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| BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 21 September 2008 |
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Elaine Paige On Sunday
Sunday 21 September
1.00-2.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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It's Elaine Paige's annual Disney special on this week's show.
The Walt Disney Company is the one and only Hollywood studio whose films are defined by music: thousands of movies, spanning almost 80 years, in which almost every single frame of film is accompanied by a note of music. Many hundreds of Disney songs are now known all over the world and can be heard just about everywhere: from the stages of Broadway and the West End to any place where someone has a mobile phone with a Disney ring-tone.
In this special edition of Elaine Paige On Sunday, she features some of the Disney's studio's biggest hits, plus a few rare gems.
Key films and shows featured in this programme include: Pocahontas from 1995; Mary Poppins from 1964; The Happiest Millionaire from 1967; and the Broadway production of The Little Mermaid from 2007.
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Sunday Half Hour
Sunday 21 September
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Brian D'Arcy introduces hymns of reassurance and hope in this week's Sunday Half Hour.
The programme features music from Fitzroy Presbyterian Church in Belfast, with The Fitzroy Orchestra directed by Chris Blake. Hymns include Lord For The Years, Great Is Thy Faithfulness and Be Thou My Vision.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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| BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 21 September 2008 |
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Private
Passions – Dominic West
Sunday 21 September
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Michael Berkeley's guest today is actor Dominic West, who shot to fame as the wise-cracking Baltimore detective Jimmy McNulty in critically acclaimed US TV series The Wire.
The youngest child of a large Irish Catholic family, Dominic was brought up near Sheffield and schooled at Eton, where he played Hamlet in school drama productions. He studied English Literature at Trinity College Dublin before moving to the Guildhall School Of Music and Drama. A stint with the Peter Hall Company was followed by some time with Argentinian circus De La Guarda, but it wasn't long before Hollywood beckoned. His film work includes Chicago with Renee Zellweger and Mona Lisa Smile with Julia Roberts, but it is his leading role in The Wire that made him a star. Dominic has not forgotten his theatrical background though; recent theatre credits on the West End stage include Chekhov's The Seagull, Orlando in As You Like It, Edward in The Voysey Inheritance and the lead role in Tom Stoppard's Rock 'n' Roll.
He has chosen an eclectic mix of music for Private Passions, ranging from sacred music by Pergolesi, Handel and Mozart to the bleak final song in Schubert's Winterreise cycle, Arvo Part's meditative Spiegel im Spiegel for violin and piano and Harvest Moon by Neil Young, Slow Train by Flanders and Swan and Sister Josephine by Jake Thackray.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Sarah Cropper
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Drama On 3 –
A Disappearing Number By Simon McBurney
Sunday
21 September
8.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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This award-winning production of Simon McBurney's critically acclaimed stage production A Disappearing Number is a provocative meditation on the beauty of mathematics and the nature of creativity. It is inspired by the true story of the collaboration between two of the 20th century's most remarkable pure mathematicians, Srinivasa Ramanujan, a poor Brahmin from South India, and Cambridge Professor GH Hardy.
Winner of the 2008 Laurence Olivier Award for best new play, the 2007 Critics' Circle Theatre Award for best new play and the 2007 Evening Standard Theatre Award for best play, A Disappearing Number crosses three continents and several histories to weave a provocative theatrical pattern about our relentless compulsion to understand.
Threaded through the pattern of stories and ideas are questions about mathematics and beauty; imagination and the nature of infinity; about what is continuous and what is permanent; how we are attached to the past and how we affect the future, and how we create and how we love.
A Disappearing Number was devised by Simon McBurney and the cast and is adapted for radio by Simon McBurney and Ben Power with original music by Nitin Sawhney. The cast includes David Annen, Firdous Bamji, Paul Bhattacharjee, Divya Kasturi, Chetna Pandya, Saskia Reeves, Shane Shambhu, Mick Barnfather, Tamzin Griffin, Tim McMullan and Clive Mendus.
Director/Simon McBurney, Producer/Catherine Bailey
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| BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 21 September 2008 |
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The
Worst Journey In The World Ep 1/2
Sunday 21 September
3.00-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Apsley Cherry-Garrard's The Worst Journey In The World has been called the greatest adventure story of all time. Cherry-Garrard, a wealthy upper-class landowner, was appointed zoological assistant on Captain Scott's doomed polar expedition when he was 24 in 1910. He returned two and a half years later a broken man who would suffer intense bouts of depression for the rest of his life.
On his return the committee in charge of Scott's expedition asked Cherry-Garrard to write the official narrative. He set about interviewing those who had come back but in 1914 Cherry went to serve in Flanders. Invalided home, he met George Bernard Shaw under whose influence he severed his links with the expedition committee and began to write a very different book to the one originally planned. The Worst Journey In The World appeared in 1922, and was immediately hailed as a modern classic.
In this adaptation, the story begins at Cape Evans in the frozen Ross Sea, as Scott chooses the 12 men who will set off on the southern journey. With horses, motor sledges and dogs they will take supplies and lay food depots for the assault on the Pole.
A magical Antarctic icescape is created by a musical score specially composed by Goldfrapp's Will Gregory, orchestrated by Ian Gardiner and performed by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.
The cast stars Matt Green as Cherry; John McAndrew as Scott; Carl Prekopp as Atch; Richard Mitchley as Bill; Mark Meadows as Captain Oates; Peter Callaghan as Birdie; Simon Lee Phillips as Silas; Jack Reynolds as Tom Crean; Andrew Byron as Keohane; and Huw Davies as Edgar Evans.
This drama is adapted by Costa Book of the Year Award-winning writer Stef Penney.
Producer/Kate McAll
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 21 September 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Sunday 21 September
11.45am-5.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Eleanor Oldroyd and John Inverdale host an important day of live sport, featuring the final day of the Ryder Cup from the Valhalla course in Louisville, Kentucky and commentary from two Barclays Premier League games.
From midday there is full live commentary of the West Midlands derby, as West Bromwich Albion take on Aston Villa at the Hawthorns. At 2pm there is live commentary of the first meeting of the season between last year's champions and runners up as Manchester United visit Chelsea at Stamford Bridge.
There will be regular updates from all the day's other football, as well as news from the final day of Great Britain's Davis Cup tennis tie against Austria at Wimbledon.
Presenters/Eleanor Oldroyd and John Inverdale, Producers/Mark Williams and Graham McMillan
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The Ryder Cup
Sunday 21 September
5.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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John Inverdale presents live action from the final day's play in the 37th Ryder Cup from the Valhalla course in Louisville, Kentucky.
Twelve singles matches will determine the winner of the competition as Nick Faldo's European side try to beat Paul Azinger's American team, for the fourth consecutive time.
Full on-course commentary will follow the action to its conclusion, led by BBC Radio 5 Live's golf correspondent Iain Carter, alongside John Murray, Mark Pougatch, Andrew Cotter, Alistair Bruce-Ball and Vassos Alexander, with expert analysis by the three times Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, former Ryder Cup player Andrew Coltart and US Tour winner Andrew Magee.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producers/Steve Houghton and Graham McMillan
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Sunday 21 September 2008 |
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Football
Sunday 21 September
2.55-5.00pm BBC5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA |
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Uninterrupted live commentary comes from one of the afternoon's Premier League matches.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 21 September 2008 |
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Sunday 21 September
12.00-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC |
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Dogs are the subject of this week's Theme Time Radio Hour as Bob Dylan selects an eclectic mix of music paying tribute to our four-legged friends.
Bob's selection includes Stop Kicking My Dog Around by Rufus Thomas, Serenade To A Poodle by Slim Gaillard, Doghouse Boogie by Hawkshaw Hawkins and Russian Satellite by The Mighty Sparrow.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Frank Wilson
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