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Network Radio BBC Week 1: 1-7 January 2011
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Network Radio BBC Week 1: New Year's Day Saturday 1 January 2011
BBC RADIO 2 New Year's Day Saturday 1 January 2011
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Much-loved comedians Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders return with the second of their three festive specials for BBC Radio 2. The shows feature an eclectic mix of chat, music and, of course, the pair's trademark humour.
Whether listeners are nursing the effects of New Year's Eve excess or feeling bright-eyed and bushy tailed, French and Saunders are the perfect way to welcome in 2011 on New Year's Day. They chat to fellow comic and star of Getting On, Jo Brand, and their Someone And Their Mum interview features Sherlock Holmes actor Benedict Cumberbatch... and his real-life mum, Randall And Hopkirk actress Wanda Ventham. No doubt they'll be looking for clues from her as to Benedict's next roles and super-sleuthing in their quest to find out entertaining anecdotes about her son!
The third and final show from French and Saunders is broadcast on Bank Holiday Monday 3 January.
Presenters/Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Producers/Fiona Day and Julia McKenzie for the BBC
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Once again, it's the time of the year when most people start making New Year's resolutions, promising themselves they'll finally hand in their notice at work and go travelling, get fitter and run a marathon, pluck up the courage to ask out that person they've been smiling at for the past year... or simply just give up chocolate.
To help listeners try to keep their New Year's resolutions, Patrick Kielty encourages them to reveal all to him – and the nation – in this show dedicated to these promises. And with so many people in the know, listeners might actually have a stronger resolve to keep them this year ... no pressure!
Listeners who would like to share their resolutions can email [email protected].
Presenter/Patrick Kielty, Producer/Charlotte Worth for the BBC
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In Sir Cliff Richards' 70th year, BBC Radio 2 celebrates the platinum prince of pop by playing some of his greatest hits.
Over 20,000 Radio 2 listeners voted for their favourite Cliff track back in the summer of 2005 – from a back catalogue that includes Wired For Sound, Congratulations, Move It and many more. These favourites are revisited, as Cilla Black presents The Ultimate Cliff Top Twenty.
Featuring many of Sir Cliff's biggest hits, plus a few more obscure b-sides, the most popular tracks are introduced by Cliff himself.
Presenter/Cilla Black, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Suzi Quatro takes a personal journey in the footsteps of her musical idol, Otis Redding. She visits Macon, Memphis and Nashville, talking to family, friends and colleagues of the soul legend along the way.
Contributors include Otis's daughter Karla, his first manager Alan Walden, musicians Steve Cropper and Wayne Jackson, and Stax alumni Al Bell and Deanie Parker.
Presenter/Suzi Quatro, Producer/Mark Hagen
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Musician, entrepreneur and chef Levi Roots makes his first appearance as a radio DJ on New Year's Day, hosting a two-hour special dedicated entirely to lovers' rock.
The show includes live sessions from Janet Kay and Carroll Thompson, as well as an interview with Denis Bovell.
Talking about the show, Levi says: "I can't wait to share my passion for reggae music with BBC Radio 2's listeners."
Presenter/Levi Roots, Producer/Nicky Birch
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Kilburn-based singer-songwriter Sean Taylor has supported the Neville Brothers, George Benson, John Fogerty, Band Of Horses and Southside Johnny And The Asbury Dukes, among many others.
Tonight, he chats to Bob Harris about this and his appearances at Glastonbury and the Cambridge Folk Festival. Sean also performs tracks from his latest album, Walk With Me.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson
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BBC RADIO 3 New Year's Day Saturday 1 January 2011
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New Year's Day Concert From Vienna
Petroc Trelawny presents the famous New Year's Day concert live from Vienna's Musikverein, performed by the Vienna Philharmonic.
Conductor Franz Welser-Most follows in the footsteps of his great compatriots Clemens Krauss, Josef Krips, Willi Boskovsky, Herbert von Karajan and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, as he becomes the sixth Austrian conductor to lead the annual New Year's Day concert given by the Vienna Philharmonic. The performance includes music by four members of the Strauss family as well as works by their Viennese contemporaries Lanner and Hellmesberger.
To begin a year of celebrations for the bicentenary of Liszt's birth, the Vienna Philharmonic play Johan Strauss I's (father of the more famous Johan II) Galopp on themes by Liszt followed by Liszt's own Mephisto Waltz No. 1.
The second half of this concert can be seen live on BBC Two from 11.15am, with highlights on BBC Four at 7pm.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny
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For the first 12 days of 2011, BBC Radio 3 is suspending its normal schedule to play Mozart – every note he wrote, and nothing but. The Genius Of Mozart is a Radio 3 composer music-season on an unprecedented scale. After the celebratory first day, the Mozart story is told through 11 days: Wunderkind Day, Meet The Mozarts, Grand Tour Day, Piano Day, Salzburg Day, Escape From Salzburg Day/Turkish Night, Opera Day, Vienna Day, Freemasons Day, Late Travels and 1791 Day.
Petroc Trelawny is joined live in Studio 7 at Austrian Radio in Vienna by composer HK Gruber, Ian Bousfield of the Vienna Philharmonic and Daniela Zimper of Austrian Radio to discuss Mozart, symbol of Vienna.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Elizabeth Arno
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BBC RADIO 4 New Year's Day Saturday 1 January 2011
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Mariella Frostrup appraises the changing attitudes towards sex education.
After the First World War, when syphilis rates rocketed, the government sought to educate the public about venereal disease in films that were shown around the country. The first of these, Whatsover A Man Soweth, was a moral tale to show men the dangers of consorting with "loose women".
Sex education in schools was rare before the Second World War, but then an upsurge of gonorrhoea and syphilis frightened the government into action. Early lessons focused on biology, with contraception information deemed for married people only. The sexual revolution brought discussion into the open and much time was spent debating what children should be taught and at what age.
In the Eighties there was a gear-change when the moral tone was lost and it became about teenagers making informed choices about their own sexuality.
Since 2000 the government has asked schools to teach sex education in every year of a child's schooling. The general election interrupted the bill to make this mandatory.
In this programme, Mariella asks if it is appropriate for a five-year-old to be told about sex and whether or not the government is right to be involved in such a personal area of people's lives.
Presenter/Mariella Frostrop, Producers/Rachael Howorth and Sara Conkey for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE New Year's Day Saturday 1 January 2011
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5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman looks ahead to the lunchtime commentary game, West Bromwich Albion versus Manchester United in the Premier League, which kicks off at 12.45pm. There are also regular updates from the Edinburgh derby as Hearts meet Hibernian in the Scottish Premier League (kick-off 12.30pm).
At 3pm there's live commentary of Manchester City against Blackpool in the Premier League, plus coverage of all the 3pm kick-offs including Tottenham Hotspur versus Fulham and Liverpool versus Bolton in the Premier League, and Aberdeen versus Dundee United in the Scottish Premier League. There are also updates from today's rugby union Premiership ties.
From 5pm Sports Report rounds up the day's news, results and reaction, including regular updates from the Premier League clash between Birmingham City and Arsenal (kick-off 5.30pm).
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Mike Carr
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The year 2010 was marked by disasters, including the Pakistan floods, Haiti earthquake and Cumbrian shootings, but alongside these tragedies are stories of dedication, bravery and selflessness. From the international aid workers who've helped people across the globe to the "have-a-go heroes" around the UK, Adil Ray meets some of the people who helped save lives last year and shares their inspiring stories with listeners.
Presenter/Adil Ray, Producer/Fiona Cotterill
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
New Year's Day Saturday 1 January 2011
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Football
Football fans can enjoy uninterrupted commentary on one of the afternoon's top matches in the Championship.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC New Year's Day Saturday 1 January 2011
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The music-loving, film-making comedy trio host a special BBC 6 Music show for New Year's Day. Having worked together on Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead and Hot Fuzz, Edgar Wright, Simon Pegg and Nick Frost now bring their love of music to the radio for a special show.
While listeners choose some tunes to help kick-start a New Year, the trio share some tales from their respective years in the US spent making films.
Presenters/Edgar Wright, Nick Frost and Simon Pegg, Producer/James Stirling
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK New Year's Day Saturday 1 January 2011
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Raj and Pablo start 2011 by talking to the stars of one of this year's most anticipated Bollywood films, Tees Maar Khan. The pair speak to director Farah Khan as well as one of Bollywood's most successful on-screen partnerships, Akshay Kumar and Katrina Kaif.
Presenters/Raj and Pablo
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BBC WORLD SERVICE New Year's Day Saturday 1 January 2011
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German novelist Bernard Schlink joins World Book Club to discuss The Reader.
First published in 1995 and a best-seller in both Germany and the US, The Reader is a novel about Michael Berg. As a teenager he has an affair with Hanna, a woman in her thirties, but after a misunderstanding she vanishes from his life. Later, as a law student visiting a courtroom, he sees her once more – on trial with a group of former concentration camp guards.
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Network Radio BBC Week 1: Sunday 2 January 2011
BBC RADIO 1 Sunday 2 January 2011
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On Sunday 2 January BBC Radio 1 counts down the Top 100 downloads of all time.
Starting at 7am with Jaymo and Andy George, the chart runs throughout the day's programmes with Sara Cox taking over at 10am and Matt Edmondson doing the honours from 1pm, before he reveals the No. 1 best-selling download at 4pm.
Lady Gaga, Kings Of Leon and The Black Eyed Peas are all contenders and will be battling it out to top this special chart.
Producer/Rachel Mallender
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BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 2 January 2011
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Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to the first woman in the world to compete in a World Rally car, Penny Mallory. Penny tells Aled about her inspiring life, which took her from homeless teenager to rally champion, marathon runner and mountaineer, and the role that faith has played in that journey.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson for the BBC
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Putting the romance into 2011, Janey Lee Grace looks after the first Sunday Love Songs of a brand new year.
Presenter/Janey Lee Grace, Producer/Adam Uytman for the BBC
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Founder Doobie Brothers members and the band's principal songwriters, Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons, join Johnnie Walker for a chat about their success in the Seventies, when their hits included China Grove and Long Train Runnin'.
Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Natasha Costa Correa for Wise Buddah
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Brian D'Arcy celebrates the feast of the Epiphany, one of the oldest festivals of the Christian church.
The Epiphany marks the visit of the Wise Men to the infant Jesus and has inspired countless beautiful carols. This week's featured choir, the Cardiff University Chamber Choir, sing some of them. Music includes The Race That Long In Darkness Pined, As With Gladness and O Splendour Of God's Glory Bright. The musical director is John Hugh Thomas and the organist is Robert Court.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Clair Jaquiss for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 2 January 2011
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In honour of BBC Radio 3's New Year celebration of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Michael Berkeley delves into the Private Passions archive to recall distinguished former guests who chose Mozart among their greatest enthusiasms.
The late crime writer Michael Dibdin kicks off with Mozart's String Quartet in G, K387; followed by guests including opera director Graham Vick, psychologist and novelist Salley Vickers and actors Simon Callow and Fiona Shaw.
Actor Lenny Henry, political commentator Jonathan Dimbleby and Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo all had different reasons for choosing the opening movement of the Piano Sonata in A, K331; while two recent award-winning writers, Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, both selected extracts from Mozart's darkest and perhaps most psychologically disturbing opera, Don Giovanni.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Chris Marshall
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Peter Shaffer's award-winning play combines both fiction and history to detail the final years of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Antonio Salieri, an older composer, propelled by jealousy, plots the tragic downfall of his brilliant rival.
Sir Peter Hall's production, first broadcast in 1983 and recorded with the original National Theatre cast, is repeated as part of BBC Radio 3's Genius Of Mozart season.
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Mozart's genius has inspired many artists to comment on his musical creativity. This edition of Words And Music focuses on the writers inspired by Mozart to a new creativity of their own. The readings are taken from authors including Eduard Morike, Sara Teasdale, Hardy, Goethe and Wallace Stevens, accompanied by some of Mozart's finest music.
Producer/Janet Tuppen
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BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 2 January 2011
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Desert Island Discs' first castaway for 2011 is Battle of Britain fighter pilot Tony Iveson.
Kirsty Young talks to Tony about his life and asks him what music he would take to BBC Radio 4's mythical island.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle for the BBC
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The Wire explores musical sounds created when the wind vibrates fencing and telegraph wires.
Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson is captivated by the extraordinary sounds of the wind and weather when they play on vast lengths of fencing wire stretched across the Australian landscape.
Alan Lamb is an artist, biomedical research scientist and composer who has long been fascinated by the vibrating qualities of telegraph wires. As a young boy he was introduced to the music of the wires during walks and was shown how to press his ear against a telegraph pole to "hear the sound of the world".
Years later, when he was a student on a camping holiday in Mull, Alan pulled into the side of the road and fell asleep in his van. He was woken by an extraordinary sound, produced by the telegraph wires overhead as they waxed and waned in the wind. Alan was transported by the sounds and became determined to record their music.
Since then, he has worked with abandoned telegraph wires on several sites across Australia and installed new structures in order to produce and record music from them. Alan has also completed extensive research into auditory perception and developed theories relating to the wire music and its behaviour.
In this programme, Chris meets Alan and some of his colleagues at The Wired Lab Project. He discusses their work and its evolution and records for himself some of the extraordinary music of the wires.
Presenter/Chris Watson, Producer/Sarah Blunt for the BBC
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The ageing Emperor Claudius tries to relinquish power, only to find himself a God, in the final part of Robert Graves's I, Claudius, dramatised by Robin Brooks.
While Claudius works to restore the Republic, his beautiful young wife Messalina has other plans.
Tom Goodman-Hill stars as Claudius and Jessica Raine as Messalina. The cast also includes Robin Soans, Sally Orrock, Jude Akuwudike, Ryan Watson, Adeel Akhtar, Sean Baker, Tony Bell, Sam Dale, Henry Devas, Claire Harry and Iain Batchelor.
Producer/Jonquil Panting for the BBC
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The Archers celebrates its 60th anniversary with a thrilling double episode.
Events unfold which shake Ambridge to the core.
Producer/Vanessa Whitburn for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 2 January 2011
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John Holmes and guests pan for festive comedy gold in the stream of public opinion washing over the internet. Looking back at 2010 and forward to 2011, they take the best, worst, weirdest, craziest and most peculiar genuine outpourings of the human race, to determine whether or not "the people" are right ... or whether they're one bauble short of a Christmas tree.
Presenter/John Holmes, Producer/Abundant
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5 Live Sport
Ian Payne looks ahead to an afternoon of live football in the Premier League and the Scottish Premier League, along with rugby union Premiership action.
From 12.45pm there's live commentary of the Old Firm clash between Rangers and Celtic in the Scottish Premier League, along with regular updates from Chelsea against Aston Villa from 1.30pm and reports from the day's rugby union Premiership ties from 3pm.
At 4pm there is live Premier League commentary of Wigan Athletic versus Newcastle United from the DW Stadium.
Presenter/Ian Payne, Producer/Mike Carr
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Sunday 2 January 2011
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5 Live NFL
Full coverage comes from the final day of the American Football Season, as the NFL hopefuls try to clinch the remaining play-off spots.
There is live commentary of one of the top games, with analysis from Neil Reynolds and Greg Brady.
Producer/Simon Crosse for USP
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Test Match Special
The Test Match Special team bring uninterrupted commentary on the opening day of the Fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England, live from Sydney.
Producer/Adam Mountford
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BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 2 January 2011
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With a new, typically stylish solo album out earlier this year and some dates with the reformed Roxy Music ahead of him, Bryan Ferry speaks to Matt Everitt for a special edition of BBC 6 Music's The First Time – a series that has already delivered in-depth and revealing interviews with artists such as John Lydon, David Byrne, Johnny Marr, Frank Black and Bill Drummond.
Ferry discusses his passionate early love of jazz and blues (something which would make itself felt in his solo career); his life as an art student; writing and recording his breakthrough single, Virginia Plain; his relationship with his one-time band-mate Brian Eno; his decision to split (and reform) Roxy Music; and the subtle differences between his suave international playboy image and his real character.
Presenter/Matt Everitt, Producer/Henry Lopez-Real
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Huey Morgan keeps the New Year party going in typically upbeat and exuberant style, bringing the jams to fend off any post-Christmas blues, from James Brown to the Kings Of Leon, The Brides Of Funkenstein and Jane's Addiction.
He bids goodbye to 2010 by revisiting some of the best of his guests, taking a trip back to the summer when he met rock god Mick Jagger as the Stones' Exile On Main Street was re-released and Mick regaled Huey with tales of writing some of his favourite tracks.
Also on the show, Huey maintains that the manifesto for 2011 is Sharing Is Caring and in this spirit he brings back a favourite mash-up from Jaguar Skills and the Scratch Perverts – a New Year soother for any souls still suffering post-New Year excess.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Rebecca Maxted for Wise Buddah
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DJ and producer Ben Watt returns for the second edition of his 6 Mix residency, exploring the world of leftfield dance and electronic music present and future. The head of pioneering deep house label and club night Buzzin' Fly, Ben was formerly half of acoustic duo Everything But The Girl before a life-threatening illness led him to experience a Damascene conversion to dance music in the late Nineties.
Ben kicks off 2011 with a selection of alt-electronic pop, deep house and classic tunes from his record box, and shares some tips on who to watch for across the electronic music spectrum in 2011.
Presenter/Ben Watt, Producer/Rowan Collinson
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Network Radio BBC Week 1: Bank Holiday Monday 3 January 2011
BBC RADIO 1 Bank Holiday Monday 3 January 2011
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It's new year, new music on BBC Radio 1 as the schedule is turned on its head with specialist music DJs taking over daytime, playing the tracks they championed in 2010 and their big tips for 2011.
Zane Lowe kicks things off at 7am with the breakfast show. Zane also begins the countdown of the Top 5 most popular acts tipped for big things in the BBC Sound of 2011, culminating in the No. 1 artist being revealed on Friday (7 January). Listeners also get to hear live session tracks and interviews from the chosen five throughout the week.
Then, all week from 10am, Friday night dance-music figurehead Annie Mac replaces Fearne Cotton on the mid-morning show.
From 1pm, Huw Stephens takes over and then, all week from 4pm, Nick Grimshaw plays his future pop playlist with the tracks he loved in 2010 and his music tips for 2011.
The daytime takeovers are part of Radio 1's In New Music We Trust this January, celebrating the station's commitment to championing the best new music. January will also see Radio 1 being the lead on the influential BBC Sound of 2011 for the first time.
Producers/Clare Chadburn, Stuart Last, Kate Holder and James Bursey
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BBC RADIO 2 Bank Holiday Monday 3 January 2011
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Ken Bruce returns to BBC Radio 2 after his Christmas and New Year excesses. This week's Tracks Of My Years come from Britain's Got Talent's Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle, whose new album recently topped the charts in both the US and the UK.
There's also the Record Of The Week and travel updates throughout the show.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones for the BBC
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French And Saunders
Much-loved comedians Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders return to BBC Radio 2 this Bank Holiday Monday, with the last of three festive specials... and this time, the ladies are broadcasting live.
Talking to Simon Mayo recently, Dawn said: "[the] one on 3 January is going to be live. Sorry just ate a bit of the chair with my bottom when I said that. That's a bit scary!"
In today's show they catch up with the "Ab Fab" Joanna Lumley. She talks to them down the line from New York about her current Broadway success and the delights of Christmas and New Year in Manhattan.
In the studio they are joined by folk singer Kate Rusby and her real-life mum, for their Someone And Their Mum feature.
Presenters/Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, Producers/Fiona Day and Julia McKenzie for the BBC
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Tonight, Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie showcase the best of the Live Sessions from 2010. From Fyfe Dangerfield to The National, the lads play their favourite tracks from the year's live performances.
Presenters/Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producer/Lizzie Hoskin for Smooth Operations
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Val Doonican – Rocking ... But Gently Ep 1/2
Val Doonican's gentle baritone voice and Irish humour instantly endeared him to the British public – at its height, an incredible 20 million viewers tuned in to watch The Val Doonican Show on the BBC.
Patrick Kielty goes in search of the secret of his enduring success, tracing Val's journey from the days when he arranged songs for his siblings in his Waterford bedroom to his arrival as the king of Saturday night TV.
Friends and colleagues, including Terry Wogan and Ronnie Corbett, ponder the popularity of Val's showbiz trademarks, props and the comic Irish songs for which he's most remembered. Gaudy jumpers and Paddy McGinty's Goat aside, new in-depth interviews with Val Doonican allow room for reflection on a career at the top of the television industry and reveal a man with considerable musical talent and an unerring professionalism.
Other contributors include Lynn Doonican, Ronnie Corbett, Yvonne Littlewood, Terry Wogan, Roger Richards, Jim Moir, John Williams and John Ammonds. There is classic music and television archive from Val's earliest musical influences to his musical collaborations with stars like Rosemary Clooney, John Williams and Crystal Gayle.
The first programme takes listeners back to a poor but happy childhood in Waterford, formative years spent touring dance halls and singing about sausages, before a move across the Irish sea and onto the stage at the London Palladium and the top of the charts with Walk Tall.
Presenter/Patrick Kielty, Producers/Lisa Meyer and Brian King for Above The Title
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BBC RADIO 3 Bank Holiday Monday 3 January 2011
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Conductor Jane Glover, author of the book Mozart's Women, talks to Sarah Walker about Mozart's relationships.
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Donald Macleod presents hour-long Mozart editions of Composer Of The Week, pegged to each day's theme.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Ben Warren
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THE GENIUS OF MOZART
Meet The Mozarts
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artists the ATOS Trio perform two of Mozart's greatest piano trios live at London's Wigmore Hall. The ATOS Trio are Annette von Hehn (violin), Stefan Heinemeyer (cello) and Thomas Hoppe (piano).
Presenter/Suzy Klein, Producer/Emma Bloxham
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Professor Cliff Eisen, the leading international Mozartologist, looks at Mozart's world through a series of objects and artefacts personal to the composer and his family.
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Nicholas McGegan conducts The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, one of America's finest period instrument ensembles, in a programme combining some of Mozart's earliest works with his final symphony.
The concert opens with incidental music written for the play Thamos, King Of Egypt, one of the composer's early forays into music for the theatre. Fortepiano supremo Robert Levin joins the orchestra for the innovative D minor Concerto, and also plays the concerto movement only recently attributed to a seven-year-old Mozart. The programme concludes with his majestic final symphony, The Jupiter.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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BBC RADIO 4 Bank Holiday Monday 3 January 2011
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The Story Of The King James Bible Ep 1/3
The King James or authorised version of the Bible remains one of the most widely published texts in the English language, and to mark the 400th anniversary of its publication, BBC Radio 4 broadcasts a range of programmes exploring its history, literary impact and continuing influence on British culture today.
The Story Of The King James Bible, a three-part series presented by James Naughtie, starts the programming marking the 400th anniversary. This series is followed by readings of some of the most celebrated passages from the King James Bible. These readings, spread throughout the schedule on Sunday 9 January, are prefaced by essays written by some of the finest authors, playwrights and thinkers of today.
In the first of his three programmes, James tells the story of how and why King James IV of Scotland and James I of England decided on a new translation of the Bible.
The programme is recorded at Hampton Court Palace where a conference, held in early 1604, led to the commissioning of the King James version.
James learns about the key characters at the conference, which was ill tempered, with the King harrying the protagonists on both sides. King James was a brilliant theologian himself, and in him some of the most learned men in the country met their match.
After the death of Elizabeth I, the "godly" (Puritans) and the "conformists" (Anglican bishops), presented James with a petition which demanded the end to religious practices they found beyond the pale; wearing vestments, making the sign of the cross, the exchange of wedding rings and the power of the bishops. James had called the conference to address these concerns.
The suggestion for a new translation of the Bible was made by John Rainolds who hoped to undermine the authorised Bishops Bible and elevate the Geneva version favoured by Puritans. King James agreed that all the various translations had their faults. But the King singled out the Geneva Bible as the worst of them all.
After the conference, Bancroft drew up the rules for translation, had them approved by the King and brought together six companies of translators based in Oxford, Cambridge and Westminster.
Presenter/James Naughtie, Producer/Rosie Dawson for the BBC
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Lords A Living Ep 1/3
In a new series, Ruth McDonald accompanies members of the House of Lords to the titular land of their peerages to access the communities who live there now.
Ruth tries to find out if the reality matches up to the expectation for a peer who hasn't been "home" in several decades, and sees what "home" makes of the peers.
In this first programme, Ruth accompanies Baroness Richardson of Calow back to the village in North Derbyshire. A life baron since 1998, it's been 52 years since Kathleen Richardson last lived here but Calow left its mark on her. The place where her faith was awakened, its impact has proved pivotal to her career as a Methodist trailblazer – first female minister, bishop and president of the Methodist conference.
From a catch-up at the United Reform Church where old faces and memories come flooding back, to the story of how the NHS rescued a former mining area, Baroness Richardson meets the people of Calow who live there. From knotting with the scouts to bowling with the over-65s, she seeks out the people who make this village what it is. And as they contemplate the arrival of their hitherto largely unknown peer, what will Calow make of the Baroness and what will she glean from them?
Presenter/Ruth McDonald, Producer/Regina Gallen for the BBC
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Five Guys Named Mohammed Ep 1/5
As Mohammed becomes the most popular name for boys born in Britain, five men reflect on their own lives and what it's like to be called Mohammed in this country today.
In the first programme of the series, medical student Mohammad Razai tells of his journey to Cambridge. Brought up in Kabul, his family were persecuted and "disappeared" in prisons. He was sheltered anxiously behind closed doors, but life was so dangerous his family told him to escape. Mohammad tells of his trek across the world and how it was a further struggle arriving in Britain without documents and with barely any English.
Other contributors to the series include a car mechanic in Huddersfield, a millionaire businessman from Stoke, a Scottish care-worker and a rapper who converted to Islam, taking on the name Mohammed.
Producer/Sarah Bowen for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Bank Holiday Monday 3 January 2011
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Ashes Breakfast
Mark Pougatch, live from Melbourne, and Shelagh Fogarty, in the studio, present news from the UK and coverage from day one of the fifth and final Ashes Test in Sydney.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and Shelagh Fogarty, Producer/Scott Solder
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Alan Davies is joined in the armchair by fellow football obsessives Ian Stone, Tayo Popoola and guests for Premier League banter and their predictions for the rest of the season.
Presenter/Alan Davies, Producer/Simon Crosse for USP
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5 Live Sport
Jonathan Overend presents live second-half League One commentary of Huddersfield versus Sheffield Wednesday. There's also build-up to this afternoon's Championship football coverage.
From 3pm there's live Championship coverage of all the 3pm kick-offs including Leicester City against Swansea City and Queens Park Rangers versus Bristol City.
Presenter/Jonathan Overend, Producer/Mike Carr
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Mark Chapman presents the Monday Night Club from 7pm with football debate on the big stories from the New Year games.
At 9pm Mark Clemmit joins Mark Chapman to round up the weekend's action and stories from the Football League.
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Mike Carr
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Bank Holiday Monday 3 January 2011
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Commentary highlights of the opening day of the Fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England in Sydney, including close-of-play analysis, comes from Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott. Highlights are repeated every half hour throughout the day.
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Test Match Special
Uninterrupted commentary on the second day of the Fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England comes live from Sydney.
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BBC 6 MUSIC Bank Holiday Monday 3 January 2011
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BBC 6 Music celebrates the very best the network has to offer with a day's worth of highlights of the year gone by. Listeners can expect in-depth interviews, satirical banter and great music.
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Bank Holiday Monday 3 January 2011
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Gagan Grewal kick starts the New Year with an interview with Bollywood actress Sonam Kapoor.
Daughter of Anil and Sunita Kapoor, the actress has proved a huge success following in a long line of family Bollywood success stories. She chats to Gagan about what it's like to be an icon as well as her upcoming projects.
The Gagan Grewal show on BBC Asian Network delivers music, news, entertainment and celebrity chat in Hindi-Urdu and English.
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Network Radio BBC Week 1: Tuesday 4 January 2011
BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 4 January 2011
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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, one of Jamie's favourite jazz bands, American trio The Bad Plus, perform music from their latest album Never Stop at the BBC's Maida Vale studios. Joining them in the studio for the session, Jamie asks them about their influences, their current tastes and their plans for the future.
Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Karen Pearson for Folded Wing
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Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie's regular feature, The Chain, reaches its second millennium with the 2000th record.
Starting back in April 2007, The Chain has taken the faithful listener on a varied musical journey, never repeating a single record. It has included 40 appearances by The Beatles, 33 by David Bowie and 19 by the Rolling Stones, but just two by Coldplay.
Listeners are invited to charge their glasses, unpack the bunting, crack open the mature cheddar and join Mark and Stuart and special guest, Gordon "The Voice of the Chain" Burns, in commemorating this special occasion, the 2000th record of The Chain.
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Feeling Good – The Nina Simone Story Ep 1/2
Nina Simone's daughter, Simone, explores the career of her mother as an unsung pioneer of civil rights, jazz chanteuse, blues artist and live performer.
In this two-part series, Simone offers her own personal take on her mother's life and music. Contributions from some of Nina's closest friends provide an insight into the real Nina and there are also exclusive, unreleased tracks of her in concert.
In the first programme, Simone talks about her mother's musical beginnings as a child protégé, learning classical piano from the age of five. Living in North Carolina, she was aware of the racial problems and high school friend Hannah Ferguson recalls how Nina spoke out about these injustices.
Nina won a place at New York's famous Juilliard School, but was turned down by the elite Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. This was an incredible blow for the young Eunice Waymon, who turned to teaching piano and playing in bars to make ends meet, taking the stage name Nina Simone.
Moving to New York City, she signed her first record deal without reading the small print, which cost her dearly later in her career. Here, Nina became closely associated with the Civil Rights Movement and was connected with the controversial Malcolm X, writing her first protest song, Mississippi Goddamn, in 1963.
Nina met and married Andy Stroud, Simone's father, who became her manager. Throughout the Sixties her output was prolific. She toured constantly in the US and Europe, always highlighting the civil rights message. When her marriage ended she left the US in the Seventies, becoming a global nomad moving between Liberia, Switzerland, the Caribbean, the Netherlands and finally France.
Contributors include Nina's niece, Joyce Stroud; her close friend, Verta Mae Grosvenor; concert promoter Ron Delsener; her friend and A&R man for Elektra Records Michael Alago; her drummer for 18 years Paul Robinson; and singer Patti Smith.
In part two, Simone explores her mother's musical style and what she was like as a live performer.
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BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 4 January 2011
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BBC Radio 3's lunchtime exploration of Mozart's concertos continues in a series of three concerts from Studio 7 in Manchester.
The BBC Philharmonic is joined by New Generation Artist Francesco Piemontesi for one of the six piano concertos Mozart wrote in 1784, his "annus mirabilis" for composing this series of works.
He also plays one of the set of sonatas written in Munich a decade earlier and this live broadcast begins with a dark masterpiece, the Adagio and Fugue in C minor, for strings.
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Sir Neville Marriner, one of the best and most prolific interpreters of Mozart, joins Suzy Klein to discuss his Mozart recordings.
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BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 4 January 2011
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In the second of three programmes marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, James Naughtie tells the story of how six companies of men produced a new translation of the Bible which has come to be regarded as one of the greatest works of English literature ever produced.
The translators in London, Cambridge and Oxford drew on several earlier translations as they went about their work.
In the chapel at Hertford College, Oxford, James sees a stained glass window of William Tyndale, the first man to translate the Bible into English directly from Hebrew and Greek. The translators drew heavily on his work. Many of the phrases that come to mind when people think of the King James Bible are in fact those of Tyndale.
The translators had several other Bible translations at their disposal, each with its own agenda: the Great Bible with its frontispiece depicting the idea of Royal Supremacy, and the Puritans' Geneva Bible which challenged that very idea.
One of the Oxford companies of translators worked in the Tower room at Corpus Christi College. This was the room of John Rainolds, the college president and one of the "godly." It was Rainolds who, as head of the Puritan faction, had initiated the new translation at the Hampton Court conference.
James is shown two extraordinary documents which reveal how the translators worked. One, a 1602 copy of the Bishops' Bible, contains annotations made by the scholars suggesting alternative translations. The other is a copy of notes made by one which reveals the mind of the revision committee that met to review the translations of all the companies.
James goes to Stationers' Hall in London where that revision committee met. It's here that the King James Bible would have been read out loud for the first time. As James hears the opening words from Genesis, he reflects on the achievement of the translators in giving a version of the Bible which has come to be a "national epic".
Presenter/James Naughtie, Producer/Rosie Dawson for the BBC
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Music In The Dark Years Ep 1/2
Stephen Johnson explores how Paris's vibrant musical scene survived, and flourished, through the "dark years" of Nazi occupation.
On 14 June 1940, German tanks rolled into a humbled and deserted Paris. The Nazi war machine had abruptly plunged the celebrated "City of Light" into darkness, condemning it to four long years of occupation.
Yet these "dark years" were not to be ones of silence. Within weeks, musical life in the French capital – previously perhaps Europe's most vibrant and eclectic cultural hub – had resumed. Before long opera houses, jazz clubs, cabaret theatres and concert halls were playing again to packed houses of German soldiers and French music-lovers alike.
Broadcaster and music journalist Stephen Johnson travels to Paris some seven decades after the city's fall, to untangle the mythology of "la France resistante musicale" – telling the story of this brief period of frenetic musical activity and its bitter aftermath.
In the first programme, Stephen investigates how the occupation affected France's proud tradition of classical music and opera. He also explores what constitutes "resistance" and "collaboration" in music, and looks at the life of one of French music's greatest heroes, conductor Roger Désormière.
Contributors to the programme include 94-year-old Henri Dutilleux – considered one of France's greatest contemporary composers; Jewish violinist Devy Erlih; Alan Riding, author of a new cultural history of the occupation; and radio presenter and cultural historian Karine Le Bail.
Presenter/Stephen Johnson, Producer/Steven Rajam for the BBC
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Scottish Shorts Ep 1/3
A series of three short stories on consecutive days showcases new Scottish writing.
Today's opening story is Fear In A Hat by Nicola White, in which a shy schoolgirl fears the worst when she attends a compulsory religious retreat with her catty classmates. It is read by Sally Reid.
Wednesday's story is The Last Cup by Merryn Glover. A kindly old fisherman and his stern minister find a sliver of common ground over tea from a chipped china cup. It is read by Matthew Zajac.
The final story on Thursday is Matryoshka by Kirsty Logan. A spoilt princess craves possession of the one thing she can't have in this new spin on a familiar tale. It is read by Nicola Jo Cully.
Readers/Sally Reid, Matthew Zajac and Nicola Jo Cully, Producers/Eilidh McCreadie and Patricia Hitchcock for the BBC
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Matthew Parris explores the life of Aneurin "Nye" Bevan, founder of the National Health Service.
Bevan is the choice of Lord Kinnock, the former leader of the Labour Party. Like Bevan, Lord Kinnock grew up in Tredegar in the heart of the Welsh coalfields, where he met his hero many times.
Kinnock regards Bevan as a hero on a level with Nelson Mandela and believes it was Nye alone who had the force of personality and political will necessary to get the Health Service established after the war.
Matthew Parris and his other studio guest, Bevan's biographer John Campbell, are more sceptical. Campbell goes so far as to argue that the achievement of the NHS not withstanding, Bevan's life was essentially a failure because, in his commitment to socialism, he misread the trend of history completely.
Now, with the NHS facing radical reform, this programme captures some of the passion and debate that surrounded its inception and provides personal insights into the life and character of the man responsible for its creation.
Presenter/Matthew Parris, Producer/Isobel Eaton for the BBC
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Rufus Hound invites Julian Clary to read embarrassing extracts from her teenage diary in public for the very first time, in the third programme of the series.
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Richard Phinney reports from West Africa, where scientists claim to have discovered that vaccines and vitamin supplements can have unexpected effects on the immune systems of young children.
Richard is the first British journalist to visit the Bandim health surveillance unit, where Dr Peter Aaby and his team have toiled for more than 30 years, through wars, natural disasters and epidemics. A small army of doctors, nurses, field workers and lab technicians now monitor the health of 100,000 people.
Their detective work has generated more than 600 scholarly articles in the world's leading medical journals, and has been responsible for the withdrawal of a potentially deadly measles vaccine by the World Health Organisation.
The team's work seems to show that the world's most commonly used vaccines may strengthen – or weaken – a child's immune system in the long term, and affect their ability to fight off disease. The results directly challenge the WHO's global health advice followed by most countries in the developing world. The programme hears from some of world's most respected public health scientists who back Aaby's findings. It also asks if safety tests for new vaccines and vitamin supplements, heavily promoted by donor agencies and pharmaceutical companies, are sufficiently far-reaching.
Presenter/Richard Phinney, Producer/Anthony Baxter for Wantok Productions
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Follow The Leader Ep 1/2
Carolyn Quinn begins a two-part series by looking under the bonnet of leadership to question what makes a great leader, whether leadership is "in the blood" or if people can be taught to improve their leadership skills.
Pulitzer Prize-winning political scientist James McGregor Burns wrote that leadership is "one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on Earth," and the debate about what makes an ideal leader goes back to Plato.
From the courage of Winston Churchill to the charisma of Barack Obama, psychologists have tried to distill the ingredients that make such a leader.
Carolyn visits the London Management Centre to see if they can turn her into a good leader. The leadership industry, from self-help books to training courses, is a multi-million pound industry – but can someone be trained to be a good manager?
Professor Mark van Vugt argues that age, height and facial appearance all play their part in how potential leaders are judged. In one study he morphed the faces of male politicians to make them more "masculine", with strong jawlines and bushy eyebrows, or more "feminine" with large eyes and fuller lips. People were more likely to choose the masculine looking faces during times of war, and the feminine ones in peacetime.
Contributors to the programme include Deborah Meaden, Michael Howard, Mark Steel, Deborah Mattinson and Professor Alex Haslam.
Presenter/Carolyn Quinn, Producer/Michelle Martin for the BBC
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Rhyme And Reason Ep 1/4
In the first programme of this new series, poet Mr Gee is joined by singer Florence Welch to discuss her love of poetry.
Florence's album Lungs was the fastest selling debut in 2009. Reading and discussing their favourite poetry, Mr Gee delves deeper into her relationship with poetry and looks at how it has inspired her music.
Other guests in the series include Tori Amos, Tim Rice-Oxley and Billy Bragg.
Presenter/Mr Gee, Producers/Nic Philps and Ben Appleyard for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 4 January 2011
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Mark Pougatch, live from Melbourne, and Shelagh Fogarty, in the studio, present news from the UK including the latest from the business world, travel updates and the day's big sports stories.
There's also coverage from day two of the Fifth Ashes Test.
Presenters/Mark Pougatch and Shelagh Fogarty, Producer/Scott Solder
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5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman presents a round-up of the day's sports news followed at 8pm by live Premier League commentary on the match between Manchester United and Stoke City with updates from Blackpool versus Birmingham City and Fulham versus West Bromwich Albion plus the League One encounter between Bristol Rovers and Plymouth Argyle.
From 10pm Mark presents the reaction to the evening's games in The Final Whistle.
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Mike Carr
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Tuesday 4 January 2011
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Highlights of the second day of the Fifth Test between Australia and England in Sydney, with close-of-play analysis from Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Football
This evening's football features live uninterrupted commentary on the Championship match between Cardiff City and Leeds United.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Test Match Special
Live from Sydney, the Test Match Special team present uninterrupted commentary on the third day of the Fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England.
Producer/Adam Mountford
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BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 4 January 2011
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Gideon Coe's selection form the BBC archives includes concert tracks from Lloyd Cole And The Commotions and Nine Below Zero plus archive sessions by former Josef K front-man Paul Haig, experimental but melodic electronicist U-Ziq and Eska and Fairport Convention playing for Top Gear in 1969.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Tuesday 4 January 2011
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Gagan Grewal features a rare and exclusive interview with Pakistani TV presenter, actress and director Zeba Bakhtiar.
Zeba discusses her political family background (her father was an Attorney General and confidante of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto) and also about playing the lead role in the Nineties hit film Henna.
The Gagan Grewal show on BBC Asian Network delivers music, news, entertainment and celebrity chat in Hindi-Urdu and English.
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Network Radio BBC Week 1: Wednesday 5 January 2011
BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 5 January 2011
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Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie present their show live from Manchester. Tonight, Badly Drawn Boy – aka Mercury Prize-winner Damon Gough – plays three live tunes from his latest album, It's What I'm Thinking.
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The Story Of Funk Ep 1/3
American actress Pam Grier (Quentin Tarantino's Jackie Brown) ensures BBC Radio 2 is one station under a groove as she takes listeners on a three-part funk odyssey. From the Sixties through to the present day, funk reverberates through popular culture. Whether it's in fashion, street language, TV, the movies or pop music, the far-reaching influence of funk is everywhere.
Pam has been a fan since she starred in the so-called "Blaxploitation" movies of the Seventies. Back then, funk was not only the soundtrack to her films but also to a vital time in American history for black people. It was a time of self-discovery, struggle and social change – and the music reflected that.
In the first episode, Pam goes back to the source, when funk – in the words of George Clinton – "used to be a bad word". Pam reveals how jazz and R&B in the Fifties informed the rhythms and energy of funk music. As well as the all-important architects of the sound, like James Brown and Sly Stone, the programme turns the spotlight on unsung heroes such as Charles Wright and the Last Poets.
The series features contributions from Earth Wind And Fire, Kool And The Gang, Sly And The Family Stone, George Clinton, Bootsy Collins, P-Funk musicians, Average White Band, Cameo, Clyde "Funky Drummer" Stubblefield, Charles Wright, The Last Poets, Beverley Knight, Matt Fink, Acid Jazz's Eddie Piller and rapper Shock G.
Presenter/Pam Grier, Producer/James Hale for BBC Wales
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BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 5 January 2011
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Writer, broadcaster and former BBC producer Stephen Plaistow joins Suzy Klein to discuss some of the finest Mozart pianists of recent generations, with recordings from the BBC archives, especially for Piano Day.
The programme features performances from Mieczyslaw Horszowski, Benjamin Britten, Sviatoslav Richter and Rudolf Serkin.
Presenter/Suzy Klein, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 5 January 2011
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In the final programme of this series marking the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, James Naughtie explores its enduring place in British culture.
The King James Bible is everywhere: in hair commercials; film titles; novels; music; and in everyday speech. It is lauded as the "monument to English Prose".
Exploring its legacy, James meets linguist and Renaissance scholar Gordon Campbell, Jamaican poet Kei Miller and Rachel Holmes from the Southbank Centre to discuss the surprising and unusual places where the King James can be heard today. Many may not realise that "salt of the earth", "skin of their teeth" and "apple of his eye" are all phrases that have come into the English language through the King James Bible.
The King James Bible became part of everyday speech because of the central role that Christian belief and practice has historically played in British culture.
For 300 years the King James Bible reigned supreme. Nearly everyone went to church and it was the only translation to be used. Preachers would draw crowds of more than a thousand and the words gradually worked their way into the bloodstream of the country.
James also outlines how people today come across the King James Bible in one of the most famous pieces of music the world has ever known, Handel's Messiah.
He explores how the King James Bible was the book of the Empire and how it was used to defend and then challenge the slave trade.
In the late 19th century, the demand for a more accurate and a more accessible translation led to the publication of The Revised Version in 1881.
Today, surprisingly, some of its keenest proponents are secularists who praise it for the beauty of its language, extol its place within our culture and vehemently campaign for it to be taught in schools and universities – but as a work of literature rather than a work of God.
Presenter/James Naughtie, Producer/Rosie Dawson for the BBC
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Matthew returns to Nigeria, the land of his birth, in today's Afternoon Play, by Rex Obano. He has come to secure the release of his son, Keith, who has become caught up in the politics of a land in turmoil; a land he has fallen in love with.
Burned To Nothing is directed by Femi Elufowoju Jr, and stars Lucian Msamati as Matthew; Jude Akuwudike as The General; Lorraine Burroughs as Medina; David Ajala as Keith; Obi Abili as Sunday; and Gbemisola Ikumelo as Inenevwerha.
Producer/Toby Swift for the BBC
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Mark Whitaker reports from California and Arizona on why so many Americans die after being shot by allegedly "safe" police stun guns.
Their formal title is "conducted-energy devices" but, to the public, they are stun-guns or Tasers, named after Taser International of Arizona, the largest manufacturer of the weapon.
Mark tries to find out if the weapon is to blame or if the deaths are a result of the controversial "excited delirium" syndrome.
Some 11,000 law-enforcement agencies in the United States use them and there is evidence that they reduce the need for police officers to use lethal force. But, there is an intensifying debate about whether they are really as safe as claimed.
Persenter and Producer/Mark Whitaker for Square Dog Radio
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 5 January 2011
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Nicky Campbell and Shelagh Fogarty present the news from the UK, including the latest from the business world, travel updates and the day's big sports stories. There's also coverage from day three of the Fifth and final Ashes Test in Sydney.
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5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman presents the day's biggest sporting stories and looks forword to an evening of Premier League action.
From 7.45pm there's coverage from all the night's matches including Arsenal versus Manchester City and Wolverhampton Wanderers versus Chelsea.
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Mike Carr
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Wednesday 5 January 2011
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Commentary highlights of the third day of the Fifth Test between Australia and England comes from Sydney, including close-of-play analysis from Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott. This highlights programme is repeated every half hour throughout the day.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Test Match Special
Uninterrupted commentary on the fourth day of the Fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England, comes live from Sydney.
Producer/Adam Mountford
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BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 5 January 2011
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Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle joins Huey Morgan to talk about his new film, 127 Hours. The film is his first since the enormous success of Slumdog Millionaire in 2008 and stars James Franco in a true story of a mountain climber who was trapped under a boulder for five days in Utah back in 2003.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Gary Bales
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Gideon Coe presents concert highlights from James Murphy's ever-popular LCD Soundsystem and loveable two-hit wonder John Otway. Classic session tracks come from Belle & Sebastian, The Cramps, Secondary Modern and early-Nineties Welsh language band Datblygu.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 5 January 2011
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This month's BBC Asian Network drama features three interweaving stories by three writers which capture the renewal and resolve of a fresh new year.
The entwined stories concern a young woman who has been ostracised by her family who resolves to reconnect with them before the chimes of midnight have faded; a lonely woman who waits for an international phone call from the children whose success has taken them abroad; and a DJ who provides the musical backdrop to other people's revelry and vows to "join the party" this year and find a life partner at last.
This programme can be heard again on Sunday 9 January at 4.30pm.
BBC Asian Network Presents... is the network's new drama strand, which sees a single 30-minute drama broadcast at 6pm on the first Wednesday of each month. The strand produces distinctive, original and impactful content relevant to the target audience. Covering a range of stories and styles, it also endeavours to deliver bigger established names to the network and is committed to developing new talent on- and off-air, providing a platform for budding writers and fresh radio talent.
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Gagan Grewal speaks to the "Mozart of Madras", award-winning music composer AR Rahman, who discusses his career so far and what's in store for 2011.
Gagan's BBC Asian Network show delivers music, news, entertainment and celebrity chat in Hindi-Urdu and English.
Presenter/Gagan Grewal
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Network Radio BBC Week 1: Thursday 6 January 2011
BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 6 January 2011
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From Texan troubadours to Nashville hit makers and Western Swing to old-time mountain music, Bob Harris reflects the vast array of styles which make up country music.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth for the BBC
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Johnnie Walker presents Paul McCartney, recorded at the 2007 BBC Electric Proms.
A master of melodies, former Beatle McCartney is joined on stage by a special string section for a truly spectacular and memorable performance including tracks from his album, Memory Almost Full, as well as some crowd-pleasing classics.
Johnnie also does a round up of the live music featured on BBC Radio 2 in the past week, gives ticket news in the Gig Guide and celebrates the best live music in the Support Slot.
Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Radio 2 Live Music for the BBC
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Brass In Concert is one of the premier entertainment competitions in the UK banding calendar. It was held at The Sage Gateshead last November, when 11 of the country's best bands played for the title.
Tonight, Frank Renton presents the winning performance.
Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter for the BBC
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Sir Tim Rice's musical odyssey reaches Ohio.
In tonight’s show, the featured artists are from the worlds of folk, pop, soul and jazz: Doris Day; Dean Martin; Tracy Chapman; The Pretenders; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; The Isley Brothers; Henry Mancini; Nancy Wilson; and Mamie Smith.
Presenter/Sir Tim Rice, Producers/Anthony Cherry and Ruth Beazley for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 6 January 2011
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THE GENIUS OF MOZART
Salzburg Day
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Elin Manahan Thomas presents a live concert from BBC Hoddinott Hall in Cardiff as part of BBC Radio 3's celebration of The Genius Of Mozart.
Clarinettist Ronald van Spaendonck – a former New Generation Artist – joins the BBC National Orchestra of Wales to perform Mozart's last great instrumental composition, his Clarinet Concerto K622.
Written in 1791, it represents a culmination of all Mozart's great achievements in the concerto form, and has become one of the best-loved compositions in the entire classical repertoire.
Richard Egarr is also music director of the Academy of Ancient Music. Today, he conducts the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in Mozart's Symphony No. 38 – also known as the Prague symphony – where the first performance took place in January 1787. The symphony was an immediate success, and remained popular in the Bohemian capital for years to come.
Presenter/Elin Manahan Thomas, Producer/Tim Thorne
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Live from King's Place, London, the Aurora Orchestra, conducted by Sir Colin Davis, perform works including Mozart’s Violin Concert No. 5 in A, K. 219 and the extraordinary concert aria, Vorrei spiegarvi, oh Dio, sung by soprano Fflur Wyn.
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BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 6 January 2011
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Jean Buchanan explores the inspiration behind David Dodge's book, To Catch A Thief, which was later filmed by Alfred Hitchcock and starred Cary Grant and Grace Kelly.
Dodge's book was inspired by a real-life incident when he briefly became the prime suspect for a daring cat-burglary at his wealthy neighbour's villa. It is the story of John Robie, a reformed cat-burglar who must prove his innocence by catching the thief who is duplicating his methods. His pursuit leads him into the arms of beautiful American heiress Francie Stevens.
Jean Buchanan tells the story and attempts to locate the Villa Noel Fleuri, where these dramatic events ultimately resulted in one of Hollywood's best-loved films. In the course of her quest, Jean visits Golfe Juan, the fishing port between Cannes and Nice where the Dodges arrived in France. She makes a notable discovery in the Nice-Matin newspaper archives and attempts to consolidate her finds on maps held in Vallauris.
Contributors to the programme include Paul Gambaccini, Randal Brandt of the Bancroft Library at the University of California Berkeley and Dirk Dominic.
Jean Buchanan has adapted Dodge's novel, To Catch A Thief, as a play for BBC Radio 4, due to be broadcast on Saturday 8 January 2011.
Presenter/Jean Buchanan, Producer/Marya Burgess for the BBC
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Mark Thomas: The ManifestoEp 1 /4
Comedian-activist Mark Thomas returns for a new series in which he collates policies suggested by his studio audience to create a "People's Manifesto".
In the first programme, the policies include a shame-based pay policy for professional footballers, compulsory relationship MOTs and a new clocking-in system for MPs.
Presenter/Mark Thomas, Producer/Colin Anderson for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 6 January 2011
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Listeners can enjoy news from the UK and coverage from day four of the Fifth and final Ashes Test in Sydney, including the latest from the business world, travel updates and the day’s big sports stories.
Presenters/Nicky Campbell and Shelagh Fogarty, Producer/Scott Solder
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Eleanor Oldroyd brings listeners a detailed round-up of the day’s sporting headlines.
At 8pm, in a Phil Tufnell Cricket Show Ashes special, "Tuffers" and guests analyse the action Down Under as the Fifth Ashes Test draws to a climax.
From 9pm, as British No. 1 Andy Murray prepares for this months’ Australian Open at Melbourne Park, What Must Murray Do Next? asks what he needs to do to reach the very top of the game and win a Grand Slam final.
At 10pm, there’s more on one of the day’s big sports stories.
Presenters/Eleanor Oldroyd and Phil Tufnell, Producer/Mike Carr
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Thursday 6 January 2011
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Highlights of the fourth day of the Fifth Test between Australia and England in Sydney, including close-of-play analysis, comes from Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Test Match Special
Uninterrupted commentary on the fifth day of the Fifth Ashes Test between Australia and England comes, live, from Sydney.
Producer/Adam Mountford
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BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 6 January 2011
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Gideon Coe delves into the BBC archive to find concert highlights from Japan and Be Bop Deluxe backed up with sessions from Wreckless Eric, Women, Voice Of The Seven Woods and Morrissey protégés Raymonde on Janice Long's show in 1986.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 6 January 2011
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Abhishek and Aishwariya Rai Bachchan are Bollywood royalty. In today’s show, Gagan Grewal brings listeners exclusive interviews with the husband and wife actors.
The Gagan Grewal show on BBC Asian Network delivers music, news, entertainment and celebrity chat in Hindi-Urdu and English.
Presenter/Gagan Grewal
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Network Radio BBC Week 1: Friday 7 January 2011
BBC RADIO 2 Friday 7 January 2011
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It's been a great year for Friday Night Is Music Night, the world's longest-running live music radio programme. The major highlight of 2010 was the summer season's The Kiri Prize, the search for an opera star of the future with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa. Six hundred entrants, nationwide auditions and a series of tough masterclasses with Dame Kiri resulted in one winner – Shuna Scott Sendall – who sang at Proms In The Park in Hyde Park.
Throughout 2010, Friday Night attracted big-name stars including Neil Sedaka, Bryn Terfel and Monica Mancini, in addition to KT Tunstall and Michael Ball. Among the musical theatre legends, the show has celebrated the work of: Lionel Bart (Oliver!) with Barbara Windsor; Frank Loesser (Guys And Dolls) with Brian Conley and Imelda Staunton; and Kander and Ebb with Joel Grey and Lord Lloyd Webber.
Friday Night Is Music Night also marked the anniversary of the Battle of Britain with a special programme from RAF Northolt featuring over 100 musicians, celebrated Frank Sinatra with the legendary Buddy Greco and Michael Parkinson at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and crossed continents with a special concert mixing the best of Hollywood music with music from Bollywood.
Producer/Bridget Apps for the BBC
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Claudia previews the biggest films of 2011 with Xan Brooks and talks imagery with photography critic Sue Steward.
Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Jessica Rickson for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 7 January 2011
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The BBC Philharmonic, with conductor Antonello Manacorda, is joined by former New Generation Artist Shai Wosner for a performance of Mozart's E flat concerto (K 482), in which the winds of the orchestra share almost equal billing with the piano soloist. One of Mozart's exploratory Fantasias provides a centrepiece and the programme begins with the arresting overture to his penultimate opera, Die zauberflote.
Producer/Mike George
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 7 January 2011
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Listeners can enjoy news from the UK and coverage from day five of the final Ashes Test in Sydney, including the latest from the business world travel updates and the day's big sports stories.
Presenters/Nicky Campbell and Shelagh Fogarty, Producer/Scott Solder
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Darren Fletcher takes a look ahead to all the weekend's sport including the third round of the FA Cup.
Presenter/Darren Fletcher, Producer/Mike Carr
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Friday 7 January 2011
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Commentary highlights come from the fifth day of the Fifth Test between Australia and England in Sydney, including close-of-play analysis, comes from Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott.
Presenters/Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott, Producer/Jen McAllister
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