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| BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 27 August 2008 |
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The Chris Evans Show
Wednesday 27 August
5.00-7.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Chris Evans encourages the nation to make the most of the British summer and join him "staycationing" in a friend's garden. The smarter alternative to holidaying overseas, "staycations" are where it's at!
Chris and the Drivetime team weather the elements, broadcasting the entire show alfresco, encouraging their listeners to do the same. The show's popular regular features, Fox The Fox with Rebecca Pike and In The Locker with Jonny Saunders, are included, and special guests drop in to join in the fun. Listeners are invited to share photos and stories about their own "staycations".
Presenter/Chris Evans, Producer/Helen Thomas
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Trevor Nelson
Wednesday 27 August
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Trevor Nelson returns with another hour of the very best in soul music.
The Album Of The Week, Breakin' Away by American singer Alwyn Lopez "Al" Jarreau, comes from 1981. Jarreau has won Grammy Awards in three separate categories; jazz, pop and R&B.
Also on tonight's playlist are All The Things (Your Man Won't Do) by Joe; Round And Round by Hi-Tek, featuring Jonell; and Sweet Soul Music by Arthur Conley. Listeners also have a chance to pick their favourite soulful track for the Jam feature.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Ollie Embden
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| BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 27 August 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week –
Vaughan Williams
Bank Holiday Monday 25 to Friday 29 August
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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As part of BBC Radio 3's programming to mark the 50th anniversary of Vaughan Williams's death, Composer Of The Week continues the exploration of his operas with Donald Macleod looking at those works inspired by the Elizabethan era.
The experience of working with the Royal Shakespeare Company on the music for a number of plays in 1913 sowed the seeds for Vaughan Williams's Falstaffian opera Sir John In Love. This, like most of his operas, was first produced by amateurs, as opportunities for an English composer to get an opera performed were virtually non-existent in the early 20th century.
Donald Macleod looks at Vaughan Williams's works on Elizabethan and Tudor themes, and the chequered performance history of his operas. Was it possible that the composer may have lacked a commercial edge, given that his private wealth meant he could "indulge his fancy" in writing operas without having to worry if they did badly at the box office? While Sir John In Love had been germinating in Vaughan Williams's mind since his stint as a musical director at the RSC in 1913, his Five Tudor Portraits were suggested to him by Elgar, who recommended Skelton's verse to him as "pure jazz".
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Megan Jones
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This concert includes popular music with distinct leanings towards the natural world. Debussy's faun – of his famous Prélude à L'après midi d'un faune – slumbers languidly in the heat of a Mediterranean afternoon and Vaughan Williams's lark ascends ever higher into the sky above England.
Vaughan Williams's teacher, Maurice Ravel, sets his ballet Daphnis et Chloé in an Ancient Greece ravishingly lit by a sun that dawns at the opening of the Second Suite. And an Orient of sensuality and danger is portrayed in Ravel's exotic song-cycle Shéhérazade, performed here by mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly.
The only lesser-known piece on the programme is Seven, which receives its UK première tonight. Written to commemorate the seven astronauts who lost their lives in the space shuttle Columbia in 2003, it is a violin concerto by Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös. Susanna Mälkki conducts tonight's performance with the Philharmonia Orchestra.
"This is not a traditional concerto that sets up a contest or contrast between the soloist and the orchestra," he says. "It's a memorial piece, like Berg's Violin Concerto, and the orchestra's role is to create a sense of vast space. It's as if the violin is travelling through this space as it sings." The number seven is symbolised in many ways: there are 49 orchestra players, and six other violinists dotted around the auditorium, who act as satellites of the on-stage soloist, Akiko Suwanai.
Presenter/Chris Cook, Producer/Olwen Fisher
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The natural world of this evening's earlier Prom spills over into this late-night London Sinfonietta concert conducted by David Atherton. Einojuhani Rautavaara's most popular work, a concerto for taped birds and orchestra, marks the Finnish composer's 80th anniversary.
Sir John Tavener's early cantata The Whale is performed under the baton of David Atherton, who gave its première at the London Sinfonietta's inaugural concert 40 years ago. The work was famously recorded on The Beatles' Apple label after Ringo Starr heard it.
Forty years on, Tavener offers the UK premiere of Cantus mysticus, for soprano, clarinet and strings, with set texts by Goethe, Dante and others, concerned with the creative feminine element in the Divine.
Presenter/Verity Sharp, Producer/Kevin Bee
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| BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 27 August 2008 |
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Afternoon Play – From Lagos With Love
Wednesday 27 August
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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A junior lawyer in a London law firm uncovers a major fraud in a Nigerian oil company and falls in love with his contact in Lagos. Then she disappears. Nadine Marshall stars in a thriller set in the world of corporate law from exciting new black writer Janice Okoh.
Jeremy is handling a large loan from a British bank to a Nigerian oil company. He reports to Kenneth Wigman, a senior partner in his law firm, and strikes up a flirtatious friendship with Nigerian legal assistant, Femi, in the Lagos office. Femi supports her family on a meagre wage and fantasises about being a hot-shot lawyer in England.
When Jeremy suspects the oil company Femi works for is siphoning off the bank's money he asks her to help him investigate. But when it appears his own firm is involved she stops him. They will lose their jobs and for Femi this will be catastrophic. Then Femi calls up scared: the chairman of the oil company has close contacts with the Nigerian government.
Worried about her safety Femi's calls become more frantic. Then she disappears. Jeremy contacts the police, the British Embassy, the oil company and Amnesty International but comes up against a brick wall. Femi could be dead or imprisoned. Eventually, Jeremy is forced to ask Kenneth Wigman for help.
In return for Femi's safe passage to England, Jeremy will hand over all of his information about the fraud. Femi is on her way to London at last, the deal goes ahead and Jeremy resigns. But things don't quite turn out the way he expects.
Producer/Claire Grove
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Thinking Allowed Ep 3/3
Wednesday 27 August
4.00-4.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Laurie Taylor brings together novelists and social scientists to explore the concept of "Imagination And The City", in the third and final part of the current series of Thinking Allowed.
In a recording made before an audience in the Radio Theatre at London's Broadcasting House, novelist Will Self, sociologist Richard Sennett and geographer Doreen Massey discuss the fear and excitement, violence and speed that a city creates and the role that imagination plays in producing the hard reality of city demographics.
They discuss how an image of a city impacts on the experience of the people who live there and what the relationship is between the fear and danger that a city evokes and its strength and force of attraction. Laurie and his panel also take questions from the audience on the nature of modern cities and the role that culture plays in creating them.
Presenter/Laurie Taylor, Producer/Charlie Taylor
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Strangers On Trains Ep 1/6
Wednesday 27 August
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 4
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Writer Nat Segnit has always been fascinated by trains and people's stories. So, armed with an iPod recorder, Nat spent a year recording the stories of strange men on trains. The resulting interviews produce this six-part comedy drama to play out late at night.
Or at least that's how it's presented. In fact it's all made up. All of these encounters have been conceived, then developed in improvisation, scripted, rehearsed and then performed by the same actors Stewart Wright and Nat Segnit.
Producer/Steven Canny
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All Bar Luke Ep 1/6
Wednesday 27 August
11.15-11.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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BBC Radio 4 welcomes back designated driver Luke Walsall and his disastrous social life for a third series of All Bar Luke, the comedy drama of late-licensed, binge-drinking embarrassment. The show is written and performed by rising star Tim Key.
Each episode of All Bar Luke covers the dying minutes of another nightmare evening for Luke. Whether he's trapped with the hen party from hell or pouring his heart out to a cab driver – only Luke's voice is picked out of the late night hubbub.
This third series finds Luke in the process of rebuilding his social life after a violent fall-out with his so-called friends. But old wounds are re-opened when his brother starts seeing Hayley – the longstanding object of his devotion.
Producer/Seb Barwell
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 27 August 2008 |
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Nemone
Wednesday 27 August
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Presenter, actress and writer Mel Giedroyc joins the show for a chat about her latest project Eurobeat, the glorious award-winning celebration of everything Eurovision, which has been touring around the country.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
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Gary Crowley
Wednesday 27 August
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gary Crowley digs out a recent session from the influential Wedding Present, a Peel session from former Dinosaur Jr member Lou Barlow with his band Sebadoh, recorded in 1992, plus XX Teens from Marc Riley's BBC 6 Music show earlier this year.
Presenter/Gary Crowley, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
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6 Music Plays It Again
The Record Producers – Hugh Padgham Ep
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Wednesday 27 August
12.00-12.30am BBC 6 MUSIC
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Tonight there is another chance to hear Steve Levine and Richard Allinson explore the studio work of Hugh Padgham, whose productions include Peter Gabriel, XTC, The Human League and The Police.
This two-part programme concludes tomorrow.
Presenter/Steve Levine and Richard Allinson, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
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