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Following on from ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 1Xtra DJ Max's 12 Days Of Christmas – where the DJ re-lives her 12 best 1Xtra Live Lounges of 2010 – there comes a special show from Maida Vale featuring performances from some of the station's favourite artists.

DJ Max hosts the (pre-recorded) event from the legendary radio studios where she is joined by Chipmunk, Devlin, Giggs, Jodie Connor and an all-female choir to get listeners in the mood for Christmas.

Presenter/Max, Producers/Lee Edmenson and Kat Wong

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Janice Long is joined by The Great British Barbershop Boys

Listeners can find an oasis of warmth on a cold winter's night as Janice Long is joined by The Great British Barbershop Boys bringing Christmas cheer to one and all.

Presenter/Janice Long, Producer/Mark Plant

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Jamie Cullum showcases his love for all types of jazz, and music rooted in jazz, from its heritage to the future.

This week, Jamie returns to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ archives and unearths a show from the legendary Jazz Scene series, which was recorded in December 1969 at Ronnie Scott's.

The archive recording features the Miles Davis Quintet making their first UK television appearance with an untitled improvisation lasting 17 minutes. Jamie plays an excerpt from this unique session.

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David Quantick presents a jiving, bopping, music, entertainment and comedy special, with the help of actors Lewis MacLeod, Kate O'Sullivan and in conjunction with The Jazz Repertory Company.

Enjoy 100 years of jazz in 120 minutes, as the five multi-instrumental jazz virtuosi create a highly entertaining musical journey through the decades, taking in everything from New Orleans to be-bop, swing to Latin, hot to cool, from Chicago and New York to around the world.

The programme was recorded, live, at The Cadogan Hall in London in October this year.

Presenter/David Quantick, Producer/Anna Harrison for Unique

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In a final tribute to Chopin in the centenary year of his birth, distinguished Georgian pianist Elisabeth Leonskaja performs a mixed programme of her favourite works at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow.

Presenter/Katie Derham, Producer/Lindsay Pell

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Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra

The Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, directed by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, perform a programme of Bach cantatas for Advent and Christmas.

It is now 10 years since the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, when the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists performed all of Bach's sacred cantatas throughout Europe. This concert from Cadogan Hall in London celebrates that anniversary with a programme of cantatas for the festive season.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Anthony Sellors

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Matthew Hill sends his second report from India about an education programme that has saved a forest from a mining operation.

The local people turned down a million rupees (approximately £13,800) per family, offered to them by a mining company, in favour of keeping a forest alive near their communities.

Tigers live in the forest and these creatures, highly revered by the local people, have a certain amount of sanctuary now. A very fundamental argument has been won where not even a million rupees is persuasive enough to let go of the forest.

Matthew Hill visits the forest, meeting not only the tigers but local people and conservationists.

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Dan Rebellato examines the importance and influence of John Wyndham on the history of British and American science fiction.

The Day Of The Triffids was the first big success for author John Wyndham, and it came late. He was in his forties when it was published. Wyndham went on to write a series of successful books, including The Kraken Wakes, The Chrysalids and The Midwich Cuckoos.

His novels are set in middle-class, British suburbia and, at their heart, is a streak of darkness. Wyndham was interested in how ordinary people would cope when extraordinary and terrifying things happened to them.

His greatest successes came in the Fifties and his preoccupations were very much post-war and cold war and included: nuclear annihilation; social breakdown; and anxieties over Communism. He also touches on climate change, genetically modified crops and species extinction. This programme examines various aspects of his work.

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When loving mother and respected businesswoman, Natasha Lonsdale goes missing, neither her husband, her family nor her lover have any idea why, in Mark Lawson's play.

Natasha, it seems, had a secret life – a life which is now starting to unfold in both the newspapers and on the web, with devastating results.

Roger Allam plays DCI Parsons; Rebecca Saire plays Natasha Lonsdale; Margot Leicester plays Barbara; Andrew Sachs plays Desmond; John McAndrew plays Dan; Richard Dormer plays Nick; and Nick Dunning plays Peter.

Producer/Eoin O'Callaghan for the ´óÏó´«Ã½

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Word Of Mouth Ep 1/6

Tuesday 21 December

4.00-4.30pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4

Michael Rosen begins a new series of Word Of Mouth by exploring the British Library's first ever exhibition on the history of English.

The exhibition is called Evolving English, and Michael's guests include David Crystal, author of the book of the same name.

Comics, adverts, text messages and trading records have all been used by the British Library to chart the development of English from a language spoken on a small island to the global language known today. The curators explain how they chose the exhibits, including the earliest surviving copy of Beowulf, the King James Bible and the poem Essay To Miss Catharine Jay.

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Rufus Hound hosts this six-part comedy series in which celebrities are asked to revisit their teenage diaries and read them out in public for the very first time.

In this week's episode, he invites Victoria Coren to read extracts from her teenage diaries.

Presenter/Rufus Hound, Producer/Victoria Payne for Talkback Productions

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Philip Dodd explores Pentecostalism.

Nearly one quarter of the two billion Christians in the world are Pentecostals. In the programme, Philip examines its extraordinary global reach – from the backstreets of Yorkshire's Grimethorpe to Korea's Seoul, home of the largest Pentecostal church in the world, and from São Paolo to Washington.

Philip also looks at Pentecostalism's love affair with modernity and its challenge to rationalise enlightenment through its loyalty to people's experience of God.

Presenter/Philip Dodd, Producer/Simon Hollis for Brook Lapping Productions

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Mark Chapman presents a full round-up of the day's sports stories.

At 7.30pm, Mark Chapman presents A Year In Football Review with a look back at the best football stories of 2010.

From 9.30pm, there are highlights of Mark Chapman and Dave Vitty's weekly footballing feature in The Best Of The Football Express.

Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Mike Carr

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It's Marc Riley's Annual ´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music Christmas Midwinter Warmer Celebratory Christmas Carol Concert!

Marc has invited the glitterati of the Manchester music scene in to the 6 Music studios to sing carols and spread some good old-fashioned festive cheer.

Among the guests for this yearly musical extravaganza are Elbow, I Am Kloot, Everything Everything, Jesca Hoop, Delphic, Liz Green, Liam Frost and Seal Cub Clubbing Club ... all kept in line by the wonderful Earlies with Sara Lowes.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhy

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Gideon Coe looks back at a year of live music broadcast by ´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music, including Glastonbury returning heroes Orbital and The National, who enjoyed a Top 5 hit with album High Violet.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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In preparation for a very special and much-anticipated Christmas return to the Big British Castle for Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, listeners can hear a selection of their bygone shows, and download the podcasts straight after from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music website.

The second show from 18 October 2008 is a repeat of For Your Ears Only – the day Sir Roger Moore made a visit to the Big British Castle. But how do the boys deal with meeting the Bond legend in the flesh?

Presenters/Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, Producer/James Stirling

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Continuing his week of highlights, Tommy Sandu celebrates the closing of the Summer of Melas season with The London Mela.

The show includes the best bits from the festival and interviews with stars gracing the main stage on the day.

Presenter/Tommy Sandhu

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