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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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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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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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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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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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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Samuel Barnett, Tim McInnerny, Tom Goodman-Hill, Derek Jacobi and Harriet Walter (left to right) star in I, Claudius

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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Timothy Bentinck and Felicity Finch as David and Ruth Archer

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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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

Sunday 2 January

12.00noon-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

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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5 Live NFL

Sunday 2 January

5.45-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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

Sunday 2 January

11.00pm-7.30am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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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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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