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| BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 24 September 2008 |
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Mike Harding
Wednesday 24 September
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Mike Harding chats to legendary English folk singer, song collector and author Shirley Collins MBE, recipient of the Good Tradition Award at the 2008 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.
The contribution Shirley has made to the British folk movement is immeasurable. In the Fifties she collected folk songs in the USA with Alan Lomax; in 1964 she recorded the landmark jazz-folk fusion of Folk Roots, New Routes, with guitarist Davy Graham; and she followed that in 1971 with seminal folk album No Roses, on which she collaborated with Ashley Hutchings and The Albion Country Band. Along with her sister Dolly Collins, she also released several albums of traditional music for EMI, a collection of which has recently been released on a double CD.
More recently, Shirley has been made President of The English Folk Dance & Song Society, with Eliza Carthy as her Vice-President, and will be playing a large part in a forthcoming day of events celebrating the legacy of composer and folk song collector Ralph Vaughan Williams at Cecil Sharp House in London, home of the EFDSS.
Mike chats to Shirley about her career as well as current and future projects, and plays a selection of tracks from her immense back catalogue.
Plus, there's Mike's pick of the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music including news of artists on tour and the latest album releases.
Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Trevor Nelson
Wednesday 24 September
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Stevie Wonder's Talking Book is the Album Of The Week as Trevor Nelson presents an hour of the best in soulful music.
As the second of five consecutive albums which made up Stevie's classic period, Talking Book found Wonder enjoying more artistic freedom from Motown, taking over the production reins and playing most of the instruments himself.
As a result, the sound of the album is sharply defined by Wonder's keyboard work, and his use of the Hohner clavinet model C on Superstition became widely regarded as one of the definitive tracks featuring the instrument.
Also featured on the show are the tracks So What by Ronnie Jordan, You Gets No Love by Faith Evans and Stephen Simmonds's Alone.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Ollie Embden
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| BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 24 September 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Brahms Ep 3/5
Monday 22 to Friday 26 September
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Brahms struggled with his First Symphony for years, terrified of failing to live up to his idol, the great Beethoven. He also tore his hair out over the other great genre dominated by his hero, the String Quartet – quite literally wallpapering his bedroom with his failed attempts.
In his continuing survey of Brahms's chamber and instrumental music this week, Donald Macleod navigates through two movements from Brahms's rarely performed and oft-maligned First String Quartet, as well as a complete performance of his beautiful and lyrical first Violin Sonata, inspired by thoughts of his great lost love, Clara Schumann, among the falling rain.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/David Papp
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| BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 24 September 2008 |
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Lifeboats on the Thames Ep 1/2
Wednesday 24 September
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4
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Writer Horatio Clare was once a lifeboat coxswain. In this programme he revisits the world of late-night launches and rescues, joining the crews to tell the stories of some of Britain's busiest lifeboats – not on the rough coast at Penlee or Dungeness, but under Waterloo Bridge, at Gravesend, Chiswick and Teddington on the River Thames.
In response to the findings of the Marchioness disaster inquiry, the RNLI in 2001 established a permanent search-and-rescue service with four lifeboat stations along the tidal Thames. Tower Lifeboat Station rapidly became the busiest in the country – last year it answered 265 "shouts" and rescued 92 people. Altogether the Thames lifeboats were launched 523 times and rescued 225 people.
Tower Station is right under Waterloo Bridge, which Dickens called "the bridge of sighs" because so many people committed suicide by jumping off it. So quick is the lifeboat's response, and so closely is the Thames watched, that most suicide attempts these days are unsuccessful.
The call-outs are not without variety – people fall ill on tourist boats, fall from the banks and get stuck in the mud. One crew assisted at a birth, on a boat inaccessible from land at low tide: they ferried out a midwife, and shoved her through a port-hole.
At Gravesend there is involvement with commercial shipping, fishing vessels and yachts, while at Chiswick and Teddington there are rowing and pleasure boats – and some alcohol-induced swimming.
Horatio takes the listener into the lives of the crews, who come from a range of backgrounds and professions – one is a Beefeater – and learns why they volunteer for two 12-hour shifts a month. He hears about the routines of the bases, the maintenance and the training. He joins them on exercises, gets a real "shout" on a night shift, and witnesses a melancholy mission at Gravesend. Sometimes these boats, rather than rescue the living, must recover the dead.
Presenter/Horatio Clare, Producer/Julian May
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Afternoon Play – Last Days Of Grace
Wednesday 24 September
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Nick Warburton's light, delicate, comic play concerns cricket's most enduring figure, WG Grace.
It's Easter Monday, 1908, and there's snow on the ground. WG Grace contemplates another day in his lifelong obsession. He arrives at the Oval and can't quite bear to sit in the clubhouse talking to the usual people. Instead he trudges out into the cold, meeting a man in the groundsman's hut who, like the whole nation, has slavishly followed Grace's career. The groundsman misguidedly reminds the cricketer of the extraordinary sporting records he has set. Today of all days Grace doesn't want to hear any of it. He started playing cricket as soon as he could walk and today feels like it might be the end of it all.
The game begins – a disappointingly mundane encounter. Grace doesn't score very many runs and doesn't take very many wickets. What he does do, though, is to keep on returning to the hut and to that groundsman. Something strange is going on. Who is this man who stays in the shadows of the hut? What is Grace worried about? As the light fades, Grace confronts and accepts the inevitable dwindling of his powers.
Nick Warburton, cricket fan and prolific writer for radio, won the Peter Tinniswood Award for the Best New Play on Radio for his 2005 Afternoon Play, Beast.
Producer/Steven Canny
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 24 September 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Wednesday 24 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, which include a tough tie for holders Tottenham as they begin the defence of their trophy away at Newcastle. Mark also has updates from all the night's other games.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Mark Williams
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606
Wednesday 24 September
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Tim Lovejoy presents the UK's biggest football phone-in, 606.
Fans can watch the debate on interactive digital TV via the Red button, and give their views to Tim by phone to 0500 909 693 (free from BT landlines), text to 85058 at network rates, or by email to 606@bbc.co.uk.
Presenter/Tim Lovejoy, Producer/Patrick Campbell
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 24 September 2008 |
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Gideon Coe
Wednesday 24 September
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Highlights from Maximo Park at the Glastonbury Festival feature in tonight's show.
Gideon Coe also plays tracks from J Mascis, the lead man from American rockers Dinosaur Jr, from a session recorded specially for BBC 6 Music.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 24 September 2008 |
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The band is reunited but there's obviously a big problem between Bobby and Pritam, as the Asian drama continues. Bobby reaches his limit with Pritam's silent treatment and unsuccessfully confronts him about the past.
Later, tensions are still running high when Bobby's wife, Pam, suddenly appears. Pritam makes a sharp exit and it dawns on Kuljit this might be the woman who split up the band. And it could be the end of the reunion – and Kuljit's pay packet!
Bobby is played by Kulvinder Ghir, Pritam by Bhasker Patel, Pam by Seeta Indrani and Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal.
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