Music TV - March 24 - 31

Hello again, 

This week's TV highlights include opera, classic country and a little bit of New York rock.

Enjoy;

Friday 25 March - BBC Three

2810 - 2910: Radio 1's Big Weekend 2010 - Best Bits

Reggie Yates and Edith Bowman present highlights from Cheryl Cole, Florence and the Machine and Ellie Goulding at last year's Radio 1's Big Weekend in Bangor. The show also features backstage gossip and interviews.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00slccr

Friday 25 March - BBC Four

1930 - 2030: Sacred Music 1 - Episode 1

Four-part documentary series in which actor and former chorister Simon Russell Beale explores the flowering of Western sacred music. He begins his journey at Notre Dame in Paris, where an enigmatic medieval music manuscript provides the key to the early development of polyphony - music of 'many voices'. Featuring music performed by members of the award-winning choir The Sixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009hpfp

2030 - 2100: Opera's Fallen Women

Repeated: BBC Four - Sunday 2425

Bizet's Carmen, Puccini's Madame Butterfly, Verdi's Violetta - some of the most famous and powerful roles in opera and they are all, in different ways, fallen women.

And now there's a newcomer to their ranks - Anna Nicole. The Royal Opera's new smash hit is an operatic version of the life of former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith. Antonio Pappano, music director of the Royal Opera House and conductor of Anna Nicole, delves into the world of opera's fallen women and discovers how for centuries composers and librettists have used female characters in opera to explore and challenge society's attitudes and prejudices.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zpdwq

2100 - 2310: Anna Nicole - From the Royal Opera House

Repeated: BBC Four - Monday 2300

The television premiere of the hit opera based on the life of the young American Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, who was thrust into the global media spotlight when she married an octogenarian billionaire, became a reality TV star and, after a drug overdose, died tragically early.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00zpdyb

Tammy Wynette

2310 - 2410: Originals - Tammy Wynette

Repeated: BBC Four - Sunday 2455

Profile of the late country legend, including performances of many of Tammy's greatest songs. Contributors include husbands George Jones and George Richey, Elvis Costello, Allison Moorer, Bill Drummond of the KLF and actress Anna Chancellor.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074rrd

2410 - 2510: TOTP2 - Country Jukebox

Repeated: BBC Four - Sunday 2555

Steve Wright presents an hour of country tunes. There are classics from Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette, Willie Nelson, Glen Campbell, Billie Jo Spears and Crystal Gayle, and massive hits from the Mavericks, Shania Twain, Lonestar, the Dixie Chicks and LeAnn Rimes. Plus, new material from Keith Urban and Rascall Flatts and an exclusive look at the latest video from The Eagles.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0088q0h

Saturday 26 March - BBC Three

2000 - 2100: Pop's Greatest Dance Crazes - episode 1

Robert Webb hosts a top 50 countdown of the hippest, sexiest, quirkiest and campest dance crazes of the last 40 years.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0101jgy

Saturday 26 March - BBC Four

2505 - 2605: New York Rock At The BBC

Celebrating the cream of the New York rock scene, including classic performances from the Ramones, New York Dolls, Television, Blondie, Lou Reed and more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007mwcf

Sunday 27 March - BBC Four

1900 - 2000: Still Folk Dancing After All These Years

Young Northumbrian folk-singing siblings Rachel and Becky Unthank take a journey around England from spring to autumn 2010 to experience its living folk dance traditions in action. They lead us through the back gardens and narrow streets of towns and villages from Newcastle to Penzance to discover the most surprising of dances, ceremonies, rituals and festivities that mark the turning of the seasons and the passing of the year.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00wgrtr





Next week; Top Of The Pops night.

Take care of yourselves.

Rory