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Programme InformationNetwork Radio Week 29Sunday 13 July 2008 |
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Michael Ball is joined by Kris Marshall, the actor who rose to fame as Nick Harper in popular BBC One sitcom My Family and has since progressed to film and theatre.
Kris is currently appearing in the West End production of Fat Pig, a play written by Neil LaBute and co-starring Robert Webb and Joanna Page.
Michael Prescott reviews the Sunday papers and Hilary Oliver has the entertainment guide.
Presenter/Michael Ball, Producer/Fiona Day
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
This weekend, Elaine Paige is joined by Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schonberg.
Together, Boublil and Schonberg have created some of the world's most successful musicals including: Miss Saigon; Martin Guerre; and Les Miserables, which was voted the nation's Essential Musical by listeners to Elaine's show in 2005.
Elaine talks to Alain and Claude-Michel about their long-standing collaboration and their latest musical, Marguerite, which is currently running in the West End and stars Ruthie Henshall.
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Brian D'Arcy celebrates the life of St Benedict with the Leeds Cathedral Choir.
The musical director is Christopher McIroy, the organist is Christopher Johns and the hymns include: Thou Wilt Keep Him In Perfect Peace, Holy God; We Praise Thy Name; and As Pants The Hart.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
The Marriage Of Figaro is arguably one of the greatest operas ever written and one of the key ingredients to its success is the way in which Mozart depicts the multi-faceted nature of his various characters and shapes the structure of the drama.
Stephen Johnson is joined by an international cast of young singers from the Royal Academy Opera, fresh from the triumph of their recent production of the opera at London's Royal Academy of Music, and members of BBC National Orchestra of Wales, under Polish conductor Ewa Strusinska.
Discovering Music takes an illustrated look at the second act of Mozart's opera: an act which culminates in what is considered by many to be one of the most perfectly formed of all operatic finales.
Presenter/Stephen Johnson, Producer/Chris Wines
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Tristram Hunt examines the legacy of the father of economics, Adam Smith, exploring his theories of the free market and examining how they have shaped modern economic thought, to conclude the series exploring the origins of British intellectual traditions.
Smith's famous work, The Wealth Of Nations, developed theories of the free market. Hunt travels to the economist's hometown of Kirkaldy where he is joined by Gordon Brown's favourite Smith scholar, Iain McLean, to examine his life and work and find out how it fitted in to Scottish Enlightenment thinking.
Hunt then goes to Vienna to see how Smith's ideas were adopted and adapted by the Austrian School of Economics, principally by one of the most influential economic and political thinkers of the 20th century: Friedrich Hayek. Hayek's work, The Road To Serfdom, argued that collectivism and the dismantling of the free market entailed the demise of personal freedom.
Hayek went on to influence the radical economic thinking of the Chicago School, headed by Milton Friedman. Both Hayek and Friedman's neo-liberal models for free-market capitalism were embraced by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan.
How much does the spirit of Adam Smith still guide the economics of today? Naomi Klein and Anthony Giddens are among the contributors piecing together Smith's legacy.
Presenter/Tristram Hunt, Producer/Neil McCarthy
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
This week, Kirsty Young's guest is English soprano Dame Felicity Lott, also known as "Flott".
Born in Cheltenham, Dame Felicity began learning the piano at the age of five and had her first singing lesson at the age of 12. Initially, she decided against a professional singing career but she continued her singing lessons at the Conservatoire during a stay in France. By 1969, music had won her over and she returned to London to take up singing studies at the Royal Academy of Music.
She made her debut at the English National Opera as Pamina in Mozart's The Magic Flute in 1975. The following year, she began a long association with Glyndebourne. She has appeared at all the great opera houses of the world and she has worked with nearly all major orchestras.
Kirsty Young invites Dame Felicity to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
 Anna Maxwell Martin plays Isabel in Henry James's Portrait Of A Lady Anna Maxwell Martin stars as the young and beautiful Isabel Archer in this radio dramatisation of Henry James's classic novel. Isabel thinks she is in control of her fate but little does she know that there are others, behind the scenes, pulling the strings.
When her uncle leaves Isabel a considerable sum of money, she believes that she is truly free to be independent and discover herself and decides to turn down two eligible suitors in order to travel.
In Florence, Isabel meets art collector Gilbert Osmond who is handsome, sophisticated and a devoted father to his daughter, Pansy. Despite friends' attempts to convince her otherwise, Isabel falls in love and marries Osmond. It is only after the marriage that Isabel discovers Osmond's true and darker nature.
Henry James's Portrait Of A Lady is dramatised in three parts by Rachel Joyce. The cast includes: Anna Maxwell Martin as Isabel Archer; Hadyn Gwynne as Madame Merle; Robert Bathurst as Lord Warburton; Colin Stinton as Gilbert Osmond; Gayle Hunnicutt as Mrs Touchett; Peter Marinker as Mr Touchett; Laurel Lefkow as Henrietta Stackpole; Coey Johnson as Caspar Goodwood; Barbara Barnes as Countess Gemini; Penelope Rawlins as Pansy Osmond; Nyasha Hatendi a Edward Rosier; Dan Starkey as Mr Bantling; Joan Walker as Mother Catherine; and Liz Sutherland as Mother Justice. The narrator is William Hope.
Producer/Tracey Neale
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Live sports action and debate is hosted by John Inverdale with news from the cricket at Lord's on the fourth day of the first Test between England and South Africa.
Listeners can also enjoy live rugby league Super League commentary, Tour de France news from reporter Peter Slater and live golf coverage on the final day of the Barclays Scottish Open.
From 4.30pm, there is more live athletics commentary from the three As Championships from Birmingham, with Mike Costello and the BBC Radio 5 Live athletics team.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/John Southall
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Bob chooses mail as this week's theme.
His selections include: Please Mr Postman by The Marvelettes; A Letter Home by Memphis Slim; Fats Waller's I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Write Myself A Letter; and A Letter To Heaven by Sister Wynona Carr.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Each week, 6 Music's Chris Hawkins plunders the BBC Archive for musical gems of live performances recorded by the BBC over the past 40 years.
Chris's choice tonight is a showcase performance from Paul Weller, performed at GuilFest in 2005.
Presenter/Chris Hawkins, Presenter/Chris Carr
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Programme InformationNetwork Radio Week 29Monday 14 July 2008 |
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Classical conductor Charles Hazlewood continues his quest to join the dots between musical genres and, this week, is joined at his Somerset home by British pianist Joanna McGregor – who has performed in over 60 countries.
Joanna has spent her career connecting many genres of music, defying categorisations and feels equally happy with classical, jazz and contemporary music. She plays pieces by Nina Simone, Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla and the pioneering and unconventional composer John Cage.
Presenter/Charles Hazlewood, Producer/Russell Finch
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Marc Riley brings listeners a double bill in this week's edition of the Musical Time Machine, as he revisits a Tina Turner interview from 1976 and a Captain Beefheart interview from 1980.
The first stop is February 1976, when Tina Turner dropped by BBC Radio 1's HQ amidst rumours of a split from her husband, Ike. The singing sensation talks about using her sexuality in her performances, the experience of performing to white audiences and her views on the other female singers of the time.
Next up is 1980, and an interview with musician Don Vliet – aka Captain Beefheart. David Hepworth speaks to the influential and avant-garde musician about life in the Mohave Desert, his favourite poets and a passion for painting.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Ian Callaghan
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Donald Macleod explores the five decades of the life and work of JS Bach's music, revealing a fascinating picture of the composer's evolving style. He begins today with The Apprentice – Bach In The 1700s, an exploration of some of Bach's earliest surviving compositions. There is also a rare chance for listeners to hear Bach's first published cantata, Gott ist mein König, performed by The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
If you compare an early work of Beethoven with a late one, they seem to inhabit different musical universes. That's not true of Bach, however. His musical objectives remained essentially constant throughout his lifetime – he just became more and more formidably capable of achieving them. Nonetheless, there's a subtle stylistic development through Bach's composing career, as shown throughout the week.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Barstow
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The revival of folk music was one of the biggest influences on Western classical music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and inspired some well loved repertoire. Afternoon On 3 has a nationalistic flavour this week, and listeners can hear music by composers inspired by folk songs from all over Europe.
As a precursor to the Proms folk day next month, Penny Gore focuses on a different BBC orchestra each day and introduces an eclectic mix of live and specially recorded music inspired by traditional song, alongside the BBC Singers' recordings of folk song arrangements, which feature throughout the week.
Today, the Ulster Orchestra perform music by Irish-born composers Hamilton Harty and Charles Villiers Stanford, as well as folk-inspired music from Scandinavia and central Europe by Bartok, Grieg, Gorecki and Kodaly.
Presenter/Penny Gore, Producer/Helen Garrison
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There's a folk-inspired feast from the Manchester Camerata at the Cheltenham Festival in tonight's edition of Performance
Rautavaara based his The Fiddlers suite on 17th-century fiddlers' tunes, while Bartók's Divertimento gives Hungarian folk music a modernist twist. There's also a Transylvanian Stamping Dance from one of Bartók's pupils, Sandor Veress.
The English contributions include Vaughan Williams's Fantasia On A Theme By Thomas Tallis, and local lad Gustav Holst's folky suite written for his pupils at St Paul's Girls School.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Ellie Mant
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Greek And Latin Voices continues this week with four essays exploring the life and work of the great Roman poet Virgil.
In today's first essay of the week, Maria Wyke, Professor of Latin at University College London, and Latin consultant to the series, discusses how Virgil's work was received in his own time and how quickly it made an impact.
In Tuesday's essay, Irish poet and Nobel Prize-winner for Literature, Seamus Heaney, reflects on the lasting influence which Virgil has had on his poetry and on the Western literary tradition – illustrated with some of his own translations of Virgil's work.
Professor Charles Martindale, Professor of Latin University of Bristol, traces the way in which Virgil's work has been received through the centuries and asks why he should still be read today, in the penultimate essay on Wednesday.
In the final essay of the week, on Thursday, Professor Philip Hardie, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, and Honorary Professor of Latin, takes as his subject the themes of exile and Utopia which run through Virgil's major works.
Presenter/Professor Maria Wyke, Producer/Christine Hall
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Lopa Kothari takes over the World On 3 hotseat this week and features music from Brazil, Ghana, India and Romania; some vintage African rarities recorded by Hugh Tracey; and highlights of a concert by Marseille vocal ensemble Lo Cor de la Plana.
Lo Cor de la Plana are a male ensemble from the La Plaine quarter in Marseille – six singers accompanied by percussions (bendirs and tamburello), "picaments" of their feet and "bataments" of their hands. Formed in 2001, they sing all repertoires, from the most religious to the most unfettered, the repetitive to the occasional – quite often at the same time.
Lo Cor want to do away with "traditional" song and cross swords with vocal music and polyphony. They aim to evoke in their music the sounds of the city and the world around them, such as a police siren, a newborn baby, the remains of a paradise or a fantasyland, a drunken party, sheep or wolves – in short, the peaceful, heady passion of day-to-day life.
Presenter/Lopa Kothari, Producer/James Parkin
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Kelly Grovier's book tells the story of Newgate, where such legendary outlaws as Robin Hood and Captain Kidd met their fates, and where the rapier-wielding playwrights Ben Jonson and Christopher Marlowe sharpened their quills and the flamboyant highwaymen Claude Duval and James Maclaine made legions of women swoon.
While London's theatres came and went, The Gaol endured as London's unofficial stage. From the Peasants' Revolt to the Great Fire, it was inside the walls of Newgate that England's greatest dramas unfolded.
This Book Of The Week offering brings together the lives of forgotten figures, as well as re-examining the prison's links with more famous individuals, from Dick Whittington to Charles Dickens. The reader is to be confirmed.
Producer/Peter Hoare
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Fiona Shaw narrates this dramatisation of the true story of a British woman who bumps into an Albanian woman in the street with her three children. Kate Clanchy met Antigona in 2001. Antigona only knew two words of English, Kosovo and divorced, and had learnt not to say "Albanian asylum-seeker".
Kate offered Antigona a job as a cleaner, an offer which led to a long and often puzzling road of friendship between their two families.
Antigona had escaped a forced, violent marriage – on her wedding day her husband was given a bullet to show he had the right to kill her. She had also run away from the Serb forces who had dropped her daughter from a two storey building to make a point. She had carried her injured daughter and tiny son through Albanian mountains, on a night boat to Italy and then in a lorry to the UK.
Soon after she takes up Kate's job offer, members of Antigona's family begin to appear in Kate's kitchen and Kate, piece by piece, discovers more about the life Antigona has left behind.
Fiona Shaw is the narrator, Kate, and Teuta Skenderi is Antigona. The cast also includes Sam Dale, Chris Pavlo, Jade Williams, Adelayo Adedayo and Lewis Lempereur-Palmer.
Narrator/Fiona Shaw, Producer/Jonquil Panting
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Five stories from Wales are featured in this week's Afternoon Reading slot.
Shelley Rees reads Jack, by Rachel Tresize, when a moment's recklessness in the grass with Gethin leads to life changes for Abby.
Twelve Beer Blues by Tristan Hughes is read by Ian Puleston-Davies. The morning after the night before brings mixed memories for Dylan.
Torchwood star Eve Myles reads Sorry For The Loss, written by Bridget Keehan, in which a prison chaplain has to break some bad news to an inmate.
Matthew Rhys reads Last Dance At Johnny's, by Craig Hawes. Johnny does not dance any more but when the music is turned up loud he cannot resist one last rave with an old mate.
Ruth Jones (Gavin And Stacy) reads White Rabbit, written by Kate D'Lima. Laura and Jed have always had a stormy relationship but this time some craziness nearly leads to disaster.
Producer/Kate McAll
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Like many teenagers, 14-year-old Dexter Pletts spends much of his free time in front of a screen. This audio-diary series tells how, after yet another marathon computer game session, Dexter's exasperated father issues him with a challenge – he bets that the most distant, wild and ancient places in the world could be much more exciting than anything available on a computer.
Dexter, who has both learning difficulties and an obsession with computer games, accepts the challenge and is removed from his comfort zone and taken to the far west of Mongolia. Here, in sub-zero temperatures, he gets to live in a Ger alongside Kazakh nomads and mark his impending adult life by going out on horseback with his hosts and hunting for wolves and rabbits with trained golden eagles.
While parents Tony and Sarah are well travelled, they have almost no experience of wilderness, sub-zero temperatures or nomadic life, let alone living off or riding animals. Sarah suffers from ME and is also a strict vegetarian. For both of them, the adventure is as great as Dexter's.
Through spoken diary entries and interviews, the Plettses thrash through their fear barriers in Outer Mongolia during a time of great personal challenges and a clash of cultures.
Producer/Sara Jane Hall
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Clair Patterson – Scourge Of The Lead Industry is the extraordinary story of one man's discovery of the global contamination of the environment by man-made lead compounds.
When the prestigious journal Nature published Clair "Pat" Patterson's first paper linking lead pollution to leaded petrol in 1963, it set him against much of the industrial, political and even scientific establishment.
He saw his funding cut by two thirds, his job threatened and attempts to discredit him by scientists in the pay of the lead industry.
Yet he had come to the subject by accident. In the early Fifties, he set out to measure the concentration of lead isotopes in ancient rocks and meteorites, purely to calculate the age of the Earth. But a six-month project stretched out to five years as he found everything he touched was contaminated with lead – even the laboratories, containers, instruments and the people in them.
Patterson devised ways of calculating the amount of lead in prehistoric human bones and showed that by the mid-20th century the average American had 500 times that level in his or her body.
It was largely thanks to Patterson's efforts that lead was removed from petrol, food cans, electrical solder and a host of other applications where it was entering the air we breathe and the food we eat.
Patterson died in 1995. This programme, presented by environmental scientist Dr Hermione Cockburn, tells the story in his own words from an oral history tape, along with new interviews with his widow, children and former colleagues, and visiting some of the places where he did his ground-breaking work.
Producer/Mike Hally, Executive Producer/Mark Whitaker
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Arlo White presents all the day's big sports stories including the test cricket, golf and cycling. At 8pm, the Monday Night Club debates all the latest football news.
Presenter/Arlo White, Producer/Ed King
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
Former Massive Attack member and "trip hop" pioneer, Bristol boy Tricky, performs live in the BBC 6 Music Hub following the recent release of his new album, Knowle West Boy – a title which alludes to his place of birth in Bristol.
1Xtra BBC's Young Lion also chooses his Dancehall track of the week.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
 Nemone previews the best of the Edinburgh Fringe comedy all this week Nemone kicks off A Feast Of Fringe in this week's show – a week-long special of Edinburgh Fringe Comedy previews. Dublin-born stand-up Andrew Maxwell, who was nominated for the if.comedy award for the best show at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2007, is Nemone's first guest and chats about his Edinburgh show, Supernatural.
Presenter/Nemone,
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe continues to delve deep into the BBC archives and unearths some more of the best sessions and live sets recorded for the BBC.
Tonight's session highlights come from The Duke Spirit, recorded for Stephen Merchant's BBC 6 Music show last month, and the now disbanded Hope of the States from Glastonbury in 2004. Listeners can also hear a concert from the Psychedelic Furs.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Iron Maiden vocalist and BBC 6 Music DJ Bruce Dickinson looks back at memorable years in the rock almanac and tonight assesses the year 1980 – featuring music from Motorhead, Whitesnake, Judas Priest and AC/DC.
The programme was first broadcast in 2003.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Rita calls Jodie to say Roopa is too sick to work, in today's first visit of the week to Silver Street. Jodie guesses she is lying but is pleased when Fran steps in so she can get on with planning Simran's hen party.
Roopa, meanwhile, tells Sean to stay out of her relationship with Aidan. Sean agrees but tells her she is on her own from now on. Later, Roopa tells her parents Aidan is an emotional wreck and needs looking after, but will they believe her?
Rita is played by Bharti Patel, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi, Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar, Fran by Colleen Prendergast, Simran by Balvinder Sopal, Sean by Lloyd Thomas and Aidan by Arkie Reece.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
Kate Clark has been granted a year's access to Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, Britain's Ambassador to Afghanistan, and his team as they join forces with the Afghan Government to take on the country's drugs barons.
In tonight's final programme, Kate reports on the fight against Afghanistan's drugs trade, which fuels corruption and insecurity and bankrolls the Taliban.
Presenter/Kate Clark, Producer/Lynne Jones
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Programme InformationNetwork Radio Week 29Tuesday 15 July 2008 |
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 South Africa's father figure Nelson Mandela is still campaigning at 90 Michael Buerk presents a documentary marking the 90th birthday of Robben Island Prisoner No. 46664.
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela's lifelong fight against inequality and injustice – he was incarcerated in 1964, released 27 years later and became the first President of South Africa in a fully democratic election – has been well documented but, since his retirement in 1999, he has been far from idle.
As he approaches his 90th birthday, the man known to South Africans as Madiba, or quite simply Dad, has led the campaign to increase global awareness of the HIV/Aids pandemic sweeping South Africa; more than six million people are infected, around half a million people die each year and Mandela himself lost his son Makgatho from Aids in 2005.
Mandela's campaign draws on the universal language of music and South African and Western musicians have rallied to the call with concerts around the world. Twenty years after Wembley hosted a 70th birthday tribute, which called for his release from imprisonment, on 27 June the stadium hosted another concert, this time to celebrate Mandela's 90th birthday.
The programme features contributions from musicians and artists including Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, Zucchero, the Soweto Gospel Choir and prominent South African musicians such as Yvonne Chaka Chaka and Johnny Clegg, who formed the first multi-racial band in apartheid South Africa. It also features interviews with representatives from Mandela's own Foundation and those closest to him, as well as with ordinary South African people living each day with HIV and Aids.
"From the pain comes the suffering, from the suffering comes the dream, from the dream comes the vision, from the vision comes the people, from the people comes the power, from the power comes the change, but if the world could only have one father, the man we would want to be our father is Madiba, Mr Nelson Mandela." Peter Gabriel, 2003.
Presenter/Michael Buerk, Producer/Helen Chetwynd
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Zoe Ball concludes the countdown of The Greatest Dance Records Of All Time by revealing the winning track.
This three part series is an accompaniment to Radio 2's Dance Music Season which remembers the Second Summer Of Love, 20 years after the acid house scene exploded in the UK.
A panel of dance music experts drew up a shortlist of 20 records which spanned those years and reflected on their musical merit and importance in the narrative of UK dance music. Radio 2 listeners were invited to vote for their favourite dance track from the shortlist and tonight's programme tells the story behind the top three.
Presenter/Zoe Ball, Producer/Simon Poole
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This week Donald Macleod takes listeners through the five decades of Bach's music, revealing a fascinating picture of the composer's evolving style.
Today he delves into Bach's creative outpourings during the 1710s, much of which was spent at the court of Duke Wilhelm Ernst of Weimar. Music includes Bach's earliest extant chamber work, a towering masterpiece of the organ literature, and two highly original – and strongly contrasted – cantatas.
It was written in Bach's obituary more than 250 years ago: "If ever a composer showed polyphony in its greatest strength, it was certainly our late lamented Bach. If ever a musician employed the most hidden secrets of harmony with the most skilled artistry, it was certainly our Bach." Macleod argues that this holds true today.
He also says that Bach's musical objectives remained essentially constant through his lifetime – he just became more and more formidably capable of achieving them. Nonetheless, there's a subtle stylistic development through Bach's composing career.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Barstow
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
With recent research suggesting that those who did not talk about their experiences in the aftermath of 9/11 coped better psychologically than those that shared their grief, Philip Dodd hosts a debate asking whether we should resurrect the stiff upper lip.
A recent report into education in Britain argues that "therapy culture" has invaded schools and universities, creating a generation of "infantilised" students and lecturers unable to cope with rigorous academic life. The report's authors argue that people are encouraged to express themselves, but criticism is discouraged, which weakens academic freedom. They say: "Children are becoming neurotic and introverted. The more you obsess about your difficulties, the harder they are to put behind you."
The programme discusses whether people would be psychologically healthier and more successful if they talked less, bottled it up more and just got on with it.
Presenter/Philip Dodd, Producer/Laura Thomas
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
It's a natural assumption that audiences should be in the presence of magicians and conjurers as they perform their art – the complicity of bafflement seems to require the presence of both parties. But there's a long and honourable tradition of magic performed on the radio to audiences listening, and sometimes participating, at home.
Magician and musician Grant Gordon, lately of The Divine Comedy, explores the rich history of magic on the radio.
Grant encounters Sid and Lesley Piddington and their celebrated radio mind-reading act, the great Sidani confounding Kenneth Horne in a post-war variety show, Uri Geller bending keys whilst sitting in Anthony Clare's psychiatrist's chair, John Wade sawing Barry Wordsworth in half, David Berglas engaged in some magical carpentry and Jack Delvin escaping from a lift in Bush House, the London home of BBC World Service.
Grant hears from magicians Darryl Rose, Paul Zenon, Ali Bongo and Derren Brown; he listens in to Chris Moyles and Huw Stephens on BBC Radio 1; and talks to magic buffs Steve Allen and Brian Sibley. To perpetuate the tradition of radio magic Grant persuades magician Darryl Rose to perform a new radio trick involving the BBC Radio 4 website with the listeners to the programme – before your very ears!
Presenter/Grant Gordon, Producer/Roger Elsgood
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The huge attendance at Ralph Vaughan Williams's memorial service at Westminster Abbey upon his death 50 years ago was a measure of the esteem in which the composer was held.
To many, he was known as "Uncle Ralph" – genial, generous, always anxious to help fellow-composers find their way. Not, then, the most obvious subject for a warts-and-all anniversary programme – except it is now clear that Ralph and his second wife Ursula began an affair in early 1938, 13 years before the death of his first wife, Adeline, who had been fighting arthritis since the early years of their marriage.
Late Love, Late Life hears a range of opinion about the marriage and the composer's so-called "womanising", but also tries to discern what effect Ralph's relationships with Adeline and Ursula had on his music, along with the vital element of his experiences in the Great War.
Presented by renowned cellist and champion of British music Julian Lloyd Webber, the programme begins on location in Arras, France where Vaughan Williams served with the medical corps, witnessing horrific scenes and losing many close friends. Some say his music, barring the occasional masterpiece, was never the same after the war as it had been in the days when works such as the Tallis Fantasia and the Sea Symphony received great acclaim.
Late Love, Late Life includes interviews with Vaughan Williams's biographer Michael Kennedy; Roy Douglas, who worked with RVW on preparing his late scores for performance; friend Belinda Norman-Butler; Sir David Willcocks, formerly director of music at King's College Cambridge; Lord Armstrong, a close friend; and Jerrold Northrop Moore, famed as Elgar's biographer, but also a Vaughan Williams authority, who knew Ursula well.
Presenter/Julian Lloyd Webber, Producer/Andrew Green
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Arlo White presents the latest sports news and debate, including the build-up to the Open Golf Championship from Royal Birkdale and the Tour de France.
Presenter/Arlo White, Producer/Haydn Parry
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
A Feast Of Fringe continues as Nemone welcomes writer and comic Sarah Millican in to the studio. Sarah started doing stand-up in 2004 and has since been nominated for the BBC New Comedy Awards and Chortle Best Newcomer. She tells Nemone about her Edinburgh show, Sarah Millican's Not Nice, in which she tells the truth about her divorce, about fancying gorillas and about being thrown off the Asda shuttlebus.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Marc Riley welcomes one man band Rob Jones, aka The Voluntary Butler Scheme, in to the studio for a live session.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe introduces special highlights from the BBC archives, including Zero 7 recorded at Glastonbury in 2004 and Maximo Park recorded in the 6 Music Hub back in 2005.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Iron Maiden vocalist and BBC 6 Music DJ Bruce Dickinson looks back at memorable years in the rock almanac. In the final part of the series, Bruce assesses 1982 with music from Motley Crue, Ozzy Osbourne, Def Leppard and his own band.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Mushtaq is to unveil the new executive box and stands at Silverhill Rangers, in the latest visit to Silver Street. Rozena and Sameer arrive armed with a camcorder. Arun is avoiding his parents but Pradeep soon catches up with him.
Rita and Pradeep are impressed by the box named after Rita's dad and Rozena and Sameer are touched to see another has been named after Adam. An emotional Rozena announces she is ready to try for another baby, but is it too soon?
Mushtaq is played by Paul Bhattacharjee, Rozena by Pooja Ghai, Sameer by Alex Caan, Arun by Naithan Ariane, Pradeep by Ashvin-Kumar Joshi and Rita by Bharti Patel.
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Programme InformationNetwork Radio Week 29Wednesday 16 July 2008 |
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Jim Moray is Mike Harding's guest on this week's show. Mike chats to singer and musician Jim and plays tracks from his new album, Low Culture.
At the age of 21 Moray released his debut album, Sweet England. It was hailed by critics worldwide as being one of the most exciting and innovative developments in folk music for decades and was awarded the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award for best album in 2004.
Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Bronx-raised soul singer Stephanie McKay joins Trevor Nelson on tonight's show, which features the best in soulful music.
Stephanie performs a session of acoustic tracks ahead of the release of her new album, Tell It Like It Is.
The Album Of The Week is Parliament's Mothership Connection, while other music featured includes the Staple Singers with I'll Take You There, Will.i.am's Lay Me Down and the Jackson 5's Blues Away.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Ollie Embden
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Donald Macleod reaches what was probably JS Bach's most fertile decade, the 1720s, in an episode called One Fearsome Cantor, as he continues his exploration of the development of the composer's style.
Bach began a 27-year spell as Cantor at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, and a particular treat today is the magnificent but little-known cantata Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns hält, in a pre-release airing of a recording from Sir John Eliot Gardiner's critically acclaimed Bach Cantata series, made exclusively available to Composer Of The Week.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Barstow
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The revival of folk music was one of the biggest influences on Western classical music in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, inspiring some of the genre's best-loved repertoire. Afternoon On 3 has a nationalistic flavour this week, with music by composers inspired by folk songs from all over Europe.
Sibelius's epic choral and symphonic work Kullervo tells a tragic tale of hardship and incest. After its première in 1892, it gave the Finnish composer a reputation for having found a national voice in his music. Though he did not use actual folk tunes he was fascinated by them and, in particular, by the language and music of Karelia, an area which now straddles the Russian/Finnish border.
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra teams up with the Helsinki Male Voice Choir for this performance, which can be heard just after 3.30pm, and welcomes back its former Chief Conductor Osmo Vanksa – who has always had a special relationship with the music of his compatriot composer.
Before this there's a chance to hear a taste of other folk-inspired music from Bartok's Hungary, Lutoslawski's Poland and Sir Alexander MacKenzie's Scotland, plus a more contemporary interpretation of Finnish tunes by Veljo Tormis, performed by the BBC Singers.
Presenter/Penny Gore, Producer/Helen Garrison
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Physicist James Woudhuysen, Professor of Forecasting and Innovation at De Montfort University, investigates what Britain's 19th-century Romantic poets thought about man and nature, and finds some important differences between them and today's environmentalists.
Presenter/Professor James Woudhuysen, Producer/Kevin Mousley
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Julia Copus's Afternoon Play is based on a short story by John Cheever.
Irene Westcott's marriage is under strain. When her husband, Jim, brings home a new radio set to keep her company during the day, she soon finds her life unravelling around her.
At first repulsed by the size and ugliness of the new set, Irene soon discovers to her delight that instead of the normal stations, it is picking up sounds from the other apartments in her New York block. Without telling her husband, she begins to listen in secret, eavesdropping on private displays of carnal love, vanity, faith and despair.
Julia Copus is a poet and writer who won the Alfred Bradley Bursary in 2002 with her first play for radio, Eenie Meenie Macka Racka, also a BBC Radio 4 Afternoon Play. This is her second radio play.
Producer/Susan Roberts
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BBC Radio 4's performance poetry series returns for a new run, this year coming from one of the most historic performance poetry venues in the UK: the Troubadour Coffee House in Earl's Court, London. The Troubadour has featured live poetry for more than 30 years and underground music for more than 50, including such performers as Bob Dylan.
The first programme of the series, presented by recent Sony Gold winner Mr Gee, features new kid on the block Scroobius Pip. Performers later in the series include Polar Bear, Mallika Booker, Adrian Mitchell and John Agard.
Presenter/Mr Gee, Producer/Graham Frost
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Russell Fuller presents live from Royal Birkdale on the eve of the Open Golf Championship with all the day's sports news, including football and cycling.
At 8pm there is a preview of the 137th Open Championship, with a panel of experts debating what might happen over the next four days.
Presenter/Russell Fuller, Producer/Adrian Williams
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
London-based five-piece XX Teens caught the indie world unawares earlier this year with their single How To Reduce The Chances Of Being A Terror Victim. Their debut album, Welcome To Goon Island, is released this month and they perform tracks from it today in the 6 Music Hub.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
A Feast Of Fringe continues as Nemone welcomes Zoe Lyons to the show. Zoe makes a triumphant return to the Edinburgh Festival after her debut solo show last year, which procured her an if.comedy best newcomer nomination. Her show, Mangled Mantra Of The Messed Up Modern Mind, explores the daily thoughts running through her mind such as: "Must recycle more... but do I actually give a hoot about the environment?" and "Why do I procrastinate?... I don't want to think about that now."
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe introduces more highlights from the BBC archives, tonight revisiting the Magic Numbers from the Fez Club in 2005, recorded at 6 Music's Lamacq In The City night. There's also the final ever Beta Band performance from the Summer Sundae Festival in 2004 and a fantastic Hub session from Connor "Bright Eyes" Oberst, recorded in 2007.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
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Stuart Maconie charts the history of Talking Heads, from their New York punk beginnings to their status as one of the most influential bands of the last three decades. Contributors include band members Tina Weymouth, David Byrne, Jerry Harrison and Chris Frantz.
The documentary, which was first broadcast in 2000, concludes at the same time tomorrow.
Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Repeat Producer/Frank Wilson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Sway tells Mani a financial emergency means less money to spend on mela acts, in today's episode of the Asian drama. Mani has an idea for cutting down catering costs and in return Sway offers him a performance slot on the main stage.
Elsewhere, Kuljit and Ranbir come up with a name for the music stall. Later, they visit Ranbir's grandmother, Basant, who is worried Ranbir will lose his religious identity while living in a home. Kuljit is shocked when Ranbir starts telling lies...
Sway is played by Mark Monero, Mani by Kaleem Janjua, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Ranbir by Ashwin Bolar and Basant by Surinder Matharu.
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Jill McGivering investigates whether it's possible to provide a health system with universal access that gives quality care at an acceptable price.
Spending on health faces ever-increasing demands – ageing populations, medical advances, new drugs and different diseases.
Jill looks at the merits and problems of two dramatically different systems: Britain's huge state-run National Health Service, which has one and a half million employees, and that of the United States, where the private sector rules.
Presenter/Jill McGivering, Producer/Michael Gallagher
BBC World Service Publicity
Gareth Mitchell explores people's obsession with speed in this two-part series.
He travels to El Mirage, a dry lake bed in the Californian desert, where hot rodding was born. It's the start of the speed season here, with 152 vehicles in categories that range from Vintage Gas to Blown Street Roadster, lining up behind the starting line to drive across the dusty track as quickly as possible.
The average age of entrants is surprisingly high. Seventy-year-old racer Connie Beavers is still driving her motorbike at speeds of over 200mph, despite having been airlifted off the track with multiple fractures in the past.
Moving from California to Islington, north London, Gareth visits the Estorick Gallery which houses the UK's largest collection of Futurist art – the early 20th-century movement that is credited with kick-starting this love affair with speed.
The pace of record-breaking seems to be slowing nowadays. The air speed record of 2,193mph has remained in place since 1976, while the current land speed record of 763mph was set in 1997.
Presenter/Gareth Mitchell, Producer/Michelle Martin
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Bob Harris is joined in session this week by artist, carpenter and folk roots singer Kim Beggs.
Born in Quebec and raised in mining towns in Northern Ontario and later in Toronto, Kim is the second youngest of six children from a mixed-heritage household.
Her parents adopted two children of Aboriginal ancestry, giving Beggs a strong sense of connection to Aboriginal communities. She studied Family and Social Relations at University and spent summers tree-planting in Northern Ontario. In fact, it was the communal campfire sing-a-longs with her fellow planters that inspired her to start singing and playing guitar. She headed up to Whitehorse, Yukon, in the winter of 1991 to teach herself her new instrument and visit her sister for what was supposed to be just a couple of months' vacation. But the Yukon's combination of rawness and camaraderie grabbed her, and she never left.
Living in Yukon she trained as a carpenter, honing her guitar and writing skills in her free time. Her debut album, Streetcar Heart, came out in 2004 with Wanderer's Paean released two years later. In addition to singing and songwriting, she also draws, paints, sculpts and makes films.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth
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Divorce is the theme of this week's Theme Time Radio Hour as Bob Dylan selects an eclectic mix of music on the subject.
Tracks featured include DIVORCE by Tammy Wynette; Alimony by Tommy Tucker; She Got The Goldmine (I Got The Shaft) by Jerry Reed; Alimony Blues by T-Bone Walker; Divorce Decree by Doris Duke; Married By The Bible, Divorced By The Law by Hank Snow; Divorce Me COD by Merle Travis; Mexican Divorce by The Drifters; and Mr & Mrs Used To Be by Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn.
Presenter/Bob Dylan, BBC Series Producer/Phil Hughes
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Donald Macleod introduces some musical gems from Bach's years of consolidation, the 1730s, and looks at his musical activities during that decade when, on top of his regular job keeping Leipzig's four main churches supplied with cantatas, he took on a secular concert-giving role as director of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig. Somewhere along the way, he invented the keyboard concerto.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Barstow
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Olivia O'Leary returns for the 11th series of Between Ourselves, which brings together two people who have had profound parallel experiences to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term effects on each of their lives.
In the first programme, two spouses of transsexuals discuss how they cope with their partner's gender transition. Both have had to reassess their own identity and sexuality but both have remained married.
Daphne had been married to her husband, David, for 20 years when one day he suggested they go for a walk. He told Daphne he would like her to pay more attention to his feminine side and occasionally call him "Penny". Shortly after, David announced that he would like to live life as a woman.
Chris has been through a similar experience with his wife, Dru. Five years ago she told him that she wanted to live as a man and underwent a full mastectomy. Chris is now facing the prospect of Dru having a phalloplasty, and potentially living – as a heterosexual man – in a homosexual relationship.
Olivia hears Daphne and Chris's stories.
Presenter/Olivia O'Leary, Producer/Karen Gregor
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A temporary technological blip gave rise to an art form exclusive to people who grew up in the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties – the mix tape, where all a person's character, tastes, dreams and angst could be distilled onto a cassette.
Writer, broadcaster and former NME journalist David Quantick celebrates the art form. He hears about its origins and talks to compilation makers, including novelist Iain Banks and poet Simon Armitage, who select some of their favourite mix tape tracks.
A professor of medieval history recounts how he sustained a 30-year friendship by exchanging tapes every month, and Elbow's Guy Garvey explains how his sister Becky inspired his musical career with the many cassettes she compiled for him.
Presenter/David Quantick, Producer/Rachel Ross
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 Bill Nighy rediscovers love just in time for the end of the world Bill Nighy and Amelia Bullmore star in Duncan MacMillan's romantic comedy about the end of the world, a woman who falls in love with the moon, and her husband, who falls back in love with her.
A man buys his wife a telescope for her 50th birthday. It seems he has completely forgotten how to buy presents for her; perhaps completely forgotten who she really is.
As her attentions turn to moon-gazing, and so away from him, the man realises how much he loves her and how much of her he has lost during their marriage.
But stranger still, it seems the moon is reciprocating her attentions, and travelling towards Earth to be with her. Cue the Apocalypse...
Producer/Sam Hoyle
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Mark Pougatch presents live from Birkdale as the 137th Open Golf Championship gets under way, with Shelagh Fogarty in the studio covering all the top news stories of the morning.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and Shelagh Fogarty, Producer/Richard Jackson
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John Inverdale hosts live coverage of the Open Golf Championship from Royal Birkdale, with all the stories, interviews and analysis.
There is no Tiger Woods this year, ruled out by his knee problem, so hopes will be high again of a European winner to follow on from Irishman Padraig Harrington, who lifted the Claret Jug last year.
Correspondent Iain Carter leads the commentary team with John Murray, Mark Pougatch, Clare Balding, Russell Fuller and Conor McNamara, plus a host of former players casting their eyes over every tee shot, chip and putt, including former Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, former US tour player Jay Townsend and European tour favourite Mark Roe.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Graham MacMillan
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Arlo White presents all the day's sports news, including the latest from the Open Golf Championship and cycling's Tour de France. Darren Gough's Cricket Show rounds up all the news and talking points from the cricket world at 8pm.
Presenter/Arlo White, Producer/Danny Garlick
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
The best Brazilian export since AC Milan's footballing genius Kaka is undoubtedly CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy, or "I got tired of being sexy", the literal Portuguese translation), who stormed the festival circuit last summer with hits Off The Hook and Let's Make Love And Listen to Death From Above. They make a welcome return to the BBC 6 Music Hub to perform singles from their highly anticipated forthcoming second album.
Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
A Feast Of Fringe continues as Nemone welcomes comedian Dan Antopolski into the studio. Dan previews his Edinburgh show, Dan Antopolski's Penetrating Gaze.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Every Thursday three esteemed guests from the world of music join Steve Lamacq's Roundtable to give their verdicts on the latest releases. This week, the panel includes Black Kids singer Reggie Youngblood. Lamacq fans can check out his blog on the BBC 6 Music website for the great man's latest thoughts on new music.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Gary Bales
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Continuing this week's one-man-band theme, Marc Riley welcomes one woman – Elizabeth Sharp, aka Ill Ease – into the studio for a live session. Playing guitar, bass, drums, tambourine, shaker, car horn and anything else that rattles, Sharp uses loops to build up dancey noise grooves: first thrashing drums playing hip hop beats, then heavy bass, then lo-fi fuzzed-out guitars winding through the middle, with, finally, toy instruments or percussion vibrating on top.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe introduces more musical highlights from the BBC archives and tonight revisits Liverpool band The La's, famous for producing one of the most iconic singles of the Nineties in There She Goes. This session is a recording from very early in their career, made for Janice Long in 1987.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock
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Arun turns up at the studio and continues criticising Ranbir, in today's episode of the Asian drama. Arun shows Kuljit something Ranbir wrote and jokes about him being illiterate. Kuljit tells him to lay off, but later it seems Arun might have a point...
Elsewhere, Mani tells Dr Masud he is holding a tabla master class at the mela. He has also found a way for his friend to show off his poetry writing skills, but the doctor's reaction isn't what Mani is expecting.
Arun is played by Naithan Ariane, Ranbir by Ashwin Bolar, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Mani by Kaleem Janjua and Dr Masud by Saeed Jaffrey.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
Andrew Luck-Baker goes in search of farmers growing crops and rearing livestock amid concrete and traffic, in this edition of One Planet.
The world's city dwellers now outnumber its rural folk, so it may become necessary to farm in cities in order to feed everyone. Andrew investigates how green urban agriculture is and whether it is safe.
Visiting urban farmers in back alley plots and slum district cattle sheds in East Africa and India, Andrew explores the issues through their personal stories. He also talks to the agricultural experts, city officials and politicians who work with, and sometimes against, them.
Presenter and Producer/Andrew Luck-Baker
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Sharleen Spiteri plays an exclusive live session from the BBC's Maida Vale studios on Ken Bruce's show today.
The session features tracks from Sharleen's debut solo album, Melody, and some of the greatest hits from her band, Texas.
Featuring former BBC Radio 2 Record Of The Week, All The Times I Cried, Melody was written and produced by Sharleen and takes its inspiration from Sixties soul, Fifties rock 'n' roll and doo-wop.
Texas racked up 15 platinum discs (including back-to-back No. 1 albums White On Blonde and The Hush) and 13 top 10 hits including Say What You Want, Summer Son and their 1989 debut hit, I Don't Want A Lover.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones
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Myleene Klass makes her Friday Night Is Music Night presenting debut at the Watford Colisseum.
Featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Roderick Dunk, Myleene introduces tonight's special guests: tenor Scott Davies, former Voice of Musical Theatre winner Aimee Atkinson and World Champion whistler David Morris.
Musician, TV presenter, singer and model Myleene began playing the piano and violin at the age of four. She studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, adding harp to her repertoire, and won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music.
In 2001, Myleene was chosen to become a member of Hear'Say and embarked on a pop career. The band split in 2002 leaving Myleene to pursue a solo career. Her debut solo classical album, Moving On, followed.
Presenter/Myleene Klass, Producer/Jodie Keane
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Norwegian composer Torstein Aagaard Nilsen is one of the most influential and respected composers in the band world. Listen To The Band presenter Frank Renton caught up with him at the recent European Championships held in Stavangar.
Well known for highly technical and difficult-to-play pieces, Torstein has also been responsible for some of the most beautiful and simple arrangements of traditional Norwegian folk tunes. He has also found a unique way of integrating elements of funk and jazz into his band writing.
In tonight's programme, Torstein recalls how he discovered the delights of music-making at the relatively late age of 19. The programme also features recordings of his music, which is played by bands the world over.
Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter
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In the lead up to the First Night Of The Proms later this evening, BBC Radio 3's popular drive-time magazine programme is live, for the first time, from the Britten Theatre at The Royal College of Music, next door to the Royal Albert Hall. In front of a live Proms audience, Sean Rafferty and Petroc Trelawny present an exciting mix of live music from some of this year's Proms performers, including pianist Ashley Wass, Hungarian folk musicians Muzsikas, oboist Nicholas Daniel, tenor Andrew Kennedy, violinist Tasmin Little, cellist Jean-Guihen Queyras and early music group Fagiolini, under the direction of Robert Hollingworth.
Ian McMillan, presenter of The Verb, also previews some of the events in the Proms Literary Festival.
Presenters/Sean Rafferty and Petroc Trelawny,
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The 114th season of BBC Proms gets under way with a glittering line up of soloists and music live from London's Royal Albert Hall. Soprano Christine Brewer sings Strauss's Four Last Songs; pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard – something of a featured artist throughout the festival – plays Beethoven's Rondo in B flat major; Nicholas Daniel performs Mozart's Oboe Concerto; and organist Wayne Marshall launches proceedings on the Royal Albert Hall's historic organ, with Strauss's Festliches Präludium. The concert ends with Scriabin's powerful Poem Of Ecstasy.
Jiri Belohlávek, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, returns to the Royal Albert Hall for the first time since the Last Night in 2007. This concert launches the Proms celebrations of the centenaries of Elliott Carter and Olivier Messiaen. Tonight's concert is presented live from London's Royal Albert Hall by Petroc Trelawny.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Brian Jackson
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The start of the BBC Proms brings a new season of the Proms interval talks in Twenty Minutes. The series offers a diverse selection of content, including programmes providing background to the music and composers featured in the Proms, highlights of the Proms Plus events – incorporating the inaugural BBC Proms Literary Festival – and features on subjects as varied as the great British picnic and an exploration of the power of the riff to musicians.
The season starts with the first of three programmes on that most British institution: the picnic.
Culinary expert Ivan Day expounds on the history of British picnics while cooking up a heritage hamper of goodies in his Lakeland kitchen in Cumbria.
It could be argued that the first picnickers were Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, but in Britain the first recorded use of the word was
in 1748. However, Day argues that the British picnic is far older than this. It's a forked history, with one prong for the upper and one for the working classes. Ivan explores the connection between picnics and hunting in the Elizabethan era before continuing his two-pronged exploration with further cooking and tasting of picnic fare, reading sound advice from Mrs Beeton as the picnic reached its most ornate and culinary complex apogee in the Victorian era.
Along the way, Day remarks on the history of the sandwich, far older than the eponymous Lord Sandwich, and really a kind of edible picnic hamper, before going on to unpack the history of the hamper itself. He ends with the democratisation of the picnic with the arrival of the railways, and then links picnics with concert intervals – very apt for the opening night of the BBC Proms!
Presenter/Ivan Day, Producer/Beaty Rubens
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Jez Nelson presents highlights from this year's Vision Festival, downtown New York's annual celebration of the jazz avant-garde.
Jazz On 3 features the festival's tribute to New Orleans saxophonist Edward "Kidd" Jordan, featuring ensembles made up of past collaborators including Billy Bang, Hamiet Bluiett, Hamid Drake and Vision festival co-founder William Parker.
Now in its 13th year, the festival has grown to become New York's premier artist-run, multi-disciplinary celebration of creative improvised music and the culture that surrounds it, drawing both concert-goers and performers from all around the world.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Matthew Trustram
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BBC Radio 4's award-winning investigative programme returns with a property theme.
In the first programme, John Waite investigates why British property owners in Goa fear they may lose their homes in a backlash against foreign investment in the Indian state.
John picked up a Foreign Press Association Award last year for an investigation into the plight of Iraqi interpreters who worked for British forces.
Presenter/John Waite, Producer/Karen Pirie
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Two sisters face life and love with a twist on a riverboat cruise on the Thames, in this comedy drama about identity, family and bad poetry, written by Anjum Malik.
Kiran and her younger sister, Shimla, have grown apart of late. In an attempt to bridge the growing gap in their relationship, they decide to spend a night out together on a cruise down the Thames. However, it becomes clear to Kiran that all is not quite what it seems when she discovers that Shimla has arranged for them to go on an Asian dating cruise, arranged by the curiously named New Millennium Asiana dating agency.
Against her wishes and with a heavy heart, Kiran agrees to be part of the event. As her personal dating nightmare unfolds, she is forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about herself, her sister and her place in the world.
Pooja Ghai and Joanna Burnett star in Loveboat, which also features a cameo appearance from Kulvinder Ghir (Goodness Gracious Me).
Producer/Rishi Sankar
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Holiday walking is uppermost in Clare Balding's mind as a new series of Ramblings begins. She ponders how to get fit enough for a more intensive walking experience.
In the first programme, Clare meets up with walking coach Heather Waring, who has helped men and women all over the country prepare for such gruelling treks as Kilimanjaro and the Great Wall of China. Clare's staying a little closer to home, though, walking with Heather and her group – the East End Girls – as they have a walking weekend away in the Lakes near Borrowdale. Heather offers top tips on blisters, socks and fitness.
Later in the series, Clare visits the Channel Islands, going first to Guernsey and then to the island of Alderney. The final two programmes come from Ireland, first to the north around Mullaghmore Head, and then to Lough Allen in Sourthern Ireland.
Presenter/Clare Balding, Producer/Lucy Lunt
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Mark Pougatch presents live coverage from Birkdale on day two of the Open Golf Championship. Shelagh Fogarty is in the studio with all the top news stories of the morning.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and Shelagh Fogarty, Producer/Richard Jackson
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John Inverdale hosts live coverage of the second day of the Open Golf Championship from Royal Birkdale, with Iain Carter, John Murray, Mark Pougatch, Clare Balding, Russell Fuller and Conor McNamara. They are joined by former Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, former US tour player Jay Townsend and European tour favourite Mark Roe.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Graham MacMillan
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Arlo White presents all the day's sports news, including the latest from the Open Championship and Tour de France.
At 8pm there is live commentary from the Golden League Meeting in Paris in 5 Live Track And Field. At 9.30pm, 5 Live Formula 1 comes live from Germany, as David Croft, Maurice Hamilton and Holly Samos bring all the news from the German Grand Prix qualifying.
Presenter/Arlo White, Producer/Louise Sutton
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BBC 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary on the opening day of the second Test between England and South Africa, live from Headingley.
Presenter/Jonathan Agnew, Producer/Adam Mountford
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Uninterrupted commentary on Wigan v St Helens in the Super League can be heard this evening on BBC 5 Live Sports Extra.
Producer/Jennifer McAllister
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A Feast Of Fringe concludes today with BBC Radio 4 favourite Danny Robins, who tells Nemone about Dannyfest, a one-man Glastonbury-style festival in an hour.
Danny has been honing his capsule festival through Pubstock, a sell-out show in a London pub featuring comedians including BBC 6 Music's Stephen Merchant.
Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes
BBC 6 Music Publicity
London-based hard-rockers Big Linda join Bruce Dickinson on his Rock Show tonight.
The band received an amazing response to their debut album and are renowned for their live performances, executing a raw, effortless, energetic sound.
Fans of their music include Slash, Robert Plant and Jimmy Page, while the guys have also caught the ear of the world's top movie-makers, with two Big Linda tracks featuring in The Seeker and Passengers.
Bruce asks the band about the mysterious origins of their name, what it was like touring alongside the Stone Gods and how they enjoyed this year's Download Festival.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan
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Sean and Fran have dinner at Saffron Rays, in the final visit of the week to Silver Street. Sean persuades Mani to let Fran give him an angel card reading, but her comments about resolving dark issues upset Mani and he leaves.
Roopa, meanwhile, is annoyed she can't go on tour with the rest of the band. Later, as the band drives off, Roopa dives in front of the van. She is coming after all and her parents can't do anything to stop her...
Sean is played by Lloyd Thomas, Fran by Colleen Prendergast, Mani by Kaleem Janjua and Roopa by Rakhee Thakrar.
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Russell Fuller follows six sportsmen and women as they train to take part in the greatest sporting extravaganza on Earth.
For most competitors, the Olympics represent the pinnacle of achievement. It takes years to get there and participants have been striving for perfection most of their lives.
Throughout the year, BBC World Service has enjoyed unprecedented access to six success-seekers as they complete their journeys on the long road to Beijing. Russell Fuller shares the highs and suffers the heartaches of a group of the world's most driven athletes.
Ignisious Gaisah is a Ghanaian athlete competing in the long jump. He currently lives and trains in Rotterdam, leaving his family and young son in Ghana. He came to the Netherlands in 2001, amazing everyone at his local club by saying his personal best was 7.85m and then proving it, too.
Gaisah is now considered one of the best long jumpers in the world, after jumping 8.34m to earn a personal best and a silver medal at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki. He is the reigning Commonwealth champion.
Presenter/Russell Fuller, Producer/Andrea Cartwright
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