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1918-2008 – NINETY YEARS OF REMEMBRANCE
Good Morning Sunday
Sunday 9 November
7.00-9.00am BBC RADIO 2
www.bbc.co.uk/remembrance
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Aled Jones marks Remembrance Sunday with a special programme, 90 years after the Armistice Agreement was signed between the Allied and German Armies.
Aled's special guest is Terry Deary, the children's author behind the Horrid Histories series of books. This year, the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester is staging a family exhibition which sets Terry's words and artist Martin Brown's visuals alongside the museum's collections, to tell the stories of the men and women, servicemen and civilians, who shaped and endured the First World War.
This programme is part of 1918-2008 – Ninety Years Of Remembrance, a special season of programmes on the BBC marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Janet McLarty
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Paul O'Grady
Sunday 9 November
1.00-2.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Paul O'Grady sits in for Elaine Paige, showcasing more great tunes with a selection of tracks from Broadway and West End cast recordings.
No stranger to the world of musical theatre, Paul has appeared on stage as Miss Hannigan in Annie and as the Childcatcher in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Presenter/Paul O'Grady, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Brian D'Arcy continues BBC Radio 2's Remembrance programming with a selection of hymns to commemorate the fallen.
Music includes The Day Thou Gavest, I Vow To Thee My Country and Jerusalem The Golden. The choir, from Royal Holloway University of London, is directed by Rupert Gough and the organist is Alexander Norman.
This programme is part of 1918-2008 – Ninety Years Of Remembrance, a special season of programmes on the BBC marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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| BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 9 November 2008 |
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Private Passions – David Almond
Sunday 9 November
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Michael Berkeley's guest is writer David Almond, whose award-winning children's book, Skellig, has been made into an opera with music by Tod Machover and is being performed later this month at The Sage in Gateshead.
David loves opera and his choices for Private Passions include works by Monteverdi, Mozart, Handel, Puccini and Bartok, as well as traditional Japanese Noh music.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Classic Arts
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In a special show as part of the BBC's Remembrance programming, Stephen Johnson places three English masterpieces in their historical context.
Ralph Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending was begun in 1914 and is one of the composer's best-known works. Stephen joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Michael Seal, with violinist Lesley Hatfield and tenor James Gilchrist, for an exploration of the English idyll in light of some of the music to have appeared in the lead-up to the Great War – specifically, Butterworth's rhapsody A Shropshire Lad and Vaughan Williams's On Wenlock Edge.
This programme is part of 1918-2008 – Ninety Years Of Remembrance, a special season of programmes on the BBC marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Presenter/Stephen Johnson, Producer/Chris Wines
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1918-2008 – NINETY YEARS OF REMEMBRANCE
Drama On 3 – All Quiet On The Western Front
Sunday 9 November
8.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 3
www.bbc.co.uk/remembrance
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First published in 1929, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet On The Western Front quickly established itself as one of the greatest war novels of all time, selling 2.5 million copies in 25 languages. It is a 20th-century classic and, although it is widely known as a cinematic masterpiece, this is the first radio adaptation of Remarque's novel.
A First World War story, told from the German perspective, it follows the lives of four 18-year-olds and their company on the Western Front, fighting in the trenches, resting behind the lines, going on leave, fraternising with local girls, arguing about the meaning of their lives and, in the end, dying. The young men go to war only to be disabused of all notions of Kaiser and country and all finally perish in the mud of Flanders.
All Quiet On The Western Front is dramatised for radio by Dave Sheasby, whose dramatisation of George Steiner's short story, Cake, brought praise from the writer himself. Dave has written extensively for radio and been nominated for a Sony Award for his radio work.
The cast includes Robert Lonsdale, Simon Trinder, Gunnar Cauthary, Lloyd Thomas, Joseph Arkley, Stephen Critchlow, Malcolm Tierney, Stuart McLoughlin, Dan Starkey, Luke Walker, Tim Treloar, Nick Sayce, Janice Acquah, Donna Hughes, Jill Cardo, Carolyn Pickles, Inam Mirza, Paul Rider, Chris Pavlo and Manjeet Mann.
This programme is part of 1918-2008 – Ninety Years Of Remembrance, a special season of programmes on the BBC marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Producer/David Hunter
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1918-2008 – NINETY YEARS OF REMEMBRANCE
Sunday Feature – Rebellion And Fear:
Artists In The Great War
Sunday 9 November
9.30-10.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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The Great War was crucial to the development of the early avant-garde art movement in Europe. Art critic Richard Cork explores how the conflict figured in the lives and works of leading visual artists.
Judging by a new exhibition that recently opened in Madrid, it seems that, in the first years of the war, many European artists caught a kind of "war fever". The programme hears how Italian artist Marinetti, the founder of futurism, visited the cities of industry, including London in 1912, urging artists to rally and embrace modernity. In Britain, artists including Jacob Epstein, David Bomberg and Wyndham Lewis developed a new movement in art and were dubbed "the Vorticists" by Ezra Pound.
Richard talks to Michael Nyman, a long-time admirer of the work of David Bomberg who is contemplating composing an opera on the artist's work, and explores the little-known fact that sculptor Henry Moore served in the First World War. Just 18 years old when he fought on the front line at the Battle of Cambrai, he refused to describe the shock and repulsion of his war experiences – but his figures with gas masks, amputated limbs and pierced bodies point to the horrors he witnessed.
This programme is part of 1918-2008 – Ninety Years Of Remembrance, a special season of programmes on the BBC marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Presenter/Richard Cork, Producer/Kate Bland
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| BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 9 November 2008 |
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The Living World Ep 1/5
Sunday 9 November
6.35-7.00am BBC RADIO 4
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The natural history series returns for a new run with a programme focusing on the Black-ash ground slug that calls Dartmoor home.
Growing up to a length of 12 inches, the slug lurks under dead trees during the day but at night slips into the dark to seek out vegetation of all kinds to eat, particularly elm.
Slugs can mate both hermaphroditically or with a partner. With a partner, the slugs hang on a long thread of mucus from a branch many feet above the ground and entwine themselves in a sexual embrace that can last all night.
Not only does this creature generate enormous inherent fascination, it also poses an important question: if one can mate with oneself, why mate with someone else? All will become clear...
Presenter/tbc, Producer/Julian Hector
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1918-2008 – NINETY YEARS OF REMEMBRANCE
Ceremony Of Remembrance From The Cenotaph
Sunday 9 November
10.30-11.45am BBC RADIO 4 (Title change 27 October)
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Nicholas Witchell sets the scene in London's Whitehall for the solemn ceremony when the nation remembers the sacrifice made by so many in the two World Wars and in other, more recent, conflicts.
The traditional music of remembrance is played by the Massed Bands and, after the Last Post and Two Minutes' Silence, Her Majesty The Queen lays the first wreath on behalf of nation and Commonwealth. The Bishop of London leads a short Service of Remembrance. During the March Past, Nicholas Witchell speaks to veterans about their memories of past conflicts and the dangers facing those who serve in the Armed Forces today.
This programme is part of 1918-2008 – Ninety Years Of Remembrance, a special season of programmes on the BBC marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Presenter/Nicholas Witchell, Producer/Simon Vivian
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1918-2008 – NINETY YEARS OF REMEMBRANCE
The Menin Gate
Sunday 9 November
11.45am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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The Menin Gate, in the small Belgian city of Ypres, stands as an extraordinary symbol of remembrance. The Last Post has sounded there every night since 1929 (barring during the Second World War) and it is the most visited site on the Western Front.
The Gate was commissioned by the British Government and completed in 1927 as a monument to the tens of thousands of Allied soldiers who have no known remains. Designed by Sir Richard Blomfield, it is both a classical victory arch and a mausoleum, covered inside and out with large panels into which are carved the names of 54,896 officers and men from the Commonwealth armies – all those who died in the "Ypres Salient" area between the outbreak of war and 15 August 1917.
In 1928, Ypres residents formed the Last Post Association and began a new ceremony that has proved remarkably enduring. At 8pm every evening, buglers from the local fire brigade play the Last Post. They have never missed a night, except during the Second World War, when the area was under German occupation.
For some years during the Nineties, people in Ypres saw visitor numbers decline but, in recent years, numbers have risen dramatically as a new, younger generation is learning about it and feeling the curious power of the Last Post at the Menin Gate.
The programme features an insightful contribution from Professor Jay Winter, the world's leading expert on remembrance, on the subtle significance of the Menin Gate. Listeners also hear from the children of the famous Christ's Hospital School Band, who open the evening's ceremony on the night the programme is recorded and talk about their experience of and reactions to it.
This programme is part of 1918-2008 – Ninety Years Of Remembrance, a special season of programmes on the BBC marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Producer/Mike Hally
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1918-2008
– NINETY YEARS OF REMEMBRANCE
Nobody Told Me To Oil My Boots
Sunday 9 November
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Sir Antony Sher tells the story of the "lost poet" of the trenches, Isaac Rosenberg, the troubled soldier who wrote to come to terms with not only conflict with the enemy but also the anti-semitism of his comrades in uniform.
Rosenberg, killed in the First World War, was a private, escaping the poverty of London's East End and his impoverished background as a British Jew. In his mother's eyes, the most unspeakable crime was to join the Army but this is precisely what he did – so that he could send her his pay. His story opens with his secret enlistment and the final harrowing months of training in England before he was sent to the Somme – the period when he wrote some of his most revealing poetry.
It is documented that new recruits Rosenberg in Suffolk and Wilfred Owen in London were issued with their Army boots at around the same time – and that Owen's officers told him how to soften the leather with castor oil. Rosenberg's told him nothing and he ended up in agony after the 10-mile marches. He was to spend the remainder of the War in the trenches and forests of the Somme, scribbling his poems by candlelight on scraps of wrapping paper.
Towards the end of the War, Rosenberg volunteered to return to the front line for a major offensive. He posted a short poem to a friend, before resuming his duties. By the time the envelope had been delivered, he had been killed in action.
This programme is part of 1918-2008 – Ninety Years Of Remembrance, a special season of programmes on the BBC marking the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War.
Presenter/Sir Antony Sher, Producer/Neil Cargill
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Historians In The Tent Of The General Ep 2/2
Sunday 9 November
10.45-11.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Andrew Roberts turns his attention to the UK, as he continues to explore why politicians consult historians and to whose benefit the relationship works.
With contributions from Roy Hattersley, Charles Powell, Kenneth O Morgan, Anthony Howard and Niall Ferguson, among others, the programme uncovers the close, often competitive and sometimes secretive relationship between historians and politicians.
Presenter/Andrew Roberts, Producer/Mark Rickards
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 9 November 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Sunday 9 November
12.00-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Eleanor Oldroyd presents an afternoon of live football. From 1.30pm, there's Barclays Premier League commentary on Blackburn v Chelsea at Ewood Park and, at 4pm, live coverage of Fulham v Newcastle from Craven Cottage, as well as updates from the day's other games.
The programme also features all the day's sports news and reports from tennis' Masters Cup at the Qi Zhong Stadium, Shanghai.
Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Ed King
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| BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Sunday 9 November 2008 |
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Tennis And Boxing
Sunday 9 November
6.00am-12.00noon BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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BBC 5 Live Sports Extra features uninterrupted commentary on the opening day's action of the Tennis Masters Cup from the Qi Zhong Stadium, Shanghai, followed by highlights of the light middleweight world title fight between Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jnr, held in New York earlier this morning.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 9 November 2008 |
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Stephen Merchant
Sunday 9 November
3.30-5.30pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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On the eve of his return to the West End with his latest stand-up show, comedian, actor, musician and game show panellist Bill Bailey joins Stephen Merchant in the studio to discuss what he has been up to.
Presenter/Stephen Merchant, Producers/James Stirling and Claire Slevin
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone
Sunday 9 November
5.30-8.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Stuart Maconie plays live archive material in Live Freaks, courtesy of Gentle Giant in session for John Peel in August 1972.
Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Producer/Henry Lopez-Real
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Sunday 9 November
12.00-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC |
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Bob Dylan rings the changes as he takes the telephone as his theme this week. His choices include: Talk To Me Baby by Elmore James; 842-3089 (Call Me) by Etta James; The People On My Party Line by Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson; and Little Milton's Long Distance Operator.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Sunday 9 November 2008 |
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The Forum
Sunday 9 November
9.05-9.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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BBC diplomatic correspondent Bridget Kendall hosts BBC World Service's weekly ideas discussion programme.
Conversation lies at the heart of the programme. The Forum explores thoughts, theories, opinions and beliefs from around the world, providing opportunities for intellectual discourse and debate across national, social and cultural divides.
Presenter/Bridget Kendall, Producers/Emily Kasriel and Estelle Doyle
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Heart And Soul – Aliens
Sunday 9 November
10.30-11.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE
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Heart And Soul asks if there's life on any other planets and, if there is, whether God had a hand in its creation.
A Nasa space telescope is currently on a mission to explore the Universe, sending back more detailed information than ever before about what is out there. Many scientists believe that, if life is found, it could be fundamentally different from our own.
In a new project in Arizona, astrobiologists are increasingly calling on theologians and philosophers to explore what it means to be human in light of research on extra-terrestrial life. As the human race begins searching for life beyond its biosphere, Heart And Soul considers how different religions view the world beyond and the implications for what it means to be "in God's image".
Presenter/Matt McGrath, Producer/Katy Hickman
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