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| 1XTRA BBC Wednesday 13 August 2008 |
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1Xtra
Documentary –
The Greatest Athlete Never Known: The Jim Hines Story
Wednesday 13 August
2.00-4.00pm 1XTRA BBC
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The winner of the Olympic 100m race always goes down in history as the fastest man in the world. From Jesse Owens to Carl Lewis, and from Linford Christie to Maurice Green, these men are legends. Jim Hines, however, is the forgotten man of the Olympic sprint.
Hines lined up on the start line in Mexico in 1968 in the first all-black Olympic 100m final and won a gold medal in the fastest race ever. But how did the first man to run the distance in under 10 seconds become a sporting outcast?
The programme meets Hines at his home in Oakland, California, where he talks about his journey from Olympian to obscurity.
Presenter/Mike Costello, Producer/Simon Crosse
1Xtra BBC Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 13 August 2008 |
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Mike Harding
Wednesday 13 August
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Mike Harding chats to the legendary Ian Campbell of the Ian Campbell Folk Group, one of the most influential groups in the folk revival of the Sixties.
Based in Birmingham, the group featured singers Ian and his sister Lorna Campbell, as well as Dave Swarbrick and Dave Pegg, later of Fairport Convention. They became well known for their instrumental abilities as well as for Ian's talents as a songwriter – Paul Simon covered his The Sun Is Burning on the 1964 Simon & Garfunkel album, Wednesday Morning 3am.
Mike chats to Ian about some of the highlights of his career as well as his decision to perform in public for the final time at the Moseley Folk Festival, with his sons – UB40's Ali and Robin Campbell – joining him on stage.
Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Trevor Nelson
Wednesday 13 August
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Trevor Nelson returns with another weekly dose of the best in soulful music.
Finley Quaye burst into the mainstream back in 1997 with his album Maverick A Strike. He went on to win a MOBO and beat Robbie Williams to a Brit Award. He has recently released a greatest hits album, entitled The Best Of The Epic Years, and performs in session tonight for Trevor.
The album of the week is Road To Freedom, by the British/American acid jazz band Young Disciples. Other music featured includes Earth Wind & Fire's Star, Alicia Myers's I Want To Thank You and Average White Band's Atlantic Avenue.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Ollie Embden
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 13 August 2008 |
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Since his first appearance at the Proms with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra three years ago, 27-year-old Gustavo Dudamel has become one of the fastest-rising conductors around. His sensational appearance last year with the Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela was one of the most memorable Proms of that season – if not the decade.
Not only is he now principal conductor of tonight's Swedish orchestra but, next year, he also succeeds Esa-Pekka Salonen as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Tonight's programme demonstrates his charismatic baton technique. Ravel's heady evocation of a society in decay, La Valse, and Berlioz's arch-Romantic portrayal of obsessive love, the great Symphonie fantastique, enclose the UK première of Swedish composer Anders Hillborg's Clarinet Concerto, played (as well as danced and mimed) by Martin Fröst.
Presenter/Fiona Talkington, Producer/David Gallagher
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Twenty Minutes – Slaves
Of The Raven Banners
Wednesday 13
August
8.20-8.40pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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There's sex, sacrifice and shopping – Viking-style – in tonight's interval programme. Writer and journalist Andrew Brown goes in search of the horrid truth about Viking slavery and ends up in the back of a longship.
Vikings didn't have credit cards for those shopping trips to the continent – slaves were traded for hard currency to buy booze and weapons. Slave markets sprang up around the Irish Sea, including in Bristol and Dublin, but what about the unhappy slaves themselves? The Irish princess Melkorka was led away to Iceland as a top-of-the-range model slave and, if only half of what is written about the unfortunately enslaved male poet Moriuht is to be believed, the phrase "worse things happen at sea" would never be uttered again. Some slaves were even killed to follow their masters to the after world, in a macabre "queen for a day" sacrifice ritual.
Brown also reveals that it wasn't just the Viking invaders who profited through slave trading – King Harold, of the Battle of Hastings fame, was a slave-raider, as were the Irish and the Scots. Shockingly, it looks as if the British may have been civilised out of slave-raiding by William the Conqueror and his Norman successors!
Brown is joined by historians Alex Woolf from St Andrews University, Clare Downham from Aberdeen University and David Wyatt from Cardiff University to discover more about the Viking approach to seeing the world, meeting new people and selling them off at a handy slave market.
Presenter/Andrew Brown, Producer/Louise Yeoman
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 13 August 2008 |
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Kicking The Habit Ep 1/6
Wednesday 13 August
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Christopher Lee's comedy drama series, featuring the idyllic setting of the Carmelite Friary in Kent, returns with six new episodes.
The well-meaning, if eccentric, brothers like to describe themselves as the original carers in the community. Surprisingly, perhaps, they live a life which is anything but cut off from the real world. High on the agenda is that universal problem – money. But the good news is the owner of a Rolls-Royce with a gold radiator is anxious for them to bless his ass. Not so good, though, is the fact that the organ's baggy swell-box is on its last legs. And worse, there's the terrifying prospect of the brothers having to update the ladies' loos.
The cast includes Roy Dotrice as Brother Martin, Alfred Molina as Father Bertie, Darren Richardson as Young Brother Luke, Martin Jarvis as the Prior, Father Michael, and Rosalind Ayres as the redoubtable Mave.
Producers/Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres,
Director/Pete Atkin
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Thinking Allowed Ep 1/3
Wednesday 13 August
4.00-4.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Laurie Taylor brings together novelists and social scientists in three special editions of Thinking Allowed.
Will Self, Joanna Trollope and Iain Sinclair join Laurie Taylor to discuss how imagination and reality combine to create the environments in which we live. They explore how an artistic interpretation of the city, the countryside and the suburbs reflect the social realities of that environment. They also consider how much the lived experience of a place is affected by the imagination and the associations it brings.
In the first of these programmes, novelist Joanna Trollope, sociologist Howard Newby and rural ethnographer Martin Phillips discuss the "rural idyll". The dream the British have of the countryside is not always borne out by the experience of living there, yet the ideas we hold about a "proper" countryside often prompt changes.
Martin's research revealed long-term residents complaining of "too many village fetes" and incomers who are simply too keen to get involved in everything. Joanna comments on what drove her out of the countryside five years ago.
Next week, writer Iain Sinclair, sociologist Paul Barker and cultural theorist Tim Hubble discuss the dream of suburbia and why it is so often portrayed as a nightmare.
Presenter/Laurie Taylor, Producer/Charlie Taylor
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Mark
Watson Makes The World Substantially Better Ep
1/6
Wednesday 13 August
6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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 Mark Watson seeks to promote
virtue throughout the world… Stand-up comedian Mark Watson continues his quest to improve the world. Mark eradicated all Seven Deadly Sins in his first series, and his second sees him aiming even higher – he will now promote virtue throughout the world to make it substantially better. Mark teaches courage, patience, generosity, honesty, diligence and humility.
Mark performs stand-up based on the week's virtuous subject matter, supported by his sometimes unwilling assistants – poet Tim Key and musician Tom Basden. As well as stand-up, the programme includes sketches, songs and life-changing advice, which may turn out to be not-so-good advice.
In 2006, Mark was awarded the inaugural If.Comedy Panel Prize at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Tim Key and Tom Basden are also members of BBC Radio 4's Cowards and Tom was the winner of the If.Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2007.
Producer/Katie Marsden
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 13 August 2008 |
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Nicky Campbell is live at the Beijing Olympics and has updates from the sailing, diving and canoeing events. Shelagh Fogarty is in London with all the day's news and the programme also includes a round-up of last night's Olympic action.
Presenters/Nicky Campbell and Shelagh Fogarty, Producer/Richard Jackson
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
Simon Mayo is live at the Beijing Olympics in a programme that includes coverage of the latest swimming heats in the women's 100m freestyle and the men's 200m backstroke, in which Britons Caitlin McClatchey, Fran Halsall, Gregor Tait and James Goddard hope to qualify for tomorrow's semi-finals.
There's also the latest news in the tennis competition and boxing, as British super heavyweight David Price starts his Olympic quest. In the men's hockey, Britain have a very tough match as they face the Netherlands, who are ranked third in the world.
Presenter/Simon Mayo, Producer/Robin Bulloch
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
Peter Allen presents live from Beijing and has the day's top Olympic stories.
The tennis singles competitions have reached the third-round stage with quarter-final places at stake today.
Presenter/Peter Allen, Producer/John Cary
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
5 Live Sport
Wednesday 13 August
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents a big night of football, including live commentary from the UEFA Champions League and Carling Cup first-round action. He also has all the news from the Beijing Olympics.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Jonathan Wall
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
Mark Pougatch brings live Olympic action from the swimming with finals in the men's 200 breaststroke, women's 200m butterfly, men's 100m freestyle and women's 4x200m freestyle. There's also news on the judo, archery and shooting competitions.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Jonathan Wall
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 13 August 2008 |
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Gideon Coe
Wednesday 13 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.
Gideon revisits Echo & The Bunnymen from the Liverpool Empire in 1988 and Sheffield's Reverend & The Makers from last year's BBC Electric Proms.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
6 Music Plays It Again –
I Wanna Be Adored: The Stone Roses Story Ep
1/2
Wednesday 13 to Thursday 14 August
12.00midnight-12.30am BBC 6 MUSIC
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Listeners have another chance to hear Mary Anne Hobbs's profile of The Stone Roses, two decades after their heyday. The influential Manchester band helped to popularise the "baggy" scene and enjoyed great success, before being hindered by legal wrangles and eventually disbanding in 1996.
Presenter/Mary Anne Hobbs, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 13 August 2008 |
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Arun is in bed with Kelly when they hear a knock at the door, in this midweek offering of the Asian drama. Kelly says her ex-boyfriend isn't getting the message about their relationship being over.
Later, Arun and Sean go for a spin on the boat. Sean is surprised to see Zak and Robin walking along the beach but Arun thinks Zak deserves some fun after everything he's been through.
Meanwhile, Robin gets closer to Zak and moves in for a kiss...
Arun is played by Naithan Ariane, Kelly by Kate Edney, Sean by Lloyd Thomas, Zak by Jetinder Summan and Robin by Thaila Zucchi.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 13 August 2008 |
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Why
They're Dying In Congo Ep 1/2
Wednesday 13 August
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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BBC World Affairs Correspondent Mark Doyle explores why more than five million people have died in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the past decade.
Statistics from aid agency The International Rescue Committee show mortality rates in Congo to be significantly higher than other sub-Saharan African countries. Mark finds out why DRC is arguably suffering the world's deadliest crisis since the Second World War.
Violent conflict is one cause – the armies of half a dozen African states have become involved in the region and the UN has its largest peacekeeping force there – but the vast majority of deaths are caused by treatable conditions such as malaria and malnutrition.
Presenter/Mark Doyle, Producer/Rob Walker
BBC World Service Publicity
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