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| BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 25 September 2008 |
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AMERICANA MUSIC AWARDS
Bob Harris Country
Thursday 25 September
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Harris presents highlights of the Seventh Americana Music Association Awards, held at the legendary Ryman auditorium in Nashville.
The ceremony, which includes awards for artist, album and song of the year, features appearances from artists including Tift Merritt, John Hiatt and Joan Baez.
In a round-up of the evening's events, Bob interviews the performers, winners and nominees from Americana music's big night and selects musical highlights from the ceremony.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Thursday 25 September
11.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Dylan says a mighty "Howdee", as he takes Hello as his theme for this week's programme.
Tracks featured in Bob's eclectic mix of music include Hello Mary Lou by Ricky Nelson, Hello In There by John Prine and Hello Goodbye by The Beatles.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Phil Hughes
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| BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 25 September 2008 |
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Late Junction
Thursday 25 September
11.15pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Fiona Talkington presents the new album by Jono McCleery in tonight's edition of Late Junction. Listeners also have the chance to hear Romanian diva Gabi Lunca in action, along with the sounds of a Forties concertina band from Johannesburg.
Presenter/Fiona Talkington, Producer/Philip Tagney
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| BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 25 September 2008 |
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Arthur Mee – Encyclopaedist
Thursday 25 September
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Novelist and critic Ian Sansom tells the story of Arthur Mee, prolific educationalist, editor and writer, whose Children's Encyclopaedia and Children's Newspaper were bought by millions throughout the first half of the 20th century.
Arthur Mee was the editor of The Children's Encyclopaedia, first published in 1908, and the weekly magazine for children which grew out of it, The Children's Newspaper. In addition, he wrote a dizzying number of books on travel, general knowledge and the history of Britain. He was a man of phenomenal energy who wrote, on average, an incredible million words a year for 50 years. The encyclopaedia he founded sold millions of copies worldwide and, for many people, it now represents an iconic piece of their childhood.
Contributors include Mee's biographer, Maisie Robson; Steve Rudd, the publisher who has lovingly curated a huge backlist of Arthur Mee's titles; enthusiasts such as astronomer Heather Couper; and Turner prize-winning artist Grayson Perry.
Ian Sansom is a founder of The Enthusiast magazine. He is the author of the Mobile Library detective series and writes Dr Sansom's Amazing Facts for The Guardian.
Presenter/Ian Sansom, Producer/Sara Davies
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Afternoon Play – Unseen Austen
Thursday 25 September
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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In this inventive Afternoon Play, Austen-mania is debunked as Austen fan and writer Judith French imagines the off-stage adventures of the impertinent and impulsive younger sister of Lizzie Bennett – Lydia.
Young Lydia Bennett, bubbly, bosomy and besotted with boys, drives her sister, Elizabeth, mad with her complaints about their dreary life in dull old Longbourn, where nothing ever happens. So she's thrilled to find out she's to be whisked off to Brighton for the summer with the regiment. But events don't go quite as planned. After eloping with her sister's beau, the dashing George Wickham, she's devastated to learn that he is the novel's villain, that she's only in a back story and that the real story is continuing in Longbourn, with Elizabeth as its heroine. Lydia sets about putting matters right.
Judith French wrote and starred in an acclaimed one-woman show on the life of Jane Austen, My Solitary Elegance. Her radio work also includes the Sony-nominated Look No More Backward, dramatisations of Richardson's Pamela and The Dutch Mariner and the biographical fantasies One Man On A Stage (based on the life of Jerome K Jerome) and A Clown On God's Stage (about the inspirational First World War preacher Geoffrey Studdert-Kennedy).
The cast for this play will be confirmed closer to transmission.
Producer/Jonquil Painting
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The Material World
Thursday 25 September
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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A single fibre of hair can give a valuable chronological record of a person's activities and lifestyle – whether it is used by a biochemist testing for drug abuse, or by an archaeologist looking at specimens hundreds of years old. Human hair, on average, grows about a centimetre each month and, as it grows, it locks up information about people, what they have been consuming and how their diet may change. On this week's Material World, Quentin Cooper finds out how these "biochemical signatures" can be utilised in such diverse areas as archaeology, forensics, law enforcement and sports science.
Quentin is joined by Dr Andrew Wilson, Lecturer in Archaeological Sciences, University of Bradford, and by Dr Richard Paul, Lecturer in Forensic Science in the Health, Sport & Science department, University of Glamorgan, Wales. Both use the biochemical signatures of hair in their work, but with two very different applications. Andrew Wilson investigates how archaeological hair specimens can be used to reveal the ways people lived before our modern supermarket diets, and even what they died of. Richard Paul has recently developed a new test that can reveal a person's drinking habits for their past six months.
Presenter/Quentin Cooper, Producers/Peter McHugh and Martin Redfern
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 25 September 2008 |
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Gideon Coe
Thursday 25 September
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe plunders the BBC archives once again and tonight revisits Badly Drawn Boy at the Glastonbury Festival, as well as a classic 1987 Janice Long session from The Railway Children.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 25 September 2008 |
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Pamela's presence is affecting the band's performance, as the Asian drama continues. Later, she asks Pritam why he can't let the past go, especially as he was the one who ended their relationship. Pritam admits he is hurt that Pamela ended up with Bobby.
The situation worsens when Surinder turns up and catches her husband embracing Pamela for old time's sake. Surinder screams at Pritam and flies at Pamela as the others look on in a mixture of amazement and horror...
Pamela is played by Seeta Indrani, Pritam by Bhasker Patel, Bobby by Kulvinder Ghir and Surinder by Rani Singh.
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