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| BBC RADIO 3 Monday 15 September 2008 |
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Composer
Of The Week – Lord Berners Ep 1/5
Monday 15 to Friday 19 September
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Donald Macleod explores the colourful life and music of one of England's most eccentric composers. Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, the 14th Lord Berners, was a painter and novelist, a writer of poetry and nonsense verse, and a composer of brilliant and whimsical music.
Famous for his wit and outlandish behaviour, he dyed his resident flock of doves all the colours of the rainbow, regularly had a horse to tea in his drawing-room and built a huge folly in his garden. His eccentricities marked him out as a very English Englishman, but his music was a different matter entirely. Unlike his contemporaries on the British musical scene, he developed a distinctly European slant to his compositions, and came to be regarded as one of the truly original composers of the early 20th century.
Donald Macleod starts the week with a work for puppet theatre, L'uomo dai baffi; an exuberant essay in Spanish colour; and a trio of waltzes which contain a passage Stravinsky described as "one of the most impudent in modern music".
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Deborah Preston
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Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Monday 15 September
1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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The Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio open the 10th anniversary season of BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime concerts from the Wigmore Hall, London, with an all-Beethoven programme of the two Opus 70 Piano Trios, including the much-loved Ghost. This was given the name because of the mysterious second movement, which includes thematic elements from an opera project Beethoven was sketching at the time on Shakespeare's Macbeth and the witches' chorus.
The all-American Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson Trio made their debut at the White House for President Carter's inauguration in 1977 and celebrated their 30th anniversary last year.
Presenter/Sara Mohr-Pietsch, Producer/Emily Kershaw
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Afternoon On 3
Monday 15 September
2.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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French composer Olivier Messiaen was born 100 years ago this December, and Afternoon On 3 marks the anniversary by placing Messiaen at the centre of significant themes running through French music history.
This week the emphasis is on church and organ music. Messiaen served over 60 years as the organist at La Trinite in Paris. He wrote very little music for the liturgy itself, believing that only plainsong was right for church services, yet much of his music is suffused with his religious feeling. "I was born a believer," he said, and he was particularly drawn to the mystery and glory of God and the Church, rather than to the earthly life of Christ.
During the week, comparisons are drawn with medieval composer Guillaume de Machaut, whose treatment of rhythm is not unlike that of Messiaen as it somehow detaches from pitch and takes on a life of its own. The French baroque is represented by Charpentier and Rameau (who also wrote very little liturgical work despite being a professional organist for many years). There is music from Messiaen's predecessor at La Trinite, Alexandre Guilmant; from his organ tutor Marcel Dupre; and a performance of Messiaen's Messe de la Pentecote by the man who took over his job at La Trinite, Naji Hakim.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Elizabeth Funning
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Performance On 3 –
Edinburgh
International Festival: Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Monday
15 September
7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3 |
The first concert in BBC Radio 3's newly extended flagship evening concert slot, Performance On 3 – which now runs for an extra half an hour each weekday evening – brings coverage from the Edinburgh International Festival in a recital given by baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky with pianist Ivari Illja.
Oozing charisma, Hvorostovsky leaves critics and audiences in awe of the power of his passion as a performer. A committed ambassador for Russian music, he has one of the greatest voices of his generation and his peerless liquid baritone receives a fine showcase in this programme of romantic songs by Tchaikovsky, Medtner and Rachmaninov.
Extending Performance On 3 to two-and-a-half hours allows more space for more performance, as well as interviews and context around its broadcasts of concerts, giving listeners added insight to the artists and repertoire. It also emphasises Radio 3's distinctive position as the leading broadcaster of live operas, concerts and recitals from around the UK, which make up more than half of the station's music output.
Presenter/tbc, Producer Lindsay Pell
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Night
Waves
Monday 15 September
9.15-10.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Night Waves celebrates the start of a new season with a rare, programme length interview with Philip Roth, arguably America’s greatest living novelist. Recorded in New York, Philip Roth talks to Philip Dodd about his life and work and about his latest book – his 29th – Indignation.
Roth has always been provocative, playful and angry and many of his themes have remained consistent since he began writing in the late Fifties. He and his fictional alter ego, Nathan Zuckerman, have cast an often satirical eye over post-war America, notably with a string of classic novels including I Married A Communist, American Pastoral and The Plot Against America.
Indignation, a tale of sexual discovery, anti-Semitism, families and the bizarre nature of fate and memory, is set in 1951, the second year of the Korean War. It tells the story of the son of a kosher butcher who escapes a crushing New Jersey Jewish environment to attend a conservative College in Ohio.
Roth discusses the role of fiction in his life and his own impact on America. He describes the attraction of mixing fiction with elements of autobiography and people's expectations of the writer. Roth also talks about the ageing process and his writing environment in the countryside north of New York.
Presenter/Philip Dodd, Producer/Anthony Denselow
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The Essay – On Excess Ep 1/5
Monday 15 to Friday 19 September
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Adam Phillips, one of today's leading psychotherapists, invites listeners to consider what part aspects of excess plays in their lives, and how they may recognise, define, and come to terms with it.
Poet William Blake famously wrote that: "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom" – but was he being ironic? In this first essay Adam Phillips talks about where ideas come from concerning what is too much, and demonstrates that not everything can be measured.
He invites listeners to consider how much of their lives is organised around notions of the right amount – whether of food, love, sex, money, shopping, sleeping, solitude or beliefs. He argues that each developmental phase of everyone's lives has its distinctive excesses: from infancy – characterised by excessive sleep and needing excessive care – to toddlers – excessively bold, and yet dependent.
He also looks at greed and whether human appetites are, by nature, excessive; and how, in adolescence, the growing individual has the wherewithal to commit significantly aggressive acts.
Presenter/Adam Phillips, Producer/Marilyn Imrie
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| BBC RADIO 4 Monday 15 September 2008 |
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Empire
Of Liberty – The Debate
Monday 15 September
9.00-9.45am BBC RADIO 4
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 BBC North America Editor,
Justin Webb, debates modern
America BBC Radio 4 today begins a landmark
series entitled America,
Empire Of Liberty (3.45pm), broadcast in 90 parts and divided
into three series of 30 programmes.
To launch this, the BBC's North America Editor, Justin Webb, presents a round-table discussion on the theme "What are the influences which have most shaped America today?"
The panel of distinguished guests, both British and American, includes Professor David Reynolds, the Cambridge historian who is writing and presenting the series, and Howard Zinn, author of bestselling book A People's History Of The United States.
Presenter/Justin Webb, Producer/Sue Ellis
BBC News Publicity
Book Of The Week –
A Strange Eventful History Ep 1/5
Monday 15 to Friday 19 September
9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4
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Michael Holroyd's remarkable biography of the lives of the two greats of the Victorian stage is read by Eleanor Bron.
Ellen Terry was called by The Times "the uncrowned queen of England", but behind her public success lay a darker story. The child-bride of artist GF Watts, she eloped with a friend of Oscar Wilde at 21, gave birth to two illegitimate children and fell for unsuitable man after unsuitable man. But her greatest partnership was on stage, with legendary tragedian Henry Irving – who in turn had transformed himself from lowly clerk with a debilitating stammer into one of the great actor-managers of Victorian theatre.
At the Lyceum Theatre in London, the two of them created a grand "cathedral of the Arts", where first nights of their Shakespearean melodramas were a must in every well-to-do Londoner's social calendar, while their own intimately intertwining lives exceeded in plot and story the dramas they performed on stage.
In his first major biography in 15 years, Michael Holroyd explores the fascinating relationship of these two theatrical greats and examines the changing face of Victorian theatre.
The readings feature recordings of Irving and Terry's great performances.
Reader/Eleanor Bron, Producer/Justine Willett
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Woman's Hour Drama – The Dig Ep 1/5
Monday 15 to Friday 19 September
10.45-11.00am BBC RADIO 4
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The Dig is a dramatisation of John Preston's novel about the discovery of the Sutton Hoo treasure, starring Anna Madley.
Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, August 1939. Against a background of mounting national anxiety, the greatest archaeological discovery in Britain is about to be uncovered on Mrs Pretty's estate. Interrupting her honeymoon, recent archaeology graduate Peggy Piggott (Anna Madeley) and her husband Stuart (Bertie Carvel) are called to join the dig.
As it becomes clear that the team is fighting time and weather, Peggy is entrusted with the task of prising treasures from the ground. As the gold comes free, the drama also unearths Peggy's doomed marriage, her brief encounter with Mrs Pretty's nephew, Rory (Alex Wyndham), and the consequences of imminent war.
Producer/Jeremy Mortimer
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Boot Camp For Dads
Monday 15 September
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4
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As hands-on fatherhood becomes a necessity in many modern households, writer and broadcaster Richard Johnson investigates a new wave of support for dads-to-be which has swept over to Britain from the States.
A father himself, with a four-year-old daughter, Richard joins a class where dads about to have a baby can share their anxieties and learn from other men who have recently become fathers. The idea seems a deceptively simple version of the mothers' coffee morning – but then men have a reputation of not always wanting to share their innermost thoughts, feelings and fears.
In America the sessions originally started among a group of Marines – hence the name Boot Camp, although this refers more to the demands of a young baby rather than a sergeant major knocking the new dads into shape. In Britain, the image is all a bit less macho and the sessions have been dubbed Hit The Ground Crawling.
The discussion, however, is much the same, and wide-ranging – from sleepless nights to sex before and after birth; from helping their partner through labour to breastfeeding. The fathers are surprisingly candid and many are determined to do a better job than their own dads.
Richard also investigates what else is out there for dads – from local NCT initiatives such as Scaletrix car racing, where fathers can bond with their children, to a helpline for "postnatally depressed" dads – and reflects on how attitudes to fatherhood are changing.
Presenter/Richard Johnson, Producer/Sara Parker
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Brain Of Brains 2008
Monday 15 September
1.30-2.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Robert Robinson chairs a special edition of the venerable general knowledge quiz, in which the three most recent Brain Of Britain champions compete for the prestigious title Brain Of Brains 2008.
To precede the forthcoming series of Brain Of Britain, the most recent champions – Mark Bytheway (2007), Pat Gibson (2006) and Chris Hughes (2005) – compete to decide which of them is the most formidable.
Next week at the same time, the three most recent Brains Of Brains – including today's winner – compete for the even more daunting title of Top Brain.
Presenter/Robert Robinson, Producer/Paul Bajoria
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Afternoon Play –
The Day They Wouldn't Take It Anymore
Monday 15 September
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Based on true events, this drama is a story of changing times; of a stubborn man unable to come to terms with the expectations of society after the First World War, who fears the future and wants to turn the clock back, and another man whose life has changed for ever as a consequence of fighting in the war.
When the Mayor of Luton, Henry Impey, decides to hold a mayoral procession culminating in a banquet to celebrate peace in the summer of 1919, invitations are sent out to councillors and close friends only. The returning soldiers, many unemployed, many crippled, are forgotten. Ex-Sergeant Cooper is determined that his fellow soldiers will be heard. His plans for a competing march are banned by Impey. Plans for a soldiers' celebration in the park are banned. Cooper confronts Impey in his office and is met with stunning smugness; the Mayor's plans are not going to be changed.
By the time the night of celebration arrives, feelings are running dangerously high.
The Day They Wouldn't Take It Any More is written by Sue Rodwell and features David Timson as the Mayor, Annette Badland as his wife, Richard Derrington as Cooper and Richard Katz as the Town Clerk who tries to keep the peace.
Producer/Rosemary Watts
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In Bookshops Now Ep 1/5
Monday 15 to Friday 19 September
3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4
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BBC Radio 4 is well known as one of the largest commissioners of new short fiction. But each year many collections, often from small independent presses, are published which don't manage to get the attention of reviewers or of the public. In Bookshops Now features a range of work from new and established authors and publishers, all of which are available between covers – proving that the enterprise of publishing new short fiction is alive and well.
Monday's story is Monday Diary by Carys Davies, read by Stephen Meo. Teenager Flipper was born without arms after his mother was prescribed drugs during her pregnancy. Flipper is best friends with the local boy who all the girls fancy; can that help him to woo Angela?
On Tuesday Ben Onwukwe reads The Cane by Machado de Assis (1839-1908), who was a key figure in Brazilian literature. A selection of his stories, A Chapter Of Hats, was recently translated and published in English.
Wednesday's story, The Far West by Julian Maclaren-Ross, is set in France and portrays the casual cruelty of small boys. The author was a hard-drinking literary dandy of the Forties and Fifties who has recently been rediscovered, with new editions issued of his work. The reader is Nigel Lindsay.
On Thursday, Flight Of Freedom by Courttia Newland tells of a failed drug-dealer who spends his time hanging out on a London street corner near the tower block where he lives alone. One day he develops a worryingly insistent itch between the shoulder blades... The reader is Don Gilet.
The Way To Behave by Elizabeth Baines, read by Lesley Sharp, ends the week. Sisterhood among the community of social workers is a fine and noble concept, but when a husband's infidelity is involved then revenge is a long game.
Producer/Jill Waters
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
America,
Empire Of Liberty Ep 1/30
Monday 15 to Friday 19 September
3.45-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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This comprehensive history of America, written and presented by David Reynolds, is a major new, landmark narrative history series for BBC Radio 4. In 90 parts, divided into three series of 30 programmes, it tells the story through the voices of those who were there – presidents and farmers, mothers and children, slaves and Indians.
It celebrates the American achievement – settling a harsh continent, breaking free of British rule, becoming the global powerhouse of goods and popular culture – and it evokes the sounds and colour of daily life: jazz and spirituals, baseball and the movies.
Yet Empire Of Liberty also explores the paradoxes of American history. A vehement critic of imperialism that became the world's greatest superpower; a land of liberty that for, most of its history, denied full freedom to the non-white population; and a pluralist society with no state church that has nevertheless been dominated by the values of evangelical Protestantism. These three themes – empire, liberty and faith – tie together this vivid saga.
Part One runs from the beginnings to the start of the Civil War in 1861. Part Two – broadcast in January and February next year – picks up the story from the Civil War to the end of the Second World War, and the final instalment, which can be heard in May and June 2009, concerns events from the Cold War and Civil Rights up to the 2008 election and the new president.
David Reynolds is a prize-winning Cambridge historian whose previous work for the BBC includes the 2008 TV series Summits.
An omnibus edition of the week's programmes can be heard on Fridays at 9pm.
Presenter/David Reynolds, Producer/Sue Ellis
BBC News Publicity
The
Credit Crunch Mess – What Next?
Monday 15 September
8.00-9.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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To mark the first anniversary of the Northern Rock crisis, BBC Radio 4 is staging a live debate from the 22nd floor of the newest of London's City skyscrapers, the Willis Building. Presented by Evan Davis and featuring Robert Peston, the BBC's Business Editor, participants argue over the proposition: "This economic crisis is a good opportunity to rebuild the global order."
Eminent guests from the worlds of business, banking, finance and the academy look at who is to blame for the mess – banks, consumers, regulators – and discuss whether the US has lost its global dominance because of the crisis. They also speculate on what's next in order to stabilise the shaky global economy.
The first part of the programme focuses on banking, and questions how, if banks are mainly responsible for what happened, they were allowed to get away with first creating, and then using, risky financial instruments for so long. Analysing what role the bankers themselves, and their huge bonuses, played in creating a climate of greed, the panel discuss whether they should be regulated – and if so, how. Is it time for capitalism itself to be in the dock or will this crisis spur it to change for the better?
Next in the firing line are the consumers as the panel ask whether the public's appetite for cheap credit and consumer goods has driven the global economy to this unhappy state, and if people should concentrate on saving rather than spending.
The experts then assess whether any necessary rebalancing of the globe's finances will mean that the United States inevitably falls off its pre-eminent perch in the international economy – or if this has already happened. They discuss whether the Middle East and the BRICs countries (Brazil, Russia, India and China) have already managed to "de-couple" from America's economic clout and, if so, what that means for the rest of the world.
In conclusion, this timely debate looks at the opportunities the current economic mess has created – to curb the greediest of the banks, to rebalance the global books and to adjust to the new rising powers of the global landscape.
Presenter/Evan Davis, Producer/Sue Davies
BBC News Publicity
Inflamed Response Ep 1/2
Monday 15 September
9.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Inflammation is the body's first line of defence against injury and infection, but researchers now realise that when it fails to switch off, the process is responsible for a host of unrelated medical conditions, from cardiovascular disease to cancer.
In the first of a two-part investigation, Claudia Hammond examines the latest attempts to tame the inflamed response which could offer new and much simpler ways of warding off some of the world's most challenging diseases.
Presenter/Claudia Hammond, Producer/Adrian Washbourne
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 15 September 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Monday 15 September
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents 5 Live Sport with all the day's sports news, plus live coverage of this evening's Barclays Premiership clash between Tottenham and Aston Villa at White Hart Lane from 8pm.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Francesca Bent
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 15 September 2008 |
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Nemone
Monday 15 September
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Celebrity chef Valentine Warner joins the show this afternoon to talk about his new BBC Two TV series What To Eat Now.
The video of the week comes from Dutch garage-rock duo SoundOfzZz. Grip is the award-winning first video by Roel Wouters, aka Xelor – a one-take, top-shot music video with trampoline gymnasts simulating typical video effects.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Steve Lamacq
Monday 15 September
4.00-7.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Mike Skinner of The Streets joins Steve Lamacq in the studio this afternoon to talk about the imminent release of the band's fourth album.
Steve also kicks off the week by asking a listener to sum up their day with a tune in Good Day Bad Day, the Rebel Playlist winner is announced and the National Anthem takes a musical look at today's weird news stories.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Gary Bales
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 15 September 2008 |
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The Desert Capitalists Ep 2/2
Monday 15 September
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Mukul Devichand concludes his investigation into the secretive Marwari trading diaspora, from their Rajasthan homeland to their current global business empires.
Based on exclusive access to Marwari families and their stories, the documentary offers a fascinating insight into this secretive community, whose ancestors left their dusty homeland 300 years ago to sell paper and cloth on market stalls in Calcutta. Nowadays Marwaris are a phenomenally succesful business community, with influence on governments from India's Bharatiya Janata Party to New Labour.
Presenter/Mukul Devichand, Producer/John Murphy
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