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| BBC RADIO 2 Monday 27 October 2008 |
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Big Band Special
Monday 27 October
10.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Clare Teal presents a celebration of the music of Stan Kenton, with the BBC Big Band recorded in concert at Chelsea's Cadogan Hall.
Stan was an American bandleader, composer and pianist who brought contemporary classical devices to big–band jazz from the Forties onwards. His featured compositions include Stella By Starlight and Malaguena.
Presenter/Clare Teal, Producer/Bob McDowall
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Jools Holland Ep 5/13
Monday 27 October
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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This week Jools Holland is joined by Welsh singer, guitarist, record producer and band leader Dave Edmunds.
Known for his love of rockabilly and the Phil Spector "wall of sound", Dave first enjoyed a success as a recording artist, hitting the No. 1 spot in the UK and America with his cover of I Hear You Knockin' in 1970.
He has since collaborated with a diverse range of artists, including Nick Lowe (during the late Seventies and early Eighties with their band Rockpile), Jeff Lynne, Status Quo and kd lang, and released his greatest hits album, The Many Sides Of Dave Edmunds, this year.
Jools also plays tracks from his eclectic record collection and Demo Corner showcases early recordings by some of the world's finest singers.
Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston
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Choo Choo Ch'Boogie – The Louis Jordan Story Ep 4/4
Monday 27 October
11.30pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Clarke Peters concludes the story of Louis Jordan, the bandleader and saxophonist who paved the way for rock 'n' roll with his influence on musicians such as Bill Haley, Little Richard and Chuck Berry.
Presenter/Clarke Peters, Producer/Terry Carter
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| BBC RADIO 3 Monday 27 October 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Mahler 1907-8 Ep 1/5
Monday 27 to Friday 31 October
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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All this week Donald Macleod surveys Gustav Mahler's eventful last years. These were years of both excitement and tragedy, as hotly anticipated seasons conducting in New York from 1907 were cut short in 1911 by his death at the early age of 51.
In today's programme, Donald focuses on 1907-08, when the composer's long-standing invitations to conduct in the New World came to fruition and Mahler left Europe for New York. His departure was despite personal tragedy: his daughter, Maria, had died from illness; he had heart problems of his own; and had experienced difficulties in his marriage.
The music this week includes excerpts from all 10 of Mahler's symphonies in classic and contemporary recordings, conducted by Sir Georg Solti, Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Michael Tilson Thomas and others, chosen to reflect the composer-conductor's move from the heart of Europe to the New World. In particular, Donald Macleod appraises Mahler's legacy with the New York Philharmonic, which he conducted from 1908. Historic audio excerpts also bring the story to life, with archive from conductor Bruno Walter; Benjamin Kohon, a bassoonist in the New York Philharmonic; and Mahler's daughter, Anna.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producers/David Dwight and Kerry Clark
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Performance
On 3 – London Symphony Orchestra
Monday 27 October
7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Prokofiev is one of the featured Russian composers in the London Symphony Orchestra and Valery Gergiev's Émigré series, and tonight's concert features four works by him: his First and Fourth symphonies, his first Violin Concerto – performed here by Leonidas Kavakos – and his Fourth Piano Concerto (with Alexei Volodin).
Prokofiev left Russia for almost 20 years soon after the premiere of his first symphony and, like many other composers, headed to the creative hub of Paris. There he wrote the other three works on this programme.
The Gergiev concert – one of the hottest tickets in London this month – is followed by piano music from one of BBC Radio 3's nationwide Pianothon events; and Play To The Nation, Radio 3's celebration of amateur orchestras across the UK, features Arnold's English Dances from the Nottingham Philharmonic Orchestra.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawney, Producer/Ellie Mant
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The Essay – Night Walks Ep 1/5
Monday 27 to Friday 31 October
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Following a positive response to the first series of Night Walks, five more writers are invited to take a stroll after dark and report back on what they see, feel and think about on their travels. Walking as a means of recreation, escape, nostalgia and spiritual release feature in these accounts in this week's Essay.
To begin the series, novelist Nicholas Shakespeare takes a twilight stroll along his local beach in Tasmania, thinking about a certain sort of devil and looking to the stars before reporting back on what he finds.
Producer/Duncan Minshull
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Jazz On 3 – Django Bates
Monday 27 October
11.15pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
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Jez Nelson presents a gig by Django Bates's StoRMChaser Big Band, recorded at Birmingham's CBSO Centre earlier this month. Made up mostly of students, the 19-strong group has been under the direction of Bates during his tenure as Professor of Rhythmic Music in Copenhagen and they are now returning to play in the UK for the first time since departing for Denmark. This gig, along with his band's recently released album, Spring Is Here... (Shall We Dance?), marks Bates's homecoming with his trademark humour, eccentricity and whirlwind rhythms.
Bates is a British-born pianist who studied at the Royal College of Music, only to leave after two weeks due to what he perceived as its opposition to jazz. He later rose to prominence with the large group Loose Tubes, regarded by many to be among the most influential outfits on the Eighties London scene. Since then he has led several of his own large format bands, including Delightful Precipice and the Powder Collapse Orchestra.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Robert Abel
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 4 Monday 27 October 2008 |
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Chagall Ep 1/5
Monday 27 to Friday 31 October
9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4
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Derek Jacobi reads from the new biography of great modern artist Marc Chagall, to be published by Penguin this week.
The story of Chagall's life reflects the dramas of his time. He was born in extreme poverty in Vitebsk in the Pale of Settlement in Russia – the area to which Catherine the Great confined all the Jews of her Empire. This picturesque city, with its green and white hilltop cathedral, its skyline of bright onion-domed churches and 60 synagogues and the jumble of wooden houses on the poor side of town, feature over and over again in Chagall's work.
Chagall's mother was the daughter of a butcher in a nearby country town and his father worked as a labourer at the town's herring factory. They belonged to the Hasidic sect and Chagall grew up enveloped in the warm but closed atmosphere of a Jewish community that relished song and dance but forbade the creation of graven images. Chagall remembered: "Among the petty traders and craftsmen that my family knew, we had no idea what it meant to an artist."
Yet this young boy from the poor side of town went to study art in St Petersburg despite the strict quotas on Jews in the Tsarist city. Desperate to discover the West, he arrived in Paris just as Cubism was astonishing the art world. Having developed his own highly individual style, his work was finally acknowledged and he returned to Russia for a short break, just a week before the outbreak of the First World War. Cut off from all he had worked so hard to achieve, he painted everything he saw as his beloved Vitebsk became a frontier town. Then the Russian Revolution occurred.
The author, Jackie Wullschlager, is the first to have had access to the Chagall family archive. Her fascinating biography goes on to tell the story of Chagall's years of exile in France and America.
Producer/Jane Marshall
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Writing The Century 6 Ep 1/5
Monday 27 to Friday 31 October
10.45-11.00am BBC RADIO 4
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Polly Loxton is in her mid-seventies, born in South Africa but living in London since the Fifties. She contacted BBC Radio Drama with her mother's story, resulting in this series looking at how Barbara Loxton, separated from her young daughters, worked in Europe as a journalist and illustrator, and how her daughters in South Africa coped with the unexpected lengthy separation from their mother.
Barbara Loxton, née Clark, was born in South Africa in 1906. In July 1944, as the war appeared to be ending, a ship packed with the evacuated families of British service personnel left Cape Town for England. Barbara went on it to accompany her younger sister, heavily pregnant, to her husband's family in England. The bombs rained down again and all civilian transport stopped. She was stuck in England with no way of getting back to her young daughters in South Africa. By now her husband was in Italy.
She wrote letters home describing conditions and the strategies of her friends in England as they coped with the displacement, rationing, evacuees and lack of servants, and drew pictures of bomb damage in London.
Next she wangled a sort of freelance accreditation with the Supreme Headquarters, Allied Expeditionary Force (Shaef) as a war correspondent, becoming the only South African journalist to be on the Western Front. When she arrived home in November 1945 after 16 months away, daughter Polly could not pick her out of the crowd of khaki waving from the boat rails as the ship docked.
Producer/Pauline Harris
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Lives
In A Landscape Ep 1/6
Monday 27 October
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4
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BBC Radio 4's award-winning series, featuring the stories of unusual lives lived out in the social and cultural landscape of contemporary Britain, returns with six further documentaries for Monday mornings. New for this year is multi-award winning reporter/presenter Alan Dein, who adds his sympathetic and incisive touch to the storytelling.
In the first programme, Going To The Dogs, Alan follows the fates of two families whose lives are intricately bound up with the racing of greyhounds. The Bennetts are bookmakers, while Paul Rich has bought out his father's dog-racing business – just as the sport is hitting a serious decline in popularity.
The production team were present at the last night's racing at London's famous Walthamstow greyhound stadium before it closed in August, and that moment marks the starting point for this story of a sport that's now beset with both financial troubles and cultural problems, as protesters turn out in force to demonstrate against what they claim to be a cruel sport. This documentary unfolds what happened next for the Bennetts and the Rich family as they face an uncertain sporting future.
Presenter/Alan Dein, Producer/Simon Elmes
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Running Away Ep 1/5
Monday 27 to Friday 31 October
3.45-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Tim Samuels joins five guests as they put the demands of their hectic daily lives on hold, escape their desks and diaries and run away for a few hours. As they head for the park, the museum, the zoo or the quiet of the countryside, Tim's gentle questioning develops a revealing conversation about the pressures of work and home life and the pleasures of freedom.
Musician and composer Nitin Sawhney escapes from the dark confines of his studio to the hustle and bustle of the Science Museum; actor Andrew Sachs takes a break from penning his autobiography to enjoy a day out at London Zoo and a stroll down memory lane; comedian Hugh Dennis takes a walk in the glorious countryside near his home on the Sussex Downs to the oldest woods in the land to escape his punishing schedule on the comedy circuit; Shami Chakrabarti, the director of Liberty, exchanges her passion for human rights and her small, windowless office for her first love – film – in a darkened cinema at the British Film Institute; and Baroness Julia Neuberger, rabbi, social reformer and member of the House of Lords, takes a stroll through the Victorian gardens and hothouse in the centre of Royal Leamington Spa for a brief respite from her diary of engagements.
Presenter/Tim Samuels, Producer/Mohini Patel
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The Torturer's Tale
Monday 27 October
8.00-8.30pm BBC RADIO 4 (Copy amended 10 October)
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It's hard to imagine what it would be like to be a torturer, and how one might look back on the experience. Presenter Jolyon Jenkins talks to former torturers about how they come to terms with their actions.
Former US Army soldier Tony Lagouranis was stationed for several months in Iraq. As a military interrogator he claims to have tortured Iraqi prisoners using techniques such as diet alteration, the use of military dogs, loud music, hypothermia and sleep deprivation. Now out of the army, he claims to suffer remorse for what he did. Others are more conflicted. An American soldier who claims to have tortured suspects in the Vietnam war says, “It’s an ugly thing to ask someone to do, but it is a necessary thing to be done.” A former policeman from the Democratic Republic of Congo who tortured political opponents of the regime says that only torture, or the threat of it, will induce people to tell the truth.
Jenkins finds the former torturers he speaks to are reluctant to admit even to themselves what they have done. They talk about the process of torture and the precarious balance of power that exists between themselves and their victims, and how they found themselves trapped in a system that obliged them to increase the suffering until they had gone too far. And they talk about the process of crossing the line from acceptable behaviour to unacceptable, and how (in some cases) they realise, too late, that they crossed the line long ago.
Producer and presenter Jolyon Jenkins
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The Ruling Passion Ep 1/10
Monday 27 to Friday 31 October
10.45-11.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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The Ruling Passion is a new novel by one of the UK's most accomplished writers of historical fiction, David Pownall. Recounting the story of King Edward II – one of the most sensational episodes in English history – its underlying theme is principally that of the often-troubled relationship between sexuality and duty in the Royal family, and conflict in the relationship between a young man and his domineering father.
Prince Edward – later to become Edward II – was the only surviving son of Edward I, one of England's greatest warrior kings, whose ambition to unite Britain through the subjugation of the Irish, Welsh and Scots nearly bankrupted the realm. Not only was Prince Edward unsuited to carry through his father's military ambitions, but also his defiant resistance to every pressure to abandon his passionate relationship with Gascon warrior Piers Gaveston was to bring England to the brink of civil war.
Read by David Horovitch, The Ruling Passion is, above all, a story of a relationship pursued to destruction.
Reader/David Horovitch, Producer/Eoin O'Callaghan
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 27 October 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Monday 27 October
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents all the day's sports news, and from 8pm is joined by John Motson, Steve Claridge and Danny Murphy for The Monday Night Club, discussing the latest happenings on the football scene.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Steve Houghton
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Monday 27 October 2008 |
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Cricket
Monday 27 October
9.15pm-12.30am BBC FIVE LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Cricket fans can hear uninterrupted commentary of the Stanford Super Series Twenty20 match between Trinidad and Tobago and Middlesex, live from Antigua.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 27 October 2008 |
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Shaun Keaveny
Monday 27 October
7.00-10.00am BBC 6 MUSIC
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Shaun Keaveny talks to comedian Tim Vine on this morning's programme. Famous for his quick-fire one-liners, Tim tells Shaun about his recent tour and what he's currently up to.
Presenter/Shaun Keaveny, Producer/Nic Philps
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Nemone
Monday 27 October
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Candace Bushnell, creator of Sex And The City, is Nemone's guest. She talks SATC and Lipstick Jungle and also tells Nemone about her new book.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Monday 27 October
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe's trawl through the BBC archives tonight unearths concert highlights from David Bowie's Glastonbury appearance in 2000 as well as session tracks courtesy of Scottish punks The Skids' Peel session of 1980 and Mia's 2005 hub session.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
6 Music Plays It Again – How Does It Feel:
The New Order Story Ep 1/2
Monday 27 October
12.00-12.30am BBC 6 MUSIC
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In a programme first broadcast in 1993, John Peel tells the story of New Order. Contributors include band members Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert, plus management supremos Anthony H Wilson and Rob Gretton.
The documentary concludes at the same time tomorrow.
Presenter/John Peel, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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