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Commentary on the third day of the second Test between South Africa and England.

A play imagining what might have happened if the author Brian O'Nolan's two alter egos met

Atgofion o uchafbwyntiau deng mlynedd ar hugain o dalyrna. Highlights of poetic contests.

Aled Jones presents the Voice Project performing a work by Gwilym Simcock.

Highlights of the music spectacular in the magnificent grounds of Hillsborough Castle.

Highlights from the Children in Need 2009 fundraising concert at the King's Hall, Belfast.

Some of the team from the Kilimanjaro climb return to Uganda to distribute malaria nets.

Karen Kirby presents her choice of tunes recorded for the third season of Blas Ceoil.

Stephen Johnson explores Vaughan Williams's Symphony No 5.

A service from the studio for the final Sunday of the year.

Tom Service talks to and introduces music by American composer George Crumb.

The highlights from 1Xtra Live in Sheffield keep coming.

A taste of the 2009 Piping Live festival in Glasgow. Presented by Cailean MacLean.

Social comedy about a man who suddenly and unexpectedly falls out of love with his wife.

Smokey Robinson celebrates 50 years of Motown records with the BBC Concert Orchestra.

Colum Sands presents a festive selection of traditional and contemporary folk music.

Dean Jackson with a mix of new music, local newcomers and international superstars.

The sounds of East meeting West with cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble.

Highlights from 2009's Proms in the Park from Glasgow Green.

Live music highlights from Dizzee Rascal, Jay Sean, Tinchy Stryder and many more.

Another chance to hear the American rock band Bon Jovi in concert for Radio 2.

Fabio Luisi conducts Strauss's Elektra, with soprano Susan Bullock in the title role.

Relive some of the highlights from Radio 1's own music festival.

Ladysmith Black Mambazo in concert, introduced by Lucy Duran.

The Ospreys travel to Parc y Scarlets. Commentary by Gareth Charles and Jonathan Davies.

Commentary on the opening day of the second Test between South Africa and England.

Sarah Walker presents the Pavel Haas Quartet in string quartets by Prokofiev and Ravel.

Clive Anderson introduces a Prom celebrating 75 years of classic MGM film musicals.

David Tennant and Catherine Tate in for Jonathan Ross with festive cheer and music.

A concert with some of the prizewinners from the Royal National Mod in Oban.

Julia Sutherland with the best of 2009, featuring Barry Cryer.

Vocal music for Christmas: Finzi's Dies Natalis and Honegger's Une Cantate de Noel.

The Choirs' Concert from the Royal National Mod in Oban.

Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond performs all his greatest hits.

Presented by Catherine Bott. Laurence Cummings conducts Handel's Messiah at ENO.

The ATOS Trio perform Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat, D898, at London's Wigmore Hall.

4/4. Richard Hickox conducting music by Humperdinck, Vaughan Williams, Bridge and Walton.

The BBC SSO and tenor Jamie MacDougall with Christmas musical favourites.

Stephen Cleobury directs the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols.

The Queen's Christmas message to the Commonwealth and the nation.

8/8. Quatuor Diotima perform music by Ravel and Beethoven at the 2009 Cheltenham Festival.

BBC One's traditional Christmas Day broadcast comes live from Chester Cathedral.

A Christmas service from Penrallt Baptist Church, led by the Rev Peter Cousins.

Pauline McLean rounds up the cultural highlights of 2009.

The BBC Big Band in concert with the Grammy Award-winning vocal quartet New York Voices.

A blend of folk tradition and burlesque fun as a range of artists perform seasonal songs.

Verity Sharp presents a special collaboration session, with story, song and percussion.

The first Mass of Christmas, celebrated live in London's Westminster Cathedral.

From St Anne's Cathedral in Leeds, with the Right Rev Arthur Roche, Bishop of Leeds.

Christmas celebrations from the historic venues of St John's Kirk and Scone Palace, Perth.

A very special Christmas Eve ecumenical service from Ness Bank Church, Inverness.

The sound of Christmas with the Black Dyke Band, Joe Stilgoe and others.

The great pianist Stan Tracey and his orchestra perform his jazz masterpiece Genesis.

Ed Byrne hosts, with guest appearances from Adam Hills and Gina Yashere.

4/4. Bellowhead's Jon Boden celebrates local voices and festive traditions in Leigh-on-Sea.

Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake by the Kirov Ballet at the Maryinsky Theatre in St Petersburg.

Presented by Catherine Bott. BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda in Haydn's Creation.

Another chance to hear Barry Manilow performing at the BBC Proms in the Park.

Jennifer Pike (violin) in Ravel. Daniela Lehner (mezzo), Jose Luis Gayo (piano) in Guridi.

With readings by well-known BBC Wales personalities and Christmas music and carols.

BBC Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with a performance of Hercules.

A performance of Tchaikovsky's opera based on a Christmas story by Gogol.

The annual Festival from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.

BBC Radio 3's complete cycle of Handel operas continues with a performance of Hercules.

7/8. Pianist Angela Hewitt in Handel, Bach, Mendelssohn, Haydn at the 2009 Cheltenham Festival.

Verity Sharp with music from Miles Davis, Daniel Huws, OOIOO and Tomoe-Ryu Yutakadaiko.

The BBC Big Band in concert with the Grammy Award-winning vocal quartet New York Voices.

BBC Singers/David Hill in Peter Maxwell Davies's Westerlings and Solstice of Light.

Radical interpretation of The Rite of Spring, with dancers from different modern styles.

Philippe Herreweghe conducts Mendelssohn's powerful oratorio Elijah.

The reformed 80s pop band perform in concert for Radio 2 at the BBC Radio Theatre.

Irish traditional music with Robbie Hannan. Bilingual session music, news, and interviews.

Ingrid Fliter (piano) in Bach. Andreas Brantelid (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano): Franck.

From St James's Roman Catholic Church, Spanish Place, London.

3/4. The late Richard Hickox conducts the BBC NOW in music by Britten and Elgar.

6/8. Haydn Trio Eisenstadt perform Haydn, Beethoven and Woolrich at 2009's Cheltenham Festival.

Simon Hoggart presents the annual Political Studies Association Awards.

Verity Sharp presents music from Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mary Hopkin and Marta Sebestyen.

Netherlands Wind Ensemble perform Steve Martland, Louis Andriessen and Cornelis de Bondt.

3/4. Billy Bragg celebrates local voices and festive traditions in the West Country.

2/4. Julie Fowlis celebrates local voices and festive traditions in Wales.

7/8. Glasgow's Grand Ole Opry hosts an evening of country music with Jenna Cumming.

James O'Donnell conducts the Choir of Westminster Abbey and St James's Baroque in Purcell.

Yusuf (previously known as Cat Stevens) in concert for BBC Radio 2 in June 2009.

Tai Murray (violin), Ashley Wass (piano) in Beethoven. The Elias String Quartet in Haydn.

2/4. Richard Hickox conducting music by Grainger, Holst, L Berkeley, M Berkeley, Mendelssohn.

5/8. The Nash Ensemble perform Mozart, Goehr and Mendelssohn at the 2009 Cheltenham Festival.

Mary Ann Kennedy introduces the Celtic programme highlights of 2009.

Jez Nelson and leading jazz critics play selections from their favourite albums of 2009.

The Monteverdi Choir under John Eliot Gardiner perform four Bach motets.

1/4. Kate Rusby presents the secular songs and carols of Sheffield.

Join Rigsy for this ATL tradition, featuring seasonal classics from your favourite acts.

May McFettridge celebrates her twentieth year in panto at the Grand Opera House, Belfast.

Valery Gergiev conducts the LSO in music by Ravel, Debussy, Stravinsky and Dutilleux.

Highlights from U2's worldwide tour, recorded at London's Wembley Stadium.

Radio 3 New Generation Artists Francesco Piemontesi, Malin Christensson and Maxim Rysanov.

Julia Neuberger gives a lecture about ending prejudice against Britain's senior citizens.

A debate at the 2009 Free Thinking festival asking what sort of future lies ahead for men.

A special 10th anniversary edition of The BBC Food and Farming Awards.

Psychoanalyst Michael Brearley delivers a talk about the nature of leadership.

A debate about the importance of the rivers of the North East: the Tyne, Tees and Wear.

Lisa Jardine on how IVF is changing our ideas about the definition of a family.

Philip Dodd and guests debate which is the greater human achievement - sport or the arts.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband talks to Philip Dodd at 2009's Free Thinking festival.

Rana Mitter hosts a public debate: Is The West Losing Its Nerve?

Innovative music producer William Orbit presents his personal guide to the world of sound.

Philip Dodd meets psychotherapist Gwen Adshead. Contains some disturbing images.

Ken Livingstone asks an audience in Gateshead if the North-South divide still matters.

2/2. Banning Eyre meets traditional US musicians and singers from around North Carolina.

2009's Free Thinking festival opens with Tanya Byron's vision of the 21st-century family.

1/2. Banning Eyre visits Mount Airy, North Carolina, and talks to folk musician Mike Seeger.

4/4. Professor Sandel makes the case for a moral and civic renewal in democratic politics.

Serena Williams (USA) vs Victoria Azarenka (BLR)

3/4. Professor Sandel considers how we should use our ever-increasing scientific knowledge.

2/4. Michael Sandel asks what role, if any, there is for moral argument in politics.

1/4. A New Citizenship, with Harvard philosopher Professor Michael Sandel.

1/4. Prof Michael Sandel considers the expansion and moral limits of markets.