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Ken Bruce
Monday 29 September
9.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 2
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Justin Hayward shares his Tracks Of My Years with Ken Bruce this week.
Justin is the vocalist, lead guitarist and composer with the Moody Blues who has also collaborated with the likes of Marty Wilde, Jeff Wayne, Mike Batt and Rick Wakeman. In over three decades the Moody Blues have sold over 50 million albums and received numerous awards, including an Ivor Novello Award for outstanding contribution to music in 1985.
Among Justin's choices are songs by Prince, Canned Heat, Bonnie Raitt, Steely Dan and Sir Cliff Richard.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
 Jeremy Vine launches BBC
Radio 2's latest Life2Live
campaign 70, Not Out! Jeremy Vine launches BBC Radio 2's latest Life2Live campaign 70, Not Out! which features in his show throughout the week.
Britain is now home to more pensioners than children. The percentage of the UK population younger than 16 has been declining since 1995 and has now dropped below the percentage of those older than the state pensionable age. The fastest-growing age group in the UK comprises those aged 80 years and over who, according to the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics, currently constitute 4.5 per cent of the population (2.7m).
As part of the initiative, Radio 2 is also searching for "the memory which can't be taken to the grave" and inviting listeners to share their relatives' best stories at bbc.co.uk/radio2. TV presenter and broadcaster Angela Rippon is on hand to hear some of these stories on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, Jeremy discusses the difficult decision to put an elderly parent in a care home; Saga Magazine's Emma Soames joins the show on Thursday to talk about making the very most of your retirement; and money-saving expert Martin Lewis shares his tips on coping financially as a pensioner on Friday.
For more information on 70, Not Out! or some of the issues affecting the elderly, listeners can visit bbc.co.uk/radio2 or phone the helpline on 0800 022 022 (freephone from landlines).
Presenter/Jeremy Vine, Producer/Bequi Sheehan
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Jools
Holland Ep 1/13
Monday 29 September
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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 Jools Holland returns for
another series Jools returns with another series of the show in which he delves into his eclectic record collection and invites special guests to share their favourite tracks and perform on the show, accompanied by his Rhythm Section.
This week his special guest is
ex-Beautiful South front man Paul Heaton, who talks about working on his solo material and joins Jools and his Rhythm Section in an impromptu version of the Detroit Spinners's Ghetto Child.
Demo Corner also returns, the feature in which Jools showcases early recordings by some of the world's finest singers.
Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 3 Monday 29 September 2008 |
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Composer
Of The Week – Charles Mingus Ep 1/5
Monday 29 September to Friday 3 October
12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Few jazz musicians are noted as composers, and mostly they are not instrumental virtuosi – Charles Mingus was both... Mingus progressed from being a leading double bass player, working with the great names of 20th-century jazz – Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Art Tatum – to beginning to realise his ambitions as a composer with his revolutionary album Pithecanthropus Erectus.
From the beginning, as player and bandleader, he acquired a reputation for being "bullish", but despite being fired from Louis Armstrong's band for expressing his fears about touring in the South, Mingus continued to be in demand. As a composer, he was interested in European classical techniques from the beginning (he played for a while with the Los Angeles Junior Philharmonic), his favourite composers being Strauss, Debussy and Ravel, and his tastes influenced his earliest compositions.
With the help of Charles Mingus's biographer Brian Priestley, Donald Macleod begins Composer Of The Week with an exploration of the double bassist's transition from virtuoso band member to bandleader and composer.
An edited podcast of all five episodes is available from Friday afternoon.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Megan Jones
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Performance On 3 – Tippett,
A Child Of Our Time
Monday 29 September
7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducts Michael Tippett's profoundly moving oratorio A Child of Our Time – a piece that gave eloquent expression to man's inhumanity to his fellow man during the Second World War. The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus are joined by a world-class quartet of vocal soloists – soprano Nicole Cabell, mezzo Jane Irwin, tenor John Mark Ainsley and bass John Tomlinson – in a performance recorded last month at the Edinburgh International Festival.
Presented by Martin Handley, the performance is followed by a look into the BBC archives at the best of the Edinburgh Festival. This includes a 1968 performance of Schubert's Piano Trio in E flat, D.929, given by Isaac Stern (violin), Leonard Rose (cello) and Eugene Istomin (piano).
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Simon Lord
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The Essay – Richard
Cork's Encounters With Artists
Monday
29 September to Friday 3 October
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3 |
As one of Britain's most respected art writers and broadcasters, Richard Cork has had extraordinary encounters with some of the world's most influential artists. In this week's Essay, he describes his meetings with Picasso, Louise Bourgeois, Roy Lichtenstein, Bridget Riley and Lucian Freud and reflects on the context and meaning of their art.
In today's Essay, Richard remembers an encounter with Pablo Picasso, the very first artist he ever met. In 1965, Picasso had become a fairly reclusive figure, spending much of his time shut away at work in his villa, high in the hills near Cannes. Richard, at the time, was an 18-year-old student, filling in his gap year by travelling around Europe. He was financing his trip by drawing portraits of tourists by the harbour and it was here that he met Picasso.
In tomorrow's Essay, Richard remembers meeting Louise Bourgeois in a quiet street in the Chelsea district of New York near the Hudson River. On Wednesday, he recounts his meeting with the so-called grand old man of American pop art, Roy Lichtenstein, and on Thursday talks of his memories of meeting Bridget Riley. On Friday, in the final instalment of this week's Essay, Richard remembers meeting Lucian Freud in his studio in West London.
Presenter/Richard Cork, Producer/Kate Bland
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Jazz On 3 – Phil Minton Quartet In Session
Monday 29 September
11.15pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Jez Nelson presents a session of improvised music from the remarkable British vocal experimentalist Phil Minton's Quartet, featuring John Butcher on reeds, Veryan Weston on piano and Roger Turner on drums. For more than four decades, Minton has been famed for his innovative and daring approach to vocal performance. Using highly controlled breathing techniques he produces sounds ranging from high frequency squawks to deep guttural bellows.
Since forming 12 years ago to perform Mouthful Of Ecstasy, an instrumental and vocal impression of James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake, this group of musicians has played together in various guises. Their most recent Quartet collaboration, Slur, was released in 2006.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Robert Abel
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 4 Monday 29 September 2008 |
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Book
Of The Week – That's Another Story Ep
1/5
Monday
29 September
9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4 |
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One of the nation's best-loved actresses, Julie Walters, reads her own account of her early life and the acting career that propelled her to stardom.
Born in Birmingham, the daughter of an Irish Catholic mother and a builder/decorator, Julie's early schooldays were at a convent where the repressive atmosphere was only lightened by the occasional triumphant moment when she made one of the nuns laugh.
Family life was dominated by the presence of her elderly and often confused grandmother. Her book also features her brothers and boyfriends, and glimpses of her instinct to perform.
Initially Julie went into nursing, but soon found a way to follow her long-cherished dream to become an actress. Training in Manchester was followed by a period at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool and West End success followed.
Julie details her friendship and working partnership with Victoria Wood and the unexpected early success of her first film, Educating Rita, which took her to the world of Hollywood and the Oscars ceremony.
The memoir concludes with meeting her husband, Grant, in a bar in Fulham where, fuelled by champagne, she invited him home to fix her washing machine. Just under two years later, their daughter, Maisie, was born.
Reader/Julie Walters, Producer/Jill Waters
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Woman's Hour Drama –
The Whole Of The Moon Ep 1/5
Monday 29 September to Friday 3 October
10.45-11.00am BBC RADIO 4
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The Whole Of The Moon is a legal drama set in Edinburgh about an ambitious legal prosecutor.
Jo Ross is a young, bright, witty prosecutor who excels at her job. She has strongly held and occasionally blinkered views on right and wrong. Her private life is messy as she has an on-off relationship with a fellow prosecutor whose marriage has come apart at the seams, but her boss thinks she has the ability to go to the very top of her profession.
But everything changes when there's a death in her family. At the funeral, as the mourners disperse, Jo's attention is caught by a woman who seems out of place.
This leads her into an investigation that changes Jo's views on good and evil for ever, as she delves into the dark heart of the city and the secret history of her own family, helped by Iain Rae, an untidy, overweight and wine-stained legal-aid defence lawyer.
Jo is played by Vicki Liddelle and Steven McNicoll plays Iain. The cast also includes James Bryce, Robin Laing, Eliza Langland, Wendy Seager, Simon Tait and Paul Young.
Producer/Patrick Rayner
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Brain Of Britain 2008 Ep 1/17
Monday 29 September
1.30-2.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Over the next four months, 48 contestants from across the UK and from all walks of life will compete for the title of Brain Of Britain 2008. The eventual winner will join a list of 56 general knowledge champions that, down the years, has included some of the most highly respected quiz players in the country.
The questions are designed to test the broadest possible spread of general knowledge. There are no hiding places, no lifelines, no "get out of jail" tactics and the winner will be the contestant who answers the most questions correctly.
Chairman Robert Robinson brings his familiar and inimitable style to the 2008 series, honed over decades of consummate quiz-mastering on television and radio.
Presenter/Robert Robinson, Producer/Paul Bajoria
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Sentences Ep 1/5
Monday 29 September to Friday 3 October
3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4
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Sentences is a collection of five stories written by people whose lives have been profoundly affected by prison.
Novelist Patrick Gale was brought up in Wandsworth Prison, where his father was Governor; as a child Casper Walsh visited his inmate father and was briefly a prisoner himself – now he is a part-time lecturer in residence at Parc Prison; and the three other authors are all serving prisoners.
The Writers In Residence In Prison Scheme has been running since 1992 and has established more than 100 residencies in the last 16 years. Writing offers an invaluable contribution towards providing people with life skills.
From revolutionary Havana to a childhood bedroom, from an unusual form of imprisonment to a fairytale, Sentences demonstrates the power of prison upon people's imagination and the energy of those imprisoned to create and connect beyond their gaols.
Readers include Lindsay Duncan, Finty Williams and Emily Watson.
Producer/David Roper
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
A
German Hero
Monday 29 September
8.00-8.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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At the end of this year Hollywood will take on one of the most sensitive issues in German history. In a new film, Valkyrie, Tom Cruise plays Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg, who tried to kill Hitler in the 1944 bomb plot. The Hollywood hype will give one version of the story. But what about its impact within Germany, where the making of the film has already set off an intense debate? Some are delighted that the story of Stauffenberg and resistance to Hitler will be given such huge international prominence. Others can't identify with an aristocratic officer as their symbolic hero, and fear such Hollywood treatment distorts a much subtler sense of what the resistance to Hitler really was.
A German Hero locates all this in what has been an extraordinary outpouring of films, media and other debates within Germany recently, as taboos are discarded and the debate about the past takes new forms for new generations. Dramatic TV documentaries on wartime subjects regularly attract multi-million audiences in Germany. And German as well as international directors speak of finding new emotional devices with which to engage younger audiences. But is this all about discovering hidden history, or fulfilling an emotional need?
As well as discussing the film itself, the programme hears from those heavily involved in today's debate about the resistance, and visits locations such as the place where Stauffenberg plotted and the prison where many of his co-conspirators were killed.
Producer/Chris Bowlby
BBC News Publicity
The Learning Curve Ep 1/8
Monday 29 September
8.00-8.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Libby Purves hosts a new series of The Learning Curve – BBC Radio 4's weekly specialist education programme, covering the wide world of learning, and broadcast live every Monday night.
This series will cover all ages from nursery school toddler-tagging to freshers' weeks for elderly undergraduates.
Presenter/Libby Purves, Producer/Sukey Firth
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 29 September 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Monday 29 September
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE |
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Mark Saggers presents all the day's sports news plus, from 8pm, the Monday Night Club. Mark and guests, including John Motson, discuss and debate footballing issues.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Francesca Bent
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 29 September 2008 |
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Nemone
Monday 29 September
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC |
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Nemone is joined by supermodel Erin O'Connor who talks about the forthcoming BBC Two series British Style Genius.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombers
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Monday 29 September
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe plays sessions from Suede in 1992 and Late Of The Pier, with concert highlights from Echo And The Bunnymen recorded for the BBC at Summer Sundae.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
6 Music Plays It Again –
Who's Who: Keith Moon Ep 1/2
Monday 29 September
12.00-12.30am BBC 6 MUSIC |
As the current line-up of The Who group 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 themselves and the other members of the group. Over the next two evenings it's the turn of Keith Moon, who died in 1978. The series concludes with Roger Daltrey on Wednesday.
Presenter and Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 29 September 2008 |
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Arun and Vinnie discover setting up sheesha pipes isn't as easy as it looks, as the Asian drama continues. An accident with hot coals leads Arun to worry about whether they will be ready to open on Wednesday.
Elsewhere, Kuljit is worried that Mani might pull out of his investment in the studio – it seems Mani is only interested in Jodie.
Later, Vinnie checks Mani is still keeping a low profile. They must keep Mani away from the restaurant or risk their illegal sheesha lounge being exposed.
Arun is played by Naithan Ariane, Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Mani by Kaleem Janjua and Jodie by Vineeta Rishi.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 29 September 2008 |
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Is Al-Qaeda Winning? Ep 1/4
Monday 29 September
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Seven years into the global "war on terror", is al-Qaeda winning? It's a deceptively simple question, one BBC World Service has asked in Riyadh, Peshawar and Baghdad, London, Brussels and Washington. The series opens with a look at
al-Qaeda's problem with civilian casualties and asks whether the West is doing better at winning Muslim hearts and minds.
The series begins with a man who has recruited fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq explaining the organisation's global goals. This rare interview is followed by an exploration of why some radical imams and al-Qaeda sympathisers are turning against the organisation because of the number of civilians it has killed.
Owen Bennett-Jones moves from Jordan to West Point, where scholars study captured al-Qaeda documents for clues.
He shares the results of a BBC global opinion poll about
al-Qaeda and meets ostensible US allies in Europe and Pakistan who believe America's "war on terror" is doing more harm than good.
Presenter/Owen Bennett-Jones, Producer/Neal Razzell
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