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Good Morning Sunday
Sunday 28 September
7.00-9.00am BBC RADIO 2
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Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to the British classical singing quartet Blake.
Stephen Bowman, Jules Knight, Dominic Tighe and Oliver Baines have enjoyed rapid success since coming together through a social networking site back in 2007. Their version of Swing Low was chosen as the English team's anthem for the Rugby World Cup and, the following year, their self-titled debut album went to the top of the UK's classical chart and was named classical album of the year at the 2008 Classical BRITS.
Blake will be supporting Welsh songstress Katherine Jenkins on her UK Tour this December.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson
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Elaine Paige On Sunday
Sunday 28 September
1.00-2.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Elaine Paige heads back to the Fifties donning her "pink ladies" jacket for a special tribute to the hit musical Grease.
It's 30 years since John Travolta and Olivia Newton John enjoyed Summer Nights together, while Elaine herself played Sandy on the West End stage back in 1973.
Elaine discusses the enduring appeal of Grease with cast members from the current London production; Nicola Brazil (Sandy), Danny Bayne (Danny), Natalie Langston (Rizzo) and Stuart Ramsay (Kenickie). They all share their Essential Musicals selection while Nicola Brazil sings live in the studio.
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Sunday Half Hour
Sunday 28 September
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Brian D'Arcy introduces hymns about heaven with Chetham's School of Music recorded in Manchester Cathedral. The musical director is Martin Bussey and the organist is Geoffrey Woollatt.
Hymns include Christ Triumphant, All My Hope On God Is Founded and Blest Are The Pure In Heart.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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| BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 28 September 2008 |
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Private Passions – Jennifer Worth
Sunday 28 September
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Michael Berkeley's guest today is Jennifer Worth who, as a young woman, worked as a nurse, midwife and ward sister in London's East End from the early Fifties until 1973. She has recently written two books based on her experiences among the poorest sections of society, Call The Midwife, and Shadows Of The Workhouse. However, Jennifer's first love was, and still is, music. A Fellow of the London College of Music, she has also taught piano and singing for nearly 25 years, continues to play her piano everyday and sings in choirs all over England and Europe.
Her choices for Private Passions begin with Maria Callas singing Verdi – one of Jennifer's formative musical experiences was hearing Callas live at Covent Garden in the Fifties. Two of her choices relate to music she heard in Paris as a girl – the Russian Metropolitan Church Choir of Paris and Edith Piaf. She is also a fan of Janet Baker, who is heard singing Howells' King David, and of pianists Vladimir Horowitz (playing a Chopin nocturne), and Angela Hewitt (playing a Bach Prelude and Fugue). Jennifer's own choral experience is represented by Vivaldi's Gloria, while two other choices are drawn from folk music – the traditional Paraguayan harp (which she also plays), and a Hebridean folk song sung by Kenneth McKellar.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Chris Marshall
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Drama
On 3 –
Season Of Migration To The North By Tayeb Salih
Sunday 28 September
8.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 3
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Tayeb Salih's sensual and shocking thriller, Season Of Migration To The North, is dramatised by Philip Palmer for BBC Radio 3. First published in Arabic in 1966, this short novel was selected in 2001 by a panel of Arab writers and critics as the most important Arab novel of the 20th century.
A young man returns to his beloved home "on the bend of the Nile" after seven years studying in London. He is comforted to find that the traditional life of the village he loves hasn't changed at all, except for one thing. A mysterious stranger has married into the village. Soon, the stranger seeks out the young man with a tale that only a scholar can hear. But the telling of the tale will lead them into two brutally sexual murders and turn the idyllic world of their village into hell.
Tayeb Salih was born in the Northern Province of the Sudan in 1929 and studied at the University of Khartoum before leaving for the University of London. Except for a brief spell as a schoolmaster before coming to Britain, his working life has been in broadcasting. He has published four novels and a collection of short stories. He has spent the last decade working with Unesco in Paris.
Philip Palmer is a novelist, producer and screen and TV writer whose credits include The Many Lives Of Albert Walker, Rebus and The Bill. His extensive work for radio includes The King's Coiner, Rubato, The Travels Of Marco Polo and Gin And Rum.
Producer/Jonquil Panting
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Sunday Feature – The First War On Terror
Sunday 28 September
9.30-10.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Novelist Hari Kunzru, author of My Revolutions, investigates Britain's first ideological "war on terror" against anarchist bombers and explores its unusual literary impact.
A hundred years ago, anarchism was a fashionable radical philosophy in Britain with its idea that the state itself must be smashed, by violence if necessary. Politicians considered various measures to increase security, while novelists had a feeding frenzy on this exciting and dangerous idea. Hari's journey takes him from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich to a secret bomb-disposal dug-out in St James's Park. He explores the strange parallels with today – from fears about immigration to suspicion of neglected packages on public transport.
Perhaps the most famous and enduring work that this new and radical philosophy inspired was Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent, but there was also an entire genre of now-forgotten anarchist pulp fiction. Other novels revelled in anarchists assassinating anti-immigrant Home Secretaries or imagined terrible bombs on the underground. Bringing the programme up to date, Hari and literary scholars Laurence Davies and Deaglan O'Donghaile consider the modern literary response to 9/11 and ask whether novels about terrorism ever quite get it right.
Presenter/Hari Kunzru, Producer/Louise Yeoman
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Words And Music – Face
Sunday 28 September
10.15-11.30pm BBC RADIO 3
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The first thing a baby focuses on after it is born is the face of its mother. From then on, faces take on huge significance throughout our lives. We communicate our emotions through our faces, through our eyes and our lips. Through our noses we detect not just when it's time for dinner, but whether somebody is frightened, depressed or attracted to us. This week's Words and Music explores this uniquely human phenomenon, surveying all aspects of the face – beauty, youth, ugliness, love and fear.
Acclaimed actors Michael Maloney and Lesley Sharp read poems and texts by Shakespeare, Christina Rosetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and, extracts from Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. There's also music by George Gershwin, Thomas Ford, Thomas Ades, Dmitri Shostakovich, Benjamin Britten and George Michael.
Producer/Helen Garrison
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Jazz Line-Up
Sunday 28 September
11.30pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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This week, Jazz Line-Up comes from the 2008 Scarborough Jazz Festival. Now in its sixth year, this highly successful festival reflects the jazz scene mainly in the UK.
Recorded on 26 September at the Festival, singer Clare Teal performs with the BBC Big Band conducted by Barry Forgie.
Presenter/Claire Teal, Producer/Keith Loxam
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| BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 28 September 2008 |
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Desert Island Discs
Sunday 28 September
11.15am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Kirsty Young returns with a new series of Desert Island Discs. Her first guest is the Bafta-winning actress Miriam Margolyes.
Now 67, Miriam has more than 40 big-screen credits to her name – garnering much praise for her Nurse in Baz Luhrmann's production of Romeo And Juliet; winning a Bafta for her Mrs Mingott in Martin Scorsese's The Age Of Innocence and finding a younger audience as Professor Sprout in the Harry Potter films.
Yet despite her success, Miriam tells Kirsty that she feels her career has been too slight, she wanted to be tested more by it and, although she seems full of bravura, in reality she is simply a "scared little muffin".
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 28 September 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Sunday 28 September
12.00noon-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Eleanor Oldroyd and John Inverdale host all the day's sports news including, from 1pm, full live commentary from the Singapore Grand Prix with David Croft, Maurice Hamilton and Holly Samos. That will be followed by live Barclays Premier League commentary, starting at 2.30pm with the second half of Portsmouth's encounter with Tottenham, followed at 4pm by full, live commentary of Wigan Athletic against Manchester City.
Presenters/Eleanor Oldroyd and John Inverdale, Producer/Graham McMillan
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Donal MacIntyre
Sunday 28 September
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Every week Donal MacIntyre tackles hard-hitting investigations and astounding revelations.
To comment on the stories or to suggest a tip-off for an investigation, listeners can email: donal@bbc.co.uk. All information will be treated in complete confidence.
Presenter/Donal MacIntyre, Producer/Lynne Jones
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 28 September 2008 |
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The Music Week
Sunday 28 September
1.00-2.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Matt Everitt and Julie Cullen mark the 18th anniversary of Heavenly Records by chatting to one of the label's most successful acts – the twice Mercury-nominated Doves.
Presenters/Matt Everitt and Julie Cullen
Producer/Roman Tagoe
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Stephen Merchant
Sunday 28 September
3.30-5.30pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Presenter Stephen Merchant invites old-school indie popsters Saint Etienne on to the show to perform in session.
Presenter/Stephen Merchant, Producer/James Stirling
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Sunday 28 September
12.00midnight-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC
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This week's theme is dance and Bob Dylan's selections range from Dancing in the Street by Martha Reeves and the Vandellas to gems such as Jamaican rocksteady vocalist Delroy Wilson's Dancing Mood, When You Dance by The Turbans and Do You Wanna Dance? by The Ramones.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Frank Wilson
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Sunday 28 September 2008 |
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The Forum
Sunday 28 September
9.05-10.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Bridget Kendall hosts The Forum, BBC World Service's weekly discussion programme about ideas. In this week's edition she talks to epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani, Indian historian and biographer Ramachandra Guha and the US inventor Ray Kurzweil.
The Forum explores thoughts, theories, opinions and beliefs from around the world, providing opportunities for intellectual discourse and debate across national, social and cultural divides.
Presenter/Bridget Kendall, Producers/Emily Kasriel and Julian Siddle
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