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Friday 7 November 2008

BBC RADIO 2 Friday 7 November 2008

BBC Radio 2 is shaken but not stirred as it celebrates the centenary of the birth of Ian Fleming with an evening of music from many of the best-loved James Bond films.

This concert sees stars from the world of pop, rock and musical theatre take to the stage at London's Mermaid Theatre to celebrate the master of the spy novel, in readiness for the 22nd Bond outing – Quantum Of Solace.

The BBC Concert Orchestra leads the festivities with host Ken Bruce introducing music from films such as License To Kill, Goldfinger, Thunderball, For Your Eyes Only and Diamonds Are Forever, and performances from David McAlmont, Mica Paris, Tom Baxter and Jodie Prenger.

During the interval, there is an exclusive interview with composer David Arnold, the man behind five Bond scores and Shaken Not Stirred, a 1997 compilation album which covered some of the best-loved Bond songs.

Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Jodie Keane

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1918-2008 – NINETY YEARS OF REMEMBRANCE Private Peaceful Ep 1/4 Friday 7 November 9.15-9.30pm BBC RADIO 2 www.bbc.co.uk/remembrance

As part of its Remembrance programming, BBC Radio 2 offers listeners another chance to hear Robson Green read an abridgement of Michael Morpurgo's powerful book, Private Peaceful – a tale of brotherly love set during the horrors of the First World War.

Over four weeks, Green reads this tragic, surprising and absorbing novel that charts both the childhood of Thomas Peaceful in the early years of the 20th century, and his eventual enlistment in the British Army to help fight the First World War.

Reader/Robson Green, Abridger/Amanda Hancox, Producer/Hilary Robinson

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Frank Renton presents music specially recorded by The Scottish Co-op Band and conductor Archie Hutchison.

Their programme of music includes the Rusland And Ludmila Overture, TV theme music from The Victorian Kitchen Garden, Johann Strauss II's Perpetuum Mobile and the powerful Galaxies by Carl Davies.

Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter

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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 7 November 2008

After nearly two years away, Dvořák finally made it back to his beloved Vysoka in the summer of 1894, under strict instructions to return to New York for the autumn term. But on his return, he found stormy economic weather brewing across the Atlantic, which was to end the homesick composer's American adventure for good.

In the last of this week's series, Donald Macleod explores the last months Dvořák spent in the USA – a period marred by the deaths of his father and his great friend, conductor Hans von Bulow. Listeners hear some of the composer's sombre Biblical Songs – written in the immediate aftermath of his bereavements – as well as the composition that was to prove his final farewell to his adopted home, the virtuosic Cello Concerto in B Minor.

Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Steven Rajam

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Ian McMillan presents a special edition of his high-octane cabaret of new writing and the spoken word, recorded in front of an audience in Liverpool, at BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.

Ian bends the grey matter of Merseyside's most pugnacious funny man, Alexei Sayle; coaxes The Verb's award-winning cartoonist, Peter Blegvad, into a cosmological dispute with himself; and urges on the Free Thinking writer-in-residence, Angie Clarke, as she and her collaborators explore the generation gap in contemporary Liverpool and ask what it is like to be a teenager in the city and how it feels to be 60.

Presenter/Ian McMillan, Producer/Zahid Warley

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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 7 November 2008

Enemies Within Ep 1/2 Friday 7 November 11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4

For 40 years, the Intelligence Services used informers in Northern Ireland in the battle for information. In this two-part series, Ruth McDonald finds out what motivated these informers and their handlers to risk their lives, and how the rest of society now views them.

A Special Branch Officer who established the training course for handlers, and who himself was a handler, speaks for the first time. He says that informers rarely did it for money, they did it to save lives and to try to change the course of the Troubles.

Presenter/Ruth McDonald, Producer/Rachel Hooper

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1918-2008 – NINETY YEARS OF REMEMBRANCE Tracing Your Roots – Remembrance Friday 7 November 3.00-3.30pm BBC RADIO 4 www.bbc.co.uk/remembrance

Medals, letters and diaries are today often the last link to the events of the Great War. With the vast majority of those who remember the conflict already gone, Tracing Your Roots asks whether objects can shed light on the lives about which we want to learn more. Presenter Sally Magnusson and resident genealogist Nick Barratt share listeners' stories and offer advice on researching the lives of those involved in the conflict.

Tracey Akers was astonished when she unearthed a letter about the hardships of trench life, written by her great uncle the day before he was killed in battle. Her mission to reunite this letter with her uncle's descendants led to the discovery of a whole new branch of her family tree and a moving reunion.

Daphne Jones's father served as a military artist and musician on the Western Front and studiously documented his experiences using diaries, theatrical press cuttings, sketch books and photographs, revealing a rarely seen, and much happier, side of the War.

John Hele's maternal grandfather was awarded the Military Medal at Ypres in August 1917 for rescuing a badly wounded soldier from no-man's-land. The war diary that accompanies this family heirloom gives an extraordinarily vivid account of a dramatic day in battle.

Presenter/Sally Magnusson, Producer/Claire White

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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 7 November 2008

Arlo White looks ahead to the weekend's sporting action, including the Barclays Premier League games between Arsenal and Manchester United, Manchester City and Tottenham, and Liverpool and West Brom.

From 9pm, Matt Dawson presents 5 Live Rugby, previewing this weekend's opening games in the autumn Test, featuring England v Pacific Islands and Scotland v New Zealand.

At 9.30pm, Mike Costello presents 5 Live Boxing, live from New York, ahead of Joe Calzaghe's light-heavyweight fight against Roy Jones Jnr in Madison Square Garden this weekend.

Presenter/Arlo White, Producers/Colin Patterson and Jim Hollis

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BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 7 November 2008

Critically acclaimed comedians Charlotte Hudson and Leila Hackett, alias Two Left Hands, join Nemone to showcase their unique brand of slick and intelligent sketch comedy.

Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

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UK rockers Thunder are Bruce Dickinson's guests on the Rock Show.

Formed in 1989, Thunder are regarded as one of the most visible and popular bands of the last two decades. Their tradition of creating good and honest blues rock albums, with big riffs and sing-along choruses, has seen them labelled one of Britain's best live acts.

The five-piece have enjoyed chart success, and a strong, loyal fan base. Bruce invites the band's Luke Morley and Ben Matthews into the studio to talk about their eventful career, their new album and their forthcoming UK tour.

Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan

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