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Another chance to hear Rolling Stones front-man Mick Jagger hand-pick a selection of artists and music that has influenced the band's ground-breaking sound. In conversation with Paul Sexton, Mick talks through a wide-ranging playlist that reflects his own, and the band's, love of classic R&B, gospel, country and reggae.

The fascinating mix of material conjures up the musical environment of the late Sixties and turn of the Seventies, in which the Stones, and so many of their peers, were scaling new and ever more eclectic creative heights. In a show that includes both vintage hits and lesser-known gems, Mick reveals which of his fellow rock acts from that era have his personal seal of approval. He also selects some brilliant soul records that have remained his all-time favourites; plus singer-songwriters; giants of country and Americana; and more besides.

Jagger's Jukebox was first broadcast in May and coincided with the screening of Exile Of The Stones, a documentary which told the story behind the 1972 album Exile On Main Street.

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Earlier this year, 15 talented singers were selected to go through to the semi-finals of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2 Kiri Prize, a nationwide search with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa to find an opera star of the future.

Over the summer the singers were heard performing in five special Friday Night Is Music Night programmes, introduced by Penny Smith. The initiative was launched in January 2010 and, following regional auditions, 40 singers were invited to attend master classes in London with Dame Kiri, mezzo-soprano Anne Howells and renowned conductor Robin Stapleton.

The semi-finalists were accompanied by the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra, conducted by Martin Yates, Richard Balcombe and Roderick Dunk and their performances were judged by Dame Kiri, Anne Howells, Robin Stapleton and director John Cox.

Five singers went through to the final, which was broadcast on Radio 2 in September. The winner, soprano Shuna Scott Sendall, performed with Dame Kiri at ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms In The Park in London's Hyde Park on Saturday 11 September and was given the opportunity to attend a three-week residential course at the Solti Te Kanawa Academia in Italy.

This special show features highlights of the Kiri Prize in with some of the semi-finalists and the finalists Laurie Ashworth, Hannah Bradbury, Gwawr Edwards, Alexander Grove and eventual winner, Shuna Scott Sendall.

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Fun Lovin' Criminal Huey Morgan brings his individual New York style to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2

With his chair firmly clicked back into the recline position, Fun Lovin' Criminal Huey Morgan brings his individual New York style to ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2.

He talks to iconic rock photographer Mick Rock, whose career started in the Seventies, photographing the then almost unknown David Bowie. Rock went on to catalogue the glamour, decadence and rock 'n' roll excesses of the Seventies, photographing Syd Barrett, Iggy Pop, The Sex Pistols and The Ramones. He talks to Huey about his 40-year career as a definitive collection of his photographs is released, coupled with a London-based exhibition of his work.

Huey also takes a New York Minute with DJ "Uncle" Mike, his former A&R man and best friend in the Big Apple, reminiscing about a classic musical moment. He also asks a listener to choose a track they'd like to hear on vinyl.

The show is held together by Huey's usual selection of unusual tunes, from Latin to soul, hip hop, rap, rock, punk and reggae, coupled with tales, anecdotes and musings.

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Get your kicks on the A66! ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2 travel presenter Sally Boazman goes on a journey along the motorways, B-roads and country lanes to discover if Britain has a musical equivalent to the iconic American hit Route 66.

Known to millions of Radio 2 listeners as "Sally Traffic", she speaks to songwriters who have been inspired by Britain's highways and byways and to those who've had motorway muses.

First stop on Sally's musical journey is folk legend Peggy Seeger, who harks back to 1959 when Britain's first motorway, the M1, was constructed. Peggy, along with Ewan MacColl and Charles Parker, dedicated one of their iconic Radio Ballad albums to songs about the road.

Sally also speaks to the man behind one of Britain's most well known "road songs", as Chris Rea reveals the nightmare journey on the M25 which inspired his smash hit The Road To Hell and Billy Bragg confesses why he penned a love song to the A13. Crispian Mills from Nineties group Kula Shaker talks about why they wrote 303, a song about the road that runs past two of the country's biggest mystical areas, Stonehenge and Glastonbury.

Andy Williams, from Manchester band Doves, talks about how the group came to write M62 Song and why they then decided to record the song under one of the motorway's busiest flyovers. John Campbell from Eighties band It's Immaterial discusses the group's biggest hit, Driving Away From Home, which also pays homage to the M62, and reflects on why the road is so important for the north of England.

Even further north, Malcolm Middleton, front man of Scottish indie group Arab Strap chats about his song Speed on the M9, a very dark look at the busy Scottish motorway.

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The Ensemble Matheus from Brittany in the far west of France have been making a name for themselves in recent years with their thrilling performances of Baroque music.

Tonight, there's another chance to hear their ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms debut with their founder-director Jean-Christophe Spinosi performing music from the heart of their repertory by Handel, Telemann and Vivaldi.

Celebrated French counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky and Canadian contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux join the group for arias and duets by Handel and one of his greatest operatic rivals in early 18th-century London, Nicola Porpora, including music he wrote for the famous castrato Farinelli.

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Recorded at London's Royal Albert Hall in September as a Late Night Prom, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3 offers another chance to hear Penguin Café, the 21st-century reincarnation of the Penguin Café Orchestra's debut at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms, with special guest Kathryn Tickell.

The Penguin Café's wide-ranging line up of ukulele, dulcitone, penny whistles and guitars alongside violin, cello and piano can be heard, supplemented by the Northumbrian smallpipes, played by their star champion, Kathryn Tickell.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/David Gallagher

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Late Junction offers a time for reflection in Cliff Carlisle's Red Velvet Slippers, a welcome refuge from festivity with David Matthews' Clarinet Quartet, a pick-me-up from Couperin and an unseasonal tale from Carmen McRae. All dispensed by host Max Reinhardt.

Presenter/Max Reinhardt, Producer/Roger Short

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Where England Meets Wales Ep 1/2

Wednesday 29 December

11.00-11.30am ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4

Hardeep Singh Kohli encounters issues of identity, language and a turbulent past, as he journeys down the 160-mile-long border between Wales and England.

Over the course of these two programmes, Hardeep travels southwards, exploring the border's unstable past and its changing present.

Since devolution, it has developed a new significance, with the Welsh Assembly implementing policies which add interest, and sometimes confusion, to those living near the border.

In the first programme, Hardeep arrives at Flint Castle, the hefty stone marker put down by Edward I when he decided that the Welsh needed to be brought to heel. Labour peer Lord Barry Jones has lived in the Flint and Deeside area all his life, and talks about the industrial crash in the Eighties and the new developments.

Hardeep also encounters two artefacts – the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct built in the early 19th century, and the much earlier earthwork, the dyke masterminded by King Offa 1,200 years ago.

In the second programme, he continues southwards meeting border people, who may relish their history but find themselves entangled in policies now separating the place where England meets Wales.

Presenter/Hardeep Singh Kohli, Producer/Richard Bannerman for Ladbroke Productions

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Robin Ince explores the legacy of Schrodinger's Cat, the paradox of quantum physics, and discovers its influence on science and popular culture.

Fifty years after the death of Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger, the quantum mysteries of his cat-in-a-box paradox still continue to drive physicists in research today.

Schrodinger's experiment was an almost playful creation, but one that stabbed at the heart of the Thirties' physics establishment. By the Fifties, US physicist Hugh Everett concluded that indeed, both a dead cat and a live cat can exist, but in separate universes. His "Many Worlds" theory inspired authors from Philip K Dick to Philip Pullman.

Robin follows in the Austrian physicist's footsteps to Oxford University, where Schrodinger was once a Fellow, and unearths some original archive at Magdalen College. Contributors include physicist Sir Roger Penrose and writer Alan Moore.

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Mark Pougatch, live from Melbourne, and Rachel Burden, in the studio in London, present news from the UK including the latest from the business world, travel updates and the day's big sports stories. Plus news and updates from day four of the Fourth Ashes Test in Melbourne.

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5 Live Sport

Wednesday 29 December

7.00-10.30pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE

Ian Payne delivers a full round-up of today's sports news, including a look back at day four of the Fourth Ashes Test in Melbourne and a preview of the final day.

From 7.45pm, there's live Championship commentary on the match between Nottingham Forest and rivals Derby County, plus regular updates from the Premier League games between Chelsea and Bolton Wanderers, Wigan Athletic versus Arsenal and Liverpool against Wolverhampton Wanderers as well as Celtic versus Motherwell and St Johnstone versus Rangers in the Scottish Premier League.

At 10pm, The Final Whistle covers the post-match reaction to all this evening's games.

Presenter/Ian Payne, Producer/Mike Carr

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Highlights come from the fourth day of the Fourth Test between Australia and England in Melbourne, including close-of-play analysis from Jonathan Agnew and Geoffrey Boycott.

This programme is repeated every half hour.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Test Match Special

Wednesday 29 December

11.00pm-7.30am ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Live from Melbourne, the Test Match Special Team present uninterrupted commentary on the fifth day of the Fourth Ashes Test between Australia and England.

Producer/Adam Mountford

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Marc Riley turns his attention to the Nineties as ´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music's Sound Of ... series continues.

Featuring the best songs of the decade, interspersed with some classic Peel moments, Marc plays session tracks from bands he's had on his show from that era too. Rob Hughes is in the studio with a copy of a music magazine from the Nineties in his Parallel Universe to tell Marc what the hot musical topics of the day were.

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In 1990 it was all baggy, by 1999 it was all dance. ´óÏó´«Ã½ 6 Music's Breakfast Show presenter Shaun Keaveny looks at the musical evolution of the Nineties, charting how music went from the Stones Roses, the explosion of American grunge, the counter explosion of Britpop and ended with dance acts and DJs like Moby, Basement Jaxx and Chemical Brothers dominating the scene.

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Gideon Coe trawls the archives for musical gems, including Supergrass live in concert from 1996.

There are also archive sessions from The Cramps and Trixie's Big Red Motorbike from 1982 and 1987 respectively.

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British film-director Garth Jennings helps Adam Buxton compile a tape filled with music for a sunny occasion. Garth made his name directing music videos for Blur, Radiohead, Beck, R.E.M., Supergrass and, more recently, Vampire Weekend.

Presenter/Adam Buxton, Producer/James Stirling

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The re-run of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Asian Network's monthly drama strand continues with Ping Pong, written by Sonali Bhattacharyya.

In the third of the network's 30-minute dramas, nine-year-old Anil Sengupta finds out how hard life is when he doesn't meet the academic expectations of his parents.

Feeling the pressure from his mother and father and from the child prodigies who live in the local neighbourhood and outshine him at school, Anil worries about his future career. What he really lives for is ping pong, in which he is encouraged only by his Thakuma (grandmother) a former West Bengal table-tennis champion.

As the tension in the family builds up, a tournament away from home is too exciting to resist and for more than one reason, Anil has to face it without his beloved Thakuma. So begins a youthful road movie, and a family saga.

Ping Pong features guest appearances by Nitin Ganatra (EastEnders), Indira Joshi (The Kumars At No. 42) and introduces Joseph Samrai as Anil. Other cast members include Zita Sattar as Sushmita, Saffron Mattu as Maya, Haris Nabi as Ivan, Susan Jeffrey as Deirdra, Greg Hobbs as DC Sizemore, Sean Connolly as the commentator and Peter Neenan as the reporter.

Producer/James Peries

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Is the first Buddhist chaplain in the American military an uneasy proposition?

Calling himself "a Buddhist from the watermelon patch", chaplain Thomas Dyer is a former-Southern Baptist pastor from Memphis, Tennessee, who found the Buddha through his spiritual practise.

It was his teacher, a Tibetan Monk, who encouraged him to serve in the US army and, in 2009, he was appointed as the first Buddhist army chaplain.

Thomas was deployed to Iraq in January 2010, but introducing the practice of meditation to the soldiers has not been easy, even contentious. Do some army personnel think that his teachings undermine the US military's prowess? What are the historical precedents for fighting Buddhists? What, in short, are the dilemmas involved in introducing Buddhist ideas and practices, or could Buddhism be a welcome influence?

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