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| BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 30 October 2008 |
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Bob Harris Country
Thursday 30 October
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Tonight's programme features a session with Chris Knight, a former mining consultant turned songwriter whose musical style and blue-collar themed lyrics have earned him comparisons with John Mellencamp, Steve Earle and Bruce Springsteen.
Chris Knight was born in the Kentucky mining town of Slaughters and, after earning a degree in agriculture, worked in land reclamation and mining consultancy. His work included ensuring that former mining land was properly reclaimed and cultivated, a theme present in his 2006 album, Enough Rope, in a song telling of a community stripped of its farms and church by big business.
After hearing Steve Earle on the radio in 1986, Chris decided to try his hand at songwriting. In the early Nineties he moved to Nashville and secured a publishing and recording deal. He has since become a popular name in the Americana music genre and has released six albums, including this year's Heart Of Stone.
Tonight's session was recorded in Nashville during September's Americana Music Conference and Awards.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Thursday 30 October
11.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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There's an early Halloween treat tonight as Bob Dylan plays tunes filled with vampires, ghosts, witches and zombies!
Tonight's music includes Bobby "Boris" Pickett's novelty hit The Monster Mash (which was initially banned by the BBC), Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead by June Christy and other "wicked" tracks from Stevie Wonder, Dr John and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Phil Hughes
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 30 October 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Mahler 1910-11 Ep 4/5
Monday 27 to Friday 31 October
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Donald Macleod examines a difficult period in Mahler's life in today's Composer Of The Week.
Mahler's last full season in New York got off to a difficult start as the composer fought to present an image of marital stability following his wife's affair with German architect Walter Gropious. Tensions were also apparent between the conductor-composer and members of his orchestra, the New York Philharmonic.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/David Dwight
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Performance
On 3 – Viktoria Mullova And Friends
Thursday 30 October
7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Russian virtuoso Viktoria Mullova is joined by some musical friends from outside the classical world – among them Paul Clarvis (percussion), Paul Griffiths (guitar), Julian Joseph (piano) and Peter Whyman (clarinet and saxophone) – for an eclectic programme including Bach, Bartók and contemporary and jazz music, in the second of her concerts as the Queen Elizabeth Hall's Artist in Focus.
There is also Knots, a mini-concerto by Fraser Trainer, and arrangements of pop songs by Weather Report and The Hollies by Viktoria's cellist husband Matthew Barley.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Ellie Mant
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The Essay – Night Walks Ep 4/5
Monday 27 to Friday 31 October
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Five writers take a stroll after dark and report back on what they saw, felt and thought about on their travels. In the penultimate episode, novelist and journalist Kamila Shamsie takes to the boulevards of Paris with her sister, then heads off to some forgotten parts where the sights are even stranger.
Producer/Duncan Minshull
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| BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 30 October 2008 |
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The Material World
Thursday 30 October
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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What we see can sometimes depend on our ears as much as our eyes. When we look at a moving object, our perception of the direction it is moving in depends on minute variations in the timing of an accompanying sound. It is the timing of the sounds, not their stereo position, that changes. This provides evidence that the brain's integration of these visual and audio cues occurs at a very early stage of processing.
Current research aims to create a model of how the brain computes sensory information. From this, practical applications of the information can be devised. Anything that allows an observer's senses to be manipulated could be useful. For example, a dot matrix screen of apparently random flashing lights could form images when a rhythm is introduced (try watching the "snow" on an untuned TV – patterns will form after a while).
In today's episode of The Material World, Quentin Cooper explores how the research can provide information about how our brains track moving objects, and how different sensory information gets processed in the brain. He is joined by Dr Elliot Freeman, lecturer in psychology at Brunel University's School of Social Sciences, and Professor Charles Spence, Professor of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University.
Presenter/Quentin Cooper, Producer/Martin Redfern
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
4 Stands Up Ep 1/4
Thursday 30 October
6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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4 Stands Up is a brand-new stand-up show featuring the cream of the comedy circuit. The gag-packed, easy-on-the-ears comedy is hosted by multi award-winning Welsh misery Rhod Gilbert, a nominee for the If.comedy award (previously the Perrier) at this year's Edinburgh Festival.
The show's format is simple and effective. The opening act features one of the new generation of young stand-ups with unique comedy styles who have burst on to the comedy scene. The middle act includes character pieces, double acts, sketches and musical acts, and the show ends with an outstanding headline act.
Rhod has appeared on Mock The Week (BBC Two), Never Mind The Buzzcocks (BBC Two) and Dara O'Briain Talks Funny (BBC One). He's fast on the rise in his native Wales and has been the subject of a 30-minute documentary profile entitled Rhod Gilbert Stands Up For Wales (BBC One Wales). Rhod continues to present his own weekly live show on BBC Radio Wales every Saturday morning and he was recently nominated for Best Radio Personality at the Celtic Media Awards.
Presenter/Rhod Gilbert, Producer/Tilusha Ghelani
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Anatomy
Of A Car Crash
Thursday 30 October
8.00-8.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Over 30,000 people are killed or seriously injured on the roads each year, yet most incidents only merit a few column inches in the local papers. Anatomy Of A Car Crash dissects exactly what happened in the brief, awful instant of a single collision and follows the long-term consequences from the perspectives of everyone involved.
It happens in a split second, but when two cars collide it sets off a chain reaction which is often life-changing. A serious crash reverberates through many lives – of victims, families, witnesses and friends – as well as many professions, such as the emergency services, accident investigators, doctors and lawyers. An accident becomes a focus for questions that need answers and claims that meet counterclaims. According to some estimates, a single serious crash costs the country an extraordinary £1.5m.
People can be so inured to road accidents that all they see is another damaged vehicle on the side of the road, rather than the crumpled wreckage of human lives. Anatomy Of A Car Crash highlights a crash which has barely received any coverage, yet has left many scars – the sort of crash that happens every day up and down the country. From the moment of impact to the coroner's verdict, the programme traces the search for explanations and the background of grief that follows in the wake of a car crash.
Producer/Laurence Grissell
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 30 October 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Thursday 30 October
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Dan Walker presents all the day's sports news. From 8pm, Arlo White presents 5 Live Cricket, reporting on the Twenty20 Stanford Super Series in Antigua. And at 9pm, 5 Live Rugby League previews the weekend's World Cup clash between Australia and England.
Presenter/Dan Walker, Producer/Colin Patterson
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Thursday 30 October 2008 |
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Cricket
Thursday 30 October
9.15pm-12.30am BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Uninterrupted commentary on the Stanford Super Series Twenty20 match between the Stanford Superstars and Middlesex comes live from Antigua.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 30 October 2008 |
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George Lamb
Thursday 30 October
10.00am-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Motown legends the Temptations are back! Led by founding member Otis Williams, the Tempations are embarking on their first UK tour without another Motown act on the bill. They join George Lamb to talk about more than 40 years of soul classics and how the band has survived so long with so many line-up changes.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Steve Lamacq
Thursday 30 October
4.00-7.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Steve Lamacq is joined at the Roundtable by panel members including Glen Tilbrook of Squeeze, Karl Hyde of Underworld and journalist Keith Cameron, to discuss the week's hottest new singles and albums.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Gary Bales
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Marc Riley
Thursday 30 October
7.00-9.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Marc Riley welcomes Adam Ficek of Babyshambles into the studio in his side project incarnation – Roses, Kings, Castles. Adam, going solo with this project, describes his music as a cobblestone bridge lying somewhere between the pastoral warmth of Belle and Sebastian and the suburban, quixotic pop of Syd Barrett.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Thursday 30 October
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe dusts off a selection of treats from the BBC archive including tracks from an Altered Images Peel session from 1982, the Pixies in session in their prime and concert highlights from a Ry Cooder performance from 1979.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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