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Network Radio

Highlights of the week


Week 42 11-17 October 2008


  Fearne Cotton is at London's Hammersmith Apollo for the first-ever live event for BBC Switch

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BBC SWITCH
Radio 1's Official Chart Show With Fearne And Reggie

Sunday 12 October on BBC RADIO 1

Fearne Cotton hosts the first-ever live event from multi-platform teen brand BBC Switch, at London's Hammersmith Apollo, featuring headline acts Fall Out Boy and Miley Cyrus
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Remember A Day – Richard Wright In His Own Words
Saturday 11 October on BBC RADIO 2

BBC Radio 2 presents the story of Richard Wright's days in Pink Floyd, In His Own Words
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Early Music Show
Saturday 11 October on BBC RADIO 3

Lucie Skeaping investigates the intriguing murder of famed Baroque composer Jean-Marie Leclair
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Opera On 3 – Eötvös: Love And Demons
Saturday 11 October on BBC RADIO 3

The London Philharmonic Orchestra and Glyndebourne Festival Chorus are conducted by Vladimir Jurowski in this world première performance of Peter Eötvös's new opera, based on a Gabriel Garcia Marquez's novella
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Baghdad Headbangers
Saturday 11 October on BBC RADIO 4

Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda reveal their hopes and dreams while living as refugees in Turkey
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Elaine Paige On Sunday
Sunday 12 October on BBC RADIO 2

Legendary composer Burt Bacharach is Elaine Paige's guest this week
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Drama On 3 – The Duchess Of Malfi
Sunday 12 October on BBC RADIO 3

Roy McMillan's new adaptation of this iconic Jacobean play stars Sophie Okonedo
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Cheltenham Literature Festival Readings –
Booker 40 Selection

Monday 13 October on BBC RADIO 4

BBC Radio 4 broadcasts new writing by John Banville, Graham Swift, Penelope Lively, DBC Pierre and Ben Okri, to mark the 40th anniversary of the Man Booker Prize
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Fabulous
Tuesday 14 October on BBC RADIO 4

Fabulous wannabe Faye returns to BBC Radio 4 in search of further self-improvement, in this second series starring Daisy Haggard and written by Lucy Clarke
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Performance On 3 – Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Thursday 16 October on BBC RADIO 3

Liverpool-born conductor Sir Simon Rattle returns to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra to conduct Sibelius's Fifth
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