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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Thursday 7 August
11.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Texas provides tonight's theme as Bob Dylan serves up a fantastic selection of songs connected to the Lone Star State.
Listeners can enjoy songs including Deep In The Heart Of Texas by Andy Anderson & The Dawnbreakers; The Girls From Texas by Jimmy Lewis; Texas In My Soul from Willie Nelson; Waltz Across Texas by Ernest Tubb & His Texas Troubadours; Under A Texas Moon from King Nawahi Hawaiians; and All That Oil In Texas by Oscar McLollie & His Honey Jumpers.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/Phil Hughes
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| BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 7 August 2008 |
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The Ulster Orchestra marks the centenary of Belfast-born Howard Ferguson with his lively Overture For An Occasion, a BBC commission from 1953.
Young Irish pianist Finghin Collins makes his Proms debut in the richly Romantic Second Piano Concerto by Dublin-born Charles Villiers Stanford, with whom Vaughan Williams studied.
To close, the second half of the concert is devoted to music from Central Europe, including Smetana's popular portrait of the River Vltava, Má Vlast, and Dvorák's lively Eighth Symphony. Kenneth Montgomery conducts the proceedings.
Presenter/Alex Wilson, Producer/Melvyn Rickarby
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The Essay –
The Future's Not What It Used To Be:
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid Ep 3/3
Thursday 7 August
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Richard Foster continues his examination of fictional works of future worlds from the late 1880s to the early Sixties: what they got right; what they got wrong; and what hopes and fears they raise for our present fast-track journey into the future.
Stockpiling of nuclear weapons during the Cold War engendered an almost universal future-phobia. Nuclear holocaust survivors in Nevil Shute's On the Beach (1957) attempt to maintain the normalities of life. The government provides suicide pills to avoid terminal suffering as each hope of human survival is extinguished. New barbarisms devoid of morality appear in novels such as Samuel Youd's The Death Of Grass (1956), in which a virus destroys all grain crops. In his final essay, Foster wonders whether the appetite for apocalypse, once threatened by religion, then by science, is now fed by ecological concern and terrorism. Must we always live in fear, or is it a potent political tool?
Presenter/Richard Foster, Producer/David Gallagher
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| BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 7 August 2008 |
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Left At Marrakech
Thursday 7 August
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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In 1943 an American B-17 leaves Palm Springs, Florida, on its way to active service in England – an epic flight via Brazil and Africa – in Richard Stevens's wartime drama. But the crew are obliged to take on board with them two British "hitchhikers": taciturn Lieutenant Draper and an attractive young WAAF, Tess Bradbury.
Albie, the happy-go-lucky American gunner, believes his luck is in because Tess looks like the "Lucky Lady" painted on the aircraft's nose, and she seems to have taken a liking to him.
But as the journey begins, it seems that there's anything but luck on board. Each leg of their journey brings more accident, danger and potential disaster. Tensions between the crew mount and then they reach Marrakech – their penultimate destination.
Left At Marrakech, written by Richard Stevens, is based on the true story of a journey thwarted from the outset. It is a story about courage in combat – and also about luck.
The cast stars Will Keen, Jonathan Cullen, Alan Cox, Nicholas Rowe, Ben Lewis and Clare Corbett.
Producer/Fiona McAlpine
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Bleak
Expectations Ep 1/6
Thursday 7 August
6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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This is the second volume of Mark Evans's comic Victorian epic, Bleak Expectations, in the style of Charles Dickens – after too much gin.
Evil villain Mr Gently Benevolent is brought back from the dead by the terrifying Sternbeater family to destroy the life of young Pip Bin, inventor of the bin and one of the wealthiest young men in Britain.
Six stirring chapters gallop through six different aspects of Victorian life as it really probably wasn't. Listeners can bask in the kindness of St Lovely's school, with its classes of double Definitely-Not-Latin and its School Cakery; marvel at the engineering genius of the early railways; and rage against the injustice of Parliament, where the walls are soaked in brandy – and so are the MPs.
They must surely weep as Young Pip spirals into vast debt, undergoes a tragically unsuitable marriage to an evil man in a dress, and sinks into opium addiction amid the grimness of the Victorian East End and the thieving gang of Mr Abraham Bagel. And finally, they will cower before the terrifying spectacle of the Martian invasion, where only Pip and some geese stand between Mr Benevolent's army of long-eared purple space villains and all that is good and true.
Bleak Expectations stars Anthony Head as the evil Mr Gently Benevolent; Richard Johnson as the venerable narrator, Sir Philip; Geoffrey Whitehead as all six members of the sinister Sternbeater family; Tom Allen as young Pip Bin; and James Bachman as Harry Biscuit. The cast also includes Laurence Howarth as the fatally generous Mr Skinflint Parsimonious; Sarah Hadland as the chaste but very frustrated Ripely Fecund; Susy Kane as Pip's charitable, goose-protecting sister, Pippa; and Mark Evans as a variety of Victorian gentlemen and members of the lower orders. Chapter Three includes guest star David Mitchell as the muscular, Methodist-hunting vicar Mr Godly Fecund.
Producer/Gareth Edwards
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Analysis – Al Qaeda's Enemy Within
Thursday 7 August
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Could Osama bin Laden's erstwhile comrades be responsible for bringing about the collapse of al Qaeda? The BBC's security correspondent, Frank Gardner OBE, talks to former allies of bin Laden, who are now working to turn Islamist sentiment against al Qaeda, and examines how the war of ideas within the jihadi movement is becoming as important as the military frontline.
As a leader of a jihadist organisation committed to overthrowing the Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi, Noman Benotman was regarded by Osama bin Laden as an ally. However, shortly before 9/11, Benotman cautioned bin Laden against targeting the United States. In the programme, he explains why he now publicly criticises al Qaeda's strategy and lack of theological justification.
Others to whom bin Laden might have looked for support have turned against him too. Dr Fadl, one of the architects of the most extreme jihadist ideology, now calls al Qaeda's leadership "extremely immoral". Sheikh Salman al Oudah, a Saudi religious scholar, once credited by bin Laden with inspiring him to take up "my duty of enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong", has recently denounced the al Qaeda leader.
Furthermore, the targeting of Muslim civilians by al Qaeda affiliates in Iraq and elsewhere is undermining popular support.
All this provides some cause for optimism. But, with a resilient Taliban in Afghanistan and the Pakistani tribal areas sheltering al Qaeda, is it too early to talk about the unravelling of the global jihad network?
Other interviewees include Dr Kemal el Helbawi, a former associate of bin Laden's during the jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan; and Ahmed Rashid, a Pakistan-based journalist and the author of Descent Into Chaos – How The War Against Islamic Extremism Is Being Lost In Pakistan, Afghanistan And Central Asia.
Presenter/Frank Gardner, Producer/Innes Bowen
BBC News Publicity
A Week With Adam Buxton Ep 1/4
Thursday 7 August
11.00-11.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Adam Buxton talks listeners through the things he's seen, heard and done in the past week, assisted by Amelia Bullmore, Matt Berry and his father, Nigel "Baaaddad" Buxton, in this new comedy series.
Comprising stand-up, sketches, parodies, songs and intergenerational bickering, A Week With Adam Buxton is simply Adam talking to the audience about what's happened to him and what's caught his eyes and ears in the last seven days – from an angry altercation with a traffic warden to a particularly good new BBC Radio 4 drama.
Adam is joined on stage by Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Merenghi's Darkplace), Amelia Bullmore (I'm Alan Partridge, Ashes To Ashes), and his actual dad, Nigel (recently seen in Adam's MeeBox).
Adam is well known as the Adam half of Adam and Joe, and they still work together – most notably on BBC 6 Music, where they won the 2008 Broadcasting Press Guild award for Best Radio Programme.
Producer/Ed Morrish
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 7 August 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Thursday 7 August
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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George Riley presents the latest Olympics news from Beijing and reports from the first day of the fourth Test between England and South Africa at The Oval in south London.
At 8pm, Darren Gough's Cricket Show features the former England star and his special guests talking cricket.
At 9.45pm Iain Carter brings all the latest golf news from the first round of the US PGA Championship at Oakland Hills Country Club in Michigan.
Presenter/George Riley, Producer/Tim Peach
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Thursday 7 August 2008 |
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Test Match Special
Thursday 7 August
10.45am-6.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Uninterrupted commentary on the first day of the fourth Test between England and South Africa comes live from The Oval.
Producer/Adam Mountford
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 7 August 2008 |
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George Lamb
Thursday 7 August
10.00-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Indie band Shortwave Set join George in the BBC 6 Music Hub to play tracks from their second album, Replica Sun Machine, produced by uber-producer Danger Mouse.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
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Marc Riley
Thursday 7 August
7.00-9.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Arty punksters XX Teens (formerly Xerox Teens) are welcomed by Marc Riley for a live session.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Thursday 7 August
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe delves deep into the BBC archives and unearths some of the best sessions and live sets recorded for the BBC.
Tonight he crosses Stateside to the South By Southwest Festival just before The Kooks broke through to a mainstream audience. There is also a chance to hear a great 1979 Peel session from ska band The Selector.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 7 August 2008 |
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Jodie is shocked when Fran blurts out what she really thinks of Mani, in today's episode of the Asian drama. Fran quickly changes the subject, saying she can't stay at the Akhtars while Sean is away. Jodie comes up with a solution.
Dr Masud surprises everyone by reciting his own poem instead of remaining anonymous. Shazia is overcome and leaves the tent in tears. Later, she tells Dr Masud she is lonely and is moving in with him – but how will he react?
Jodie is played by Vineeta Rishi, Fran by Colleen Prendergast, Mani by Kaleem Janjua, Sean by Lloyd Thomas, Dr Masud by Saeed Jaffrey and Shazia by Shobu Kapoor.
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