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Frank Renton talks to popular band composer and arranger Darrol Barry.

Darrol, who now resides and works in Oman, is employed by the Royal Guard of Oman as Resident Composer and Arranger, a job that keeps him very busy writing and arranging music for all occasions and different combinations including bands, pipes and bands, fanfare teams and big band.

Darrol has also composed several substantial pieces for symphony orchestra including two symphonies.

Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter for the ´óÏó´«Ã½

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Continuing the celebration of neglected English composer York Bowen, today's programme centres on 1929. That year not only saw the composition of Bowen's Piano Concerto No. 4, but also Bartók's First Rhapsody, Ravel's Piano Concerto For The Left Hand, and Shostakovich's music for the silent film New Babylon.

Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Ellie Mant

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Fiona Talkington introduces music by American minimalist Ingram Marshall and guitarist Stian Westerhus; bluegrass from Chris Thile and Michael Daves; and a reinterpretation of Ketelbey.

Presenter/Fiona Talkington, Producer/Philip Tagney

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Lou Stein's investigation into the connections between fatherhood and creativity continues with Booker-nominated author Abdulrazak Gurnah's emotional return to Zanzibar to see his elderly father. By making contact with him and his native land after a long period of absence, Gurnah was able to clearly focus his memories and his father's stories. He shared them with his daughters and then the world with the publication of his award-winning book Paradise.

Presenter and Producer/Lou Stein

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This drama follows a hunt master and an anti-hunt protestor who find a fragile human connection despite their opposing positions.

Written by Anita Sullivan, it explores what is happening in the countryside in response to the Hunting Bill. During some four years researching the topic, Anita consulted hunt monitors, hunt saboteurs, animal welfare organisations, the police, hunt staff and supporters, as well as many other individuals including falconers, terrier men, vets and farmers.

Tim McInnerny plays the hunt master and Russell Tovey the anti-hunt protestor. The cast also includes Lucy Speed, Nicholas Boulton, Sam Dale and Tom Stanley.

Producer/Karen Rose for Sweet Talk Productions

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5 Live Sport

Wednesday 27 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 updates from the Premier League match between Fulham and Bolton Wanderers.

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

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mike Carr

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´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 6 Music presents Helplessness Blues, the new album from critically acclaimed Seattle-based folk band Fleet Foxes. Tracks from their hotly anticipated album will be played in each show through the day and the band themselves are in conversation with Steve Lamacq and play live at the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s Maida Vale studio from 4pm.

Album Of The Day + is an extension to the station's Album Of The Day concept, where a different album, old or new, is played throughout the day, and aims to exclusively showcase a soon-to-be-released album by a key 6 Music artist. Albums recently featured include PJ Harvey's Let England Shake and Foo Fighters' Wasting Light.

Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Paul Sheehan

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Stuart Maconie and Mark Radcliffe speak to Dawn Penn (of classic No No No [You Don't Love Me] hit fame) about new documentary Rocksteady, The Roots Of Reggae, out now on DVD. Rocksteady chronicles the coming together of the surviving vocal stars and studio musicians of Jamaica's Rocksteady era to record an album of their greatest hits, to perform at a reunion concert and to tell their story.

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

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After two years away, Alela Diane returns to play live for Marc Riley from the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 6 Music London studio. The self-taught guitarist has a new album out on Rough Trade, Alela Diane & Wild Divine, which was written while on the road back in 2009. And the road is where this new wave folky songstress is at the moment, busy on tour around Europe and the UK.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

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Scottish remix master Mylo features in concert, with the evergreen BB King also live, from 1986. Sessions include classic British blues from Chicken Shack, female-fronted Britpop from Echobelly and Billy Childish protégé Pete Molinari.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Henry Lopez Real

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