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Miranda Hart's Joke Shop –
What An Excuse Ep 4/4
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13 September
1.30-2.00pm BBC RADIO 2 |
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Life embracing, self-effacing clown Miranda Hart has used her inheritance to buy a joke shop – much to her family's dismay. She pops out on regular, self-imposed, challenges, leaving her business partner, Stevie, to man the till.
In the final part of the series, Miranda's mother tries desperately to play Cupid for Miranda.
Written by and starring Miranda Hart, this gentle sit-com also features Patricia Hodge as Miranda's embarrassing mother; Sarah Hadland as Stevie, one of Britain's greatest humour vacuums; and Tom Ellis as the gorgeous Gary.
Producer/Dawn Ellis
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 Revellers enjoy the Last Night
celebrations in London's Hyde
Park Jose Carreras, Lesley Garrett, David Garrett and the winner of BBC Two's Maestro, are this year's special guests as Sir Terry Wogan and BBC Radio 2 invite listeners to join the revellers in London's Hyde Park for the traditional open-air gathering preceding the finale to the Last Night Of The Proms.
Hyde Park plays host, annually, to a crowd of 40,000 for BBC Proms In The Park, now in its 13th year. Again this year there are events in London, Belfast, Swansea and Glasgow – plus opportunities to join in the Last Night fun, via the BBC Big Screens, in cities around the UK.
This year's Proms In The Park features the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Martin Yates, and includes guest performances by tenor Jose Carreras, soprano Lesley Garrett and violinist David Garrett.
Also taking part is the winner of the BBC Two's search for a celebrity conductor, Maestro. After a gruelling summer of baton camps and musical study, the winner takes to the Hyde Park stage to conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra and Lesley Garrett.
At 9.40pm, the park links up with the Royal Albert Hall for the grand finale to the Last Night Of The Proms. The Royal Choral Society is on hand to lead the sing-along to Rule Britannia, Land Of Hope And Glory and Jerusalem.
BBC Proms In The Park is relayed, live, on BBC Radio 2 and BBCi TV and online at bbc.co.uk/radio2. Television highlights are shown on BBC Two.
Presenter/Sir Terry Wogan, Producer/Bridget Apps
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Bob Harris
Saturday 13 September
10.30pm-2.00am BBC RADIO 2
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Eileen Rose performs in session on Bob Harris's show tonight.
Eileen was born in Saugus, a suburb of Boston. She was brought up in a close-knit, Italian-Irish-American family, the youngest of five sisters and three brothers.
Dropping her studies in criminal law, she moved to England to become a rock star. It did not take her long to get a solo career under way.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson
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| BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 13 September 2008 |
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Breakfast – Free Thought
Throughout the week
7.00-10.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Key figures from the arts, media, politics and science offer their cultural thoughts for the day in Free Thought, broadcast daily, at 8.35am, within Breakfast on BBC Radio 3.
Free Thought launches Free Thinking '08, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Merseyside's Festival Of Ideas, and marks Liverpool's special role as European Capital of Culture in 2008. The speakers include prominent Liverpudlians and a diverse range of figures from the UK and abroad. The two-minute contributions can be a reflection or a provocation or simply shed light on a corner of Britain's cultural life. Free Thought is broadcast in the 100 days leading up to the festival, which opens on Friday 31 October.
Today, Sir Nicholas Kenyon, Managing Director of the Barbican, talks about participation in excellence for everyone in creative fields. On Tuesday, acclaimed neuroscientist Baroness Susan Greenfield discusses the impact of modern-day technology on the brain. Other Free Thinkers this week include playwright Roy Williams and poet and novelist Lucy Beckett.
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Jazz Line-up
Saturday 13 September
4.00-5.30pm BBC RADIO 3
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In this week's Jazz Line-Up, Julian Joseph talks to bass legend Peter Ind, who celebrates his 80th birthday by collaborating with fellow legend, saxophonist Lee Konitz, at a "birthday bash" at London's 606 club.
After establishing his own recording studio in 1957, just three years later, Peter Ind started his own record company, Wave. His album, Looking Out (1958-61, Wave 1), includes solos, duos with Joe Puma and drummer Dick Scott, and tracks recorded with a trio and a quartet.
In the mid-Sixties, while living in Big Sur, California, Ind became the first double-bass player to give concerts and broadcasts as an unaccompanied soloist. After this, he returned to the UK and continued to perform, teach and manage Wave.
In 1975, he toured with Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh and, in 1984, he opened the Bass Clef in London, soon to become one of the capital's most popular clubs.
Presenter/Julian Joseph, Producer/Keith Loxam
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Twenty Minutes – The
Park By Deborah Moggach
Saturday
13 September
7.40-8.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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This brand new story by acclaimed author and screenwriter Deborah Moggach is written specially for the Last Night Of The Proms.
It's the morning after the grand finalé of the Proms and a woman wanders through a London park musing about a very different type of concert she attended at the Royal Albert Hall 40 years ago.
Reader/Barbara Flynn, Producer/Gemma Jenkins
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BBC
PROMS 2008
The Last Night Of The Proms
Saturday 13 September
8.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 3
(Schedule addition 5 September)
www.bbc.co.uk/proms
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 The Royal Albert Hall audience
enjoys the Last Night Of The
Proms The world's greatest classical music festival comes to the end of its eight-week run, with the famed Last Night Of The Proms celebrations. It's a varied programme, in which new works appear alongside much-loved classics, bringing together the different themes of the season.
More than 40 years since his Proms debut, Sir Roger Norrington makes his first Last Night appearance, conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Singers.
In the first half, Welsh baritone Bryn Terfel prays to the stars (as Wolfram in Tannhäuser), delivers his highly individual concept of honour (as Verdi's Falstaff) and renounces God in favour of Tosca (as Scarpia in Tosca). French pianist Hélène Grimaud appears in Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, with its pre-echoes of the Ninth Symphony's Ode To Joy.
During the concert's interval, from 8.50-9.10pm, there are highlights from the four Proms In The Park events taking place in Hyde Park, London; City Hall, Belfast; Glasgow Green, Glasgow; and Singleton Park, Swansea. This includes performances by tenor José Carreras, trombonist Peter Moore (BBC Young Musician of the Year 2008), percussionist Evelyn Glennie, tenor Alfie Boe and soprano Rebecca Evans.
The second-half includes a nation-hopping commission from composer Anna Meredith, who has written a new orchestral work for the five ensembles taking part in the Last Night Of The Proms celebrations. Drawing together the Royal Albert Hall with Proms In The Park events around the UK in Cardiff, Glasgow, London and Manchester, it promises to be a brief but exhilarating link-up with all the Last Night celebrations.
There is also a final Vaughan Williams instalment with his Sea Songs and other traditional folk music – a central feature of Vaughan Williams's musical outlook – reflecting on the Proms Folk Day at the beginning of the season – before the traditional finale of Rule, Britannia! and Jerusalem.
Presenter/Sean Rafferty,
Producers/Ann McKay and Brian Jackson
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| BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 13 September 2008 |
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Let Me Entertain You Ep 1/4
Saturday 13 September
10.30-11.00am BBC RADIO 4
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John Sessions launches a new series charting the history of popular entertainment in Britain – from medieval minstrels to Victorian freak shows.
Rather than the usual wade through the shifting sands of film and television celebrity, John is covering the period before electronic media. He starts with the medieval period and attempts to unpick a few myths about wandering minstrels and motley fools keeping the toiling peasants entertained.
Presenter/John Sessions, Producer/Tom Alban
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Just Between Ourselves
Saturday 13 September
2.30-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Just Between Ourselves is a radio adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's 1978 stage play. A bitter-sweet comedy, it explores love, marriage and relationships.
One of Britain's most prolific authors, Ayckbourn has described his comedies as: "...not comedies at all – but tragedies with laughs". Few of his works demonstrate the truth of this assertion more than Just Between Ourselves. While it has many laughs, fundamentally it portrays a well-meaning but emotionally-constricted husband who literally drives his wife mad.
Dennis, the husband in question, is hoping to sell his wife's car, freeing up space in the garage for his own. He is quite oblivious to the fact that his wife, Vera, is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. When she asks him for help, he treats this as a request to catch up on some DIY and is quite incapable of realising the seriousness of her condition.
Dennis thinks he has found a buyer of the car when the hapless Neil, who is also in a dysfunctional marriage, turns up seeking a birthday present for his wife. Negotiations don't quite go according to plan. The events, by turns hilarious and harrowing, change the lives of all those involved.
Stephen Critchlow stars as Dennis, Samantha Spiro is Vera and Auriol Smith plays Dennis's domineering mother, Marjorie.
Producer/Gordon House
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 13 September 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Saturday 13 September
12.00-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE |
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Mark Saggers presents coverage of all the day's sporting events, starting with commentary of traditionally one of the Barclays Premier League's most combative local derbies – Liverpool v Manchester United – live from Anfield at 12.45pm.
From 1pm there is live commentary from Monza of the Formula One qualifying round, ahead of the Italian Grand Prix with David Croft, Maurice Hamilton and Holly Samos, with updates from 2.45pm of all today's Guinness Premiership rugby union matches.
There's also full coverage of all the Premier League's 3pm kick-offs, plus updates from the Clydesdale Scottish Premier League, followed by live commentary of Manchester City v Chelsea from the City of Manchester Stadium at 5.30pm.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Steve Houghton
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Saturday 13 September 2008 |
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Formula One
Saturday 13 September
10.00-11.05am BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA |
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Listeners can hear uninterrupted commentary on the third practice session for the Italian Grand Prix from Monza.
Producer/Jason Swales
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Formula One
Saturday 13 September
12.55-2.05pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA |
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Listeners can hear uninterrupted commentary on the qualifying session for the Italian Grand Prix from Monza.
Producer/Jason Swales
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5 Live Football League
Saturday 13 September
2.50-5.15pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA |
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The 5 Live Football League provides commentary on a leading game from the Coca-Cola Championship, plus reports and updates from across the Football League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Rugby League
Saturday 13 September
5.55-7.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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BBC Five Live Sports Extra provides uninterrupted commentary from the end of season play-offs.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Saturday 13 September 2008 |
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Lauren Laverne
Saturday 13 September
4.00-6.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Presenter, comedian and writer Danny Robins is Lauren Laverne's guest on this week's show.
Danny talks about his new Radio 4 programme, Danny Robins Music Therapy, where he and guests attempt to solve listeners' problems using the power of music and comedy.
Alongside topical chat and music, Lauren and listeners play The Spin Doctor – in which they look for a musical remedy to an artist's dilemma. The show closes with a listener's choice of Loony Tune.
Producer/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Adam Hudson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
6 Mix
Saturday 13 September
9.00-11.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Rennie Pilgrim – founder of London-based "nu-skool" breaks label TCR Recordings – headlines tonight's show. The programme features a new mix celebrating 15 years of Rennie's influential label.
There's also a showcase mix from Sheffield-based electro producer Todda T, plus Iyare presents his monthly round-up of new remixes by BBC 6 Music artists.
Presenter/Iyare, Producer/Rowan Collinson
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Saturday 13 September 2008 |
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US '08 Election Bus – Talking America
Throughout the week
Times to be confirmed BBC WORLD SERVICE
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The BBC's 2008 US Election bus will travel 4,000 miles across 15 states – from LA to Long Island – to report on election issues from the hearts of different communities along the route.
This bus trip across America began on Wednesday 10 September and will conclude on Friday 17 October.
The aim of the trip is to stimulate a global conversation about the presidential election with audiences around the world and to provide a global perspective on the election race.
The multimedia bus – which uses radio, the web and television – will also be multilingual, with 12 separate BBC World Service language services including: Persian, Vietnamese, Spanish, Arabic, Central Asian, Hindi, Urdu, Pashto, Albanian, Russian, French and Swahili.
BBC World Service broadcasts throughout the 38-day journey, linking up with US radio stations, universities, community groups and individual citizens.
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