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Listen To The Band
Friday 11 July
9.30-10.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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The SWT Woodfalls Band in session with conductor Melvin White feature in today's programme, presented by Frank Renton.
Woodfalls village is nine miles south of Salisbury on the edge of the New Forest. Despite having fewer than a thousand inhabitants, its enthusiasm for music is traditionally very high and musical talent is in abundance.
Recent band performances have included concerts with the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and two live Friday Night Is Music Night broadcasts for BBC Radio 2. They have played at the British Open Brass Band Championships five times, made nine appearances in the National Championships and are currently rated 21st in the Band Top 100 rankings.
In this session, especially recorded for the programme, the SWT Woodfalls Band open up with a traditional classic, the Emblem Of Unity March, and end with a modern classic, Vitae Aeternum by Paul Lovatt-Cooper.
In between, music featured includes a spiritual, Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child; The Devil's Gallop, from the archives; and Alan Fernie's charismatic arrangement of Zambezi.
Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter
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| BBC RADIO 3 Friday 11 July 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week –
Rimsky-Korsakov Ep 5/5
Monday 7 to Friday 11 July
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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As Russia inched towards revolution, Rimsky-Korsakov found himself at the centre of a student uprising which did his popular reputation no harm at all. Meanwhile, his operas were suffering at the hands of the increasingly paranoid state censors.
In the final instalment of this week's portrait of Rimsky-Korsakov, Donald Macleod charts his immensely successful collaborations with another wealthy music patron, Mamontov, whose opera company included the great Russian bass Fyodor Chaliapin. It was opera scores that Rimsky took with him when he accompanied Diaghilev to Paris for the celebrated Russian concerts of 1907 but, as Donald explains, the composer's operatic legacy was extremely short-lived as he died a mere year later.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Taylor
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Performance On 3 – Gergiev's Mahler
Friday 11 July
7.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 3
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Under the baton of Valery Gergiev, the London Symphony Orchestra completes its cycle of Mahler's Symphonies on BBC Radio 3 with his final symphonies – the Ninth, and the Adagio from his unfinished 10th.
Mahler's Ninth Symphony is a "farewell to life", yet as ever Mahler delights in opposites; this is death-music with an incredible life force, and by the time it reaches its long, resigned final Adagio there has been room for grim humour and the garishly grotesque along the way.
Only the Adagio first movement of the 10th was completed, but in its searing emotion and pained tenderness it seems to pick up where the Ninth left off.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Kevin Bee
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Jazz Library – Lee Morgan
Friday 11 July
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 3
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To mark what would have been jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan's 70th birthday, Alyn Shipton is joined on Jazz Library by Tom Perchard, a young English trumpeter and researcher whose first book, A Life Of Lee Morgan, has been hailed as one of the finest of all jazz biographies. Morgan, who was murdered in 1972 aged 33, joined Dizzy Gillespie's Big Band aged 18 and went on to record 25 albums for Blue Note.
Tom makes his selection from Morgan's impressive catalogue of recordings, which single-handedly defined soul-jazz and sparked the origins of jazz funk.
As well as such classics as The Sidewinder, Jazz Library features Morgan's work with Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey, and a wide cross-section of his playing with other colleagues in his own bands, from Jackie McLean and Joe Henderson to Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter. Perchard also tells the inside story of the extraordinary Philadelphia jazz scene that nurtured Morgan, and which he explored in depth during the research for his book.
Presenter and Producer/Alyn Shipton
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Jazz On 3 – The Bad Plus
Friday 11 July
11.30pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Jez Nelson presents a gig by cult US piano trio The Bad Plus, recorded at London's Jazz Café at the end of June. The members – bassist Reid Anderson, pianist Ethan Iverson and drummer David King – have known each other since their teenage years spent in the American Midwest and have developed a trademark repertoire combining original compositions and improvisational takes on pieces from the rock and pop mainstream, ranging from David Bowie's Life On Mars to Vangelis's theme from Chariots Of Fire.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Robert Abel
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| BBC RADIO 4 Friday 11 July 2008 |
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The Eureka Years Ep 1/4
Friday 11 July
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4
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Adam Hart-Davis returns with a new series of The Eureka Years and unveils the stories behind some of humanity's "eureka!" moments.
By studying the history of scientific people and ideas, Adam has realised that some years are more fruitful than others. This four-part series reveals years in which great leaps were made in human understanding in engineering, medicine, exploration, astronomy, mathematics and chemistry.
This series includes the year 1893, when Karl Benz constructed his first four-wheel car while, on the other side of the world, Henry Ford, a gifted engineer, considered applications for the internal combustion engine and the possibilities of mass production.
The series also spotlights 1650, the year that the first coffee shop in Britain opened in Oxford and a new age of reason began to unfold.
Producer/John Byrne
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1968 – MYTH OR REALITY?
Funeral Games
Friday 11 July
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Phil Daniels and Martin Jarvis both feature in a new production of Joe Orton's play Funeral Games, first produced for Yorkshire TV in 1968 when it starred a young Ian McShane.
This black comedy – an involved saga of adultery, murder, suspected murder and suspected innocence, which takes a wry swipe at religion – is seen by some as the linking work between Orton's Loot and What The Butler Saw.
The drama is part of Radio 4's 1968 – Myth Or Reality? season, marking the 40th anniversary of a remarkable year which saw extraordinary upheavals worldwide.
Producer/Peter Kavanagh
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One Chord Wonders – Parallel Lines Ep 1/5
Friday 11 July
9.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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One Chord Wonders is a series of five plays by top British novelist and screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce.
The series looks at the punk generation three decades on, with each play telling a different, but connected, story. Featured actors include Pauline Quirke, Doon Mackichan, Sian Reeves, Richard Ridings, Danny Webb, Manjinder Virk and Fenella Woolgar. The plays will be broadcast each Friday over the next five weeks.
The series is based on the fictional premise that in March 1977, punk band The Adverts performed a gig in Camberley to an audience of 27 people. Thirty-one years later, someone is trying to bring those 27 people back together again for a reunion.
Parallel Lines, the first play in the series, stars Doon Mackichan as Julie, Sian Reeves as Thing and Rosie Cavaliero as Margaret. Julie, a singer in an ageing Blondie tribute band, receives her invitation to the reunion but while deciding whether or not she should attend, she finds herself facing some uncomfortable truths.
Producer/Toby Swift
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 11 July 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Friday 11 July
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Arlo White presents an evening of sports news and debate, and in 5 Live Track And Field at 8pm there is the latest news ahead of the Olympics and chat with special studio guests, plus the pick of the live action from tonight's athletics meeting in Rome.
Presenter/Arlo White, Producer/Claire Ackling
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Friday 11 July 2008 |
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Test Match Special
Friday 11 July
10.45am-6.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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The Test Match Special team bring uninterrupted commentary on the second day of the First Test between England and South Africa, live from Lord's.
Presenter/Jonathan Agnew, Producer/Jennifer McAllister
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Rugby League
Friday 11 July
9.45pm-12.00midnight BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Rugby league fans can hear uninterrupted commentary on the Yorkshire derby between Leeds and Huddersfield in the engage Super League.
Producer/Jennifer McAllister
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 11 July 2008 |
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Bruce Dickinson's Rock Show
Friday 11 July
10.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Bruce Dickinson is joined by rock legend Lemmy, of groundbreaking metal band Motorhead.
Known for their energetic, raw and dirty sound, they have produced some of the most memorable metal records of all time, including Ace Of Spades and No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, which is considered by many to be one of the greatest live albums ever made.
This week Lemmy joins Bruce to chat about the Metal Masters Tour which features Motorhead, Judas Priest, Heaven & Hell and Testament, who are all uniting this August.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Friday 11 July 2008 |
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Roopa is dreading the "meet the parents" dinner but Aidan's charm offensive works a treat on Rita, in the week's final visit to Silver Street. Pradeep is also won over when he talks to Aidan about folk music and is impressed when Aidan pretends to like one of his favourite artists.
Later, Rita and Pradeep are gushing in their praise of Aidan – that is, until Sean turns up and unwittingly lets slip the one thing Roopa has been desperate to keep from them...
Roopa is played by Rakhee Thakrar, Aidan by Arkie Reece, Rita by Bharti Patel, Pradeep by Ashvin-Kumar Joshi and Sean by Lloyd Thomas.
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Friday 11 July 2008 |
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The World's Shifting Balance
Friday 11 July
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Martin Wolf of the Financial Times asks how important the American financial cycle is now to the rest of the world.
The dynamics of the old world and the new world are changing and the balance of economic systems is shifting, perhaps permanently. In this new era the American economy is slowing but Asia's is going full steam ahead; this has never happened before. Wolf discusses what this might mean for the future.
Presenter/Martin Wolf, Producer/Sandra Kanthal
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Heart And Soul – A Crisis Of Faith
Friday 11 July
3.30-4.00pm BBC WORLD SERVICE
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With fundamentalist tendencies appearing across the religious spectrum, academic and broadcaster Dr Elaine Storkey explores the role of the moderates in the major religions of the world and examines the future of organised faith, in this week's edition of Heart And Soul. She discusses whether there is still room for moderates in the world's major religions, or if they have lost out to the fundamentalists.
Presenter/Dr Elaine Storkey, Producer/Mike Lanchin
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