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BBC Radio 1's Ibiza Weekend

Saturday 7 August

7.00pm-5.00am BBC RADIO 1

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The crowd at BBC Radio 1's Ibiza Weekend

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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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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Iraqi musician Ilham Al Madfai

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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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

Saturday 7 August

2.30-3.30pm BBC RADIO 4

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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5 Live Sport

Saturday 7 August

12.00noon-7.15pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

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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Saturday 7 August

7.15-8.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

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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Test Match Special

Saturday 7 August

10.45am-6.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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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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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