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Mike Harding announces the nominations for the 2012 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, and plays music by all the nominated artists.

A panel of more than 150 folk music professionals have cast their votes and tonight Mike reveals the top four in each of the categories – including Best Album, Folk Singer of the Year and The Horizon Award for most promising emerging act.

Once the nominations have been announced, the panel will vote again to establish the winner in each category. The results will be announced at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards ceremony on 8 February 2012 at The Lowry in Salford, Greater Manchester.

Details of the music played, and a full rundown of the nominations, can be found after the show at bbc.co.uk/folk.

Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While for Smooth Operations

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Frank Renton presents the final part of a unique and fascinating collaboration between a top folk group and one of the world's most famous brass bands – The Unthanks with The Brighouse and Rastrick Band. They play traditional and original pieces as first performed at Brass: Durham International Festival.

Known for their timeless, unsentimental and quietly subversive tales, siblings Rachel and Becky Unthank are joined by other band members, singers Chris Price and Niophe Keegan and pianist arranger/composer Adrian McNally, who also tells the story of how the music came together. The concert is conducted by Sandy Smith.

Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter for the BBC

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Comedienne Sue Perkins joins Tom Service to unravel everything listeners ever wanted to know about the most famous form in classical music, symphony.

In today's programme, Sue and Tom examine the colossal legacy of Ludwig van Beethoven: a composer in whose hands the symphony became the most important, and perhaps hallowed, musical form. Sue and Tom also investigate why some symphonies are so long, and ponder the thorny question of whether it's ever right to clap between movements.

On Friday, Sue and Tom look at symphonies with a story to tell. The "programme symphony" became a staple of the concert hall in the mid-19th century, as a host of composers, from Berlioz to Schumann to Liszt, sought to make their music tell fantastic tales of life, death, sex and the underworld. But, away from these symphonies' explicit texts, in the works of Tchaikovsky and Mahler a new type of "extra-musical" symphony gradually developed: musical works with hidden subtexts that hinted at the composers' inner world. These would come to a peak in the works of perhaps the greatest 20th-century symphonist, Dmitri Shostakovich.

Presenters/Sue Perkins and Tom Service, Producer/Steven Rajam

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Mark Pougatch presents a 5 Live Formula 1 special as the 2011 season draws to a close. Contributors include former F1 racer Johnny Herbert.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mike Carr

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Noreen Khan and her Khan-daan of Asian celebrities stage an all-star five-a-side football match in aid of Children in Need.

Two teams go head-to-head, consisting of some of the biggest names in the British-Asian music industry – those who are Liverpool FC supporters and those who most definitely aren't!

Playing as part of the Liverpool All-stars are heart-throb Garry Sandhu, bhangra singer Foji, R&B singer Mumzy Stranger and his protégé Jernade Miah, Asian Network presenter Dipps Bhamrah and YouTube phenomenon Humza Badman.

They are pitted against bhangra singer JK, producer Surinder Rattan, rapper/MC Lowkey, one half of MC duo Metz and Trix and bhangra producers Notorious Jatt and Tru Skool.

Noreen Khan provides the commentary and plays highlights of the match on her special Children in Need show on Friday 18 November.

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