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Charles Hazlewood Ep 3/6
Monday 14 July
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Classical conductor Charles Hazlewood continues his quest to join the dots between musical genres and, this week, is joined at his Somerset home by British pianist Joanna McGregor – who has performed in over 60 countries.
Joanna has spent her career connecting many genres of music, defying categorisations and feels equally happy with classical, jazz and contemporary music. She plays pieces by Nina Simone, Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla and the pioneering and unconventional composer John Cage.
Presenter/Charles Hazlewood, Producer/Russell Finch
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Marc Riley's Musical Time Machine Ep 5/6
Monday 14 July
11.30pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Marc Riley brings listeners a double bill in this week's edition of the Musical Time Machine, as he revisits a Tina Turner interview from 1976 and a Captain Beefheart interview from 1980.
The first stop is February 1976, when Tina Turner dropped by BBC Radio 1's HQ amidst rumours of a split from her husband, Ike. The singing sensation talks about using her sexuality in her performances, the experience of performing to white audiences and her views on the other female singers of the time.
Next up is 1980, and an interview with musician Don Vliet – aka Captain Beefheart. David Hepworth speaks to the influential and avant-garde musician about life in the Mohave Desert, his favourite poets and a passion for painting.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Ian Callaghan
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| BBC RADIO 3 Monday 14 July 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – JS Bach Ep 1/5
Monday 14 to Friday 18 July
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Donald Macleod explores the five decades of the life and work of JS Bach's music, revealing a fascinating picture of the composer's evolving style. He begins today with The Apprentice – Bach In The 1700s, an exploration of some of Bach's earliest surviving compositions. There is also a rare chance for listeners to hear Bach's first published cantata, Gott ist mein König, performed by The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
If you compare an early work of Beethoven with a late one, they seem to inhabit different musical universes. That's not true of Bach, however. His musical objectives remained essentially constant throughout his lifetime – he just became more and more formidably capable of achieving them. Nonetheless, there's a subtle stylistic development through Bach's composing career, as shown throughout the week.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Barstow
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Afternoon
On 3 – Folk Influences
Monday 14 July
2.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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The revival of folk music was one of the biggest influences on Western classical music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and inspired some well loved repertoire. Afternoon On 3 has a nationalistic flavour this week, and listeners can hear music by composers inspired by folk songs from all over Europe.
As a precursor to the Proms folk day next month, Penny Gore focuses on a different BBC orchestra each day and introduces an eclectic mix of live and specially recorded music inspired by traditional song, alongside the BBC Singers' recordings of folk song arrangements, which feature throughout the week.
Today, the Ulster Orchestra perform music by Irish-born composers Hamilton Harty and Charles Villiers Stanford, as well as folk-inspired music from Scandinavia and central Europe by Bartok, Grieg, Gorecki and Kodaly.
Presenter/Penny Gore, Producer/Helen Garrison
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Performance On 3 – Manchester
Camerata
Monday 14 July
7.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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There's a folk-inspired feast from the Manchester Camerata at the Cheltenham Festival in tonight's edition of Performance
On 3.
Rautavaara based his The Fiddlers suite on 17th-century fiddlers' tunes, while Bartók's Divertimento gives Hungarian folk music a modernist twist. There's also a Transylvanian Stamping Dance from one of Bartók's pupils, Sandor Veress.
The English contributions include Vaughan Williams's Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis, and local lad Gustav Holst's folky suite written for his pupils at St Paul's Girls School.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Ellie Mant
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The
Essay – Greek And Latin Voices Ep 1/4
Monday 14 to Thursday 17 July
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Greek And Latin Voices continues this week with four essays exploring the life and work of the great Roman poet Virgil.
In today's first essay of the week, Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin at University College London, and Latin consultant to the series, discusses how Virgil's work was received in his own time and how quickly it made an impact.
In Tuesday's essay, Irish poet and Nobel Prize-winner for Literature, Seamus Heaney, reflects on the lasting influence which Virgil has had on his poetry and on the Western literary tradition – illustrated with some of his own translations of Virgil's work.
Professor Charles Martindale, Professor of Latin University of Bristol, traces the way in which Virgil's work has been received through the centuries and asks why he should still be read today, in the penultimate essay on Wednesday.
In the final essay of the week, on Thursday, Professor Philip Hardie, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, and Honorary Professor of Latin, takes as his subject the themes of exile and Utopia which run through Virgil's major works.
Presenter/Professor Maria Wyke, Producer/Christine Hall
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World On 3
Monday 14 July
11.15pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Lopa Kothari takes over the World On 3 hotseat this week and features music from Brazil, Ghana, India and Romania; some vintage African rarities recorded by Hugh Tracey; and highlights of a concert by Marseille vocal ensemble Lo Cor de la Plana.
Lo Cor de la Plana are a male ensemble from the La Plaine quarter in Marseille – six singers accompanied by percussions (bendirs and tamburello), "picaments" of their feet and "bataments" of their hands. Formed in 2001, they sing all repertoires, from the most religious to the most unfettered, the repetitive to the occasional – quite often at the same time.
Lo Cor want to do away with "traditional" song and cross swords with vocal music and polyphony. They aim to evoke in their music the sounds of the city and the world around them, such as a police siren, a newborn baby, the remains of a paradise or a fantasyland, a drunken party, sheep or wolves – in short, the peaceful, heady passion of day-to-day life.
Presenter/Lopa Kothari, Producer/James Parkin
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| BBC RADIO 4 Monday 14 July 2008 |
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Book Of The Week – The Gaol:
The Story Of Newgate –
London's Most Notorious Prison Ep 1/5
Monday 14 to Friday 18 July
9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4
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Kelly Grovier's book tells the story of Newgate, where such legendary outlaws as Robin Hood and Captain Kidd met their fates, and where the rapier-wielding playwrights Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe sharpened their quills and the flamboyant highwaymen Claude Duval and James Maclaine made legions of women swoon.
While London's theatres came and went, The Gaol endured as London's unofficial stage. From the Peasants' Revolt to the Great Fire, it was inside the walls of Newgate that England's greatest dramas unfolded.
This Book Of The Week offering brings together the lives of forgotten figures, as well as re-examining the prison's links with more famous individuals, from Dick Whittington to Charles Dickens. The reader is to be confirmed.
Producer/Peter Hoare
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What Is She Doing Here? Ep 1/5
Monday 14 July
10.45-11.00am BBC RADIO 4
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Fiona Shaw narrates this dramatisation of the true story of a British woman who bumps into an Albanian woman in the street with her three children. Kate Clanchy met Antigona in 2001. Antigona only knew two words of English, Kosovo and divorced, and had learnt not to say "Albanian asylum-seeker".
Kate offered Antigona a job as a cleaner, an offer which led to a long and often puzzling road of friendship between their two families.
Antigona had escaped a forced, violent marriage – on her wedding day her husband was given a bullet to show he had the right to kill her. She had also run away from the Serb forces who had dropped her daughter from a two storey building to make a point. She had carried her injured daughter and tiny son through Albanian mountains, on a night boat to Italy and then in a lorry to the UK.
Soon after she takes up Kate's job offer, members of Antigona's family begin to appear in Kate's kitchen and Kate, piece by piece, discovers more about the life Antigona has left behind.
Fiona Shaw is the narrator, Kate, and Teuta Skenderi is Antigona. The cast also includes Sam Dale, Chris Pavlo, Jade Williams, Adelayo Adedayo and Lewis Lempereur-Palmer.
Narrator/Fiona Shaw, Producer/Jonquil Panting
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Afternoon Reading – Urban Welsh Ep 1/5
Monday 14 to Friday 18 July
3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4
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Five stories from Wales are featured in this week's Afternoon Reading slot.
Shelley Rees reads Jack, by Rachel Tresize, when a moment's recklessness in the grass with Gethin leads to life changes for Abby.
Twelve Beer Blues by Tristan Hughes is read by Ian Puleston-Davies. The morning after the night before brings mixed memories for Dylan.
Torchwood star Eve Myles reads Sorry For The Loss, written by Bridget Keehan, in which a prison chaplain has to break some bad news to an inmate.
Matthew Rhys reads Last Dance At Johnny's, by Craig Hawes. Johnny does not dance any more but when the music is turned up loud he cannot resist one last rave with an old mate.
Ruth Jones (Gavin And Stacy) reads White Rabbit, written by Kate D'Lima. Laura and Jed have always had a stormy relationship but this time some craziness nearly leads to disaster.
Producer/Kate McAll
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Gameboy Versus The Mongolian
Steppes Ep 1/5
Monday
14 to Friday 18 July
3.45-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4 |
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Like many teenagers, 14-year-old Dexter Pletts spends much of his free time in front of a screen. This audio-diary series tells how, after yet another marathon computer game session, Dexter's exasperated father issues him with a challenge – he bets that the most distant, wild and ancient places in the world could be much more exciting than anything available on a computer.
Dexter, who has both learning difficulties and an obsession with computer games, accepts the challenge and is removed from his comfort zone and taken to the far west of Mongolia. Here, in sub-zero temperatures, he gets to live in a Ger alongside Kazakh nomads and mark his impending adult life by going out on horseback with his hosts and hunting for wolves and rabbits with trained golden eagles.
While parents Tony and Sarah are well travelled, they have almost no experience of wilderness, sub-zero temperatures or nomadic life, let alone living off or riding animals. Sarah suffers from ME and is also a strict vegetarian. For both of them, the adventure is as great as Dexter's.
Through spoken diary entries and interviews, the Plettses thrash through their fear barriers in Outer Mongolia during a time of great personal challenges and a clash of cultures.
Producer/Sara Jane Hall
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Clair
Patterson – Scourge Of The Lead Industry
Monday 14 July
9.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 4 |
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Clair Patterson – Scourge Of The Lead Industry is the extraordinary story of one man's discovery of the global contamination of the environment by man-made lead compounds.
When the prestigious journal Nature published Clair "Pat" Patterson's first paper linking lead pollution to leaded petrol in 1963, it set him against much of the industrial, political and even scientific establishment.
He saw his funding cut by two thirds, his job threatened and attempts to discredit him by scientists in the pay of the lead industry.
Yet he had come to the subject by accident. In the early Fifties, he set out to measure the concentration of lead isotopes in ancient rocks and meteorites, purely to calculate the age of the Earth. But a six-month project stretched out to five years as he found everything he touched was contaminated with lead – even the laboratories, containers, instruments and the people in them.
Patterson devised ways of calculating the amount of lead in prehistoric human bones and showed that by the mid-20th century the average American had 500 times that level in his or her body.
It was largely thanks to Patterson's efforts that lead was removed from petrol, food cans, electrical solder and a host of other applications where it was entering the air we breathe and the food we eat.
Patterson died in 1995. This programme, presented by environmental scientist Dr Hermione Cockburn, tells the story in his own words from an oral history tape, along with new interviews with his widow, children and former colleagues, and visiting some of the places where he did his ground-breaking work.
Producer/Mike Hally, Executive Producer/Mark Whitaker
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 14 July 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Monday 14 July
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Arlo White presents all the day's big sports stories including the test cricket, golf and cycling. At 8pm, the Monday Night Club debates all the latest football news.
Presenter/Arlo White, Producer/Ed King
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 14 July 2008 |
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George Lamb
Monday 14 July
10.00-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Former Massive Attack member and "trip hop" pioneer, Bristol boy Tricky, performs live in the BBC 6 Music Hub following the recent release of his new album, Knowle West Boy – a title which alludes to his place of birth in Bristol.
1Xtra BBC's Young Lion also chooses his Dancehall track of the week.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
EDINBURGH FRINGE 2008
Nemone – A Feast Of Fringe
Monday 14 July
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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 Nemone previews the best of
the Edinburgh Fringe comedy
all this week Nemone kicks off A Feast Of Fringe in this week's show – a week-long special of Edinburgh Fringe Comedy previews. Dublin-born stand-up Andrew Maxwell, who was nominated for the if.comedy award for the best show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007, is Nemone's first guest and chats about his Edinburgh show, Supernatural.
Presenter/Nemone,
Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Monday 14 July
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe continues to delve deep into the BBC archives and unearths some more of the best sessions and live sets recorded for the BBC.
Tonight's session highlights come from The Duke Spirit, recorded for Stephen Merchant's BBC 6 Music show last month, and the now disbanded Hope of the States from Glastonbury in 2004. Listeners can also hear a concert from the Psychedelic Furs.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
6 Music Plays It Again – Masters Of Rock
Monday 14 July
12.00-12.30am BBC 6 MUSIC
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Iron Maiden vocalist and BBC 6 Music DJ Bruce Dickinson looks back at memorable years in the rock almanac and tonight assesses the year 1980 – featuring music from Motorhead, Whitesnake, Judas Priest and AC/DC.
The programme was first broadcast in 2003.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 14 July 2008 |
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Rita calls Jodie to say Roopa is too sick to work, in today's first visit of the week to Silver Street. Jodie guesses she is lying but is pleased when Fran steps in so she can get on with planning Simran's hen party.
Roopa, meanwhile, tells Sean to stay out of her relationship with Aidan. Sean agrees but tells her she is on her own from now on. Later, Roopa tells her parents Aidan is an emotional wreck and needs looking after, but will they believe her?
Rita is played by Bharti Patel, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Fran by Colleen Prendergast, Simran by Balvinder Sopal, Sean by Lloyd Thomas and Aidan by Arkie Reece.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 14 July 2008 |
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Policing The Poppyfields Ep 2/2
Monday 14 July
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Kate Clark has been granted a year's access to Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Britain's Ambassador to Afghanistan, and his team as they join forces with the Afghan Government to take on the country's drugs barons.
In tonight's final programme, Kate reports on the fight against Afghanistan's drugs trade, which fuels corruption and insecurity and bankrolls the Taliban.
Presenter/Kate Clark, Producer/Lynne Jones
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