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| BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 15 October 2008 |
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Mike Harding
Wednesday 15 October
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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This week's programme features an interview with John Spiers and Jon Boden from the award-winning folk big band Bellowhead.
Spiers and Boden formed the 11-piece group four years ago and have since been recognised as best live act at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards a record three times. Their critically acclaimed debut album was one of the biggest-selling folk albums of 2006 and 2007 and led to appearances on BBC Two's Later ... With Jools, at the Royal Opera House and the Cambridge Folk Festival.
From established talent to burgeoning new talent, Mike updates listeners on the six acts who have progressed to the final of this year's Radio 2 Young Folk Award, following the semi-final selection process in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Trevor Nelson
Wednesday 15 October
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Trevor Nelson hosts another hour of the best in soulful music.
Trevor's Album Of The Week is R&B trio Lucy Pearl's self-titled debut, released a year after the supergroup was formed in 1999 by Raphael Saadiq, formerly of Tony! Toni! Tone!, along with Dawn Robinson from En Vogue and Ali Shaheed Muhammad from A Tribe Called Quest.
The album combines the live instrumentation of soul, with the sampling and DJ-ing techniques of hip hop, creating lush backing tracks for Saadiq and Robinson's vocal performances. With additional collaborators Snoop Dog and Q-Tip also featuring on the album, it is no surprise that Lucy Pearl went on to sell more than a million copies world-wide.
Tonight's playlist also includes tracks by Barry White, Aretha Franklin and Robin Thicke, while Your Jam features another listener dedication.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Ollie Embden
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 15 October 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Monteverdi Ep 3/5
Monday 13 to Friday 17 October
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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On top of his day-job at the Basilica di San Marco, Monteverdi was in huge demand throughout Venice as a composer and music director. In today's programme, Donald Macleod explores the composer's lucrative "extra-curricular" activities, and visits two venues where he is known to have directed performances – the Dandolo Palace (now the Danieli Hotel), and the Church of St John the Almsgiver near the Rialto Bridge. He also finds time to drop in to the historic Marciana Library where he talks to David Bryant, director of music research at the Cini Foundation, about the extraordinary quantity and diversity of Venetian music-making in Monteverdi's day.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Barstow
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Afternoon On 3 – Summer Festivals
Wednesday 15 to Friday 17 October
2.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Afternoon On 3 continues its two-week celebration of the rich variety of music festivals that took place over the summer in Europe and North America. The fortnight takes in around 24 different countries, with choral music, chamber, large orchestral and early music all represented.
Starting today is a complete performance of Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in a bold production from the 2008 Bayreuth Festival by 29-year-old Katharina Wagner, the composer's great-grand-daughter. Each day, for the next three days, there is a chance to hear one act from 2pm. The cast includes Franz Hawlata as Hans Sachs and the Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra is conducted by Sebastian Weigle.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Elizabeth Funning
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Performance On 3 –
BBC National Orchestra Of Wales
Wednesday 15 October
7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Live from Swansea's Brangwyn Hall, Jac Van Steen, Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, leads music inspired by two great mythical tales, one Greek one Welsh.
Stravinsky's edgy neo-classical Oedipus Rex is the perfect vehicle for the ritualistic drama, driving the action forward as Sophocles's hero searches for the cause of the curse on Thebes, with the inevitable realisation that he is the contagion and has fulfilled the fate that he would kill his father and marry his mother.
James Gilchrist is Oedipus and Susan Bickley is Jocasta. The cast also includes Timothy Robinson, Neal Davies, Darren Jeffery, Stephen Richardson and Philip Madoc.
Gutu Puw's ...onyt agoraf y drws takes its inspiration from the closing section of the Branwen tale from the Welsh folk legend the Mabinogion, a group of warriors who have been allowed to feast for 80 years without any memories of their past ordeals – just so long as they don't open the forbidden door.
Presenter/Tom Service, Producer/Brian Jackson
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 15 October 2008 |
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Afternoon Play – The Letter
Wednesday 15 October
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Sometimes letters go missing. They can be sent to the wrong address and simply put to one side. So what happens when a letter suddenly turns up 50 years after it was first posted? Surely, whatever the revelations, its contents cannot shake the bedrock of a marriage. Or can they?
The cast includes Anne Reid, Ian Lindsay, Joanna David, Ellie Beaven, Patrick Kennedy and Leanne Rowe.
Wendy Oberman is a journalist and novelist and was a founding member of London Films. She dramatised PS I Love You and wrote the serial Conversations With My Bailiff for radio and is currently working on various screenplays.
Producer/Gemma McMullan
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 15 October 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Wednesday 15 October
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents full live commentary of the 2010 World Cup qualifier between Belarus and England from the Dinamo Stadium in Minsk.
There will also be regular updates from the evening's other World Cup qualifiers, including Germany v Wales, Northern Ireland v San Marino and the Republic of Ireland v Cyprus.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Mark Williams
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
606
Wednesday 15 October
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Tim Lovejoy presents the UK's biggest football phone-in, discussing the action from this evening's World Cup qualifiers.
Fans can watch the debate on interactive digital TV via the Red button, and give their views to Tim by phone 0500 909 693 (free from BT landlines), text 85058 at network rates or email 606@bbc.co.uk
Presenter/Tim Lovejoy, Producer/Patrick Campbell
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Wednesday 15 October 2008 |
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Football
Wednesday 15 October
7.35-9.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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BBC Sport presents full uninterrupted commentary of the 2010 World Cup qualifier between Northern Ireland and San Marino live from Windsor Park, Belfast.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 15 October 2008 |
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George Lamb
Wednesday 15 October
10.00-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Canadian band The Dears talk to George and play live tracks from their latest album in the 6 Music Hub.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Nemone
Wednesday 15 October
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Nemone chats to Robert Harvey, singer of Leeds band The Music.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Wednesday 15 October
9.00-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe's selection of concert highlights tonight come from Scottish group Del Amitri and a recent set from And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead. There's also a 1991 session by Meat Puppets recorded especially for John Peel. And finally Folk Implosion featuring Sebadoh man Lou Barlow.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 15 October 2008 |
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The My Lai Tapes Ep 1/2
Wednesday 15 October
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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There's another chance to hear this documentary about the My Lai massacre, presented by American military journalist, Robert Hodierne, himself a Vietnam veteran.
Forty years ago, as many as 500 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were killed by US soldiers. It became known as the "My Lai" massacre and proved to be a turning point in the Vietnam War.
For a year after My Lai, the rapes and murders were covered up. Much of what is known thereafter came from the widely publicised court martial of Lieutenant William Calley in 1970/71. He was the only man ever found guilty of any offences at My Lai. But the massacre was much more than the actions of a few rogue individual soldiers. It was carefully planned and a high body count was the main aim.
Before Calley's trial, The US Army itself held its own investigation into the massacre. The inquiry heard evidence behind closed doors inside the Pentagon from December 1969 to March 1970. Over 14 weeks, Lieutentant General William Peers and his panel took statements from 403 witnesses: soldiers, senior officers, chaplains, journalists and Vietnamese civilians. The findings of the investigation, which amount to some 400 hours of tape, were so uncomfortable for the US Military that they were classified and suppressed until now.
The tapes of the Peers Inquiry prove that US soldiers raped and killed hundreds of civilians in not just one, but three villages that day. They prove that two companies – not only the infamous Charlie Company – were involved. They show how badly trained and ignorant of the laws of war many of the young soldiers were and prove that orders "to leave nothing alive" came from senior officers. The Peers Inquiry's key recommendations about the training of soldiers fighting insurgents and the responsibility of leaders in wartime issues, still have huge resonance today in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Presenter/Robert Hodierne, Producer/Rosie Goldsmith
BBC World Service Publicity
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