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Steve Lamacq
Friday 8 August on BBC 6 MUSIC
Steve Lamacq kicks off coverage of the music fest from this year's Summer Sundae Weekender
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BBC PROMS 2008
Stockhausen Day
Saturday 2 August on BBC RADIO 3
Two Proms celebrate the late Karlheinz Stockhausen, a uniquely uncompromising creative force and one of the most influential composers of the 20th and 21st century, who would have been 80 this month
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The Lebrecht Interview – Brigitte Fassbaender
Monday 4 August on BBC RADIO 3
Legendary German mezzo-soprano Brigitte Fassbaender talks to Norman Lebrecht about her memorable life and career
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At War With Wellington
Monday 4 August on BBC RADIO 4
Dan and Peter Snow commemorate the bicentenary of the start of the Peninsular War in which the Duke of Wellington established himself as a national hero
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This Wheel's On Fire – The Soundscape Of 1968
Tuesday 5 August on BBC RADIO 2
Lord Coe, who was inspired to join his local athletics club by the 1968 Olympic Games, introduces a montage of recordings, newsreels and music from that momentous year
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The Choice
Tuesday 5 August on BBC RADIO 4
Controversial Dutch politician Geert Wilders is Michael Buerk's first guest in this returning series in which he talks to individuals who have made life-changing decisions
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Great Lives
Tuesday 5 August on BBC RADIO 4
Jon Snow nominates Lord Longford in the first of the biographical series in which the living pay tribute to the dead
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Inside The Ethics Committee
Wednesday 6 August on BBC RADIO 4
Vivienne Parry and a panel of experts test the moral foundation of how life-and-death decisions are made in hospitals every day
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Bleak Expectations
Thursday 7 August on BBC RADIO 4
Anthony Head stars in Mark Evans's comic epic portraying different aspects of Victorian life as it really probably wasn't, in the style of Charles Dickens after too much gin
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Olympic Breakfast
Friday 8 August on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
Nicky Campbell is in Beijing to launch BBC Radio 5 Live's comprehensive Olympics coverage ahead of today's extravagant Opening Ceremony
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