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| BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 7 September 2008 |
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Good Morning Sunday
Sunday 7 September
7.00-9.00am BBC RADIO 2
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Legendary American folk singer Joan Baez joins Aled Jones on this week's edition of Good Morning Sunday.
Joan looks back at her life and career which, over the past 40 years, has seen her use music as a force for real social change.
Ahead of the release of her new album, Day After Tomorrow, Aled talks to Joan about her spiritual beliefs and the influence on her career of religious men such as Martin Luther King and her father.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson
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Elaine Paige On Sunday
Sunday 7 September
1.00-2.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Theatrical casting director David Grindrod joins Elaine Paige for this week's celebration of the best of Broadway, Hollywood and the West End.
Elaine chats to David about his career, the casting process and the many musicals he has cast over the years, including the current productions of Hairspray, The Sound Of Music and Mamma Mia!
David also reveals his own Essential Musicals, which include the UK productions of A Little Night Music (London 1975); La Cage Aux Folles (London 1986); Sunset Boulevard (London 1993); Spend, Spend, Spend (London 1999); and Ragtime (London 2003).
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Sunday Half Hour
Sunday 7 September
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Every year, Methodist churches hold a Covenant service to celebrate and affirm their relationship with God and each other. Many churches hold this service at the start of the Methodist year in September.
Brian D'Arcy marks the occasion with some appropriate hymns from this week's featured choir, the Welsh Chamber Singers, directed by Avril Harding. The organist is John Cheer and hymns include Take My Life And Let It Be and Forth In Thy Name O Lord I Go.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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| BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 7 September 2008 |
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Private Passions – Judy Collins
Sunday 7 September
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Legendary US folk-singer and songwriter Judy Collins, who began her career as a classically-trained pianist, making her public debut at the age of 13 in Mozart's Concerto For Two Pianos, shares her Private Passions with Michael Berkeley this week.
Judy came under the influence of the folk revival of the early Sixties and the music of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, and eventually made her way to Greenwich Village, New York, where she was associated with the social poets of the time – including Tom Paxton, Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. At first she sang traditional folk songs, or songs written by others, such as Dylan, Seeger and Joni Mitchell, but with her 1966 album, In My Life, she began to branch out and include work from The Beatles, Leonard Cohen, Jacques Brel and Kurt Weill. With her next album, Wildflowers (1967), she began to record her own compositions and, by the Seventies, had a solid reputation as an art song singer and folk singer.
Like many folk singers of her generation, Judy became involved in social activism. She is a representative for Unicef and an anti-landmine campaigner. After the death of her son in 1992, following a long bout of depression, she has become a strong advocate of suicide prevention.
Judy has chosen an eclectic mix of music as her Private Passions, from a madrigal by Francesco Landini and Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto to two songs by American composer Ned Rorem, Copland's Lincoln Portrait, with James Earl Jones as the speaker, Pretty Women from Sondheim's Sweeney Todd and Joni Mitchell singing Both Sides Now.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Sarah Cropper
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There's a rare chance for listeners to hear a full performance of Messiaen's biggest and most ambitious works this afternoon, performed by The Netherlands Opera under Igno Metzmacher. Commissioned to write an opera by Rolf Liebermann for the Paris Opéra, Messiaen turned to the story of St Francis of Assisi and produced an opera some have claimed to be the "grandest grand opera" since Wagner's Parsifal.
It's a vast work with an entirely male cast, except for a single soprano in the role of the Angel. A keen ornithologist, Messiaen travelled to Assisi to listen to, and transcribe, the various calls and songs of the birds of the region – which he wove into his score.
In his last season as Chief Conductor of The Netherlands Opera, Ingo Metzmacher, a notable champion of 20th-century music, conducts a strong international cast drawn from director Pierre Audi's new Messiaen centenary production.
Presenter/Tom Service, Producer/David Gallagher
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Words And Music – Sleep
Sunday 7 September
10.15pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 3
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Words And Music looks at poems, prose and music on the theme of sleep this week. Music includes Peter Warlock and Ivor Gurney's haunting settings of John Fletcher's Sleep and the sublime September – the second of Richard Strauss's Four Last Songs. John Lennon ruminates on the joys of staying in bed with The Beatles' I'm Only Sleeping and, of course, there are extracts from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty.
Poetry includes Keats's To Sleep and explores the problem of getting to sleep after a hard day's work in Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 27.
Readers/Lisa Dillon and Adrian Rawlins, Producer/Jeremy Evans
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| BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 7 September 2008 |
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Bookclub – Gore Vidal:
Point To Point Navigation, A Memoir
Sunday 7 September
4.00-4.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Tennessee Williams, John F Kennedy, Truman Capote and Greta Garbo have one thing in common. They have all, at one time or another, entered the magnetic orbit of America's first man of letters – novelist, screenwriter, playwright, essayist, raconteur and notorious wit Gore Vidal.
Now in his eighties – his acerbity still intact – he joins readers in the Bookclub studio to discuss his memoir, Point To Point Navigation.
Although he's a novelist of renown – as well as an essayist, screenwriter, polemicist and critic – he says there is no such thing as a famous novelist now, and at the opening of the book he says that as he moves gracefully towards the door marked "exit", he realises that the only thing he ever liked to do was to go to the movies.
James Naughtie chairs the discussion and, as ever on Bookclub, a group of readers who applied for tickets to meet Gore Vidal ask the questions.
This is the 10th anniversary of the programme and Gore Vidal is one in a line of distinguished authors to have joined the programme, including Toni Morrison, JK Rowling, Carol Shields, Ian McEwan, Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie and Joseph Heller. The first Bookclub author in 1998 was Sebastian Faulks, who talked about Birdsong. Every edition has been presented by James Naughtie.
Presenter/James Naughtie, Producer/Dymphna Flynn
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The Lament Of Swordy Well
Sunday 7 September
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Swordy Well is a heath in rural Northamptonshire that was given the power of speech in John Clare's landmark eco-poem, The Lament Of Swordy Well. Poet Paul Farley finds out what's become of Swordy Well, uncovering an extraordinary history in the process, and meets a cavalcade of characters who have passed through this microcosm of rural England.
"My name will quickly be the whole that's left of Swordy Well," wrote John Clare in the 1830s, before he was committed to the asylum, in one of his most moving and proto-ecological poems. Through Clare, the genius loci of place gained a voice but, over the years, Swordy Well has almost lost it, and its name, too.
The site – now Swaddywell – is presently one of scientific interest and has been preserved for its wildlife and habitat. However, following Clare's time, and his catalogue of the area's neglect and abuse following enclosure, it has been used as a racetrack for stock cars, a site for illegal raves and parties and a fly-tipping eyesore.
Paul, who has edited John Clare's poems, goes back to the original location and takes the poem back to its source, meeting writers, conservationists and ravers, who remember partying in Swordy Well, and wondering how would it speak now nearly two centuries after enclosure.
Presenter/Paul Farley, Producer/Aasiya Lodhi
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 7 September 2008 |
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The Gabby Logan Show
Sunday 7 September
10.00am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Following her stint at the Beijing Olympics, Gabby Logan returns to Sunday mornings on BBC Radio 5 Live, with a mix of chat and comment on the week's news, sports and entertainment stories.
Gabby also challenges her studio guests to decide which events had the biggest impact in the weekly duelling panel show, News v Sport.
Presenter/Gabby Logan, Producer/Keith Bunker
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5 Live Sport
Sunday 7 September
12.00-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Eleanor Oldroyd presents full commentary from the Belgian Grand Prix, from Spa, the 13th race on the Formula One calendar, with David Croft, Maurice Hamilton and Holly Samos.
There is also is live rugby league coverage of the final round of matches in the engage Super League season.
Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Claire Burns
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Donal MacIntyre
Sunday 7 September
8.00-9.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Donal MacIntyre returns to BBC Radio 5 Live with a new series of hard-hitting investigative reports.
Donal delivers investigations and original stories, revealing scandals and scams while calling the culprits to account.
Presenter/Donal MacIntyre Producer/Emma Rippon
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US Open Tennis
Sunday 7 September
9.00pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Jonathan Overend presents live from Flushing Meadows, New York, with commentary of the men's singles final in the US Open.
Presenter/Jonathan Overend, Producer/Haydn Parry
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 7 September 2008 |
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The Music Week
Sunday 7 September
1.00-2.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Matt Everitt and Julie Cullen look forward to the announcement of this year's Mercury Music prize winner with contributions from judges, former winners and this year's nominees.
Presenter/Matt Everitt and Julie Cullen, Producer/Roman Tagoe
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Stephen Merchant
Sunday 7 September
3.00-5.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Stephen Merchant and his crew welcome Perrier award-nominated comedian Ed Byrne into the studio. Fresh from the Edinburgh Festival, Ed talks to Steve about his comedy show, Different Class.
Presenter/Stephen Merchant, Executive Producer/James Stirling
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone
Sunday 7 September
5.00-8.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Professor Justin Spear takes a look at the work of cult Polish jazzer, soundtrack composer and one-time Roman Polanski sidekick Krystof Komeda, in this week's edition of Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone.
Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Producer/Henry Lopez-Real
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Sunday 7 September
12.00-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC
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Bob Dylan takes Time as his theme this week. His selections include: Time Is On My Side by Irma Thomas; Only Time Will Tell by Etta James; Turn Back The Hands Of Time by Tyrone Davis; and 60 Minute Man by Billy Ward And The Dominos.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/Frank Wilson
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Sunday 7 September 2008 |
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The Forum
Sunday 7 September
9.05-10.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Bridget Kendall hosts The Forum, BBC World Service's weekly discussion programme about ideas.
The Forum explores thoughts, theories, opinions and beliefs from around the world, providing opportunities for intellectual discourse and debate across national, social and cultural divides.
This week's guests include novelist Howard Jacobson and Daniel Bell, a political philosopher living in China.
Presenter/Bridget Kendall, Producers/Emily Kasriel and Julian Siddle
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