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Bob Harris Country
Thursday 18 September
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Tonight's programme comes from Music Row in Nashville on the day of the seventh Americana Music Association Awards.
The ceremony, which includes awards for artist, album and song of the year, takes place later tonight at the legendary Ryman Auditorium in downtown Nashville. Performers include Tift Merritt, John Hiatt and James McMurtry.
In this preview of the awards, Bob Harris is joined by guests including singer/songwriter and awards host Jim Lauderdale. Together, they reflect on the current Americana music scene, with Bob playing tracks from this year's nominees, including Levon Helm, Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, Drive By Truckers and Steve Earle. Grammy award-winner Jim Lauderdale also performs songs from his latest album.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Thursday 18 September
11.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Dylan takes a hike in this week's Theme Time Radio Hour.
The eclectic mix of music in tonight's programme includes The Way I Walk by Jack Scott & The Chantones, Walk Right In by Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers, I'm Walkin' by Fats Domino, Lou Reed's Walk On The Wild Side, Jake Walk Blues from the Allen Brothers, My Walking Stick by The Mills Brothers with Louis Armstrong and Why I'm Walking by Stonewall Jackson.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Phil Hughes
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| BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 18 September 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week –
Lord Berners: Berners The Versatile Peer Ep
4/5
Monday 15 to Friday 19 September
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the colourful life and music of one of England's most eccentric composers, Lord Berners. Berners also had great success as both painter and writer, producing two short stories, two volumes of memoirs, a play and seven novels in which he, and many of his friends are portrayed, not always in the most flattering light.
In today's programme, Donald Macleod explores Berners's literary endeavours and introduces music from the war-time years, including a ballet based on the legend of Cupid and Psyche and his first venture into film music in the suite from Halfway House.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Deborah Preston
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Afternoon On 3 – Towards Messiaen
Thursday 18 September
2.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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French composer Olivier Messiaen was born 100 years ago this December. Afternoon On 3 marks the anniversary with a series of programmes placing Messiaen at the centre of significant themes running through French music history.
This particular highlight offers listeners chance to hear the rarely performed opera Le Roi d'Ys by Edouard Lalo. The complex staging requirements include a raging flood in the final scene. There is a strong religious element to the story, which is based on the Breton legend of the daughters of the King of Ys – Magared and Rozenn. Both princesses love warrior Mylio, but he only has eyes for Rozenn. In revenge, Magared betrays her father's city to Karnac, his enemy. She gives Karnac keys to the sluices standing between the town and the sea. Just as the town and all of its inhabitants are about to be swept away, Magared throws herself into the sea in remorse. St Corentin, the patron saint of Ys, accepts her sacrifice and the waters abate.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Elizabeth Funning
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The Essay – On Excess Ep 4/5
Monday 15 to Friday 19 September
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Psychotherapist Adam Phillips continues his series on excess by examining how some people find, after adolescence, that there is something excessive about their behaviour that disturbs them. He talks about excessive, self-destructive behaviour and how it can be assessed. Phillips also examines the reasons why humans seem to need to endanger themselves, what that says about risk-taking and why it might be addictive.
Presenter/Adam Phillips, Producer/Marilyn Imrie
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 18 September 2008 |
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Thoroughly Modest Mollie
Thursday 18 September
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Bernard Cribbins acknowledges the contribution to radio comedy of ghost writer Mollie Millest who, for several years, enjoyed a unique correspondence with popular broadcaster Kenneth Horne.
Mollie Millest was still at school when she sent scripts and jokes to her idol, Kenneth Horne. Kenneth was so impressed that he began to use her work in his radio programmes. The two struck up a correspondence and, over the years, Mollie wrote scripts for many of Kenneth's radio appearances, eventually becoming an uncredited ghost writer for the series Beyond Our Ken.
In this special programme, Bernard Cribbins is joined by Bill Pertwee, original cast member of Beyond Our Ken, and actor Jonathan Rigby, who plays Kenneth Horne in the popular stage production Round The Horne Revisited. Together, they recreate some of Mollie's sketches and poems, along with readings from her collection of letters.
Presenter/Bernard Cribbins, Producer/Stephen Garner
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The Material World
Thursday 18 September
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Quentin Cooper investigates how volatile metals from volcanoes end up in polar ice cores.
It has always been a mystery how trace metals, such as mercury, with a volcanic signature, find their way into polar ice in regions without evidence of close volcanic activity. Scientists studying volcanoes have recently discovered that they are a source of tiny nanoparticles. The Material World explores just what these particles are made of.
These volcanic nanoparticles are small enough to be carried around the world and could be involved in the formation of clouds with dense concentrations of water droplets that reflect large amounts of solar radiation back into space. They may also seed distant patches of barren ocean with nutrients. Volcanoes may be large and explosive but their effects are now seen to be pervasive and happening at microscopic levels.
Presenter/Quentin Cooper, Producer/Peter McHugh
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
I've
Never Seen Star Wars Ep 1/6
Thursday 18 September
6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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guests to try new things Marcus Brigstocke's guests try quite ordinary things for the very first time. Marcus Brigstocke (the "attack dog" from The Now Show) cajoles his guests into doing everyday things that they've hitherto eschewed.
Phill Jupitus tries a Findus Crispy Pancake, a pig's trotter and reads his first Jane Austen novel. Paul Daniels has his first swimming lesson, cooks his first meal and reads a feminist book. Tim Brooke-Taylor has his first sushi ("disgusting") and listens to hip hop (some of which he quite likes). Mark Steel puts up a piece of flat-pack furniture (which he hates), goes to the Ritz for tea (which he enjoys) and sees Hamlet ("terrible"). Eve Pollard tastes a Mojito ("lovely"), watches a boxing match ("awful") and plays poker ("I could get addicted").
The show is produced by Bill Dare, who has never seen Star Wars.
Presenter/Marcus Brigstocke, Producer/Bill Dare
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 18 September 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Thursday 18 September
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents 5 Live Sport with coverage of the first-round, first-leg matches in the UEFA cup, plus all the day's sports news.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Ed King
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 18 September 2008 |
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Gideon Coe
Thursday 18 September
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC |
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As the nights draw in and the 2008 Electric Proms approach, Gideon Coe revisits a headline performance from The Good, The Bad And The Queen, recorded at The Roundhouse in 2006.
The Good, The Bad And The Queen bring together the multi-talented king of the musical side project, Damon Albarn, along with Paul Simenon of The Clash, Tony Allen of Fela Kuti and ex-Verve guitarist Simon Tong.
Gideon also revisits a classic 1978 Peel session from X-Ray Spex.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Thursday 18 September 2008 |
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One Planet –
Animal Migration In A Climate Of Change Ep
1/4
Thursday 18 September
10.30-11.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE |
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Each autumn, in the pine forests of central Mexico, one of the greatest natural spectacles gathers pace as millions of beautiful orange Monarch butterflies pour into the trees for the winter months. Some of them have migrated several thousand kilometres from their breeding grounds in North America and Canada. Despite never having been here before, they manage to navigate south and find their way to an area not much bigger than Devon.
Although they coat the trees and look like an orange snowstorm when they take flight, these butterflies are under threat at both ends of their journey. The pine forests are being felled illegally by gangs of loggers as, despite protection from the Mexican government, local people need timber and firewood to survive. In addition, in North America, where the butterflies breed, their food plant, the milkweed, is being killed by herbicides, putting the Monarch's migration in jeopardy.
Brett Westwood explores the steps being taken to develop sustainable forestry in order to help preserve this magnificent insect.
Presenter and Producer/Brett Westwood
BBC World Service Publicity
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