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| BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 19 October 2008 |
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FAITH
IN THE WORLD
Good Morning Sunday
Sunday 19 October
7.00-9.00am BBC RADIO 2 (Copy amended 7 October)
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BBC Radio 2 explores the reasons why people believe in God or a higher spiritual power in this year's Faith In The World week.
In the 2001 Census, 15% of the British population reported having no religion, while The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins has sold over a million copies and sparked debate about whether God exists and why people feel the need to believe in the divine.
From Sunday 19 to Sunday 26 October, Radio 2 broadcasts a range of programmes aiming to shed light on what belief is, including interviews, opinion and music, and featuring believers and non-believers.
Faith In The World Week kicks off today with Good Morning Sunday, presented by Roger Royle. Philosopher Julian Baggini and Sarah Joseph, Editor of emel, the Muslim lifestyle magazine, discuss belief and non-belief. Music comes from a Gospel Choir, whose members talk about their attraction to this religious music even though they don't believe.
Presenter/Canon Roger Royle, Producer/Hilary Robinson
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Elaine Paige On Sunday
Sunday 19 October
1.00-2.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Miss Barbara Cook is Elaine Paige's special guest this week as she continues to celebrate the best of Broadway, Hollywood and the West End.
In a candid and intimate interview recorded at her home in New York, Barbara talks to Elaine about her remarkable career on Broadway, including her Broadway debut in the Yip Harburg, Fred Saidy and Sammy Fain musical Flahooley.
Their journey through her career also takes in 1955's Plain And Fancy – Cook's first major Broadway hit; the Leonard Bernstein musical Candide, which ran for just 73 performances in 1956; 1957's The Music Man, in which Cook played Marion, the librarian, and introduced the song Till There Was You; and her disappointment when she didn't win the same part in the 1962 film version.
Barbara recalls the musicals The Gay Life (1961), She Loves Me (1963) and The Glass Harp (1971), after which she withdrew from Broadway for many years. Elaine also asks Barbara about her long-time partnership with arranger Wally Harper, which resulted in Cook's iconic Disney Album.
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Johnnie Walker
Sunday 19 October
4.30-6.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Mick Fleetwood chats to Johnnie Walker this week about celebrating 40 years of the original Fleetwood Mac by hitting the road with his new band, The Mick Fleetwood Blues Band.
Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Natasha Costa-Correa
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FAITH IN THE WORLD
Sunday Half Hour
Sunday 19 October
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Faith In The World continues as Brian D'Arcy plays a selection of hymns exploring some of the issues featured in this week-long initiative. Music comes from the Royal School of Church Music Summer Course in Durham. The Musical Director is Matthew Owens and the organist is David Goodenough.
Hymns include Breathe On Me Breath Of God, Jesus The Very Thought Of Thee and In Heavenly Love Abiding.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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| BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 19 October 2008 |
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Private
Passions – Peter Kosminsky
Sunday 19 October
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Michael Berkeley's guest today is British film director Peter Kosminsky, renowned for his cutting-edge TV films and documentaries. He began his career at the BBC, working as a director on Nationwide and Newsnight, before joining Yorkshire TV in 1985 as producer/director for the First Tuesday series, which included the award-winning The Falklands War – The Untold Story and Cambodia: Children Of The Killing Fields.
Since 1995, he has worked as a freelance, making controversial dramas such as No Child Of Mine, about child abuse, and The Government Inspector, about the suicide of weapons inspector Dr David Kelly following the invasion of Iraq. His most recent TV drama was Britz, about two young Muslim siblings, one of whom becomes a suicide bomber while the other joins MI5.
Peter's earliest musical memory is sitting with his grandfather and listening to Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony. His affection for Elgar's Cello Concerto also dates from his childhood. Other choices include Philip Glass's The Photographer; Jocelyn Pook's Oppenheimer, which inspired him to ask Pook to compose the music for The Government Inspector; Mozart's Requiem, which is his favourite piece of music; and Bruch's Kol Nidrei.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Chris Marshall
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The Early Music Show
Sunday 19 October
1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Lucie Skeaping presents highlights of a concert given earlier this year at the York Early Music Festival by the Choir of New College Oxford under their director, Edward Higginbottom. It was recorded in St Michael-le-Belfry, a church just by York Minster.
The concert, entitled Royalty In Exile, reflects the Festival's theme, Exiled – Music In A Strange Land, and features music written for performance at royal chapels in foreign lands, including works by Purcell, Matthew Locke and Francois Couperin.
Today's programme also includes a feature which looks at a group of Italian musicians led by Innocenzo Fede, who worked at James II's court at Whitehall.
Presenter/Lucie Skeaping, Producer/Rebecca Bean
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Discovering Music
Sunday 19 October
5.00-6.30pm BBC RADIO 3
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Charles Hazlewood looks at Tchaikovsky's musical responses to the 18th century.
Tchaikovsky often longed for the charm and simplicity of this earlier time and, occasionally, this found its way into his music. Tchaikovsky's music seems to embody the romantic passions and storms of his age, but the composer himself often took solace reflecting idealistically on the sensibilities of the 18th century, and in particular his beloved Mozart.
Charles teams up with the BBC Philharmonic and cellist Robert Cohen for a look at two of Tchaikovsky's 18th-century inspired works: The Rococo Variations and the orchestral suite Mozartiana.
Presenter/Charles Hazlewood, Producer/Chris Wines
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Sunday Feature – Byzantium
Sunday 19 October
8.00-8.45pm BBC RADIO 3
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Byzantium's thousand-year-long civilisation, from the fourth to the 15th century, had a profound influence on the eastern Mediterranean, the Balkans and Western Europe. Over this period, an audacious and resilient society combined orthodox Christianity with paganism, and classical Greek learning with Roman power, to produce a great and creative civilisation that made possible Europe's transition to the modern world. In this illuminating Sunday Feature, Professor Judith Herrin, one of the country's leading Byzantium scholars, visits Istanbul to trace the little-known history of Byzantium and explore the crucial role it played in the development of Europe.
Professor Herrin reveals that Byzantium was an active and creative civilisation whose legacies include an imperial system of government built upon a trained, civilian administration and tax system; a legal structure based on Roman law; a unique curriculum of secular education; and a glorious tradition of craftsmanship and imagery that continues to inspire orthodox communities throughout the world. Crucially, its ability to defend itself and its capital during the chaotic but creative period that followed the collapse of the Roman Empire in the West means that without Byzantium, there would have been no Europe.
Presenter/Judith Herrin, Producer/Sara Davies
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Drama On 3 – Black Watch
Sunday 19 October
8.45-10.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Today's Drama On 3 is another chance to hear this radio version of the National Theatre of Scotland's award-winning theatre production. Hurtling from a pool room in Fife to an armoured wagon in Iraq, Black Watch is based on interviews conducted by the play's author, Gregory Burke, with former soldiers who served in Iraq. Viewed through the eyes of those on the ground, the play reveals what it means to be part of the legendary Scottish regiment, and to be part of the war on terror. The play contains strong language.
The cast includes Ali Craig, Emun Elliott, Paul Rattray, Brian Ferguson, Ryan Fletcher, Peter Forbes, Paul Higgins and Jordan Young, with original music composed by Davey Anderson.
Producer/David Ian Neville
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Jazz Line-Up
Sunday 19 October
11.30pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Jazz Line-Up visits the sixth Scarborough Jazz Festival where the BBC Big Band, conducted by Barry Forige, play at the Grand Hall, Spa Complex.
Claire Martin presents the programme, which features a performance from Clare Teal. A student of the organ, piano and clarinet, Clare studied music at the University of Wolverhampton before entering a national competition to find the country's best Billie Holiday "sound-alike": "Don't ask me why they wanted to find a sound-alike when the original still sounded perfectly good to me," she says, "but I came second."
Clare now has a host of awards behind her, such as BBC Jazz Awards Best Vocalist for 2006 and British Jazz Vocalist of the Year 2005 and 2007. She also hosts Big Band Special on BBC Radio 2.
Producer/Keith Loxam
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| BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 19 October 2008 |
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Desert Island Discs
Sunday 19 October
11.15am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Kirsty Young's guest is Academy Award-winning American songwriter and composer Randy Newman.
As a recording artist, Newman is widely recognised for pop songs such as Sail Away, Mama Told Me Not To Come and You Can Leave Your Hat On. Many of his songs have been covered by artists such as Joe Cocker, Tom Jones, Etta James, the Everly Brothers, Dusty Springfield and Nina Simone.
Initiated into the Songwriter's Hall of Fame in 2002, Newman has flourished as a film composer. His film scores include Ragtime, The Natural, Toy Story, Meet The Parents and Seabiscuit, as well as the animated Pixar films A Bug's Life; Toy Story 2; Monsters, Inc; and Cars.
Newman received 15 Oscar nominations without a single win before his unlucky streak was broken when he won the Oscar for Best Song in 2001 for Monsters, Inc. song If I Didn't Have You, beating the likes of Enya and Paul McCartney.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
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Robinson
Crusoe And His Farther Adventures Ep 1/2
Sunday 19 October
3.00-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4 |
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Tim McInnerny stars as Robinson Crusoe in a vivid and surprising new, two-part adaptation for BBC Radio 4's classic serial of Daniel Defoe's famous story – and its lesser-known sequel.
The bearded man who discovers a footprint in the sand and encounters cannibals is a well-known character, but what about his adventures in the frozen North fighting off the Tartars? Daniel Defoe's novel is one of the great enduring adventure stories, but few people know anything about its less famous sequel. The narrative encompasses conflict, danger, and the joys of both isolation and companionship. It's the story of one man's journey through the world and his search to discover his own happiness.
The new dramatisation, which deftly captures both the humour and bravado of the originals, weaves both books together. The story begins in Siberia, with Crusoe travelling home after a second lengthy absence. Crusoe and his companions are barricaded in the Siberian woods and under attack from the Tartars, who are closing in as the night progresses. To allay his companions' fears as they huddle round their crackling campfire, Crusoe recounts stories of his many adventures, and of life on his beloved island.
Defoe deals with the place of religion in society, the nature of empire and war and the problems of loneliness and loss – but above all he tells a fascinating adventure story set in the pioneering 17th century. Sony Award-winning dramatist Andy Barrett turns it into a feast for radio – a fast-moving entertainment with surprises at every turn.
The cast stars includes Tim McInnerny, Ben Onwukwe, Jonathan Tafler, David Timson, Alison Pettitt, Mark Carey, Stephen Critchlow, Sam Graham and Adrian Grove.
Producer/Peter Leslie Wild
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 19 October 2008 |
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Formula One
Sunday 19 October
7.45-9.30am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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David Croft, Maurice Hamilton and Holly Samos present uninterrupted live commentary of the penultimate race of the Formula One season, the Chinese Grand Prix, from the Shanghai International Circuit.
Presenters/David Croft, Maurice Hamilton and Holly Samos, Producer/Jason Swales
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The Gabby Logan Show
Sunday 19 October
10.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Gabby Logan presents a mix of chat and comment on the week's news, sports and entertainment stories, as well as pitting the biggest stories of the week against each other to decide which had the most impact in the weekly duelling panel show, News v Sport.
Presenter/Gabby Logan, Producer/Rosie Seed
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5 Live Sport
Sunday 19 October
12.00-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Eleanor Oldroyd presents an afternoon of live sport, plus reports and reaction from the morning's Chinese Grand Prix.
From 1.15pm there is live commentary of the Sheffield derby as Wednesday take on United at Hillsborough in the Coca-Cola Championship.
At 3pm there is live commentary of the Barclays Premier League clash between Hull City and West Ham United from the KC Stadium, and from 5pm second-half commentary of Stoke v Tottenham from the Britannia Stadium, plus updates from the Edinburgh derby as Hearts play Hibernian in the Clydesdale Scottish Premier League.
Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Haydn Parry
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Sunday 19 October 2008 |
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Rugby Union
Sunday 19 October
12.55-2.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Listeners can hear live and uninterrupted commentary on the Pool One match between Sale and Munster in the Heineken Cup.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 19 October 2008 |
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The Huey Show
Sunday 19 October
2.00-3.30pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Huey Morgan comes back for more with the second outing of his new radio show. Playing an eclectic mix from his own record collection, Huey gives listeners an insight into his musical tastes with a few anecdotes thrown in for good measure.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Simon Barnard
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Stephen Merchant
Sunday 19 October
3.30-5.30pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Singer Cerys Matthews takes the reigns of Stephen Merchant's show for one week only.
Cerys first hit the headlines in the mid Nineties while fronting the band Catatonia. They had a string of Top 10 singles and two No. 1 albums before parting in 2001. Cerys uprooted to start a family in Nashville, eventually returning to music via a solo career. In 2007 she reached a wider audience by venturing into the jungle on ITV's I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.
Today Cerys plays two hours of the music she loves from all eras and genres.
Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producers/James Stirling and Claire Slevin
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone
Sunday 19 October
5.30-8.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Among the usual Freak Zone fare, Stuart plays an archive session from Stereolab.
Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Producer/Henry Lopez-Real
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Sunday 19 October
12.00midnight-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC
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Bob Dylan takes Drinking as his theme this week. His song choices include tracks by John Lee Hooker, Loretta Lynn and The Clovers.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Frank Wilson
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