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Ken Bruce
Monday 13 October
9.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 2
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Colin Blunstone of The Zombies selects his Tracks Of My Years all this week, revealing his favourite music and the reasons behind his choices.
Among the songs on his list are It's Late by Ricky Nelson, Superstition by Stevie Wonder, Nina Simone's Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood and The Isley Brothers' This Old Heart Of Mine.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Jools Holland Ep 3/13
Monday 13 October
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Jools Holland is joined this week by singer Paul Carrack.
Paul talks about his long and varied musical career, which includes working with Ace, Roxy Music, Squeeze (Paul replaced Jools on keyboards for the band's 1981 East Side Story album and sang lead vocals on their biggest hit, Tempted), Mike and The Mechanics and solo releases.
Jools also plays tracks from his eclectic record collection and, in Demo Corner, showcases early recordings by some of the world's finest singers.
Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Choo Choo Ch'Boogie –
The Louis Jordan Story Ep 2/4
Monday 13 October
11.30pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2 |
Clarke Peters continues to tell the fascinating story of the life of Louis Jordan.
Jordan started out playing alto sax with the big band of Chick Webb, singing alongside Ella Fitzgerald, but he wanted to lead his own outfit. In the second programme of this four-part series, Clarke looks at how Jordan and his Tympani Five, a band he formed in 1938, created jump-jive music, the feel-good small band sound that bridged the swing era with R&B.
Presenter/Clarke Peters, Producer/Terry Carter
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 3 Monday 13 October 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Monteverdi Ep 1/5
Monday 13 to Friday 17 October
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Donald Macleod travels to Venice to walk in Monteverdi's footsteps for this week's Composer Of The Week.
In today's opening programme Donald makes his way, via the Grand Canal and the famous Campanile, to the composer's workplace, the Basilica di San Marco, where he speaks to the current vice maestro di capella Justine Rapaccioli – the first woman to occupy the position in the 700 years of the choir's existence. Donald talks to her about music-making in the basilica then and now. The music comes from Monteverdi's epoch-making Vespers Of The Blessed Virgin, which dates to 1610, and his deeply personal Sixth Book Of Madrigals.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Barstow
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The Essay – From Russia With Love
Monday 13 to Friday 17 October
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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This week, in The Essay, five writers examine the passions that led them to embark upon life-long relationships with the enigmatic nation of Russia. In today's specially commissioned Essay, theatre director Declan Donnellan talks about working in Russian theatre and reflects on the unexpected discoveries he made while working with Russian artistes.
The rest of this week's Essay
is a repeat from the original broadcast of this series. The other
writers featured in the series include: Simon Franklin, Head of
Slavonic Studies at Cambridge University; journalist and author
Vanora Bennett; writer, broadcaster and journalist Lesley Chamberlain;
and historian and writer Simon Sebag Montefiore.
Producer/Sasha Yevtushenko
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Jazz On 3 – The Sonny Simmons Quartet
Monday 13 October
11.15pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Jez Nelson presents a gig by the Sonny Simmons Quartet recorded earlier this month at London's Vortex jazz club.
Born in Louisiana, Simmons moved to New York via Los Angeles to join the emerging free jazz movement of the Sixties. His albums, Staying On The Watch and Music From The Spheres, are now considered classics. But his story took a tragic twist – after his marriage broke down in the mid-Seventies, he dropped out of music and began drinking and taking drugs. After 15 years of playing on the streets of San Francisco, he was rediscovered and made a come-back in 1994 with his album Ancient Ritual. He has since recorded several well-received albums as a leader.
Although Simmons does not limit himself purely to avant-garde strains of jazz, his role in the development of the tradition is vital, having worked with musicians such as Eric Dolphy and Sonny Rollins. His current UK quartet features Derek Saw on trumpet and trombone, John Jasnoch on guitar and oud and Charlie Collins on drums and cajon.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Robert Abel
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 4 Monday 13 October 2008 |
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Book Of The Week – The
Age Of Wonder Ep 1/5
Monday
13 to Friday 17 October
9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4 |
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Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of the 18th century, in his ground-breaking new biography The Age Of Wonder – read, in this week's Book Of The Week, by Douglas Hodge.
The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, stepping onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, hoping to discover Paradise. Many other voyages of discovery swiftly follow, including the fantastical first balloon flights and the discoveries of the chemist Humphry Davy, who went on to establish British chemistry as the leading professional science in Europe.
Holmes, who introduces the series, also explores the startling impact of discovery on great writers and poets, such as Mary Shelley, Coleridge, Byron and Keats. With his trademark sense of the human drama, he shows how great ideas and experiments are born out of lonely passion, how scientific discoveries (and errors) are made, how intense relationships are forged and broken by research and how religious faith and scientific truth collide. The result is breathtaking in its originality, its story-telling energy and, not least, in its intellectual significance for the contemporary reader.
Reader/Douglas Hodge, Producer/Jill Waters
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Letters To Myself
Monday 13 October
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4
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Letters To Myself is a feature made up of letters people have written to themselves, to be opened years later when they are older and wiser.
Writing a letter to oneself may sound a bizarre activity but, for many people, it is an essential way of making sense of their lives. Like a diary, the letter is a place to document intimate dreams, deepest worries, magical moments and blackest moods. But, unlike a diary, which remains a memento from the past, the letter comes to life again when it is opened – with questions and advice from you to you.
Letters To Myself follows a group of young adults as they open letters that they wrote to themselves years ago as school leavers. Listeners can eavesdrop on a child writing a letter to be opened when she's moved to secondary school and hear sample letters that have been sent to a website which acts as a temporary library for people's correspondence to their selves.
Producer/Sandhya Suri
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Afternoon Play – Swimming
Around Ireland
Monday 13 October
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4 |
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Badly injured in a traffic accident, Steven's physiotherapy sessions haven't been going well and he has grown depressed and despondent. Keen to motivate him, his physiotherapist Cate decides to try some hydrotherapy in the pool. But the first session goes badly and, unable to move his leg, Steven grows increasingly frustrated. "Its not as if I'll ever swim around Ireland, is it?" he cries.
Cate, however, has an idea to prove that Steven can do just that. For every move or kick Steven makes in the pool, they'll travel 10 kilometres around Ireland, plotting their progress on a map. And so begins an unusual journey of imagination and discovery as Steven and Cate set out to "swim" around Ireland.
Martin Meenan, a regular contributor on BBC Radio Foyle, has written four series of Baldi for Radio 4. His previous work includes the short film Everybody's Gone and stage plays All In The Head and The Last Ghost Dance.
Steven is played by Michael Colgan with Dawn Bradfield as Cate. The cast includes Kieran Lagan and John Hewitt.
Producer/Heather Larmour
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Cheltenham
Literature Festival Readings
Booker 40 Selection Ep 1/5
Monday 13 October
3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4
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The Man Booker Prize is 40 years old this autumn and, to mark the anniversary, BBC Radio 4 broadcasts five pieces of new writing performed on stage at the Cheltenham Literature Festival by its Booker prize-winning guests.
The five writers, among Britain's finest writers of prose fiction, span more than two decades of the Booker prize. They are John Banville (author of winning novel The Sea in 2005), Graham Swift (Last Orders, 1996), Penelope Lively (Moon Tiger, 1987), DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, 2003) and Ben Okri (The Famished Road, 1991).
Producer/Sara Davies
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Traveller's Tree Ep 1/8
Monday 13 October
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Traveller's Tree returns for a new series as Katie Derham steps in as host.
Retreats, holistic holidays, spa and life-coaching breaks – there are many names for the rapidly growing phenomenon known as the "wellbeing holiday". In the first edition of the new series, listeners discover why the idea of a holiday that is both a mental and spiritual restorative has become so popular. Alain de Botton, author of The Art Of Travel, offers some possible explanations.
There's also a report from listener Kevin Osborne on a life-coaching holiday in the Picos mountains of northern Spain, and the programme hears from participants of a therapeutic singing weekend in Somerset.
Dr Susan Horsewood-Lee, an expert on spa therapies, explains what to expect from those holiday treatments and programmes of detox and Caroline Sygle, author of Body And Soul Escapes, is in the studio to share her expertise.
Presenter/Katie Derham, Producer/Susan Marling
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Life After Tom
Monday 13 October
8.00-8.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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On an October morning last year, Claire Prosser's life changed for ever. Her eldest son Tom, a bright and funny 14-year-old, died suddenly from an undiagnosed heart-related condition during the night.
Clare was devastated. As a BBC journalist, she began to appreciate the real meaning of words she'd written so many times, words like "tragedy, anguish, heart-broken..."
Life After Tom charts Claire's first year without her son, and explores the process of re-building after the unimaginable has happened.
After "the first two weeks of utter shock... the funeral... the hearse led by a friend's Ferrari at 100mph up the M40..." it was the mundane tasks that were the hardest for Claire: "Taking my daughter to the dentist when the last time I went I took two kids not one... cancelling Tom's tennis club subscription..."
But as the months passed, Claire has acquired a new life, very different to the one she led before. "I now have counselling twice a week, go singing, swimming, have a massage with a healer who tells me that Tom wants me to get a dog – it's a shame Paul (Claire's husband) is allergic to them..."
And Tom's death didn't just change Claire. It fundamentally changed many people's responses to her too.
Presenter/Claire Prosser, Producer/Linda Pressly
BBC News Publicity
Through The Looking Glass
Monday 13 October
9.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Edi Stark explores the impact of a little-known eye condition, undiagnosed and untreated, which is blighting the lives of thousands of adults and children in the UK. Binocular Instability affects up to 20 per cent of the population and Through The Looking Glass investigates the seeming lack of action from the Department Of Health to tackle this hidden disability.
New research reveals that Binocular Instability is an underlying problem in thousands of children in the UK, many of whom have been misdiagnosed with learning disabilities including dyslexia and dyspraxia. The true cause of these problems is a lack of binocularity, which means that the sufferer's eyes don't converge at precisely the same point. The effect is to make reading and looking at a screen incredibly tiring. Binocular Instability is easily detected by a simple test and cured by a short course of treatment and corrective glasses. But the condition can't be picked up in a standard eye test, and there are fewer than 100 optometrists in the UK qualified to spot it.
Sufferers are plagued with severe headaches and a lack of self esteem as a result of being excluded from normal learning processes. Edi explores the devastating impact on the lives of sufferers and asks why the Chief Medical Officer in England continues to ignore the problem.
Presenter/Edi Stark, Producer/Amanda Hargreaves
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 13 October 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Monday 13 October
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents all the day's sports news and is joined at 8pm by John Motson, Ian McGarry and Paul Elliot for The Monday Night Club, discussing the latest football developments. From 9.30pm, there is a more in-depth discussion with Paul Elliot about the anti-racism Kick It Out campaign.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Steve Houghton
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 13 October 2008 |
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George Lamb
Monday 13 October
10.00am-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Hailing from Athens, Georgia, rather than Canada, Of Montreal have been purveyors of indie pop for more than 10 years. Currently on tour to promote their latest album, the band pops in to talk to George Lamb ahead of their only London gig.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Nemone
Monday 13 October
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Nemone talks to one of the founders of the physical art of free running, Sebastian Foucan, who has appeared in Bond movie Casino Royale and showcased his talents in Madonna's video for Hung Up.
The video of the week comes from CSS and Nemone catches up with the man behind it, director Keith Schofield.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Monday 13 October
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe presents sessions from American songwriter Tanya Donelly, concert highlights from The Smiths, captured at the height of their career at the Manchester Apollo, and folk-tronica man Adem, recorded especially for the BBC at the 2006 Summer Sundae Festival.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
6 Music Plays It Again – The Look of Love:
The New Romantics Ep 1/6
Monday 13 to Thursday 16 October
12.00-12.30am BBC 6 MUSIC
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There's another chance for listeners to hear this series first broadcast in 2001, as ABC vocalist Martin Fry recalls the heady days of the New Romantic movement.
Presenter/Martin Fry, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 13 October 2008 |
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Is Al-Qaeda Winning? Ep 3/4
Monday 13 October
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Seven years into the global war on terror, is al-Qaeda winning? BBC World Service has asked this deceptively simple question in Riyadh, Peshawar, Baghdad, London, Brussels and Washington.
Owen Bennett-Jones tests the big promises governments have made about the financial war on terror, in the penultimate episode of the series. Is money really al-Qaeda's "lifeblood" or "oxygen"? He speaks to leading officials at the US Treasury and the UN Security Council's al-Qaeda and Taleban monitoring committee, and learns how al-Qaeda continues to raise, move and spend money with relative ease.
Presenter/Owen Bennett-Jones, Producer/Neal Razzell
BBC World Service Publicity
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