Paul presents tracks from this week's US charts and hits from the last six decades. 
Music Played
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Santana She's not there
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Amanda Mair Sense
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The Ordinary Boys Seaside
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Kid Carpet and the Animals Doing a Poo in the Forest
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Dolly Parton 9 5
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The Beach Boys All Summer Long
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Skinny Lister Plough & Orion
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Sting If I Ever Lose My Faith In You
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The Vapors Turning Japanese
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Manic Street Preachers Postcards From a Young Man
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Bill Withers Aint No Sunsine
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Kevin Rowland Come On Eileen
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The Bryan Ferry Orchestra Shakespeare's Sonnet No18
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Chairman of the Brighton Festival 2012 Polly Toynbee and Ed Patrick - 30/03/12
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Author Jodi Picoult - 30/03/12
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Author Owen Sheers - 30/03/12
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JOE PARTRIDGE'S PHOTOGRAPHY CHOICES
Wild Planet at the National History Museum, London
The Natural History Museum - Official Website
Displaying award-winning images from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year archives. From the wildest landscapes to the most endangered species, Wild Planet showcases 80 beautiful photos. Each photo caption includes the story of how they were taken plus insights into the species featured. -
The Road to 2012 in Cardiff
Representing an insight into contemporary approaches to photographic portraiture in the UK. The Gallery invited seven British-based photographers to contribute to the project. They were asked to work on location, in places that were relevant to the sitter’s role in the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Selling Dreams – 100 Years of Fashion Photography in Bristol
In 1984, iconic fashion photographer Irving Penn commented that he saw his role at Vogue as ‘selling dreams, not clothes’. This exhibition, comprising 80 pictures from the Victoria & Albert Museum’s collection, illustrates how art directors and photographers shaped generations of style throughout the past century.
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Through the Eyes of Lee Miller in St Leonards On Sea
From its invention photography has thrown up any number of extraordinary women but few are more extraordinary than Lee Miller. Model, muse to the surrealists in Paris, fearless war photographer her true body of work was only revealed after her death in 1977.
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Murray Lachlan Young's Poem
The Bard Walks Again
If William Shakespeare were to walk again
Across this oval planets mighty span
Between the messengers of joy and pain
Back in the torrid world of modern man
And see beneath the purest driven snow
The diamond tips of drill-bits deeper go
Past milk of human kindness turning cold
To green-eyed monsters in the blackest gold
And watch the kings of fortune grasp for more
Cry havoc and unleash the dogs of war
Against hot blooded foes that slip the snare
Mutate and vanish into thinnest air
Where hedge fund alchemists do work
To witness loss and growth and future gain
And seek the places algorithms lurk
And feel the dragon bare its teeth again
But what could Shakespeare’s voice do but return
To greet this ear unique unto the age
With ancient fires that inside still burn
And know if this were played upon the stage
With tweets that go tweet and drones that go boom
And life found on Mars and trips to the moon it
There’d be but a breath between the now and then
And comparisons are odorous we know
But mysteries still move between the gods and men
The snake still eats its tale within the mystic O
And down is often up and up is down
Still heavy is the head that wears the crown
And mighty is the universal span
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THE TOUR GUIDE'S GUIDE TO ART - Japan: Kingdom Of Characters, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
Dr Harriet McKay, curator of 'Japan: Kingdom Of Characters' talks about her favourite parts of the exhibition:
Find out more about Japan: Kingdom Of Characters
"Asked to chose which of the objects in the exhibition Japan: Kingdom of Characters that I've curated at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts I find myself rather torn; the imposing 7'-tall figure of Ultraman standing centurion at the exhibition's entrance certainly has a presence...his neighbour, (a four-foot tall) Hello Kitty, wielding a never-diminishing heart-shaped lollipop and apparently frozen in time and space as she 'skips' through the gallery has a glossy sheen as highly polished as her career as the Queen of Cute.
Equally, the 'Japanese teenage-girl's bedroom', a specially constructed room-set that we have created for the exhibition and which houses every conceivable Hello Kitty product (duvet cover, slippers, DVD player, hairbrush...the list goes on) is certainly a show-stopper; without a doubt assembling the interior, immersed in a sea of pink was a sure highlight of my 30 year curatorship.
In fact however, and, particularly given my interest in exploring the the phenomenon of 'character-culture' across Japanese society, it is the final section of the exhibition to which I'm most drawn: it includes a series of large photographic banners with images representing the appearance of 'characters' and their every-day adoption by ordinary people in all walks of life and of all ages. I particularly like this straightforward, and in this sense 'honest', photographic portrait of a cross-section of society - the grandfather, the school-girl,the toddler, the businessman - and the character products which inform and add value to contemporary Japanese daily life." -
Dexys Midnight Runners
Hear four classic live archived tracks from Kevin Rowland's group, who were in fine form, recorded by the BBC at Newcastle City Hall thirty years ago and rebroadcast by 6 Music's Gideon Coe.
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BBC Radio 2Fri 30 Mar 2012 22:00 BBC Radio 2
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