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| BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 5 October 2008 |
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Good Morning Sunday
Sunday 5 October
7.00-9.00am BBC RADIO 2
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Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to tenor Jonathan Ansell, former member of G4.
Jonathan recently performed in BBC Radio 2's Lyrics By Don Black concert, which marked the 70th birthday of lyricist Black, and can be heard this Friday evening performing Evermore Without You from The Woman In White in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Birthday In The Park.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson
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Elaine Paige On Sunday
Sunday 5 October
1.00-2.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Elaine Paige talks to American actor and singer Brent Barrett in this week's programme.
Brent is no stranger to the stages of Broadway and the West End. He made his Broadway debut as Tony in the revival of West Side Story, and later appeared on Broadway as Billy Flynn in the hit show Chicago. Most recently, he played the lead in the Las Vegas production of The Phantom Of The Opera. British audiences will probably know him best from his Olivier Award-nominated performance in Cole Porter's Kiss Me, Kate.
Brent picks as his Essential Musicals; Sunday In The Park With George (Broadway 1984), The Sound Of Music (Broadway 1959), Kiss Me, Kate (Broadway 1948) and Chicago (Broadway 1975).
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Johnnie Walker
Sunday 5 October
4.30-6.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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American singer-songwriter and musician Jackson Browne joins Johnnie Walker this afternoon.
Browne talks to Johnnie about Time The Conqueror, his first collection of new material in six years, and his 13th studio album.
Jackson, whose world tour will reach the UK in March 2009, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 by fellow artist and good friend, Bruce Springsteen. And in 2007 he was inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame.
His hits include Doctor My Eyes, Running On Empty, Lawyers In Love and Somebody's Baby.
Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Natasha Costa-Correa
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Sunday Half Hour
Sunday 5 October
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Brian D'Arcy celebrates harvest with a selection of well-loved hymns in this week's Good Morning Sunday.
Music is provided by the Ardwyn Singers, directed by David Michael Leggatt. The organist is Janice Ball and hymns include We Plough The Fields And Scatter, For The Beauty Of The Earth and Come Ye Thankful People Come.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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| BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 5 October 2008 |
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Private
Passions – John Burnside
Sunday 5 October
12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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 Michael Berkeley talks to John
Burnside Michael Berkeley's guest today is the Scottish poet and novelist John Burnside. He began his career as a computer software engineer, but has been a freelance writer since the late Nineties and now teaches at the University of St Andrews. John published his first collection of poetry in 1988, and many of his seven subsequent collections have won prestigious awards, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award.
John is also a prolific novelist, exploring the darkness, loss and violence that lurk beneath the surface of everyday life. His novel The Devil's Footprints was shortlisted for the 2008 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. His most recent novel, Glister, is set in a desolate post-industrial landscape where semi-feral children roam the ruins of an abandoned chemical works.
John's musical Private Passions are more consoling. They include sacred vocal music by John Sheppard and Handel, reflecting his religious upbringing; a Bach Partita for solo keyboard, played by Glenn Gould; Tippett's Fantasia Concertante on a theme of Corelli; an Indian raga played by Nikil Banerjee on the sitar; and Miles Davis's Time After Time.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Chris Marshall
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Drama On 3 – Tulips In Winter
Sunday 5 October
8.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 3
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Radical philosopher Baruch Spinoza influenced many great modern thinkers and cultural figures, from Wittgenstein and Einstein to George Eliot, Somerset Maugham and Jorge Luis Borges. Spinoza's pantheism continues to influence environmental theory and he remains a crucial part of liberal and cultural history in the West. Despite his influence, very little is generally known about the man himself. Acclaimed playwright Michelene Wandor's new play imagines a world in which Spinoza rubs shoulders with the painter Rembrandt (Timothy Spall), and is courted by one of Cromwell's diplomats George Downing (John McAndrew) as a potential spy.
Spinoza was born in Amsterdam, a Sephardic Jew. Excommunicated from the Jewish community due to the extremity of his views on the nature of God and the immortality of the Soul, he was never allowed back into the fold. Tulips In Winter explores the death of his father, a merchant, and his new job as a lens grinder, which leads to a deadly plot against him.
Ben Meyjes plays Spinoza with Angela Pleasence as the Angel, Timothy Spall as Rembrandt and Gabriel Woolf as Spinoza's father. The cast also includes Philip Voss, David Horovitch, John McAndrew and Struan Rodger.
Producer/Jo Wheeler
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Sunday Feature
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Hark: An Acoustic Archaeology Of Elizabethan England
Sunday 5 October
9.30-10.15pm BBC RADIO 3 |
Celebrated Canadian producer Chris Brookes and British feature-maker Alan Hall sift the sound-worlds of two contemporary English environments in search of evidence of the vivid aural landscapes inhabited by Shakespeare and Elizabeth I. Caliban in The Tempest described England thus: "the isle is full of noyses,/Sounds, and sweet aires, that give delight and hurt not". Chris and Alan go on a journey of discovery and imagination to the 400-year-old soundscapes of the south bank of the River Thames (home to The Globe) and the castle estate at Kenilworth, Warwickshire (site of the 1575 Revels for Elizabeth). Their journey reveals a better understanding of the subtleties of language, the nuances of human relations and the physiological, psychological and philosophical significance of sound both then and in our own age.
The programme also features expert contributions from bell-ringer Simon Meyer, Shakespearean voice coach Stewart Pearce, historian Elizabeth Goldring, retired river-man Gordon Dickens, acoustic archaeologist Bruce Smith and musician Anthony Rooley.
Producers/Alan Hall and Chris Brookes
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Jazz Line-Up
Sunday 5 October
11.30pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Tonight's Jazz Line-Up comes from the 2008 Three Choirs Festival, held this year at Worcester Cathedral and featuring Acoustic Triangle in concert.
Acoustic Triangle is taking its musical exploration of inspiring buildings to new heights this year. The acclaimed trio, joined by six world-class string players including the Sacconi String Quartet, is touring the UK's cathedrals and abbeys in a celebration of the marriage between inspiring architecture and sound. Award-winning composers Tim Garland and Gwilym Simcock have penned new music for the tour and, in 15 unique three-dimensional performances, musicians will appear from all directions – their sounds resonating, merging and developing.
The nine players are: Malcolm Creese (double bass), Tim Garland (bass clarinet, saxophones, flute), Gwilym Simcock (piano, French horn), Ben Hancox, Hannah Dawson, Charlotte Scott and Emma Parker (violin), Robin Ashwell (viola) and Cara Berridge (cello).
Tonight's Jazz Line Up is the only broadcast of this unique tour.
Presenter/Claire Martin, Producer/Keith Loxam
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| BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 5 October 2008 |
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Desert Island Discs
Sunday 5 October
11.15am-12.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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This week, Kirsty Young's guest is opera director David McVicar, one of the brightest stars on the operatic stage.
As a child, growing up in a lonely and unhappy Glasgow household, opera offered an escape. David borrowed records from libraries and watched every production on television he could. He says he absorbed so much of it that now it's virtually impossible for him to direct an opera he doesn't know, somewhere in his memory he'll know the entire score.
David tells Kirsty about his unhappy childhood and how, as an adult, he continues to struggle to control his anger. He is open about being HIV positive and speaks movingly about his partner and how much his relationship has given him a sense of contentment.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
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The Experiences Of An Irish RM Ep 1/2
Sunday 5 October
3.00-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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When the affable, if somewhat foolish, Major Sinclair Yeates leaves the British Army and opts to become a Resident Magistrate in turn-of-the-century Ireland, he has no idea what adventures await him.
As he tries to get on with his job, he finds the locals are out-thinking and out-manoeuvring him every step of the way. He plods on, trying his very best to do his job, but finds himself frustrated by a people whose every waking moment seems dedicated to thwarting the poor man.
The Experiences Of An Irish RM stars Alex Jennings as The Irish RM and Mark Lambert as Flurry Knox. Other cast members include Marion O'Dwyer, Cathy Belton, John Hewitt, Ingrid Craigie and Miche Doherty. The Experiences Of An Irish RM was dramatised by Christopher Fitz-Simon.
Producer/Eoin O'Callaghan
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Book Club
Sunday 5 October
4.00-4.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Recorded at the Bath Festival of Children's Literature, former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo is October's guest on Bookclub.
Set just after the second World War, Alone On A Wide, Wide Sea tells the story of six-year-old Arthur Hobhouse, an orphan from Bermondsey in London, who's transported to Australia in 1947 to find a new home, which turns out to be a farm run by the cruel "Piggy" Bacon.
Morpurgo was inspired to write Alone On A Wide, Wide Sea by the real-life stories of English orphans transported to Australia after the second World War; and the book's title is taken from a line in The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner.
James Naughtie chairs the discussion, and a group of readers, which includes children and young adults, ask the questions.
Presenter/James Naughtie, Producer/Dymphna Flynn
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 5 October 2008 |
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The Gabby Logan Show
Sunday 5 October
10.00am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 5 LIVE |
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Gabby Logan presents a mix of chat and comment on the week's big news, sports and entertainment stories, as well as pitting the biggest news and sport stories of the week against each other in the weekly duelling panel show, News v Sport.
Joining Gabby this week is Oscar and BAFTA-winning actress Dame Helen Mirren.
Presenter/Gabby Logan, Producer/Rosie Seed
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5 Live Sport
Sunday 5 October
5.30-7.45pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE |
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Live commentary from the Premier League’s early evening kick-off between Blackburn and Manchester United comes from Ewood Park, plus the conclusion of Rugby League’s Super League Grand Final.
Presenter/Eamonn Holmes, Producer/Anna Stewart
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| BBC LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Sunday 5 October 2008 |
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Football
Sunday 5 October
2.55-5.00pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Uninterrupted live commentary comes from one of the afternoon's top matches in the Barclays Premier League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 5 October 2008 |
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The Music Week
Sunday 5 October
1.00-2.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC |
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Julie Cullen and Matt Everitt report live from Manchester's In The City music conference. Plus, in a series celebrating the anniversaries of some of the UK's best-loved labels, attention is turned this week to home of the Arctic Monkeys, Domino records.
Presenters/Julie Cullen and Matt Everitt, Producer/Roman Tagoe
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Huey
Morgan
Sunday 5 October
2.00-3.30pm BBC 6 MUSIC |
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New Yorker Huey Morgan, lead singer of the Fun Lovin' Criminals, makes his radio presenting debut on BBC 6 Music. Continuing the 6 Music trend of lead singers presenting shows about the music they're passionate about (like Bruce Dickinson and Guy Garvey), Huey brings listeners a delicious slice of his very own Big Apple soundtrack.
With his motto "if it's cool, I'll play it", Huey's eclectic musical mix promises to span disco, soul, rock, rap, latino and more. Throw in the occasional special guest and Huey has the perfect recipe for laid-back Sunday afternoons on 6 Music.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Simon Barnard
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6 Music's
Dance Anthems With Dave Pearce
Sunday 5 October
8.00-10.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC |
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radio show to BBC 6 Music Dave Pearce brings his cult radio show to a new crowd with a special BBC 6 Music twist. Promising to be "the ultimate wind down to the weekend", Dave's new show plays the best of house music spanning the last 20 years alongside the tunes that are wowing the crowds on the dance floors today. Dave puts house music and his celebration of UK club culture firmly on the 6 Music agenda.
Presenter/Dave Pearce, Producer/Mick Meadows
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone
Sunday 5 October
5.30-8.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC |
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The Freak Zone welcomes 24-year-old Mancunian jazz trumpeter/composer Matthew Halsall to the studio for a live session, ahead of the release of his debut LP.
Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Producer/Henry Lopez-Real
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Guy Garvey's Finest Hour
Sunday 5 October
10.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC |
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Listeners are invited to join Mercury Award-winning Elbow front man Guy Garvey for what could be his finest hour. He plays tunes old and new and regales listeners with tales of his showbiz pals. The programme also features "Beckypedia" – music trivia for the music trivia lover – and listeners can help introduce Guy to tunes he may never have heard before by emailing the show during "A song for Guy".
Presenter/Guy Garvey, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Sunday 5 October
12.00midnight-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC
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Bob Dylan takes Radio as his theme this week. His selections include Cool Disc Jockey by Lloyd Bennett and His Rockets; This Is Radio Clash by The Clash; Disc Jockey Blues by Luke Jones and His Orchestra; and Border Radio by the Blasters.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Frank Wilson
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Sunday 5 October 2008 |
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The Forum
Sunday 5 October
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 sociologist Frank Furedi and Professor of Russian economics Marshall Goldman.
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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