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Mike Harding
Wednesday 10 September
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Legendary folk duo Bob Fox and Stu Luckley are Mike Harding's guests this week.
Bob and Stu are taking to the road for a tour to mark the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Nowt So Good'll Pass. They took the folk world by storm when they began playing together in the late Seventies. After recording a second album, Wish We Never Had Parted, Bob and Stu pursued solo careers, but years down the line got back together to re-record 14 songs from their duo albums.
Bob has been nominated for a number of BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards and was one of the principal voices of the network's award-winning Radio Ballads.
Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While
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Trevor Nelson
Wednesday 10 September
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Deniece Williams's Niecy is the album of the week as Trevor Nelson presents another 60 minutes of the best in soulful music.
Williams's career began when she became one of three backing singers to Stevie Wonder. She released Niecy, which featured the Grammy-nominated hit It's Gonna Take A Miracle, in 1981.
Other music played on the show tonight includes Ben E King's Supernatural Thing, Central Line's Walking Into Sunshine, and Brother To Brother's Chance With You.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Ollie Embden
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| BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 10 September 2008 |
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 Martyn Brabbins conducts the
BBC Symphony Orchestra in
Holst's ever-popular The
Planets suite at the BBC Proms Holst's astrological suite The Planets remains one of the greatest – and most popular – of all British orchestral works. It ends tonight's concert conducted by Martyn Brabbins, when the Holst Singers and the BBC Symphony Orchestra usher listeners into nothingness in the closing piece, Neptune.
Iannis Xenakis's Pleiades also looks to the skies. Scored for a sextet of exotic percussion, Pleiades portrays, in the composer's words, "clouds, nebulas and galaxies of the fragmented dust of beats organised by rhythm". It's a work of great drama, at times quite brutal, drawing on Xenakis's experiences in the Second World War during which he lost the sight in one eye. Two percussion groups – O Duo and 4-Mality – come together for this performance.
Vaughan Williams's chilly evocation of the vast, uninhabited wastes of the South Pole opens the evening, with BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Elizabeth Watts returning for her second Prom of the week for the wordless soprano part in the great British composer's Seventh Symphony, Sinfonia antartica.
Presenter/Sara Mohr-Pietsch, Producer/Ann McKay
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Twenty Minutes –
Proms Literary Festival
Wednesday
10 September
8.30-8.50pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Poet Lavinia Greenlaw and astronomer Paul Murdin join Ian McMillan for some literary stargazing, continuing the series of Proms Literary Festival events. In anticipation of Holst's Planets Suite, today's panellists contemplate the various ways in which writers have responded to astronomical ideas.
Lavinia Greenlaw is a poet and novelist whose own poems have contemplated astronomical subjects, including Galileo's wife and the first dog in space. Paul Murdin is Senior Fellow at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge and Treasurer of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Presenter/Ian McMillan, Producer/Emma Harding
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The Essay – It's Big And It's Beautiful:
The Rise Of Retro Tech Ep 3/4
Monday 8 to Thursday 11 September
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Archaeologist Christine Finn reviews retro technology as a form of aesthetic in this third Essay.
Many designers and consumers are using old forms of technology: are they being ironic, or do these products have a function which allows a slower and more considered interaction? Christine asks if writers who use typewriters are afraid of change or are making a statement about not adopting new technology simply because it is there.
Presenter/Christine Finn, Producer/Marya Burgess
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| BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 10 September 2008 |
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BIG
BANG DAY
Wednesday 10 September
Throughout the day BBC RADIO 4
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Today BBC Radio 4 has exclusive access to one of the most exciting scientific experiments ever attempted, when physicists try to recreate the aftermath of the Big Bang.
This extraordinary event takes place at CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, in Geneva. Scientists hope that recreating the moment a fraction of a second after the Big Bang will enable them to shed light on some of the greatest unanswered scientific questions about the origins of the universe and its composition.
Radio 4 has been granted exclusive access to the CERN control room from where presenter Andrew Marr reports on the experiment throughout the day. The network devotes the day to related programming to coincide with the switch-on of the fastest atom-smasher in the world – the Large Hadron Collider.
Season Producer/Alexandra Feachem
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BIG BANG DAY
Engineering Solutions
Wednesday 10 September
9.00-9.45am BBC RADIO 4
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CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the most complicated scientific apparatus ever built. Its hi-tech magnets have enough superconducting wire to stretch to the Sun and back five times over; at its heart, the vacuum will be 10 times better than on the surface of the Moon; bunches of billions of protons, finer than a human hair, will circle its 27 km rings 11,000 times a second.
And the two huge experiments watching the results of collisions between the protons are effectively giant 100 megapixel digital cameras, taking 40 million shots a second. Many of the technologies hadn't even been invented when the scientists started building the LHC. Adam Hart-Davis discovers what it takes to build the world's most intricate discovery machine.
Presenter/Adam Hart-Davis, Producer/Roland Pease
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BIG
BANG DAY
Physics Rocks
Wednesday 10 September
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4
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Brian Cox asks whether particle physics is the new rock 'n' roll.
It may seem the domain of nerdy science boffins, but the extraordinary questions that particle physics hopes to answer has attracted the attention of some very high-profile and unusual fans. Alan Alda, Ben Miller, John Barrowman, Eddie Izzard and Dara O'Briain all have interests in this branch of physics. Brian Cox, CERN physicist and former member of Nineties band D:Ream, tracks down some very well-known celebrity enthusiasts, and takes a light-hearted look at why this subject can really appeal to everyone, as it attempts to answer fundamental questions about the nature of the universe and people's place in it.
Brian takes comedian and actor Ben Miller to CERN itself, to get a sense of the scale of the project, and visits Alan Alda in New York to find out why he is so fascinated by the search for the fundamental particles of nature. And John Barrowman, star of BBC TV's Torchwood, explains his amazement at the scale and ambition of CERN.
Presenter/Brian Cox, Producer/Alexandra Feachem
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BIG BANG DAY
Afternoon Play – Torchwood: Lost Souls
Wednesday 10 September
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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 L-R Gareth David-Lloyd, John
Barrowman, Freema Agyeman
and Eve Myles star in a special
radio edition of award-winning
BBC TV production Torchwood For Big Bang Day, BBC Radio 4 has specially commissioned a one-off version of the award-winning BBC TV production Torchwood.
The Torchwood Institute was founded by Queen Victoria in 1879 to protect the British Empire against the threat of alien invasion. By 2008, all that remains of the organisation is a small team based in Cardiff. And now, following the tragic deaths of two of their colleagues, the remaining three – Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper and Ianto Jones – stand alone to protect the human race against another unknown force from the darkness.
Martha Jones, ex-time traveller, is working as a doctor for a UNIT task force at CERN in Geneva, home of the world's largest particle physics laboratory. They're about to activate the Large Hadron Collider, a huge particle accelerator which has been built deep underground in a 27 km tunnel beneath Switzerland and France. Once activated, two beams of protons will be fired at each other, recreating conditions a billionth of a second after the Big Bang, and potentially allowing the human race a greater insight into the stuff of which the Universe is made. But so much could go wrong – it could open a gateway to a parallel dimension, or create a black hole – and now something strange is happening. Scientists are hearing voices from the past and suffering strange symptoms...
Lost Souls by Joseph Lidster stars John Barrowman, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd and Freema Agyeman, and there is a special appearance by Lucy Montgomery.
Producer/Kate McAll
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BIG BANG DAY
The Great Big Particle Adventure Ep 1/3
Wednesday 10 September
9.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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The huge new Large Hadron Collider accelerator at CERN, costing $6bn, is designed to ask the most fundamental questions in science – what is the stuff of the Universe, where did it come from, how does it work, and would existence be possible if it were any different? In this series, comedian and physicist Ben Miller asks the CERN scientists what they hope to find.
He begins by exploring the atom. The notion of atoms dates back to Greek philosophers who sought a natural mechanical explanation of the Universe, as opposed to a divine one. The existence of what are known as chemical atoms, the constituents of all that is seen around us, wasn't proved until a hundred years ago, but almost simultaneously it was realised these weren't the indivisible constituents the Greeks envisaged. Much of the story of physics since then has been the ever-deeper probing of matter until, at the end of the 20th century, a complete list of fundamental ingredients had been identified – apart from one, the much-discussed Higgs particle.
In this programme, Ben finds out why this last particle is so pivotal, not just to atomic theory, but to our very existence – and how hopeful the scientists are of proving its existence.
Presenter/Ben Miller, Producer/Roland Pease
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BIG
BANG DAY
The Genuine Particle
Wednesday 10 September
11.30pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 4
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As CERN launches its new particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, two Russian mathematicians have suggested that the unusually high beam energies may create what physicists jocularly call a "wormhole", and that this wormhole could, theoretically, act as a sort of exit door to any time-traveller.
This struck Steve Punt as very funny.
His new comedy, The Genuine Particle, is set at CERN and is a fast-moving satire based around an easy-going British physicist who unwittingly unleashes a storm of frenzied covert international military activity as the US, Russia, Iran, Her Majesty's Government (and, surprisingly, Belgium) compete to gain control of any future time-traveller and their (presumed) weaponry.
The Genuine Particle is produced by David Tyler, who did a degree in Quantum Physics at Cambridge, and very nearly did a PhD at the DESY accelerator in Hamburg, smashing quarks together, before running away to join the comedy circus.
Producer/David Tyler
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 10 September 2008 |
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5
Live Sport
Wednesday 10 September
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents live from Zagreb, with full commentary on England's vital World Cup qualifier against Croatia. Commentary comes from Alan Green, chief football correspondent Mike Ingham, and former England manager Graham Taylor.
Plus there are regular updates from Iceland v Scotland, Northern Ireland v Czech Republic and Montenegro v Republic of Ireland.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Steve Houghton
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Wednesday 10 September 2008 |
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Football
Wednesday 10 September
7.35-9.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Uninterrupted commentary on the World Cup qualifier between Northern Ireland and the Czech Republic comes live from Windsor Park, Belfast.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 10 September 2008 |
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George Lamb
Wednesday 10 September
10.00-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Comedian Freddie Starr pops in to BBC 6 Music for a chat with George Lamb.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
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Nemone
Wednesday 10 September
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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TV presenter and chef Loyd Grossman comes in to talk about his recent BBC TV series Step Up To The Plate, which pits a group of home cooks against Britain's best chefs.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Wednesday 10 September
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe digs out some BBC archive gems including Belly recorded at Glastonbury in 1995 and Tom Waits recorded in 1975.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
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