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Friday 28 November 2008

BBC RADIO 2 Friday 28 November 2008

1918-2008 – NINETY YEARS OF REMEMBRANCE Private Peaceful Ep 4/4 Friday 28 November 9.15-9.30pm BBC RADIO 2 www.bbc.co.uk/remembrance

As part of BBC Radio 2's Remembrance programming, Robson Green reads the final part of the four-part abridgement of Michael Morpurgo's classic novel set during the First World War.

In Promises To Keep, sentence is passed on Private Peaceful and, through the night, he cherishes every minute until dawn.

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

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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 28 November 2008

Donald Macleod comes to the end of his survey of the life and work of Pachelbel, looking at the achievements of his final years as the most important musician in the city of Nuremberg and the whole of central Germany. Pachelbel wrote some of his finest music during this period, but it is only now being rescued from obscurity.

Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Taylor

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Afternoon On 3 this week has offered a rare opportunity to get a flavour of the musical life of Norway and Sweden. The main work today is Monteverdi's opera The Return Of Ulysses, from this summer's Festival in the beautiful Drottningholm Court Theatre at the palace of the Swedish royal family just outside Stockholm.

Swede Ann Hallenberg stars as Penelope, the long-suffering wife of Ulysses, whose wanderlust has kept him away from home for 20 years. Ulysses – sung by the Finn Petteri Salomaa – may have been amusing himself with other women, but Penelope has fended off all suitors. But this doesn't stop them hanging around her palace. So what will happen when her husband finally decides to go home?

Presenter/Penny Gore, Producer/David Gallagher

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Performance On 3 – BBC Symphony Orchestra Friday 28 November 7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3

Soprano Sally Matthews

Carl Orff's hugely popular choral work Carmina Burana gets a live performance from the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus with a star-studded cast which includes soprano Sally Matthews, tenor John Graham Hall and baritone William Dazeley.

Carmina Burana is based on 13th-century poems, whose ale-swilling monks, pompous abbots, flagrant lovers and assorted gluttons are portrayed through the score's unstoppable energy.

The live concert opens with the UK première of a major new Czech work, which continues the medieval theme. It is by Svatopluk Havelka, a central composer of the Czech "New Wave" school of film music, now in his early eighties. The work attracted worldwide acclaim following the première in 1974 of his Homage To Hieronymus Bosch, a work that depicts Bosch's paintings of late medieval life.

The whole concert is being filmed so music lovers can watch the performance in high-quality vision – as well as listen to it – for seven days at bbc.co.uk/radio3.

The BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus are joined by Trinity Boys' Choir and the concert is conducted by Jakub Hrusa.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Ellie Mant

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The Verb Friday 28 November 9.15-10.00pm BBC RADIO 3

Ian McMillan is joined by public art poet Ira Lightman in a special edition of The Verb, live from the Radio Theatre at BBC Broadcasting House.

Presenter/Ian McMillan, Producer/Laura Thomas

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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 28 November 2008

Widower and librarian Leo Silver is about to reluctantly retire. He is sorting out the literary chaos in the library cellar when Aleya, a young Muslim girl, seeks refuge after a furious argument with her father.

She has been spending time at the library and her growing interest in the arts has clashed with family expectations. Leo implores her to return home, but her plight touches him as he has a rather strained relationship with his own daughter. Eventually he agrees to let her sleep in the cellar for one night, but it is to be a night that will change all their lives.

Edward Halsted plays Leo, in this Afternoon Play offering, with Ruth D'Silva as Aleya, Gunnar Cauthery as Isaac and Paul Bhattacharjee as Aleya's father.

Bernard Kops, the play's author, was born in 1926 in the East End of London to Dutch-Jewish working-class parents. He achieved recognition with his first play The Hamlet Of Stepney Green. Since then he has written more than 40 plays for stage and radio, nine novels and seven volumes of poetry. Today's broadcast also marks this prolific writer's 82nd birthday.

Producer/David Hunter

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The Now Show Ep 1/6 Friday 28 November 6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team return for a new series of the long-running BBC Radio 4 comedy favourite. The Now Show also features Marcus Brigstocke, Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin and Mitch Benn.

Producer/Colin Anderson

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The Last Time I Saw Richard is a documentary drama about the life and death of the Sri Lankan journalist and newsreader Richard de Zoysa.

Richard was abducted in the early hours of 18 February 1990 and the following day his body was found washed ashore. He had been shot in the head. He was 32.

Richard de Zoysa was born into the upper echelons of Sri Lankan society, his father Singhalese, his mother Tamil. His early life encompassed the worlds of film and theatre as both a writer and an actor, and he achieved prominence as a newsreader on the main Sri Lankan television channel before going on to become a high-profile investigative journalist.

Richard was intelligent, handsome and articulate, and also homosexual in a country where it remains unlawful. Intellectually and politically he was a humanitarian liberal, rigorous with his socialist beliefs but never partisan to any party ideology.

The Last Time I Saw Richard is set in the years leading up to 1990 – a time when the Sri Lankan government was cracking down on the Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (the JVP), then an ultra-Marxist organisation to which Richard de Zoysa was probably allied.

Producer/Roger Elswood

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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 28 November 2008

Mark Pougatch previews the weekend's sporting action, including the Barclays Premier League games between Stoke and Hull, the London derby between Chelsea and Arsenal and the Manchester derby between City and United at Eastlands.

From 9pm, Matt Dawson presents 5 Live Rugby Special, looking ahead to the weekend's rugby union autumn Test matches between England and New Zealand, and Wales and Australia.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Francesca Bent

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BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 28 November 2008

Nemone is joined by David O'Doherty, who won this year's If.comedy award at the Edinburgh Fringe for his show Let's Comedy, which featured a relationship in text messages, tunes played on a 3-foot keyboard and a badger attack.

Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

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The Rock Show hears from Michael Monroe, lead singer of Finnish heavy metal band Hanoi Rocks.

Formed back in 1980, the group have drawn much of their loud and flamboyant sound and inspiration from Seventies glam rock. They've survived and endured for three decades despite tragedy, changes to their line-up and rock's changing fads and fashions.

Michael speaks about the band's shock decision to call it quits next year and about the plans they all have for the future.

Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan

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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Friday 28 November 2008

The sheesha lounge officially opens successfully, despite opposition from Chunky and Mary, as the Asian drama continues. Chunky gets more vocal after a few drinks and Vinnie tries to placate him but, in the end, it's Arun's brainwave that works.

Later, Mani tells Kuljit they can put the past behind them now that Jodie knows none of it was Kuljit's fault. This gets Kuljit thinking. If that's true, why isn't Jodie asking him to move back in with her?

Chunky is played by Shahid Ahmed, Mary by Carole Nimmons, Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed, Arun by Naithan Ariane, Mani by Kaleem Janjua, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal and Jodie by Vineeta Rishi.

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