Wednesday 29 Oct 2014
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Network Radio BBC Week 44
Highlights 29 October-4 November 2011
Gloria Estefan's Latin Beat
Thursday 3 November on BBC RADIO 2
Singer-songwriter Gloria Estefan shares her passion for Latin music over seven programmes, featuring the music of her homeland, Cuba, and tracing the beginnings of the Miami music scene
Radio 4 Extra Gothic Weekend
Saturday 29 October to Tuesday 1 November on BBC RADIO 4 EXTRA
A selection of tantalising gothic tales from the BBC archive includes: A Hundred Years Of Mervyn Peake; Oscar Wilde's The Canterville Ghost; and Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla starring Anne-Marie Duff
Weekend Wogan – Children In Need Special
Sunday 30 October on BBC RADIO 2
Weekend Wogan comes live from London's Savoy Theatre, as Sir Terry Wogan hosts a very special concert for BBC Children In Need featuring Joss Stone, Michael Ball, Katie Melua, Engelbert Humperdinck, Dionne Bromfield, Lee Mead and Peter Grant
The Early Music Show – Telemann And The Gypsies
Sunday 30 October on BBC RADIO 3
Lucie Skeaping presents highlights from a concert of music by Telemann given by Ensemble Caprice at the 2011 Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music, inspired by the gypsy music he encountered in Poland
Book Of The Week – Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
Monday 31 October to Friday 4 November on BBC RADIO 4
Jeanette Winterson reads from her newly published memoir, detailing her life when, as a six-week-old baby, she was taken into the home of a Pentecostal Christian couple in the small town of Accrington
BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC'S SALFORD SEASON
From Monday 31 October on BBC RADIO 6 MUSIC
In celebration of the inaugural BBC Radio 6 Music John Peel Lecture, which broadcasts live from the Lowry Theatre in Salford on Monday, the network features a series of shows as well as documentaries looking at the musical heritage of the area
The Royal Albert Hall
Tuesday 1 November on BBC RADIO 2
Charles Hazlewood looks back at how London's Royal Albert Hall has entertained the world throughout its 140-year history
Mark Watson's Live Address To The Nation
Wednesday 2 November on BBC RADIO 4
Mark Watson reignites his quest to improve the world, nimbly assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden, and invites listeners to join in ... live
In Concert – Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
Thursday 3 November on BBC RADIO 2
Jo Whiley presents a headline gig with Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds, live from the BBC Radio Theatre in London
Radio 3 Live In Concert – Philharmonia Salonen: Bartók Bluebeard's Castle
Thursday 3 November on BBC RADIO 3
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in their continuing exploration of the works of Bela Bartók titled Infernal Dance
5 Live Sport
Thursday 3 November on BBC RADIO 5 LIVE
Mark Chapman presents 25 Years Of Sir Alex Ferguson, a look back on the career of English football's most successful manager, 25 years after he took charge at Old Trafford
Afternoon On 3 – Essential Symphony
Friday 4 November on BBC RADIO 3
Louise Fryer launches Essential Symphony, a month of programmes complementing the BBC Four series Symphony – and including every note of every symphony featured in the television series
FREE THINKING 2011
The Verb – Free Thinking Lecture
Friday 4 November on BBC RADIO 3
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales launches this year's BBC Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival of ideas, with a lecture on how the internet will continue to radically change our world
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