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| BBC RADIO 2 Monday 8 December 2008 |
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In Dreams – The Roy Orbison Story Ep 2/4
Monday 8 December
11.30pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2
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Mark Lamarr presents this new four-part series marking 20 years since the death of Roy Orbison.
This second programme looks at the Monument years when Orbison's hits really started coming. Interviewees include David Lynch, Don McLean and archive from the Big O himself.
Presenter/Mark Lamarr, Producer/Anna Harrison
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| BBC RADIO 3 Monday 8 December 2008 |
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Composer Of The Week – Schumann Ep 1/5
Monday 8 to Friday 12 December
12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3
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"Behind every great man is a great woman" and nowhere is this old adage more apt than in the relationship between Robert and Clara Schumann. Donald Macleod explores a partnership that is unique in musical history. Drawn together by their common musical experiences, theirs was a marriage of mutual emotional dependency. Clara was also the inspiration for some of Robert's music, which is featured throughout the week.
In today's programme, the young Robert is in Leipzig, following his mother's wishes for him to study law. But a musical house party in 1828, at which he meets Friedrich Wieck and his little virtuoso daughter Clara, sees Robert instead pursuing his dream "to devote myself entirely to music".
Music includes Myrten, Widmung, Polonaise No. 6 in E major, ABEGG variations, Papillons and Improvisations On A Theme Of Clara Wieck.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Rebecca Warner
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Performance
on 3 – BBC Radio 3 Choir Of The Year
Monday
8 December
7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3 |
After months of fierce competition between more than 200 singing groups, involving over 5,000 singers, the BBC Radio 3 Choir Of The Year competition reaches its climax as the remaining six choirs compete for the ultimate victory at London's Royal Festival Hall. Petroc Trelawny introduces the grand final, recorded yesterday at the Royal Festival Hall and hosted by Aled Jones.
BBC Radio 3 Choir Of The Year is the UK's largest amateur choral competition and was the inspiration for BBC One's Last Choir Standing. Only Men Aloud, the winners of that competition, make a special guest appearance in this show.
The singing extravaganza follows the action as the six choirs – performing in a vast array of musical styles – compete across four categories: Children's (majority of singers 14 years and under), Youth (majority of singers 18 years and under), Adult and Open (no age restrictions). Four of the six finalists will already be winners of the categories above, along with two "best of the rest" wild cards, but they'll all be competing for the British choir world's most prestigious title.
The judges are a distinguished panel of musical experts, including Howard Goodall, the Government's 'music tsar' and composer of famous theme tunes including Mr Bean, Blackadder and The Vicar Of Dibley; Last Choir Standing judge Suzi Digby; eminent conductor Vasily Petrenko; multi-disciplined singer-songwriter and composer Paul Gladstone Reid; and singer, teacher and Operatunity judge Mary King.
Choir Of The Year was launched in 1984 to provide a nation-wide shop window for the best of amateur singing groups. The BBC has been a broadcast partner throughout the competition's history and BBC Radio 3 has supported it directly since 2004.
Since the competition began, 120,000 singers from over 2,000 choirs have taken part, singing in front of live audiences totalling nearly 75,000 people. Open to all, the competition is free and is hoped to encourage participation in singing across all age groups and local communities. The competition is open to any size group of singers from 8 to 100, is judged live, and has no age, style or music choice restrictions.
Presenter/ Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Brian Jackson
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The
Essay – John Milton Ep 1/5
Monday 8 to Friday 12 December
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3
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As well writing the great poems, John Milton was engaged - embroiled even - in revolutionary politics and social, marital and theological upheaval. He wrote many essays, pamphlets and tracts, so, in the week when BBC Radio 3 commemorates the 400th anniversary of his birth, The Essay is devoted to John Milton as an essayist.
Today, Martyn Crucefix, a poet who also teaches in a secondary school, responds to Milton's Of Education. This was written in 1644, when he was engaged in an urgent debate about how the Church should be organised and how the State should be governed. Martyn finds that, just as more recent governments have declared, Milton believed that "education, education, education" needed to lie at the heart of this project.
Presenter/Martyn Crucefix, Producer/Julian May
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Jazz On 3 –
Herbie Hancock At The 2008 London Jazz Festival
Monday 8 December
11.15pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 3
(Schedule ammendment Thursday 20 November) |
Jez Nelson presents a concert by Grammy Award-winning pianist, Herbie Hancock, one of the highlights of the 2008 London Jazz Festival. Performing to a sell-out crowd at the Barbican, Hancock plays music from classic albums such as Headhunters and Speak Like A Child. The stellar line-up of musicians joining him includes: New Orleans trumpeter Terence Blanchard; Benin-born guitarist and vocalist Lionel Loueke; Gregoire Maret on harmonica; bassist James Genus; and talented young drummer Kendrick Scott.
Since Herbie Hancock's emergence on the scene as part of Donald Byrd's band in 1961 he has been at the forefront of almost every major development in modern jazz. Whether it be joining Miles Davis's second classic quintet and adopting the electronic piano as his instrument of choice, going platinum with the groundbreaking funk-jazz fusion of his Headhunters album, or joining the MTV generation with his revolutionary use of early electro and rap in the Eighties, Hancock has always pushed the boundaries and been a true musical trailblazer.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Chris Ackerley
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| BBC RADIO 4 Monday 8 December 2008 |
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Woman's Hour Drama –
To The North Ep 1/5
Monday
8 December
10.45-11.00am BBC RADIO 4
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Elizabeth Bowen's novel captures the spirit of restlessness and liberation in 20th-century London between the two world wars.
Emmeline runs a small travel agency in Bloomsbury and lives in St John's Wood with her sister-in-law, Cecilia, the young widow of her brother, Henry. Cecilia, returning home on a train from Italy, makes a chance acquaintance with Mark Linklater ("Markie"), a deeply ambitious and socially notorious barrister, but it is Emmeline who embarks upon a fatal affair with Markie, while Cecilia settles for the sensible and devoted Julian Tower.
Emmeline, pushed to the limit by the impossibilities of her relationship with Markie, offers to drive him to King's Cross. Instead, however, she turns up the Finchley Road, where their lives will end in a last journey To The North.
Producer/Marilyn Imrie
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Young Governors Take Control Ep 1/2
Monday 8 December
11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4
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A two-part documentary discovers what happened to the trainee prison governors featured in BBC Radio 4's The Young Governors three years on.
In April 2006, in an intimate and revealing portrait, Clare English reported on the recruitment and first year of three new recruits to the Intensive Development Scheme. This training scheme took graduates straight from university rapidly into prison management.
Isabel Taylor came second in the national Governor exams and the 26-year-old's childhood dream of governing a prison has finally been realised. In the programme, listeners discover whether the job lives up to her expectations. Harriet Strickland also graduated in record time and is working as a governor at HMP Holloway in London, despite never having wanted to work in a women's prison. Scott Bumby is also in London, at Wormwood Scrubs, waiting to pass his final exams. And Richard Stedman, already a junior governor in the first series, has moved over to the private sector where he is in charge of a unit of young offenders.
The two programmes feature candid insights into the governor's role within a prison, and show the impact of sentencing policy, mental health provision and public opinion on their work. As experts warn of a system on the precipice, the young governors reveal how their views have changed, the mistakes they believe they have made and how they would improve the system.
Producer/Deborah Dudgeon
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Afternoon Play – The End Of The Alphabet
Monday 8 December
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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Juliet Stevenson and David Haig star in an adaption of The End Of The Alphabet by C.S. Richardson, shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, about a poignant romance and the last days of a loving marriage.
The themes covered are vast: art; life; death; and love, centred on the real and simple lives of two central characters whose routine is exploded when Ambrose Zephyr learns, around his 50th birthday, that he has only one month to live.
Frantic plans ensue to enable him to travel the globe alphabetically from Amsterdam to Zanzibar with his beloved wife, Zappora Ashkenazi. The two of them have been everything to each other for all the years of a quietly happy marriage.
The play follows their progress across Europe through Amsterdam, Berlin, Chartres, Florence and even Gaza. It is impossible for Ambrose to travel from A to Z, but, in the journey he and Zappora do make, they discover what they already knew: that love is something longer than the alphabet and wider than geography.
Juliet Stevenson plays Zappora with David Haig as Ambrose. Adam Godley is the narrator, and the cast also includes Carolyn Pickles and Philip Fox.
Producer/Di Speirs
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
80 Not Out Ep 1/5
Monday 8 to Friday 12 December
3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4
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A series of five short stories marking the 80th birthday of Bernard Cribbins, who is joined by other legendary octogenarians Jill Balcon, Alec McCowen and Sir Donald Sinden.
At The Forest's Edge by David Pownall is a haunting story surrounding the complex relationship between a father and his decidedly independent daughter.
The Iceman Returneth by Stephen Wyatt is a story of both time and memory. After lying frozen for thousands of years, an iceman begins to thaw. Memories return to him of a family and a battle, but the man who has discovered him starts to blame him for all manner of incidents.
A Shocking Incident by Graham Greene tells the story of a young man who is very nervous about telling his bride-to-be exactly how his father died in a freak accident in Naples, when he was only a small boy at boarding school.
In A Madman's Manuscript by Charles Dickens, a man locked in his prison cell recalls the treacherous machinations which led him into a loveless marriage and the events leading up to a gruesome murder.
Complimentary Souls by EF Benson is a comic story of American excess in Europe and lost love rekindled after many years.
Producer/Martin Jenkins
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Beyond Belief Ep 1/13
Monday 8 December
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4
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The Sony Award-winning series Beyond Belief returns with a new series of programmes exploring the place of faith in today's complex world.
Ernie Rea is joined every week by three guests who discuss how their particular religious tradition affects their values and way of looking at the world, often revealing hidden and contradictory truths.
Throughout the series, panel guests listen to a personal story which challenges their point of view and forces them to place their faith and values within the context of real-life experiences.
Presenter/Ernie Rea, Producer/Rosemary Dawson
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Behind the Scenes With Carbon Dioxide
Monday 8 December
9.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 4
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This programme explores the story of the Scottish chemist who described carbon dioxide for the first time, charted against a documentary of the last 30 years when we have come to recognise the threat to Earth posed by CO2.
The Scottish chemist, Joseph Black, performed the first experiments to produce the gas now called CO2, naming this discovery "fixed air", and in turn was the first person to isolate carbon dioxide in its pure form.
This narrative device, revealing the discovery of CO2 in the context of the birth of rational scientific thinking, is intercut with contributions from Sir John Houghton, Sir David King, James Lovelock and Sir Crispin Tickell. Through interviews with key speakers, presenter Professor Chris Rapley, who has witnessed the rise and rise of carbon dioxide over the last 30 years, draws on benchmark events to reveal the second coming of carbon dioxide.
Professor Chris Rapley is currently Director of the Science Museum in London.
Presenter/Professor Chris Rapley, Producer/Louise Dalziel
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| BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 8 December 2008 |
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5 Live Sport
Monday 8 December
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
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Mark Saggers presents all the day's sports news plus The Monday Night Club, discussing all the latest football news with John Motson.
From 8pm, there is Barclays Premier League commentary of the London derby between West Ham and Tottenham, live from Upton Park with John Motson.
Presenter/Mark Saggers
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| BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 8 December 2008 |
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Nemone
Monday 8 December
1.00-4.00pm BBC 6 Music
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The video of the week comes from New Zealand's coolest export, Ladyhawke, with her new single, taken from her debut album. Nemone catches up with animation whizz-kids Frater, who are behind the video.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe
Monday 8 December
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC
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Gideon Coe plays concert highlights from reclusive Scottish group The Blue Nile, from their Manchester Free Trade Hall appearance in 1990. The featured sessions come from the classic line-up of Public Image Ltd, recorded for John Peel in 1979, and whimsical world music heroes 3 Mustaphas 3 from their Peel session of 1984.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
BBC 6 Music Publicity
6 Music Plays It Again – My Top Ten:
Bobby Womack Ep 1/2
Monday 8 December
12.00midnight-12.30am BBC 6 MUSIC
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In a programme first broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1985, Bobby Womack chooses his favourite pieces of music and talks to Andy Peebles about his life and work. My Top Ten concludes at the same time tomorrow.
Presenter/Andy Peebles, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
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| BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 8 December 2008 |
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Dr Masud and Zak are in Mecca for their pilgrimage, in this week's first episode of the Asian drama. Asif's rules don't impress Dr Masud and, as their tour guide struggles to keep the group together for the long walk to the Great Mosque, Dr Masud decides he has no faith in him.
Meanwhile, in England, Shazia is leaving messages on Zak's phone, which she doesn't know has gone missing.
Later Dr Masud decides to take control of their travelling arrangements: is Zak coming with him or not?
Dr Masud is played by Saeed Jaffrey OBE, Zak by Jetinder Summan, Asif by Pal Aron and Shazia by Shobu Kapoor.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
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| BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 8 December 2008 |
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1968 The Year That Changed
The World Ep 2/4
Monday
8 December
9.05-9.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE |
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Former Director of BBC World Service Sir John Tusa uses contemporary archive and music, to trace what made 1968 such an important year.
In this programme, John focuses on 1968's student unrest around the world and its results. There was rioting in the streets of London and violence on the barricades of Paris, and students demanding an end to oppression were massacred in Mexico. The students and workers were revolting, but did it make a difference?
Presenter/John Tusa, Producer/Robert Abel
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