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Network Radio ´óÏó´«Ã½ Week 40: Saturday 2 October 2010
´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 2 Saturday 2 October 2010
Graham Norton
Graham Norton joins ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2 with his own show every Saturday morning – a vibrant mix of music and celebrity conversation. Saturdays will never be the same again...
Bob Shennan, Controller, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2 and ´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music says: "Graham Norton is one of the nation's favourite entertainment presenters and I'm hugely excited to welcome him to his new permanent home on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2. Our Saturday daytime schedule will kick off with Zoe Ball at 6am, into one of the most listened to shows on UK radio, Sounds Of The Sixties presented by Brian Matthew, leading into Graham Norton, Dale Winton, Dermot O'Leary, Alan Carr, Paul Gambaccini and Steve Lamacq. This rare combination of diverse talent is what makes Radio 2 the much-loved network that it is today."
Graham, who can't wait to get started, says: "I'm thrilled to be a part of it. My liver is also delighted that I'll now have an excuse to leave the pub early on a Friday night."
Our favourite agony uncle is joined by Maria McErlane for Grill Graham, where listeners' problems are solved in front of the nation. I Can't Believe It's Not Better revisits some of the worst songs ever to hit the British charts. And Graham invites listeners to submit their favourite Tune With A Tale, where one listener chats to Mr Norton about their personal interpretation of a familiar song.
There's also travel with Bobbie Pryor, sport with Alistair Bruce-Ball and the best celebrity guests. Listeners can email the show at graham.norton@bbc.co.uk.
Presenter/Graham Norton, Producer/Malcolm Prince for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Dermot O'Leary has live sessions from Athlete and The Saw Doctors in this week's show.
Athlete's album, Singles 01-10, is a collection of the band's singles to date and was released last month. For Dermot's show they play previously unreleased song Back Track and one of their hits.
Also performing are Irish rockers The Saw Doctors who released their seventh studio album, The Further Adventures Of ... The Saw Doctors, last month.
Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker for Labora TV
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The penultimate episode of Welsh stand-up Rhod Gilbert's new audience comedy show features live music from Divine Comedy, including the hit National Express.
This week's guest comedian is Shappi Khorsandi and there are also comedy regulars Lloyd Langford and Greg Davies (We Are Klang), along with Sarah Millican who takes a look at the Fifth Stage Of Woman – the hoarder.
Listeners find out whether animals can have human faces; what annoys Rhod about considerate builders; and the most surprising location for a postage stamp.
Presenter/Rhod Gilbert, Producers/Julia McKenzie and Lianne Coop for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 3 Saturday 2 October 2010
Catherine Bott introduces a concert from the York Early Music Festival 2010 , given by trio London Baroque, of 18th-century French music by Rameau, Leclair, Mondonville, the Forquerays and their contemporaries. The concert is described as "Marriage à la Mode" and, true to the theme of this year's festival, "musical marriages", all the pieces performed celebrate the familial ties that linked so many of Paris's major baroque composers.
Catherine Bott talks to the London Baroque's viol player, Charles Medlan, about the programme and the music.
Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Chris Wines
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Lopa Kothari and Jameela Siddiqi introduce a recital by Indian santoor virtuoso Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, accompanied by Anindo Chatterjee on tabla, recorded earlier this year at the Darbar Festival in London.
This is the last of three programmes from the 2010 Darbar Festival, which took place over the Easter weekend at Kings Place in London.
Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma is a revered maestro of Indian classical music. The santoor is a hammered dulcimer which was originally a Kashmiri folk instrument – it was Shiv Kumar Sharma who reinvented it as an instrument suitable for playing Indian ragas, adding strings and developing a new delicate but powerful style of playing.
Presenters/Lopa Kothari and Jameela Siddiqi, Producer/Roger Short
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Christopher Cook is at the Wales Millennium Centre for the much-anticipated debut of baritone Simon Keenleyside in the title role of Verdi's famously controversial tragedy, Rigoletto.
Welsh National Opera's revived production brings together director James McDonald and designer Robert Innes Hopkins to transport Verdi's Mantua to the Washington DC of the Kennedy era. It's a chance for the famously physical Keenleyside to recreate his court jester role as presidential aide, swimming in a pool of corruption, bullying and grotesque indulgence.
Also featured are American soprano Sarah Coburn, making her UK debut, and a return to WNO by much-loved Welsh tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones, in the role of the philandering and murderous Duke.
Rigoletto is sung by Simon Keenlyside (baritone); The Duke by Gwyn Hughes Jones (tenor); Gilda by Sarah Coburn (soprano); Monterone by Michael Druiett (baritone); Sparafucile by David Soar (bass); and Maddalena by Leah-Marian Jones (mezzo-soprano).
The Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera is conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.
Presenter/Christopher Cook, Producer/Michael Surcombe
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This shape-shifting, existential comedy nightmare about the modern world is written by Martin Jameson.
This is a world of mass communication and yet people communicate less than ever. Toby has a bad day at work on the phones for Careless – the household cover people.
When an angry customer pushes Toby too far, he snaps and tells him to have a heart attack and die. The next morning, he wakes up as Dr Richard Jugg and the following day as a homeless person called Deke.
How are these events connected? And when will this nightmarish journey end?
Toby, Richard, Deke and Clive are played by Jonathan Keeble; Craig and Scott by Andonis James Anthony; Tariq and Naz by Armand Beasley; Sheila by Sue Jenkins, Anastasia and Nurse Phoenix by Melissa Jane Sinden; and Stacey and Renata by Catherine Kinsella.
Producer/Gary Brown
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4 Saturday 2 October 2010
In 1941, Orson Welles's Citizen Kane picked up nine Oscar nominations and was already being spoken of as a work of genius. But there were powerful forces lobbying hard against it, not least among them William Randolph Hearst, the media mogul on whom the story is based, and FBI supremo J Edgar Hoover.
As the Oscar nominations are announced, Welles suffers an uncharacteristic attack of anxiety. And – not without cause – FBI supremo J Edgar Hoover has tasked a small-time FBI agent, special agent RB Wood, with making sure the film doesn't triumph at the Oscars ceremony. Hearst has banned any mention of the film across his media empire, RKO the distributor is looking shaky, and while the movie plays to capacity houses in art-house cinemas, no major theatres or cinema chains will take it. A chance encounter in an elevator leads to a highly charged head-to-head between Hearst and Welles – when the two men lay their cards on the table.
Only the character of agent Wood is imagined, although he is based on a documented but shadowy figure mentioned in the FBI archives. And it is Wood who finally confronts Welles with the uncomfortable truth about the film – in hijacking Hearst's life for Citizen Kane, Welles has replaced it with his own.
The Kane Conspiracy is written by Jonathan Holloway and stars Jeff Harding as Orson Welles; Toby Jones as J Edgar Hoover; John Guerrasio as Herman Mankiewicz; Peter Marinker as William Randolph Hearst; Garrick Hagon as George Schaefer; Val Jobara as Agent Wood; and Paul Mundell as the Radio Interviewer.
Producer/Sara Davies for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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David Davis MP delves into the ´óÏó´«Ã½ sound archive to explore the history of the working-class Tories – from the Victorian trade union leader who stood as a Tory candidate, to Norman Tebbit in the Eighties, and on to the present day.
Ever since British mass democracy began, the working-class vote has played a crucial part in returning the Conservative Party to power. And yet, for many years, there was barely a handful of working-class Conservative MPs in Parliament.
But the rise of the working-class Tory culminated by the Eighties with the central presence in the Thatcher Cabinet of Norman Tebbit.
Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and John Major all came from "humble" backgrounds, in stark contrast to their aristocratic predecessors.
David Davis questions where the working-class Tory is today. On the one hand, Britain appears to some a much less hierarchical society but, on the other, it has its first Etonian Tory PM in almost half a century.
David Davis is a Tory from a working-class background – and is the man Cameron beat in 2005 for the Party leadership. In this programme, he talks to former and current working-class Tory cabinet ministers including Lord Tebbit and Eric Pickles, the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government.
He discovers why, in Oldham in 1899, one of Britain's toughest trade union leaders ran alongside Winston Churchill as a Tory candidate.
He explores how the Depression shaped the politics of future Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, many of whose Geordie voters were working class.
And he asks Norman Tebbit, Eric Pickles, election expert John Curtice and former Tony Blair speechwriter Philip Collins, who comes from a family of working-class Tories, what part they think this durable tribe now plays in Cameron's Britain.
Producer/Phil Tinline for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 2 October 2010
5 Live Sport – Ryder Cup
Nicky Campbell presents live from Celtic Manor as day two of the Ryder Cup gets under way.
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5 Live Sport – The Ryder Cup
John Inverdale presents day two of the Ryder Cup, plus build-up to the afternoon's big matches in the Premier League, including Sunderland versus Manchester United.
Commentary on the day's golf action comes from Iain Carter, John Murray, Andrew Cotter, Clare Balding and Alistair Bruce-Ball, alongside former Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher and Ryder Cup players Oliver Wilson and Andrew Coltart, plus Maureen Madill, Andrew Magee and Chris Evans.
Throughout the afternoon, there are updates from the afternoon's Premier League games, including Sunderland versus Manchester United, Birmingham versus Everton, Tottenham versus Aston Villa, and the rest of today's 3pm kick-offs. There is also news of the day's rugby and racing action.
From 5pm, Sports Report provides coverage from the close of play on day two of the Ryder Cup, plus results and reaction from the afternoon's Premier and Football League action and the classified results, read by James Alexander Gordon.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Graham McMillan
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Saturday 2 October 2010
Football
Listeners can enjoy commentary on a top game in the Championship, plus updates and reports from across the Football League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Rugby League
Uninterrupted commentary comes from the Super League's Grand Final, live, from Old Trafford.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 MUSIC Saturday 2 October 2010
The Velvelettes are special guests on The Craig Charles Funk And Soul Show.
The Velvelettes were a Sixties all-girl singing group signed to Motown Records. Their big hits were Needle In A Haystack and He Was Really Saying Something (later covered by Bananaraman and Fun Boy Three).
Unfortunately, Motown didn't invest as much time in the group as they already had The Supremes and Martha And The Vandellas.
Craig Charles catches up with Bertha Barbee McNeal to talk about being in the group and working with a young Stevie Wonder.
Presenter/Craig Charles, Producer/Hermeet Chadha for Demus
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´óÏó´«Ã½ WORLD SERVICE Saturday 2 October 2010
In this edition of World Book Club, Barbara Kingsolver talks to Harriett Gilbert about her international bestseller, The Poisonwood Bible.
Hailed as her most ambitious novel to date, Kingsolver paints an intimate portrait of a crisis-ridden family amid the larger backdrop of an African nation in chaos.
Presenter/Harriett Gilbert
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Network Radio ´óÏó´«Ã½ Week 40: Sunday 3 October 2010
´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 2 Sunday 3 October 2010
Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to singer Elisa Caleb on this week's programme. Elisa talks to Aled about how having breast cancer brought her back to her Christian roots.
The faith guest is American singing sensation Beth Nielsen Chapman who also provides the Moment Of Reflection.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Weekend Wogan Ep 1/12
Sir Terry Wogan is back with a new series of Weekend Wogan and this week presents a very special show live from the London Palladium in London's West End in aid of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Children In Need.
Sir Terry's guests include Status Quo, JLS and Imelda May. There's also live music from the Elio Pace house band and John "Boggy" Marsh joins in the fun and frolics too.
The show will be available to view via the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Red Button between Monday 4 and Thursday 7 October at varying times.
Presenter/Sir Terry Wogan, Producer/Alan Boyd for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Brian D'Arcy begins the first of a three-part series looking at the nature of Jesus. This week, he reflects on Jesus as servant and shows how His example as a servant of men is one which all His disciples are called to follow.
Music comes from the choir of Selwyn College Chapel in Cambridge, directed by Sarah MacDonald. The organist is Ian Tindale and hymns include It Is A Thing Most Wonderful, All Praise To Thee and The Servant King.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Clair Jaquiss for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 3 Sunday 3 October 2010
Graham Vick is artistic director of the Birmingham Opera Company and one of the foremost opera directors of our time. Michael Berkeley talks to him about his personal musical favourites.
His choices start with the 14th-century Messe de Notre Dame by Guillaume de Machaut, and continue with the madrigal Vorrei baciarti by Monteverdi. Then there's Chopin's Prelude in C sharp minor, Op 45, played by Benedetti Michelangeli, followed by an early afternoon Indian rag played by Ravi Shankar.
Presenter/Graham Vick, Producer/Chris Marshall
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Catherine Bott introduces a performance of John Blow's masque Venus And Adonis, presented at the 2010 York Early Music Festival by Theatre of the Ayre directed by Elizabeth Kenny. This broadcast is given as part of the Early Music Show's monthly celebration of baroque opera, and the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s year-long focus on opera.
Venus And Adonis was the last masque ever composed for the Stuart court, and while it is in effect a miniature opera, it was intended as a vehicle for the members of the Royal court to take part in. John Blow crafted an exquisite allegory on contemporary court issues around the classical myth of the goddess Venus and her thwarted love for the mortal Adonis. It became the model for Purcell's celebrated Dido And Aeneas.
Catherine Bott talks to several of the participants in this production about the work, and introduces the performance which was given as the climax to this year's York festival.
Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Chris Wines
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Sunday Feature – North Of South Revisited Ep 1/2
Shiva Naipaul travelled through East Africa in the late Seventies looking for answers to the question "How wide is the gap between the rhetoric of liberation and its day-to-day manifestations?" and exploring the post-colonial relationships between black and white and brown.
Thirty years on, as Africa celebrates the 50th anniversary of the liberation of 17 African nations, Ugandan journalist Joel Kibazo retraces Naipaul's journey to see how much has changed. In this, the first of two programmes, Joel visits Kenya.
Presenter/Joel Kibazo, Producer/Ruth Evans
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4 Sunday 3 October 2010
Goodbye To Berlin Ep 1/2
Goodbye To Berlin is Christopher Isherwood's dramatic eyewitness account of Berlin in the early Thirties, the book that inspired the musical and film Cabaret.
Living in Berlin as a young man, Isherwood encountered a range of vibrant characters whose daily lives reflect a city and its people at a very particular time in history. He observed at first hand how ordinary people, at every level of society, became sucked into the new era of Hitler and his kind.
Isherwood arrives in Berlin and takes lodgings with Fraulein Schröder, a once well-off widow now forced to take in a motley crew of lodgers. He's enthralled by Berlin's chaotic, hedonistic nightlife and the rich variety of characters he meets, including Jewish department store heiress Natalia Landauer; her cousin, the serious and troubled Bernhard; fantastical nightclub singer Sally Bowles; and the freeloading Otto Nowak. But as Isherwood grows to love the city and its people, he cannot ignore the growing influence of the Nazi party even in his own carefree circles.
The cast stars James Norton as Isherwood; Nicola Schoessler as Natalia Landauer; Leslie Malton as Fraulein Schröder/Sally Bowles; Julia Reznik as Fraulein Mayr; Matthias Horn as Herr Landauer; Andre Kaczmarczyk as Bernhard Landauer; and Tilmar Kuhn as Otto Nowak.
Recorded on location in East Berlin, this new dramatisation by Tina Pepler has a documentary feel that vividly evokes the atmosphere of the city and the lives of its inhabitants as the Nazi party slowly gains credence and ultimate power in the early Thirties.
Sound design is by Eloise Whitmore and the pianist is Paulette Marla Schmidt.
Producer/Polly Thomas for Somethin' Else
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 3 October 2010
5 Live Sport
John Inverdale presents live commentary from the climax of the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor in south Wales. There are also updates from Manchester City versus Newcastle and Liverpool versus Blackpool in the Premier League, and live commentary of the second half of Chelsea versus Arsenal (kick-off 4pm).
In addition there is coverage from one of the highlights of the racing year, the Prix de L'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Graham McMillan
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Sunday 3 October 2010
Football
Football fans can hear uninterrupted Premier League commentary of the day's London derby, Chelsea versus Arsenal, live from Stamford Bridge.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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5 Live NFL
Darren Fletcher and Greg Brady present live commentary of the Philadelphia Eagles versus Washington Redskins live from the Lincoln Field in Philadelphia in a NFC East match-up. There are also updates from the rest of the action in the NFL.
Presenters/Darren Fletcher and Greg Brady, Producer/Simon Crosse for USP
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5 Live Baseball
The Major League Baseball season concludes with live commentary from the game of the day and Jonny Gould has all the latest news ahead of the post-season.
Presenter/Jonny Gould, Producer/Simon Crosse for USP
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´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 MUSIC Sunday 3 October 2010
Mark E Everett of Eels has always been something of a contradiction. In person he's occasionally uncommunicative, but his songs are characterised by their emotional honesty, and often draw directly from a life that saw him experience the suicide of his sister and his own battles with mental illness.
On this week's First Time, Matt Everitt draws out Mark's formative experiences with music, especially the influence of his sister's record collection; his uneasy relationship with success; his working relationships with Tom Waits and REM's Peter Buck; and the one overriding theme of most of his songs – love (unrequited or otherwise).
Presenter/Matt Everitt, Producer/Henry Lopez-Real
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Madness front-man and original ´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music DJ Suggs returns to the station to bring his brand of humour and music for a Sunday afternoon as he sits in for Huey Morgan. He'll be chatting to a fellow musician, asking a listener which record they'd like to drop the needle on in Vinyl Fetish and spinning tracks from his personal record collection, including some choice ska and reggae cuts.
Presenter/Graham "Suggs" MacPherson, Producer/Becky Maxted for Wise Buddah
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Belgian DJ Aeroplane hjiacks the 6 Mix for two hours of nu-disco action.
Brought to the public's attention by a series of remixes for Grace Jones and Friendly Fires, Aeroplane recently became the solo project of classically trained musician Vito De Luca, after his production partner Stephen Fasano left to pursue a solo career.
Quoting a diverse range of influences, from Serge Gainsbourg to Voyage, Ghent-based De Luca has become one of the hottest properties in dance music, with his signature cosmic-disco-flavoured sound packing out dancefloors at Bestival in the UK and Eden in Ibiza this summer.
As he releases his debut LP, We Can't Fly – tipped by many to be the dance music album of 2010 – Vito takes over the 6 Mix to play the music which inspired the Aeroplane project, alongside a club mix of upfront disco-tronica, pysch-pop and balearica.
Presenter/Aeroplane, Producer/Rowan Collinson
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Network Radio ´óÏó´«Ã½ Week 40: Monday 4 October 2010
´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 2 Monday 4 October 2010
Jeremy Vine celebrates poetry this week to mark National Poetry Day on 7 October. Every day, Jeremy hosts discussions, listens to readings and explores, with his listeners, the unique potential for poetry to touch and change lives.
Each day's programme focuses on a different theme and poetry's ability to move, excite or comfort people, whether they are experiencing intense joy, grief, heart-stopping or gut-wrenching turmoil or pleasure. Subjects covered include love, war, death, places and children.
Each lunchtime this week, a listener reads out a meaningful poem and explains its particular appeal and relevance to them. Listeners are invited to join the discussion on what makes poetry so special and powerful in today's busy, multi-media world. The programme has two in-house poets, Mr Gee and Lucy Berry, who each write a poem to match the subject of the day during the show.
DJ, poet and presenter for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4's Sony Award-nominated series Bespoken Word, Mr Gee uses his African and Caribbean roots and hip hop DJ background to craft his unique lyrical style. Former poet-in-residence for The Jeremy Vine Show, Lucy Berry writes vividly, passionately and sometimes angrily about the pressures and pleasures of modern life. Their poems will also be uploaded at the end of the show to: bbc.co.uk/radio2 and listeners are invited to submit their poetry for publication online. Other online activity includes a specially filmed masterclass in poetry writing by Mr Gee.
Jeremy says "I had a poetry moment when I was at college. I suddenly realised I loved what I was reading – mainly Philip Larkin at that time. Nowadays TV and movies and the web have demolished attention spans and distracted us, but I think poetry is great for the internet age: it's short and pithy. So bring it on, Radio 2!"
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American actress, comedian and star of the West End's Sister Act, Whoopi Goldberg presents Something Borrowed, the fifth documentary in ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2's season of programmes celebrating The Musical.
All musicals, from the latest, most innovative show, to tried and tested favourites from an earlier century, make their impact by using music to transform the commonplace into the exceptional. In its early life, the musical was sometimes the product of East Coast Broadway impressarios. And at other times, it was the work of Hollywood's West Coast movie moguls. Inevitably, Broadway started looking to successful film stories, along with plays, as sources of inspiration for plots in musical theatre: All About Eve became the musical Applause, and a musical based on the film Ghost (in which Whoopi starred) is now in development.
In Something Borrowed, Whoopi looks at shows inspired by plays and films including Sunset Boulevard, West Side Story, A Little Night Music and Nine. The programme features contributions from Stephen Sondheim, Hal Prince, Patti Lupone, Don Black, Michael Grandage, Jerry Herman, Tim Rice, Maury Yeston, Liz Robertson, Gillian Lynne and Richard Stilgoe.
Tim Rice can also be heard presenting Tim Rice's American Pie on Thursday evenings on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2 at 11pm.
Presenter/Whoopi Goldberg, Producer/Malcolm Prince for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 3 Monday 4 October 2010
This week Donald Macleod introduces Richard Wagner, a composer whose name instantly ignites controversy like no other.
Wagner's life was every bit as much of a titanic saga as the epic music dramas he invented. He was a young firebrand of 22 when he made his debut as an opera composer with Das liebesverbot (The Ban On Love), and the première was a fiasco, with fights on stage even before the curtain rose. His opera Rienzi was much more successful, capturing the revolutionary spirit of the time and putting Wagner's name on the map.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/David Dwight
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Russian conductor Dima Slobodeniouk leads the Ulster Orchestra in a varied programme starting with Mozart's impish overture to The Impresario. Pianist Sergei Babayan is the soloist in Rachmaninov's famously demanding Third Piano Concerto, which the composer wrote for his American concert tour in 1909.
The programme ends with Sibelius's ever-popular Second Symphony: a journey from an evocation of the Finnish landscape, through awakening of the nationalist spirit, to a final song of triumph.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Peter Thresh
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Rana Mitter talks to the eminent and influential primatologist Frans de Waal.
Frans de Waal's ground-breaking book, Our Inner Ape, argued that empathy, morality and the ability to co-operate are inherent in human nature. Such genetically endowed virtues, he believes – unlike many economists – drive evolution as much as the darker drives of competitiveness, aggression and selfishness. And all this is evident by studying the behaviour of our primate cousins. De Waal believes we should turn to primatologists, not sociologists to understand human behaviour – and in 2007 he was on Time's List of the 100 most influential people in the world.
He talks to Rana about how his new work extends these arguments to suggest that the behaviour of other animals, particularly monkeys, contains many lessons for those seeking to build a more just human society.
Presenter/Rana Mitter, Producer/James Cook
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Writers and academics explore aspects of the Stewart dynasty, in this week's series of essays.
In tonight's programme historian and author Dr Fiona Watson looks at the bloody comeback of James I, King of Scots (1394-1437), one of the most powerful and controversial kings of the medieval Stewart dynasty.
It's not the greatest start to life when your elder brother gets murdered in a castle dungeon by your wicked uncle, who's muscling in on your sick father; but then it only gets worse for young Prince James. While being sent to safety in France aged 12, he was kidnapped by English pirates. The very next month, his father died and the young prisoner became King of Scots, spending 18 years in captivity.
A vital part of this time was spent at the court of Henry V, the victor of Agincourt. This would influence the rest of James's life, giving him fresh (and if you were one of his nobles you might say "worrying") ideas of what a monarch should be and how a country should be run. The return of the King to Scotland would not only bring bloody vengeance upon the family of his late uncle, the Duke of Albany, but a new and energetic style of kingship. However, James had a tendency to take things just a bit too far.
Reader/Fiona Watson, Producer/Louisa Yeoman
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4 Monday 4 October 2010
British Museum director Neil MacGregor explores the often troubled relationship between Europeans and the rest of the world, as he continues his history of the world through 100 items from the museum.
In today's programme Neil tells the story of a now-fragile African drum. It was taken to America during the years of the slave trade, where it came into contact with Native Americans.
The drum was brought to England by Sir Hans Sloane, whose collection helped provide the British Museum with its first material. This drum, the earliest African-American object in the museum, is a rare surviving example of an instrument whose music was to profoundly influence American culture – bought to America on a slave ship and transported to Britain by a slave owner. Historian Anthony Appiah and writer Bonnie Greer consider the impact of this drum.
Presenter/Neil MacGregor, Producer/Anthony Denselow for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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When a number of distinguished members of government committees are found dead in suspicious circumstances, it falls to DCI Kate Duncan of Scotland Yard's Sensitive Cases Squad to discover what the connecting factor is, in the first part of The Power Of Life And Death, The Resurrection Of Imelda Sharp.
This drama, written by Mark Lawson, explores a major concern at the heart of a cash-strapped NHS: the postcode lottery and exactly who is to be considered deserving of the most expensive life-saving drugs on the market.
This Woman's Hour drama features Haydn Gwynne as Kate Duncan, Lloyd Thomas as Lorezo, Chris McHallem as Briggs, Honor Blackman as Dame Imelda Sharp, Abigail McKern as Hermoine Sharp, Abigail McGibbon as Sue Wells, Nick Dunning as Dr Tom Cready and Stella McCusker as Dee Mortimer, and Jeremy Vine appears as himself.
Producer/Eoin O'Callaghan for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Craig Brown's Lost Diaries Ep 1/6
(Programme title change 24 September)
Dipping into the private lives of public figures, satirist Craig Brown imagines the thoughts of the great and good, as they turn their attention to new beginnings in January and February.
This week Craig considers Barack Obama, Barbara Cartland and John Prescott.
Written by Craig, the series is voiced by Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Lewis McLeod, Ewan Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Dolly Wells.
Producer/Victoria Lloyd for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Presenter Miranda Sawyer investigates teenage sexual culture from internet porn to the meaning behind different colour "shag bands".
"Shag bands" are thin, coloured rubber bracelets, indicating how far the wearer will go sexually if the band is broken.
Purple for a kiss or yellow for a hug may seem comparatively harmless but some of the other colours such as black for full intercourse or blue for oral sex ring alarm bells.
A Wakefield MP recently campaigned to stop shops selling them after complaints from parents including a mother who innocently bought some for her six-year-old child's party bag. Elsewhere schools have banned "shag bands" after finding pupils wearing them.
Part of playground culture, they're often worn innocently or in a show of bravado, but there is a darker side where early sexual exploration strays into the easily accessible world of internet porn. Where children once passed notes, they now use their mobile phones to share explicit images and there's peer pressure through social networking sites.
Miranda, herself a mother, investigates whether society and parents are aware of just what their children are getting up to and asks how concerned should we be about the sexualisation of children in media, advertising and fashion, such as the sale of padded bras for pre-pubescent girls or sexual references on T-shirts for primary aged kids.
Presenter/Miranda Sawyer, Producer/Sara Parker for Juniper Productions
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Book At Bedtime – Mr Chartwell Ep 1/10
Mr Chartwell is Rebecca Hunt's dark and quirky psychological thriller about depression.
Set across five days in July 1964, it follows the bizarrely intertwined lives of Sir Winston Churchill, Esther Hammerhans and the unwelcome visitor they both share.
July 1964, and the day looms when Winston Churchill must leave Parliament. Meanwhile, Esther, a library clerk, has her own black date in the diary; she also has an unusual visitor.
The reader is Miriam Margolyes and Mr Chartwell is abridged and produced by Jill Waters.
Reader/Miriam Margolyes, Producer/Jill Waters for The Waters Partnership
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 4 October 2010
Mark Chapman presents the day's sports news and is joined by special guests for The Monday Night Club to discuss the latest big football issues.
At 9pm Mark is joined by Mark Clemmit for a round up from the Championship and Leagues One and Two in 5 Live Football League.
From 9.30pm, Mark Chapman and Dave Vitty take a quick-fire comedic look at the latest football news in Football Express. Then, at 10pm, Mark discusses one of the day's big sports stories.
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Mike Carr
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Monday 4 October 2010
Commonwealth Games
Live coverage comes from the opening day of the swimming finals at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 MUSIC Monday 4 October 2010
´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music DJ and lead singer of Fun Lovin' Criminals Huey Morgan starts his tenure on ´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music weekdays while Lauren Laverne is on maternity leave.
His first live studio session comes courtesy of Badly Drawn Boy who today releases his seventh studio album, It's What I'm Thinking Pt. 1 – Photographing Snowflakes. Damon Gough joins Huey to talk about the album and play a couple of live tracks.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Gary Bales
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Darren Hayman And The Secondary Modern are live in session for Marc Riley.
Essex Arms is the new offering from the band, due to be released on Monday 18 October. The second in a proposed trilogy of albums about Hayman's home county of Essex, Essex Arms is a conceptual piece about the East Anglian rural underbelly. Whereas Pram Town (2009) dealt with the displacement and ennui of living in a new town (Harlow), Essex Arms takes the narrative to the countryside.
The album features contributions from The Wave Pictures, Fanfarlo and, on the single Calling Out Your Name, a duet with Emmy The Great.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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´óÏó´«Ã½ WORLD SERVICE Monday 4 October 2010
Barry Smith, director of the Institute of Philosophy, continues to examine the surprising answers that contemporary neuroscience is providing to many questions about the brain that have remained a mystery, and considers how these answers are changing our sense of ourselves.
The series includes interviews with some of the world's leading neuroscientists.
Presenter/Barry Smith
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Network Radio ´óÏó´«Ã½ Week 40: Tuesday 5 October 2010
´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 2 Tuesday 5 October 2010
Jazz alto saxophonist and rapper Soweto Kinch is in session with pianist Robert Mitchell at the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Maida Vale studios, as Jamie Cullum continues to showcase his love for all types of jazz on his weekly show.
Soweto's mentors include Gary Crosby and Courtney Pine, while Robert has worked with the likes of Norma Winstone, Courtney Pine and Steve Williamson. This one-off performance sees the collaboration of some of the most exciting talent on the UK jazz scene.
Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Karen Pearson for Folded Wing
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Paul Gambaccini presents a three-part series charting the history of Elektra Records, 60 years after it was founded by Jac Holzman on 10 October 1950.
Primarily a New York folk label, with influential singers Judy Collins, Phil Ochs and Tom Paxton, the company explored new avenues from the mid-Sixties when Jac signed West Coast artists Love, Tim Buckley and The Doors. Further chart success followed with the development of artists such as Bread, Carly Simon and Harry Chapin.
The series features interviews with Jac Holzman and many of his artists: Theodore Bikel, Oscar Brand, Judy Collins, Ray Manzarek and John Densmore (The Doors), David Gates (Bread), Tom Paxton, Joshua Rifkin, Jean Ritchie, Tom Rush and Carly Simon; plus Elektra executives Danny Fields and Clive Selwood, engineer/producer Bruce Botnick and session man at the time John Sebastian.
In part one, Jac Holzman and Elektra artists recall the early years of his label. Canadian Oscar Brand remembers his boisterous albums of songs associated with the armed services; Kentucky singer Jean Ritchie recalls her earliest recordings released by the label; and Theodore Bikel talks about his many Elektra concept albums devoted to songs from a variety of different countries and cultures. Carly Simon remembers Theo's albums with affection and sings snippets from his multi-lingual repertoire.
After 10 years of modest success, Elektra found itself well placed in New York's Greenwich Village to record singers emerging in the first half of the Sixties – a period of unprecedented enthusiasm for folk music. Jac discovered his first star of the decade when he signed Judy Collins in 1962.
Judy was joined on Elektra by many of the new generation of young folk singers – the prolific writer Tom Paxton, protest singer Phil Ochs and, from the Cambridge scene, Tom Rush. Hanging out in Greenwich Village and playing harmonica on many Elektra record sessions was future Lovin' Spoonful member John Sebastian. Jac Holzman also found an ally in his quest for quality artists when he employed Paul Rothchild as talent scout and record producer.
This revised series was first broadcast in six parts in 2008.
Presenter/Paul Gambaccini, Producer/Kevin Howlett for Howlett Media Productions
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 3 Tuesday 5 October 2010
Petroc Trelawny introduces the concert which opened the Hallé's Thursday night Autumn Season.
Sir Mark Elder continues his traversal of Mahler's music with the seldom heard Totenfeier, the heroic dialogue of life and death he later revised as the first movement of his Resurrection Symphony.
Then comes another echo, songs from Des knaben wunderhorn, or The Youth's Magic Horn, a fascinating collection of German folk poems which inspired Mahler not just in these songs but also in several symphonies. The singer is one of the world's most sought-after mezzo-sopranos, Angelika Kirchschlager from Austria.
Prokofiev's popular Fifth Symphony is his plushest and grandest, a work of affirmation and abounding melody composed in 1944, when victory in the war against Nazism was in sight.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Peter Thresh
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Matthew Sweet talks to American novelist Jonathan Franzen, whose much anticipated new novel, Freedom, has already seen the author making the front-cover of Time magazine.
Franzen is frequently cited as a great chronicler of contemporary American life. His book about family life, The Corrections, was a critical sensation, nominated for a string of awards and led to a infamous incident where Jonathan was disinvited from the Oprah Winfrey show.
Matthew Sweet talks to Jonathan about Freedom, which is set within the lives of a Minnesotan family, and about the process of writing the book.
Presenter/Matthew Sweet, Producer/James Cook
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4 Tuesday 5 October 2010
This week Neil MacGregor's world history is examining the relationship between Europe and the rest of the world in the 18th century.
In today's programme, he finds out what happened to Captain Cook as he was mapping and collecting in the Pacific.
Neil tells the story through a chieftain's helmet made from a myriad of colourful bird feathers that was given to Cook when he landed in Hawaii in 1778.
Anthropologist Nicholas Thomas and Hawaiian academics Marques Hanalei Marzan, Kyle Nakanelua and Kaholokula help describe Cook's impact in the Pacific and the meaning of the feathered helmet.
Presenter/Neil MacGregor, Producer/Anthony Denselow for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Woodlands are important all over the world for wildlife and many things can impact on them. Saving Species continues by asking if rutting deer are a problem for woodlands.
This is the time of year when many deer species begin their breeding season and reporter Chris Sperring goes to Exmoor at the peak of the fallow deer rut.
Like most mammals it's the female deer that take on all the parental responsibility, the male role being reduced to providing the sperm. With none of the energy drain of raising young, clearly males can mate with many females. But it's not so easy. Females are choosy and want the best male they can get.
This sexual inequality in reproduction fuels the competition between males to win the favour of the gathering females. The deer rut is an explosive time, with intense bellowing and physical duels.
Deer numbers are rising in Britain and many other parts of the world, so much so that woodland ecologists are concerned about re-generation because of the volume of young saplings browsed by deer.
Presenter/Brett Westwood, Producer/Kirsty Henderson for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Beethoven's fifth and final piano concerto, The Emperor, is the subject of the concluding programme in this series of Soul Music.
Richard McMahon, concert pianist and teacher at the Royal Welsh School of Music and Drama, plays extracts and discusses the virtuosic demands posed by The Emperor.
Australian film producer Hal McElroy talks about using the Adagio, the second movement, to illustrate the classic Seventies film Picnic At Hanging Rock.
Andrew Law, now Chaplain at Malvern College, first heard the piece in this movie. He describes the Adagio as "one of those pieces of art which it is worth being alive to have heard".
Concert pianist James Rhodes describes how The Emperor was central to his childhood and his developing love of Beethoven's piano music.
Music teacher and singer Prue Hawthorne recalls how her father, an amateur clarinettist, laboriously transcribed by hand the horn and clarinet sections of the first movement so they could play along with the record in their living room.
Also contributing is renowned Beethoven biographer John Suchet.
Producer/Karen Gregor for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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When a road accident ends with a fatality, the police officer involved is left searching for answers in Matt Hartley's tense drama.
Don Gilet and Claire Price star with Adeel Akhtar, Sean Baker, Sally Orrock and Reilly Newbold.
Producer/Sasha Yevtushenko for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Three Short Stories By E Nesbit Ep 1/3
Marriage Lines is the first of three stories for adults written by E Nesbit, author of The Railway Children.
The stories in this series are taken from In Homespun, a collection originally published in 1896. They are set in the villages of South Kent and East Sussex that Nesbit knew well.
Read by actress Jenny Agutter, each story is told in the first person, by a variety of strong, female characters looking back on their earlier lives.
Marriage Lines is a comic detective story-cum-romance. Harry, the son of the house, wants to marry Poll, but the delightfully wicked old housekeeper has other ideas. When the old man dies unexpectedly, poison is suspected. But there is a surprising twist in the tale.
In the second tale on Wednesday, The Bristol Bowl, Jane’s aunt is a real ogre to work for, but Jane is after her money, so she puts up with it. Everything is going to plan, until the day Jane smashes The Bristol Bowl, her aunt’s prize piece of porcelain. That disaster takes her on her first trip to London and a surprising offer of marriage.
In the final story on Thursday, Grandsire Triples, Kate’s intended comes back from learning farming, a Catholic. Kate is torn between duty and love, a conflict that is dramatically resolved when the two lovers inadvertently get locked in the bell tower, during a "grandsire triple peal".
Reader/Jenny Agutter, Producer/Celia de Wolff
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A Good Read Ep 1/9
The start of the autumn series of A Good Read, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4's paperback discussion programme, is launched by veteran politician Baroness Shirley Williams, who explains why she's chosen The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
Sue MacGregor is also joined by writer Sathnam Sanghera, who selects a paean of praise to pop, Lost In Music by Giles Smith.
Other guests in the series include politician Edwina Currie; Will Gregory from the band Goldfrapp; cricketer Mike Brearley; and mother-and-son writers Judith Kerr and Matthew Kneale.
Presenter/Sue MacGregor, Producer/Mark Smalley for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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The Write Stuff Ep 1/6
The Write Stuff returns for a new series, chaired by James Walton with John Walsh of the Independent newspaper and novelist Sebastian Faulks as team captains.
Each episode features an author of the week, whose life and work provide a focus for the questions, as well as the basis for the pastiches at the end of the show.
The author of the week in today's edition is PG Wodehouse; followed in the second episode by Tennessee Williams; then Marcel Proust; the Beats (Kerouac, Ginsberg and Burroughs); author of the Twilight series Stephenie Meyer; and concluding in the final episode with Edgar Allan Poe.
The team captains will be joined by guest panellists from the literary world and guests for this series include best-selling crime writer Mark Billingham; Horrid Henry author, Francesca Simon; poet Ian McMillan; children's author Sue Limb; and journalist and broadcaster Francis Wheen.
The guest panellists for the first programme will be Francis Wheen and Ian McMillan and the show will finish, as ever, with each panellist reading out a pastiche of the author of the week's work. This week they imagine how Wodehouse might have tackled historical fiction.
Producer/Sam Michell for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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A research team at an Edinburgh University think they've cracked the answer to providing renewable, commercially viable and environmentally friendly energy from urine.
Harvesting the multitude of medically powerful ingredients it holds could become big business. An innovative Danish company is turning it into plastics; it may provide a means of easily accessing hydrogen for green cars; and it could hold the key to providing desperately needed shelter for displaced multitudes across the world.
The scientific applications for this wonder substance seem almost to be without end – but the downside is many people's attitude to it. Most are squeamish at the mere mention of urine, blinding them to its astonishing versatility and potential.
In The Secret Science Of Pee, Sally Magnusson provides a truly surprising and enlightening look at some of the more extraordinary and innovative contemporary scientific applications for urine.
She asks why many are so uncomfortable with even talking about this casually despised blood product when it has been an essential part of life for centuries – and she considers the shocking environmental cost of flushing away such an abundant and abundantly useful substance.
Flushing the toilet will never be the same again.
Presenter/Sally Magnusson, Producer/Pennie Latin for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 5 October 2010
Mark Pougatch presents the day's sports news, plus in-depth interviews and discussion.
From 8pm, Mark presents Open Goal – an investigation into the celebrity culture and lifestyle of the modern footballer.
At 9pm, there will be a Football league special with the chairman of the Football League Greg Clarke.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mike Carr
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Tuesday 5 October 2010
Commonwealth Games
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 5 Live Sports Extra presents live coverage of the second day of the swimming finals at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Network Radio ´óÏó´«Ã½ Week 40: Wednesday 6 October 2010
´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 2 Wednesday 6 October 2010
Eighties new wavers Heaven 17 – Martin Ware and Glenn Gregory – join Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie to chat about their forthcoming tour and the re-release of their debut album, Penthouse And Pavement.
Presenters/Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producer/Viv Atkinson for Smooth Operations
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Jazz Junctions Ep 1/10
Guy Barker explores the history of jazz, focusing on the turning points and pivotal events that have shaped the genre, and discovering some great stories and larger-than-life characters along the way in this new 10-part series.
In its 100-year history, jazz has seen many changes and developments but, unlike other genres, jazz's direction has frequently changed due to a specific event: a momentary decision, an invention, one performance, or one person's idea. Each episode focuses on what jazz was like directly before this junction, the junction itself, and how things subsequently changed.
Renowned jazz trumpeter and composer Barker says: "As a musician, I'm really impressed with the range of talent showcased in this series and very much look forward to introducing what, to me, is a definitive jazz hall of fame."
Barker explores each of these junctions by hearing from the musicians who were there and made it happen, shaping the music as they went. The series features rare archive of jazz greats such as Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Coleman Hawkins, Gerry Mulligan and Earl Hines.
There are new interviews with the world's greatest living jazz musicians, such as McCoy Tyner, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Buddy DeFranco, Jimmy Cobb, Kenny Burrell, Reggie Workman, Lou Donaldson, Dave Brubeck, Terry Gibbs, Sir Charles Thompson, Peter Erskine, Larry Coryell, Jeff "Tain" Watts, Junior Mance, Dick Hyman, Billy Taylor and Albert "Tootie" Heath, as well as commentary from leading jazz authorities Ted Gioia, Loren Schoenberg, Dan Morgenstern, Stuart Nicholson, Geoffrey Smith and Scott Yanow.
Part one, Jazz On The Record, takes the story back to February 1917 with the release of the first jazz record: Livery Stable Blues by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, led by cornettist Nick LaRocca. Prior to that, jazz had been played on the streets and in the clubs, but only by those who were there to witness it. Recording the music meant that it could be listened to again and again by people all over the world and, most importantly, it could be studied and imitated. The journey had begun.
Guy looks back to the New Orleans of 1910 to try to unravel the circumstances surrounding the birth of recorded jazz. The programme features interviews with Dick Hyman, Jimmy LaRocca, Ted Gioia and Scott Yanow; plus archive of Jelly Roll Morton and Nick LaRocca.
Presenter/Guy Barker, Producer/Patrick Johns for Ping Productions
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Celebrating 40 years since Earth, Wind & Fire's self-titled debut album was released, Trevor Nelson presents a special programme looking at the band's career in this week's soul show. The programme features listener requests, archive session and live tracks, plus an interview with singer Philip Bailey.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Dan Cocker for Somethin' Else
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 3 Wednesday 6 October 2010
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the music of his compatriot Jean Sibelius in this concert recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall.
Sibelius's tone poem Finlandia sets the soundworld with its nationalistic evocations of scenes from Finnish history; followed by Lemminkäinen, an orchestral suite based on the Finnish national epic poem, the Kalevala. The most famous movement describes The Swan of Tuonela with the cor anglais' melody gliding over the musical water of the strings and woodwind; the other movements are equally evocative and atmospheric, moving from the Land of the Dead to the hero's exploits in battle.
Between these, Helen Grimaud is the soloist in Brahms's First Piano Concerto, one of the most challenging concertos in any pianist's repertoire.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Peter Thresh
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4 Wednesday 6 October 2010
Neil MacGregor's history of the world explores European engagement with the rest of the world in the 18th century.
Today he tells the story of a map, roughly drawn on deer skin, which was used by the British when they negotiated for land in the area between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi.
Neil looks at how the French and the British were in conflict in the region and examines the different attitudes to land and living between Europeans and Native Americans. Martin Lewis, an expert on maps from this region, and historian David Edmunds describe the map and the clash of cultures that was played out within its boundaries.
Presenter/Neil MacGregor, Producer/Anthony Denselow for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 6 October 2010
5 Live Sport – Leaders In Football
At 7pm, Mark Pougatch presents live from the Leaders In Football conference at Stamford Bridge, with an array of guests from the world of football finance.
From 9pm, Mark discusses all the latest stories from the day's sport news.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mike Carr
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Wednesday 6 October 2010
Commonwealth Games
´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings live swimming and athletics coverage from the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 MUSIC Wednesday 6 October 2010
Deptford boys Athlete returned to the spotlight last month with the release of a retrospective album of the band's singles to date, including hits El Salvador and Wires. To celebrate, the band join Huey Morgan for a live session and to talk through their career since 2001.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Gary Bales
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Twilight Sad are in session for Marc Riley this evening.
The band, who hail from Glasgow, formed in late 2003 and consist of James Graham (vocals), Andy MacFarlane, (guitar/accordion/noise), Craig Orzel (bass) and Mark Devine (drums). The release of the band's new EP, The Wrong Car, coincides with a joint headline tour with Errors in September. The EP is made partly of tracks taken from the Forget The Night Ahead album sessions, tracks that the band wanted to hold back until they were absolutely content with the recording, and partly from remixes from the band's friends and collaborators, in this case, Mogwai and Errors.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Chouhdry
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´óÏó´«Ã½ ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 6 October 2010
The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Asian Network's monthly 30-minute drama strand continues with Tajinder Singh Hayer's We're Not Getting Married. Harvey and Sandeep meet for the first time and, with their families waiting expectantly in the next room, the following series of events could decide their future.
Harvey's had plenty of advice from brother Jugjit, and Sandeep's heard all of sister-in-law Rani's wisdom. But what's behind the words of those who've travelled this path of marriage before, and should the youngsters follow their advice?
The drama features Kulvinder Ghir (Goodness Gracious Me) as Jugjit, Balvinder Sopal (Silver Street) as Rani, Pushpinder Chani as Harvey and Manjeet Mann as Sandeep; with other voices by Deeivya Meeir and Adeel Akhtar.
This programme will be repeated on Sunday 10 October at 4.30pm on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Asian Network.
´óÏó´«Ã½ Asian Network Presents... is the network's new drama strand, which sees a single 30-minute drama broadcast at 6pm on the first Wednesday of each month. The strand produces distinctive, original and impactful content, all relevant to the target audience. Covering a range of stories and styles, the strand also endeavours to deliver bigger established names to the network and is committed to developing new talent both on and off air, providing a platform for budding writers and fresh radio talent.
Producer/James Peries
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Network Radio ´óÏó´«Ã½ Week 40: Thursday 7 October 2010
´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 1 Thursday 7 October 2010
Zane Lowe presents two hours of the best new and cutting-edge music and tonight goes head-to-head with ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 1Xtra's Mistajam in a simulcast Versus sound-clash.
Presenter/Zane Lowe, Producer/Kat Wong
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 2 Thursday 7 October 2010
Tonight's show features a session with multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter Darrell Scott. The songwriter behind country hits for Sara Evans (Born To Fly), Travis Tritt (It's A Great Day To Be Alive) and The Dixie Chicks (Long Time Gone), Darrell is also an acclaimed recording artist and instrumentalist and is currently touring Europe as part of Robert Plant's Band Of Joy.
His epic new album Crooked Road is his sixth solo studio album, and follows a man's journey through life and love. Darrell self-produced the album, recording it in his home studio and playing all the instruments himself. It follows his 2008 release Modern Hymns, a collection of songs by his musical heroes including Paul Simon, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. In 2007 Darrell won the Americana Music Association song of the year with Hank Williams's Ghost which appeared on his album The Invisible Man.
Darrell will be performing as part of Band Of Joy when Robert Plant takes to the stage at London's Roundhouse for the second night of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2 Electric Proms on Friday 29 October, broadcast live on Radio 2 and then shown as a part of A Night With Robert Plant, a special night dedicated to showcasing Robert's continuing musical legacy on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two on Saturday 6 November.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Scissor Sisters perform an exclusive concert for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2 in front of 300 listeners, recorded at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Theatre on Thursday 30 September and introduced by Jo Whiley.
Jake Shears, Ana Matronic, Babydaddy, Del Marquis and Randy Real perform classic hits and songs from their third album, Night Work.
For free tickets and information about further Radio 2 concerts, music fans can sign up to the Radio 2 Events newsletter via bbc.co.uk/radio2.
Presenter/Jo Whiley, Producer/Radio 2 Live Music for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Sir Tim Rice's musical journey of the US reaches Illinois, the Prairie State.
The featured artists include Frank Sinatra, Muddy Waters, The Everly Brothers, Alison Krauss, Miles Davis, Benny Goodman, Frankie Laine and Chaka Khan.
Presenter/Sir Tim Rice, Producers/Ruth Beazley and Anthony Cherry for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 3 Thursday 7 October 2010
Petroc Trelawny introduces a solo recital given by pianist Mitsuko Uchida as part of the South Bank Centre's International Piano Series. The concert opens with Beethoven's two-movement Sonata Op 90, an intense piece that traces a path from conflict to tranquillity. Uchida continues with Schumann's whimsical cycle Davidsbündlertänze, which shows the composer at his most effervescent and poetic.
The second half is devoted to Chopin, principally his Piano Sonata No. 3, which mixes Chopin's personal romanticism with the traditional form of a grand four-movement sonata.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Peter Thresh
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4 Thursday 7 October 2010
Neil MacGregor continues his world history as told through objects from the British Museum with a look at an Aboriginal bark shield brought from Australia by Captain Cook
The Aboriginal shield was originally owned by one of the first men to set eyes on Europeans as they descended on Botany Bay nearly 250 years ago. This remarkably well-preserved object was brought to England by explorer James Cook, whose HMS Endeavour was the first British ship to land in Australia, in April 1770.
Phil Gordon, Aboriginal Heritage Officer at the Australian Museum in Sydney, and historian Maria Nugent help tell the story and look at what this object can reveal about the early encounter between the two different cultures.
Presenter/Neil MacGregor, Producer/Anthony Denselow for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Every year 8,000 people pay homage to John Lennon at his childhood home in Liverpool. Comedian Alexei Sayle meets some of those who take the tour.
Alexei took the National Trust tour himself in 2009 and was so taken by its Fifties charm and spirit that he returns to meet custodian Colin Hall to find out what it's like to live in one of the most famous houses in Liverpool.
Alexei speaks to some of those who visited the house when John Lennon lived there, including John's cousin Mike; Colin Hanton, the drummer in John Lennon's band the Quarrymen; and Freda Kelly, The Beatles' fan club secretary.
The Lennon Visitors is broadcast as Liverpool celebrates what would have been John Lennon's 70th birthday on 9 October.
Presenter/Alexei Sayle, Producer/Stephanie Power for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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Visitors is the final play written by Peter Tinniswood just before his death in 2003, and this is its first ever performance.
Set on a misty Thames embankment over the course of several evenings, the play recounts the meetings of two hospital "visitors" – Shacklock and the much younger Stella. Their relationship – strange, erotic and yet seemingly entirely innocent – is the bedrock of this drama about the shortness of life and the frailty of love.
Shacklock is played by Roy Hudd and Stella by Emma Fielding. The play is abridged for radio by Liz Goulding.
Visitors is broadcast in the week the Tinniswood Award is presented to the author of the best original radio play of 2009.
Producer/Gordon House for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 7 October 2010
Eleanor Oldroyd has the day's sports news and rounds up the biggest sporting stories.
From 8pm, 5 Live Rugby brings all the latest news and interviews from rugby union as the European Cup prepares to get under way.
At 9.30pm the International Football Preview invites a panel of managers and former players to look ahead to tomorrow's Euro 2012 qualifiers, with Scotland at the Czech Republic, Northern Ireland welcoming Italy and Wales hosting Bulgaria.
Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Mike Carr
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Thursday 7 October 2010
Commonwealth Games
Live swimming and athletics coverage comes from the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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5 Live Formula 1
Motor racing fans can enjoy uninterrupted commentary of the first practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka circuit.
Producer/Jason Swales for USP
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´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 MUSIC Thursday 7 October 2010
Marc Riley welcomes Smoke Fairies back to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music Manchester studios to play another live session.
The band – best mates Katherine Blamire and Jessica Davies – released their debut album, Through Low Light And Trees, in September. None other than Jack White was early to respond to their music after hearing one of their self-released singles, offering to produce a track on his Third Man label at his Nashville studio. Recorded in just 36 hours, with White on drums (plus a "mad guitar solo" on River Song) and his Raconteurs/Dead Weather pal Jack Lawrence on bass, the single Gastown/River Song was released in December 2009.
After another spell of writing last winter the Fairies headed for Sawmills studio in rural Cornwall to start work on their debut album with producer Head (best known for his work with PJ Harvey) and their current live band. After touring with Richard Hawley across Britain late last year they headed off to the US to support Laura Marling for a month. Most recently Jessica and Katherine added supernatural, angelic backing vocals to Hawley's current EP, False Lights From The Land.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Network Radio ´óÏó´«Ã½ Week 40: Friday 8 October 2010
´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 2 Friday 8 October 2010
In this week's Arts Show Penny Smith sits in for Claudia Winkleman and speaks to renowned music producer William Orbit about his new album, Pieces In A Modern Style 2, the follow-up to Pieces In A Modern Style, which produced the hit Adagio For Strings. The new project features more of Orbit's interpretations of classical standards.
The programme also finds out more about the British Museum's new exhibition China: Journey To The East. China's long history of innovation in the arts has created one of the most important and influential civilisations in world history. The major new exhibition in Manchester will combine objects from the British Museum with stories from one of the world's fastest-growing economies.
Also British film is celebrated with critic James Kleinmann, plus Penny speaks to graffiti pioneer Nick Walker about his new solo show In Gods We Trust. Nick is known for pushing the boundaries of street art – working with many different media, frequently moving between the gallery and the streets and giving a rare insight into the secret world of "high end" street art.
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 3 Friday 8 October 2010
Performance On 3
Presented live from the Barbican in London, Petroc Trelawny introduces a concert by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.
British music, a central part of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra life since its birth, is celebrated in style tonight with the conductor laureate setting the pace with the world première of Edwin Roxburgh's exhilarating Concerto For Orchestra before turning to Delius's sublime tone-poem, The Song Of The High Hills, a work inspired by Norway's landscape and nature. The concert closes with Elgar's portrayal of Shakespeare's "fat knight".
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Peter Thresh
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Ian McMillan presents ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3's cabaret of the word, featuring poetry and new writing. This week his guests are former poet laureate Andrew Motion, with a new collection of poetry; novelist and cyber-punk creator William Gibson; and novelist Louise Welsh, with a brand new commission written specially for the programme.
Presenter/Ian McMillan, Producer/Laura Thomas
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4 Friday 8 October 2010
Neil MacGregor concludes a week of considering the world of discovery in the 18th century.
He describes what was happening in China during this period, as the country was experiencing its own Enlightenment under the Qianlong Emperor.
Today he tells the story of the Chinese Enlightenment through a jade ring (called a Bi) that was probably made around 1500BC and then written over during the Qing dynasty.
Historian Jonathan Spence and poet Yang Lian find meaning in this intriguing object and explore what the prehistoric piece of jade tells us about life in 18th-century China.
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Maidens' Trip follows the adventures of three 18-year-old girls who signed on with the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company to replace workers drafted overseas.
Quite literally thrown in at the deep-end, Emma, Charity and Nanette embark on their maiden voyage carrying steel north by canal from London to Birmingham. They surmount the dangerous, back-breaking work thanks largely to an endearing mix of youthful bravado and blissful ignorance. As they steer their way through the "other world" of the boat people, the girls, often out of their depth, face up to an assortment of challenges with courage and good cheer.
The cast stars Greta Scacchi in the role of Tilly; Emma Wachter as Emma; Emerald O'Hanrahan as Charity; Georgia Groome as Nanette; Rufus Wright as Wilfred; Sean Baker as Mr Silver; and Lloyd Thomas as Eli Silver.
Maidens' Trip is written by Emma Smith and dramatised for radio by David Ashton.
Producer/Kirsteen Cameron for the ´óÏó´«Ã½
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 8 October 2010
5 Live Sport
Colin Murray presents a special Kicking Off, live from Windsor Park, ahead of this evening's Euro 2012 football action. There is also a look ahead to the weekend's sport.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Mike Carr.
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5 Live Sport – International Football 2010-11
Listeners can enjoy live commentary of Northern Ireland versus Italy in their Euro 2012 qualifying group match. There are also updates from the Czech Republic versus Scotland and Wales against Bulgaria.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Mike Carr
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´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Friday 8 October 2010
5 Live Formula 1
Uninterrupted commentary of the second practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix comes live from the Suzuka circuit.
Producer/Jason Swales for USP
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Commonwealth Games
Live swimming and athletics coverage comes from the Commonwealth Games in Delhi.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Football
Uninterrupted Euro 2012 commentary of the group G qualifier, Wales versus Bulgaria, comes live from Cardiff City Stadium.
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´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 MUSIC Friday 8 October 2010
Singer and actor Justin Timberlake and actor Jesse Eisenberg join Huey Morgan to talk about their roles in the latest David Fincher directed film The Social Network. The film explores the birth of a revolution in communication plus loyalty, friendship and greed among a group of friends.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Gary Bales
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´óÏó´«Ã½ WORLD SERVICE Friday 8 October 2010
In July 2010, in the midst of the financial crisis, Maywood, a small city down the highway from Los Angeles, took the radical step of laying off almost all of its city employees.
Policing in Maywood was handed over to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and other city services were outsourced to the nearby city of Bell. According to Mayor Ana Rizo, it was either this step or bankruptcy.
Presented by Simon Pitts, the programme examines how best to run modern cities, meets with local residents and the Latino community affected and often disenfranchised by the changes and talks to policy professionals who have deep reservations about contracting the private sector to run a city.
Presenter/Simon Pitts
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