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Network Radio BBC Week 32: 7-13 August
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Network Radio BBC Week 32: Saturday 7 August 2010
BBC RADIO 1 Saturday 7 August 2010
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BBC Radio 1 continues coverage of its annual dance marathon in Ibiza bringing listeners the hottest DJ sets and biggest club nights from the party island.
Tonight kicks off with Trevor Nelson and Judge Jules warming up for the weekend's spectacular finale at Cream @ Privilege with a five-hour special, featuring sets from Pete Tong, Underworld, Annie Mac, Above & Beyond as well as a massive bill on the night that includes Japanese Popstars and the Radio 1 dance fraternity – Judge Jules, Zane Lowe, Kissy Sell Out, Jaguar Skills, Alex Metric, Jaymo & Andy George and Kutski.
Saturday's full schedule is as follows: Trevor Nelson live on the island, from 7pm to 9pm; Judge Jules live on the island from 9pm to 11pm; Guest mix biggest Ibiza tunes from 11pm to 12midnight; and Live from Cream @ Privilege from 12midnight to 5am.
Producers/Rachel Barton for the BBC and Huw Owen for Somethin' Else
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BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 7 August 2010
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Suzanne Vega performs acoustic versions of her greatest hits, after 1am, on Bob Harris's show tonight.
Suzanne was born in Santa Monica but grew up in Spanish Harlem and the Upper East Side of New York City. During her younger years she had an interest in dance rather than music itself. Seeing a Lou Reed concert allowed her to start to find her true artistic direction and her distinctive style.
She was signed with A&M Records after years of rejections – leading to a successful career both in the UK and the US. After seven hit albums and three Grammy nominations, Suzanne is back this year with a new two-part album, Close-Up Vol. 1 – Love Songs.
Listeners can also hear a Richard Thompson session track, recorded specially for the programme.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 7 August 2010
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As part of the World Routes Academy, Lucy Duran travels to the Middle East with Iraqi musician Ilham Al Madfai and the scheme's protégé, Khyam Allami. They meet and record with local musicians in Damascus, where Khyam was born but has not been since he was nine years old.
Travelling overland to Jordan, there's a session with some of the country's best musicians recorded in an organic vineyard on the Syrian border.
BBC Radio 3's World Routes Academy scholarship is a new scheme which aims to support and inspire young world music artists by bringing them together with an internationally renowned figure in the same field. Throughout this year, Khyam Allami collaborates with, and learns from, one of the biggest stars of Middle Eastern music, Iraqi singer and guitarist Ilham Al Madfai. The project culminates in a
BBC Prom on 9 August.
The scheme has represented a broad range of Khyam's musical projects on World Routes as well as developing various outreach and educational projects in the UK. Details of the 2011 scheme – its geographical focus and those taking part – will be announced in the autumn.
Presenter/Lucy Duran, Producer/James Parkin
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Alyn Shipton is joined at this year's Gateshead International Jazz Festival, at The Sage Gateshead, by the godfather of British jazz, Stan Tracey, who reflects on his recording career.
As well as talking about his work with visiting Americans such as Zoot Sims, Ben Webster and Sonny Rollins, Stan discusses his fascination with Duke Ellington, his own big bands and quartets, his suite Alice In Jazzland and the story behind his most recent recordings.
Presenter and producer/Alyn Shipton
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Deano has never met his grandmother, Ellen, but his mother has committed suicide and he's been placed in her care. Alone together, they each occupy their own imaginary worlds.
Ellen sees things – a bear in a white anorak, Victorian chimney sweeps and the disembodied head of Ian Beale. Deano, meanwhile, used to spending hours on his computer, is missing the imaginary world he created on online vitual world Second Life. Then his avatar turns up in his new bedroom and their adventures begin again. When Deano and Ellen's imaginary worlds collide, however, a dark and tragic tale unfolds.
The author, Nicola Wilson, was the literary manager at the Bush Theatre before turning her hand to playwriting. Since then she's written for stage, television and radio. She's currently taking part in the BBC's Writers Academy.
Deano is played by Billy Seymour, Ellen by Sheila Reid, Mexican Bob by Toby Jones, Dr Norton by Laura dos Santos and the barrister by Nigel Hastings.
Producer/Kirsty Williams
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BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 7 August 2010
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Celebrated columnist Katharine Whitehorn presents her Reasons To Be Cheerful, in the final episode of the series.
Katharine joins the fight against the grumpy old men and women who want to convince the world that modern life is rubbish.
Enjoying a glass of bubbly at Europe's longest champagne bar before skipping across to Paris for lunch, Katharine demonstrates how to grow old disgracefully.
It is a common assumption that older people must be miserable about their lot in the modern age.
But Katharine, doyenne of female columnists for more than 50 years, loves modern travel, especially the Eurostar – she believes conveniences around the home have revolutionised the lives of women and marvels at advances in medicine that have transformed what it means to be a pensioner.
Katharine is joined in her crusade by cultural and social historian Amanda Vickery, Independent travel editor Simon Calder and Professor Tom Kirkwood from Newcastle's Institute of Ageing and Health.
She battles against professional grump, comedian and travel writer Tony Hawks and tries to convince him that modern life has more ups than downs.
Presenter/Katharine Whitehorn, Producers/Joanne Coombs and Martin McNamara for Loftus Audio
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Saturday Play – Rebus: Strip Jack Ep 1/2
Ian Rankin's Edinburgh detective, Inspector Rebus, investigates the disappearance of an MP's wife, in this Saturday Play offering, starring Ron Donachie. This new two-part dramatisation by Chris Dolan is set in Edinburgh and the Highlands in 1992.
When Scots MP Gregor Jack is caught in an Edinburgh brothel during a police raid the media go to town. But then the MP's wife goes missing. Inspector Rebus sets out to discover if it is just a coincidence or if someone is out to strip Jack of his career.
The cast features Ron Donachie as DI Rebus, Andrew Clark as DS Holmes, Lisa Gardner as WPC Moffat, Gavin Keal as Gregor Jack, Douglas Russell as CS Watson, Robin Laing as Ronald Steele, Emma Currie as Helen/Cathy, Lewis Howden as Costello/Rab, Monica Gibb as Patience, Laurie Brown as Kemp and Maryam Hamidi as Vanessa. Other featured parts are played by the cast.
Producer/Bruce Young for the BBC
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Twenty-five years ago, the Manchester district of Hulme became so difficult for the city council to administer that it left many of the residents to their own devices – with surprising results.
Using independent and BBC archive, and interviews with former residents of Hulme's infamous deck-access flats, Archive On 4 tells the story of how a Manchester slum became a creative hub.
Europe's biggest concentration of deck-access concrete flats, the "Crescents", had, after only two years, been declared unfit for families to live in and, within 10 years, had become unheated, pest-infested slums.
The police refused to patrol anywhere above ground level so the Crescents went unpatrolled. Rent was always cheap in Hulme, but as life on the Crescents deteriorated, the council stopped charging rent entirely. The result, to some, was anarchy, with widespread crime and squatting.
Other people found the freedom to be incredibly creative. Residents didn't only cover the grey concrete surfaces in graffiti, they converted the flats into recording studios and illegal nightclubs, such as The Kitchen, fashioned from three knocked-through flats where, during the rise of "acid house" in the late Eighties, the music provided a very much wilder alternative to the nearby Hacienda club.
When the Crescents were demolished, in the early Nineties, it was filmed, commemorating the final flattening of what, for many, had become a bohemian peoples' republic.
Mark Kermode, himself a one-time Hulme resident, explores how the Crescents became such a creative environment.
Presenter/Mark Kermode, Producer/Bob Dickinson for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 7 August 2010
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5 Live Sport
Jonathan Overend presents today's edition of 5 Live Sport on the opening day of the 2010-11 Championship and Football League season.
From 3pm, listeners can hear live coverage of the opening matches of the season, including Norwich versus Watford, Burnley versus Nottingham Forest and Coventry versus Portsmouth in the Championship.
There are also updates from the second day of the second Test between England and Pakistan, at Edgbaston, rugby league reports from the first Carnegie Challenge Cup semi-final between Leeds Rhinos and St Helens and news from the Cincinnati Masters tennis.
At 5.15pm, there's Championship commentary on Leeds United versus Derby County, live from Elland Road.
Presenter/Jonathan Overend, Producer/Ben North
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BBC Radio 5 Live bring listeners a new line-up for the new football season as Mark Chapman and Derby County midfielder Robbie Savage – fresh from his club's opening fixture of the season – present the nation's most popular football phone-in.
Mark and Robbie take calls on the day's big talking points from the opening day of the Championship and Football League season and read out the best tweets, texts and Facebook comments.
Presenters/Mark Chapman and Robbie Savage, Producer/Jo Tongue for Somethin' Else
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Saturday 7 August 2010
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Test Match Special
Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary on the second day of the second Test between England and Pakistan, live from Edgbaston, courtesy of the Test Match Special commentary team.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Saturday 7 August 2010
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Richard Bacon and Mark Haynes take a summer holiday from their usual Saturday afternoon show to cover for Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish.
Richard and Mark unleash their acerbic wit and amusing musings on BBC 6 Music listeners for a whole three hours every Saturday throughout August.
Presenters/Richard Bacon and Mark Haynes, Producer/Dan Crocker for Somethin' Else
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Gavin And Stacey actor and club DJ extraordinaire Mat Horne takes over from Richard Bacon to present the perfect radio accompaniment to Saturday afternoons for the next three weeks.
Presenter/Mat Horne, Producer/Adam Hudson
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After the resounding success of his DJ set at last year's Big Chill festival, Craig Charles tonight presents his Funk And Soul Show live from the festival site.
Broadcasting from a studio on a bus, Craig interviews some of the stars of the funk and soul community appearing at the festival – featuring the likes of Gregory Isaacs, Alice Russell, Mavis, Roy Ayres, Smooth And Turrell, Terry Callier, Ty and Wax Tailor to name but a few. Listeners can also expect a live acoustic set from a mystery guest.
Presenter/Craig Charles, Producer/Hermeet Chadha for Demus Productions
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Dave Pearce presents 30 years of classic dance anthems in tonight's show, from rap to rave via hardcore and house alongside future big room club tunes.
Dave rewinds to Ibiza in 2000 for a flashback of some of the biggest tunes on the White Isle that year and listeners can also hear the latest in his series of featured record label profiles.
Presenter/Dave Pearce, Producer/Rowan Collinson for Somethin' Else
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Tom Robinson brings listeners some more new and undiscovered music found on the web.
Tonight, Birmingham collaborators King Singh and Grease Boy are in the studio for the Introducing inquisition. The pair's work has been played regularly on the show but they are now collaborating on their new Of Pandas And People project, which picks up where bands like The Postal Service left off, combining glitchy electronica with vulnerable vocals.
There are also contributions from DJ Target over at BBC Radio 1Xtra and BBC Radio 1 Wales's Bethan Elfyn – both of whom pick out their favourite new artists of the week.
Presenter/Tom Robinson, Producer/Tom Whalley
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Network Radio BBC Week 32: Sunday 8 August 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 8 August 2010
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Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to author Gervase Phinn.
A teacher for 14 years and now a freelance lecturer, broadcaster and writer as well as a consultant for the Open University, Gervase has written five autobiographical books along with collections of plays and poems.
He received a Speaker of the Year award in 2004 from the Association of Speakers' Clubs, and in 2005 was given the highest academic award that the Sheffield Hallam University can bestow, Doctor of the University. In 2006 he became President of the School Library Association.
This week's faith guest is former nun Deborah Hollamby, who will also provide the Moment Of Reflection.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson for the BBC
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Johnnie Walker talks to Elkie Brooks, as he continues to celebrate the Seventies by playing classic tracks from both sides of the Atlantic alongside archive sessions.
Elkie remembers her Seventies when, following the dissolution of Vinegar Joe, she enjoyed success as a solo artist with hits including Pearl's A Singer.
Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Natasha Costa Correa for Wise Buddah
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Florence Nightingale was a woman whose faith motivated her life's work. Known as the "Lady with the Lamp", she transformed nursing services and training. To commemorate her death 100 years ago this week, Brian D'Arcy reflects on her life and her contribution to the health of the nation.
The Altnagelvin Hospital Choir from Londonderry is this week's featured choir and hymns include Praise My Soul The King Of Heaven; Brother, Sister Let Me Serve You; and Jesus Calls Us O'er The Tumult. The musical director is Jim Goodman and the organist is Ian Young.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 8 August 2010
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Tracy Chevalier, best-selling author of Girl With A Pearl Earring, discusses a range of music from Schubert and Brahms to Bernstein and Talking Heads with Michael Berkeley.
Girl With A Pearl Earring, inspired by Vermeer's enigmatic painting, has sold four million copies worldwide and was made into a film starring Colin Firth and Scarlett Johanssen. Tracy's latest book, Remarkable Creatures, tells the story of two early 19th-century female fossil-hunters whose discoveries pre-dated Darwin and upset the establishment status quo.
Tracy Chevalier grew up in Washington DC and was educated at Oberlin College, Ohio, and then at the University of East Anglia. She has lived in London for more than 20 years. She played the clarinet as a child, and her music choices begin with two extracts from symphonies featuring a clarinet solo Schubert's Unfinished and Dvořák's New World, as well as Brahms's Second Clarinet Sonata.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Chris Marshall
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Sir Andrew Davis returns to the BBC Proms as conductor laureate of the BBC Symphony Orchestra with a typically wide-ranging programme of music whose pairings reflect musical homages.
"Mozart always smiled; his music also smiled," said Messiaen of Mozart, which explains the title of his Mozart tribute Un sourire, which prefaces one of Mozart's ebullient piano concertos, No. 17 in G major, with Louis Lortie as soloist.
The second half of the concert couples one of Brahms's greatest works, his Symphony No. 4, with a tribute from one of his English admirers, Hubert Parry's Elegy For Brahms.
This Prom will be repeated on Friday 13 August at 2pm.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/David Gallagher
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Award-winning author AL Kennedy recalls the summer she spent working with her grandmother, a furniture polisher. A formidable person, she nonetheless knew how to make wood gleam.
An exacting, furious woman who loved the particularities of wood, AL Kennedy's grandmother was a meticulous, experienced French polisher, who knew how to apply thin alchemical layers of varnishes and lacquers to make surfaces gleam with a deep, inner shine.
AL Kennedy describes the characteristic "cheap whip and spring of young pine, or the dry and intelligent complications of restored mahogany, the sharp density of beech, the melancholy heat in oak", all qualities that were familiar to her grandmother.
In this moving testimony to her grandmother's hard-won craft and exacting skill, AL Kennedy honours the work of a generation of artisan craftsmen and women.
Presenter/AL Kennedy, Producer/Mark Smalley
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BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 8 August 2010
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Lord David Cobbold, founder of the Knebworth rock festivals, joins Kirsty Young to choose his Desert Island Discs.
Lord Cobbold talks to Kirsty about his life and career and describes how he would cope on BBC Radio 4's mythical desert island.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle for the BBC
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A Guide to Coastal Birds Ep 1/5
Brett Westwood presents the first of five entertaining guides to help identify Britain's coastal birds.
With the help of wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, Brett offers help identifying the birds people are likely to see and hear in Britain's estuaries.
Brett is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss on the Devonshire coast. Together with Chris Watson's recordings, they offer a practical guide to identifying birds like redshank, dunlin, curlew and knot.
This is the first of five programmes to help identify many of the birds found around the British coastline on sandy beaches, rocky shores, sea cliffs, off-shore islands and estuaries. Not only is there advice on how to recognise the birds from their appearance, but also how to identify them from their calls and songs.
This series complements three previous series – A Guide To Garden Birds; A Guide To Woodland Birds; and A Guide To Water Birds. The programmes are for complete novices as well as those eager to learn more about Britain's coastal visitors and residents.
Presenter/Brett Westwood, Producer/Sarah Blunt for the BBC
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On Boxing Day, 1900, The Hesperus, the relief ship for The Flannan Isles Lighthouse, arrived to find the three lighthouse keepers, Donal Macarthur, James Ducat and Thomas Marshall, had vanished.
Kenneth Steven probes the mystery of vanished lighthouse keepers and the poem about them.
The relief keeper discovered that the lamp in lighthouse was prepared, the washing up had been done, but the clock stopped, the fires were out and the last entry in the diary was dated 15 December. The three lighthouse keepers had disappeared.
The mystery of their disappearance has fascinated people, including artists, ever since. Wilfrid Gibson wrote an atmospheric poem on the subject, published in 1912, that intrigued the public. Peter Maxwell Davies has written an opera, there's a song by Genesis and an episode of Doctor Who based on the mystery.
The poet Kenneth Steven visits Flannan and relates what he sees there to Wilfrid Gibson's poem. Using the original reports, the telegram giving the first news, a letter written two days later by Joseph Moore and the official report by the lighthouse superintendent, as well as archive recordings and expert opinion, he pieces together what may have happened.
Presenter/Kenneth Steven, Producer/Julian May for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 8 August 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman introduces the latest sports news and live action. From 12.35pm there's live Championship commentary on the match between Cardiff City and Sheffield United. There are also updates from the third day of the second Test between England and Pakistan at Edgbaston and news from the Cincinnati Masters tennis.
At 3pm, there's live commentary of the Community Shield from Wembley as Chelsea take on Manchester United in the traditional curtain raiser to the top flight football season. There's also rugby league updates from the second Carnegie Challenge Cup semi-final between Warrington Warriors and Catalan Dragons
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Ed King
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Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tim Samuels hosts Men's Hour, accompanied by leading males from the world of entertainment, sport, politics, media and an on-hand shrink as they leave their comfort zones behind.
Men's Hour features familiar people talking about unfamiliar things. Choreographer and star of Pineapple Dance Studio, Louie Spence, joins Tim as a regular weekly guest.
Presenter/Tim Samuels, Producer/Jon Holmes for Tonic Production
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Sunday 8 August 2010
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Test Match Special
The Test Match Special commentary team present uninterrupted commentary on the third day of the second Test between England and Pakistan, live from Edgbaston.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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5 Live Baseball
Josh Chetwynd and Nat Coombs present 5 Live Sports Extra's weekly Major League Baseball programme, with a round-up of all the latest news from the week in baseball.
There's live commentary on the National League Central match between Chicago Cubs and Cincinnati Reds.
Producer/Simon Crosse for USP Content
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BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 8 August 2010
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Cerys Matthews welcomes author Stephen Calt to the show.
The biographer of blues singer Skip James is back with a new book, Barrelhouse Words, that promises to unlock the language secrets of vintage blues music. From "aggravatin' papa" to "yas-yas-yas", Stephen unravels the nuance and meaning of more 1,000 expressions and place names from the blues records of the Twenties, Thirties and Forties.
Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Alicia Brown
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By tracing a history that starts in some of the earliest hip-hop clubs in the UK, Massive Attack's 3D (Robert Del Naja) puts his band into a musical context that stretches from the Clash, though to post punk experimentation, the birth of Brit electro and the hotbed of racial integrated creativity in Bristol that gave birth to some of the country's most pioneering bands.
Speaking to Matt Everitt, 3D also explores Massive Attack's often tumultuous internal relationships, his arrest as part of Operation Ore, the band's outspoken political campaigning and the making of their seminal track Unfinished Sympathy.
Presenter/Matt Everitt, Producer/Henry Lopez-Real
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Fun Lovin' Criminal Huey Morgan invites one of his new favourite bands, Carolina And The Chocolate Drops, in for a chat.
Carolina And The Chocolate Drops are reclaiming the black string-band tradition with a uniquely modern twist. The band are Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson from North Carolina. They found inspiration from a Black Banjo Gathering, where they received tuition from one of last living performers of the Piedmont string band heyday, 90-year-old Joe Thompson.
Their debut album not only features new compositions and traditional covers but also a surprising, but barn-storming, cover of Blu Cantrell's Hit 'Em Up Style.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Becky Maxted for Wise Buddah
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Bard of Salford John Cooper Clarke takes over the decks while Jarvis Cocker is away, and brings in his own special collection of random thoughts, spoken word and treasured vinyl.
Presenter/John Cooper Clarke, Producer/Alicia Brown
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Iconic DJ Andrew Weatherall returns for the latest part of his 6 Mix residency. One of Britain's best known DJs from the past two decades, Andrew has worked with artists from Primal Scream to Beth Orton, and is currently in the studio working on the follow up to his solo album A Pox On The Pioneers, due for release this autumn.
Fresh back from DJ-ing at the Big Chill Festival in Herefordshire, Andrew plays an eclectic selection of music, from folk to rockabilly, via dub and minimal techno as well as new work fresh from his Rotters Golf Club studio in East London.
In the final 30 minutes of the show, Andrew throws open the doors to his Sunday night disco, featuring a live 30-minute mix of upfront new dance music alongside some of his tried and tested favourites.
Presenter/Andrew Weatherall, Producer/Rowan Collinson for Somethin' Else
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Sunday 8 August 2010
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BBC Asian Network At The London Mela
The BBC Asian Network comes live from the London Mela at Gunnersbury Park, the final stop in the station's Summer Of Melas Season.
Having visited 11 Melas throughout the country since the beginning of June, the station broadcasts live from the event throughout the day. It starts with a live Bhangra Breakdown with Dipps Bhamrah from 12noon-2pm and then features acts from London Mela's Main Stage live throughout the day.
Programmed by the BBC Asian Network, the Main Stage is hosted by the station's Tommy Sandhu, Sonia Deol, Noreen Khan and Murtz, with performances from Gunjan, Rishi Rich, H Dhami, Preeya Kalidas, Mumzy and many more.
The BBC Asian Network Mix Tent is back at the Mela, hosted by Nihal it features sets from a selection of the station's DJ talent.
For the first time, BBC Introducing hosts a stage at the London Mela. The stage, which is present at most of the summer festivals, presents some of the best under-the-radar Asian artists, who have been featured on Bobby Friction's BBC Asian Network show. It also brings some very special guests.
On Monday 9 July between 3pm and 8pm, Noreen Khan and Gagan Grewal present a special programme featuring highlights from the London Mela.
The BBC Asian Network's A Summer Of Melas highlights programme will be available for seven days on BBC TV's Red button from 16 August, and further information, pictures and videos from all the Melas the station has visited this summer can be found at bbc.co.uk/asiannetwork.
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Network Radio BBC Week 32: Monday 9 August 2010
BBC RADIO 1 Monday 9 August 2010
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Fresh from BBC Radio 1's Ibiza weekend, DJ Pete Tong takes a look at the world's most prestigious mix programme, the Essential Mix. From humble beginnings to global acclaim and file-shared phenomenon, BBC Radio 1 documents the programme's extraordinary life.
BBC Radio 1 Stories explore the musical back-stories of listeners' favourite artists, eras, genres and scenes. Previous episodes of the series have included The Art Of Noise, Africa Makes Some Noise and The A-Z Of David Guetta.
Producer/Huw Owen for Somethin' Else Productions
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BBC RADIO 2 Monday 9 August 2010
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Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce for the second week and invites Bananarama to share their Tracks Of My Years.
Each day, Monday to Friday, Sara Dallin and Keren Woodward play two of their favourite tracks and reveal the reasons behind their choices.
Originally forming as a trio in 1980, Bananarama are one of the most successful all-female English pop bands to date with over 40 million records sold worldwide.
Among their picks throughout the week are Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, Barbra Streisand's Evergreen, Dolly Parton's Jolene and Stevie Wonder's Superstition.
Plus, there's the Love Song, the Record and Album Of The Week and a round of Popmaster, which listeners can also play online by going to bbc.co.uk/radio2.
Presenter/Zoe Ball, Producer/Gary Bones for the BBC
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Former Monkee Mickey Dolenz concludes this two-part series about a Los Angeles neighbourhood which became home to a diverse mix of musical stars – including himself. Tonight, more great musicians fill the Canyon – The Mamas And The Papas; Crosby, Stills and Nash; Neil Young; Joni Mitchell; Carole King – and they also fill the charts. But, for some, the drugs get heavy and the earth begins to move.
This is a story of great music and stellar collaborations but it is tempered with the exploitation of young women, reckless drug use and the day when they all locked their doors as a result of the Sharon Tate killing.
Presenter/Mickey Dolenz, Producer/Nick Barraclough for Smooth Operations
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BBC RADIO 3 Monday 9 August 2010
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BBC PROMS 2010
Prom 33 – World Routes Academy
Lucy Duran introduces two generations interpreting Iraqi music for a contemporary audience at the BBC Proms. Pioneering Iraqi singer and guitarist Ilham Al Madfai and his group play his own songs and traditional Iraqi favourites, and are joined by Ilham's student, oud player Khyam Allami. Damascus-born and London-raised, Khyam is the first recipient of BBC Radio 3's World Routes Academy scholarship.
The music promises to be rhythmically powerful, as the band includes not only a Western-style bass guitar and drum kit rhythm section, but also two additional percussionists. Traditional Iraqi instruments the joza (spike fiddle) and qanun (zither) are also included in the line-up.
Musicians include Ilham Al Madfai (guitar/vocalist), Khyam Allami (oud), Saro Kevorkian (drum kit), Anwar Abo Daoud (joza), Faisal Ghazi and Andrea Piccioni (percussion), Suhad Najm Abdullah (qanun), Nicola Barakat (electric bass), Robert Michel (guitar) and Omar Ahmed Majeed (percussion).
Presenter/Lucy Duran, Producer/Philip Tagney
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BBC RADIO 4 Monday 9 August 2010
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Book Of The Week – We Are A Muslim, Please Ep 1/5
We Are A Muslim, Please, is Zaiba Malik's memoir of growing up in the Seventies and Eighties, and being torn between two identities – British and Muslim – and is read by Nisha Nayar.
For Zaiba, growing up in Bradford certainly has its moments – staying up all night during Ramadan with her father; watching mad Mr Aziz searching for his goat during Eid; dancing along to Top Of The Pops – as long as no-one's watching. And, of course, there's her mother, either writing an ingratiating letter to the Queen or referring to Tom Jones as Thumb Jone.
Zaiba's story is also one of anxiety and seemingly irreconcilable opposites. Growing up she is constantly torn between her two identities: British and Muslim. Alienated at school and confused at home, the racism she encounters as a child mirrors the horrors she experiences at the hands of Bangladeshi interrogators as a journalist years later.
This memoir portrays the poignancy of growing up in a world whose prejudices, contradictions and ambiguities are both distressing and yet utterly captivating.
Zaiba Malik is an award-winning investigative journalist who has worked on BBC and Channel 4's radio and TV documentaries, including Sleepers – Undercover With The Racists, Dispatches – Trouble At The Mosque and Killing For Honour.
We Are A Muslim, Please is abridged by Libby Spurrier.
Reader/Nisha Nayar, Producer/Joanna Green for Pier Productions Limited
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Woman's Hour Drama – Mrs Tolstoy Ep 1/5
Written by Stephen Wakelam, Ian McDiarmid and Haydn Gwynne star in this Woman's Hour Drama offering, a portrait of the Tolstoy's tempestuous marriage.
In his fifties the great writer Leo Tolstoy has a spiritual crisis and converts to Christianity. He has given up writing fiction and cut himself off from his children. Sofya, however, wants to move the family to Moscow.
Taking the vows of poverty and chastity literally Tolstoy wants to give everything away, but Sofya has a large family to feed.
Mrs Tolstoy tells the story of the woman who transcribed War And Peace six times and fought off rivals on a daily basis for a place at Leo's side. For 48 years, the Tolstoys tormented each other with love and hate.
The cast features Haydn Gwynne as Sofya Tolstoy, Ian McDiarmid as Leo Tolstoy, Paul Ritter as Chertkov, Vineeta Rishi as Tanya Tolstoy, Sam Dale as Grigory/Taneev, Michael Shelford as Musician and James Warner as Vanya Tolstoy.
Producer/Claire Grove for the BBC
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Bobby Friction looks at the Desi pub's place in the Sikh community in West Bromwich.
Taking a tour of the many Desi (South Asian) pubs in West Bromwich, Bobby looks at what part the pub plays in the Sikh community.
The pub is a great British tradition, but as the Asian population established itself in Britain, the first Desi pub was opened in Southall. Now the Desi pub has become a regular fixture in areas like West Bromwich, which is highly populated by Asians, and, in particular, Sikhs.
Originally the pubs had a working man's club atmosphere to them and were populated by the older generation but, as entertainment and food increased in the pubs, landlords argue that they are trying to attract a more family based clientele.
But many older Asian women are still reluctant to go into a pub.
However, the next generation of young Asians, men and women, are far more likely to be found in mixed pubs catering for all communities, than in purely Desi pubs.
Right next door to one of the pubs Bobby Friction visits is a Sikh Gurdwara, a temple, and he talks to religious leaders who are concerned that the pubs are encouraging drinking, which is against the Sikh religion, and enticing people to waste their money and time.
Others argue that the pubs are a great thing, as they say the Bhangra music scene emerged from the Desi pub. They add that the Desi pubs support this music industry by having live bands and DJs as well as juke boxes playing purely Desi music.
Producer/Laura Parfitt for White Pebble Media
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Written by the late John Mortimer, this two-part drama stars Timothy West and Benedict Cumberbatch, as older Rumpole/Mr Cursitor and young Rumpole, respectively.
When a body is found in the grounds of a castle, Rumpole finds himself representing a Lord in the coroner's court and mingling with a branch of Yorkshire aristocracy remotely connected to his wife fo two years, Hilda.
Hilda's first cousin, once removed, Rosemary, lives with her husband, Richard, the 17th Baron Sackbut, in Sackbut Castle. But when a body is found in the grounds of the castle, Hilda and Rumpole are invited to Yorkshire.
In the second programme, broadcast on Tuesday, Rumpole attends a concert by The Casterini Trio and is surprised to be approached by Elizabeth Casterini, the trio's beautiful violinist. Rumpole falls for her charms. But then, the Trio's cellist, Tom Randall is murdered.
Other cast members include Cathy Sara as Hilda, Elaine Claxton as Liz Probert/Helen Yarrowby, Julian Wadham as Lord Richard Sackbut and Sophie Thompson as Rosemary Sackbut/Pippa Bastion. All other characters are played by Joshua McGuire, Stephen Critchlow, Susan Wooldridge, Geoffrey Whitehead and Adrian Scarborough.
The sax quartet version of Gershwin's They Can't Take That Away From Me was arranged by Julie Hodge and performed by Sax who are Luiza Beddoes, Kate Mylnar, Janine Ng and Julie Hodge.
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Generation Gap continues and, in this week's first programme, 83-year-old June and her great granddaughter, Simone, discuss attitudes towards money, ranging from pocket money to pensions. June was given half a penny a week pocket money, which she spent on sweets to share with less fortunate friends. It is a contrast to Simone who gets £6 a week. Simone and her friends go shopping regularly and get extra handouts on top of their pocket money.
In Tuesday's programme Andrew McCormack, the first pupil at his school to get into Oxford, compares his financial struggle as a student with the student life of his Peter McCormack who was at Strathclyde University in the Seventies.
Debt is the focus of Wednesday's programme when Joy and her grandson Phillip discuss their attitudes to debt, in particular mortgages. Joy has never bought anything on credit in her life and the only debt she had was a very small mortgage. Phillip, on the other hand, is happy to have a large mortgage and take gambles with money.
Thursday's programme features benefits and in Friday's programme John Luff and his mother, Rose, discuss retirement.
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Book At Bedtime – The Story Of A Marriage Ep 1/10
Written by Andrew Sean Greer and abridged by Fiona McAlpine, The Story Of A Marriage is read by Adjoa Andoh, and forms this week's Book At Bedtime.
A stranger turns up on the doorstep of Pearlie's house with news that will alter her life for ever.
It is 1953 and Pearlie, a dutiful housewife, finds herself living in the Sunset district of San Francisco, caring not only for her husband's fragile health but also for her son who is afflicted with polio. Then, one Saturday morning, a stranger appears on her doorstep and everything changes. All the certainties by which Pearlie has lived are thrown into doubt and Pearlie wonders if anyone can ever truly know another person.
Reader/Adjoa Andoh, Producer/Clive Brill for Pacificus Productions
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 9 August 2010
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Mark Chapman has all the day's sports news and reaction and is joined by special guests for The Monday Night Club to take a look ahead to the start of the Premier League season at the weekend.
At 9pm Mark is joined by Mark Clemmit for 5 live Football League, taking a look back at the major talking points of the opening games of the season.
From 9.30pm, Football Express with Mark Chapman and Dave Vitty takes a quick-fire look at all the latest football news and gossip.
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Monday 9 August 2010
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Test Match Special
Uninterrupted commentary on the fourth day of the second Test between England and Pakistan comes live from Edgbaston with the Test Match Special commentary team.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 9 August 2010
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Shaun Keaveny kicks off Science Week with an update on the crucial "earworm" (music that gets stuck on repeat in your head) research being done at Goldsmiths University. And Professor Brian Cox makes the first of his daily appearances to explain the universe and all its wonders.
This week BBC 6 Music looks through its musical microscope at various aspects of science. From the science behind the "earworm" to an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life forms via the medium of music, plus the universal musings of friend of the station, Professor Brian Cox, 6 Music attempts to take its understanding of its reason for being to a higher plain.
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Nemone's Video Of The Week comes courtesy of French disco groover Breakbot. The beautiful new video for single Baby I'm Yours was created by Irina Dakeva, Breakbot's girlfriend, and is comprised of a mind-boggling 2,000 watercolour images that she painted by hand.
Nemone chats to Irina about her remarkable achievement and to Breakbot about the making of such a creative video.
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Network Radio BBC Week 32: Tuesday 10 August 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 10 August 2010
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Jamie Cullum showcases his love for all types of jazz, and music rooted in jazz, from its heritage to the future.
This week, he heads to Rhode Island in the US for a special show recorded at the world-famous Newport Jazz Festival. Artists performing there include Herbie Hancock, Wynton Marsalis, Ahmad Jamal and the Chick Corea Freedom Band.
From backstage at the festival, Jamie reports on the atmosphere, chats to the artists and grabs live performances from a range of exciting musicians performing there.
Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Karen Pearson for Folded Wing
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Aged a youthful 94, Les Paul died in August 2009.
A year on, fellow guitar legend Duane Eddy assesses the life and legacy of the man who not only helped pioneer the solid state electric guitar, but who also developed modern recording techniques, without which popular music would not be what it is today.
Without Les Paul, there would be no overdubbing, no multi-tracking, no tape delay and most of all no Gibson Les Paul guitars – one of the most sought-after instruments in rock, jazz, popular music and the blues.
Joined by the likes of BB King, Joe Perry (Aerosmith), Jeff Beck, Albert Lee, will.i.am (Black Eyed Peas), Joe Bonamassa, Ace Frehley (Kiss), Andy Summers (Police), Keith Urban, Nile Rogers and Jimmy Page, Eddy also hears from Les Paul himself, speaking in what was possibly his last full-length interview, given a few months before his death.
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BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 10 August 2010
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Today's ethical dilemma centres on a woman who, having attempted suicide, is brought to A&E by her husband. She is unconscious and her suicide note says she has taken an overdose to escape severe arthritis, which has confined her to a wheelchair for the past six months and given her years of pain.
Having witnessed one of her parent's and one of her husband's parent's deaths in distressing circumstances years ago, she has always maintained with everyone she knew that she doesn't ever want to be admitted to intensive care.
She has left five copies of her "advance directive" with her husband, sister, daughter, lawyer and GP.
The staff in A&E are torn about what to do and whether they should admit her to intensive care and save her life, or let her die.
Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the complex ethical issues surrounding this case.
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Former Monty Python star Terry Jones explores what modern comedy owes to the surrealism of the Theatre of the Absurd.
He investigates whether the Theatre of the Absurd – the surreal plays of Ionesco, Adamov and others – paved the way for future zany and unsettling comedy, such as that of the Python team.
Many of these plays might now seem irrelevant – a strange kink in the history of drama – but their legacy could arguably be the surreal humour enjoyed today, as Terry discovers.
Recorded partly in Paris, where in a tiny theatre two of Ionesco's plays have been in a continuous run since 1957, the programme revives absurd plays, finds out why they were written and sets Terry the task of placing them in the family tree of influences that culminated in zany modern comedy.
Presenter/Terry Jones, Producer/Susan Marling for Just Radio Limited
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Professor Robert Winston explores whether Franz Schubert really did have syphilis, as many of his biographers have presumed, as he continues his exploration into the relationship between the music and the medical conditions of composers who suffered mental and physical illness.
Professor Winston looks at the evidence that Schubert contracted syphilis and wrote his greatest works under the shadow of this chronic and, at the time, incurable disease.
Franz Schubert was often uncomfortable in the polite circles of middle-class Viennese society. Professor Winston assesses the evidence that Schubert was lured into an unsavoury clandestine lifestyle that led to him contracting the disease, which many writers have assumed cast a shadow over both his remaining life and his music.
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The Other Garden And Collected Stories
By Francis Wyndham Ep 1/3
These three tales by Francis Wyndham recall a poignant and eccentric England of the Forties. The subtle stories of desire and yearning during the dark days of the Second World War are matchless in tone and nuance and centre on the young and old, on those upstairs and downstairs, and on those living in town and country.
Today's tale, The Facts Of Life, tells the story of a boy, Young Newton, who is called in to see the headmaster about a rather delicate subject on his last day at school. The reader is Bill Nighy.
In Wednesday's story, Dear Derek, read by Emily Woof, Agatha is drawn to Phillip, the young house guest – but she shouldn't be snooping in his bedroom, should she?
Thursday's story, read by Amanda Root, is Matchlight. After a dull night at the cinema, a female is mysteriously approached by someone on the way home...
Readers/Bill Nighy, Emily Woof and Amanda Root, Producer/Duncan Minshull for the BBC
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Historian Bettany Hughes chooses Greek poet Sappho as her Great Life, as the biographical series continues.
Greek poet Sappho has been described as everything from a great intellectual to little more than a vamp. Hard facts about her life are in short supply – it is known that she lived on the island of Lesbos over two and half thousand years ago, and fragments of her poetry still survive. The best examples deal with the language of desire, but whether she really was a lesbian, as is often claimed, is less clear.
Bettany is as obsessed with who Sappho might be, as with whom the fragmentary evidence suggests she was. Sappho also makes for an enigmatic choice for presenter Matthew Parris to decipher.
Presenter/Matthew Parris, Producer/Miles Warde for the BBC
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Sue Armstrong investigates the growing pressure on developing countries as tobacco companies battle to attract new smokers.
In much of the rich world, smoking is on the wane in the face of rising taxes on cigarettes, bans on promotion and lawsuits against tobacco companies. But elsewhere, smoking is exploding.
The World Health Organization (WHO) predicts that tobacco will kill more than eight million people worldwide each year by 2030, with 80 per cent of these premature deaths in low- and middle-income countries.
Sue hears about Malawi's growing dependency on tobacco as a cash crop. Although the government has tried to introduce minimum prices, many small farmers hardly cover their costs and continue to live on less than a dollar a day, despite supplying the raw material for one of the richest industries in the world.
Malawi has not yet signed up to the WHO's international Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and rules about cigarette advertising and promotion are lax compared to rules in the developed world. In this programme, Sue explores whether cigarette manufacturers are trying to build up new markets in Africa and elsewhere in the developing world.
Presenter/Sue Armstrong, Producer/Ruth Evans for Ruth Evans Productions
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Olivia Colman, Sharon Horgan and David Mitchell lead a stellar cast in Amy Shindler and Beth Chalmers's situation comedy, set in 17th-century London, about Samuel Pepys's less famous sister and her disastrous love life.
Samuel Pepys's diaries make occasional mention of his sister, Pauline, who has come to visit. She appears not to have been an entirely welcome guest. This comedy is inspired by Pauline, and by many other unwelcome lovelorn house guests throughout human history.
Meet Pauline Pepys. Her love life is in tatters, her sister-in-law wants her to move out of the spare room, and her best friend is her worst enemy. Oh, and this being London in the 1660s, there's a nasty spot of plague about too.
Pauline falls for a handsome executioner but he seems to prefer her best friend Charlotte, so Charlotte offers to fix Pauline up with a very romantic poet. Meanwhile, Elizabeth – Mrs Pepys – has arranged for a lavish portrait of herself and Samuel that is not altogether going to plan. And to cap it all, the maid is doing something awful with a dead fish and a goat.
This new historical comedy stars Olivia Colman as hopeless romantic Pauline; Sharon Horgan as Charlotte, the vainest woman in Britain; David Mitchell as a distinctly itchy Samuel Pepys; Katherine Parkinson as Elizabeth, who is very stressed about making the right impression on society; Tom Hollander as Russell de Bret, a man who in the 21st century would be a rock star but who has chosen instead the career of public executioner; Rebekah Staton as the peculiarly fish-obsessed housemaid Jane; and Dave Lamb as a very angry painter and a very sad poet.
Happy Tuesdays, a new collaboration between BBC Radio and Television, showcases a series of new comedy pilots for Tuesday nights on BBC Radio 4.
Producer/Gareth Edwards for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 10 August 2010
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Mark Chapman has all the day's sports news and reaction, and is joined by special guests to preview tomorrow's night's international football friendly between England and Hungary at Wembley. Plus there are reports from the first round of the League Cup, and, from 9pm, 5 Live Tennis has all the latest tennis news.
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Ben North
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Tuesday 10 August 2010
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Test Match Special
Uninterrupted commentary on the fifth and final day of the second Test between England and Pakistan comes live from Edgbaston with the Test Match Special commentary team.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Network Radio BBC Week 32: Wednesday 11 August 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 11 August 2010
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This year, Johnnie Walker – the ex-Pirate who became a national radio star – reached pensionable age. In Pirates & Pensioners, Johnnie reflects on a journey that has taken him from life on the ocean wave to the Radio Academy's Hall of Fame and beyond.
Johnnie is joined by other baby boomers who remember the desire of a generation to do something different with the world they inherited in the post-war boom.
By the time those born in 1945 reached adulthood, the Sixties were starting to swing and many were determined to ride the wave with an innocent enthusiasm and a "can do" approach that threw away the constraints accepted by so many of their predecessors.
Richard Feast, for instance, grew up in the Cambridgeshire fens – somewhere that seemed then to be a million miles from the world of publishing – and, by the age of 25, he was editing Autosport magazine. Mike Willis (then known as Steve Merike) started his career with Radio Caroline, progressed to a short spell on BBC Radio 1, ran stations in Australia and now lectures on the radio and in the media.
Martin Blythe is still an active photographer having followed in his father's footsteps from the age of 16, while Tony Ellison discovered that "where there's muck there's money" and set up a business to prove it.
By and large the contributors to this programme were part of a group that sought to make a difference to a war-weary world and who, as they become pensioners, still retain their passion for life. Interwoven with some of the music that has sound-tracked their lives, they look back with perspectives gained over more than half a century.
Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Tim Blackmore for UBC
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Trevor Nelson invites listeners to explore the depths of his record collection as he presents another hour of the best in timeless soul, rare funky treats and modern classics.
Trevor's Album Of The Week tonight is The Velvet Rope, a 1997 release from Janet Jackson. The Velvet Rope was Jackson's sixth studio album and debuted at No. 1 in the Billboard 200 in America.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Dan Cocker for Somethin' Else
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BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 11 August 2010
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BBC PROMS 2010
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Thomas Dausgaard conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra and violinist Henning Kraggerud in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Sibelius's Symphony No. 5, works by Ligeti and a UK première by Langgaard, live from the Royal Albert Hall, London.
Three short choral pieces by György Ligeti – including Lux aeterna, heard in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey – aspire to ethereal heights, while Ligeti himself recognised the mesmeric, free-floating character of Rued Langgaard's 1918 Music Of The Spheres as prefiguring his own style.
Tchaikovsky's captivating concerto and Sibelius's Fifth Symphony, overwhelming in its nobly expansive final-movement Swan Hymn climax, complete the evening.
Andrew McGregor presents the concert, which also features soprano Inger Dam-Jensen and the Danish National Concert Choir and Vocal Ensemble.
This Prom will be repeated on Monday 16 August at 2pm.
Presenter/Andrew McGregor, Producer/Anthony Sellors
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This charming tale about friendship and old age is by acclaimed Finnish writer Tove Jansson, best known as the creator of the Moomin stories.
Two elderly eccentrics develop an unlikely friendship when they tussle over who gets to sit on a bench in the hothouse of a Finnish botanical garden. Although they are both solitary by nature, they begin to look forward to their weekly encounters in the hothouse and to the lively discussions that ensue.
Read by Andrew Sachs, this thought-provoking story combines sharp observations about human nature with beguiling descriptions of the natural world.
The Hot House is taken from the newly published short story collection, Travelling Light. Written by Jansson in 1987, this is the first time that these stories have appeared in English.
Reader/Andrew Sachs, Producer/Gemma Jenkins
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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 11 August 2010
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Fry's English Delight Ep 1/4
Stephen Fry dons hat and gown to try the Qwerty keyboard, in the first of a new series of Fry's English Delight – The Trial Of Qwerty. Ancient, some believe illogical and inefficient, Stephen asks why it still rules how people write.
The gravest charge against the still ubiquitous Qwerty is that the layout was designed deliberately to slow typing down. Typists in the 1870s became too fast for their machines, the keys would easily stick and they would have to delve under the bonnet to untangle them.
But will the charge against Qwerty stick? Invented in the 1870s before the age of ergonomics and future proofing, it was a result of a commercial race to dominate the new typewriting industry with a universal system. There were typewriting races, too, which resembled today's motor racing.
Alongside contributions from historians and Qwerty experts, Stephen meets a man who has "de-qwertified" himself and adopted Dvorak, a system claimed to be quicker and cleaner than Qwerty. There's also an examination of newer, more modern formats, which may be more efficient but are no match for Qwerty.
Stephen also meets some speedy junior Qwertist primary school pupils who learn to touch type as part of their curriculum. They come up with an idea for the ultimate system for inputting text and, in so doing, demonstrate an important point about how thought relates to language and how any system, using keyboard, pen or even speech, is a compromise.
Presenter/Stephen Fry, Producer/Nick Baker for Testbed Productions
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Head To Head Ep 1/4
In a returning series, Edward Stourton revisits passionate broadcast debates of the Sixties and Seventies when keen intellects clashed on matters of the moment. Each week, Edward explores the ideas, the great minds behind them and echoes of the arguments in present-day politics.
The first week is taken from Prospects Of Mankind (1960), a television series chaired by Eleanor Roosevelt, the former US first lady. The subject is Britain's place in the rivalry of the cold war.
At 88, Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest 20th-century thinkers, battles for Britain's neutrality in a dangerous world. In Hugh Gaitskell, some say the grand old man of pacifism meets his match. The then leader of the Labour party argues for Britain's continued close relations with the United States and the need for nuclear arms to avert Armageddon.
Should Britain keep a nuclear deterrent and continue to nurture its "special relationship" with the White House? The current discussion over Trident was never more relevant.
In the studio dissecting the debate are Tony Benn, whose political career goes back to the Gaitskell days, and Ray Monk, Professor of Philosophy at Southampton University and Russell's biographer.
Presenter/Edward Stourton, Producers/Dominic Byrne and Eve Streeter for Blakeaway Productions
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Case Study Ep 1/4
Claudia Hammond presents a new series of case studies that have unravelled the mysteries of the human mind.
When a 27-year-old man known in text books simply as HM underwent brain surgery for intractable epilepsy in 1953, no one could have known that the outcome would provide the key to extricating one of the greatest mysteries of the human mind – how humans form new memories.
HM was unable to remember anything that happened after the operation, though his life before the surgery remained vivid. For 55 years, until he died in December 2008 at the age of 82, HM – or Henry Molaison as he was identified on his death – was studied by nearly 100 psychologists and neuroscientists. He provided data that enabled them to piece together the memory process.
The research was first coordinated by Dr Brenda Milner of McGill University and then by Professor Suzanne Corkin at MIT. Both women got to know Henry well, but he never got to know them – for him, each meeting with them was the first.
His inability to form new memories meant that HM was unable to look after himself, but he remained cheerful, with a positive outlook on his condition. He was happy, he maintained, to provide information that could help others. And this he continues to do, even after death.
His brain was dissected by Dr Jacopo Annese of the Brain Observatory at UCSD, and is the subject of an ongoing online collaborative study.
Presenter/Claudia Hammond, Producer/Marya Burgess for the BBC
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Stannie And Jim, by Simon Littlefield, is a fictional romance woven round a comic reimagining of James Joyce's relationship with his brother, Stanislaus, as they fight, write and prepare for war.
When James Joyce went to live in Trieste with his wife, Nora, his younger brother, Stanislaus, joined him there. However, Stannie soon discovered that life with James in Trieste often consisted of bailing his brother out financially, dragging him out of bars and taking his English classes on when Jim couldn't, or wouldn't, teach them.
With the First World War approaching, the City of Trieste is a political melting pot with the Italians keen to win back the City from Austria. Stannie took up the irredentist cause to make Trieste Italian once more, a cause represented via a fictional relationship with Beatrice, a young irredentist.
This play takes a comedic look at what it was like to be the brother of a somewhat unreliable genius.
Andrew Scott stars as Stannie, Aidan McArdle as James, Alison Pettit as Beatrice, Tessa Nicholson as Nora, Michael Shelford as Baron Ralli, David Seddon as Captain, Sam Dale as Dr Silvestri and Tony Bell as Irredentist.
Producer/Sally Avens for the BBC
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Talking To The Enemy Ep 1/3
Jonathan Powell lifts the lid on how negotiators engage terrorist organisations in talks, and what they talk about, in a new, three-part series of Talking To The Enemy.
Jonathan, Tony Blair's Chief of Staff, took part in the negotiations which led to the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland. In this series, he takes listeners into the negotiating room and explains how negotiations with men of violence come about, work or fail and can lead to peace.
Presenter/Jonathan Powell, Producer/David Stenhouse for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 11 August 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman brings listeners all the day's sports news and reaction, in tonight's edition of 5 Live Sport.
From 8pm, there's live commentary of the international football friendly between England and Hungary at Wembley.
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Danny Garlick
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Wednesday 11 August 2010
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Swimming
Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary of the European Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 11 August 2010
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Cult musical satirists Half Man Half Biscuit are live in session for Marc Riley this evening.
This four-piece, post-punk outfit hail from Birkenhead and released their debut album, Back In The DHSS in 1986. The band, Nigel and Si Blackwell, Neil Crossley and Paul Wright, have what can only be described as a rather surreal sense of humour. They split up but re-formed, to the relief of fans of wryness and sarcasm, in 1990 and proceeded to release a further string of highly acclaimed albums.
The Trumpton Riots is one of the more famous EPs released by the band. They scored their first chart hit in April 2010 with Joy Division Oven Gloves.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 11 August 2010
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John Sweeney looks at Chairman Mao's China, Saddam Hussein's Iraq and President Ahmadinejad's Iraq, in the concluding part of the series that looks at stories of human rights abuses across the world, including Russia, China, Iraq and Iran, and from the mid-20th century to the present day.
He speaks with China expert Jonathan Mirsky who talks of how, when he visited China, he was confronted by "a brilliantly constructed fiction" and believed the fiction rather than the fact of 40 million deaths.
British politician Tony Benn, meanwhile, explains why he stands by his judgment that Mao was "a great man".
Presenter/John Sweeney, Producer/David Coomes for CTVC Productions
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Network Radio BBC Week 32: Thursday 12 August 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 12 August 2010
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Nigel Ogden reminds listeners of some of the theatre organs which can be heard regularly in public concerts around the UK, in this week's edition of The Organist Entertains.
He begins with the ex-Odeon Manchester Wurlitzer, now in the safe keeping of the Lancastrian Theatre Organ Trust.
The programme features the Compton and Wurlitzer at the notable Burtey Fen Collection in Lincolnshire; the two instruments currently installed at The Folly Farm Theme Park in Tenby; and the Pipes in the Peaks located at Dovedale Garage in the Peak District.
Finally, Phil Kelsall MBE, resident organist at the most played organ in the world, rounds things off with a Noel Coward medley on the Tower Ballroom Wurlitzer in Blackpool.
Presenter/Nigel Ogden, Producer/Terry Carter for the BBC
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Frank Renton presents both familiar and unusual movie soundtracks as arranged for brass band in tonight's Listen To The Band.
The show includes the truly Gothic main theme from Batman; Speak Softly Love from the score of The Godfather; the waltz from Murder On The Orient Express; and the Latin sounds of Chuck Mangione's The Children Of Sanchez.
Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter for the BBC
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Sir Tim Rice reaches Louisiana, the Creole State, as he continues to celebrate the musical heritage of the United States.
This week's featured artists include Fats Domino, Louis Armstrong, Elvis Presley, Sidney Bechet, Ray Charles and Britney Spears.
Presenter/Sir Tim Rice, Producers/Anthony Cherry and Ruth Beazley for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 12 August 2010
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Bill Nighy reads a summery tale of love and friendship by Guy de Maupassant.
The narrator recalls the days when he and four friends shared a little rowing boat (the Feuille-a-I'Envers), and spent their summers idling on the Seine. However, when one of them introduces a girlfriend into the group, the story takes an unexpected turn, and each embarks on their own affair with the carefree Mouche... a sort of ménage-a-cinq. When harmony is threatened, their collective friendship steers them clear of certain tragedy.
Reader/Bill Nighy, Producer/Sasha Yevtushenko
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BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 12 August 2010
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The Choice Ep 1/4
Michael Buerk returns with a new series of The Choice and, each week, he talks to people who have made life-changing decisions.
In the first programme, Michael hears from Heather Pratten about how she chose to help her two terminally ill sons.
Heather's life has been dogged by one of the most devastating of diseases. Huntington's chorea is an inherited condition that attacks the brain and destroys the personality before leading to a slow and sometimes painful death. It turned her husband from a kind man into an aggressive stranger before he died. Then Heather had to wait and watch her five children to see where, and how, it would appear in the next generation.
When two of her sons developed the symptoms she faced not one but two terrible choices.
Presenter/Michael Buerk, Producer/Amanda Hancox for the BBC
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GPs Who Need GPS Ep 1/5
Each week listeners join Dr Rachel Weldon on her high-speed sea commute to the furthest reaches of the Small Isles as she tends to rural patients in her inflatable boat.
GP Rachel Weldon's medical practice stretches beyond the shores of the remote Isle of Eigg to cover the other Small Isles of Muck, Rum and Canna.
The very suburban GP Phil Hammond narrates the journeys taken by Rachel, her husband and boatman Eric and collie dog Laurie, as they carry out their monthly round to Canna.
Presenter/Phil Hammond, Producer/Lucy Adam for the BBC
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John Harris explores the work of a group of authors who captured a northern social realism in the Thirties with writing that went on to shape the views of northern living for generations.
Walter Greenwood, Howard Spring and Louis Golding wrote about Greater Manchester at a time of severe economic depression and great poverty with their novels describing conditions that resonate with life today – cuts in welfare, increased unemployment and a coalition government.
Greenwood's Love On The Dole, Golding's Magnolia Street and Spring's Fame Is The Spur depict a tough, working-class life and, although the three authors wrote from slightly different perspectives, they all describe people enduring a grim, hard existence in an industrial landscape.
As the final parts of industrial Manchester and Salford are finally transformed by investment and modernisation, The Manchester Writers visits the streets that inspired these authors and hears how their work has endured and influenced ideas of northern England.
Presenter/John Harris, Producer/Helen Lee for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 12 August 2010
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BBC Radio 5 Live sport has the latest sports news and reaction and, from 8pm, The Phil Tufnell Cricket Show takes a look back at the second Test between England and Pakistan.
At 9.30pm, 5 Live Golf brings listeners the latest from the golfing world.
Producer/Patrick Nathenson
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Thursday 12 August 2010
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Swimming
Listeners can hear uninterrupted commentary from the European Swimming Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 12 August 2010
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Steve Lamacq's Thursday Roundtable outing welcomes The Wonder Stuff's Miles Hunt, composer and producer William Orbit and Orbital's Paul Hartnall into the studio to discuss the week's upcoming new releases.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Paul Sheehan
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Network Radio BBC Week 32: Friday 13 August 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Friday 13 August 2010
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Fifteen talented singers have been selected to go through to the semi-finals of the BBC Radio 2 Kiri Prize, a nationwide hunt with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa to find an opera star of the future.
The singers can be heard performing in five special Friday Night Is Music Night programmes, introduced by Penny Smith.
The semi-finalists are accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra and their performances are judged by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, mezzo-soprano Anne Howells, renowned conductor Robin Stapleton and director John Cox. Five singers will then go through to the final which is broadcast on Radio 2 on Friday 3 September.
The winner will perform with Dame Kiri at BBC Proms In The Park in London's Hyde Park on Saturday 11 September and be given the opportunity to attend a three-week residential course at the Solti Te Kanawa Accademia in Italy.
This third semi-final programme features soprano Hannah Bradbury, soprano Susana Gaspar and mezzo soprano Una McMahon. They are joined by the string quartet Raven.
Hannah, from Stoke-on-Trent, began her voice training at the Junior Royal Northern College of Music. She is a postgraduate on the Royal Academy of Music's Preparatory Opera Course and her concert work includes Handel's Messiah and Carmina Burana.
Susana is currently a Fellow at the Guildhall School and lives in London. She has a piano degree from the Escola Profissional de Musica de Almada and trained at the Lisbon Conservatoire. She was a finalist in the Gold Medal Singing Competition and has performed the parts Papagena (Die zauberflote) and Serpina (La serva padrona).
Una studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama where she completed a Masters in opera. Her roles include Maddalena (Rigoletto), Didone (L'egisto) and Dorabella (Cosi fan tutte). Una is from Belfast and now lives in London.
Presenter/Penny Smith, Producer/Jodie Keane for the BBC
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The Arts Show With Claudia Winkleman
Live from Edinburgh, Claudia Winkleman and The Arts Show aim to capture all the excitement and buzz from arguably Europe's most significant cultural event, the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
Claudia says: "The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is always properly exciting and brilliant, and I can't wait to broadcast live from there on 13 August."
Claudia will be talking to Sarah Millican, the winner of the 2008 if.comedy award for Best Newcomer, about her Chatterbox act and also to the Australian singer Ali McGregor about her acclaimed solo show in which she's backed by a trio of jazz musicians and sings classic jazz ballads and blues made famous by Billie, Ella ... and Britney.
Claudia also catches up with the award-winning comedian Alex Horne, star of BBC Four's comedy quiz show We Need Answers, to talk about his act which celebrates beating the bookies and overcoming the odds. She also meets Doctor Peter Lovatt, direct from his dance lab at Hertfordshire University – who lets listeners know why it feels great to gyrate.
To contextualise the Festival, Claudia talks to the chief executive of the Fringe, formerly known as the artistic director, Kath Mainland.
Plus, as the audience is central to the continuing success of Edinburgh, the show includes feedback from a cross section of the many thousands of people who attend each year.
Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Jessica Rickson for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 13 August 2010
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BBC PROMS 2010
Performance On 3 – Prom 37
The BBC Philharmonic returns to the BBC Proms with chief conductor Gianandrea Noseda. The first part of the concert conjures up flavours of Noseda's native Italy, commencing with Verdi's overture to his opera The Force Of Destiny. Dallapiccola's Partita is a dazzling piece from early in his career, ending with a prayer to the Blessed Virgin Mary, sung by Sarah Tynan.
Music from Germany features after the interval, with Bruch's most popular work, his First Violin Concerto, and Schumann's Fourth Symphony which encapsulates the world of this most Romantic of composers, and continues the Proms complete cycle in the bicentenary of his birth.
Presented by Martin Handley, this Prom is also broadcast live on BBC Four and will be repeated on BBC Radio 3 on Tuesday 17 August at 2pm.
Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Mike George
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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 13 August 2010
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Dwarfed by the might of the domestic washer/dryer, Yasmeen Khan investigates what has become of the humble launderette.
From the very first UK launderette in West London, 1949, the launderette has played a vital part in the UK's modern history.
Yasmeen, a "child of the launderette", discovers, that for many, the local launderette is as much a community centre and social hub as the pub, and is more dot.com than Dot Cotton with Manchester's first internet launderette where customers can surf the net and use the free library.
She visits the Liverpool offices of the UK's largest chain of launderettes and learns first-hand what business is really like in the clothes-cleaning industry – and she explores the life of the canal-boat launderette users on the Grand Union Canal in West London.
Yasmeen speaks to her family about why and how they ended up in the launderette business, how her name was derived from a new washing machine model in the Seventies, and just how much the people, machines and washing powder impacted upon their lives. She takes a trip back to her hometown of Huddersfield to visit the only one of their establishments that has remained as a launderette.
Yasmeen also pops to Albert Square to one of the most famous launderettes in the country to learn about the role the EastEnders washeteria has had in the history of the soap-opera, and just why it has remained a key location for so many years.
Presenter/Yasmeen Khan, Producers/Neil Gardner and Yasmeen Khan for Ladbroke Productions
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Nina Wadia stars in Samina Baig's Tall Stories.
Samina's life is a whirl of work and worry about her single status until a family crisis stops her in her tracks. Both her parents are admitted into separate hospitals forcing her to come to terms with their sudden entry into old age.
Between hospital visits, emergency phone calls and cookery lessons, she attempts to finally grow up and preserve the fading family memories that connect her to her roots. But then things take a turn for the worse.
The cast stars Nina Wadia as Samina, Indira Joshi as Mum, Madhav Sharma as Dad, Christine Kavanagh as the Radiographer Miriam, Michael Shelford as the Taxi Driver, Sean Baker as Peter, David Seddon as the Doctor/Patient, Alison Pettitt as Nurse One and Samina Zehra as Nurse Two.
Producer/Mary Peate for the BBC
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Chain Reaction Ep 1/6
Chain Reaction, the talk show with a twist where this week's guest becomes next week's interviewer, returns for a brand new series.
First up, Scottish actress and impressionist Ronni Ancona interviews one of the UK's most celebrated comics, writer and star of Not Going Out, Lee Mack.
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 13 August 2010
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Colin Murray hosts the first Kicking Off With Colin Murray of the season, with a special live fans forum from Blackpool on the eve of the city's team's first game in the top flight since 1971.
Colin will be joined by Friday night regulars Perry Groves and Pat Nevin, as well as Blackpool and England legend Jimmy Armfield and a local audience to preview the start of the Premier League season.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Patrick Whiteside
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Friday 13 August 2010
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Swimming
Uninterrupted commentary of the European Swimming Championships comes from Budapest, Hungary.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Sports Extra Athletics
Uninterrupted commentary from the Diamond League Athletics Meeting comes from Crystal Palace, London.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 13 August 2010
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Lauren Laverne closes BBC 6 Music's Science Week with a very special experiment.
On the night of 15 August 1977, just a few hours before Elvis Presley died, a radio telescope in the US state of Ohio called The Big Ear picked up a signal from space that, to this day, is still unexplained.
This signal was christened the "Wow Signal" after scientist Jerry Ehman scribbled wow on a printout of the high intensity burst. Today, over 30 years on, many people still think this could be the closest planet Earth has come to receiving an artificial message from outer space.
In a new feature, Lauren goes where no DJ has gone before – by beaming a message into space. Each week Lauren will invite a listener or guest on to the show to send their very own Wow Signal to the stars, which will take the form of a five-minute burst of music and greetings. Using a radio telescope in deepest Suffolk, the signal will be beamed live, via the 6 Music studios, to a star system of their choice (disclaimer – stars and exo-planets have to be in the northern hemisphere and available for beaming at the designated time).
It's a chance to send a message to the stars and to get listeners thinking about this most profound of subjects – what message would you send to our space brothers and which song would you want to represent one of the finest Earth-based art forms – music?
The Sky At Night's very own Paul Abel will be on hand to guide people through the universe, offering a guidance when it comes to choosing an area of space to send the message, and an online star chart will be updated each week, documenting how far each message has travelled and the time it will take for it to reach its final destination (very likely hundreds or thousands of years).
This week BBC 6 Music looks through its musical microscope at various aspects of science. From the science behind the "earworm" (music that gets stuck on repeat in your head) to an attempt to communicate with extraterrestrial life forms via the medium of music, plus the universal musings of friend of the station, Professor Brian Cox, 6 Music attempts to take its understanding of its reason for being to a higher plain.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC WORLD SERVICE Friday 13 August 2010
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Iranian-born Sami Yusuf is perhaps the most famous British Muslim in the world. He was dubbed "Islam's biggest rock star" by Time magazine in 2006. He's adored in the Middle East and the Arab world, his records sell millions and he plays to hundreds of thousands of people across the globe.
It has been suggested that much of his popularity stems from recognition – from young Muslims seeing a role-model they understand and who speaks to their own situation.
The BBC's Nihal Arthanayake spends a day with Sami in Dubai to find out what makes the King of Muslim Pop, so unique.
Presenter/Nihal Arthanayake, Producer/Alain Gales for Gale Force Productions
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