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During November, BBC Radio 2's daytime DJs take over the presenter's role on FNIMN in a series of themed concerts. The Presenters' season launches tonight with Jeremy Vine who presents a concert of crime and police themes.

The programme includes sleuths Poirot and Marple and Inspector Jack Regan (The Sweeney) and bungling Inspector Jacques Clouseau (The Pink Panther) is also remembered. There's an international flavour with Van Der Valk from Holland and Kojak and Hawaii 5-0 from America. And, of course, the good old British bobby is remembered in the form of Dixon Of Dock Green.

The 70-piece BBC Concert Orchestra is on hand conducted by Gavin Sutherland.

Later this month the Presenters' season continues when Ken Bruce introduces his Orchestral Tracks Of My Years, Steve Wright presents a musical picture of London and there's a special concert for Armistice Day.

Presenter/Jeremy Vine, Producer/Bridget Apps for the BBC

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Conductor John Storgards

World-renowned conductor and arranger John Wilson tells Penny Smith about his new album in which he leads an all-star cast of singers and his eponymous orchestra on a recording of some of the best-loved songs from Hollywood's Golden Age.

Most of the scores have been lovingly and painstakingly reconstructed by John, as MGM destroyed the originals in 1969. This is the first time the songs, including Singin' In The Rain, Steppin' Out With My Baby, The Trolley Song, and title track That's Entertainment, have been recorded in their intended orchestration since the films' original soundtrack recordings.

Plus Nick Duncalf reviews this week's most significant film releases.

Presenter/Penny Smith, Producer/Jessica Rickson for the BBC

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Afternoon On 3 – Essential Symphony

Friday 4 November

2.00-4.30pm 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.

From today until Friday 2 December, Afternoon On 3 broadcasts the BBC's orchestras playing more than 60 symphonies – running through the history of the form from the early-18th to the early-21st centuries.

The BBC Philharmonic and John Storgards – soon to become their Principal Guest Conductor – start the Afternoon On 3 series today with a live concert at MediaCity, Salford, performing three great symphonies from the 18th and 20th centuries – Sibelius's Symphony No. 6; Haydn's Symphony No. 78; and Sibelius's Symphony No. 7 in C major.

Further information on Essential Symphony and BBC Four's Symphony can be found in the Symphony Press Release.

Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Mike George

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Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales

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.

American internet entrepreneur Wales has created the most referenced source of knowledge on the planet, Wikipedia.

Jimmy's talk about the internet, which was recorded earlier tonight in front of an audience at The Sage Gateshead and presented by Philip Dodd, marks the start of three weeks of Free Thinking broadcasts on Radio 3.

This year's Festival theme is Change: exploring the mania for change sweeping the globe. Speakers include the Foreign Secretary William Hague, Germaine Greer, Giles Fraser, Susie Orbach, Linda Colley, Charles Jencks, Kevin Fong and Margaret Drabble. Plus there is original live drama by Skins writer Jack Thorne, and music from the Mercury-nominated band Maximo Park.

Now in its sixth year, the Free Thinking Festival takes place at The Sage Gateshead between 4 and 6 November, produced and broadcast by Radio 3.

Further information can be found in the Free Thinking Press Release.

Presenter/Jimmy Wales

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Journalist Alessandro Poggi explores why many young Italians living and working in the UK cannot find work back home.

Italy is losing its young, talented professionals, driven out by a stagnant domestic economy and an entrenched employment market riddled with patronage and nepotism. As the Prime Minister advocates marrying someone wealthy as a means to get ahead, more young Italians are choosing to find work, recognition and respect abroad.

Alessandro is a young journalist living and working in London. In this programme, he talks to family and friends about life abroad, and his mixed feelings about leaving home. He also hears from the older, established "Britalians" who came in previous waves of immigration, about their Italian experience of Britain.

Presenter/Alessandro Poggi, Producer/John Byrne for the BBC

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In And Out Of The Kitchen Ep 1/4

Friday 4 November

11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4

Written by and starring Miles Jupp, this new sitcom series features the entries and recipes from the kitchen diary of cookery writer, Damien Trench.

Each week, listeners hear a mixture of narrative, dialogue and recipes, as Damien unflinchingly captures every angle of his day-to-day life.

This first episode finds Damien and his partner, Anthony (Justin Edwards), deciding on their New Year's resolutions. They start by finally making up their minds to commit to each other, namely by signing up a builder, Mr Mullaney (Brandan Dempsey), to install a new kitchen which Damien hopes will eventually become the food and preparation space that he's always dreamed of. Anthony also decides to get fit and Damien decides to do a radio programme about the French bean. But not everything goes according to plan.

The programme also features Damien's easy-to-follow recipes: Super Simple Roast Beef and Marvellously Moist Muffins.

Producer/Sam Michell at the BBC

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Colin Murray, Pat Nevin and Perry Groves look ahead to the weekend's football and sporting action in Kicking Off.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Mike Carr

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Friday is a sad day as Shaun Keaveny ushers in the last ever instalment of BBC Radio 6 Music's feature My Morning Racket. It's had a good innings since its inception a mere three years ago, but today he says goodbye. And, to celebrate, he welcomes the band that inspired the feature – My Morning Jacket – in to the studio to bid it a fond farewell.

Shaun chats to the band from 8am and finds out what their favourite wake up tunes are.

Presenter/Shaun Keaveny, Producer/Lisa Kenlock

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