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| BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 16 October 2008 |
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Bob Harris Country
Thursday 16 October
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Harris is joined by roots rocker John Mellencamp, whose career has spanned more than 30 years, produced hit singles such as Jack And Diane and Hurts So Good, and seen him inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.
John's latest album moves him away from heartland rock and into the realms of atmospheric folk and country blues. Entitled Life, Death, Love And Freedom, it is produced by T Bone Burnett, the man behind Robert Plant and Alison Krauss's Mercury-nominated album, as well as the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, which was credited with helping start the current bluegrass revival.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Thursday 16 October
11.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Dylan turns to the subject of locks and keys, playing an eclectic mix of tracks and chatting about Harry Houdini, St Peter, chastity belts, piano keys and safe-breaker Jimmy Valentine along the way.
Tonight's music includes Lock And Key by Bessie Smith, Unlock The Door by Jimmy Nelson, Key To The Highway by Little Walter and You're Bound To Look Like A Monkey by Milton Brown & His Musical Brownies.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Phil Hughes
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| BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 16 October 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Monteverdi Ep 4/5
Monday 13 to Friday 17 October
12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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All of the music in this week's penultimate edition of Composer Of The Week is associated with a single day – 21 November 1631. On this day, Venice celebrated deliverance from the plague which had wiped out one third of its entire population, and Monteverdi's music provided the soundtrack.
Donald Macleod tells the story of the plague and visits the church that Venice built to celebrate its end – Santa Maria della Salute took more than 50 years to complete, but now stands as one of the city's most iconic symbols.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Barstow
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Performance
On 3 –
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Thursday 16 October
7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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 Sir Simon Rattle conducts
Sibelius's Fifth Liverpool-born conductor Sir Simon Rattle returns to the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, where he was once Assistant Conductor, to conduct the first symphony he ever performed with the Orchestra, Sibelius's mighty Fifth.
The pale Nordic colours that glimmer in Sibelius's score find an excellent balance in two extracts from Wagner's epic drama of Norse legend, The Ring (Siegried's Rhine Journey and Siegried's Funeral Music), while the world première of Australian composer Brett Dean's Songs Of Joy, commissioned by The Liverpool Culture Company for 2008, is sung by baritone Peter Coleman-Wright.
Presenter/Tom Service, Producer/Brian Jackson
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 16 October 2008 |
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With Great Pleasure
Thursday 16 October
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Literary editor and memoirist Diana Athill shares the rich pickings of a life spent among books with an audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival, in this week's edition of With Great Pleasure.
Born in 1917, Diana's Norfolk childhood was spent, as she puts it in her memoir, "riding out of doors and reading indoors". After studying English, she met André Deutsch during the Second World War and, together, they published a stunning list of writers, including VS Naipaul, Philip Roth, John Updike, Jean Rhys, Stevie Smith, Margaret Atwood and Brian Moore.
Extracts from some of their works rub shoulders with Chekhov, PG Wodehouse and Jane Austen's unfinished novel, The Watsons, in this fascinating programme.
Diana's notable 50-year career in publishing continued until she was 75 but, surprisingly, it was one that she fell into after her original plans for marriage and children fell through.
Producer/Mark Smalley
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 16 October 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Thursday 16 October
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Dan Walker presents all the day's sports news, plus a review of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers with David Pleat.
From 8pm, there are reports on Team GB's Olympic and Paralympic medallists' parade of honour in London from earlier in the day.
Presenter/Dan Walker, Producer/Ben North
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Thursday 16 October 2008 |
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Formula One
Thursday 16 October
3.00-4.30am BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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BBC 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary in the early hours of Friday morning on the first practice session of the Chinese Grand Prix from the Shanghai International Circuit.
Producer/Jason Swales
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 16 October 2008 |
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George Lamb
Thursday 16 October
10.00am-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Self-confessed folktronica pioneer James Yuill performs live in the BBC 6 Music Hub.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Thursday 16 October
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe raids the archives once again and plays a Fleetwood Mac concert recorded at The Paris Theatre for BBC Radio in 1970. He also finds a South By South West concert recording from The Brakes and session tracks from Grandaddy from 2006.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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