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Mike Harding presents highlights from the Cambridge Folk Festival

Mike Harding, Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie join forces to present a three-hour music extravaganza featuring highlights of this year's Cambridge Folk Festival.

Now in its 46th year, the festival, held in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall, is one of the longest running folk festivals in the world and has a reputation for being one of Europe's premier music events.

Featuring an eclectic mix of music, this year's festival – which runs from 29 July to 1 August – sees performances from the likes of Kris Kristofferson, Seasick Steve, Seth Lakeman, Natalie Merchant, The Imagined Village, The Ukelele Orchestra Of Great Britain, The Wonder Stuff, Show Of Hands, Gretchen Peters, The Unthanks and Stornoway.

Presenters/Mike Harding, Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producer/Kellie While for Smooth Operations

´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2 Publicity

´óÏó´«Ã½ PROMS 2010
Performance On 3 – Prom 24

Wednesday 4 August

7.00-9.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 3

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Donald Runnicles conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Chief conductor Donald Runnicles conducts the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Scottish mezzo Karen Cargill in Mahler's epic Symphony No. 3 in D minor, in tonight's Prom, presented by Donald Macleod. The composer himself wrote: "My symphony will be something such as the world has not had before! The whole of nature finds a voice."

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus is joined by the ladies of the Edinburgh Festival chorus to create the sound world of bells and an angelic choir before the symphony reaches its radiant conclusion.

This Prom will be broadcast on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Four on Thursday 5 August at 7.30pm, and is repeated on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 on Wednesday 15 September at 2pm.

Presenter/Donald MacLeod, Producer/Lindsay Pell

´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 Publicity

Rukhsana is a successful lawyer in her late twenties who lives in London, where she shares a house with Arif who, like her, is British Bengali.

When her mother has a heart attack, Rukshana returns to Dhaka to be with her family. Then she calls Arif. Her parents have taken her mobile and her passport and they won't let her leave the house. She's very scared.

Arif flies out to Dhaka, the city where he was born, to see if he can find her. With the help of James at the British High Commission, he embarks on a search which forces him to examine his own past.

Rescue Me, by Tanika Gupta, stars Nisha Nayar as Rukhsana, Richard Sumitro as Arif, Tony Bell as James, Nina Wadia as Munera, Shiv Grewal as Shaqueeb, Shobu Kapur as the mother/nurse and Bhasker Patel as the cabbie/priest.

Producer/Jeremy Mortimer for the ´óÏó´«Ã½

´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 Publicity

Ian Payne has all the day's sports news and reaction.

At 8pm, in the Phil Tufnell Cricket Show, Phil looks ahead to the second Test between England and Pakistan, which starts on Friday at Edgbaston.

From 9.30pm 5 Live Swimming previews the European Swimming Championships in Budapest, which starts this week.

Presenter/Ian Payne, Producer/Danny Garlick

´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 5 Live Publicity

Gideon Coe introduces Donovan captured live at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 1981 and Misty in Roots at Glastonbury 1992. Tonight's featured sessions include The Faces, Woodpidgeon and Regular Fries.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music Publicity

Useful Idiots Ep 1/2

Wednesday 4 August

8.00-8.30pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ WORLD SERVICE

Useful idiots is a description (often ascribed to Lenin) of men and women, mostly intellectuals, who are so easily persuaded by flattery from people in power of the truth of a cause that they give their blessing to dictators and tyrannies.

In this two-part series, John Sweeney looks at stories of human rights abuses across the world, including Russia, China, Iraq and Iran, and from the mid-20th century to the present day. He reveals how intellectual curiosity can become active promotion of a dangerous lie, and just why there have been so many "useful idiots".

The first programme looks at Stalin's Russia. Many millions died, yet intellectuals including Doris Lessing, George Bernard Shaw, HG Wells and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, aided by the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Walter Duranty, visited Russia, saw what the authorities wanted them to see and recommended to the West what was, in fact, a tyranny. Other journalists discovered and reported the truth, only to be vilified.

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing admits to having been a "useful idiot" for Stalin and tells Sweeney how and why she was so gullible.

Presenter/John Sweeney, Producer/David Coomes for CTVC Productions

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