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Programme InformationNetwork Radio Week 20Sunday 11 May 2008 |
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BBC Radio 1 brings listeners the second day of its annual, free, flagship event – Radio 1's Big Weekend from Mote Park in Maidstone, Kent. Today's line-up is topped by The Kooks, plus Nelly, Adele, Newton Faulkner, Goldfrapp, The Raconteurs, The Zutons, Hot Chip, Pendulum, Gallows and Justice.
At 5am, for those still not ready for bed, Radio 1 brings listeners highlights from the previous day, including a selection of DJ-stage performances from Fatboy Slim, Chris Moyles vs Judge Jules, Zane Lowe vs Scott Mills, Steve Angello & Sebastian Ingrosso, Herve & Sinden, Dave Spoon and Kissy Sell Out.
At 7am, Nihal takes over with his weekend breakfast show, live, from London, looking back on yesterday's highlights and forward to what listeners can expect from the day. Nihal hands over to Dick & Dom at 10am, with some live phone-ins from Radio 1 DJs looking forward to what's to come.
Annie Mac takes over at 1pm, live, from the Big Weekend site. Annie brings listeners highlights from the weekend so far and chats to bands back stage.
Radio 1's Chart Show with Fearne Cotton and Reggie Yates comes live from the Big Weekend site at 4pm, bringing listeners the low-down on what's been happening on stage throughout the weekend, plus acoustic sets from the site.
Scott Mills and Nick Grimshaw take over at 7pm for the big run-down of the weekend's highlights.
At 11pm, Radio 1 rounds off the day's coverage with a selection of highlights from DJ-stage performances including Pete Tong vs Vernon Kay, Pendulum, Justice, Zane Lowe, Dave Pearce, Tim Westwood, Rob da Bank, Kutski and Basshunter, plus 1Xtra's Cameo vs DJ Q and Mistajam.
Presenters/Nihal, Dick & Dom, Annie Mac, Fearne & Reggie, Scott Mills and Nick Grimshaw
Producers/Richard Murdoch, Jocelin Stainer, Glenn Middleditch, Laura Sayers, Megan Carver and Rhys Hughes
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The cast of the London production of Jersey Boys are Elaine Paige's special guests this week.
They join Elaine to talk about their careers and about Jersey Boys – which tells the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. They also reveal their Essential Musicals.
Actor Ryan Molloy, who plays Frankie Valli, picks On The Town (Broadway, 1944) as his Essential Musical, while Glenn Carter, who takes the role of Tommy DeVito, chooses Chess (London, 1986). Philip Bullcock plays Nick Massi and picks the film Bugsy Malone (1976), and Stephen Ashfield, who plays Bob Gaudio, selects Boy George's Taboo (London, 2002).
In addition to their Essential Musicals, the cast performs two exclusive numbers from Jersey Boys.
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Brian D'Arcy marks the festival of Pentecost with a selection of hymns.
The featured choir is the Trinity College of Music Chamber Choir, directed by Stephen Jackson. The organist is Sean Farrell. Hymns include: Breathe On Me Breath Of God; Come Down O Love Divine; and Spirit Of God.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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Michael Berkeley is joined by actor Colin Salmon, who has appeared as M's chief of staff in three James Bond movies: Die Another Day; The World Is Not Enough; and Tomorrow Never Dies. Salmon is also a musician. He plays the cornet and is passionate about many different types of music.
His eclectic choices for Private Passions include: brass music with Leonard Salzedo's Divertimento For 3 Trumpets And 3 Trombones and Ronald Binge's Cornet Carillon; jazz with Miles Davis's The Pan Piper, Billy Strayhorn's Lush Life and Duke Ellington's Isfahan; Richard Strauss's song, Morgen, sung by Jessye Norman; a movement from Coleridge Taylor's Folksong Suite for solo cello; a Round Dance from Bartók's Five Pieces For Children; and Jaheim's Fabulous.
Colin Salmon has appeared in the series Soldier, Soldier, Silent Witness and Prime Suspect II, and his latest TV role was in BBC One's much-acclaimed Anthony Minghella adaptation of Alexander McCall Smith's The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Sarah Cropper
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Lucie Skeaping takes a look at Bach's career during the composer's 27 years in Leipzig.
In April 1723, after the preferred candidates, Telemann and Graupner, had withdrawn, Bach was offered the post of Cantor at St Thomas's School in Leipzig, a role he would remain in for the rest of his life. Working for the council, he often found himself in conflict with the authorities. Nevertheless, during his early years in the German town, he composed prodigious quantities of church music, including four or five cantata cycles, the Magnificat and two Passions. He was by this time renowned as a virtuoso organist and his fame as a composer gradually spread more widely when, from 1726 onwards, he began to bring out published editions of some of his works.
After six years in Leipzig, Bach's interest seemed to move away from sacred music at the same time as he took over the direction of the collegium musicum that Telemann had founded in Leipzig some 25 years earlier.
Bach's family also grew prodigously whilst in the town. Thirteen children were born to his new wife, Anna Magdalena, whilst they were resident there.
Presenter/Lucy Skeaping, Producer/Sam Philips
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Drama On 3 presents a new Michael Hasting adaptation of The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.
In 1957, Giuseppe Tomasi, Prince of Lampedusa, the last member of a great Sicilian family, died, childless, impoverished and unknown, leaving behind him the recently completed manuscript of a novel. The following year, the novel, The Leopard, was published to acclaim and is now recognised as one of the finest works of 20th-century literature. Five years after its publication, Luchino Visconti made his celebrated film, starring Burt Lancaster and Claudia Cardinale, which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Leopard documents the changes in Sicilian society during the unification of Italy in 1860, through the eyes of an aristocratic family headed by Don Fabrizio. Michael Hasting's new adaptation views the Prince through the prism of his family, servants and his confessor, and takes the story to its conclusion, 20 years after Don Fabrizio's death.
Stanley Townsend and Hayley Atwell lead the cast.
Producer/Nicholas Newton, Director/Lucy Bailey
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Frances Stonor Saunders talks to historians from Israel, Palestine and beyond, about the life and ideas of the founder of modern Zionism, Theodor Herzl.
In the monochrome photo that captures the announcement of the creation of the State of Israel, 60 years ago in May 1948, a large portrait looms over the table of assembled politicians. It is that of Theodor Herzl, a journalist who visited Palestine only once, who spoke little Hebrew and who once proposed that the Jewish homeland should be situated in Uganda.
When Theodor Herzl died, aged 44, in 1904, the idea which had become his life's work had divided his supporters and seemed destined to remain an unrealistic dream. One hundred years later, Herzl's idea – the State of Israel – is a reality, but a reality which divides world opinion as strongly as ever.
Unlike other discarded political ideologies of the early 20th century, Herzl's ideas seem of more importance than ever. Today, he is both idolised for laying the foundations of Israel and criticised for having colonial assumptions.
War and conflict may have accompanied Israel's 60-year existence – but Herzl's novel, Old New Land, predicted the Palestinian Arabic population would welcome with open arms his vision of a European-style nation-State for Jews in the Middle East.
The programme includes extracts from Herzl's diary, in which he kept a vivid record of his meetings with the great and the good of the turn of the 20th century, from Joseph Chamberlain and the King of Italy to the working men of London's East End.
Presenter/Frances Stonor Saunders, Producer/Matthew Dodd
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Words And Music reaches the outer orbit with a wide range of music and poetry on the theme of space.
Miranda Richardson reads a selection of poetry from Walt Whitman as well as Lorca's A Game Of Moons, George Herbert's The Star and Craig Raine's A Martian Sends A Postcard Home.
Tim McMullan reads a selection including Auden's Moon Landing, Arthur C Clarke's vivid description of The Moons of Saturn and Edwin Morgan's poem The First Men On Mercury. There is also an extract from Douglas Adams's legendary The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy.
The eclectic span of music evoking the sound of space ranges from Brian Eno's evocative Apollo: Atmospheres and Holst's The Planets Suite to Jan Garbarek's haunting Song Of Space and Frank Sinatra's Fly Me To The Moon.
Readers/Miranda Richardson and Tim McMullan, Producer/Jessica Isaacs
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Singer and songwriter Annie Lennox is the first of Kirsty Young's castaways in this new series of Desert Island Discs.
Annie Lennox has sold millions of records – as a solo artist and as one half of The Eurythmics – and her musical career has spanned more than three decades. Well known for her soaring voice and striking looks, she remains enormously successful and influential.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
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Actor and comedian John Sessions asks whether there was more to Alexander Pope's poetry than witty heroic couplets and quotable aphorisms. He sets out to reveal the hidden emotional depths of his poetic hero.
The phrase "eternal sunshine of the spotless mind" comes from Pope's poem Eloisa To Abelard which was published in 1717. One of his earliest works, the poem expresses Abelard and Eloisa's yearning for a love that forever eludes them. Pope believed that, for himself, romantic love was out of reach. His body was shrunken and twisted in childhood by tuberculosis of the spine. An enemy even referred to him as a "hump-backed toad".
Nevertheless, Pope triumphed as the major poet of the 18th century, the creator of phrases that have become so cosily familiar that they are often attributed to Shakespeare or the Bible: "A little learning is a dangerous thing"; "Hope springs eternal"; and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread".
John Sessions looks beyond the rhyming couplets to reappraise Pope's work and asks if it is possible to find an emotional and sensual heart beating beneath all the formality and razor-sharp wit.
John talks to contemporary poets, academics, local historians and fellow Pope aficionados to construct a very personal and affectionate portrait of a much-neglected poet.
Presenter/John Sessions, Producer/Emma Harding
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Mark Pougatch presents a packed programme of sport on the final day of the Barclays Premier League season, with live commentary of key matches from 3pm.
Before this, at 1pm, 5 Live's Formula 1 commentary team – David Croft, Maurice Hamilton and Holly Samos – are in Istanbul bringing live coverage of the Turkish Grand Prix.
From 5pm, there is a comprehensive round-up of the day's results and stories from across the country, including manager and player interviews.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mark Williams
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Listeners can enjoy an afternoon of uninterrupted commentary on one of the top Premier League matches on this, the last day of the season.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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The best of the BBC archives this week comes from Splinter, recorded at the Golders Green Hippodrome in North London.
Billy Elliot and Bobby Purvis, collectively know as Splinter, were the first band to be released on George Harrison's label, Dark Horse, in 1974.
Presenter/Chris Hawkins, Producer/Chris Carr
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Programme InformationNetwork Radio Week 20Monday 12 May 2008 |
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Clare Teal presents the second part of the BBC Big Band's concert at the recent Cheltenham Jazz Festival with guest artist Nicola Conte.
The Nicola Conte Jazz Combo joins the BBC Big Band to perform a mix of Bossa Nova, big band and acid jazz, with a dash of Conte's passion for Sixties Italian film scores thrown in for good measure.
Presenter/Clare Teal, Producer/Bob McDowall
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Jools Holland's special guest tonight is one of the UK's foremost exponents of good-time jazz, Ray Gelato. Ray joins Jools and his Rhythm Section on two numbers, playing sax on Night Train and sax and vocals on Sent For You Yesterday.
Jools also performs tracks from his eclectic record collection. Tonight's programme has Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup in the Demo Corner, and features music from Nina Simone and Ray Charles.
Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston
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Paul Gambaccini concludes the series charting the history of Elektra Records from when it was founded by Jac Holzman, in 1950, until he sold his company in 1973.
Holzman recalls the music released on Elektra during his final years with the company (1970 to 1973). The label enjoyed more success with Bread and found a new star – Carly Simon.
Simon's career was launched with the American Top 10 single, That's The Way I Always Heard It Should Be, and, less than two years later, in January 1973, she was enjoying No. 1 success with the single You're So Vain and the album No Secrets.
Holzman's last major signings were singer-songwriter Harry Chapin and, for the USA market, Queen.
Presenter/Paul Gambaccini, Producer/Kevin Howlett
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Frédéric Chopin was a prodigy, a virtuoso pianist and one of the most loved and influential composers of piano music there has ever been. In the run-up to BBC Radio 3's The Chopin Experience, in which every note written by the composer will be aired, Donald Macleod explores the composer's life, his prodigious early years, his fragile health and his dalliances with women – which famously included writer George Sand. Listeners can also hear his music, beloved of pianists the world over, and the pinnacle of 19th-century romanticism, including a vintage recording each day.
Monday's programme explores Chopin's early years in Warsaw, studying under Jozef Elsner at the conservatoire there. Paganini arrived on tour in 1829 and created a sensation, and listeners hear Chopin's response, his Souvenir de Paganini, a set of variations on a tune he heard the great violinist play. Martha Argerich performs Chopin's Piano Concerto No.1 in E minor, written when he was only 20, and today's vintage performance is Alfred Cortot playing the Berceuse in D flat major, recorded in 1949.
There is a dedicated Chopin website at bbc.co.uk/radio 3 and Composer Of The Week is available as a podcast from Friday afternoon.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Kerry Clark
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Conducting is well and truly in the blood for Latvian Mariss Jansons. His father, Arvids Jansons, was a conductor, too, who headed the Leningrad Philharmonic, among other orchestras. Mariss Jansons is now, at the age of 65, one of the most highly regarded conductors in the world.
This week's Afternoon On 3 celebrates his work – especially with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, of which Jansons has been chief conductor since 2003. His "other" orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, no less, also features – conducted by one of Jansons's distinguished colleagues, Bernard Haitink. There are also performances by the Oslo Philharmonic, the orchestra with which Jansons made his name – while he made theirs, too – and a brilliant choir from his homeland, the Latvian Radio Chorus.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/David Gallagher
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This year marks the 30th anniversary of the BBC Young Musician of the Year competition in which hundreds of performers entered the early rounds. The Section Finalists are broadcast on BBC Four in the week before and the event culminates on Saturday and Sunday 10 and 11 May at the Wales Millennium Centre with the finalists performing with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under conductor Thierry Fisher.
Tonight’s programme features the full concerto performance from each finalist in Saturday’s concert, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, plus interviews about their choice of concerto. Their performances will be discussed live in the studio with British pianist Lucy Parham, winner of the Young Musician of the Year Keyboard Final in 1984, and member of the judging panel for the Keyboard Final this year.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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Anne-Marie Duff reads the Book Of The Week offering – Robyn Scott's acutely observed and affectionately remembered account of growing up in Botswana.
When Robyn Scott was six, her parents moved from New Zealand to a wild and beautiful part of the Botswana bush, where they set up home in a converted cow shed next to the farm belonging to Robyn's eccentric grandfather. As Robyn's father built up his flying doctor's practice across several far-flung clinics, her mother haphazardly and single-handedly home-schooled the three children.
Theirs was a remarkable childhood, in which dissecting a snake was the closest they came to a biology lesson, and working out the area of the bathroom to be covered by tiles was a practical introduction to mathematics. The unconventional home life that set them apart from the other white farmers in the neighbourhood was a source of both pride and embarrassment to Robyn and her brother and sister, but it made for a wonderfully rich and exotic childhood, which Robyn describes with great humour and warmth.
Reader/Anne-Marie Duff, Producer/Sara Davies
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Nina Wadia and Sadia Ghaffar star in Gifted, a tragic and comic coming-of-age story seen through the lens of immigration, race, maths and sex. Narrated by Archie Panjabi, and scored by composer Vik Sharma, this enhanced reading of Nikita Lalwani's debut novel is adapted for radio by producer Melanie Harris.
Fifteen-year-old Rumi is a talented mathematician with a place at Oxford, but her real battle is to escape her family. Her transition between childhood and adolescence is made distinctive by the family's struggles with a new country (they moved from India to Wales in the Seventies) and by their fierce will to succeed. The generational clashes between Rumi and her mother, Shreene, are funny, painful and inevitable.
When Rumi returns from a family trip to India to discover she's been offered a place at Oxford, her father feels elation and depression. The freedom Rumi dreams of as a student is lost in the confusion and exhaustion of becoming two separate selves with different secrets to hide.
Nikita Lalwani was short-listed for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year 2007. Gifted was long-listed for the Man Booker prize 2007 and short-listed for the Costa Awards.
Nina Wadia plays Shreene and Sadia Ghaffar plays Rumi.
Producer/Melanie Harris
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A hundred years on, Robert Elms celebrates the glories of the White City, an oriental fantasy built in West London whose last vestiges have just disappeared beneath a shopping centre.
In 1908, more than eight million visitors descended on Shepherd's Bush to visit the Franco-British Exhibition. It was a dreamlike village of exhibition halls, walkways and lagoons, a White City of airy palaces and oriental fantasy, where snake-charmers vied for attention alongside flower displays, stuffed animals and printing presses. Visitors could ride a rickshaw, kiss the Blarney Stone or risk the Flip Flap – a pair of gargantuan steel arms that, for sixpence, whisked people 200 feet into the air for three minutes of vertigo.
The exhibition coincided with the golden age of the picture postcard – the text message of a century ago. However, unlike texts, postcards have proved surprisingly resilient and many have survived from the White City. In this programme, Robert discovers a wonderful informal archive of messages, observations and jokes that are preserved on White City postcards. They give listeners fascinating first-hand reflections and observations from the White City which, today, has changed beyond recognition.
Presenter/Robert Elms, Producer/Tom Jackson
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Sophie Thompson and Mark Heap feature in today's Afternoon Play, a comedy about new universities, written by Joyce Bryant. Karen is the new head of the geography department at Hayborough University, which has been renamed Geographical Tourism. Not quite part of the elite Russell Group of top universities, Hayborough was first a technical college, then a polytechnic and only now has obtained university status, ranking 132 in the league table.
It is open day for the department, and Karen is keen that she attracts the right students. The only problems are that her arch rival for the job is unco-operative and deliberately obtuse, the brochures haven't been printed, her star lecturer from America has gone missing and her demented dad keeps ringing her up asking where the teabags are.
Producer/Gary Brown
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Mark Williams reads a new serialisation, abridged by Roy Apps, of one of Anthony Buckeridge's classic school stories, in which Jennings and his loyal friend, Darbishire, build a hut, lose a goldfish, smash a cucumber frame and embarrass the headmaster in front of the school's most distinguished old boy.
The woodland at Lindbury Court School becomes squatters' territory when Jennings comes up with the idea of building huts out of reeds and branches. Jennings and Darbishire are thrilled with their construction, which even includes a patented pre-fabricated ventilating shaft, a special irrigation drainage canal and a pontoon suspension bridge. But things can only go horribly wrong for Jennings when he is put in charge of Elmer, the treasured goldfish, and, even worse, the headmaster pays the squatters a visit.
Buckeridge was sent to boarding school in Sussex at the age of eight. After leaving university he worked as a tutor in a preparatory school, and eventually gave up teaching to write full time. The Jennings stories originally began as radio plays on Children's Hour in 1948. There are 25 Jennings titles in total, which have sold over six million books worldwide. Buckeridge died in 2004.
Reader/Mark Williams, Producer/David Blount
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Just over a year after the death of broadcaster Nick Clarke, his widow, Barbara Want, investigates the way we as a society deal – or fail to deal – with bereavement.
When Nick Clarke died, leading politicians and journalists paid tribute and the BBC Radio 4 website hosted some 3,000 pages of acknowledgment, accolade and condolence. But Barbara's personal experience was a marked contrast.
In this programme, Barbara tries to understand what lies behind a common experience – that society is unable to talk openly about death. She tells her story of how those around her, both close and more distant, have found it almost impossible to address her loss. When words are spoken they are nearly always the same: "I don't know what to say..."
Barbara challenges people in her local community about her feelings of isolation since Nick's death and mirrors her journey with an investigation into the British psyche, trying to find out what it is about our culture that makes us so uncomfortable with bereavement, when other cultures have specialised rituals to support and allow the pain, sorrow, and sometimes madness, of grief.
Presenter/Barbara Want, Producer/Jo Coombs
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This week's Book At Bedtime offering features a memorable debut novel from Poppy Adams about secrets, grief, loss and moths. Seventy-year-old Ginny lives as a recluse in Bulberrow Court, the house she grew up in. Standing at the window of the crumbling old house, she waits for her first visitor for years – her adored younger sister, Vivien. It's been over 40 years since Vivien was home, whereas Ginny, who has spent her life studying moths, has rarely ventured outside it.
The novel takes place over the course of a single weekend, following Vivien's arrival. Grief, loss and old rivalries build up over the weekend – they talk about their childhood together at Bulberrow, their mother's sudden death, Vivien's departure into the outside world and the request Vivien made of Ginny when she married and couldn't bear her husband a child. As Ginny's memories unfold, it becomes clear that she may not just be an elderly and eccentric narrator, but an extremely unreliable one as well.
Reader/TBC, Producer/Sara Davies
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With their modern take on the gang show, IF.comedy award-nominees Pappy's Fun Club became the hit of last year's Edinburgh Fringe.
Featuring Ben Clarke, Matthew Crosby, Brendan Dodds and Tom Parry, their mixture of gag-heavy writing and exuberant performance style seems able to cheer the most cynical of audiences and leads to a radio show lying somewhere between Round The Horne, TFI Friday and The Muppet Show.
Barry Cryer and singer Lyla Foy guest star.
Producer/Colin Anderson
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Mark Saggers hosts tonight's edition of 5 Live Sport and takes a look at all today's latest stories, offering expert analysis.
At 8pm, the Monday Night Club features lively football debate looking at the big talking points from the weekend, including Mark Clemmit's take on the pick of the stories from the Coca-Cola Football League.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Louise Sutton
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Shaun Keaveny chats to LA rock and pop band Sparks. Comprising of brothers Ron and Russell Mael, Sparks are best known for their quirky approach to songwriting and the contrast between Russell's wide-eyed hyperactive frontman antics and Ron's sedentary scowling.
Shaun welcomes them in to the studio to talk about their upcoming record-breaking residency at London's Islington Academy, where they will be performing their discography of 21 albums in chronological order over 21 nights.
At 9.30pm, listeners have another chance to hear This Town Ain't Big Enough – The Story Of Sparks, on 6 Music Plays It Again.
Presenter/Shaun Keaveny, Producer/TBC
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Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip join George Lamb and perform a live session in the BBC 6 Music Hub this evening. The band play tracks from their new album, Angles, which is released today.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
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Sparks fan Mark Radcliffe charts the life and times of one of pop's most enigmatic bands. The programme concludes tomorrow.
Ron and Russell Mael from Sparks are Shaun Keaveny's special guests this morning, from 7am.
Presenter/Mark Radcliffe, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
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The consultant tells Fatima's parents she won't recover from her injuries, as the Asian drama returns for another week. Jamil and Firdos are devastated. When Zak arrives in handcuffs, Firdos screams out that it is all Zak's fault. Khatija takes Zak aside to break the terrible news.
Both families later say their goodbyes to Fatima and leave Zak alone with his wife. Zak tells Fatima how scared he is about having to carry on without her, as he breaks down and sobs his heart out.
The consultant is played by Terry Pearson, Fatima by Gia Avan, Jamil by Shiv Grewal, Firdos by Sameena Zehra, Zak by Jetinder Summan and Khatija by Miriam Ali.
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After a Welsh student is excluded from her school for wearing a Kara – a religious bangle – Symbol-ed Out asks whether all religious symbols should be allowed to be worn in schools. It also asks why some schools have a liberal approach and others opt for a more draconian rigid uniform policy.
In a survey commissioned for the BBC's Asian Network, the programme also asked British respondents how they felt about the wearing of religious symbols. The results of this exclusive poll will be released on 7 May.
Producer/Perminder Khatkar
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Misha Glenny charts the explosion of international crime since the fall of the Soviet Bloc and the end of Apartheid and, in today's penultimate episode, explores Brazil's connections with cyber-crime.
Presenter/Misha Glenny, Producers/John Murphy and
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Programme InformationNetwork Radio Week 20Tuesday 13 May 2008 |
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Dusty Springfield is the subject of this week's Icons Revisited as Johnnie Walker continues to host a special season of programmes featuring some of BBC Radio 2's finest music profiles.
Johnnie tells the story of one of the finest singers to come out of Britain. Never confined to a genre, Dusty's voice was as suited to jazz as it was to Pet Shop Boys' electronica, but it was as the queen of white soul that she was acclaimed.
Featuring many of Dusty's biggest hits, the programme includes contributions from Neil Tennant, Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach.
A Girl Called Dusty was last broadcast in 2001, two years after the singer's death.
Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Donald Macleod continues to explore the life of Frédéric Chopin, and today explores how he came to the notice of the world, firstly with his variations on La ci darem la mano, which can be heard here in a performance by Emanuel Ax. Celebrity fans included Robert Schumann, whose review of the variations has gone down in history: "Hats off, gentlemen, a genius." Today's vintage recording comes from Artur Rubinstein – the Andante Spianato et Grande Polonaise, Op 22, recorded in London in 1935.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Kerry Clark
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Choral music by Brahms and Verdi is a feature of this week's programmes showcasing the work of Latvian conductor Mariss Jansons. Today he conducts Verdi's Ave Maria (from the Four Sacred Pieces) and Brahms's little-known Gesang der Parzen (Song Of The Fates); plus a magical overture by Weber and Hindemith's famous piece, Symphonic Metamorphoses, inspired by Weber.
Hindemith himself was an inspiration for German composer Karl Amadeus Hartmann, who – unlike Hindemith – stayed in his native country under the Nazis, but went into a kind of "internal exile". The music he wrote, much of it inspired by anger at the horrors of Nazism, was hidden away in a bottom drawer and is only gradually being performed now. Hartmann finished Symphony L’Œuvre, featured in today’s Afternoon On 3, in 1939, but its German première didn’t take place until February this year.
The programme also features performances by the Latvian Radio Chorus, and a concert by conductor Bernard Haitink with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, whose Principal Conductor is none other than Mariss Jansons.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/David Gallagher
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Sir David Frost and guests look back at some of the most memorable interviews of Sir David's own long career. With a panel of distinguished guests from the worlds of politics and entertainment, Sir David recalls some of his own favourite moments from five decades in broadcasting.
Although he originally found fame fronting a satirical show, by the mid-Sixties, Sir David was known as one of television's most fearless interviewers, pioneering a more personal and confrontational interviewing style. He soon built up worldwide fame as a broadcaster on the strength of his high-profile interviews with politicians, celebrities and decision-makers.
Over the years, he's met and interviewed many famous figures, from American Presidents and British Cabinet Ministers to world leaders, sporting legends and stars from the world of entertainment.
In this three-part series, Sir David selects extracts from some of his own favourite interviews, which range from Billy Graham, Muhammad Ali, Mary Whitehouse and John Lennon to his 12-hour in-depth grilling of Richard Nixon. The interviews shine an intriguing light on the relationship between the media and internationally important figures.
Presenter/Sir David Frost, Producer/Paul Bajoria
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The unregulated world of the Blues Dance – or Jamaican private club – is a vital chapter in the black history of Britain. Despite its anti-social image, the Blues Dance has had a significant influence on the popular music scene today. Film-maker and DJ Don Letts presents The Blues Dance story from the inside. With musician friends and historians, he reveals the force and cultural impact of this distinctly Caribbean phenomenon.
From the Sixties, Blues Dance took hold across Britain. Large terraced houses in neglected areas, "shebeens" and local school halls were used as venues for all-night parties. Crowds gathered to listen and dance to heavy bass lines of reggae that pumped out from wardrobe-sized speakers.
This programme charts the history of the Blues Dance from the mid-Fifties, when the first wave of West Indian immigrants set up informal basement parties in West London to raise money, through to the Seventies, when they gained prominence across the UK.
Contributors include Linton Kwesi Johnson, Vivien Goldman, Jazzie B (Soul II Soul), King Tubby, Trevor Sax (Saxon Sounds), Daddy G (Massive Attack), Ali Campbell, Caroline Coon, Lenny Henry and Tippa Irie.
Presenter/Don Letts, Producers/Sue Clark and Kate Bland
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When a mutual friend dies, three middle-aged women throw caution to the wind and pursue what they really want, as opposed to what they think they should want. Women Of An Uncertain Age is a funny and touching play about what it's really like to survive the menopause.
This is the third in a trilogy of plays about sex and age by Rony Robinson and Sally Goldsmith. As with the earlier plays, the writers have researched the subject, come up with stories based on real experience, and dramatised them through dialogue and poetry.
Clare, Heather and Kat are thrown together by the death of their friend, Janice. All three are beginning to experience the menopause; all three want change and are restless. The outwardly confident Clare sets out to help her friends – encouraging Heather to write the book of poetry she has always dreamed of and paying for Kat to have proper piano lessons. In return, Kat helps Clare find her long-lost teenage love on the internet but, as Clare waits to meet him, she asks herself if the spark will still be there. Meanwhile, Heather makes a radical decision as Kat triumphantly plays her first public concert.
Rony Robinson is a journalist, playwright and presenter for BBC Radio Sheffield. Recent programmes for BBC Radio 4 include a series which he compiled and narrated about the Berwick Kailer pantomimes in York.
Sally Goldsmith is a songwriter, singer and musician and has written all the original poems in the play. She specialises in developing projects within the community and received the Arts Council Year of the Artist Award for As We Walked Out, a piece researched with South Yorkshire walkers.
Producer/Polly Thomas
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The area of Lancashire around Burnley and Pendle contains pockets of some of the worst deprivation to be found anywhere in Britain. It is also marked by intense suspicion between the Asian and white communities.
Local resident Kay is married to an Asian man but says she now feels threatened on her own streets: "There's not a lot of places you can walk without being spat at ... whites feel suffocated, you feel bullied."
Youth worker Mashuq Hussain says: "They think it's a no-go zone – you go in there and you are going to get attacked. I think the problem now is that the white community isn't coming to meet us halfway. We don't have the language barrier any more ... we are quite empowered ... but there still seems to be that lack of understanding of the Asian community."
It's against that polarised background that the education authority, two years ago, introduced a radical re-organisation of schools, designed both to improve classroom performance and to bridge the ethnic divisions in the area.
Marsden Heights Community College, in Pendle, is one of eight new schools that have been created through a series of amalgamations, re-locations and complete rebuilds, costing £250m.
In this BBC Radio 4 special, Gerry Northam reports on the College's progress to date. Encouraged by the results of a recent Ofsted inspection, head teacher Mike Tull says things are improving academically. However, with an increasing majority of Asian-heritage pupils, he is struggling to attract children from the white community, where many parents are opting for other schools in the area: "It would be very easy to term it as the emotive phrase 'white flight'," he says.
"Obviously we are anxious to avoid that. We are sharing our excellence as widely as we can around the community in a bid to secure a fully comprehensive mix in terms of ability, ethnicity and social background. We don't want the scales to be tipped against us in any way."
Presenter/Gerry Northam, Producer/Sally Chesworth
BBC News Publicity
Are you a professional woman who wants it all and has it all, who isn't ashamed to buy another pair of shoes? Are you a full-time mum with a variety of interests who isn't ashamed to drop out of the rat race for the sake of the kids? Are you a professional mum with a variety of shoes who isn't ashamed to drop her kids in the rat race?
Whoever you are, you have a busy, exciting, empowering lifestyle and are invited to listen to Mouth Trap – a stimulating show for stimulated women (and the right sort of men), which deals with the issues that really matter.
Mouth Trap is a new magazine programme that takes the language and grammar of media aimed at women in order to poke fun at the mixed messages, hypocrisy and confusion that surrounds being a 21st-century woman.
Mouth Trap is written by and stars Katy Brand and Katherine Parkinson, who play the two hosts, Susan Blakeley (Brand) and Frankie Maybury. Their inane banter provides a hub around which topical discussions and daring out-and-about features circle.
The cast also includes Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Zoe Gardner and Gareth Tunley.
Producer/Lucy Armitage
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Mark Saggers hosts live coverage of the Coca-Cola Football League play-offs, as well as a full round-up of the day's big sports stories.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Haydn Parry
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
The news of Fatima's death spreads. The police take Dr Masud in for questioning but he won't tell Shazia why, as the Asian drama continues.
Kuljit tells the police what he knows about Talib and is shocked to see Dr Masud there. Kuljit thinks he's another person Talib has stitched up.
Sway, meanwhile, is appalled at his friend's prejudice and wonders if Kuljit should be at Fatima's funeral, as it seems he doesn't have Zak's best interests at heart...
Dr Masud is played by Saeed Jaffrey, Shazia by Shobu Kapoor, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Talib by Rachid Sabitri and Sway by Mark Monero.
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Mike Harding is joined by Irish folk singer Cara Dillon and her husband and producer Sam Lakeman.
Having taken an 18-month career break, following the birth of twin sons, Cara Dillon has returned with major plans for 2008, including a new single and album, a major tour of the UK and the release of her debut DVD, The Redcastle Sessions.
Jim Moray, the recipient of several BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, selects his top five Tour Bus Tunes, including tracks by Chris Wood and Andy Cutting and rising star Laura Marling.
Mike also presents his pick of the latest in folk, roots and acoustic-based music.
Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Frédéric Chopin was a prodigy, a virtuoso pianist and one of the greatest influential composers of piano music. In the run-up to BBC Radio 3's The Chopin Experience, Donald Macleod continues to explore the composer's life and music. Listeners can enjoy his music – beloved of pianists the world over and the pinnacle of 19th-century romanticism – including a vintage recording each day.
On Wednesday, Donald explores Chopin's love life. George Sand may have been the most important woman in Chopin's life, but she was by no means the only one, as today's stories of unrequited love reveal. Music includes the Polonaise Brilliante in C major, Op 3, played by cellist Yo-Yo Ma and Emanuel Ax, Maurizio Pollini performing some of the Op 10 Etudes, and today's vintage recording, the Fantaisie in F minor, Op 49, performed by Solomon.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Kerry Clark
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
As part of the Brighton Festival, the City of London Sinfonia gives a Vaughan Williams anniversary concert with its director Richard Hickox, one of the foremost interpreters of British music.
Opening with the ever-popular Wasps Overture, the programme includes the Songs Of Travel, in their less well-known orchestral arrangement, with the Canadian baritone Gerald Finley.
The concert culminates in a performance of the rarely heard musical drama Riders To The Sea. The text is based on a tragic, one-act play by Irish playwright JM Synge, which centres on a grief-stricken Irish fishing community. For all its brevity, it has been called the "English Pelleas" for its equal matching of music and text.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Janet Tuppen
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Mark Saggers hosts live football as the season reaches its climax with coverage of the UEFA Cup Final from the City of Manchester Stadium and the Coca-Cola Football League play-offs.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Haydn Parry
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
Marc welcomes experimental pop group School Of Language to the studio for a chat and to perform a live session.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Stuart Maconie presents a profile of the idiosyncratic Icelandic singer, composer, actress and producer Björk Gottmundsdottir.
The profile concludes tomorrow, Thursday 15 May, on BBC 6 Music.
Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Roopa is being comforted by Aidan who offers to go to Fatima's funeral with her. As they wait, Roopa tells Aidan how well she got to know Fatima in such a short time.
Zak is released from police custody and heads home with a heavy heart.
Later, Zak tells Jamil that he can't face the funeral. Jamil says Fatima would understand. This makes Zak feel worse but it's debatable whether he will change his mind.
Roopa is played by Rakhee Thakrar, Aidan by Arkie Reece, Zak by Jetinder Summan and Jamil by Shiv Grewal.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
Twenty years after Chico Mendes's assassination in 1988, BBC World Service marks the life and the legacy of the green activist.
Mendes fought to stop the logging of the Amazon Rainforest. He founded a national union of rubber tappers in an attempt to preserve their profession and the rainforest it relied on.
With exclusive interviews with the Mendes family and surviving supporters, this documentary reflects on how the changing face of the rainforest galvanised Chico Mendes into action. It examines how his actions highlighted the plight of the Amazon internationally and how he can be credited with preserving vast tracts of land. Currently, more than eight million acres of rainforest are protected.
Those closest to him talk about the day Mendes was assassinated and how world-wide media coverage of that tragic event led to the creation of an environmental campaigning force in Brazil, which is supported by the Mendes family to this day.
Producer/Kevin Dawson
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Programme InformationNetwork Radio Week 20Thursday 15 May 2008 |
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Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour heads to the American South, with the State of Tennessee providing this week's unifying theme.
Demonstrating the popularity of songs about Memphis, and a fair sprinkling of tunes with Tennessee in the title, tonight's featured artists include Chuck Berry, Sam Cooke, Hank Williams, Arrested Development, Mott The Hoople and King Curtis.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/Phil Hughes
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Frédéric Chopin was a prodigy, a virtuoso pianist and one of the best-loved and influential composers of piano music there's ever been. In the run-up to BBC Radio 3's The Chopin Experience, in which the network broadcasts every note written by the great Polish composer, Donald Macleod explores Chopin's life, his prodigious early years, his fragile health and his dalliances with women. The programmes feature his music – beloved of pianists the world over and the pinnacle of 19th-century romanticism – and include a vintage recording each day.
In today's programme, Donald tells the story of Chopin's famous relationship with writer George Sand, and their many summers together at her country house at Nohant, as well as holidays in Majorca. Music includes Chopin's Cello Sonata, with Martha Argerich and Mstislav Rostropovich, and a vintage recording of Ballade No. 4 by Ukrainian pianist Alexander Uninsky.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Kerry Clark
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Claude Debussy completed only one opera, but what an opera it was! Pelléas And Mélisande, first staged in Paris in 1902, is like nothing ever composed before – a beautiful, dream-like drama in which the music rarely rises to loud climaxes and the characters' enigmatic relationships are expressed in vocal lines that closely mirror the natural accents of the French language.
Not everything in Debussy's musical language is unprecedented, however. He claimed to be reacting against Wagner (who was the overbearing presence in operatic life at the end of the 19th century), but there are plenty of echoes of the German's music dramas in Debussy's work – the seemingly doomed love story of Pélleas And Mélisande has something in common with those quintessentially Wagnerian lovers, Tristan And Isolde.
Today's performance features a production from the city where the opera was premièred, conducted by Bernard Haitink, and with a cast led by top Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kozena.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/David Gallagher
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Tonight's Performance On 3 is a concert of music designed to impress, performed by the Ulster Orchestra and a conductor who is one of the many young talents to come from Finland, Tuomas Ollila-Hannikainen.
The concert opens with Haydn's Symphony No. 96, composed to dazzle audiences in London. This is followed by another piece designed to make an impact – the virtuosic third Piano Concerto by Prokofiev, which also shows off the composer's sharp wit. The pianist is another young talent, Alex Kobrin, who won the prestigious Van Cliburn International competition in 2005, and who has been touring with major orchestras ever since. The final work in the concert, Shostakovich's Ninth Symphony, demonstrates the composer's lighter side, albeit with an undercurrent of subversiveness.
Presenter/Ian Skelly, Producer/Janet Tuppen
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Matthew Sweet reveals the untold story of Harold McCarthy, arguably the most powerful British film critic of the 20th century – despite the fact that his name never appeared in a newspaper byline.
From the Thirties to the Sixties, McCarthy supplied reviews of 11,000 films to independent cinema managers from Cork to Calcutta – reviews that shaped what cinema-goers saw on the screen. His reports, simply headed The McCarthy Agency, were broken down into a highly sophisticated ratings system, and contain the most complete record of every film shown in Britain over that 30-year period.
McCarthy's unique archive has only recently come to light and, with the help of Harold's family, Matthew Sweet goes on the trail of The Man From The McCarthy Agency. Along the way he talks to the antiquarian bookseller who originally found the archive, hears from film critics and historians about McCarthy's place in British cinematic history and, rifling through the goldmine of 11,000 reviews, he uncovers a lost world of forgotten cinema, to which McCarthy's work is now the only guide.
Presenter/Matthew Sweet, Producer/Aasiya Lodhi
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Even when we're dead and buried, our skeletons can tell a story. They reveal clues about our gender, age, what we ate, how we lived and how we died.
In the field of palaeopathology, or the study of ancient diseases, archaeologists have learned to read the bones and spot the tell-tale signs of tuberculosis and leprosy. But now they're using genetics to dig deeper, and the results could potentially help find new ways to deal with TB today.
Quentin Cooper is joined by archaeologist Charlotte Roberts and geneticist Terry Brown, who have joined forces to try to discover how the TB bacterium has evolved over the centuries. As the project gets under way, they discuss the history of TB; their plans to find, extract and piece together ancient DNA; and what this will reveal about tuberculosis evolution and its ultimate origins.
Presenter/Quentin Cooper, Producer/Pam Rutherford
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
David Baddiel, the creator and original host of the show that dares to commit heresy, hands over the reins to Victoria Coren for the brand-new fifth series, overthrowing popular prejudices and ruthlessly examining received opinions.
Each week, Victoria is joined by a panel of guests drawn from Britain's wittiest and most opinionated broadcasters, writers and comedians, as they rip apart the everyday assumptions people tend to take for granted, mixing thoughtful discussion with irreverent humour.
Topics from the worlds of news, sport, popular culture, politics and the arts are all up for grabs. Previous examples include: "It's what's on the inside that counts"; "Prog rock is overblown, pretentious nonsense"; and "Men who go off with young girls and buy Porsches in mid-life crises are pathetic".
In the opening episode of the new series Victoria is joined by former host David Baddiel, among a selection of other original thinkers. Guests on previous series include Jonathan Ross, Zoe Williams, Frank Skinner, Germaine Greer, Russell Brand, Armando Iannucci, Matt Lucas, Alan Davies, David Aaronovitch, Stewart Lee, Peter Bradshaw, Lee Mack, Jimmy Carr and John O'Farrell.
Presenter/Victoria Coren, Producer/Alison Vernon Smith
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The year is 2099. Professor Nebulous returns with his team of inept eco-troubleshooters for a third series of the sci-fi sitcom written by Graham Duff. Nebulous follows the adventures of KENT – the Key Environmental
In the first episode, Genesis Of The Aftermath, Nebulous travels back in time to the day of his greatest experiment. But even given a second chance, can he prevent the destruction of the Isle of Wight?
David Warner is this week's special guest star and the cast includes Mark Gatiss as Professor Nebulous; Graham Duff as Rory; Rosie Cavaliero as Paula Breeze; Graham Crowden as Sir Ronald Rolands; Paul Putner as Harry; Julia Dalkin as Gemini; and Matt Wolf as Clown Father.
Producer/Ted Dowd, Director/Nicholas Briggs
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Mark Saggers hosts live coverage from the Coca-Cola Football League play-offs, with the second leg of the first semi-final in the League One battle to reach the Championship.
There is also a comprehensive round-up of the day's other sports news, including reaction from the first day of the First Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's.
Presenter/Mark Saggers, Producer/Francesca Bent
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
Jonathan Agnew heads the Test Match Special team with uninterrupted commentary on the first day of the First Test between England and New Zealand, live from Lord's.
Coverage continues tomorrow at the same time on 5 Live Sports Extra.
Presenter/Jonathan Agnew, Producer/Adam Mountford
BBC 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
Seminal US indie band Dinosaur Jr, originally from Massachusetts, whose distorted yet melodic rock was a big influence on Nirvana, formed back in 1984 and were leading lights on the indie scene for some 13 years. After an
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Tim Burgess from The Charlatans joins Steve Lamacq in this week's Roundtable, discussing the week's new releases.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Gary Bales
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Current darlings of the indie scene, London's Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong, perform in session for Marc Riley.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Shazia is furious with Dr Masud for jeopardising her career and wonders if she should make a public statement, but it's too late – the press are outside, as the Asian drama continues.
The journalists accuse Dr Masud of funding terrorist activities. Shazia is told things will get a lot worse if she doesn't give them her side of the story...
Meanwhile, Zak is still hiding away in his room. Nadia tries to talk to him, but Zak just wants to be left alone.
Shazia is played by Shobu Kapoor, Dr Masud by Saeed Jaffrey, the main journalist by Helen Longworth, Zak by Jetinder Summan and Nadia by Sohm Kapila.
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Programme InformationNetwork Radio Week 20Friday 16 May 2008 |
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Friday Night Is Music Night is live from LSO St Luke's in London this week, with Ken Bruce introducing the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth.
This week's special guests are best-selling Irish singer/songwriter Brian Kennedy, and the winner of BBC Two's Classical Star series, pianist Sophie Cashell.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Jodie Keane
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
The Royal Philharmonic Society Awards are widely regarded as the most prestigious awards in the UK for live classical music. The 2008 event, hosted by Petroc Trelawny and Sara Mohr-Pietsch, took place last night (Thursday 15 May) at the Dorchester Hotel in London and this special edition of Performance On 3 features the evening's highlights.
There is coverage of the winners' presentations and speeches, interviews, music and a keynote speech from former Bishop of Edinburgh, Richard Holloway. The announcements include the winner of the BBC Radio 3 Listeners' Award: nominees included conductors Jiří Bĕlohlávek and Mark Elder; singers Christine Brewer, Alice Coote and Mark Padmore; pianists Steven Osborne and Llyr Williams; cellist Stephen Isserlis; viola player Lawrence Power; and jazz pianist and composer Gwillym Simcock.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Janet Tuppen
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Jazz trumpeter Clark Terry looks back over his recording career with Alyn Shipton. As well as being an inspirational trumpeter, and one who pushed the boundaries of technique by learning to play two horns at once, to finger left-handed and play the instrument upside down, Terry is a genuinely funny man, whose record Mumbles is a celebrated example of wordless humour that sends up the old-time blues singers.
Terry relates first-hand experiences of working with Duke Ellington and recalls such friends as Count Basie, Buddy Rich, Louie Bellson and Oscar Peterson.
Presenter and Producer/Alyn Shipton
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Jez Nelson presents a gig by trumpeter Ralph Alessi's group This Against That, featuring guest Ravi Coltrane on saxophone, recorded at this year's Cheltenham Jazz Festival. They are joined by Andy Milne on piano, Drew Gress on bass and Mark Ferber on drums.
A veteran of 15 years on the New York scene, Alessi has secured a reputation as one of the jazz world's most formidable players, playing with the likes of Steve Coleman and Uri Caine. Since moving to New York in 1991 from his native California, Alessi has become a key figure in the city's jazz and improvised music scene. As well as releasing four albums as a leader – including two with This Against That – he has collaborated with some of improvised music's key names, including Don Byron, Sam Rivers and Fred Hersch, and founded the School For Improvisational Music in Brooklyn.
Second son of jazz legends John and Alice, Ravi Coltrane has emerged as one of the saxophone's unique voices, having played with some of jazz's biggest names including Jack DeJohnnette, Rashied Ali and Elvin Jones. His label, RKM Music, released the debut album of Alessi's This Against That.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Somethin' Else
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
As a follow-up to the documentary Soldier's Haven last year, Simon Weston catches up with two soldiers badly injured in Iraq and Afghanistan to find out what has happened since and what the future holds for them.
The programme focuses on the differing fortunes of two soldiers. Gunner Anthony Makin lost his leg when he was blown up in Afghanistan. One year on, he's fully functioning on his prosthetic leg and about to start pre-deployment training for front-line Iraq with 29 Commando. Simon talks to his commander and colleagues during training and finds out his hopes and fears for the future.
Gunner Peter Hire was blown up in Iraq. Blind in one eye, deaf in one ear and with a brain injury, Peter knows it could take a decade to get back to normal. He's being discharged from the Army on medical grounds and is back in the South Wales valleys, living with his mum and trying to get his life back on track. He can't get a job and was devastated to leave the Army.
The programme also looks at the wider context and issues that greet soldiers returning from conflicts. Simon explores compensation and medical provision, asks if the Government is breaking the military covenant and finds out what can be done to change things.
Presenter/Simon Weston, Producer/Sian Price
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
One of the great radio detectives returns to the airwaves. April 1938 saw the first transmission on the BBC's Midland Regional Programme of a thriller: Send For Paul Temple, written by Francis Durbridge. For the next 30 years, the suave private detective and crime novelist Paul, together with his glamorous Fleet Street journalist wife Steve, solved case after baffling case in one of radio's most enduringly popular series. Unfortunately, recordings of many of the early series are lost to the archives.
In 2006, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a brand-new production of one of the missing Temples – the ninth series, Paul Temple And The Sullivan Mystery, from 1947. Now, Paul Temple is back again and, as before, the production uses the unchanged original scripts, and was recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects as well as much of the original incidental music.
Returning from America by ocean liner, the Temples enjoy the company of their fellow First Class passengers, only to find one of them dead the next morning. When Paul and Steve return home to London, Sir Graham Forbes of Scotland Yard is waiting to plunge them into one of their most thrilling and dangerous adventures yet: the pursuit of a ruthless gang of bank-note counterfeiters.
Once again, Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson play Paul and Steve Temple. The cast also includes Gareth Thomas, Angus MacInnes, Robin Laing, Emma Currie, Lucy Paterson, Nick Underwood, Greg Powrie, Eliza Langland, Richard Greenwood, Michael Mackenzie and Jimmy Chisholm.
Producer/Patrick Rayner
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Yara, a young woman apparently on the run from a sex trafficking ring, is hit by a car. The driver, Grant, a talkative, middle-aged city worker, late for a meeting, offers to help her escape. As they drive – and then run – through London and her pursuers close in, her true (and deadly) intentions become shockingly clear.
Forty Three, Fifty Nine is an occasional series of dramas inspired by real events. Each story follows just one person's perspective in a seemingly continuous take, contained within 43 minutes and 59 seconds – the length of the transmission slot. Yara is the second in the occasional series to be aired on BBC Radio 4. The first, the story of a Russian dissident on the run from assassins, was broadcast last October.
The play's author, Mike Walker, has written a number of prize-winning dramas including Sony winners Different States and Alpha. He is currently working on an adaptation of Charles Dickens's Dombey And Son for Radio 4.
Producer/John Dryden
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Mark Pougatch presents live coverage from the second leg of the second Coca-Cola League One play-off semi final, plus there's an E.on FA Cup final preview with studio regulars Gabrielle Marcotti and Steve Claridge.
There is also news of the second day of the First Test between England and New Zealand at Lord's.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Ed King
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
Shaun Keaveny is joined in the studio by his latest Band Beeatches – "willing" slaves happy to respond to Shaun's every whim – The Duke Spirit. Front woman Leila Moss and the band come in to make the tea and talk to Shaun about life, the US tour they've just finished and their plans for the summer.
Presenter/Shaun Keaveny, Producer/Louise Orchard
BBC 6 Music Publicity
English rock band Spiritualized make a welcome live appearance in the 6 Music Hub.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Bob Dylan takes Head To Toe as his theme this week. His exploration of the human body takes him from I've Got You Under My Skin by Louis Prima and Keely Smith to Loretta Lynn's Fist City, via Finger Poppin' Time by Hank Ballard And The Midnighters and Brain Cloudy Blues by Bob Wills And His Texas Playboys.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/XM Satellite Radio
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Californian melodic death metal band DevilDriver join Bruce Dickinson on his Rock Show this evening.
Influenced by the likes of Metallica, Johnny Cash and Slayer, the guys are currently touring around the world with
Bruce chats to the guys about their second album, The Last Kind Words, how their recent UK performances were received and about their now legendary appearance at last year's Download Festival, where they attempted a world record for the "largest circle pit" ever at a festival.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Simran calls in on the Akhtars to pay her respects, in the week's final visit to Silver Street. Zak's phone keeps ringing and he rejects the calls before announcing he needs some fresh air.
Zak runs into Talib, who asks why Fatima isn't returning his calls. Zak shouts out that Fatima is dead and it's Talib's fault. Zak then attacks Talib, forcing him to defend himself. Simran stops the fight and takes a broken Zak home to clean him up before Khatija sees him...
Simran is played by Balvinder Sopal, Zak by Jetinder Summan and Talib by Rachid Sabitri.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
Barbara Bogaev considers the various routes people take to escape the relentless march of time.
A neuroscientist explains the ways in which the brain is able to stretch time during periods of stress and peak performance. A civil war re-enactor immerses himself so convincingly in the past that he achieves the elusive high of "period rush".
Barbara also explores a project that looks 10,000 years into the future to help gain perspective on the present.
Presenter/Barbara Bogaev, Producer/Queena Kim
BBC World Service Publicity
Environment Correspondent Matt McGrath compares the attempts of traditional religious leaders to protect the planet with that of the "fire and brimstone" climate change movement.
With its prophets of doom and apocalyptic visions, its zealots and its doubters, climate change has become a mantra for the converted, with its own set of commandments on how to live one's life.
Matt asks whether this new faith is proving more successful than established religions in inspiring people to take care of the planet.
Presenter/Matt McGrath, Producer/Katy Hickman
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