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Mike Harding
Wednesday 17 September
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Tonight Mike Harding chats to legendary American folk singer Joan Baez, one of the most influential figures of the American folk revival movement of the Sixties.
This is a landmark year for Baez as 2008 marks the 50th anniversary of the start of her residency at Boston's Club 47, and the beginning of her illustrious career.
During the past half century she has introduced the world to Bob Dylan, marched on the front line with Martin Luther King and organised resistance to the war in south-east Asia, as well as bringing attention to the work of writers such as Woody Guthrie, Phil Ochs, Dylan and, more recently, Steve Earle, Richard Shindell and Thea Gilmore.
Baez was recently awarded a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and visited the UK in July to celebrate Nelson Mandela's 90th birthday. She performed at the Glastonbury Festival and returns to play some live dates in the autumn.
Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While
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Trevor Nelson
Wednesday 17 September
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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The Commodores' Caught In The Act is the album of the week as Trevor Nelson presents another hour of the best in soulful music on Wednesday nights.
Released in 1975, Caught In The Act was the Commodores' second album and featured the hit Slippery When Wet.
Other music in tonight's show includes Donny Hathaway's You've Got A Friend, En Vogue's Giving Him Something He Can Feel and the Emotions' Best Of My Love.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Ollie Embden
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| BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 17 September 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week –
Lord Berners Ep 3/5
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15 to Friday 19 September
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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 Donald Macleod explores the
life of eccentric composer
Lord Berners Donald Macleod looks at Berners the ballet master as he continues his exploration of the colourful life and music of one of England's most eccentric composers.
In the mid-Twenties, Lord Berners started to take painting much more seriously and composing fell by the wayside. But that was soon to change. With the advent of the Wall Street Crash, Berners felt the need for a reliable source of income and returned to writing music.
In today's episode, Donald Macleod introduces Berners's next two ballets: A Wedding Bouquet, devised in collaboration with American writer Gertrude Stein about unrequited love; and Luna Park, a fantastical work featuring a three-headed man, a three-legged juggler, a one-legged ballerina, and a man with six arms.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Deborah Preston
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Choral Evensong
Wednesday 17 September
4.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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From 17 September Choral Evensong, the BBC's longest-running outside broadcast (first transmitted more than 80 years ago in October 1926) returns to Wednesday afternoons at 4pm. The weekly broadcast will be live and repeated the following Sunday (also at 4pm), with two exceptions: on Advent Sunday and Easter Sunday, when there will be live services.
The first Wednesday venue in this new BBC Radio 3 schedule is the London Oratory in Brompton Road, Knightsbridge, founded by Cardinal Newman in the 1880s and renowned for the traditional dignity of its Latin liturgy. The London Oratory choir under the direction of Patrick Russill is England's senior professional Roman Catholic choir, internationally known for its interpretation of Renaissance polyphony, and in today's Choral Evensong, they sing Choral Vespers to the sumptuous music of Palestrina, Gabrieli and Victoria. And because the Church remembers the visionary German Abbess Hildegard of Bingen on this day (she died on 17 September 1179), the choir sings one of her sublime motets, O viridissima Virga. The Celebrant at this Choral Vespers is the Provost of the Oratory, the Very Revd Ignatius Harrison.
During its long broadcast history, Choral Evensong has been heard on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday. At first the service lasted only 30 minutes; it has also been broadcast at 45 and 50 minutes. For a short while in 1970 the service was broadcast monthly, not weekly. The broadcast was originally transmitted on the National Programme and then, after the war, successively on the Home Service, BBC Radio 4 and Radio 3, returning to Radio 4 for some years in the late Seventies. Nowadays the Listen Again facility on the Radio 3 website means that the weekly broadcast can be heard at any time for seven days after transmission.
Producer/Stephen Shipley
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The Essay – On Excess Ep 3/5
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, how to define it and what role it plays in people's everyday lives.
Sex and language are the themes of today's Essay – how people often say more than they intend and how many so-called Freudian slips are about sex and aggression. Language, the way people speak, reveals how excessive sexuality can be and how little it can be policed. He also explores why sexuality is surrounded by taboo.
Presenter/Adam Phillips, Producer/Marilyn Imrie
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 17 September 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Wednesday 17 September
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents 5 Live Sport with coverage of the night's opening games in the group stage of the Uefa Champions League, plus action from the evening's Coca-Cola Championship matches and all the day's sports news.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Adrian Williams
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Wednesday 17 September 2008 |
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Football
Wednesday 17 September
7.35-9.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Listeners can hear uninterrupted commentary on the World Cup Qualifier between Northern Ireland and the Czech Republic live from Windsor Park, Belfast.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 17 September 2008 |
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Gideon Coe
Wednesday 17 September
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Highlights from Spiritualized's set at last year's Summer Sundae can be heard tonight on Gideon Coe's show. There are also session tracks from Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine and a recent BBC 6 Music Hub session from Joan As Policewoman.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 17 September 2008 |
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My Senator, My Vote Ep 1/2
Wednesday 17 September
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Robin Lustig visits the home states of Senators John McCain and Barack Obama to talk to two middle-class voters, each leaning towards their local candidate for President. Along the way, before bringing them head-to-head in a debate, Robin gains a personal insight into some of the issues that will decide their choices.
Presenter/Robin Lustig, Producer/Michael Gallagher
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