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RADIO 1 Monday 24 November 2008 |
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International
Radio 1
Monday 24 to Thursday 27 November
9.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 1
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Kissy Sell Out crosses the Channel to bring listeners a guided tour of the musical sights and sounds of Paris, as International Radio 1 returns to the airwaves with four more programmes from Monday to Thursday this week.
Launched earlier this year, the series features specialist DJs broadcasting their shows from around the world and bringing listeners a taste of the scene in each new place.
Presenter/Kissy Sell Out, Producer/David Hillier
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| BBC RADIO 2 Monday 24 November 2008 |
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Radcliffe And Maconie
Monday 24 November
8.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 2
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Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds perform live in session on tonight's show.
The band, who are currently on a UK tour, perform three tracks and chat to Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie.
Last month, Cave picked up his seventh Aria (Australian Record Industry Association) award, this time for Best Male Artist. Currently working with Warren Ellis on the score for The Road, he is due to present this year's Turner Prize at Tate Britain in December.
Presenters/Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producer/John Leonard
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Jools Holland
Monday 24 November
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2
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Adele, the singer-songwriter from London whose debut album was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize earlier this year, is Jools Holland's guest this week.
Adele performs some of her songs with Jools and his Rhythm Section and Jools shares some tracks from his personal record collection.
Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston
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For The Good Times –
The Kris Kristofferson Story Ep 4/4
Monday 24 November
11.30pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Steve Earle concludes this look at the life and work of singer-songwriter Kris Kristofferson.
In tonight's final episode, producer Don Was (Was Not Was) talks about working with Kris on 1995's Moment Of Forever and This Old Road – an album which has been compared to Johnny Cash's American Recordings. Cash's daughter, Rosanne, shares her thoughts on this comparison and recalls the pride she felt in being able to give Kristofferson the Johnny Cash Visionary Award in 2007.
Country music historian Tamara Saviano talks about The Pilgrim, a tribute album released to mark Kristofferson's 70th birthday in 2006, and listeners hear from some of the contributing artists, as well as musicians influenced by his work.
Finally, listeners can catch up with Kris Kristofferson and hear about his life in 2008.
Presenter/Steve Earle, Producer/Helen Chetwynd
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| BBC RADIO 3 Monday 24 November 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Pachelbel Ep 1/5
Monday 24 to Friday 28 November
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3 |
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Pachelbel's Canon is one of the best-known and best-loved pieces in all classical music. By contrast, Johann Pachelbel himself is almost completely unknown, forgotten along with the vast majority of his music. This is a great pity as there is a huge body of glorious music by Pachelbel to be discovered. His Canon is actually quite typical – artfully and rigorously constructed, but always wearing its artifice lightly. It doesn't dazzle or shout its genius, possessing a simple, understated kind of beauty, and throughout there is a singing, human quality that's uniquely Pachelbel.
These virtues can be found in all of his music, which is as simply appealing as it is cleverly wrought. Donald Macleod looks at how history has treated Pachelbel in the first of this week's Composer Of The Week offerings, having left listeners with a scant handful of documents from which to reconstruct his life story. Donald sees how Pachelbel's location in the central region of 17th-century Germany allowed him to blend the intellectual style of the north with the lyrical mode of the south in his music.
Donald uncovers a treasure trove of musical jewels by this little-known composer, whose life and music, other than his world-famous Canon, remain stubbornly obscure. Music featured in the programme includes Pachelbel's Canon and Gigue; Jauchzet gott alle lande; Musicalische ergötzung: Partie No.6; Aria Tertia and Jauchzet dem herrn.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Taylor
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Afternoon On 3
Monday 24 to Friday 28 November
2.00-5.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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BBC Radio 3 offers listeners a rare opportunity to get a flavour of the musical life of Norway and Sweden in this week's Afternoon On 3 concerts.
This year is a big cultural year for the two Scandinavian nations. Stavanger, in southern Norway, is European Capital of Culture – along with Liverpool – and Penny Gore investigates what this means musically. Orchestras from both Norway and Sweden triumphed at the 2008 BBC Proms, and Afternoon On 3 offers opportunities to hear both of them again this week, including the Gothenburg Symphony with their charismatic young Venezuelan conductor, Gustavo Dudamel, and the Oslo Philharmonic with their Finnish music director, Jukka-Pekka Saraste.
The music director of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Harding, conducts a new four-movement version of Bruckner's unfinished Ninth Symphony. Also featured in the programme is Monteverdi's opera The Return Of Ulysses, from the beautiful old theatre at Drottningholm, near Stockholm, and two anniversaries are celebrated - the centenary of Norwegian composer Geirr Tveitt and, not far behind, the birthday of Sweden's greatest choral conductor, Eric Ericson, who is 90 this year and still going strong.
Presenter/Penny Gore, Producer/David Gallagher
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| BBC RADIO 4 Monday 24 November 2008 |
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Book
Of The Week – Arthur Miller Ep 1/5
Monday 24 to Friday 28 November
9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4
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 The life of Arthur Miller comes
under the spotlight A biography of one of the 20th century's greatest playwrights, Arthur Miller, features in this week's Book Of The Week offering, read by Henry Goodman.
Arthur Miller was a prominent figure in American literature and cinema for more than 60 years, writing a wide variety of plays – including The Crucible, A View From The Bridge, All My Sons and Death Of A Salesman – which are still performed, studied and lauded throughout the world.
Born in 1915, Miller began writing during the Depression – a period that left an indelible mark on him and his family and on the national psyche. Like many young people at the time, Miller found hope for the beleaguered common man in Communism.
This Book Of The Week sheds new light on this influential and widely respected playwright from his childhood in Harlem and Brooklyn; his relationship with his salesman father, whose clothing empire collapsed with the Depression; his first-hand experience of the working man's lot as a labourer in the Brooklyn Shipping Yard; his early encounters with Marxism; his three marriages to Mary Slattery, Marilyn Monroe and Inge Morath; and his famous appearance in front of the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee, when he refused to give evidence against others.
Christopher Bigsby's biography is based on boxes of papers made available to him before Miller's death, as well as his own interviews with Miller and those closest to him. It also explores the genesis of, and reception to, his most important plays, All My Sons, Death Of A Salesman and The Crucible.
Reader/Henry Goodman, Producer/Emma Harding
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Woman's Hour Drama –
Aubrey's Brief Lives Ep 1/5
Monday 24 to Friday 28 November
10.45-11.00am BBC RADIO 4 |
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This week's Woman's Hour Drama offers the choicest anecdotes from John Aubrey's eccentric, gossipy 17th-century masterpiece, Brief Lives, set against the touching and comic story of the literary friendship that produced it.
John Aubrey wrote Brief Lives as research notes for the Oxford antiquarian Anthony Wood. Shaken by their experiences of plague, fire and regicide, both men wanted to preserve the past before it was gone for ever. The genial but penniless Aubrey, who knew everyone, was the perfect choice as a researcher for the comically misanthropic and crabby Wood, who had driven away every friend he'd ever had. The story of their 'odd couple' friendship – complete with laughter and betrayal – is told across the week, punctuated by Aubrey's chronicles of human folly, loyalty and peculiarity.
James Fleet stars as John Aubrey, with John Rowe as Anthony Wood.
Nick Warburton has written more than 30 radio plays for the BBC, winning the BBC/Radio Times Drama award and the 2005 Tinniswood Award along the way. He was recently nominated for an Arts Foundation Fellowship by Alan Ayckbourn.
Producer/Abigail le Fleming
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Points Of Entry Ep 1/5
Monday 24 to Friday 28 November
3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4
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Points Of Entry is a new series which features a week of non-fiction and short stories by immigrant writers who now live in the United Kingdom.
Four of the pieces explore the welcome they and their characters received when they arrived, spanning the last 50 years. The final piece explores one of the many reasons that leads those seeking shelter and refuge to Britain's shores.
The five writers are Hungarian poet and translator George Szirtes; South African novelist Gillian Slovo; Pakistani scholar and writer Ziauddin Sardar; novelist Brian Chikwava, from Zimbabwe; and Hassan Bahri, from Syria.
Producer/Liz Allard
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
A Load Of Rubbish Ep 1/5
Monday 24 to Friday 28 November
3.45-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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The concept of rubbish barely existed until the mid-20th century but, in the 21st century, it threatens to overwhelm us. Travel writer Ian Marchant explores the hidden infrastructure of rubbish as, increasingly, our noses are being rubbed in our own waste – yet we still don't have much idea about what actually happens to it.
In today's opener, Ian travels to the London Borough Of Brent, which has recently introduced compulsory recycling – with the threat of a £1,000 fine for any resident who doesn't use a green recycling box. Ian spends a day with the council's waste advisers, knocking on the doors of those households that seem reluctant to comply.
In other programmes, Ian visits a state-of-the-art plastic bottle recycling factory, the country's first dedicated food anaerobic digester, the secret railway line that, by night, takes Bristol's waste into the Buckinghamshire countryside, and one of the Thames barges that takes the capital's rubbish downstream to Essex.
Producer/Jolyon Jenkins
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Born With Down's
Monday 24 November
8.00-8.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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Frances, Louise and Kerry-Ann are part of a growing trend: women going ahead with pregnancies knowing that their babies will be born with Down's Syndrome. The figures for such births are higher now than before prenatal testing was introduced.
The increasing number of Down's Syndrome births isn't confined to any one age group. Although there is a higher risk of Down's with older mothers, the average maternal age is actually 28 – with 80 per cent of babies born to mothers under 35. Today's programme focuses on three friends – Kerry-Ann, a 21-year-old single mum; Louise, 25, who made a decision with her husband that they could cope, only for him to leave her when the reality proved more difficult than they'd imagined; and Frances, who has a 14-year-old daughter and wanted a baby with her new husband.
Felicity Finch follows the women as they deal with their everyday lives. In a society where a Down's Syndrome baby has featured on EastEnders and with Sarah Palin taking her Down's Syndrome baby on the presidential campaign trail, there is a belief that anything is possible. The life expectancy for those born with Down's has doubled over the last decade, and those born today have a much better chance of surviving into their sixties. But, as Leanne, Louise and Kerry-Ann reveal, the decisions they've made haven't been easy.
Presenter/Felicity Finch, Producer/Sue Mitchell
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 24 November 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Monday 24 November
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents all the day's sports news and is joined by John Motson, for The Monday Night Club, to discuss the latest football news.
From 8pm, listeners can hear live Barclays Premier League commentary of Wigan v Everton from the JJB Stadium.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Louise Sutton
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 24 November 2008 |
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Gideon Coe
Monday 24 November
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe plays concert highlights from We Are Scientists' South By South West appearance in 2006 on his show this evening. The featured sessions come from indie cuties The Lotus Eaters, recorded for John Peel in 1982, and art punks Subway Sect, from their debut Peel session of 1977.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
6 Music Plays It Again –
My Top Ten: Peter Gabriel Ep 1/2
Monday 24 November
12.00midnight-12.30am BBC 6 MUSIC
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Listeners have another chance to hear a programme first broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1986, in which Peter Gabriel chooses his favourite pieces of music and talks to Andy Peebles about his life and work.
Among his selections are songs by Otis Redding, Talking Heads, Nina Simone and Jimi Hendrix.
The series concludes tomorrow.
Presenter/Andy Peebles, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 24 November 2008 |
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Dr Masud has lined up a plumber as Shazia's next suitor, but Iqbal doesn't think an MP will be interested in him, in the first of this week's visits to Silver Street. To the doctor's delight, however, they seem to get on - but is Shazia just being friendly?
Roopa, meanwhile, is determined to make sure Aidan stays off the drugs. Later, Aidan is annoyed when he discovers that Roopa phoned the band to double check he is keeping his promise – if she doesn't trust him, what is the point?
Dr Masud is played by Saeed Jaffrey, Shazia by Shobu Kapoor, Iqbal by Rohit Gokani, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar and Aidan by Arkie Reece.
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