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| BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 21 October 2008 |
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FAITH
IN THE WORLD
What Do You Believe?
Tuesday 21 October
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2 |
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John McCarthy looks at why people for centuries have believed in the divine in this new documentary as part of Faith In The World week.
In the 20th and 21st centuries people from Freud to Marx have tried to steer others away from belief in God. And scientists like Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, have stated that religion is no longer necessary with everyday sciences giving real, provable facts.
Yet religion persists. John talks to people who have found and lost faith. He speaks to religious leaders and celebrities about what made them believe, and meets some ordinary people with extraordinary stories about their faith.
Presenter/John McCarthy, Producer/Dawn Bryan
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
The Blagger's Guide To Country Ep 3/4
Tuesday 21 October
11.30pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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David Quantick takes listeners by the hand and leads them through another lesson in country music.
With the clumsy assistance of fake archive footage, made-up adverts, counterfeit recordings and some old-fashioned gags, this episode reveals the truth about Garth Brooks, country and women, and Bakersfield, North Carolina.
Presenter/David Quantick, Producer/Anna Harrison
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| BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 21 October 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Copland Ep 2/5
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.
Today's programme explores the role played in Copland's life by the Russian-born conductor Serge Koussevitzky, of whom the composer once said: "Just as every 10-year-old American boy dreams of being president someday, so every 20-year-old American composer dreams of being played by Koussevitzky."
Koussevitzky was a musical entrepreneur of incredible charm, energy, dedication and sheer chutzpah. For his conductorial début he hired the Berlin Philharmonic to perform the premiere of Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, with the composer at the ivories. He later established the Concerts Koussevitzky in Paris, which is where he was introduced to Copland. He then emigrated to the United States, where he became the most celebrated music director in the history of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
The composers from whom he commissioned new works form an impressive roll-call of major figures in the music of the 20th century – among them Ravel, Stravinsky ... and Copland. Koussevitzy gave Copland his first big break, and continued to commission major works from him thereafter.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Barstow
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Afternoon On 3 – Summer Festivals
Tuesday 21 October
1.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Afternoon On 3 continues its fortnight of highlights from the music festivals that took place over the summer in Europe and North America, featuring choral music, chamber, large orchestral and early music from more than 20 different countries.
The ensembles and artists featured in this second week of programmes include Pierre-Laurent Aimard with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Concentus Musicus Wien, Valery Gergiev and the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra, and Daniel Barenboim conducting the Berlin Staatskapelle, from concerts recorded at key events such as Styriate in Austria, Baltic Sea Festival in Sweden and the Granada International Music Festival in Spain.
Today there's a chance to hear a complete performance of Gluck's great opera Orpheus And Eurydice from the International Baroque Opera Festival in Beaune.
Presenter/Ian Skelly, Producer/Felix Carey
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Performance On 3 – The Philharmonia
Orchestra
Tuesday 21 October
7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Sir Charles Mackerras conducts the Philharmonia in a programme of popular classics, including Dvorák's Seventh Symphony. Dvorák, upon accepting the commission of this symphony from the Royal Philharmonia Society, promised a "work that, with God's help, will shake the world". Overshadowed by intimations of tragedy, its emotional gravity gives it claim to be Dvorák's greatest.
The Philharmonia is joined by the young Armenian virtuoso Sergey Khachatryan for Bruch's Violin Concerto No 1, and the programme begins with Mozart's Symphony No. 39, one of Mackerras's showpieces.
The concert is followed by a selection of piano music performed at BBC Radio 3's Pianothon, and Play To The Nation, Radio 3's celebration of UK amateur orchestras including the Winscombe Orchestra playing Vaughan Williams's Overture – The Wasps.
Presenter/Suzy Klein, Producer/Anthony Sellors
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The Essay – From Pens To Ploughshares
Tuesday 21 October
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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In today's Essay, Fiona MacCarthy looks at the politics of craft in the arts and crafts movement. Edward Carpenter opted for a life of self-sufficiency and supported himself by making sandals. Carpenter's long tone-poem Towards Democracy, published in 1883 and well known in its time, glorifies manual labour and the physical splendour of British working men.
At their most radical, Carpenter's ideals of craft revival embodied a whole new social order. From these 19th-century beginnings, ideas of the craftsman as social protester and as iconoclast – the outsider in an increasingly commercial society – were developed.
Presenter/Fiona MacCarthy, Producer/Benedict Warren
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| BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 21 October 2008 |
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PC
R.I.P? Ep 1/2
Tuesday 21 October
9.00-9.30am BBC RADIO 4
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 Clive Anderson investigates
political correctness Emerging from the storm of US university campuses and identity politics, making its way across the Atlantic and meeting with derision, ridicule and, perhaps, even some relief in the UK, political correctness is a subject that remains highly volatile. Clive Anderson presents this new, two-part documentary series on the subject.
The first programme looks at the origins of political correctness in the United States in the Eighties, when Ronald Reagan and the intellectual right were in the ascendancy. For commentators leaning towards the liberal or left of American politics, the term "political correctness", or PC, had been appropriated by journalists and commentators to discredit what the Left considered to be progressive social change around issues of gender, race and sexuality.
For the opponents of PC, the stakes were that of free speech: the politicisation of language to the extent that free expression was held ransom to the agendas of minority interests. The battle raged – in the media, in government, in campuses and public meetings across the country ... and then, finally, over here.
This programme was originally scheduled for Thursday 16 October.
Presenter/Clive Anderson, Producer/Simon Hollis
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Art For Schools
Tuesday 21 October
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4 |
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Jackie Morris, children's writer and illustrator, tells the story of how one woman, with a portable printing machine, persuaded artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Lowry and Braque to donate prints to be distributed around British schools, making art accessible in the process.
Between 1946 and 1949, "one of the bravest experiments for art" in this country took place. An energetic intelligence officer and war widow, Brenda Rawnsley set about creating a collection of contemporary art prints to distribute to more than 4,000 UK secondary schools. Although she knew little about art, she was a fast learner and was passionate about introducing art to those without access to art galleries. Many children have Brenda to thank for their first glimpse of quality art.
Jackie Morris uncovers the story and context of this experiment and the woman behind it and looks at how the UK has viewed art education since the scheme. She also visits a school in Wales to show them the prints.
The scheme School Prints commissioned well known contemporary artists to produce paintings which were mass produced and sold cheaply to schools. British artists such as Lowry, Henry Moore and John Nash all took part. The paintings, produced in a post-war era of optimism, showed bright depictions of perennial rural and small town life; the circus, the fair, a harvest, but never a war scene.
In the second phase of the project, Brenda took a newly invented portable plastic printing press to France to sign up some of the best internationally known artists - Braque, Picasso, Dufy, Matisse and La Dell. The story goes that Brenda befriended Picasso's chauffeur, who advised her to "bump into" the artist on the beach, which she did. She charmed him, and was invited to lunch. He immediately drew a print depicting Brenda, a plane and the melon they ate for lunch for the School Prints.
The programme includes interviews with Brenda's son, Jo Keighley; Simon Martin, the curator of the Pallant Gallery; Ruth Artmonsky, Brenda's biographer; and James Mayhew, a leading children's author.
Producer/Laura Parfitt
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Stage To Screen Ep 1/3
Tuesday 21 October
1.30-2.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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 Paul Gambaccini returns to
BBC Radio 4 Paul Gambaccini returns with a third run of Stage to Screen, a series that looks at how stage musicals were transferred to the big screen with interviews from those artists involved, film cognoscenti and historians.
The series opens with Richard Attenborough's film, Oh! What A Lovely War. It was adapted from Joan Littlewood's 1963 Theatre Workshop Group production, which opened in the Theatre Royal, Stratford East before transferring to the West End, where it ran for more than a year. Paul talks to Victor Spinetti, a member of the original company who also was in David Merrick's Broadway production of the following year. There are also new interviews with the film's choreographer, Eleanor Fazan and film historian Ian Christie.
Other contributors include Richard Attenborough, Charles Chilton, who produced the radio programme on which the stage show was based, and John Mills in the pivotal role of Sir Douglas Haig.
Spinetti paints a vivid picture of working under Littlewood. While Christie looks at the achievement of Attenborough's first picture as director and the film in the context of the Sixties, when the horrors of the Great War were laid bare and the events portrayed therein were revealed to a new generation as so much more than a day of national commemoration.
Producer/Adrian Edwards
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
File On 4
Tuesday 21 October
8.00-8.40pm BBC RADIO 4
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As millions of families struggle to pay rocketing gas and electricity bills, suppliers have blamed rising wholesale prices, and other forces beyond their control. But could the structure of the energy markets in Britain lie at the heart of the problem?
At the end of the 1990s there was vigorous competition between a number of suppliers. But this has given way to takeovers and a market dominated by about half a dozen big players. Critics allege the regulator Ofgem has allowed them far too much leeway to raise prices without clear justification.
The government is also blamed – for failures in planning, on gas storage and replacing old generating plants, which could be making a bad situation for consumers even worse. The former chief of Energy Watch, Allan Asher, reckons customers may be paying hundreds of pounds over the odds.
As Julian O'Halloran reports, there is growing pressure for a no-holds-barred investigation by the powerful Competition Commission. And independent experts warn that, if firm action is not taken soon, price rises still to come might even outstrip those we've seen so far.
Producer/Ian Muir-Cochrane, Presenter/Julian O'Halloran
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 21 October 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Tuesday 21 October
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents full live commentary of the Uefa Champions League Group E match between Manchester United and Celtic from Old Trafford, which kicks off at 7.45pm. There are also updates from the Group G game between Fenerbace and Arsenal and the evening's Coca-Cola Championship games.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Steve Houghton
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
606
Tuesday 21 October
10.00-11.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Danny Baker brings his own unique style to the football discussion programme 606.
Fans can watch the debate on interactive digital TV via the Red button, and contribute their views to Danny by phone 0500 909 693 (free from BT landlines), text 85058 at network rates or email 606@bbc.co.uk
Presenter/Danny Baker, Producer/Patrick Campbell
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Tuesday 21 October 2008 |
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Football
Tuesday 21 October
7.40-9.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted live commentary of one of the night's top matches in the Coca-Cola Championship.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 21 October 2008 |
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In Electric Proms week, Nemone catches up with XX Teens to chat about the short film made to accompany their track, Round, and also to its writer and director, Kirk Hendry.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Marc Riley
Tuesday 21 October
7.00-9.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Martha Wainwright is Marc Riley's musical guest tonight. From a formidable musical dynasty, Martha takes a break from her current UK tour to visit Marc in the BBC's Manchester studios.
Presenter/Mark Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Tuesday 21 October
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe tonight selects a 1983 concert by British blues singer Alexis Korner and a live set from Muse in Reading in 2002. Session tracks come from grunge riot group Babes In Toyland.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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