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| BBC RADIO 2 Monday 16 June 2008 |
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Big Band Special
Monday 16 June
10.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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As architecture critic Tom Dyckhoff examines whether Britain's declining seaside resorts can reverse their fortunes on The Culture Show, BBC Radio 2's Big Band Special joins up with BBC Two for a musical celebration at Morecambe's Midland Hotel.
In the hotel's newly restored art deco surrounds, the BBC Big Band performs music recalling the golden days of dance bands and big bands, including those led by Henry Hall, Jack Payne and Ted Heath.
Presenter/Clare Teal, Producer/Bob McDowall
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The Jools Holland Show
Monday 16 June
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Jools Holland is joined by Nell Campbell, an actress and singer probably best known for her role as tap-dancing Columbia in the original stage production and film adaptation of The Rocky Horror Show.
Nell's diverse choice of music features David Bowie, opera singer Maria Callas and jazz singer Al Bowlly.
Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston
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Marc
Riley's Musical Time Machine Ep 1/6
Monday 16 June
11.30pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Marc Riley delves into the BBC's archives to unearth six vintage rock interviews that marked turning-points in the careers of some of our biggest music artists.
In the opening programme, Marc looks back to 1977, the year Her Majesty The Queen celebrated her Silver Jubilee and Elvis, the King of Rock 'n' Roll, died. It was also the year in which EMI released the Sex Pistols from their recording contract and Simon John Ritchie – aka Sid Vicious – replaced original Pistols bassist Glen Matlock.
Listeners can hear Sid Vicious and front man Johnny Rotten chatting to Radio 1's John Tobler about their brand-new album, Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols. Three decades on, Tobler also shares his thoughts about this seminal moment in music history.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Ian Callaghan
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 3 Monday 16 June 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week –
Augusta Holmès (1847-1903)
And Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944) Ep 1/5
Monday 16 to Friday 20 June
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Donald Macleod charts the lives of two Parisian composers who were born just a decade apart but whose lives and music were polar opposites.
Augusta Holmès was hailed by Saint-Saëns as "France's muse" and the woman he'd most like to marry. A striking, charismatic figure, she enjoyed a bohemian lifestyle, living with writer Catulle Mendès and sparking much speculation over her relationship with her teacher, César Franck. Indeed, her uncoventional lifestyle overshadowed her music somewhat but her determination to be a composer was absolute. A talented dramatic soprano, Holmès's bravura performances in the Paris salons formed a showcase for her music, which was bold and written on a grand, sometimes visionary scale, including a work for 1,200 performers commissioned for the Universal Exhibition of 1889.
By contrast, Cécile Chaminade is best remembered as a musical miniaturist, a purveyor of perfection in small piano works and as the composer of the Concertino for Flute, a standard of the instrument's repertoire. She was so famous during her lifetime that her face appeared on Morny soap boxes and, in America, music clubs were formed in her name. She was admired by Queen Victoria and was the first woman composer to receive the Légion d'Honneur. Her private life was a different matter, however: she famously had a platonic marriage to a man 20 years her senior. By her own admission, her first love was music and she once declared herself "its nun, its vestal".
This week Donald is joined by Professor Marcia Citron, author of a definitive study of Chaminade, and Karen Henson, a published authority on Holmès, to unravel the myths and re-evaluate these two largely forgotten figures in musical history. They begin today with a look at the family backgrounds of both women and listeners can hear some of their earliest works, including Holmès's Irlande and Chaminade's Concertstück.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Johannah Smith
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BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Monday 16 June
1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Canadian bass-baritone Gerald Finley has established himself as one of the world's finest operatic and Lieder singers, with a voice described by one American reviewer as possessing "an easy luxury". In this recital, broadcast live from London's Wigmore Hall, he is joined by his regular recital partner, pianist Julius Drake, in settings of German songs by Grieg and a selection of Schumann's settings of words by the great Romantic poet Heinrich Heine.
Finley received his early training in Ottawa but completed his studies in the UK, at King's College, Cambridge, and at the Royal College of Music in London. His recordings have received great critical acclaim, as have his opera performances, which include the title role of the Royal Opera House's recent production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin.
Presenter/Sarah Walker, Producer/Felix Carey
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Afternoon On 3
Monday 16 June
2.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Penny Gore launches a week of music with an Alpine connection, including recordings by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and choral music by Swiss composer Frank Martin.
Today she introduces music with a trans-Alpine link. The programme pairs German composer Hans Pfitzner's Preludes from his opera Palestrina, with Italian Ferruccio Busoni's Violin Concerto in D major, which is performed by violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann. Both pieces are taken from a concert by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande under conductor Marek Janowski.
Four recordings of choral music by Swiss composer Frank Martin are featured this week, beginning today with In Terra Pax, an oratorio for five vocal soloists, two mixed choirs and orchestra, commissioned by Radio Geneva to mark the end of the Second World War.
Penny also looks beyond the Alps to bring listeners music from the East, as recordings by the China Broadcasting Chinese Orchestra and pianist Lang Lang herald the first week of BBC Radio 3's China Season, Focus On China.
Presenter/Penny Gore, Producer/Felix Carey
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC
FOCUS ON CHINA
The Essay – English Takeaway:
Reflections On The Anglo-Chinese Encounter Ep 1/4
Monday 16 to Thursday 19 June
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Cultural and political writer Patrick Wright presents four essays that invert the dominant contemporary take on China and Britain, examining four historical episodes of Chinese engagement in Britain and interpreting their significance for mutual understanding – and misunderstanding.
The first essay of the week focuses on the 1851 Great Exhibition, a time when British imperial grandeur collided with perceived Chinese "primitivism".
Presenter/Patrick Wright, Producer/Simon Coates
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World On 3
Monday 16 June
11.15pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Charlie Gillet is joined by Natacha Atlas, a Belgian-born singer and belly dancer of Moroccan, Egyptian and Palestinian descent. Natacha first made her name as lead vocalist with Transglobal Underground in the early Nineties but now performs with the eight-piece Mazeeka Ensemble, a group she assembled with British arranger Harvey Brough (of Harvey And The Wallbangers).
Between tracks, Natacha joins Charlie to play and talk about records from her collection that have a particular significance and, in turn, Charlie plays records prompted by Natacha's choices.
Mazeeka Ensemble mix instruments from several countries and eras to achieve a truly eclectic sound: baroque guitar, darbuka, accordion and psaltery (an ancient Greek zither), alongside double bass, piano, cello and more. The repertoire is similarly broad-minded, encompassing songs by Lebanese legend Fairuz, Egyptian film songs from the Fifties and Scottish folk, as well as original compositions by the band's members.
Presenter/Charlie Gillett, Producer/James Parkin
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| BBC RADIO 4 Monday 16 June 2008 |
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Book Of The Week – The Pain And The Privilege:
The Women In Lloyd George's Life Ep 1/5
Monday 16 to Friday 20 June
9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4
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Ffion Hague investigates the role played by women in the life of British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.
In her recently published book, The Pain And The Privilege, the wife of former Conservative leader William Hague explores Lloyd George's 50-year marriage to his Welsh sweetheart, Margaret. Margaret was a formidable woman in her own right and, according to the author, one of the greatest prime minister's wives of modern times. However, Margaret found high-profile life in London hard, particularly during times of great political drama. The marriage also had to contend with Lloyd George's 20-year affair with Frances Stevenson, his personal secretary, who was half his age.
The Pain And The Privilege – The Women In Lloyd George's Life is narrated by Ffion Hague. Richard Elfyn and Liz Sutherland read extracts from the diaries of Lloyd George and Frances Stevenson.
Reader/Ffion Hague, Producer/Duncan Minshull
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Woman's Hour Drama –
The Way We Live Right Now Ep 1/15
Monday 16 to Friday 20 June
10.45-11.00am BBC RADIO 4
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Henry Goodman, Dexter Fletcher and Nyasha Hatendi star in this remix of Anthony Trollope's satirical novel about money, markets, greed and dishonesty – and the trouble into which they lead people.
Mysterious international financier Ghassan Mehmoud (Goodman) has money but not the profile he craves. Handsome ex-tennis star Felix "Flex" Carbury (Fletcher) is a notorious celebrity but he's running out of money. And young entrepreneur Paul Montague (Hatendi) wants to change the world for the better but needs money to do it. Together, the world is theirs for the taking – but everyone else must pay for it.
Mehmoud finds a way to use celebrity to inspire the market's confidence in a major new flotation. He devises a scheme that will make everyone concerned so rich that no one would dare to burst the bubble, regardless of what is really happening behind the scenes.
The cast also includes Sheridan Smith, David Bamber and Lucy Montgomery. The Way We Live Right Now is dramatised by Jonathan Myerson.
Producer/Jonquil Panting
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
If You're Reading This
Monday 16 June
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4
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Before going to war or entering a battle zone, members of the Armed Forces are encouraged to write a letter which will be sent to their loved ones in the event of their death. This programme explores the stories behind these letters.
If You're Reading This features soldiers who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan, who describe what it is like to have to write such an emotional letter. Families who have lost loved ones and received their last letters also reveal the heartache and emotions they have experienced.
Featuring the voices of real soldiers, their families and friends, as well as actors, the programme explores the poignant, poetic and sometimes humorous contents of these letters and asks whether this is something everyone should consider doing.
If You're Reading This also features letters from the American Civil War and both the First and Second World Wars, and includes letters written by American soldiers currently serving in Iraq, many of whom have grabbed the opportunity take an angry last stand against George Bush and the legality of the war.
Producer/Sian Price
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Unaccustomed Earth Ep 1/5
Monday 16 to Friday 20 June
3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4
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Linked by the Bengali immigrant experience, these four short stories from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri explore the dark secrets of family life.
Hell-Heaven, read by Nina Wadia on Monday, tells the story of how a Bengali mother's lonely life in America is eased when she meets a charismatic young Indian man. But her secret infatuation comes close to devastating a family.
In Unaccustomed Earth, read in two parts by Indira Varma on Tuesday and Wednesday, the death of a mother leaves a space neither daughter nor husband knows how to fill. However, both realise that, back in India, things would have been very different.
On Thursday, Once In A Lifetime, read by Nina Wadia, tells the story of two Indian families who share a house in suburban Massachusetts. One of the families returns from a trip to India much changed.
The week wraps up with Year's End, read by Hari Dhillon, in which a young man visits his father three years after his mother's death and struggles to accept his new, young, Indian wife.
Readers/Various, Producer/Justine Willett
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
A Failure To Provide
Monday 16 June
8.00-8.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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The tradition of children caring for their elderly parents and relations is part of the culture of South Asians. But in Britain today, conventional family structures are breaking down and more British Asians than ever before are living away from home, meaning that no one is left to care for their elders.
As a result, many second- and third-generation young British Asians are sitting on a ticking time-bomb with regard to elder care. In this programme, investigative journalist Yasmeen Khan explores the options open to them, ranging from "abandonment" to sending their elderly relations back "home".
Many Asian elders regard seeking external help as shameful, a sign of family failure, and consider going into a care home tantamount to "abandonment". Elderly parents are often left to while the days away at the local mosque or temple, or are even shipped off to ex-pat care homes in India and Pakistan.
Yasmeen Khan, who is facing these issues herself, travels around the UK to meet British Asians of all backgrounds and faiths to learn first-hand their experiences, fears and solutions to the issue of elder care.
Presenter/Yasmeen Khan, Producer/Neil Gardner
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Hitting The Buffers Ep 1/2
Monday 16 June
9.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Technology guru Gareth Mitchell looks at humans' need for speed and asks what's stopping us getting faster.
People are obsessed with speed – on the road, in the air, at home or in sport. Over the last century, the human body and man-made transport have been pushed to the limit and speed record after record has been broken. In this two-part series, speed enthusiast Gareth asks if the upper limits have been reached.
In the first programme, he looks at transport and asks if the promise of faster and more comfortable travel is being replaced by a push towards greener but slower. He also speaks to former land speed record holder Richard Noble and examines the heyday of land speed records in the mid-20th century.
In the second programme, Gareth undergoes tests to discover if his body is made for speed. He also speaks to athletes, biologists and trainers to find out if the limit of human speed has been reached.
Presenter/Gareth Mitchell, Producer/Michelle Martin
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Happy
Mondays – Spike's Lookalikes Ep 1/3
Monday 16 June
11.00-11.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Ardal O'Hanlon stars in stand-up Mark Watson's first sitcom for BBC Radio 4.
Ardal plays Spike, whose efforts to run a successful lookalikes agency are continually undermined – invariably by himself. Loveable but thoroughly useless, Spike is bailed out on a regular basis by his wife, Maggie, office boy and lookalike wannabe Phil, and their friends, Jimmy and Sandie.
Spike's client list is diverse, if nothing else, and includes a Del Boy, a Posh Spice and a Pope John Paul II.
In the first episode, To Del And Back, Jimmy, Spike's Del Boy impersonator, has had enough and has decided to pack in the lookalikes game and fulfil his dream of being a dentist in Spain. But as Jimmy is about the only one of Spike's clients who actually gets booked, Spike has to pull out all the stops to change his mind.
Spike's Lookalikes also stars Doon Mackichan and Bruce Mackinnon.
Producer/Sam Hoyle
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 16 June 2008 |
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5 Live Sport – Euro 2008
Monday 16 June
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents build-up and commentary from the final Euro 2008 matches in Group B, featuring Austria v Germany and Poland v Croatia (kick-off 7.45pm). One game will be broadcast on BBC Radio 5 Live, along with updates from the other. Listeners can hear full commentary on the other match on BBC 5 Live Sports Extra. More details will be announced closer to the broadcast.
There is also a look ahead to Royal Ascot, which starts tomorrow, and all the other top sports stories of the day.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Adrian Williams
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Monday 16 June 2008 |
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Euro 2008
Monday 16 June
7.35-9.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Uninterrupted commentary comes from one of the final round of group matches in Group B at Euro 2008 (coverage of the other match in the group can be heard live on BBC Radio 5 Live).
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 16 June 2008 |
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Nemone
Monday 16 June
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Nemone catches up with the director behind the Video Of The Week, which comes from new singer-songwriter Kaki King.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Marc Riley
Monday 16 June
7.00-9.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Marc Riley invites Glaswegian four-piece The Twilight Sad into the studio for a chat and live session. The Twilight Sad tasted success in 2007 with the release of their highly lauded debut album, Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters, and triumphant sets at South By Southwest and the Pitchfork Festival. They are currently in the middle of a UK tour.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 16 June 2008 |
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Krishan is concerned that the mela music will scare the city farm's animals, as the Asian soap returns for another week. Sway laughs at Krishan's concerns and tells him he's too busy to discuss it. So when Krishan bumps into Shazia, he decides to bend the local MP's ear instead.
Meanwhile, Dr Masud gets a visit from someone claiming to be Kamal's friend, but it soon transpires that the visitor has a hidden agenda.
Krishan is played by Rahual Das, Sway by Mark Monero, Shazia by Shobu Kapoor and Dr Masud by Saeed Jaffrey OBE.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 16 June 2008 |
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Race And Reconciliation Ep 1/3
Monday 16 June
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Audrey Brown investigates the extent to which race still plays a part in everyday life in South Africa.
Sixty years on from the start of apartheid, Audrey asks if issues of race and reconciliation can co-exist comfortably and whether racism can ever truly be eradicated in South Africa. She also questions whether acknowledging the existence of racial tension runs counter to the "Rainbow Nation" image that South Africa has been trying to promote.
Presenter/Audrey Brown, Executive Producer/Andrea Rose
BBC World Service Publicity
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