Programme Information

Friday 31 October 2008

BBC RADIO 2 Friday 31 October 2008

Friday Night Is Fright Night as Ken Bruce celebrates Halloween with music that adds a chill to the air and raises the pulse rate.

The BBC Concert Orchestra performs music from radio, TV and film, with Bernard Herrmann's chilling score for Psycho, John Williams's instantly recognisable Jaws theme and Miklos Rozsa's compositions for the Hitchcock thriller Spellbound. They also play the theme tunes of radio's Dick Barton (Devil's Gallop) and Paul Temple (Coronation Scot), and of screen sleuths including Hercule Poirot and Sherlock Holmes.

The guest instrumentalists include pianist Roderick Elms and theremin player Celia Sheen, and the conductor is Richard Balcombe.

Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producers/Bridget Apps and Jodie Keane

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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 31 October 2008

Donald Macleod appraises Mahler's legacy in the USA following his untimely death in 1911 at the age of 51. A series of American-based conductors built on his work with the New York Philharmonic, championed his cause and began to channel his music towards the popularity it enjoys today.

Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/David Dwight

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Louise Fryer ends a week-long feast of French opera and ballet as part of Afternoon On 3's celebration of the centenary of Olivier Messiaen. It's time to "take your partners" for a selection of couples across the centuries, including Romeo and Juliet, Bacchus and the abandoned Ariadne, and Rameau's complete opera celebrating the brotherly love of Castor and Pollux.

Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/David Gallagher

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The Royal Scottish National Orchestra has done much to publicise the music of Albert Roussel, and tonight's Performance On 3 provides a rare opportunity to hear his impressionistic Symphony No. 1, The Poem Of The Forest. This is followed by Brahms's brooding Second Piano Concerto performed by one of Scotland's finest pianists, Steven Osborne, and conducted by Stéphane Denève. Berlioz's energetic Roman Carnival Overture begins the programme.

Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Ellie Mant

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Will Self ponders the
portrayal of the mind in fiction
to launch the Free Thinking 08

Celebrated author and columnist Will Self gives the opening lecture at Free Thinking 08, BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio Merseyside's festival of ideas in Liverpool, recorded in front of a live audience at Liverpool's Bluecoat arts centre.

Self argues that the way the mind is portrayed in novels is preposterous, and he questions why people are so resistant to attempts to represent the mind as it is really experienced – in all its terror, exhilaration and confusion. He postulates that many of literature's finest novels are designed to reassure people that they are "normal".

Free Thinking continues on Radio 3 until December, with speakers including Mark Haddon, Tony Benn, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Bill Drummond and Revd Ian Paisley.

Presenter/Matthew Sweet, Lecturer/Will Self, Producer/Aasiya Lodhi

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Five writers were invited to take a stroll after dark and report back on what they saw, felt and thought about on their travels. In the last episode, journalist John Walsh takes to the streets of the city of London, where he recalls the words of William Wordsworth and his fond memories of the "wobbly bridge".

Producer/Duncan Minshull

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Named after a Celtic goddess, all-girl folk band The Shee make their BBC debut in this World On 3 session with Mary Ann Kennedy. The six-piece band met when they were students on Newcastle University's renowned Folk and Traditional Music course, and this month sees the release of their first album, A Different Season, on their own label.

Their line-up is flute, fiddle, electric harp, mandolin and accordion, and they describe their mix as "Scottish folk, Gaelic song, bluegrass and frisky instrumentals". They play a blend of traditional tunes and original songs, and Mary Ann will no doubt insist that this 31 October session should include their tune Happy Halloween.

Presenter/Mary Ann Kennedy, Producer/Roger Short

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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 31 October 2008

How do you keep teenage gangs off the streets? Dominic Arkwright reports on both the heavy-handed and the politically correct methods employed.

"I think we've got too soft with everything – you're not allowed to do this, you're not allowed to do that. I say bring back the birch," says Essex resident David Geffaell.

From the "in your face" policing of Operation Leopard in Basildon to the summer-long curfew of Operation Goodnight on a Cornish estate, the search is on for new ways to keep allegedly feral packs of teenagers at bay.

Dominic witnesses pioneering schemes in action, meets the man who invented the Mosquito (the high-pitched squeak deterrent that only teenagers can hear), and joins a tea dance in North Wiltshire where young hooligans are made to dance with their elders in an attempt to build mutual respect.

Presenter/Dominic Arkwright, Producer/Miles Warde

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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 31 October 2008

Dan Walker looks ahead to the weekend’s sporting action, including a preview of the Barclays Premier League games between Everton v Fulham, Tottenham v Liverpool and Bolton v Manchester City.

Presenter/Dan Walker, Producer/Louise Sutton

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David Croft, Maurice Hamilton and Holly Samos look ahead to the final Grand Prix of the Formula One season at the Interlagos Circuit, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Presenters/David Croft, Maurice Hamilton and Holly Samos, Producer/Jason Swales

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BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Friday 31 October 2008

Formula One Friday 31 October 12.00-1.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on the first practice session for the Brazilian Grand Prix, the final race of the season, comes live from the Interlagos circuit, São Paulo.

Producer/Jason Swales

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Formula One Friday 31 October 4.00-5.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted live commentary of the second practice session for the final race of the season, the Brazilian Grand Prix, can be heard from the Interlagos circuit, São Paulo.

Producer/Jason Swales

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Cycling Friday 31 October 6.55-10.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

There is uninterrupted commentary from the evening session of the opening day of the Track Cycling World Cup, live from the Manchester Velodrome, as Team GB's all-conquering Olympic heroes get back in the saddle to search for yet more glory.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 31 October 2008

George Lamb welcomes US band My Morning Jacket into the BBC 6 Music Hub as they prepare to embark on a European tour.

Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson

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Nemone is joined by performance poet Murray Lachlan Young. Murray became famous in the mid-Nineties for signing a deal with EMI for a reported £1m.

Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

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Bruce Dickinson presents a Halloween Special, alongside Dani Filth of British black metal band Cradle Of Filth.

Historically, Halloween has had a heavy connection to metal music, so on the scariest night of the year Bruce selects his favourite spooky songs to serve up the most gruesome banquet of rock that the world has to offer.

Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan

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