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| BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 23 September 2008 |
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BBC RADIO 2's GUITAR SEASON
Guitar Stories – Howlin' Wolf Ep 1/2
Tuesday 23 September
11.30pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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BBC Radio 2's three week long Guitar Season kicks off with another chance to hear the story of Howlin' Wolf – one of the most influential blues musicians of all time – and a special themed edition of Friday Night Is Music Night.
The season looks at some outstanding contributions that artists have made in keeping the guitar at the forefront of music making across the genres and features documentaries on artists from Howlin' Wolf to Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. Friday Night Is Music Night, broadcast on 26 September, features a range of guitar styles, as well as a performance from Danilo Borgerth from the Brit School, who won this year's Paul Walters Guitar Bursary at the school.
BBC One will broadcast an Imagine: Guitar Stories series in the autumn.
In the history of the blues, there has never been anyone quite like the Howlin' Wolf. Over the next two weeks Bruce Dickinson presents the story of the man Sam Phillips considered to be his greatest discovery.
Six foot three and close to 300 pounds in his salad days the Wolf (aka Chester Arthur Burnette) was the primal force of the blues spun out to its ultimate conclusion.
Instrumental in the formation of the Chicago Blues sound, the Wolf pioneered not only the electric guitar but through his hits created its back-catalogue and pioneered the electric guitar. His hits include Evil, Smokestack Lightnin', I Ain't Superstitious, Spoonful, The Red Rooster, Shake For Me and Going Down Slow.
Contributors include Bonnie Raitt; Bill Wyman; Jeff Beck; Hubert Sumlin (Wolf's life-long guitarist); Chris Barber; Blues Band vocalist Dave Kelly; Skip McDonald; Marshall Chess; and Mark Hoffman author of the definitive Howlin' Wolf biography.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Viv Atkinson
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| BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 23 September 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Brahms Ep 2/5
Monday 22 to Friday 26 September
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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After the shattering suicide attempt of his mentor Robert Schumann, Brahms didn't publish a new work for nearly six years – a wretched period in the career of music's new hottest property. Yet the flirty attentions of the composer's much-beloved Hamburg Ladies' Choir finally rejuvenated his creative juices in 1859, at the tender age of 26.
In his exploration of Brahms's chamber and instrumental music this week, Donald Macleod today explores Brahms's renewed creative maturity, beginning with a rare work for "his ladies" accompanied by harp and horns. The composer's much-loved First String Sextet and sadly wistful Horn Trio – written after the death of his mother in 1865 – complete the programme.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Steven Rajam
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Performance On 3 –
Edinburgh International Festival 2008
Tuesday 23 September
7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Any visit by the Budapest Festival Orchestra is bound to be something special. Ever since it was formed by its dynamic Hungarian conductor Iván Fischer in 1983, this orchestra has dazzled audiences with its unique sound and virtuosic performances.
This concert, recorded last month at the Edinburgh Festival, plays to their considerable strengths in a programme beginning with authentic gypsy melodies, followed by popular orchestral works by Liszt, Brahms and Sarasate showing how those composers were enthralled by the gypsies' fiery music.
The concert ends with Schoenberg's famous orchestral arrangement of Brahms's G minor Piano Quintet with its impetuous Rondo alla zingarese.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/David Papp
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| BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 23 September 2008 |
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O Lucky Man!
Tuesday 23 September
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Journalist John Harris looks at the life and work of film director Lindsay Anderson.
John is fascinated by the work and character of Anderson and believes his films present an unrivalled critique of 20th-century Britain. In this programme, John explores Anderson's Mick Travis trilogy of films – If... (1968), O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982) – to examine the director's satiric vision of Britain.
This programme looks at each of the films against their historical and political backdrop – the late Sixties, early Seventies and early Eighties – and explores what they said about their time, and how they still have things to say about contemporary Britain. It also offers a portrait of the famously difficult Anderson, who was nonetheless loved by those who worked with and for him. His background was thoroughly establishment but he railed against it for much of his life. John illustrates how Anderson's rebellious attitude impacted on his career.
Contributors include: Malcolm McDowell, Stephen Frears, David Storey, David Sherwin and Dame Helen Mirren.
Presenter/John Harris, Producer/Simon Jacobs
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Soul Music Ep 1/4
Tuesday 23 September
1.30-2.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Tchaikovsky's famous ballet Swan Lake launches a short series telling the stories behind iconic pieces of music.
Swan Lake was the first ballet that Tchaikovsky wrote. At that time in Russia, ballet dancing was at a high level of virtuosity, but the music was not. Tchaikovsky brought his skills as a writer of symphonies to the genre.
The story of Swan Lake may originate from the Russian tale The White Duck, although there are many legends involving swans and transformation – some retold by Hans Christian Anderson, which Tchaikovsky would have been aware of.
The programme hears from those who have memories associated with this tragic love story, including Marion Tate from the Birmingham Royal Ballet, Scott Ambler from Matthew Bourne's dance company, and Sir Roy Strong.
Producer/Sara Conkey
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Afternoon Play – Elephant And Castle
Tuesday 23 September
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Elephant And Castle is a modern, romantic comedy about a dysfunctional relationship.
The story begins at the end of Ian and Kat's relationship. It's Ian's 35th birthday and they're in the middle of a row from which there's no going back. Fast rewind nine months to the Tibetan cafe where they met. In a series of short scenes, the play follows the full trajectory of their funny, yet sad relationship.
Elephant And Castle stars Rory Kinnear, Lyndsey Marshal and Olivia Colman, and is short-film maker Robin Baker's first radio play.
Producer/Steven Canny
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File On 4
Tuesday 23 September
8.00-8.40pm BBC RADIO 4
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The Royal Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals (RSPCA) is one of the best known charities in England and Wales and attracts donations of more than £100m a year.
But concerns have been raised about the way in which the organisation carries out private prosecutions against owners accused of cruelty or failing to care for their animals. Defence lawyers and campaign groups accuse the RSPCA of being heavy handed and too ready put vulnerable people before the courts... claims which the charity has always denied.
Now there are new concerns over the role of the RSPCA in promoting an apparent link between animal abuse and child abuse – a connection which featured in a recent court case about alleged animal cruelty.
File On 4 examines the evidence behind the link and hears why some experts fear it could lead to people being wrongly accused of child abuse.
The programme can be heard again at 5pm Sunday 28 September.
Reporter/Allan Urry, Producer/Paul Grant
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 23 September 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Tuesday 23 September
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents live commentary from one of the evening's Carling Cup third round matches, along with updates from all the night's other games.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Haydn Perry
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606
Tuesday 23 September
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Danny Baker brings his own unique style to 606.
Fans can watch the debate on interactive digital TV via the Red button, and give their views to Danny by phone to 0500 909 693 (free from BT landlines), text to 85058 at network rates or email to 606@bbc.co.uk.
Presenter/Danny Baker, Producer/Patrick Campbell
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 23 September 2008 |
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Gideon Coe
Tuesday 23 September
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe delves deep into the archives and unearths some more of the best sessions and live sets recorded for the BBC.
Tonight he revisits Jose Gonzalez recorded at BBC 6 Music's Summer Sundae this year, and The Ramones recorded for BBC Radio 1's legendary evening sessions.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
6 Music Plays It Again – Who's Who:
Pete Townshend Ep 1/4
Tuesday 23 September
12.00-12.30am BBC 6 MUSIC
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As the current line-up of The Who prepares for a tour of the USA and Japan, listeners have another chance to hear a series of programmes in which the original four band members – Pete Townshend, John Entwistle, Roger Daltrey and Keith Moon – talk candidly about the band, themselves and each other.
Townshend features tonight and tomorrow in a programme first broadcast in 1974, and Who's Who continues at midnight on Thursday and Friday with an interview with bassist John Entwistle.
Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Tuesday 23 September 2008 |
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Kuljit and Arun find the band's drummer, who lets slip that they split over a woman and not "musical differences", as the Asian drama continues. Further searching tracks down the dhol player, who is more than happy to be involved. All Kuljit has to do now is convince Pritam.
Kuljit does his best but Pritam refuses to co-operate. Later, Surinder unwittingly provides a red rag to a bull and Pritam decides he is up for the reunion after all...
Kuljit is played by Sartaj Garewal, Arun by Naithan Ariane, Pritam by Bhasker Patel and Surinder by Rani Singh.
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