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Jamie Cullum features a Maida Vale session from one of his favourite new artists, Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Gregory Porter.

Gregory performs music from his debut album, Water, which was released last year and nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Jazz Vocal album. He introduces the tracks and talks about the making of the album, while reflecting on what inspires his unique performances.

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On Friday, in Westminster Abbey, the Harrison and Harrison organ installed for the Coronation of King George VI in 1937 will accompany Kate Middleton's walk down the aisle. To mark the occasion, Nigel Ogden devotes this week's show to wedding music, with requests and stories from ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 2 listeners.

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The Florestan Trio can be heard at lunchtime this week in a series of concerts given at LSO St Luke's in London. Each concert includes a work by Beethoven, alongside works by other composers. Today's programme features Fauré's Piano Trio and Beethoven's Archduke Trio Op 97.

On Wednesday, the Trio perform Beethoven's Trio in C minor Op 1 No. 3 and Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor Op 67.

Thursday's concert consists of Ives's Piano Trio plus Beethoven's Piano Trio Op 70/2 in E flat.

On Friday there are two unusual works in the trio genre: Janá&Ďek's Kreutzer Sonata, restored to what is possibly its original scoring for trio by Till Alexander Körber; and Beethoven's Second Symphony in an arrangement for piano trio by the composer himself.

Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Elizabeth Funning

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This week Afternoon On 3 celebrates neglected English composer York Bowen for the 50th anniversary of his death. Today's programme includes Bowen's Third Piano Concerto paired with Rachmaninov's Symphony No. 2, which was also written in 1907, and with Bowen's own Second Symphony, alongside other English works written the same year by his more famous contemporaries.

Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Ellie Mant

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Fiona Talkington presents music from Fifties Jamaica, ngonis from Mali, Susanna And The Magical Orchestra, a sonic train ride to Barnstaple and unusual interpretations of Bach.

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Lou Stein's investigation into the connections between fatherhood and creativity continues with Gulf War artist John Keane's look at how his children have influenced how he sees his art and his role as a father. His paintings reflect on the dire poverty and hopelessness which can flourish in Third World countries in conflict. Although the nature of his interests means that he is constantly travelling to politically explosive parts of the world, fatherhood has helped him maintain an emotional balance in his life.

Presenter and Producer/Lou Stein

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Saving Species Ep 1/14

Tuesday 26 April

11.00-11.30am ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4

Saving Species returns for another year of live broadcasting about the world of wildlife conservation.

The first programme reports from rural Nigeria under a sky swirling with millions of swallows destined for the barns and roofs of Great Britain.

The programme also features other wildlife news from around the world and includes contributions to the Open University's iSpot site, where people can add their latest sightings of wildlife. And the programme hears from Japan in the aftermath of the huge natural disaster there.

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Archaeologist Christine Finn looks for clues to the creative process now that authors write on computers and communicate by email, leaving no trail of the letters, badly-typed first drafts and corrected manuscripts that once comprised a writer's archive.

Christine sets out to explore how the new generation of archive from the digital age will be made accessible to future generations.

She hears from the Digital Director at Emory University in America, which recently acquired Salman Rushdie's archive; and the British Library, which is addressing the digital challenge and developing a 21st-century approach to the preservation of the writer's environment.

Christine also discusses with author Fay Weldon the impact of technology on the art of archiving the work of writers and poets, exploring how these developments affect authors, their readers and potential biographers.

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The Music Group Ep 1/5

Tuesday 26 April

1.30-2.00pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4

Phil Hammond invites guests to select and dissect their personal choice of music.

Comedian Stewart Lee and voiceover artist Julie Berry are joined by author of One Day, novelist David Nicholls, to discuss three personally significant pieces of music.

Among their choices are a soulful rendition of a song about the Falklands conflict; a piece that survived a Carnegie Hall protest involving red paint; and a painful and experimental journey into playing guitar when suffering from a degenerative disease.

The selected pieces are: Shipbuilding sung by Robert Wyatt; Bach's Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for solo violin, performed by Yehudi Menuhin; and Five Weeks Later by Derek Bailey.

Presenter/Phil Hammond, Producer/Tamsin Hughes for Testbed Productions

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Ronnie Sax is a 60-something multi-millionaire businessman; abrasive, cocky, three times divorced but on wife number four, in Jon Canter's drama.

He's egotistical and high energy and very much afraid of heights. He lives in a bungalow and his large office is on the ground floor.

When he gives an interview to a journalist, her searching questions turn into a flirtation that Ronnie feels can only be consummated by conquering his phobia.

Martin, a "vertigo counsellor" reads Deborah's article and thinks he can help. Ronnie is impressed and quickly hires him as his very own counsellor.

Over a series of sessions, Ronnie gets attached to Martin and becomes quite dependent on him. Martin helps him overcome his deepest fears. But Martin has a big secret, one that threatens to turn Ronnie's world completely upside down.

Ronnie is played by Gerard Murphy, Martin by James Fleet and Deborah by Daisy Haggard.

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Award-winning actress Imelda Staunton

Martin Jarvis directs three stories by Yorkshire author Malachi Whitaker, who became known as the "Chekhov of the north".

On Tuesday, in Landlord Of The Crystal Fountain, read by Imelda Staunton, attractive red-headed teacher Brenda Millgate meets five jolly men on a train from King's Cross going north. What happens to her on the journey is a life-changing experience.

On Wednesday, Moira Quirk reads Strange Music. Written in 1934, it is the story of a young girl's visit to a northern dance hall.

On Thursday, Rosalind Ayres reads Home To Waggonhouse. Prematurely grey Sarah visits the husband who deserted her three years earlier.

Readers/Imelda Staunton, Moira Quirk and Rosalind Ayres, Producer/Martin Jarvis for Jarvis and Ayres Productions

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Broadcaster Sue MacGregor nominates singer Kathleen Ferrier, who died tragically young, in the latest programme in the biographical series.

Kathleen Ferrier was a British contralto singer who died in 1953 from breast cancer. Her professional career had lasted just 14 years but in that time she had become an international star, singing at Covent Garden, Glyndebourne and Carnegie Hall, and had worked with luminaries of post-war music such as Benjamin Britten, Sir John Barbirolli and Bruno Walter.

She had no formal training as a singer and had left school to work in the Blackburn telephone exchange. Ferrier never lost her common touch, never became a prima donna, and retained her liking for beer, cigarettes and risqué jokes.

Sue tells Matthew Parris why she admires Ferrier's work. Joining the discussion is conductor Christopher Fifield, who edited Ferrier's letters.

Presenter/Matthew Parris

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Nick Ross visits Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident, Nick Ross travels to the Ukraine to uncover the true health impact of the radiation leak.

Events in Japan have reignited controversy around the safety of nuclear energy, reviving memories of the world's worst nuclear accident, at Chernobyl.

Nick travels to the ruined plant itself, to meet survivors and to talk to scientists and doctors to try to unravel the truth.

´óÏó´«Ã½ World Service also marks the anniversary in Alive In Chernobyl today.

Presenter/Nick Ross, Producer/Brian King for Above The Title Limited

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Jon Ronson On... Ep 1/5

Tuesday 26 April

11.00-11.30pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 4

Writer and documentary maker Jon Ronson returns for another five-part series of fascinating stories shedding light on the human condition.

Voices In The Head, the first episode, features Eleanor Longden, who started to hear voices in her head when she was at university and was diagnosed as a schizophrenic – a label she totally rejects. Now she is a high-achieving academic.

Jon tries to find out what started the voices and how Eleanor got to a point where she not only lives happily with the voices that still exist, but also works with other people who have the same experience.

The programme includes contributions from writer Graham Linehan and comedian Josie Long.

Presenter/Jon Ronson, Producers/Laura Parfitt and Simon Jacobs for Unique Broadcasting Company

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´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 Extra listeners can hear more of The Archers' characters in Ambridge Extra.

Ambridge Extra airs on Radio 4 Extra on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am with same-day repeats at 2.15pm. An omnibus half-hour programme airs on Fridays at 10.30am, repeated on Sundays at 11.15am and 7.15pm.

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Breakfast looks back 30 years as it celebrates 1981 – the year of the last big royal wedding – with special guest, news reader Angela Rippon.

Presenters/Shelagh Fogarty and Phil Williams, Producer/Scott Solder

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5 Live Sport

Tuesday 26 April

7.00-10.30pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch presents the day's sports news and build-up to tonight's Champions League semi-final first leg football, followed by live commentary of the game from 7.45pm, plus regular updates from Stoke City versus Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League.

In Final Whistle from 9.40pm there's post-match reaction and analysis following all tonight's football.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mike Carr

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Tuesday 26 April

7.40-9.45pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary comes from the Midlands clash between Stoke City and Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Shaun Keaveny welcomes actor John Simm into the studio to talk about his role in new ´óÏó´«Ã½ One drama Exile. Created by Paul Abbott and written by Danny Brocklehurst, Exile is a three-part psychological thriller that tells an intimate story of prodigal redemption.

Presenter/Shaun Keaveny, Producer/Lisa Kenlock

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The Durutti Column's Vini Reilly and Bruce Mitchell talk about their upcoming live dates and also the re-release and remastering of seminal Durutti Column album, the ironically titled Vini Reilly.

Presenters/Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producer/Lizzie Hoskin

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Times New Viking call in to Manchester for their first session for Marc Riley. Hailing from Columbus, Ohio, the lo-fi noisy bunch have been busy touting their latest offering, Dancer Enquired, at SXSW, with a tour planned soon. In the band's own words, the album is "loud and brash with mammoth guitar".

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

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Gideon Coe delves into the ´óÏó´«Ã½ archives once again to play live sets from country queen Emmylou Harris from 1976 and Lou Reed in 1994. Sessions include early Eighties one-hit wonders The Vapors (of Turning Japanese fame), alt-country rockers Richmond Fontaine and Brummie proto-"girl power" quartet We've Got A Fuzzbox And We're Going To Use It.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Henry Lopez Real

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Alive In Chernobyl Ep 1/2

Tuesday 26 April

8.00-8.30pm ´óÏó´«Ã½ WORLD SERVICE

On the 25th anniversary of nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl power plant, presenter Olga Betko travels to Chernobyl – in her native Ukraine – to find the people who are living in what is known as the "dead zone".

In the last week of April 1986, when the nuclear reactor exploded, many power station workers and their families were evacuated. It was not until a week later that many local rural families and farmers also living in the Exclusion Zone were evacuated to cities.

This documentary follows the stories of a number of small groups of elderly rural people who have defied the radiation and returned from the cities to live in their abandoned villages, once again working the land they love.

Olga visits these tiny, remote communities to see how they are surviving in isolation and also looks at how people there are recovering a poisoned homeland.

´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4 also marks the anniversary in Fallout – The Legacy Of Chernobyl today.

Presenter/Olga Betko

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