of living under the regime. There were signs of growing official favour with regard to his music and by the time of the premiére of the Mathis der Maler Symphony by the Berlin Philharmonic under Furtwängler in March 1934 his acceptance by the regime seemed to be complete.

But pressure began to come close to home as his wife was not Aryan (her father was Jewish), and the success of the symphony was soon overshadowed by a radio ban on his works, after it was alleged that Hindemith had made critical remarks about Hitler in Switzerland.

Still he held on, in hope, only giving up in 1938 to move to Switzerland and then the USA: " ... at last to live like a real composer ... ".

Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Megan Jones

BBC Radio 3 Publicity

top^

In the last of his three concerts featuring the song cycles of Schubert, Mark Padmore is joined by Roger Vignoles in Schwanengesang at London's Wigmore Hall. Although the title (Swansong) and the order of the songs is the work of a publisher eager to cash in after Schubert's death, the various settings treat that subject so dear to German Romanticism: "sehnsucht", meaning longing or yearning.

As Mark Padmore himself writes: "The variety is astonishing: strophic songs such as Frühlingssehnsucht and Abschied, where every verse brings out a different aspect of the music; a brooding ballad, Kriegers Ahnung, with its distant rumble of war; the delightful Ständchen, a serenade that outdoes even Mozart. And then the extraordinary Heine songs: Atlas Who Has Gambled For The World And Lost; Die Stadt, with its impressionistic harmony painting, a vision worthy of the Styx; and Der Doppelgänger, a song of urban terror, like a short story by Kafka, illustrated by Munch. And, after all this, and the hundreds of songs that have gone before, comes Die Taubenpost, the pigeon-post. To be touched and moved by this song is, I think, to get to the essence of Schubert."

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen

BBC Radio 3 Publicity

top^

BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 11 June 2008

In a special edition of Thinking Allowed, produced in association with the Open University, Laurie Taylor travels to Harlem in New York to explore the changes the "capital of black America" has undergone since the Sixties.

Harlem is transforming. The "capital of black America" made it through the cultural ferment of the Sixties, the disinvestment and urban decay of the Seventies and the rampant crime and crack house era of the Eighties, only to find that its greatest threat could be the investment now pouring into New York's famous black neighbourhood. Harlem is finally gentrifying. The brownstone apartment houses that line Marcus Garvey Park are being gutted, re-fitted and sold for upwards of $3 million – even during the "credit crunch".

Laurie speaks to Harlem's long-term residents, some of whom feel the very culture of Harlem – radical centre of politics, music and religion – is now under threat. He meets outspoken minister Reverend James Manning, who has organised a black boycott of Harlem businesses to try and halt the area's economic revival.

He meets sociologist Lance Freeman, who thinks gentrification is the key to Harlem's salvation and the only way to revive inner cities. And he talks to historian Michael Henry Adams, who claims that the wholesale rebuilding of the area amounts to a process of "ethnic cleansing" which will drive black people out of Harlem.

Producer/Charlie Taylor

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

top^

BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 11 June 2008

Listeners can enjoy live commentary from Geneva as the Czech Republic take on Cristiano Ronaldo's Portugal at 5pm, and live commentary as co-hosts, Switzerland, play Turkey in Basel at 7.45pm.

Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Mark Williams

BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity

top^

BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Wednesday 11 June 2008

BBC 5 Live Sports Extra brings listeners coverage from the opening round of matches in this season's Twenty20 Cup.

Producer/Adam Mountford

BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity

top^

BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 11 June 2008

Marc Riley welcomes duo The Dodos into the studio to perform in session.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

BBC 6 Music Publicity

top^

Gideon Coe showcases session tracks and concert highlights from Sigur Ros at Glastonbury in 2003 and, from the Union Chapel (2003), the Tribute To Gram Parsons Show, featuring The Lemonheads' Evan Dando and Ed Hardcourt, among others.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock

BBC 6 Music Publicity

top^

BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 11 June 2008

Arun Chauhan (Naithan Ariane)
nearly gets lucky this week...

Rita and Pradeep are turning Kamla's old room into a dining room. Rita suggests Aidan could be their first dinner guest but Roopa doesn't think so. Arun reckons this should be a new bedroom – he's had enough of sharing with Krishan.

Vinnie and Sean admire the talent amongst Roopa's college friends, except it's Arun who ends up meeting someone. But then Pradeep turns up and ends up blowing any chance Arun might have had...

Rita is played by Bharti Patel, Pradeep by Ashvin-Kumar Joshi, Aidan by Arkie Reece, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Arun by Naithan Ariane, Krishan by Rahual Das, Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed and Sean by Lloyd Thomas.

BBC Asian Network Publicity

top^

BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 11 June 2008

Award-winning journalist Peter Taylor explores four significant militant attacks of the last 30 years in these special radio adaptations of his acclaimed recent BBC TV series.

Combining interviews with the people involved and archive material, each programme analyses an event which has influenced politics, psychology and culture.

Peter Taylor looks at 10 days of terror in the Eighties, which changed the political landscape of Northern Ireland. In 1987, a cargo containing Libyan arms bound for Ireland was intercepted in French waters. In the same week, IRA plans to bomb a memorial service in the border town of Enniskillen were approaching completion.

Presenter/Peter Taylor, Producer/Neal Razzell

BBC World Service Publicity

top^