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RADIO 1 Thursday 23 October 2008 |
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BBC Radio 1 continues its live coverage of the BBC Electric Proms 2008 as The Streets performs live at the Roundhouse in Camden, London.
The Streets' fourth album, Everything Is Borrowed, is an optimistic, typically idiosyncratic examination of religion, evolution and the nature of friendship.
Accompanied onstage by The Heritage Orchestra and a gospel choir, expect to see Mike Kinner grapple with the big themes and come up smiling.
On Sunday 26 October, BBC Radio 1 rounds up its live coverage of the BBC Electric Proms 2008 with iconic rock 'n' roll band Oasis, performing live at Camden's Roundhouse.
Presenter/Zane Lowe, Producer/Sarah Bailey
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| BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 23 October 2008 |
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Bob Harris Country
Thursday 23 October
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Harris is joined this evening by Grammy-nominated songwriter Eliza Gilkyson.
Based in Austin, Texas, Eliza is a highly respected musician in the folk and Americana scene, largely due to her uncompromising political song writing and her "honey on sandpaper" vocal style.
She is the daughter of songwriter Terry Gilkyson (The Bare Necessities, Memories Are Made Of This) and grew up in Los Angeles. At the end of the Sixties, she moved to New Mexico, where she recorded several albums including the atmospheric Pilgrims. After a period in Europe, working with Swiss composer/harpist Andreas Vollenweider, Eliza returned to America and released several albums to critical acclaim before signing with roots label Red House Records.
Eliza's first album on Red House, Hard Times In Babylon, came out in 2000 and was soon followed by another critical success, Lost And Found. Her 2004 release, Land Of Milk And Honey, was nominated for a Grammy in the best contemporary folk album category. The album had a decidedly socio-political nature, covering the Iraq War awareness plea, Hiway 9, to her version of Woody Guthrie's previously unrecorded and timely peace anthem, Peace Call.
Since then, Eliza has released several albums, including Paradise Hotel and a live album featuring lesser-known originals from her pre-Red House days and covers of songs by Bob Dylan and her father. Her new album Beautiful World was released earlier this year, and Eliza performs songs from it on tonight's show.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Thursday 23 October
11.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Bob Dylan turns his attention to America's national sport, baseball, fielding more great tunes and trivia for his listeners.
Tonight's music includes an a capella version of Bob's own Take Me Out To The Ball Game, Baseball Boogie by Mabel Scott, and Three Strikes And You're Out by Cowboy Copas.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Phil Hughes
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| BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 23 October 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Copland Ep 4/5
Monday 20 to Friday 24 October
12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Donald Macleod continues his look at the life and music of Aaron Copland through the prism of five hugely important relationships, without which his musical career might have taken a different course. The relationship in today's programme is not with a person but a place – Hollywood.
Copland got his foot in the cinematic door in the late Thirties with a small-scale documentary project called The City, which received a response that the rest of his music had so far failed to elicit. Tinseltown's famously closed shop opened its doors to him with a commission to provide the score for the film version of John Steinbeck's Of Mice And Men.
Copland's music earned him two Oscar nominations, and led immediately to another movie commission, which to his agent's dismay he turned down. Nonetheless, four more feature film scores followed – The North Star, The Heiress, The Red Pony and Something Wild. Copland extracted a suite from The Red Pony and used Something Wild as the basis for a London Symphony Orchestra commission, Music for a Great City, both of which are featured in today's programme.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Barstow
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The Essay – From Pens To Ploughshares
Thursday 23 October
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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How exactly did the arts and crafts movement transplant itself to Africa? In this edition of The Essay, Tanya Harrod tells the story of how potter Michael Cardew abandoned life in the English West Country for the Gold Coast of Africa.
Tanya trained as an art historian and has been a Visiting Professor in the Department of Design History at the Royal College of Art since 1999. She contributes courses on the social, political and philosophical debates associated with the crafts in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. She is also the author of the prize-winning The Crafts In Britain In The Twentieth Century and is currently writing a biography of Michael Cardew.
Presenter/Tanya Harrod, Producer/Benedict Warren
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| BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 23 October 2008 |
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Misfits
In France Ep 1/3
Thursday 23 October
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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Misfits In France is a three-part series recorded on location by the authors Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee, with Simon Russell Beale as Oscar Wilde.
The series features some of the artists and writers who travelled across the Channel in the late 19th century and whose interconnecting stories are traced. It includes the moonlit arrival of Oscar Wilde at Dieppe harbour following his release from Reading Gaol and his exile in a tiny village outside Dieppe; the near drowning of a drunken young Victorian poet Algernon Swinburne, who recuperated in a cottage where a severed hand was used as a paperweight and a monkey was said to sleep in the master's bed; the English impressionist Alfred Sisley using what little money he had to rent rooms alongside Monet at the Ferme St Simeon outside Honfleur; and the painter Walter Sickert, who shocked polite society (including Winston Churchill's future wife) when he set up home with a fish-seller and her children on the wrong side of the river in Dieppe.
Julian and Hermione explore the difference between British and French attitudes to the work and personalities of these artistic visitors and the part played by patrons, including the French painter and socialite Jacques Emile Blanche.
The words of Oscar Wilde are read by Simon Russell Beale. Readings from Algernon Swinburne and Arthur Symons are by Jonathan Tafler. Readings from Walter Sickert, Claude Monet and Guy de Maupassant are by Stephen Critchlow.
Producer/Robyn Read
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Afternoon Play – The Greater Good
Thursday 23 October
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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The Greater Good is a true and tragic love story set in 1915 when the celebrated German chemist Fritz Haber turned to developing poison gas as a weapon for the German military, causing an irreconcilable rift with his former colleague – now his wife – Clara.
With the First World War deadlocked, increasing numbers of men are being sent to the frontline and the death toll on both sides is mounting. Fritz Haber, the brilliant chemist responsible for the invention of nitrogen fertilizer, is determined to break the stalemate – for the greater good. Haber keeps his wife Clara away from his work, despite her chemist's training, and for good reason. When an accident at the plant leads her to discover his project, she is appalled, and sets about trying to stop the work – for the greater good.
Writer Justin Hopper graduated from the National School Of Film And Television in 2001. His previous credits include Number 13 and The Hanged Man, both for BBC Four, and How To Make A Million In Slavery for BBC One.
Producer/Celia de Woolf
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The Material World
Thursday 23 October
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Autumn appears to have come early for conker trees across the UK. While other tree species are in full green leaf at this time of year, conker trees are besieged by a caterpillar called the Horse Chestnut Leaf Miner.
Quentin Cooper examines how the UK's horse chestnut trees are under threat from invasive caterpillars spreading rapidly across continental Europe.
Are conker trees doomed to suffer a similar fate to the Dutch Elm? Experts are concerned about the number of alien pests and diseases being inadvertently imported into the UK, threatening plants in our gardens, parks and countryside. Climate change is likely to increase this risk. What about other iconic tree species such as the oak or beech?
Quentin Cooper is joined by Glynn Percival, plant physiologist at the Bartlett Tree Research Laboratory and Joan Webber, principal pathologist at the Forestry Commission, Farnham.
Producer/Deborah Cohen
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Analysis – The Dollar And Dominance
Thursday 23 October
8.30-9.00pm BBC Radio 4
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In this week's Analysis, the renowned economist Ngaire Woods, head of Oxford University's Global Governance Programme, asks whether the dollar is in demise as the world's currency and whether this is a sign that US world leadership is waning.
The dollar as the global currency has been a key – if often unnoticed – underpinning of US global power. Its dominance – with vast amounts of dollars held all around the world, and key commodities such as oil traded in dollars – has been of great financial benefit to the US. And it has had its psychological/cultural counterpart too, the idea of the dollar as world symbol of wealth and power.
In recent years there's been more and more talk of a sustained challenge to the dollar's global domination. The euro has emerged as a potential alternative reserve currency: some supermodels now reputedly refuse to be paid in anything else, even on Manhattan catwalks. The Gulf States are now talking of creating their own common currency. These new powers, along with China and India, increasingly have the clout to influence which kind of cash remains, or becomes, dominant.
The political consequences are profound. World power has long been equated with world money: US leadership with the centrality of the US dollar. Is the demise of the dollar reflecting a collapse in broader credibility and trust in the United States – a backlash to the last eight years of foreign policy? Will the demise of the dollar further reduce the power and persuasiveness of the US in the world? Analysis investigates.
Presenter/Ngaire Woods, Producer/Chris Bowlby
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 23 October 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Thursday 23 October
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents all the day's sports news, plus live Uefa Cup group stage football.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Ben North
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 23 October 2008 |
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Marc Riley
Thursday 23 October
7.00-9.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Marc Riley welcomes Mancunian group, The Travelling Band, into the studio for a live session.
Presenter/Mark Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe
Thursday 23 October
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe selects a performance by The Jam at the 100 club in 1977 from the archive along with Death in Vegas from 2002. There are also session tracks from blues rockers Free in 1969 and Scottish post-punks Josef K.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
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