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| BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 30 September 2008 |
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BBC RADIO 2's GUITAR SEASON
Dazed And Confused – The Led Zeppelin Story
Tuesday 30 September
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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BBC Radio 2's Guitar Season continues with another chance to hear Johnnie Walker's profile of the quintessential heavy-rock band, Led Zeppelin, which was recorded before the surviving members reunited to rock London's O2 Arena last December.
The documentary features contributions from musicians including Franz Ferdinand, Ash and Tori Amos.
BBC Radio 2's Guitar 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.
BBC One will broadcast Imagine – The Story Of The Guitar in the autumn.
Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Ben Moody
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| BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 30 September 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Charles Mingus Ep 2/5
Monday 29 September to Friday 3 October
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Donald Macleod continues his exploration of the life and music of Charles Mingus with the help of Mingus's biographer, Brian Priestley, and looks at his music in the late Fifties and the factors affecting his composing – from gospel influences to working relationships with his band mates.
Mingus said of his Haitian Fight Song: "It could just as well be called Afro-American Fight Song. My solo in it is a deeply concentrated one. I can't play it right unless I'm thinking about prejudice and hate and persecution, and how unfair it is..."
The first version was recorded in December 1955, the same month that Martin Luther King initiated the civil rights struggle in Alabama. Beyond politics, Mingus's music during the late Fifties was especially influenced by his volatile working relationships, reflected in the ever-changing line-ups of his band – sometimes mid-set. Though there were key collaborators throughout his career with whom he found empathy and instinctive communication on the bandstand, occasionally band members suffered violence – from being pelted with onions to a punch in the face. Mingus also took out his frustrations on club owners and even audiences, whom he'd encourage and, sometimes, harangue, to listen.
The late Fifties was also a time when he was writing words as well as music, beginning his remarkable autobiography, Beneath The Underdog, and collaborating with poet and novelist Langston Hughes.
An edited podcast of all five episodes is available from Friday afternoon.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Megan Jones
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Performance On 3 –
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Tuesday 30 September
7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Latvian-born Andris Nelsons is the newly-appointed Music Director of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and, here, he conducts his inaugural concert. The programme consists of three appropriately youthful orchestral showpieces: Wagner's Rienzi Overture; Bartók's The Mirculous Mandarin; and Berlioz's great Symphonie Fantastique.
Like Andris Nelsons himself, Berlioz was still in his twenties when he wrote his outrageous symphony, and the young Wagner actually wrote his Rienzi Overture in Nelsons's home city of Riga. Bartok's thrilling ballet score was written when the composer was in his mid-thirties.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Kevin Bee
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Late Junction
Tuesday 30 September
11.15pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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BBC Radio 3's eclectic, award-winning music programme Late Junction is one of the few places on UK radio where listeners can hear early music, electronica, folk, contemporary classical, world music and jazz side by side – an unlikely but compelling mix of sounds from Gregorian chant to Radiohead via Bamako.
Verity Sharp's selections in this week's programme include the radiophonic stories of New York vocalist and composer Shelley Hirsch, polyphonic Italian folk from Gruppo Spontaneo Trallalero, instrumental music for strings by the 17th-century English composer John Jenkins and Scottish fiddle from John McCusker.
Presenter/Verity Sharp, Producer/Felix Carey
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| BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 30 September 2008 |
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Dreaming Of Toad Hall
Tuesday 30 September
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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One hundred years after the publication of Wind In The Willows, John O'Farrell returns to the Berkshire Thames riverbank to explore the symbolism and mysteries contained in the book.
Since its publication in October 1908, generations of adults and children have cherished Kenneth Grahame's classic, featuring Ratty, Mole, Badger and Toad Of Toad Hall.
Yet, despite their clear-hearted goodness, the stories contain powerful messages reflecting Grahame's flight into fantasy and a prescient analysis of a changing society.
Grahame never let go of the ideal of childhood, and his personal life was bound up with the irrepressibly boyish characteristics of his writing.
The birth of his only child Alastair, in 1900, was a crucial and far-reaching disappointment of Grahame's life. Alastair was born prematurely with a congenital cataract in his right eye, in which he was completely blind, and a severe squint in the other. His disability was a crisis too grave for his parents to face. Nicknamed "Mouse", by the time he was four, Alastair would lie in the road whenever he heard a car approach.
Drawing on the original letters between Alastair and Kenneth, which are now in the Bodleian Library, and letters to Grahame from Alastair's nanny, John traces the development of the book and the complex relationship between the two central characters. Alastair killed himself by lying down in front of a train two days before his 20th birthday, after which Kenneth never published again.
Producer/Emily Williams
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Making History Ep 1/13
Tuesday 30 September
3.00-3.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Vanessa Collingridge returns with the history series which engages directly with listeners' passion for the past.
This series explores a wide range of historical stories including what is believed to be Britain's first guide to etiquette; confusing Coats of Arms from Cornwall; how Christianity arrived at a sixth-Century Warwickshire village; and The Heroine of Matagorda, the Florence Nightingale of the Napoleonic Wars.
Other programmes throughout the series investigate how strained labour relations in 19th-century Scotland led to a fishing disaster; one listener tries to discover if his home was once the court of a Welsh king; and another explains how building materials contain clues to the past.
Presenter/Vanessa Collingridge, Producer/Nick Patrick
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Am I Normal? Ep 1/4
Tuesday 30 September
9.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Vivienne Parry investigates if anger should be seen and treated as a mental health problem, in this new, four-part series.
Recalling recent outbursts of anger such as the row between Joan Rivers and Darcus Howe, and when reporter John Sweeney became enraged with a Scientologist on Panorama, Am I Normal? asks if these were displays of problem anger or appropriate outrage.
The Mental Health Foundation says: "In a society where people can get help for panic attacks, phobias, depression and anxiety it seems extraordinary that we are left to fend for ourselves when it comes to an emotion as powerful as anger.
"It's a tragedy that people only get help managing their anger when the courts order them to do so as part of a criminal sentence."
Vivienne discovers new research claiming that getting angry frequently is bad for the heart, and the risks it carries are on par with smoking or having high cholesterol.
For children, more often than not, angry behaviour results in school exclusion. But, in one state secondary school, anger management is taught to everyone, in hour-long classes and workshops, once a week.
Presenter/Vivienne Parry, Producer/Anna Buckley
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 30 September 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Tuesday 30 September
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers brings listeners live Uefa Champions League group stage match commentary from Arsenal v FC Porto, plus updates from Aalborg v Manchester United and Villareal v Celtic.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Haydn Parry
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606
Tuesday 30 September
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Danny Baker continues to bring 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 606@bbc.co.uk.
Presenter/Danny Baker, Producer/Patrick Campbell
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Tuesday 30 September 2008 |
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Football
Tuesday 30 September
7.40-9.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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BBC 5 Live Sports Extra brings listeners uninterrupted live commentary from one of the night's top games in the Coca-Cola Championship.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 30 September 2008 |
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Gideon Coe
Tuesday 30 September
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe once again delves deep into the archives and unearths some more of the best sessions and live sets recorded for the BBC.
Tonight he revisits Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, recorded at Indian Summer in 2007, and The House Of Love, recorded for BBC 6 Music's legendary hub sessions.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Tuesday 30 September 2008 |
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Shazia discovers her recently retired father has turned the house into an unofficial doctor's surgery, in today's visit to Silver Street. Dr Masud, however, is unfazed by Shazia's concerns and announces he has arranged a blind date for her.
Elsewhere, Sean begins to doubt Fran's motive for being in Silver Street, while Mani drinks heavily and accuses Fran of causing all the problems between him and Jodie. Sean tries to calm things down but who does he really believe?
Shazia is played by Shobu Kapoor, Dr Masud by Saeed Jaffrey, Sean by Lloyd Thomas, Fran by Colleen Prendergast, Mani by Kaleem Janjua and Jodie by Vineeta Rishi.
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Tuesday 30 September 2008 |
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World Book Club – Annie Proulx
Tuesday 30 September
3.30-4.00pm BBC WORLD SERVICE
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A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and a book of short stories are up for discussion when Harriett Gilbert meets Annie Proulx, in this edition of World Book Club.
Annie Proulx's 1993 novel The Shipping News is the winner of many awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the National Book Award. Her poetic collection of short stories, Close Range, contains the critically acclaimed Brokeback Mountain, which won three Academy Awards after being adapted as a film.
The Shipping News is set among the atmospheric fishing villages of the windswept Newfoundland coast. It's the story of Quoyle, a large, 36-year-old hack journalist, who resettles in his ancestral seaside home with his elderly aunt and two young daughters after his two-timing wife is killed in a car crash.
The stories in Close Range evoke the underbelly of America's Wild West. They tell of the lives of hardship and struggle lived by characters like down-on-their-luck ranchers, cowboys and workers striving to define themselves within the huge spaces and unyielding landscape of Wyoming.
World Book Club is a unique radio programme that brings readers from around the world together with their favourite writers. Every month, Harriett Gilbert invites a best-selling author to talk about the chosen work, give a reading from it, then throw themselves open to questions and feedback from a studio audience and readers world wide.
Since its launch in 2002, the World Book Club has hosted Nobel laureates Wole Soyinka, Orhan Pamuk, VS Naipaul and Doris Lessing as well as several Booker prize-winners, including Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro and Salman Rushdie.
Presenter/Harriett Gilbert, Producer/Karen Holden
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