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RADIO 1 Sunday 22 June 2008 |
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Rob da Bank
Sunday 22 June
12.00-2.00am BBC RADIO 1 |
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Rob da Bank features a SONAR special in tonight's show. SONAR, in Barcelona, Spain, is now in its 15th year and has established itself as one of the premier experimental music festivals, featuring both brand-new and established acts all pushing sonic boundaries.
Having spent the weekend at the festival recording the most exciting music, Rob showcases all the highlights including Northern State, Little Dragon, Kid Acne and Matmos, plus many more.
Presenter/Rob da Bank, Producer/Paul Thomas
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| BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 22 June 2008 |
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Michael Ball's Sunday Brunch
Sunday 22 June
11.00am-1.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Michael Ball is joined by Petula Clark, with whom he starred alongside in BBC Radio 2's production of Sunset Boulevard in 2004, on this week's show.
Star of the stage, screen, TV, radio and the music charts, Petula has recorded in excess of 1,000 songs and sold more than 70 million records. Since becoming a child star during the Second World War, Petula has been in the entertainment business for 60 years.
Her new album, Then & Now – The Very Best Of Petula Clark, features new recordings alongside a collection of her hits.
Also this week, Michael Prescott reviews the papers and Angie Errigo is on hand with the entertainment guide.
Presenter/Michael Ball, Producer/Fiona Day
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Elaine Paige On Sunday
Sunday 22 June
1.00-2.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Harry Gregson-Williams, one of Hollywood's most successful composers, is Elaine Paige's special guest this week as she continues to celebrate the best of Broadway, Hollywood and the West End.
Harry's early mentors included Stanley Myers and Hans Zimmer, with whom he worked on The Lion King, and Harry's own film scores include Armageddon, Chicken Run and
Shrek 2. His most recent work can be found on the big screen in Prince Caspian.
Today he discusses his favourite film scores which include The Shawshank Redemption (1994), Oliver! (1968) and The Jungle Book (1967).
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Sunday Half Hour
Sunday 22 June
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Brian D'Arcy introduces hymns to commemorate the death of St Alban in this week's edition of Sunday Half Hour.
Music is provided by the choir and congregation of St Peter's Church in St Alban's. The musical director is Nicholas Robinson and the organist is Alexander Flood.
Hymns include When I Needed A Neighbour, O Jesus I Have Promised and Through All The Changing Scenes Of Life.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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| BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 22 June 2008 |
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Private Passions
Sunday 22 June
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Michael Berkeley invites the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, to share his Private Passions this week.
Dr Williams's choices reflect his love of words, and he includes two poetry readings among his selections: one of his own poems which reflects on the events described in Bach's St Matthew Passion, and another by Geoffrey Hill, inspired by John Dowland's "Lachrimae" Pavan for lute.
His musical choices include sacred vocal music by Byrd and Britten; vintage recordings of Bach's Concerto for oboe and violin; and Schumann's Piano Concerto and a Welsh folksong, reflecting his deep love of his native country.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Classic Arts
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The Choir – Great Voices Of Bulgaria
Sunday 22 June
6.30-8.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Aled Jones presents a concert given by the Great Voices of Bulgaria, in front of a capacity audience at the Bath International Festival of Music earlier this month.
The Great Voices of Bulgaria, founded in 1971 by the father of the choir's current conductor, have become well known for their arresting style of singing and have helped to make Bulgaria's vibrant folk tradition world famous. Here, they perform the distinctive and often plangent traditional folksongs for which they are known. Unusually, however, they also include religious songs from the Orthodox Church, and conductor Ilya Mihaylov explains to Aled that although modern Bulgarian churches typically use classically trained voices in their services, the folk voices and style may be more authentic. He argues that when this music was originally written, the only voices available to sing it would have been traditional folk choirs.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Chris Taylor
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Drama On 3 – Bazajet
Sunday 22 June
8.00-9.40pm BBC RADIO 3
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Jean Racine's tragedy, Bazajet, is this week's Drama On 3 offering. Translated by Booker Prize-winning author Alan Hollinghurst, Bazajet has been described as Racine's most violent and most frightening play, with characters driven by sexual desire and a lust for power.
Set in a harem in Constantinople in 1835, Racine's tragic love story of a woman falling in love with the wrong man is based on an actual event which had taken place only 30 years earlier, and which he had heard of from the French ambassador to Constantinople.
Hollinghurst's translation for an Almeida Theatre production 18 years ago was the first time the play had been performed in this country, and this production is the first professional revival of Hollinghurst's translation.
The cast includes Bertie Carvel as Bajazet, Victoria Hamilton as Roxane, Claire Price as Atalide and Michael Pennington as Acomat.
Director/Jane Morgan, Producer/Frank Stirling
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BBC FOCUS ON CHINA
Sunday Feature – Flowers In The Backyard:
China And Its Minority Cultures
Sunday
22 June
9.40-10.25pm BBC RADIO 3
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Isabel Hilton reports from China's capital, Beijing, on the country's uneasy relationship with its minority cultures, in this week's Sunday Feature. China consists of 56 ethnic groups, with the dominant Han Chinese making up 90 per cent of the country's population.
The numerous ethnic peoples scattered around the fringes of this vast nation were traditionally regarded as exotic, but backward and of little cultural value. Notions of "progress" and "civilisation" against which cultural value were measured were mainly derived from socialism or from the majority Han culture.
In recent times, though – with greater cultural freedoms in China, a massive internal migration and new forms of cultural representation by artists from non-Han backgrounds – minority cultures are suddenly of greater interest. They offer to younger generations of Han both a spiritual refuge and an escape from the material obsessions and sterility of modern urban life and official culture. This developing interest has recently been upturned by unrest in several minority areas.
Isabel talks to Han writers and academics who have broadened their own understanding of China through ethnic cultures. She also meets cultural figures from a variety of ethnic minorities who describe their experiences of living within such a massive majority.
Presenter/Isabel Hilton, Producer/Anthony Denselow
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Words And Music – The Wanderer
Sunday 22 June
10.25pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 3
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Words And Music presents a sequence of un-narrated poetry, prose and music around the theme of The Wanderer this week – a theme that has inspired a wealth of writers and composers – with readings by Rufus Sewell and Indira Varma.
The Wanderer covers the journeys of the pandavas in the Indian epic The Mahabharata, as well as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in Simon Armitage's recent translation and Harrison Birtwistle's Gawain's Journey, from his opera Gawain. The Wanderer crosses continents in Bruce Chatwin's Songlines – accompanied by Kevin Volans's string quartet inspired by that book.
Words And Music goes back to the 10th century with the old English poem The Wanderer, depicting man's struggle to find his way in the world. In John Masefield's poem, The Wanderer's Song, and Rudyard Kipling's Mandalay, the wanderer wants to escape the mundane. The freedom of life on the road is celebrated in the traditional Raggle Taggle Gypsy, with the unmistakeable sound of the gypsy guitarist, Django Reinhardt and Ravel's rhapsodic Tzigane.
The programme also touches on the theme of pilgrimage – with TS Eliot's Journey Of The Magi leading into Gibbons's weaving Fantasia, George Herbert's The Pilgrimage and Vaughan Williams's Pilgrim's Progress.
Readers/Rufus Sewell and Indira Varma,
Producer/Jessica Isaacs
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| BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 22 June 2008 |
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On Your Farm Ep 1/8
Sunday 22 June
6.35-7.00am BBC RADIO 4
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Farmers in the UK complain about the amount of form-filling and bureaucracy they have to endure but, as Elinor Goodman discovers, in France it can be much worse, as On Your Farm returns to BBC Radio 4 for a new series.
Elinor visits the Lot-et-Garonne region of south-west France to meet Robin and Caroline Pollitt, who left the UK five years ago to purchase a dilapidated six-hectare farm. On just one acre of that land they have planted raspberries and blackcurrants, which they then transform into jam, coulis and cakes. To keep the farm going, the couple also run a cattery and kennels on site to look after the pets belonging to the many ex-pats in the area, but their real love is getting to know the French family farmers in the area and embracing their way of life. The day the ex-pats take over, they say, will be the day they move on.
Presenter/Elinor Goodman, Producer/Fran Barnes
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Desert Island Discs
Sunday 22 June
11.15am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Kirsty Young invites Health Minister and pioneering surgeon Professor Sir Ara Darzi to choose his Desert Island Discs this week.
Professor Darzi is internationally recognised for developing minimally invasive surgery – the technique that allows surgeons to operate through small incisions. Originally Armenian, he studied medicine in Ireland and qualified from The Royal College Of Surgeons. He was knighted in 2003.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 22 June 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Sunday 22 June
12.00-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Eleanor Oldroyd is at Donington Park this afternoon with all the build-up to today's live motor sport, cricket, athletics and football.
From 1pm, 5 Live Formula 1 comes live from Magny-Cours for coverage of the French Grand Prix, with commentary from David Croft, Maurice Hamilton and Holly Samos.
Then, from 3pm, there is live Moto GP coverage from Donington, plus the pick of the races from the second day of the European Cup athletics.
Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Oli D'albertanson
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5 Live Sport – Euro 2008
Sunday 22 June
7.30-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents live Euro 2008 coverage of the fourth quarter-final match in Vienna. John Murray, Simon Brotherton and Graham Taylor provide the commentary.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Claire Ackling
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Euro 606
Sunday 22 June
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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As Euro 2008 reaches its final stages, Danny Baker is on hand to take listeners' calls and comment on the matches so far.
Fans can watch the debate on interactive digital TV via the Red button, and give their views on the tournament to Danny by phone: 0500 909 693 (free from BT landlines), text: 85058 (at network rates) or email: 606@bbc.co.uk.
Presenter/Danny Baker, Producer/Patrick Campbell
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 22 June 2008 |
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Sunday 22 June
12.00-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC |
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Bob Dylan continues his trip Around The World tonight and features a selection of music, including Ferry Cross The Mersey by Gerry & The Pacemakers; Celia Cruz's Africa; When The Swallows Come Back To Capistrano by The Ink Spots; and Whole Wide World by Wreckless Eric.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
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