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| BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 17 July 2008 |
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Bob Harris Country
Thursday 17 July
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Harris is joined in session this week by artist, carpenter and folk roots singer Kim Beggs.
Born in Quebec and raised in mining towns in Northern Ontario and later in Toronto, Kim is the second youngest of six children from a mixed-heritage household.
Her parents adopted two children of Aboriginal ancestry, giving Beggs a strong sense of connection to Aboriginal communities. She studied Family and Social Relations at University and spent summers tree-planting in Northern Ontario. In fact, it was the communal campfire sing-a-longs with her fellow planters that inspired her to start singing and playing guitar. She headed up to Whitehorse, Yukon, in the winter of 1991 to teach herself her new instrument and visit her sister for what was supposed to be just a couple of months' vacation. But the Yukon's combination of rawness and camaraderie grabbed her, and she never left.
Living in Yukon she trained as a carpenter, honing her guitar and writing skills in her free time. Her debut album, Streetcar Heart, came out in 2004 with Wanderer's Paean released two years later. In addition to singing and songwriting, she also draws, paints, sculpts and makes films.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Thursday 17 July
11.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Divorce is the theme of this week's Theme Time Radio Hour as Bob Dylan selects an eclectic mix of music on the subject.
Tracks featured include DIVORCE by Tammy Wynette; Alimony by Tommy Tucker; She Got The Goldmine (I Got The Shaft) by Jerry Reed; Alimony Blues by T-Bone Walker; Divorce Decree by Doris Duke; Married By The Bible, Divorced By The Law by Hank Snow; Divorce Me COD by Merle Travis; Mexican Divorce by The Drifters; and Mr & Mrs Used To Be by Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Phil Hughes
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| BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 17 July 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Bach Ep 4/5
Monday 14 to Friday 18 July
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Donald Macleod introduces some musical gems from Bach's years of consolidation, the 1730s, and looks at his musical activities during that decade when, on top of his regular job keeping Leipzig's four main churches supplied with cantatas, he took on a secular concert-giving role as director of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig. Somewhere along the way, he invented the keyboard concerto.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Barstow
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| BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 17 July 2008 |
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Between Ourselves Ep 1/8
Thursday 17 July
9.00-9.30am BBC RADIO 4
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Olivia O'Leary returns for the 11th series of Between Ourselves, which brings together two people who have had profound parallel experiences to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term effects on each of their lives.
In the first programme, two spouses of transsexuals discuss how they cope with their partner's gender transition. Both have had to reassess their own identity and sexuality but both have remained married.
Daphne had been married to her husband, David, for 20 years when one day he suggested they go for a walk. He told Daphne he would like her to pay more attention to his feminine side and occasionally call him "Penny". Shortly after, David announced that he would like to live life as a woman.
Chris has been through a similar experience with his wife, Dru. Five years ago she told him that she wanted to live as a man and underwent a full mastectomy. Chris is now facing the prospect of Dru having a phalloplasty, and potentially living – as a heterosexual man – in a homosexual relationship.
Olivia hears Daphne and Chris's stories.
Presenter/Olivia O'Leary, Producer/Karen Gregor
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The Disappearing Art Of The Mix Tape
Thursday 17 July
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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A temporary technological blip gave rise to an art form exclusive to people who grew up in the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties – the mix tape, where all a person's character, tastes, dreams and angst could be distilled onto a cassette.
Writer, broadcaster and former NME journalist David Quantick celebrates the art form. He hears about its origins and talks to compilation makers, including novelist Iain Banks and poet Simon Armitage, who select some of their favourite mix tape tracks.
A professor of medieval history recounts how he sustained a 30-year friendship by exchanging tapes every month, and Elbow's Guy Garvey explains how his sister Becky inspired his musical career with the many cassettes she compiled for him.
Presenter/David Quantick, Producer/Rachel Ross
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Wish To Apologise For My Part In The Apocalypse
Thursday
17 July
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4 |
 Bill Nighy rediscovers love just
in time for the end of the world Bill Nighy and Amelia Bullmore star in Duncan MacMillan's romantic comedy about the end of the world, a woman who falls in love with the moon, and her husband, who falls back in love with her.
A man buys his wife a telescope for her 50th birthday. It seems he has completely forgotten how to buy presents for her; perhaps completely forgotten who she really is.
As her attentions turn to moon-gazing, and so away from him, the man realises how much he loves her and how much of her he has lost during their marriage.
But stranger still, it seems the moon is reciprocating her attentions, and travelling towards Earth to be with her. Cue the Apocalypse...
Producer/Sam Hoyle
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 17 July 2008 |
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5 Live Breakfast
Thursday 17 July
6.00-9.00am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Pougatch presents live from Birkdale as the 137th Open Golf Championship gets under way, with Shelagh Fogarty in the studio covering all the top news stories of the morning.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and Shelagh Fogarty, Producer/Richard Jackson
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Open Golf
Thursday 17 July
9.00am-7.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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John Inverdale hosts live coverage of the Open Golf Championship from Royal Birkdale, with all the stories, interviews and analysis.
There is no Tiger Woods this year, ruled out by his knee problem, so hopes will be high again of a European winner to follow on from Irishman Padraig Harrington, who lifted the Claret Jug last year.
Correspondent Iain Carter leads the commentary team with John Murray, Mark Pougatch, Clare Balding, Russell Fuller and Conor McNamara, plus a host of former players casting their eyes over every tee shot, chip and putt, including former Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, former US tour player Jay Townsend and European tour favourite Mark Roe.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Graham MacMillan
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5 Live Sport
Thursday 17 July
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE |
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Arlo White presents all the day's sports news, including the latest from the Open Golf Championship and cycling's Tour de France. Darren Gough's Cricket Show rounds up all the news and talking points from the cricket world at 8pm.
Presenter/Arlo White, Producer/Danny Garlick
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 17 July 2008 |
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George Lamb
Thursday 17 July
10.00am-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC |
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The best Brazilian export since AC Milan's footballing genius Kaka is undoubtedly CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy, or "I got tired of being sexy", the literal Portuguese translation), who stormed the festival circuit last summer with hits Off The Hook and Let's Make Love And Listen to Death From Above. They make a welcome return to the BBC 6 Music Hub to perform singles from their highly anticipated forthcoming second album.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
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EDINBURGH FRINGE 2008
Nemone – A Feast Of Fringe
Thursday 17 July
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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A Feast Of Fringe continues as Nemone welcomes comedian Dan Antopolski into the studio. Dan previews his Edinburgh show, Dan Antopolski's Penetrating Gaze.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
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Steve Lamacq
Thursday 17 July
4.00-7.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Every Thursday three esteemed guests from the world of music join Steve Lamacq's Roundtable to give their verdicts on the latest releases. This week, the panel includes Black Kids singer Reggie Youngblood. Lamacq fans can check out his blog on the BBC 6 Music website for the great man's latest thoughts on new music.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Gary Bales
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Marc Riley
Thursday 17 July
7.00-9.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Continuing this week's one-man-band theme, Marc Riley welcomes one woman – Elizabeth Sharp, aka Ill Ease – into the studio for a live session. Playing guitar, bass, drums, tambourine, shaker, car horn and anything else that rattles, Sharp uses loops to build up dancey noise grooves: first thrashing drums playing hip hop beats, then heavy bass, then lo-fi fuzzed-out guitars winding through the middle, with, finally, toy instruments or percussion vibrating on top.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe
Thursday 17 July
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe introduces more musical highlights from the BBC archives and tonight revisits Liverpool band The La's, famous for producing one of the most iconic singles of the Nineties in There She Goes. This session is a recording from very early in their career, made for Janice Long in 1987.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 17 July 2008 |
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Arun turns up at the studio and continues criticising Ranbir, in today's episode of the Asian drama. Arun shows Kuljit something Ranbir wrote and jokes about him being illiterate. Kuljit tells him to lay off, but later it seems Arun might have a point...
Elsewhere, Mani tells Dr Masud he is holding a tabla master class at the mela. He has also found a way for his friend to show off his poetry writing skills, but the doctor's reaction isn't what Mani is expecting.
Arun is played by Naithan Ariane, Ranbir by Ashwin Bolar, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Mani by Kaleem Janjua and Dr Masud by Saeed Jaffrey.
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Thursday 17 July 2008 |
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One Planet – Farming In The City
Thursday 17 July
10.30-11.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Andrew Luck-Baker goes in search of farmers growing crops and rearing livestock amid concrete and traffic, in this edition of One Planet.
The world's city dwellers now outnumber its rural folk, so it may become necessary to farm in cities in order to feed everyone. Andrew investigates how green urban agriculture is and whether it is safe.
Visiting urban farmers in back alley plots and slum district cattle sheds in East Africa and India, Andrew explores the issues through their personal stories. He also talks to the agricultural experts, city officials and politicians who work with, and sometimes against, them.
Presenter and Producer/Andrew Luck-Baker
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