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| BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 2 October 2008 |
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Bob Harris Country
Thursday 2 October
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Harris is joined this week by Old Crow Medicine Show, who perform in session.
The band marries punk attitude and old-time string music. Their third album is produced by Don Was (Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones), who describes the band as "The Clash of bluegrass music".
Old Crow Medicine Show first got together in New York in 1998, and spent time travelling across Canada and the States playing for food and shelter, like a wandering medicine show of the late 1800s. They settled in the Smoky Mountains of North Carolina where they immersed themselves in old mountain string music. Whilst playing outside a pharmacy they were approached by a woman who brought her father over to listen to them. He turned out to be legendary folk guitarist Doc Watson, and they were invited to play at MerleFest, America's premier bluegrass festival, which is hosted by Watson. Since then, they've released three albums, opened for major country acts including Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn and built up a fan base including Emmylou Harris and Norah Jones.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Thursday 2 October
11.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Dylan looks under a few stones as he takes Classic Rock as his subject for this week's Theme Time Radio Hour.
Tracks featured in Bob's eclectic mix of music include Third Stone From The Sun by Jimi Hendrix; Rolling Stone by Muddy Waters; and Sticks And Stones by Ray Charles.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/Phil Hughes
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 2 October 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week –
Charles Mingus Ep 4/5
Monday
29 September to Friday 3 October
12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Donald Macleod explores Mingus's masterpiece, Black Saint And The Sinner Lady, which was completed in the wake of a disastrous retrospective concert at the Town Hall in New York in 1960. He is joined by Mingus's biographer, Brian Priestley, for this penultimate episode in the week-long exploration of the life and work of the great bassist and composer.
Mingus's Town Hall concert in October 1960 was meant to be a celebratory retrospective but ended up a fiasco, with music being copied out for players in front of the stage as the concert progressed, and much of the audience walking out as they didn't realise it was taking the form of an open recording session. It culminated in Mingus's trial for third-degree assault the following year, as in the build-up of pressure preceding the concert, Mingus punched trombonist Jimmy Knepper in the mouth, ruining his embouchure.
Out of the ashes of this low-point in his career came the recording of Black Saint And The Sinner Lady, Mingus's monumental masterpiece, which was very unusual for the time in that the basic material was scored but the final work was created in edit. Uniquely, too, Mingus invited his psychologist, Dr Edmund Pollock, to write the liner notes.
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 – Hallé Orchestra
Thursday 2 October
7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Mark Elder conducts the Hallé Orchestra in Elgar's Enigma Variations, as well as Vaughan Williams's Fantasia On A Theme Of Thomas Tallis and George Butterworth's evocative A Shropshire Lad, in this evening's Performance On 3.
A great friend of Vaughan Williams, Butterworth was killed in the Somme four years after composing his beautiful and darkly pastoral orchestral rhapsody, inspired by AE Housman's celebrated poems.
The Orchestra is also joined by star violinist, and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Janine Jansen for Barber's richly romantic Violin Concerto.
The concert was recorded last week in Manchester's Bridgewater Hall, and presented by Martin Handley. It is followed by a performance from a leading amateur orchestra, the London Contemporary Chamber Orchestra, as part of Radio 3's Play To The Nation season.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Rebecca Bean
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Night Waves – Landmark
Thursday 2 October
9.15-10.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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It is now 150 years since the publication of Gray's Anatomy, one of medicine's iconic texts and the subject of this evening's Landmark.
The book was the brainchild of Henry Gray, whose interest in the subject was kindled by his study of the endocrine glands and the spleen. This work led to his appointment in 1853 as a lecturer at St George's Hospital Medical School in London. Two years later, he suggested to a colleague that they produce an anatomy text book for their students and, in 1858, the first edition appeared. Since then, there have been a further 39 editions of the book and it is now a part of any aspiring doctor's training.
In tonight's programme, Isabel Hilton and her guests discuss the book's creation, its charismatic author, who died at the age of 34, and the impact of the anatomy on medical history and generations of doctors.
Presenter/Isabel Hilton, Producer/Zahid Warley
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 2 October 2008 |
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Scraps Of Bacon
Thursday 2 October
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Scraps Of Bacon investigates the rumours suggesting that artist Francis Bacon gave away works of art to settle outstanding debts.
Novelist James Maw turns investigator to uncover the truth about Bacon – a "bon viveur", gambler and inveterate drinker who ran up enormous bills in the drinking dens of Soho. Maw, who met Bacon in Soho in 1983, tries to track down some of Bacon's works of art and unravel the stories behind them.
Among those he hears from are the owners of the now defunct Wheeler's Oyster Bar, where Bacon amassed such huge debts that he painted rare special commissions in lieu of payment. Bacon's electrician was another lucky beneficiary of the artist's largesse.
Padding the streets of Soho, Maw searches for the waiters, drinkers and tradesmen to whom the great painter was drawn. The programme also uncovers sides of Bacon which, until now, have rarely been glimpsed.
Producer/Laurence Grissell
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Afternoon Play – O Margate
Thursday 2 October
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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O Margate is Annie Caulfield's comedy about high art, low lives and the triumph of the human spirit, and is today's Afternoon Play offering.
Margate is trying to reinvent itself – out with decayed former gentility and asylum seekers, and in with the new Turner Gallery and a new wave of visitors to make the seaside town chic again.
But an asylum seeker's protest looks set to scupper the town's genteel aspirations.
Aisha is funny, outspoken, down-to-Earth and unexpected. She's an Algerian woman, an artist – the Tracey Emin of the Arab world – who finds herself in Margate waiting to see if she will be granted asylum in Britain. Her paintings have outraged Muslim sensibilities in her own country and led to attempts on her life.
Carol runs the bed and breakfast where Aisha lives. She makes sure her tenants get up and go out during daylight hours to save on fuel. But the weather is freezing, all the tenants are ill and Aisha gets short shrift when she asks if they can stay indoors.
At an open meeting, Aisha protests about the way asylum seekers are treated, but no one wants to listen to her account of injustice. Aisha decides to take direct action, drawing her reluctant housemates into a sit-in that puts them on the front pages of the local papers.
The play introduces Leila Farzad as Aisha and stars Ashvin-Kumar Joshi as Saleh, Nadia Williams as Penny, Helen Longworth as Carol and Steven Critchlow as Alan.
Producer/Mary Ward Lowery
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Dirk
Gently's Holistic Detective Agency –
The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul Ep 1/6
Thursday 2 October
11.00-11.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Harry Enfield returns as Dirk Gently, Douglas Adams's Holistic Detective, who has fallen on hard times and, dressed as a gypsy woman, is using his irritatingly accurate clairvoyant powers to read palms.
Gently is saved when a frantic client turns up with a ludicrous story about being stalked by a goblin waving a contract, and accompanied by a hairy, green-eyed, scythe-wielding monster.
When Detective Superintendent Gilks decides a headless body found in a sealed room is the result of a particularly irritating suicide, Dirk is plunged into a mystery where the inter-connectedness of all things is tested to the limit. Ancient gods sign contracts with advertising executives, Heathrow airport is struck by a freak indoor global-warming incident, a canned-drinks machine claims to be under a curse and Kate Schechter finds herself stalked by Thor The God Of Thunder.
This is the second of three series adapted from the Dirk Gently books, directed by Dirk Maggs, chosen by Douglas Adams to conclude the award-winning Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Guest stars include Peter Davison (Doctor Who), Jan Ravens (Dead Ringers), Philip Jackson (Poirot), John Fortune (Bremner, Bird & Fortune), Morwenna Banks (Absolutely), Stephen Moore (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) and returning cast members Olivia Colman (Peep Show), Jim Carter (The Golden Compass) and Billy Boyd (The Lord Of The Rings).
The series is based on The Long Dark Tea-Time Of The Soul, by Douglas Adams, and dramatised by Dirk Maggs with John Langdon.
Producer/Jo Wheeler
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 2 October 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Thursday 2 October
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers introduces live coverage of the Uefa Cup first round, second-leg matches, including Standard Liege v Everton and Wisla Krakow v Tottenham.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Graham McMillan
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 2 October 2008 |
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Steve Lamacq
Thursday 2 October
4.00-7.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Steve Lamacq's edition of Roundtable today features Geoff Travis, head of indie label Rough Trade, on the eve of their 30th anniversary. Geoff, alongside other special guests, gives his verdict on some of today's latest musical releases.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Gary Bales
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Thursday 2 October
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe plunders the BBC archives and revisits REM at the Royal Albert Hall, recorded for BBC Radio in March 2008, and a classic 1991 Evening Session from Swervedriver.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 2 October 2008 |
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Sway and Nadia have an Eid meal with Zak, as the Asian drama continues. Sway offers to pick dessert up from Pumpworks but walks in on a bitter argument between Jodie and Mani. Sway persuades Mani to leave and stays for a chat with Jodie.
Meanwhile, Nadia wonders where Sway has got to. When he finally turns up, Nadia isn't in the best of moods, so Zak leaves them to it. Nadia isn't angry for long though. She has good news to share...
Sway is played by Mark Monero, Nadia by Sohm Kapila, Zak by Jetinder Summan, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi and Mani by Kaleem Janjua.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Thursday 2 October 2008 |
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One Planet –
Animal Migration In A Climate Of Change Ep
3/4
Thursday 2 October
10.30-11.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE |
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Mac, the African elephant, travels each year between Kruger National Park in South Africa and the private nature reserves which have been created to preserve animals and habitats of the region. Until relatively recently, reserves have been fenced and elephants have not been allowed to make their traditional journeys to find water, or, in Mac's case, to wander in search of a mate.
Now that the fences are down in many places, for the first time for decades, elephants can resume their traditional journeys. Biologists are following Mac's migration with keen interest, because the experience in South Africa could be a template for elephant management in other parts of Africa.
With location reports from Mac's "follower", scientist Michelle Henley, plus experts in elephant behaviour and management, Brett Westwood explores the future for elephants such as Mac in a continent where people and animals are often in conflict.
Presenter and Producer/Brett Westwood
BBC World Service Publicity
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