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Elaine Paige On Sunday
Sunday 14 September
1.00-2.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Legendary director Hal Prince joins Elaine Paige this afternoon as she continues to celebrate the best of Broadway, Hollywood and the West End.
Harold (Hal) Prince has received more Tony Awards than anyone else: 21 and counting. He served his theatrical apprenticeship with the esteemed director and producer George Abbott during the Forties and Fifties and, in 1954, presented his first musical, The Pajama Game, which he later followed with West Side Story. He began to direct in the early Sixties and his credits include the original Broadway productions of Cabaret in 1966, Follies in 1971 and the acclaimed 1994 revival of Show Boat.
Earlier this year, around the time of his 80th birthday celebrations, Hal suffered a stroke. This in-depth interview, recorded in New York, proves he's back in good health and as busy as ever – he's already planning his next Broadway musical.
Key shows discussed in the programme include West Side Story, which Hal first produced in 1957; Evita, which he directed in 1978; Sweeney Todd, from 1979; and his original 1986 production of The Phantom Of The Opera.
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Sunday Half Hour
Sunday 14 September
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Brian D'Arcy introduces hymns to mark Holy Cross Day, which celebrates the Cross as a means of triumph and victory.
This week's featured choir is the Jesus College Chapel Choir, directed by Daniel Hyde with organist Tom Chatterton. Hymns include The Old Rugged Cross, Nearer My God To Thee and When I Survey The Wondrous Cross.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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| BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 14 September 2008 |
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Private Passions – Alex Ross
Sunday 14 September
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Michael Berkeley's guest today is Alex Ross, music critic of The New Yorker, whose first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening To The 20th Century, was recently published to great acclaim. A cultural history of music since 1900, the book was short-listed for both the Pulitzer Prize and the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.
Ross's musical choices for Private Passions begin with a Brahms intermezzo, a piece of music he grew up with. Surprisingly, Ross didn't listen to any music beyond the mainstream classical/romantic repertory until after the age of 18. His favoured recording of Dido's Lament from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas is sung by Lorraine Hunt Lieberson and his choices from the 20th century begin with the closing scene of Strauss's Salome. His other choices are Percy Grainger's moving Shallow Brown; an extract from John Adams's opera Nixon In China; and Simple Twist Of Fate by Bob Dylan, an artist whose music, he says, always seems simple but, in fact, is constructed with great art.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Chris Marshall
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Drama On 3 – Blue Wonder
By Ronald Frame
Sunday 14 September
8.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Ronald Frame's new play for BBC Radio 3 is a story of love and deception set during the Cold War in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Throughout this period, "Romeo spies" were operating, targeting bright and susceptible young women and recruiting them as unwitting spies.
Blue Wonder follows the story of Alice Reeves, a young secretary from London, as she becomes romantically involved with Otto Hanhart – an East German spy. Having carefully built up her trust, Otto convinces her to take some papers from the office she's working in. As the espionage continues, so, too, does the love affair between them, but the encounter leads to unexpected consequences for both parties, changing their lives for ever.
Clare Corbett plays Alice and Jamie Glover plays Otto. The cast also includes Nick Sayce, Gunnar Cauthery, Stephen Critchlow, Cressida Trew, Dan Starkey and Liza Sadovy.
Ronald Frame is a prize-winning novelist, short story writer and a leading radio writer who has written extensively for the BBC.
Producer and Director/David Ian Neville
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Sunday Feature – Broken Images
Sunday 14 September
9.30-10.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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As the Tate Britain reveals its major retrospective on Francis Bacon, Louisa Buck considers the artist who, for many, painfully captured the "godless world" and the shattered psychology of the 20th century.
With the help of critic and curator Michael Peppiatt and biographer and writer Martin Harrison, the programme looks at Bacon as an artist set deeply in his own times and explores how photography and film underscored his work. In the company of Chris Stephens, curator of the new Tate show, Louisa visits the Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin, where Bacon's studio and its mass of imagery used by the artist is now preserved.
There are also contributions from John Maybury, director of the film portrait of Bacon, Love Is The Devil, and novelist Colm Toibin, who talks about Bacon's Irishness, his obsession with chance and risk and about his homosexuality.
On the eve of Bacon's centenary, critic Sarah Kent, among others, considers his legacy and asks whether he has become a parody of himself or, in actual fact, moved painting on in Britain as no other modern artist has done.
Presenter/Louisa Buck, Producer/Susan Marling
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| BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 14 September 2008 |
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Something Understood – A Sense Of Home
Sunday 14 September
6.05-6.35am BBC RADIO 4 |
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Poet Laureate Andrew Motion makes an emotional visit to Stisted, the village in Essex where he spent much of his childhood, allowing listeners an insight into the complex feelings he has about the place while reflecting on his father's family, who lived there for three generations.
Andrew talks movingly about his mother, who suffered a terrible accident when he was 17 and who remained in an in-between state of life for nine years before dying. He takes listeners to some of his special places – the brook where he fished as a child; the mansion, now a retirement home, in which his wealthy great-grandfather, also Andrew, lived; and the churchyard where three generations of Motions are buried.
During the programme he reads an extract from his childhood memoir In The Blood, and chooses poems by Edward Thomas, Margaret Atwood and Philip Larkin. His very personal musical choices include The Ash Grove, which he associates with Stisted; Not Dark Yet, a song about aging by Bob Dylan; and Cantelowes by Malian kora player Toumani Diabate.
The programme can be heard again tonight at 11.30pm.
Presenter/Andrew Motion, Producer/Ronni Davis
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
On Your Farm Ep 1/8
Sunday 14 September
6.35-7.00am BBC RADIO 4
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It has been a year since the bluetongue outbreak in the UK. In this week's On Your Farm, Alex James visits the first farm to be hit by the virus – Baylham House Rare Breeds Farm in Ipswich, which had the first two confirmed cases of bluetongue last September.
The virus has since affected 138 premises in the UK and there are fears there will be more cases later this year. Bluetongue is spread by midges blown across from Europe and, although harmless to humans, it is a killer in cows, goats, sheep and deer.
Alex talks to the owner of Baylham House Farm and neighbouring farmers about the effect bluetongue has had on their businesses; the impact of the Government vaccination programme; and their concerns over a possible new strain of the virus hitting the UK.
Presenter/Alex James, Producer/Steve Peacock
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The Reunion Ep 4/5
Sunday 14 September
11.15am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Sue MacGregor gathers together five people who were involved in the dramatic fire which swept through Windsor Castle on 20 November 1992, as the series continues. Nine of the finest state apartments, the medieval Great Kitchen and more than a hundred further rooms were destroyed.
Sue hears the dramatic story of the fire, as told by many of those closest to it. She also explores the background to the remarkable restoration which followed – a tale of awe-inspiring craftsmanship and impressive organisation.
Joining Sue are John Thorneycroft from English Heritage; Sir Hayden Phillips, permanent secretary to the Department of National Heritage at the time; project manager Chris Watson; Her Majesty The Queen's press secretary Dickie Arbiter; and interior designer Pamela Lewis.
Presenter/Sue MacGregor, Producer/Kevin Dawson
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Poetry Please Ep 1/7
Sunday 14 September
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Roger McGough returns with listeners' poetry requests; introducing new poetry and re-illuminating old favourites.
Included in this series are works by Pablo Neruda, David Constantine, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Frost, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and Polish poet and former Nobel Prize winner for literature Wislawa Szymborska.
Presenter/Roger McGough, Producer/Mark Smalley
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 14 September 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Sunday 14 September
12.00-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Eleanor Oldroyd presents live commentary of the Italian Grand Prix in Monza from 1pm with David Croft, Maurice Hamilton and Holly Samos.
The programme also features live second-half commentary from the Barclays Premier League match between Stoke City and Everton from 2.30pm, with updates from the Guinness Premiership rugby union matches from 3pm and from the Coca-Cola Championship match between QPR and Southampton from 4pm.
Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Ed King
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Sunday 14 September 2008 |
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The Forum
Sunday 14 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.
Presenter/Bridget Kendall, Producers/Emily Kasriel and Julian Siddle
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