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| BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 16 November 2008 |
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Good Morning Sunday
Sunday 16 November
7.00-9.00am BBC RADIO 2
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Aled Jones says "Good Morning Sunday" to Irish clerics, The Priests, as they embark upon a career in the music business with their debut album.
Brothers Eugene and Martin O'Hagen and Father David Delargy met at St MacNissi's College near Carnlough, in Co Antrim, where they realised their talents as a singing trio and were nicknamed "Holy Holy Holy", due to their shared determination to enter the priesthood.
Each now lives the life of a full-time parish priest, tending the spiritual needs of their parishioners and performing official duties at church services, but they have also signed to Sony BMG and release an album of religious and spiritually-inspired classics in November.
Aled's other guest is the celebrated children's author Michael Morpurgo, and Sara Saigol provides the Moment Of Reflection.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson
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Elaine Paige
Sunday 16 November
1.00-2.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Elaine Paige is joined by American lyricist David Zippel, who talks about his career in musical theatre.
His productions include the Tony Award-winning musical City Of Angels (Broadway 1989) featuring a book by Larry Gelbart and music by Cy Coleman; The Goodbye Girl (Broadway 1993), based on Neil Simon's 1977 screenplay, with music by Marvin Hamlisch; and The Woman In White (West End 2004) featuring music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
David also recalls his work in Hollywood for Walt Disney Pictures, including Hercules (1997) with music by Alan Menken (the song Go The Distance received an Academy Award nomination), and Mulan (1998) with music by Matthew Wilder (the music and lyrics also received an Academy Award nomination).
The programme features exclusive extracts from David's next musical while Malcolm's Big One comes from the Mel Brooks hit, The Producers (Broadway 2001).
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Sunday Half Hour
Sunday 16 November
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Brian D'Arcy celebrates the life of Margaret of Scotland with a selection of Scottish hymns, including Come Down O Love Divine, O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go and Now Thank We All Our God.
Ian McCrorie MBE directs choirs from Edinburgh and Glasgow and the organist is John Kitchen.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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| BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 16 November 2008 |
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Private Passions – Terence Blanchard
Sunday 16 November
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Michael Berkeley's guest today is the New Orleans-born trumpeter Terence Blanchard, who became a leading figure in the Jazz Resurgence movement of the Eighties, and has since pursued a highly successful dual career as a performer and as a composer of film scores, especially for director Spike Lee.
Terence is also artistic director of the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz, which is relocating to New Orleans as part of the city's post-Hurricane Katrina reconstruction. His music choices for Private Passions include works by Stravinsky, Debussy, Richard Strauss, Gershwin and Weather Report.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Classic Arts
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The Early Music Show
Sunday 16 November
1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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Lucie Skeaping presents a programme featuring the music of Italian composer Alessandro Stradella. Born into a noble family in Tuscany in the 17th century, Stradella was a much-respected composer in his day and capitalised on his family connections with noble patrons. Although he seemed to lead a charmed life, it was also peppered with various scandals, and ended tragically early at the age of 42, when he was stabbed by an assassin for reasons which are still unclear.
Lucie plays a selection of his music, including part of his oratorio, San Giovanni Battista, and finds out more about this intriguing composer.
Presenter/Lucie Skeaping, Producer/Rebecca Bean
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Discovering Music –
Vaughan Williams Symphony No. 6
Sunday 16 November
5.00-6.30pm BBC RADIO 3
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Stephen Johnson explores Vaughan Williams's extraordinary Sixth Symphony, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Martyn Brabbins.
First heard in 1948, the violence and dissonance in Vaughan Williams's Sixth Symphony came as a huge shock after the serenity of Symphony No. 5. Vaughan Williams always denied this work was a "war" symphony, but in some passages war imagery is hard to ignore. The first wild three movements are complex both rhythmically and harmonically, after which the work ends with a desolate and haunting epilogue.
Presenter/Stephen Johnson, Producer/Rebecca Bean
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Drama
On 3 – Tamburlaine: Shadow Of God
Sunday 16 November
8.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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As war swirls around them, three important figures in the history of the Middle and Near East are brought together in fierce debate: how can a successful society be built, and what does it need to do to endure?
The play draws together three of the most important figures in the history of the Middle and Near East – Tamburlaine, conqueror of the world, and two of his contemporaries: Ibn Khaldun, the world's first sociologist, and Hafez, the great Sufi mystic and poet.
Tambulaine: Shadow Of God is a blood-soaked history and a serious debate, exploring three very different views of the philosophy on which a successful society should be built, and the values it needs to espouse in order to endure.
Jeffery Kissoon plays Tambulaine, John Rowe plays Ibn Khaldun with Conleth Hill as Hafez. The cast also includes Jonathan Taffler, Inam Mirza, Stephen Critchlow, Dan Starkey, Donna Hughes, Chris Pavlo, Gunnar Cauthery and Robert Lonsdale.
John Fletcher has written over 50 plays and documentaries including Death And The Tango, which won a Giles Cooper Award, and the Sony Award-winning adaptations of the Davis Grubb novel and celebrated film Night Of The Hunter.
Producer/Marc Beeby
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Sunday Feature –
A New Image For The Housing Estate
Sunday 16 November
9.30-10.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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Housing estates: a concrete hell or a visionary architectural statement? For French architect Le Corbusier, it was the dream of vertical villages with streets in the sky – for people in many British cities, it was the reality of a flat in a tower block. Today's image of the council estate as a bleak home to louts and drug dealers has been popularised in the media (for example, the Chatsworth Estate in TV's Shameless) but what do the people who live on these estates feel, and how are architects and planners rethinking this solution to the housing crisis?
Author and education consultant Dreda Say Mitchell, winner of the Crime Writers Association's Memorial Dagger Award, grew up on an estate in East London, and uses housing estates as the inspiration for her bestselling crime novels. In today's Sunday Feature, Dreda returns to her childhood home and – with the help of her family, friends and former neighbours – sets out to explore both the image and the reality of daily life on a housing estate. Contributors also include housing designer Wayne Hemingway, author Lynsey Hanley and professor of social policy Anne Power.
Producer/Rebecca Nicholson
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Jazz Line-Up
Sunday 16 November
11.30pm-1.30am BBC RADIO 3
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Pianist and composer Keith Tippett is widely recognised as a pioneer in contemporary music. Tonight's specially devised London Jazz Festival concert, recorded exclusively for BBC Radio 3 last Friday, reflects key facets of his music as both improviser and composer.
The concert includes two landmark duets: the first with the piano duo T'n'T and British jazz legend Stan Tracey and the second with Keith Tippett's long-term partner, Julie Tippetts, showcasing her extraordinary vocal dynamic. Tippett's quintessentially English approach to composition is epitomised in a further collaboration with the Elysian Quartet.
Producer/Keith Loxam
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| BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 16 November 2008 |
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Desert Island Discs
Sunday 16 November
11.15-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4
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This week, Kirsty Young's guest is the Conservative MP David Davis.
Born in 1948, David was raised on a council estate in south London. He became an MP aged 37 and has previously been Conservative Party Chairman.
Earlier this year he controversially resigned his Haltemprice and Howden seat as MP in protest at plans to change legislation so terrorist suspects could be detained for up to 42 days without charge. He easily regained his seat but lost his Shadow Cabinet post.
David speaks to Kirsty about his life and the music he would take with him if he was stranded on BBC Radio 4's mythical Desert Island.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
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War Of The Roses Ep 1/4
Sunday 16 November
2.45-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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This four-part series follows a Somerset town in its bid to win one of the largest and most hotly competed horticultural events in Europe – the Royal Horticultural Society's Britain In Bloom competition.
Presenter Wesley Kerr follows Taunton as it sets its sights on winning the Best Large Town award. The town has twice been a finalist, but never taken the top spot.
In programme one, competitors or "bloomers" across the country gather at the National Seminar in Scarborough to get tips on how to get that gold medal.
Taunton's "bloomers" believe that this year they deserve to win gold and take the elusive Best Large Town award. The programme hears about initiatives aimed at improving the town, council estates and parks, as well as helping both police and young offenders, proving there is more to the competition than hanging baskets.
Presenter/Wesley Kerr, Producer/Tamsin Barber
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The Good Soldier Svejk Ep 1/2
Sunday 16 November
3.00-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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The Good Soldier Svejk by Jaroslav Hasek tells the story of Josef Svejk and his adventures in the army during the First World War.
Following the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Europe is thrown into the First World War and Svejk, played by Sam Kelly, goes along for the ride. He is assigned to be the batman of Reverend Otto Katz, played by James Quinn, a drunk who loses him in a card game to Lieutenant Lukas.
Lukas is a ladies man, and initially enamoured with Svejk. But when Svejk steals a dog for Lukas it lands them both in trouble and subsequently they are sent to the front line. Along the way, Svejk is arrested for having no papers and mistaken for a Russian spy, yet still returns to Lukas in time to assist him with more amorous pursuits.
The Good Soldier Svejk also stars Adrian Lukis, Arthur Bostrom, Eric Potts, Mark Chatterton, Howard Chadwick, Stuart Richman, Fiona Clarke and Bernard Wrigley.
Producer/Gary Brown
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Poetry From The Front Line
Sunday 16 November
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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 Jonathan Charles investigates
the poetry being written in
response to conflicts in Iraq
and Afghanistan BBC War correspondent Jonathan Charles finds out about the poetry being written as a result of the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Jonathan talks to soldiers and relatives of soldiers who have died about the poetry which has helped them express themselves, as well as visiting Combat Stress, a charity which uses poetry to relieve the stress of military service.
With contributions from US soldier and published poet Brian Turner, the programme asks whether poetry is still acting as a means of catharsis as it did for the famous First World War poets.
Presenter/Jonathan Charles, Producer/Laura Parfitt
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 16 November 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Sunday 16 November
12.00-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 Live
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Eleanor Oldroyd presents an afternoon of live Barclays Premier League football: from 1.30pm there's commentary of Everton v Middlesbrough live from Goodison Park, and at 4pm live coverage of Hull v Manchester City comes from the KC Stadium.
There's also coverage of all the day's sports news and reports from the final day of the 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 16 November 2008 |
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Tennis
Sunday 16 November
8.00-10.30am BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
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Live uninterrupted commentary comes from the final of the season-ending Tennis Masters Cup at the Qi Zhong Stadium, Shanghai.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 16 November 2008 |
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Jon Richardson
Sunday 16 November
10.00am-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Jon Richardson welcomes comedian David O'Doherty into the studio. Dubliner David won the if.comedy award for Best Show at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival with his show "Let's Comedy". He is currently touring his award-winning show around the UK and Canada.
Presenter/Jon Richardson, Producer/Adam Hudson
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Huey Morgan
Sunday 16 November
2.00-3.30pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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Fun Lovin' Criminal, Huey Morgan, brings his New York blend of soul, hip hop, latin jazz and funk to a Sunday afternoon. This week he is joined by fellow band member, Fast, for his Reggae Rarity, plus a listener introduces Huey to the best of British in School Britannia.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Simon Barnard
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Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone
Sunday 16 November
5.30-8.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC
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This evening's Freak Zone includes live Modal Jazz grooves in Live Freaks, care of Yusef Lateef, recorded at Café Pep's in 1964.
Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Producer/Henry Lopez-Real
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Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Sunday 16 November
12.00-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC
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Bob Dylan takes the Bible as his theme this week. His choices include Samson And Delilah by Rev Gary Davis, He Will Set Your Fields On Fire by Kitty Wells, Adam Come And Get Your Rib by Wynonie Harris, I'm Using My Bible As A Roadmap by Reno And Smiley and John The Revelator by Blind Willie Johnson.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Frank Wilson
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