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Bad Company and Free front-man Paul Rodgers discusses his success during the Seventies.

Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Natasha Costa Correa

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Alan Titchmarsh presents another eclectic mix of music from the worlds of classical, opera, operetta, musicals, films, brass and military bands and jazz.

This week's show includes music from Borodin, Lalo and Frank Crumit.

Presenter/Alan Titchmarsh, Producer/Bridget Apps

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This adaptation of Sarah Hall's prize-winning novel, The Carhullan Army, set among the women of a post-apocalyptic commune in a totalitarian Britain, stars Anne-Marie Duff, Geraldine James, Sorcha Cusack and Neil Dudgeon.

Life in Britain has become unrecognisable: the floodwaters have risen, food and fuel are scarce and the country is run by the sinister "Authority". All women are forced to wear contraceptive devices. Sister, as the book's narrator calls herself, escapes this repressive world and heads for a mysterious, quasi-mythical commune of women high in the Cumbrian fells.

Producer/Frank Stirling

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Sue MacGregor reunites the creative team behind TV drama Brideshead Revisited in the second programme of this five-part series.

Sue speaks to Jeremy Irons, Claire Bloom, Anthony Andrews, Diana Quick, Charles Sturridge and Derek Granger.

Brideshead became one of the most popular television shows ever made when it first aired on ITV in the autumn of 1981. It made household names of its stars Jeremy Irons and Anthony Andrews and starred two of the greatest actors of the 20th century, Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud.

Based on the best-selling novel by Evelyn Waugh, and adapted initially by John Mortimer and then also Derek Granger, it told a poignant story of forbidden love and religious faith set prior to the Second World War.

The size and scale of the series was unprecedented. To make 11 50-minute episodes, shot entirely on film and all on location was a huge undertaking. And no expense was spared with glamorous costumes, vintage cars and exotic locations including Venice, Malta and the QE2. It was one of the most expensive ITV serials ever made and set the benchmark for others to follow, notably Jewel In The Crown in 1985.

Sue is joined around the table by: Jeremy Irons, who played the narrator of the story, Charles Ryder; Anthony Andrews, who was Sebastian Flyte; Claire Bloom, who played Sebastian's mother, Lady Marchmain; the series' director Charles Sturridge; Derek Granger, the producer; and Diana Quick, who was Lady Julia Flyte, Sebastian's sister.

Presenter/Sue MacGregor, Producers/David Prest and Sarah Cuddon

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The Complete Smiley – Smiley's People Ep 1/3

Sunday 11 April

3.00-4.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4

Simon Russell Beale stars as intelligence officer George Smiley in a dramatisation of John le Carré's classic novel

Simon Russell Beale stars as the intelligence officer George Smiley in a three-part dramatisation by Robert Forrest of John le Carré's classic novel, first published in 1979 and the third in the celebrated Karla Trilogy following Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy.

At the end of The Honourable Schoolboy, in the mid-Seventies, as a ruthless new broom swept through the secret corridors of Whitehall, spymaster George Smiley quietly left the "Circus" and vanished into private life. But a year or two later, when a veteran Russian émigré general is found dead on Hampstead Heath, Smiley is called out of retirement to exorcise some Cold War ghosts from his clandestine past.

What follows is Smiley the human being at his most vulnerable, and Smiley the case officer at his most brilliant; and it takes his career-long, serpentine battle with the enigmatic and ruthless Russian spymaster Karla to a thrilling conclusion.

This production continues ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4's major undertaking of dramatising all of the eight novels that feature the spymaster George Smiley, played throughout by Simon Russell Beale.

The cast includes Anna Chancellor as Ann Smiley, Alex Jennings as Oliver Lacon, Stephen Critchlow as the Chief Superintendant, David Bannerman as Lauder Strickland and Nigel Anthony as Mikhel. David Seddon plays Mostyn, Joanna Monro the old woman, Michael Shelford the postman and other cast members include Keely Beresford, Alison Pettitt and Piers Wehner.

Smiley's People is dramatised by Robert Forrest.

Producer/Patrick Rayner

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Lost Voices Ep 1/4

Sunday 11 April

4.30-5.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4

In Lost Voices Brian Patten looks at the life and poetry of some lesser-known poets and begins this new series with the life and poetry of ASJ Tessimond.

ASJ – Arthur Seymour John – Tessimond, known to his friends as Tessy, died less than 50 years ago but the details of his life are now almost entirely consigned to oblivion. His poetry lives on, however, largely in anthologies or as requests on Poetry Please, and Brian Patten is determined to find out as much as he can about the man who wrote some beautiful poetry about love, cats and, more unusually, Luton.

For a man who never found the love of which he dreamed, he was conspicuously tenacious in looking for it, but, as a Tessimond researcher explains in Lost Voices this afternoon, he had a fatal tendency to seek love from unsuitable women – chorus girls and nightclub hostesses. Nevertheless, Tessimond is clearly a man who inspired affection and, in the course of the programme, Brian himself develops a soft spot for "Tessy".

Presenter/Brain Patten, Producer/Christine Hall

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5 Live Sport

Sunday 11 April

12.00noon-6.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE

Colin Murray presents the latest sports news and an afternoon of live sport.

From 12pm there's Premier League commentary of Wolverhampton Wanderers versus Stoke City live from the Britannia Stadium, plus reports from the final day of golf's Masters in Georgia.

At 1.30pm there's more Premier League commentary with Blackburn versus Manchester United live from Ewood Park and regular updates from the Scottish Cup semi-final.

From 4pm there's commentary of the second FA Cup semi-final with Mike Ingham, Alan Green and Chris Waddle live from Wembley as Harry Redknapp's Tottenham Hotspur meets his former side, Portsmouth; plus regular updates of Manchester City versus Birmingham in the Premier League.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Adrian Williams

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Golf

Sunday 11 April

9.30pm-1.00am ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE

Uninterrupted commentary of the final day of The Masters 2010 comes live from Augusta, Georgia, as Tiger Woods returns to championship golf.

The commentary team is led by 5 Live's golf correspondent Iain Carter, alongside Andrew Cotter, John Murray and Alistair Bruce Ball; with expert analysis from Jay Townsend, and Andrew Magee.

Producer/Graham McMillan

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Football

Sunday 11 April

3.55-6.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted Premier League commentary of Manchester City versus Birmingham City comes live from Eastlands.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Adam Buxton's second mixtape is called Toddler Tunes and features great music that babies and young children may also enjoy.

He is joined by Gaz Coombes and Danny Goffey from Supergrass, also known as The Hot Rats. Who better to help compile a tape than the band that once planned to release a vinyl album with children's songs on one side and punk tracks on the other for when they were in bed?

Both Gaz and Danny have children of varying ages and an ear for a great tune so the resulting mixtape should be eclectic and child-friendly.

Presenter/Adam Buxton, Producer/James Stirling

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Huey Morgan meets a group who combine two of his favourite musical genres in their band Ska Cubano.

Ska Cubano was established by former investment manager Peter A Scott, who spent 10 years exploring Cuba via Jamaica and developed a passion for ska, calypso and reggae. Ahead of the band's forthcoming gig at London's Jazz Café they talk to Huey about their musical heritage.

Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Becky Maxted

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