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| BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 20 September 2008 |
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Clive
Anderson's Chat Room Ep 1/8
Saturday 20 September
1.30-2.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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 Clive Anderson returns to BBC
Radio 2 Clive Anderson returns to BBC Radio 2 for a new series of his topical talk show.
Each week, Clive is joined by a panel of four personalities, performers and pundits, who speak their minds about the week's hot topics.
Guests on this first programme are Jo Bunting, Fred MacAulay and Will Self.
Presenter/Clive Anderson, Producer/Lisa Evans
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Dermot O'Leary
Saturday 20 September
2.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Athlete return to Dermot O'Leary's show, joining him in the studio to showcase new material in an acoustic session.
The band, who played their first live session on UK radio on Dermot's BBC Radio 2 show in 2005, received a Mercury Music Prize nomination for their debut album Vehicles And Animals. In 2006, the band won an Ivor Novello award for the song Wires and, last year, released their third album, Beyond The Neighbourhood.
There's more music as Mercury Rev perform new material from their forthcoming album, Snowflake Midnight, at the Maida Vale studios. Formed in New York in the late Eighties, the band are also set to simultaneously release Strange Attractor, a "companion" album to Snowflake Midnight.
Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker
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The Story Of Carmine Appice
Saturday 20 September
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Pete Mitchell tells the story of songwriter and Vanilla Fudge's legendary rock drummer, Carmine Appice.
Appice bridged the gap between psychedelia and progressive rock and, by the age of 19, enjoyed hits around the world and toured with Hendrix, the Doors, the Monkees, Mamas And Papas and the Byrds.
Appice was John Bonham's idol and influenced countless bands, including Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Blue Oyster Cult.
Appice wrote Da Ya Think I'm Sexy and Young Turks for Rod Stewart – two of the star's most successful recordings – and spent seven years in Stewart's band. He has also worked with Cactus, Jeff Beck, Ozzy Osbourne and Pink Floyd. He is also the author of the successful rock-drumming book Realistic Rock.
Pete Mitchell travels to America to track down the larger-than-life rock star. Along the way, he talks to members of Black Sabbath, Blue Oyster Cult, Dio, Cactus and Vanilla Fudge.
Presenter and Producer/Pete Mitchell
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Suzi Quatro
Saturday 20 September
8.00-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Each week, Suzi Quatro plays the music she heard in her formative years, from doo-wop to Motown and rock 'n' roll.
Once a month, Suzi talks to a special guest about their American influences and, tonight, her guest is Andy Scott, of glam rock chart-toppers The Sweet.
Andy backed Jimi Hendrix in his teens, just after winning TV show Opportunity Knocks with his band Silverstone. A few years later, in 1970, Andy auditioned as lead guitarist for The Sweet – to replace outgoing guitarist Mick Stewart.
Andy was lead guitarist on the band's biggest hits: Blockbuster; Ballroom Blitz; Teenage Rampage; and Love Is Like Oxygen, which was nominated for an Ivor Novello award.
Presenter/Suzi Quatro, Producer/Mark Simpson
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AMERICANA
MUSIC AWARDS
Bob Harris
Saturday 20 September
11.00pm-2.00am BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Harris presents live from
Nashville During the week of the Americana Music Awards, tonight's programme comes live from Nashville.
Bob is joined in his Music Row studio by guests who are in town for this annual celebration of Americana music – including singer-songwriter and award-winning New York radio DJ Laura Cantrell.
Famed in the UK as a favourite artist of the late John Peel, Laura has received huge critical acclaim for her albums Not The Tremblin' Kind, When The Roses Bloom Again and Humming By The Flowered Vine.
Following a three-year break from recording, in which she concentrated on raising her new baby daughter, Laura has returned with an EP comprising covers of songs including Merle Haggard's Silver Wings, Roger Miller's Train Of Life, New Order's Love Vigilantes and the Bacharach and David track, Trains And Boats And Planes.
Also live in the studio with Bob is four-piece alternative country Texan band The Gougers, who play tracks from their latest album.
In and among these live studio sessions, Bob selects some of the best new music in Nashville's record shops, and features artists performing in town at the Americana music showcases.
Highlights of the Awards can be heard in Bob's show at 7pm on Thursday.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth
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| BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 20 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 personal cultural thoughts for the day in Free Thought, broadcast daily in Breakfast, at 8.35am, 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 2008. The speakers include prominent Liverpudlians and a diverse range of figures from the UK and beyond. The two-minute contributions can be a reflection or a provocation, or simply shed a 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.
This week's contributors include: novelist Dreda Mitchell; Tim Robertson, Chief Executive of The Koestler Trust for arts by offenders, talking about the power of prison art; and Sir Christopher Frayling, Chair of the Arts Council, on the role of the arts in Public Service Broadcasting.
Producer/Steve Urquhart
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Jazz
Library – Harry James
Saturday 20 September
4.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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As Jazz Library moves to Saturday afternoons, the series relaunches with a portrait of trumpeter Harry James. James was one of the most naturally gifted brass players in jazz, with a remarkable range, a perfect tone and an excellent sense of jazz timing. Blessed with film-star good looks, Harry even married into the Hollywood lifestyle when he wedded Hollywood pin-up Betty Grable.
Despite becoming a minor movie star himself, music was James's first love. Whenever he got the chance, he surrounded himself with the finest jazz musicians of the age – from Teddy Wilson and members of the Basie Band to his own groups and those of Benny Goodman, with whom he first came to fame.
Guy Barker found early inspiration in James's music and gives Alyn Shipton the inside track on how demanding it would have been for any trumpeter, even one with James's genius.
Presenter and Producer/Alyn Shipton
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EDINBURGH
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL 2008
Opera On 3 – The Rise And Fall Of The City Of
Mahagonny
Saturday 20 September
6.00-9.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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 Viennese maestro HK Gruber
conducts an all-star cast "Oh show me the way to the next whiskey bar," may be an appropriate invitation to the capacity audience at the opening concert of this year's Edinburgh International Festival. However, Brecht and Weill's anti-capitalist masterpiece, The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny, is stuffed with other memorable musical numbers.
Set in the imaginary city of Mahagonny, where money counts for everything and the inhabitants wallow in sex, gambling and drinking, the opera tells of Jenny the prostitute (Giselle Allen), her love affair with Jimmy the lumberjack (Dean Griffey) and their destiny when a failed wager leads them to court.
The score is a mixture of Weill's symphonic writing with rag-time, blues, foxtrot and the other popular styles often associated with Brecht and Weill's collaborations.
Viennese maestro and cabaret star HK Gruber conducts an all-star cast with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and Edinburgh Festival Chorus in a concert performance narrated by Hannah Gordon.
It is introduced by Donald McLeod, who also talks to the conductor about the context of the piece and Weill and Brecht's influence on subsequent operatic developments.
Presenter/Donald McLeod, Producer/Bill Lloyd
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| BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 20 September 2008 |
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Bora Bora
Saturday 20 September
2.30-3.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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 Sir Derek Jacobi stars in a play
written especially for him by
Lynne Truss Sir Derek Jacobi and acclaimed author Lynne Truss were on a panel at a book festival talking about audio books when Lynne first conceived the idea of writing a play for Sir Derek. Bora Bora is that play.
Sir Derek plays Alec, the art-historian brother of the famous actor, Tony Bosanquet. Alec has lived his life in the shadows following a traumatic event in his childhood when a movie he appeared in was notoriously suppressed. Through a ruse, a biographer, Charlie, joins a painting holiday led by Alec and attempts to shatter Alec's silence about his brother.
The painting holiday is a tradition and an opportunity for Alec to share his skills with watercolours. The calm of the group, mostly made up of older women, is disturbed by Charlie's arrival. Margaret, a retired ACAS negotiator, becomes Alec's fierce defender as Alec is forced to face a terrible truth about his life, and about the nature of forgiveness.
Adrian Bower stars as Charlie and Cheryl Campbell plays Margaret.
Producer/Ned Chaillet
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Archive Hour – The Voices In My Head
Saturday 20 September
8.00-9.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Actor Julian Rhind-Tutt has always been drawn to particular voices – but why some and not others?
In this personal exploration of the sound archives, he looks back at his childhood and listens to some inspirational voices. He remembers the changing voices of newsreaders and he listens again to his teachers and their advice. He also digs out a recording he made in a tent in Ethiopia in a rain storm.
Presenter/Julian Rhind-Tutt, Producer/Tim Dee
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 20 September 2008 |
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Eamonn Holmes
Saturday 20 September
9.00-11.00am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Eamonn Holmes looks ahead to all the weekend's sporting activity, with two hours of chat and interviews with guests from the world of sports and entertainment.
Joining Eamonn this week for an exclusive interview is Manchester United's most decorated player, Ryan Giggs.
Eamonn will also be joined in the studio by regular guests Graham Poll, Sam Delaney and Lynsey Horn.
Presenter/Eamonn Holmes, Producer/Anna Stewart
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5 Live Sport – The
Ryder Cup
Saturday 20 September
12.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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John Inverdale presents 5 Live Sport, live from the Valhalla Golf Course in Louisville, Kentucky, on the second day of the 37th Ryder Cup.
BBC Radio 5 Live's golf correspondent, Iain Carter, leads the live commentary of the morning's play, alongside John Murray, Mark Pougatch, Andrew Cotter, Alistair Bruce-Ball and Vassos Alexander, with expert analysis from three-time Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, former Ryder Cup player Andrew Coltart and US Tour-winner Andrew Magee.
Also on the show is news of the Barclays Premier League's lunchtime kick-off between Sunderland and Middlesbrough, from the Stadium of Light, from 12.45pm, as well as coverage of Liverpool v Stoke, from 3pm, and news from all the afternoon's football in England and Scotland.
In a packed programme, there is also news from the second day of the Davis Cup tennis tie between Great Britain and Austria, from Wimbledon, and updated news from the rugby union Guinness Premiership.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Mark Williams
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The Ryder Cup
Saturday 20 September
6.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Continuing BBC Radio 5 Live's coverage of the Ryder Cup to the close of play, John Inverdale presents live action of the second day's play from the Valhalla course in Louisville, Kentucky.
Nick Faldo, a former Ryder Cup winner himself, captains the European side as they try to beat the American team, captained by Paul Azinger, for the fourth consecutive time.
The commentary team is lead by 5 Live's golf correspondent, Iain Carter, alongside John Murray, Mark Pougatch, Andrew Cotter, Alistair Bruce-Ball and Vassos Alexander. Joining them to offer expert analysis is three-time Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, former Ryder Cup player Andrew Coltart and US Tour-winner Andrew Magee.
There is also an update from the Labour Party conference with John Pienaar.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producers/Steve Houghton and Graham McMillan
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Saturday 20 September 2008 |
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Football
Saturday 20 September
12.40-2.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary from the Premier League's lunchtime kick-off, the Wear-Tees derby between Sunderland and Middlesbrough, live, from the Stadium of Light.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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5 Live Football League
Saturday 20 September
2.45-5.15pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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5 Live Football League introduces 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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Football
Saturday 20 September
5.15-7.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary from the Premier League's early evening kick-off, between Bolton Wanderers and Arsenal, live, from the Reebok Stadium.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Saturday 20 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.
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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