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Ken Bruce
Monday 4 August
9.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 2
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Legendary lyricist Don Black features all week on Ken Bruce's show, sharing his Tracks Of My Years.
Don turns 70 this year and a glittering cast – including Gary Barlow, Lee Mead, Maria Friedman and Marti Webb – will assemble at London's Palladium Theatre this month to celebrate the Oscar-winner's incredible back catalogue.
He is the wordsmith behind great musicals, movie themes and hit songs including Sunset Boulevard, Aspects Of Love, Tell Me On A Sunday, Diamonds Are Forever, Born Free, To Sir With Love, On Days Like These (from the classic Sixties film The Italian Job) and Ben.
As well as winning the Oscar for Born Free, Don has also picked up Tony and Ivor Novello awards, platinum discs and an OBE, and worked with some of the world's leading composers. The list includes Jule Styne, Henry Mancini, Quincy Jones, Elmer Bernstein, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Charles Aznavour and Michel Legrand, with whom he is currently collaborating on a musical version of The Count Of Monte Cristo.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones
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Mark Radcliffe
Monday 4 August
8.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Mark Radcliffe is joined tonight by BBC Radio 2's folk aficionado Mike Harding to present a round-up of the Cambridge Folk Festival. Mike keeps Mark company this evening while Stuart Maconie is away for the week.
Mark and Mike recap some of their own personal highlights from the four-day festival, which ran from 31 July to
3 August, as well as the most memorable performances from Cambridge's main stage.
Coverage of the festival continues on Mike Harding's show on Wednesday at 7pm with an hour of further highlights.
The festival is also covered online at bbc.co.uk/radio2, with photos, video highlights, the Folk & Acoustic blog and a podcast.
Presenter/Mark Radcliffe, Producer/John Leonard
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Charles Hazlewood Ep 6/6
Monday 4 August
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Upcoming jazz pianist Gwilym Simcock joins classical conductor Charles Hazlewood in the final programme of the series which aims to join the dots between music of all genres.
Recorded on location at his home in rural Somerset, Charles talks to Gwilym about his new composition, a concerto for jazz trio and orchestra, due to be premiered at the BBC Proms on Saturday 9 August.
Other music selections include Bob Marley, Goldfrapp and Zoltán Kodály.
Presenter/Charles Hazlewood, Producer/Russell Finch
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Suzi Quatro's Heroes Ep 2/6
Monday 4 August
11.30pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Suzi Quatro talks to Jackie DeShannon, an artist who was singing on the radio at the age of six; who was around the rock 'n' roll greats while still a teenager; and who then made her mark as both a great interpreter of songs by the best composers and as a successful writer.
Jackie first made her mark as a songwriter when Brenda Lee recorded Dum Dum – a top five US hit. As a singer, Jackie had minor hits with Needles And Pins and her own song, When You Walk In The Room, which were both covered by British group The Searchers. She first made the US Top Ten in 1965 with her version of Bacharach and David's What The World Needs Now Is Love and had her biggest hit as an artist with her own song, Put A Little Love In Your Heart, in 1969. Kim Carnes scored a massive hit in 1981 with the song Jackie wrote with Donna Weiss, Bette Davis Eyes.
In this programme, the second in a series profiling six of Suzi's all-time musical heroes, Suzi and Jackie compare notes on their struggles as women in the male-dominated world of the music business.
Presenter/Suzi Quatro, Producer/Kevin Howlett
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| BBC RADIO 3 Monday 4 August 2008 |
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BBC PROMS 2008
Proms Chamber Music At Cadogan Hall
Monday 4 August
1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3 (Copy amended 1 August)
www.bbc.co.uk/proms
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Russian-born violinist Alina Ibragimova and Welsh pianist Huw Watkins perform two works by French composers at opposite ends of their careers: Debussy's Sonata for Violin and Piano was the last work he completed, while Messiaen's Theme and Variations is a youthful piece written as a wedding present for his first wife. Though virtuosic, the violin part of Prokofiev's neo-classical Second Sonata in D, Op 94a, which completes the programme, is also highly lyrical and elegant – evidence of the work's inception as a sonata for flute.
Please note: Julia Fischer has been unwell and has had to cancel her BBC Proms Chamber Music concert with Yakov Kreizberg, originally scheduled for this date. She will, however, still appear as scheduled in Prom 25 on Tuesday 5 August to perform the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Yakov Kreizberg.
Presenter/Chris Cook, Producer/Emily Kershaw
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Born 150 years ago into an upper-middle-class military London family, Ethel Smyth rebelled against her background to become not only one of the most successful British women composers, but also an important figure in the suffragette movement. Her unusually scored Violin Concerto – performed tonight by Tasmin Little – dates from 1927, when she was almost 70.
Smyth dedicated her Violin Concerto to Proms founder-conductor Henry Wood, whose large-scale arrangement of JS Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor are also performed, alongside his arrangement of Rachmaninov's Prelude in C sharp minor. An early champion of Rachmaninov in England, Wood conducted the Russian's richly romantic Second Symphony at the Proms in 1924 and it has remained a Proms favourite. It is performed again tonight by the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under conductor Stefan Solyom.
Presenter/Alex Wilson, Producer/Simon Lord
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The
Lebrecht Interview – Brigitte Fassbaender
Monday 4 August
10.00-10.45pm BBC RADIO 3
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German singer Brigitte Fassbaender excelled onstage in the great mezzo roles of Richard Strauss and Mozart, among others, and she was also one of the leading Lieder singers of her day. She talks to Norman Lebrecht about her career as one of the great mezzo-sopranos of the 20th century; her experiences growing up in wartime Germany; the great conductors she has worked with; and about her present role as a theatre and opera director in Austria.
The daughter of a leading operatic baritone and a film actress, Fassbaender was born into the performing world: "It was clear from the beginning onwards what I should do," she says. At first she wanted to be an actress but became a singer, with her father as her only teacher.
Born in Berlin just before the outbreak of the Second World War, she experienced the bombing of Dresden, which she dreamt about for years afterwards. She talks frankly about these and other wartime experiences: "This cruel time you have to come through... the thoughts sometimes are unbearable."
Her first engagement was with the Munich State Opera in 1961. "I had a lot to sing; there is no page or servant or little girl in opera which I haven't sung," she recalls. Later, she travelled all over the world as Octavian in Strauss's Rosenkavalier, one of the many major "trouser" roles she sang.
She worked with all the great conductors. "Most of them are only dictators and they don't believe that a singer is a musician as well... Rafael Kubelik, Carlo Maria Giulini and Carlos Kleiber, these three are for me the most important musicians, conductor-wise, I worked with," she states.
But her singing career was also marked by her highly regarded interpretations of Lieder, especially Schubert's Winterreise and Schwanengesang. She stopped singing in 1994 and immediately turned to directing full time. For the past nine years she has been Intendantin (artistic director) of Tiroler Landes Theater, Innsbruck.
Presenter/Norman Lebrecht, Producer/Jessica Isaacs
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The Essay – The Future's
Not What It Used To Be:
Broken Dreams Ep
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Monday 4 August
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Richard Foster looks at fictional future worlds from the late 1880s to the early Sixties: what they got right; what they wrong; and what hopes and fears they raise for our present fast-track journey into the future.
As a child of the Fifties, Richard Foster thought that by now he'd be wearing a silver jumpsuit and spending endless hours of leisure time zooming around on a personal jet-propelled back-pack – all in a world where poverty, sickness and religion had been banished by technology. So what went wrong?
In the first of three essays for BBC Radio 3, Foster looks at two contrasting future worlds in novels from the 1880s, a time which gave birth to the optimism of Socialism.
In Looking Backward (1888), Edward Bellamy's hero awakes to find himself in Boston in the year 2000, a world with credit cards, radio sermons and home-shopping delivered through tubes, all run by the centralised super-efficiency of technological totalitarianism. This prospect so appalled William Morris that he replied with his own vision of a government-free Britain devolved into communities built on the human need for meaningful and rewarding labour. News From Nowhere was published in 1890.
Presenter/Richard Foster, Producer/David Gallagher
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World On 3
Monday 4 August
11.15pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Mary Ann Kennedy presents more highlights from this year's Womad Festival, including a ceilidh with the Sharon Shannon Big Band featuring the inimitable vocals of Shane MacGowan, and the Cambodia-meets-California band Dengue Fever.
Accordion player Shannon is one of the leading musicians of Irish folk, hailing from County Clare. She has recorded with artists including The Waterboys, Kirsty MacColl and Steve Earle. She is joined by former lead singer of The Pogues and legendary hell-raiser Shane MacGowan.
The six-piece rockers Dengue Fever were founded by two Californian musician brothers, Ethan and Zac Holtzman, after they discovered Cambodian vocalist Chhom Nimol singing in a Long Beach nightclub. Their music combines Khmer pop with psychedelic rock 'n' roll from the Sixties.
Presenter/Mary Ann Kennedy, Producer/Roger Short
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| BBC RADIO 4 Monday 4 August 2008 |
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Book Of The Week – Batting
On The Bosphorus:
A Skoda-Powered Cricket Tour Through Eastern
Europe Ep 1/5
Monday 4 to Friday 8 August
9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4
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Singled out at a psychic conference, Angus Bell is given a message from beyond the grave from a relative who died as an infant.
When he is told he should go on a whistle-stop tour of Eastern Europe, he packs in his minimum-wage job in a Glasgow methadone clinic and takes his Skoda across the Channel.
Angus's journey takes him on numerous adventures across Europe. He plays cricket on ice in the Czech Republic; bats for a team of gardeners in Slovakia; and gets lost in Sarajevo with a paranoid anarchist.
Written by Angus Bell, Batting On The Bosphorus: A Skoda-Powered Cricket Tour Through Eastern Europe, has been abridged for radio by Laurence Wareing.
Producer/Kirsty Williams
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
At
War With Wellington Ep 1/2
Monday 4 August
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4
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At War With Wellington commemorates the bicentenary of the Peninsular War in which Sir Arthur Wellesley, who later became the Duke of Wellington, established himself as a national hero to rival Vice-Admiral Lord Nelson.
This two-part series includes two documentaries and five docu-dramas, in which letters and diaries written by Wellington's men are brought vividly to life.
Presented by Dan and Peter Snow, the series also revisits some of the major engagements that made Wellington's reputation, and hears about his men's daily lives.
Dan and Peter also record video diaries on the BBC Radio 4 website where listeners can find maps and pictures of the campaigns.
Dan and Peter visit the battlefields of Vimeiro, Talavera, Badajoz and Vitoria, and bring their unique ability to interpret the course of a battle to radio for the first time.
Presenters/Dan and Peter Snow, Producer/Alyn Shipton
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Afternoon Play – No Going Back
Monday 4 August
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Today's Afternoon Play, No Going Back, tells the story of the McAtee family, who set off to Australia 50 years earlier as
"10 Pound Poms".
Now in 2008, Tom, a successful businessman, finds himself back in his native Ulster.
Tom had always believed his parents had left solely in pursuit of a better life, but a sideways remark from a half-remembered acquaintance suggests that Tom's father had been obliged to get out of Northern Ireland, and fast.
Tom is shaken and forced to reassess the entire foundation of his relationship with his parents, as he begins to discover their complex, and rather threatening place of origin.
Tom finds himself playing detective in a 50-year-old murder mystery, the solution to which seems to point directly at the heart of his family.
Producer/Eoin O'Callaghan
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The Foods Of Love And Hate Ep 1/5
Monday 4 to Friday 8 August
3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4
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The Foods Of Love And Hate, broadcast daily this week, features five tales about food and the moods and passions it can generate.
The series starts on Monday with Pigs In A Blanket by Shena Mackay. Hugh Bonneville reads the story of Zac who, hearing about a national "pigs-in-a-blanket" day, opens his restaurant on its closing day for a very special dinner.
Tuesday's story is Specialite du Perigord, by EJ Patience, read by Clare Higgins. In the heat of high summer, Madame Boisseau retreats to the cool of her kitchen. In her youth, she danced with Les Folies Bergère. These days, she pickles, patés and bakes with her harvest of walnuts and provides gossip for the villagers, particularly about her still-youthful looks.
Wednesday's tale, A Birthday Cockatrice, by Gerard Woodward, read by Helen Lederer, tells the story of Jodie, whose divorced parents come together for her seventh birthday. Strange things begin to happen when the cockatrice comes out of the oven...
On Thursday, Scarlett Thomas's Five Easy Ways With Chilli, read by Claire Skinner, tells the story of a young woman reflecting on her lovers and summing up her relationships in five easy chilli recipes. She is forced to acknowledge that chillies can sting and can leave a bad taste in the mouth.
The Chanterelles of Østvig by Heidi Amsinck is the last story of the week. No one knows the forest like Gudrun Holm. The trouble is, she has only days to live. This is a tale of secrets, murder and mushroom-picking, set on the North Sea coast of Denmark. It is read by Geraldine James.
Producer/Rosalynd Ward
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In March 1968, political columnist David Aaronovitch was 13 and taking part in the Grosvenor Square anti-Vietnam protest. As part of BBC Radio 4's 1968 – Myth Or Reality? season, David explores what the "Sixty-Eighters" made of their future, and asks them what they make of their younger selves today. He argues that all that radical effort has won a surprising victory – not for radical causes, but liberal ones.
In the first programme, David visits Kim Howells, leader of the Hornsey Art College occupation, in his current role as a Foreign Office Minister. He meets feminist Sheila Rowbotham, at what was, in 1968, the communal house she was trying to make work.
Also in the programme, John Birt explains why his Conservative-backed reforms as BBC Director-General follow on from his youthful Scouse anti-Establishmentism. And David travels to Northern Ireland to explore the outcome of the "Sixty-Eighter" civil rights movement and the aggression it provoked.
Next week, David travels to Berlin to discover how German "Sixty-Eighters" look back on the shooting of student leader Rudi Dutschke. The Springer publishing empire was blamed for inciting this, and David revisits the spot where a huge crowd tried to break into the Springer building, with one of its leaders, Christian Semler. Inside the building, he meets a senior Springer editor, Thomas Schmid – himself a former Sixty-Eighter. David discovers how a movement that produced the brutality of Baader-Meinhof also pioneered a quiet revolution in childcare.
This series is part of BBC Radio 4's 1968 – Myth Or Reality? season, marking the 40th anniversary of a remarkable year which saw extraordinary upheavals worldwide.
Presenter/David Aaronovitch, Producer/Phil Tinline
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Peer Review In The Dock
Monday 4 August
9.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Peer review is the "gold standard" of quality control for research projects and academic studies, yet evidence of its many alleged deficiencies has reportedly been building up for more than 20 years. That knowledge has been confined to the academic world until recently but, now, peer review's apparently tarnished image is being revealed to a wider audience.
"Peer review" means getting a paper scrutinised by independent experts in the same field to assess the quality of its conception, execution and analysis. Yet trials by top medical journals have shown that distinguished peer reviewers fail to spot multiple obvious errors deliberately introduced into test articles.
This programme talks to the key players in the UK and the US and investigates these perceived problems and looks at some of the possible solutions for a "flawed process" that still remains the least-worst way of assessing quality in research.
Presenter/Mark Whitaker, Producer/Mike Hally
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5 Live Sport
Monday 4 August
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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George Riley presents all the day's sports news, including the Champions League third qualifying round and Uefa Cup second round qualifying draws.
At 8pm, the Monday Night Club has a panel of guests debating current football issues. Then at 9pm, Steve Bunce and Mike Costello introduce 5 Live Boxing, with all the latest news from the world of boxing.
Presenter/George Riley, Producer/John Southall
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 4 August 2008 |
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Nemone
Monday 4 August
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Nemone's video of the week comes from four-piece band Late Of The Pier and their new single, Heartbeat. Nemone also catches up with the video-makers, MegaForce.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
6 Music Plays It Again –
Jarvis Cocker's Musical Map Of Sheffield Ep
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Monday 4 August
12.00-12.30am BBC 6 MUSIC |
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Jarvis Cocker takes listeners on an intimate tour of Sheffield in this evocative Musical Map, creating a soundtrack of music to drive his memories, feelings and observations about his home town.
"Sheffield's my city, it's where I grew up, and although I've moved away for now, I'd like to try and show you around. Sorry if we get lost, it changes every time I come here," he says.
Jarvis recalls his childhood, listening to conversations about love and disappointment. He introduces the music of Sheffield legends including Joe Cocker, Cabaret Voltaire, Human League and Artery, and remembers how the city came to life with music in the post-punk era.
He thinks aloud about growing up in a city that was healing its wounds after big industry moved out, and of the confusion of regeneration – the mistakes, the Student Games, the National Centre for Popular Music, the "hole on the ground" shopping wasteland and the housing estates.
Jarvis Cocker's Musical Map Of Sheffield was first broadcast on BBC Radio 2 July 2008 and concludes tomorrow.
Presenter/Jarvis Cocker, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
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Marc Riley
Monday 4 August
7.00-9.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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London six-piece Grantura perform their country folk stylings for Marc Riley.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe
Monday 4 August
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Following on from the recent Scottish Night Special tonight's show consists entirely of English artists. The Chemical Brothers rub shoulders with The Kinks, David Bowie with John Barry, Spiritualized with Supergrass and Tricky with Richard Thompson, in this programme in which listeners help Gideon Coe choose a list of great English artists to celebrate, during the course of the show.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 4 August 2008 |
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Siobhan is back in Silverhill, as the Asian drama returns for another week. Brian tells her the gym is up for auction and that he might put in a bid himself. Siobhan reflects on her past mistakes and wonders if Rita still blames her.
Arun, meanwhile, needs to get into the studio but it is fully booked. Then Ranbir hands him a list of jobs to do for the mela.
Siobhan is introduced to Fran and Brian is amused by Siobhan's reaction to her son's older girlfriend...
Siobhan is played by Toyah Willcox, Brian by Gerard McDermott, Rita by Bharti Patel, Arun by Naithan Ariane, Ranbir by Ashwin Bolar and Fran by Colleen Prendergast.
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