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In New Music We Trust Live

Saturday 6 March

7.00-9.00pm BBC RADIO 1 and BBC 1XTRA

BBC Radio DJ Trevor Nelson

Trevor Nelson kicks off tonight's In New Music We Trust Live with an invited audience at a secret location in Newcastle with his simulcast BBC Radio 1 and BBC 1Xtra show. The broadcast features special acoustic performances from newcomers Rox (a BBC Sound Of 2010 artist) and McLean.

In New Music We Trust Live features three days of broadcasts live from Newcastle (4-6 March) with shows and live performances celebrating Radio 1 and 1Xtra's specialist music output.

Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Sarah Bailey

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In New Music We Trust Live

Saturday 6 March

9.00pm-1.00am BBC RADIO 1 and BBC 1XTRA

BBC 1Xtra's Tim Westwood and Mistajam host a free party, live from Newcastle University, on the final day of In New Music We Trust Live – three days of live broadcasts from the city celebrating BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra's specialist output and support of live music.

Live performances on the night include sets from Giggs, Donae'o and his band Dynamix, Boy Better Know and Miss Dynamite.

This free party is simulcast on Radio 1 and 1Xtra.

Presenters/Tim Westwood and Mistajam, Producer/Sarah Bailey

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Zoe Ball is joined by Hilary Oliver to look at Peter Jackson's adaptation of the book The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold, and also the latest film release from the team behind Amelie – a new comedy adventure called MicMacs.

Zoe also reviews the classic Ealing comedy The Ladykillers and Cirque Du Freak – The Vampire's Assistant on Blu-ray and DVD.

Presenter/Zoe Ball, Producer/Mark Simpson

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Jonathan Ross is joined by the star of the new West End production of Legally Blonde, Sheridan Smith.

Presenter/Jonathan Ross, Producer/Fiona Day

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Dale Winton counts down the charts from this week in 1967 and 1988, with hits from The Supremes, Marvin Gaye and Kim Weston, Tom Jones, The Monkees and Erasure.

Presenter/Dale Winton, Producer/Phil Swern

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Dermot O'Leary presents the third of four of his BBC Radio 2 shows, live from Los Angeles.

This week, he is joined in the studio by guests Hugh Hefner and McLovin (actor Christopher Mintz-Plasse from the film Superbad), and there is live music from upcoming American singer-songwriter Lissie.

Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker

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American singer-songwriter Jill Sobule is Bob Harris's After Midnight acoustic session guest tonight.

Her work is deeply personal and socially conscious. Over five albums and a decade of recording, the Denver-born songwriter, guitarist and singer has tackled such topics as the death penalty, anorexia, shoplifting, reproduction, the French resistance movement, adolescence, love and the Christian Right.

Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson

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Violinist Nicola Benedetti

As part of BBC Radio 3's focus on Scotland, Music Matters this week comes from Glasgow. Tom Service brings together Scottish performers – violinist Nicola Benedetti, mezzo soprano Karen Cargill and soprano Lisa Milne – to talk about the experience of performing in front of a home crowd.

The newly-installed principal conductor of the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Robin Ticciati – a Londoner in his mid-twenties who counts his mentors as Sir Simon Rattle and Sir Colin Davies – discusses his plans for the ensemble.

And there's a look at the role of the bagpipe in Scottish life and how the pipes, which are played across the world, have become inextricably linked with a nation's identity.

Presenter/Tom Service, Producer/Jeremy Evans

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Rita Ray visits the Sauti za Busara Festival in Zanzibar to hear some of the island's leading big-band taraab ensembles, including specially recorded performances from Zanzibar's premier band Culture Musical Club and the latest sensation, Mohamed Ilyas and his Nyota Zameremeta Orchestra.

Taraab dates from the centuries when Zanzibar was a centre for trade in the Arab world. The main instruments in the bands are the Arabic lute and zither, and the scales are Arabic. When the Arab sultans left, the taraab orchestras formed themselves into collectives and, in the programme, the founder members of Culture Musical Club recall the years leading up to independence in 1963, when their band was formed.

Taraab is now starting to reach international audiences through the albums and tours of musicians such as Mohamed Ilyas. The programme also features songs from Bi Kidude, Zanzibar's "little Granny" who, despite her great age, can still thrill an audience of both old and young.

Presenter/Rita Ray, Producer/Roger Short

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Opera On 3 – Live From The Met: Attila

Saturday 6 March

6.00-9.00pm BBC RADIO 3

Conductor Riccardo Muti makes his Met debut with a rarely heard early Verdi opera, Attila, written when the composer was 33, live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York – the first performance of this work at the Met.

The story of Attila explores a pivotal moment in history – the collapse of the Roman Empire under attacks from the "barbarians" led by Attila – and looks at the clash of religions, politics and love. The demanding title role is sung here by young Russian bass Ildar Abrazakov.

Attila is a ruthless but honourable leader who falls in love with one of his conquests, Italian slave Odabella, sung in tonight's performance by soprano Violeta Urmana. She, in turn, seeks revenge on Attila because he killed her father. Tenor Ramón Vargas is her lover, Foresto, who rallies the defeated Italian people, and Carlos Alvarez is General Ezio, a brilliant but corrupt soldier.

Presented by Margaret Juntwait, with guest commentator Ira Siff, there are live backstage interviews with members of the cast during the interval.

Presenter/Margaret Juntwait, Producer/Anthony Sellors

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In this powerful piece of new writing by Laura Lomas – one of Britain's most promising new playwrights – a grieving young woman transforms herself and her community.

Lucy is 16 and angry, living in Matlock in the heart of the Derwent Valley. Her father killed himself and Lucy is increasingly lost. She blames her mum, Dianne, for her father's suicide, and is hostile to her schoolmates. Her only comfort is the time she spends with her friend, David, on Black Rocks. But David has troubles of his own and, when he rejects her, Lucy makes a decision that has a profound effect on the world around her.

Lucy is played by Georgia Groome, Dianne by Esther Coles and David by Joe Dempsie.

Producer/Marc Beeby

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The Shropshire Bereavement Walking Group take Clare Balding for a therapeutic ramble as she continues to discover the joys of group walking and the reasons people come together to enjoy the countryside.

Presenter/Clare Balding, Producer/Lucy Lunt

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In 1967, Vincent Price came to the UK to make the horror movie WitchFinder General. It is said to be the best performance of his career – and the worst few months of his life. This play, starring Nickolas Grace as Vincent Price, is an enjoyable and lively look behind the camera of this classic British movie.

Arriving and thinking this would be just another day at the office requiring him to ham it up in the way that everyone always loved, Vincent found himself confronted by an uncomfortable shoot on a remote army range, a cold, miserable Norfolk climate, and a director who hated him on sight and had no intention whatsoever of keeping his utter distaste under wraps.

Michael Reeves was the director – a young, supremely gifted but arrogant rising star of British film. Mike put Vincent through an utterly miserable two months to make the film, and Price, who by then was in his late fifties and much more used to comfortable heated studios and plenty of napping in his dressing room, reached what he thought was rock bottom in his career.

However, the antipathy between the two had a startling effect – Vincent started turning in the performance of a lifetime. WitchFinder General is now considered a seminal, major work and Reeves thought of as the "lost genius" of British film. Mike Reeves died soon after completing WitchFinder General, only his third feature film, when he was just 25 years old.

This play by Matthew Broughton is based on a true story, although some events have been fictionalised.

Producer/Sam Hoyle

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Alan Dein hears how London's East End Bangladeshi community forged new alliances to oppose racism in the Seventies and Eighties.

London's East End had been a centre of racial struggle and opposition since the Thirties when Oswald Mosely's Blackshirts paraded through the then largely Jewish streets around Brick Lane. By the Seventies a new wave of predominantly Bangladeshi immigrants faced racism – again from the National Front and its sympathisers.

As provocation and attacks increased, this community made new alliances with local anti-fascist activists, culminating in large-scale movements such as Rock Against Racism. Once again Brick Lane and the streets beyond became a battleground.

Presenter/Alan Dein, Producer/Mark Burman

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5 Live Sport

Saturday 6 March

12.00noon-7.20pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch presents an action-packed afternoon of live sport.

Listeners can hear coverage of the afternoon's 3pm kick-offs, including Premier League and FA Cup quarter-final action, plus Rangers versus St Mirren in the Scottish Premier League.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mark Williams

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5 Live Football League

Saturday 6 March

2.45-5.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

There is live commentary on a leading game in the Championship, plus reports and score updates from across the Football League.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Abdul "Duke" Fakir, from legendary soul quartet The Four Tops, joins Craig Charles on his Funk And Soul Show this evening. The band, who are on tour in the UK in late March alongside The Temptations, have had many hits over the past four decades including a No. 1 with Reach Out, I'll Be There.

Craig talks to the "Duke" about life on the road and being in one of the happiest soul bands around.

Presenter/Craig Charles, Producer/Hermeet Chadhna

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Andrew Weatherall returns to BBC 6 Music, taking on experimental electronic duo F Buttons in a 6 Mix Soundclash.

F Buttons formed at art school in Bristol in 2004 and went on to sign to All Tomorrow's Parties records, releasing their critically acclaimed second album, Tarot Sport, at the end of 2009. The album was produced by Weatherall, who has also worked with Primal Scream as well as carving out a reputation as one of the most in-demand techno DJs in the word.

They discuss how they met and ended up collaborating, as well as playing the music which influenced the record – from experimental techno to electro pop. There's also a hot new dubplate direct from Weatherall's Rotters Golf Club studio.

Presenter/Andrew Weatherall, Producer/Rowan Collinson

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Tom Robinson shares two hours of new music found fresh on the net. The only digital utilitarian marching band he's ever heard, Gyratory System, are Tom's studio guests. Session tracks come from Viva Sleep's recent session at the legendary Maida Vale Studios.

Presenter/Tom Robinson, Producer/Tom Whalley

BBC 6 Music Publicity

Film critic and broadcaster Mark Kermode, who presents a review programme with BBC Radio 2's Drivetime host, Simon Mayo, every Friday afternoon on BBC Radio 5 Live, joins Aled Jones this Sunday morning.

Writer Peter Stanford discusses the sacred sites in Britain that have inspired pilgrimages for hundreds of years, looks at the week's news from a faith perspective and also gives the Moment Of Reflection.

Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson

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Otis Williams from The Temptations and Duke Fakir from The Four Tops discuss their respective careers in the Seventies this week.

Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Natasha Costa Correa

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Brian D'Arcy continues his reflections on life in the wilderness and, this week, takes time for contemplation, in the second in his series of programmes for the season of Lent.

Through music and prayer, he explores ways in which to seek and to know God more. This week's featured choir are the choristers of Jesus College Cambridge, directed by Simon Lole. The organist is Tim Lambourn. Hymns include Immortal Love Forever Full, I Lift My Eyes and All I Once Held Dear.

Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty

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League Of Gentlemen writer and actor Mark Gatiss

Actor and writer Mark Gatiss, who is perhaps best known as one of the team that created the award-winning comedy series The League Of Gentlemen, shares his Private Passions with Michael Berkeley this week.

Mark has also written for, and acted in, Doctor Who; appeared in the macabre BBC Three sitcom Nighty Night, with Julia Davis; featured as Ratty in The Wind In The Willows; and written, acted in and co-produced the three-part ghost story Crooked House, broadcast on BBC Four in 2008. He is currently filming a new version of Sherlock Holmes.

Mark's musical choices range from the Liebestod, from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, to an extract from Purcell's King Arthur and So In Love from Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate.

Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Chris Marshall

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Kirsty Young's castaway this week is space scientist Maggie Aderin-Pocock.

Maggie talks to Kirsty about her life, her career and her favourite music and describes how she would cope on BBC Radio 4's mythical desert island.

Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle

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It seems Britain is in the grip of snowdrop mania. Kerry Ten Kate looks into the passions, the jealousies and the murky underworld of snowdrop collecting among the enthusiasts who have a big obsession with the small plant.

Last year a single snowdrop bulb was auctioned for more than £150. But even that price is worth paying for the growing band of galanthophiles who are caught up in the contemporary similar to that of 17th-century Holland's tulip mania.

The term "galanthophile" was coined in the early 1900s by a snowdrop obsessive called Edward Bowles and, a century later, the phenomenon is still going strong. Kerry meets one of Britain's leading galanthophiles, Joe Sharman, known as "The Pope of Snowdrops". At his 2010 snowdrop auction, Kerry asks him what it is about this tiny flower that creates such big passions.

Kerry also meets the enthusiasts who flock to Joe's gala and auction to bid for some of the rarest of the 700 varieties of snowdrop. She discovers the code of secrecy and trust among collectors who guard the rarest varieties and asks how a collector can be sure that the little bulb they've bought is actually the rarity they've been promised.

But, as the popularity and price of snowdrops rise, there's been a worrying upsurge in thefts of one of Britain's favorite wild flowers. Kerry also discovers how snowdrops are now being stolen to order.

Presenter/Kerry Ten Kate, Producer/Gwenan Pennant Jones

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The cast of Of Mice And Men: David Tennant, Jude Akuwudike, Richard Madden, Liam Brennan, Neil McKinven, Christopher Fairbank

David Tennant and Liam Brennan star in Donna Franceschild's dramatisation of John Steinbeck's seminal novel about migrant workers in Thirties California, whose dream of one day owning a place of their own is tragically destroyed.

Of Mice And Men explores the friendship between George Milton and Lennie Small via the last three days in Lennie's life.

On the run from a town where Lennie has been accused of rape, they pick up new jobs on a ranch further north – a place where the boss has recently married a flirtatious young woman.

She's trouble, however, and George knows it, so he warns Lennie about the woman. They dream about a better life – a life they think is just around the corner. The boss's wife then finds Lennie alone in the barn and their dream is ripped apart.

David Tennant stars as George Milton and Liam Brennan as Lennie Small. The cast also features Jude Akuwudike as Carlson/Crooks; Christopher Fairbank as Candy; Melody Grove as Curley's wife; Neil McKinven as Slim; and Richard Madden as Curley.

Producer/Kirsty Williams

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James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to Douglas Coupland about his worldwide best-selling novel that defined a generation – Generation X – in this week's edition of Book Club.

In the early Nineties, Canadian writer Coupland's first novel was a worldwide success. Set in a time of yuppies and youth unemployment, the characters in Generation X are in their late twenties. They're all highly educated but have no ambition. They live in poor housing on the edge of the Californian desert and work in bars and tell each other stories. Generation X presents a society that has lost the certainties and solidities of the world the characters' parents had grown up in.

Douglas tells Book Club most movingly – and with insight of how a writer works – of the origin of Generation X and describes how, as a young man, he found his way as a writer. Preparing for the recording, he found it painful to return to his first novel and to re-read it. He was reminded of a time when he, too, was lost and miserable. Coupland's literary career bloomed after this novel and he went on to write the Microserfs and All Families Are Psychotic.

Presenter/James Naughtie, Producer/Dymphna Flynn

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5 Live Sport

Sunday 7 March

12.00noon-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Colin Murray presents the latest sports news and reaction to yesterday's FA Cup quarter-final results.

Listeners can hear live FA Cup quarter-final commentary and there are updates from the day's other games.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Adrian Williams

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It's Jon Richardson's final show on BBC 6 music before he leaves the station to concentrate on his already successful career as a stand-up comedian.

Jon invites old friends back to send him off in style and hears listener's good deeds of the week, while Fordy gives his last marathon training update to the nation.

Presenter/Jon Richardson, Producer/Adam Hudson

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New York singer-songwriter Natalie Merchant talks The Music Week through her first studio album in seven years – a collection of songs adapted from the work of various classic and contemporary poets including Charles Causley, Robert Graves and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Also, as previously unreleased Jimi Hendrix material hits the shops, Julie Cullen and Matt Everitt look back at the iconic guitarist's work.

Presenters/Julie Cullen and Matt Everitt, Producer/Tom Green

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In his now critically acclaimed show, Jarvis Cocker shares his eclectic record collection and invites listeners to plug the gaps in his musical knowledge in the regular feature, Are They Any Good?.

Presenter/Jarvis Cocker, Producer/Alicia Brown

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BBC Radio 1's Rob Da Bank talks with Murdoc, 2D, Noodle and Russell about their past, present and future. From Kong Studios to Plastic Beach, this is the story of the most successful animated band of all time.

BBC Radio 1 Stories explore the musical back-stories of listeners' favourite artists, eras, genres and scenes. Previous episodes of the series have included The Story Of The Noughties and The A-Z Of Vampire Weekend.

Presenter/Rob Da Bank

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Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter George Benson discusses his Tracks Of My Years each morning this week with Ken Bruce, and his choices include tracks by Marvin Gaye, Savage Garden, Stevie Wonder and Jackie Wilson.

There's also the Popmaster music quiz and the Record Of The Week and Album Of The Week.

Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Phil Jones

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Musicologist Sid Griffin talks to Mark Radcliffe about a new Captain Beefheart book, Beefheart: Through The Eyes Of Magic by John French.

Presenters/Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producer/Viv Atkinson

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Clare Teal presents the first part of the BBC Big Band in concert at the Town Hall in Birmingham, performing the music of easy listening kings Henry Mancini and Burt Bacharach.

The concert features guest singer Ian Shaw, with lounge anthems including Make it Easy On Yourself, Alfie and Trains And Boats And Planes.

Presenter/Clare Teal, Producer/Bob McDowall

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BBC Radio 3 presenter Donald Macleod

This week Donald Macleod introduces listeners to Dr Thomas Arne: musical prodigy, unscrupulous businessman, bad husband and composer of Rule Britannia.

Thomas Arne is remembered today by just a handful of popular songs. Even so, these are some of Britain's most enduring melodies. Rule Britannia has its annual outing during Last Night of the Proms, and his setting of Shakespeare's Where The Bee Sucks remains the best known of the very many versions of that song.

The lasting appeal of these tunes provides just a hint of the fame and popularity he enjoyed as one of London's most successful stage composers in the 18th century. He had a knack for entertaining the city's well-to-do middle classes, and wasn't afraid to pander to low-brow tastes in order to attract audiences.

His reputation as a bad husband did him no favours, though, and rather tarnished his professional career. The masques and plays that served as vehicles for his music were not designed for posterity and much of his legacy has been lost. Plus, he had the misfortune to live and work alongside George Frederick Handel, whose brilliance consigned a whole generation of British composers to shadowy obscurity. Nevertheless, Arne is revealed as one of British music's most vibrant characters.

Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Chris Taylor

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Mark Minkowski conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Pergolesi's impassioned Stabat Mater and Stravinsky's ballet Pulcinella, which reworks pieces by Pergolesi and others.

The impresario Serge Diaghilev suggested to Stravinsky, in exile in Switzerland during the period of the Russian Civil War, that he should make an arrangement of a group of 18 Pergolesi pieces retrieved from the Conservatory library in Naples. Over half of the works turned out to be by other composers. Whatever the identity of the original authors, Stravinsky warmed to his task after seeing the scores and produced a scintillating ballet. The plot centres round the wily Pulcinella and his jealous girlfriend, Pimpinella.

Pergolesi enjoyed international fame during his lifetime. His success was partly due to his comic operas and the impassioned music of his Stabat Mater. Commissioned for Good Friday by the monastery near Naples where he had been residing for his health, it was one of the composer's last works before his death, aged 26. Soloists include soprano Marita Solberg and Matthew Rose.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen

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Matthew Sweet interviews American novelist and former psychotherapist Amy Bloom about her new collection of short stories, Where The God Of Love Hangs Out.

Bloom started out as a psychotherapist; in addition to her fiction she has written about transvesticism, and also wrote the hit American TV series State Of Mind.

Presenter/Matthew Sweet, Producer/Matthew Dodd

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This week, five artists who live on the British coast reflect on the personal, cultural and imaginative importance of the meeting of land and sea and sky.

Poet Katrina Porteous lives at the edge of the land in the Northumbrian village of Beadnell and has spent her life exploring and writing about the culture and language of fishing, the land and seascape, the sky full of seabirds and the history of her place. In today's programme, recorded on the rocks, in a tarry old fisherman's hut and the ruins of an ancient headland chapel, she reveals how the meeting of land and sea and sky has shaped the way of life of a community, and her own way of seeing and artistic creation.

On Tuesday listeners can hear from poet Jeremy Hooker who grew up on the Solent shore; and on Wednesday young Liverpool dramatist and singer Lizzie Nunnery gives an urban perspective.

Presenter/Katrina Porteous, Producer/Julian May

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BBC Radio 3 presenter Jez Nelson

Jez Nelson presents a transatlantic collaboration between two leading lights of avant-garde jazz and improvised music: New York pianist Matthew Shipp and London-based reeds player John Butcher. Recorded during Shipp's residency at East London's Café Oto, both musicians play solo before coming together for a highly anticipated meeting of musical minds.

Matthew Shipp made his name as part of David S Ware's quartet in the Nineties, before going on to release a series of celebrated albums under his own name featuring musicians such as William Parker and Roscoe Mitchell.

John Butcher's playing is grounded in the history of British free improvisation. Taking elements of Evan Parker's technique and Derek Bailey's philosophy, Butcher has forged his own sound favouring complex overtones and electronic manipulation.

Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Peggy Sutton

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Book Of The Week –
Did You Really Shoot The Television? Ep 1/5

Monday 8 to Friday 12 March

9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4

Max Hastings is a renowned military historian and former editor of The Telegraph and Evening Standard newspapers. He is the son of two heralded parents – roving reporter and author "Mac" Hastings and magazine editor and gardening writer Anne Scott-James. Theirs was a bumpy, eventful, ill-starred marriage which is the subject of Max's new book. Did You Really Shoot The Television? is a voyage around his parents.

Max himself says he was guilty of "some pretty frightful childhood behaviour" and of course it led to disaster with said TV set.

Max Hastings reads, with Nigel Hastings (no relation) speaking the words of Mac and Joanna Monro the words of Anne.

Readers/Max Hastings, Nigel Hastings and Joanna Munro,
Producer/Duncan Minshull

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As Anne McElvoy trawls schools looking for the right place for her own children, she's been confronted by an underlying question: what is a "good school" and how does the intellectual history of that aspiration influence the political argument and the educational choices today?

Anne speaks to leading politicians at the heart of the debate about education at secondary level. She hears from Michael Gove, the Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, who has made it clear that he wants a return to more traditional educational techniques. He has criticised courses and exam boards for not including enough teaching from the canon of established knowledge and wants more schools to replicate the kind of classically based education he enjoyed at an independent school.

In further new interviews for the programme, the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, Ed Balls, challenges Gove's vision of the good school, as does Liberal Democrat peer Shirley Williams, herself a former Education Secretary.

Other contributors include Pete Hyman, a former aide to Tony Blair, who now teaches at an inner-London comprehensive; sociologist Professor Frank Furedi; philosopher Dr Annabel Brett; and Chris Woodhead, the former Chief Inspector of Schools.

Today, the "good school" argument is as lively as ever and the discussion in the programme is firmly rooted in the current arguments which will shape the election campaign and schools beyond it.

Presenter/Anne McElvoy, Producer/Rebecca Stratford

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A Brief History Of Double Entry Book-keeping Ep 1/10

Monday 8 to Friday 12 March

3.45-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Jolyon Jenkins investigates how accountants shaped the modern world.

The history of accounting is the history of civilisation itself. The current political and economic crises are directly accountancy related – yet double entry book-keeping was central to the success of the Italian merchants, necessary to the birth of the Renaissance. And going back further still to ancient Mesopotamia, "writing" was invented not by poets and storytellers, but by state accountants who wanted to keep track of who had paid their taxes.

In this series, Jolyon looks at how double entry book-keeping arose from religious impulses – but also how accountants have been directly implicated in human-rights abuses; and how, throughout history, private accounts books often tell the true story while public accounts statements sometimes may not.

Jolyon also explores how ideas of accountancy, accountability and audit have seeped from the world of business into the entire public realm so that performance indicators and measurable targets govern the working – and indeed private – lives of much of the population.

Presenter/Jolyon Jenkins, Producers/Jolyon Jenkins and Beatrice Fenton

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Document Ep 1/3

Monday 8 March

8.00-8.30pm BBC RADIO 4

BBC Radio 4's investigative history strand returns as Mike Thomson begins another series of paper chases through the past – a document or object that has been lost or concealed for years is discovered and those involved are held to account.

The subjects in this new series range from Britain's involvement in Yemen in the Sixties, to the treatment of German POWs at the end of the Second World War.

Presenter/Mike Thomson, Producer/Philip Sellars

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2010 could be the breakthrough year for fusion energy. In this week's Costing The Earth, Tom Heap asks if it can save the world.

For 50 years nuclear fusion has been touted as the safe, cheap, limitless fuel of the future. In 2010 the future may finally arrive.

This year the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in the United States is expected to fire a laser which will demonstrate, for the first time, more energy coming out of a fusion reaction than has been put in. For many scientists it will be the public proof that all their work has been worthwhile, that the future really does belong to fusion energy.

Tom meets the world's top fusion scientists and, from a safe distance, witnesses a fusion reaction taking place. He asks what the enormous recent advances in fusion research really mean; whether there is enough fuel available to move from experimentation to real-world energy production; how safe the whole process is; and whether the future does belong to fusion.

Presenter/Tom Heap, Producer/Alasdair Cross

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Rory Bremner's International Satirists Ep 1/3

Monday 8 March

11.00-11.30pm BBC RADIO 4

In this new comedy series, Rory Bremner engages topical comics, satirists and comedians from different countries about their cultures and how they relate to ours – if at all.

In the first programme, Rory meets Hans Teeuwen from Amsterdam, an absurdist, comic performer and singer who takes great risks on stage and has been likened to Bill Hicks and Andy Kaufman. But after the murder of his close friend Theo Van Gogh, he decided to start performing his Dutch "cabaretier" show in English to wide acclaim.

Rory Bremner and Hans explore the world of performance, topical and absurdist comedy, exchanging views and impressions while discussing the risks facing Dutch comics today. The programme features media academic Professor Liesbet van Zoonen of Loughborough University and Erasmus University, Rotterdam.

Next week, Rory meets Barry Murphy. Described as the "Don of Irish comedy" by the Irish Times, Barry set up the Comedy Cellars club in Dublin.

In the final programme, Rory speaks to Viktor Giacobbo who has been a satirical presence in Switzerland for the best part of 30 years and uses a variety of comic character creations to illustrate the subtle but active societal differences in the country.

Presenter/Rory Bremner, Producer/Andrew McGibbon

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5 Live Sport

Monday 8 March

7.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Chapman has all the day's sports news and is joined by special guests for the Monday Night Club to discuss the latest big issues in football. At 7.35pm there's live coverage of the rugby league's Challenge Cup fourth round draw.

From 8pm there's Premier League commentary of Wigan versus Liverpool live from the DW stadium.

Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Ed King

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Lauren Laverne marks International Women's Day by celebrating the great female singers and songwriters of the past 40 years. She also welcomes Sarah Blasko into the studio for a live session. The Australian solo artist has found critical and commercial success in her own country and word is now beginning to spread to the UK. She comes in to the BBC 6 Music studio to chat to Lauren and play live.

Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales

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Nemone's band of the week is Dag For Dag. Dag For Dag are Swedish-based duo Sarah and Jacob Snavely who settled down in Sweden three years ago to make music. They have toured with Lykke Li, Shout Out Louds, The Kills and Wolf Parade. The band comes into the BBC 6 Music studio for a lunchtime chat with Nemone.

Plus, this week's hand-picked playlist comes courtesy of Brummie indie rockers Editors. They have chosen tracks by, among others, Spoon, Mew, Bats For Lashes and Les Paul. The band is currently on tour promoting their third studio album, In The Light And On This Evening.

Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

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Following on from the success of BBC 6 Music's Metal World Cup last November, Steve Lamacq kicks off the 2010 Punk World Cup.

16 punk bands will be chosen for Monday's draw which pits punk heavyweights such as The Sex Pistols and The Damned against the likes of Stiff Little Fingers and The Clash to see who is the ultimate punk band.

Journalist, author and Punk Musician John Robb joins Lammo on Monday with his thoughts on the runners and riders while the rest of the week sees esteemed journalists and musicians joining Steve to pick the winners from every match, with thoughts and opinions from the 6 Music audience. The victor will be revealed in Friday's show when the winner of the Safety Pin shaped 6 Music Punk World Cup is crowned.

Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Paul Sheehan

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Gideon Coe's musical gems include concert highlights from We Are Scientists, playing at South By South West in 2006. Session archive comes from artists as varied as former Pipette Rose Elinor Dougall, jocular musical mickey-takers Snuff and Joni Mitchell from 1968.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Rozena dreams she is a domestic goddess with Simran and Rita praising her dinner parties, as the drama continues. Then, Sameer asks Imran for time with "the Boss" but who is he talking about?

Rozena wakes to the commotion of Jaggy and Simran moving back into their flat. Meanwhile, Sameer ignores a call from Imran and Rozena realises the dream has affected her more than she thought.

Later Jaggy realises that being Sameer's neighbour again is not going to be easy...

Rozena is played by Pooja Ghai, Simran by Balvinder Sopal, Rita by Bharti Patel, Sameer by Alex Caan, Imran by Narinder Samra and Jaggy by Jay Kiyani.

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SUPERPOWER SEASON
How To Make Your First Billion Ep 1/10

Monday 8 to Friday 12 March

8.50-9.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE
11.50am-12.00noon BBC WORLD SERVICE (Copy update 25 February)

• www.bbc.co.uk/superpower

Silicon Valley is a global hub of cutting-edge high-tech companies, entrepreneurs and start-ups that have seen back-room ideas developed into big business and global brands.

How To Make Your First Billion is a multi-media drama and a fictionalised insight into Silicon Valley, the home of the global communications revolution.

Jake (28), a serial entrepreneur who has yet to succeed with a start-up company, and Subash (26), a technical whizz from India who Jake studied with at college, decide to go into business together. Combining Subash's ideas and technical know-how with Jake's entrepreneurial flair, the two have a vision for an internet business which they believe will change the world. Fuelled by the track record of other small, home-grown businesses that have made their mark in Silicon Valley and become billion-dollar businesses, they believe they can do the same.

The drama follows the trials and tribulations as the pair attempt to get the business off the ground.

Recorded in a documentary style on location in Silicon Valley, the story echoes many of the real-life tales of entrepreneurs who started out from nothing to create iconic brands.

Real-life entrepreneurs also feature, offering advice to the two characters as they try to launch their business. These include Biz Stone, co-founder of Twitter; Susan Wojcicki, Google's 16th employee; Michael Arrington, editor of TechCrunch; Ron Conway, Angel Investor and one of the earliest investors in Google and Facebook; Gideon Yu, former Chief Financial Officer of Facebook, YouTube and now a venture capitalist; Jay Adelson, co-founder Digg and CEO of Equinix; Jerry Yang and David Filo, co founders of Yahoo; and David Weekly, programmer and entrepreneur who wrote the first layman’s description of MP3 in early 1997.

The series consists of 10, nine-minute radio pieces and five, five-minute films, alongside a series of daily online diary features.

Written by Matthew Solon, an award-winning writer whose work has featured on BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4, the play is directed by John Dryden, whose previous credits include the 10-part serialisation of Vikas Swarup's Q & A (Slumdog Millionaire) for Radio 4, which won the 2008 Sony Award for Best Drama.

Matthew and John have collaborated on a number of fictional documentary style dramas that are rooted in real life or news events. They worked together on the BBC World Service's drama The Day That Lehman Died, a fictionalised account of events over the weekend prior to the bank's demise, and also collaborated on Election Lives, a news-based drama in South Africa, in which Nelson Mandela had a walk-on part.

How To Make Your First Billion is part of SuperPower, a major season on the BBC's International News Services – BBC World Service, BBC World News and bbc.com – exploring the extraordinary power of the internet.

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Gilles Peterson is live in the studio with special guest Flying Lotus, the critically acclaimed experimental Californian music producer.

Every week, Gilles Peterson joins the musical dots between soul, hip hop, house, afro, Latin, dubstep, jazz and beyond.

Producer/Alex Kenning

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A Date With Dolly – Michael Ball Meets Dolly Parton Ep 1/2

Tuesday 9 March

10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2

The queen of country music, Dolly Parton

Michael Ball fulfils his long-time ambition to meet the woman who embodies country music: Dolly Parton.

In a long and revealing conversation, Ball finds out what makes Dolly tick, how she keeps her family life private, how she became a canny businesswoman and how she even takes her wig off sometimes.

In the first of two programmes, Dolly talks about why she turned down Elvis and how she went about writing songs for the Broadway production of her hit movie, 9 To 5. The programme also includes live versions of Jolene, Two Doors Down and the song she reveals as her personal favourite from her catalogue.

Presenter/Michael Ball, Producer/Paul Sexton

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Broadcaster Nikki Bedi concludes her exploration into the history of Bollywood and, in tonight's final programme, finds out whether the film Slumdog Millionaire has really broken down the cultural barriers between Eastern and Western cinema.

The Noughties seemed to usher in a new golden age for Hindi cinema, with talented directors and composers from Mumbai finding their skills being sought after in Hollywood.

Films including Moulin Rouge seemed to channel the spirit of Bollywood; Andrew Lloyd Webber took Bollywood Dreams to the West End; and samples taken from film music were often used in Western hip hop and pop music.

Recently, films like Blue, featuring Kylie Minogue, have been made with a Western audience in mind and new blockbusters exploring the underbelly of Mumbai are already in production.

The creative ground is ripe but Nikki asks why Slumdog Millionaire succeeded where other films have failed and what lessons both Hollywood and Bollywood can learn from it, as well as taking stock of just what makes Hindi film so distinctive.

Contributors include Slumdog Millionaire screenplay writer Simon Beaufoy and director Danny Boyle; composer AR Rahman; director Shekhar Kapur; lyricist Javed Akhtar; actor Sir Ben Kingsley; playback singers Asha Bhosle and Kavita Krishnamurthy Subramanium; superstars Amitabh Bachchan and Sharrukh Khan; Nitin Sawhney; and Tjinder Singh of Cornershop and Trickbaby.

Presenter/Nikki Bedi, Producer/Helen Lennard

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The Ulster Orchestra performs a programme full of colour and vitality under conductor Garry Walker in tonight's Performance On 3. Charm, grace and lightness of touch inform Ravel's Le tombeau de Couperin, the composer's tribute both to the great masters of the French Baroque and to his friends who died in the First World War. These dance movements are exquisitely orchestrated from his earlier piano suite.

The visionary and highly original prose poems of the French poet Rimbaud inspired an equally fantastical response from the young Britten. The hallucinatory, dreamlike quality of Rimbaud's Les illuminations challenged Britten to create sparkling textures and shifting harmonies for string orchestra, with the texts to be sung by either a tenor or soprano.

In this concert the Orchestra is joined by Elizabeth Watts, a current BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist. The concert concludes with Dvořák's Symphony No. 6, characterised by its free-flowing melodies, suffused with Bohemian folksong and dance tunes.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen

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The Alps Ep 1/3

Tuesday 9 March

11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4

Misha Glenny, the BBC's former central European correspondent, tackles our shared European history in a wholly unexpected way, asking what has been the impact of this huge mountain barrier on our culture, economy and the formation of eight European states.

In this series, largely recorded on location, Misha reveals why control of these mountains bestowed enormous power. From Hannibal to Napoleon and, arguably, onto Adolf Hitler as well, anyone with European aspirations had to know which passes to use, and why controlling both sides of this barrier was essential to further success.

Listeners hear why more than a million men died fighting here in the First World War; how Switzerland willed itself into existence; and why Savoy still has a separatist movement aiming to break free of France.

The series features contributions from Patrice Abeille, head of La Ligue Savoisienne; Fergus Fleming, author of Killing Dragons – The Conquest Of The Alps; and Mark Thompson, author of The White War.

Presenter/Misha Glenny, Producer/Miles Warde

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When Bill Drummond discovered Belfast wasn't twinned officially with another town, he made a sign and put it underneath the Welcome to Belfast sign on the M1. It read: Belfast – twinned with your wildest dreams.

Artist Bill is best known for his late Eighties pop group, The KLF, and its Nineties successor, the K Foundation, with which he was famously reported to have burned a million pounds. He offers listeners a vision of Belfast unlike anything they have heard before.

Bill grew up in Scotland and came to Belfast on holiday – he thought it to be a fantastically glamorous place. His relationship with the city has continued ever since.

Walking through Belfast, Bill guides listeners using his emotional, literary and artistic response to the urban surroundings – as well as talking to a number of interesting people he meets along the way.

Producer/Rachel Hooper

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Afternoon Play –
Say What You Want To Hear: The Endgame Ep 2/2

Tuesday 9 March

2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Today's Afternoon Play is Tim Wright's follow-up to Say What You Want To Hear: The Startup, which told the story of two would-be dot.com entrepreneurs who launched the Say What You Want To Hear (SWYWTH) website, offering users the chance to have their innermost thoughts voiced.

Stephen Tompkinson and Ewan Bailey starred as Liverpool-based entrepreneurs Erik and Mike and Keely Beresford as the elusive and exotic Swede, Scarlett.

This second play, Say What You Want To Hear: The Endgame, continues their story. The two intrepid entrepreneurs don't stand still. Mike's latest obsession is a talking mermaid doll that can deliver the audio SWYWTHs but development funds are in the red. Erik's pet project is software that predicts from the content of SWYWTHs where a person will be next. His pursuit of Scarlett leads them both into the heady and moneyed world of retired European footballer Jurgen Stuyler and a plot that involves match-fixing, misinterpreted phone calls, hiding in cupboards and a rendezvous at Rotterdam airport with a case-load of money.

Information on Tim's latest excursion into BBC Radio 4 drama, using interactive material gathered from members of the public, can be found at bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/swywth/ and at twitter.com/swywth.

Producer/David Hunter

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I've Never Seen Star Wars Ep 1/6

Tuesday 9 March

6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4

BBC Radio 4 presenter Marcus Brigstocke

Marcus Brigstocke invites his guests to try five things they've never done before, in this new series for BBC Radio 4.

Jon Culshaw has his first salad and listens to Woman's Hour; Sanjeev Baskar reads PG Wodehouse and plays Subbuteo; Jenny Eclair listens to Charlie Parker and has a bikini wax; Kate Adie watches The Sopranos and goes to bingo; John Lloyd does his first stand-up gig and watches The Wire; and Ardal O'Hanlon takes herbal remedies and tries Twitter.

Whether the experiences are banal or profound, the show takes guests out of their comfort zones, forcing them to embrace something new.

Presenter/Marcus Brigstocke, Producer/Bill Dare

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In the second programme of Am I Normal? Vivienne Parry examines the perceptions and realities of what happens to people as they get older.

She unpicks the differences between ageing and disease and asks if there is such a thing as "normal ageing".

Nothing can hold back the tide of time. The natural process of ageing not only affects our appearance and how our bodies respond to general wear and tear, but also how we succumb to – and are affected by – illness. Yet it seems no one ages in the same way. Middle age for some of us doesn't end until we're well into our seventies; whereas some people feel old before their time.

The programme asks what happens to us when we age normally and if there is such a thing as a "normal ageing process". Genes, lifestyle choices, environment and even social class all play a part.

So, what was normal 20 or 30 years ago is not normal now. The average age of the world's population is increasing at an unprecedented rate. It's been estimated that the number of people worldwide who are 65 and older now will double by 2040 from seven per cent to 14 per cent.

And how we are ageing is changing, too. People are living longer and dying quicker. Professor of geriatric medicine, Raymond Tallis says: "Despite the fact that we're living longer, the period of chronic illness or disability before death is shrinking." Advances in modern medicine have postponed many diseases of old age to such an extent, that we live longer, healthier lives before succumbing when we are really old and really frail and therefore die relatively quickly.

Presenter/Vivienne Parry, Producer/Fiona Roberts

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Tom Wrigglesworth recounts his engaging tale of taking on the jobsworths, in An Open Return Letter To Richard Branson. Having witnessed a Virgin train manager abusing his position of authority, Tom stood up for a little old lady and took on "the man".

With a down-to-earth charm and an insightful eye for the idiosyncrasies of British life, Tom is one of the country's leading young stand-up comedians. In this BBC Radio 4 comedy, he not only describes his confrontation with the hilariously vile train manager, but also finds time to mull over other important issues such as train spotters, big beige granny bags and the length of time it takes to eat a pistachio nut.

Presenter/Tom Wrigglesworth, Producer/Simon Mayhew-Archer

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5 Live Sport

Tuesday 9 March

7.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch has all the day's sports news and, from 7.45pm, Champions League commentary of the second leg of the first knockout round match between Arsenal and FC Porto, live from the Emirates Stadium.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Steve Houghton

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Football

Tuesday 9 March

7.40-9.45pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary on one of the night's top matches in the Premier League.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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New Yorker Darwin Deez drops into the studio for a chat with Nemone this afternoon.

Darwin featured heavily among tips for 2010 when he released his debut, self-titled album. He describes his songs as: "Happy music for sad people and white music for black people." He talks about how he plays his own specially invented four-string electric guitar and the influences behind his music.

Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

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Gideon Coe delves deep into the archives once more and unearths Liverpuddlians The Zutons in concert, on the cusp of fame in 2004, while Jackson Browne strums away in 1972. Sessions tracks come from Fence Collective alumnus King Creosote, The Low Anthem, Emily Oiseau and the serious electronic pioneers from Cologne, Can.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Kenny is on a health kick, as the drama continues. He tells Jaggy that he thinks Sandra might see sense and come back soon – that's if she isn't seeing someone else.

Rozena, meanwhile, has another strange, futuristic dream. In this one, Imran gives her orders saying the boss is right behind him but, once again, Rozena wakes up before knowing who "the boss" is.

Later, Sameer tells Imran he is planning a surprise for Rozena and it's just what she needs...

Kenny is played by Brian Croucher, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani, Rozena by Pooja Ghai, Imran by Narinder Samra and Sameer by Alex Caan.

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Greg James launches a brand new weekly official chart update. The chart runs in Greg's show every Wednesday afternoon between 3.30 and 4pm.

Greg reveals the hottest new tracks of the week, new entries and high climbers, building the suspense ahead of the Official Singles Chart and Albums Chart which are revealed in The Chart Show with Reggie Yates on BBC Radio 1 every Sunday between 4 and 7pm.

BBC Radio 1 and The Official Charts Company publish the full singles and album updates online at bbc.co.uk/radio1/chart.

Presenter/Greg James, Producer/Neil Sloan

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This documentary for BBC 1Xtra takes a look at abortion from the male perspective. Many of the contributors describe how frustrated they are that they don't have more of a say when it comes to whether or not to keep a child. Some want a change in the law to give them more rights.

Neil from Bristol found out that his ex-girlfriend was pregnant. She thought about having an abortion against his wishes and he was distraught. Jamal, 18, from London, believes girls just use abortions as a contraceptive; while Josh, 20, thinks that men are relieved that they don't have a legal say.

Producer/Debbie Ramsay

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Mike Harding presents an hour of the very best in folk, roots and acoustic music, including news from the world of folk and the latest album releases.

This week's show includes an interview with Orcadian musician and singer Kris Drever, and tracks from his forthcoming solo album, Mark The Hard Earth. It is Kris's first solo release since his debut Black Water in 2006, an album that won much critical acclaim. Kris went on to win the Horizon Award at the 2007 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

As well as chatting about the new album, Kris discusses the thriving folk scene in his home city, Edinburgh, explaining how he finds time for all of the various projects he's involved in.

Aside from his solo work, Kris is the guitarist and singer with the group Lau, who have been voted best group for the past three years at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards.

He works alongside multi-instrumentalist John McCusker and Idlewild vocalist Roddy Woomble in the trio Drever/McCusker/Woomble and also plays in a duo with banjo supremo Eamonn Coyne as well as being in demand as a session musician, appearing with the likes of Kate Rusby and Eddi Reader. He will be touring the UK in April and May.

Presenter/Mike Harding, Presenter/Kellie While

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World-renowned conductor Sir Simon Rattle

Sir Simon Rattle conducts the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Bach's St Matthew Passion, with the CBSO chorus and an international line-up of soloists, including Camilla Tilling (soprano), Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor – Evangelist), Christian Gerhaher (baritone – Christus) and Thomas Quasthoff (baritone).

Bach's St Matthew Passion is often regarded as one of his finest achievements and as one of the pinnacles of sacred choral music. The dramatic re-telling of the events of Holy Week has a power and expressive beauty that add up to an overwhelming experience. In this concert, Sir Simon Rattle returns to Birmingham to conduct the CBSO for the first time in four years.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen

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The mother and daughter relationship is a notoriously tricky one. And yet a daughter's relationship with her mother is one which will have a profound influence. For a special feature, timed to go out just before Mothering Sunday, hundreds of women sent extraordinarily vivid and emotional stories about their experiences as mothers and as daughters.

This feature tells three exceptional stories of mothers and daughters, lost and found. Each mother and daughter talks separately and intimately before being brought together, to spend time together and to talk about what they have been through. They say things to each other that they have never been said before. The result is moving and sometimes funny.

Therese's daughter, Louise, was a nightmare teenager: attending wild parties; not coming home at night; drinking heavily; and, at times, being physical abusive. Therese, pushed to her limits, called the police. In fact, the local policeman became a fixture in the kitchen, eating flapjacks and trying to calm the distraught Therese. However, today Louise is a policewoman herself and she and her mum are planning Louise's wedding together. But not without a few sparks of the old conflict...

Mary Anne was only 11 when she left her mother and went to live with her father. Her parents hadn't spoken for years and it was a complete break with the childhood happiness she had known. She didn't see her mother again for two years. For mother Sylvie, it was a catastrophic blow. But a chance meeting with her daughter by the village post-box changed both their lives. Together, they talk movingly about losing – and finding – each other.

The third mother and daughter pair were driven apart by religious and cultural clashes. Sumedha, who came to Britain from Sri Lanka, passed on her Buddhist values to her daughter, encouraging her to study hard and to go to university. Once there, Amanthi fell in love with a British Christian. But her strict Muslim father did not approve. He kicked his daughter out of the family and for two years she was unable to talk to her mother. Amanthi was distraught. She contacted her mother and they continued their relationship in secret. And – when she got married – she smuggled her mother out for the day so she could be there. When she had a baby, her mother lied to her husband in order to be able to visit her newborn grandson. But, when her husband found the train ticket, the game was up. Mother and daughter are brought together to talk about what happened next.

On Thursday 11 March, Woman's Hour on BBC Radio 4 broadcasts a special edition of the programme, picking up the themes in this feature.

Producers/Sarah Johnson and Isabel Sargent

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In Nick Warburton's play, life for a suburban mum and her son changes when the rabbit he brings home finishes a crossword...

Frank's dad was called Bobby. So, when Frank buys a rabbit following Bobby's death, Mum calls it Bobby in his honour.

A few days after Bobby the rabbit has been installed, Frank is looking for a crossword he hasn't quite finished. The newspaper page is missing. Mum has put it in the bottom of Bobby's cage. When Frank recovers it, he finds that the last clue has been completed. He didn't do it. Mum didn't do it. So, that leaves Bobby – could he be a rabbit with literary talent?

Frank calls the Town Hall and informs them of the miracle. One department speaks to another and Frank and Mum are promptly summoned to discuss the matter. They meet Mr Vincent, who sees Bobby very much as his responsibility.

Frank is played by Mackenzie Crook with Emerald O'Hanrahan playing Miss Bradfield. Kate Layden plays the role of Mum with Tessa Nicholson playing Sophie. Mr Vincent is played by Bruce Alexander.

Producer/Peter Kavanagh

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Party Ep 1/ 4

Wednesday 10 March

6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4

From the perils of electing a leader and choosing a party name through to the finer intricacies of Foreign and Environmental policy, this new sitcom satirises the ambitions, hypocrisy and naivety of those who choose to try to change the world.

Party stars an array of comedy talent, including: Tim Key; Johnny Sweet; Anna Crilly; Katy Wix; Nick Mohammed; and Tom Basden.

Party is written by Tom Basden and is based on his 2009 Edinburgh play which won a Fringe First Award.

Producer/Julia McKenzie

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This week's Lent Talks looks at the Quilliam Foundation, the world's first Islamic counter-extremism think tank of which Maajid Nawaz is co-founder and co-director.

Formerly part of the UK national leadership for global Islamist party Hizb ut-Tahrir – for which he served four years in an Egyptian prison as an Amnesty International "prisoner of conscience" – Maajid's opinions changed before he finally renounced the Islamist ideology and accepted traditional Islam and inclusive politics.

In this programme, Maajid argues that the only way society will develop is through an acceptance of pluralism, including secularism.

Presenter/Maajid Nawaz, Producer/Simon Vivian

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Mark Whitaker reports on research in key centres in Britain and the USA into ways of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere or reducing the amount of sunlight reaching the Earth – exploring the technical, financial and political hurdles they face.

Last September, the Royal Society concluded in a study that while early and effective action to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases was preferable, geoengineering could be useful and subject to more detailed research and analysis.

In this programme, Mark Whitaker visits some of the major US institutions, including Nasa, which are now looking seriously at these techniques. He sees some of the research already underway at places like Columbia University in New York, and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute in Cape Cod.

Some of the proposals sound like science-fiction – launching giant mirrors into space for example – but other ideas, including "fertilising" the oceans so they absorb more carbon dioxide, involve enormous cost, effort and risk. The climatic consequences can't be accurately predicted, so some countries may be damaged and rainfall patterns will be changed, but no one knows exactly how.

The programme also examines the political and legal complexities that may be an even greater challenge. Geoengineering must be a global strategy, therefore it needs an authoritative global agency to oversee it. The programme questions whether the UN can do this and asks if states like the US and China accept international restraints.

Presenter/Mark Whitaker, Producer/Mike Hally

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5 Live Sport

Wednesday 10 March

7.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch has all the day's sports news and from 7.45pm Champions League commentary of the second leg of the first knockout round match between Manchester United and AC Milan, live, from Old Trafford.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Ed King

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The Kissaway Trail join Lauren Laverne for a live session.

Currently on a tour of the UK and moving on to play at the South By South West festival, the Danish five-piece play tracks from the new album, Sleep Mountain.

Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales

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Gideon Coe digs deep to find Leicestershire's Young Knives going local at Summer Sundae 2007 and Janis Joplin, live, in 1968.

Archive sessions from the BBC span the decades with The Beatles, Richard Hawley, The Sisters Of Mercy and Blonde Redhead.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Simran thinks she and Jaggy deserve a celebration after their recent troubles, as the drama continues. Later, Dr Masud shops for a birthday present for Shazia.

Rozena has another futuristic nightmare and is horrified to discover who the "boss" really is. She awakes to Sameer telling her to check on Jibran.

Later, Imran reveals his plans for the newly purchased gym space. Has Rozena thought any more about getting her own project off the ground? Rozena decides he's right; it's time to do something.

Simran is played by Balvinder Sopal, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani, Dr Masud by Saeed Jaffrey, Rozena by Pooja Ghai, Sameer by Alex Caan and Imran by Narinder Samra.

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Dating websites are springing up all over the world and are gaining popularity. Rajini Vaidyanathan goes behind the scenes at India's leading matrimonial websites to find out how they work and the effect they are having. Is the traditional role played by "Auntie-Ji" in decline or is it just the urban elite who go online to find their spouse?

Netrimony is part of Superpower, a major season on BBC World Service, BBC World News and bbc.com, exploring the extraordinary power of the internet.

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BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan Jones looks at the science behind new developments across the world wide web.

In a special edition of BBC World Service science documentary series Discovery, Rory explores some of the latest developments in communications technology. Web 3.0 now promises a world where people and objects are seamlessly connected through an all-pervasive network – a truly mobile and global network. Computers may no longer be controlled through devices such as mouse and keyboards but rather through speech, gestures and even thoughts.

The programme looks at the reality behind web 3.0 and asks how such an all-pervasive network will work and how it could be made safe and secure against attacks and corruption. The programme examines whether big business or the community might ultimately control the web and finds out how these technological advances impact on the developing world.

Discovery – The Future Of The Internet is part of Superpower, a major season on BBC World Service, BBC World News and bbc.com, exploring the extraordinary power of the internet.

Presenter/Rory Cellan Jones

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Matt Lucas presents the Lucases for Sexiest British Prime Minister, Jammiest Celebrity, Most Effective Diet and Least Boring Shakespeare Play as the newest and most prestigious awards ceremony of the year – the perfectly titled Lucases – continues.

This week's guests who are nominating people, places, songs, films and every other kind of thing for an award are Richard Herring, Sarah Millican and David Walliams.

However, the ultimate decision of who will walk off with their very own Lucas is down to the whim of the host.

Presenter/Matt Lucas, Producer/Ashley Blaker

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Suzi Quatro continues to remember the music she heard in her formative years, from doo-wop to Motown and rock 'n' roll, taking listeners through the Fifties and Sixties to the present day.

Tonight Suzi remembers the cream of male singing stars of the Sixties, including music from Jimmy Jones, Dion, The Doors, Aaron Neville, Rick Nelson and Tommy Roe.

Presenter/Suzi Quatro, Producer/Mark Hagan

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The Orchestra Of The Age Of Enlightenment performs part of its Beethoven Symphony Cycle, which continues throughout the year. For tonight's concert the period instrument ensemble is led by Hungarian conductor Ivan Fischer in Beethoven's Symphony No. 2 and Symphony No. 3 (Eroica).

Beethoven's second symphony overflows with humour and vitality, even though he was struggling with his increasing deafness at the time. Some of his contemporaries found it a challenge but today, with the benefit of hindsight, it can be seen as forward-looking, while also acknowledging its classical Viennese heritage.

With the now-famous Eroica symphony Beethoven really was breaking new ground. However much it owes to his initial admiration of Napoleon, Beethoven was writing on a grandiose scale, injecting the work with a sense of heroic breadth and drama.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen

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Chris Bowlby investigates why so many people are not embracing the internet and digital technology – and why this poses a huge challenge for public policy – in a revised repeat of a programme first broadcast last August.

New technology, digital networks and new communications are transforming every aspect of life and linking everyone in new ways. Institutions from Government down are keen to encourage – or, some would say, coerce – everyone into embracing this new world.

But what about the refuseniks? Almost a quarter of the adult population still don't use the internet and aren't connected to broadband. It's a startling figure – more than 10 million people in Britain over the age of 15. For some, it's because they can't afford or don't understand the new technology. For others, refusing to join in is a conscious choice. There are signs that many of those still not connected are going to be harder and harder to convert.

But how long can the refuseniks hold out given the momentum behind the "digital revolution"? The programme explores a looming crisis in public policy as more and more institutions – as well as commercial operations – seek to move all their services online to save money.

Presenter and Producer/Chris Bowlby

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5 Live Sport

Thursday 11 March

7.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Eleanor Oldroyd

Eleanor Oldroyd has all the day's sports news and, from 8pm, live first-leg, round-of-16 Europa League coverage.

Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Patrick Nathenson

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BBC 6 Music presenter Lauren Laverne

Scottish indie rock band Frightened Rabbit join Lauren Laverne to play a couple of live songs from their third full-length album, The Winter Of Mixed Drinks.

Plus, Lauren's intrepid travel guide Danny Robins talks about how best to spend an indie St Patrick's Day.

Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales

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Gideon Coe presents a 1986 session from Half Man Half Biscuit and a 1997 concert from The Cardigans, plus the reformed Gang Of Four captured live in 2006.

North Eastern folk family The Unthanks are featured in a 2009 session and archive tracks come courtesy of Shriekback and Delta blues legend Son House, who was 68 years old when he recorded this 1970 session for BBC Radio 1.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson

BBC 6 Music Publicity

Jaggy says Kenny is asking questions about Sandra, in the latest slice of drama from Silver Street. Simran, meanwhile, reckons it's only a matter of time before Kenny discovers the truth.

Elsewhere, Rozena tells Dr Masud how redundant she feels. He reminds her that Imran isn't the only one with talent and ambition.

Later, a recharged Rozena thinks certain people at the football club should be sacked. She forces Sameer to tell her why he's being secretive, and then makes a call to someone. They need to talk...

Jaggy is played by Jay Kiyani, Kenny by Brian Croucher, Simran by Balvinder Sopal, Rozena by Pooja Ghai, Dr Masud by Saeed Jaffrey and Sameer by Alex Caan.

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Noreen Khan sits in for Friction for a very special show, covering all the glitz and glamour from this year's UK Asian Music Awards at London's Royal Festival Hall. Talking about the winners and losers, Noreen enjoys exclusive backstage access into one of the most prestigious Asian events, ears pricked for any gossip along the way.

With the best of South Asian entertainment from the worlds of Bhangra, Bollywood and the thriving Asian-Urban music industries, the event provides a unique platform for some of the most established artists around the globe and some of the latest home-grown British Asian talent.

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Frank Renton presents a studio session from Brass In Concert champions, Foden's Band, with conductor Michael Fowles.

The repertoire includes the classic march Imperial Echoes and their euphonium star Glyn Williams performs the much-loved solo Grandfather's Clock.

Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter

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BBC Radio 2 presenter Claudia Winkleman

Claudia Winkleman discusses romantic novels on this week's Arts Show and art critic Estelle Lovatt explores the life and work of Henry Moore.

Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Jessica Rickson

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Performance On 3

Friday 12 March

7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3

The BBC Philharmonic performs 20th-century classics in a live concert from the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, directed by young French conductor Ludovic Morlot, who made his exciting debut with the orchestra last year.

The programme includes Stravinsky's concerto Dumbarton Oaks, Britten's Piano concerto (with Steven Osborne), Sibelius's Oceanides and Debussy's La mer.

While Stravinsky was still living in Europe, he received a commission from America for a chamber work, which became his Bach-inspired concerto, Dumbarton Oaks. Another composer looking to the USA was the young Benjamin Britten, who wrote his piano concerto the year before his American sojourn and it is a work full of directness, agitation and intensity of expression. Britten was the soloist at the première and, tonight, Steven Osborne takes the solo role in a work for which his performances have already received critical acclaim.

Two nautical works follow: the fluidity of Debussy's score in La mer is a tribute to the infinite variation of the waves, while Sibelius, writing to an American commission like Stravinsky, conjures up a mysterious mythological underwater world in his Oceanides.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen

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Artist and film-maker Jane Darke reflects on the flotsam and jetsam of the shipping lanes that gets washed up at the bottom of her garden in North Cornwall, in tonight's Twenty Minutes offering.

Jane shared her cove-side home with her playwright husband, Nick, until his death in 2005. Together, they scoured the tideline for "wreck", that drift of wood, marker-buoys, lobsterpot tags, shoes and fishing nets, "seabeans" – huge seedpods from the Amazon basin – and coal that the Gulf Stream regularly deposits on the Cornish coast, in particular.

Their home is part-constructed from timber rescued from the sea-edge – bookshelves are crazed and seasoned planks from some freighter, whose deck-cargo shifted catastrophically years ago, and the outside of the house is gaudy with floats and pennons, markers and half-legible notice boards carried across the Atlantic from distant harbours and sea-reaches. Currents circulate such "wreck" around the world, sometimes for years, before landfall brings these distantly transmitted "messages" to their surprised recipients on the Cornish coast.

Presenter/Jane Darke, Producer/Simon Elmes

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Lopa Kothari introduces a session by the British-Asian singer Susheela Raman, plus all the latest sounds from around the world, in this week's edition of World On 3.

Raman is one of the leading artists and the pre-eminent vocalist to emerge from the Asian diaspora. Born in the UK to Tamil parents, Raman aims to push musical and cultural barriers, finding new connections between India, Europe, Africa and the rest of the world.

Presenter/Lopa Kothari, Producer/James Parkin

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Chris Ledgard investigates whether horse racing can revolutionise its public image, restore television audiences and attract a new generation of punters in order to hold onto its place in the leisure culture.

Horse racing and betting on horses are entrenched in our culture. Terminology of racing and betting is part of daily language with newspapers devoting large sections to the sport every day, and millions watch the Grand National.

However, racing faces an uncertain future. The sport's share of the terrestrial television market has shrunk dramatically. High Street bookmakers – once largely dependent on British horse racing – now get more of their income from betting on other sports, gaming machines, foreign racing and even virtual racing.

Most people in charge of racing agree something needs to be done to stop this decline but recognise that this is a deeply conservative sport, and one with a complex system of governing bodies and interest groups.

Last year, an organisation called Racing For Change was established. Its job is to manage the revolution, to re-vitalise racing as a television spectacle, to get more young people visiting racecourses, to make the sport easier to understand and to improve the relationship between the betting industry and horse racing.

Contributors to the programme include trainers, bookmakers, punters and race-goers, investigating whether they think racing is a decent bet to win a new generation of fans.

Presenter and Producer/Chris Ledgard

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Sat Love is the final story in the series of short comedies by Simon Brett, and stars Maureen Beattie and Bruce Alexander.

A businessman has his life well organised, driving between his wife and his mistress, and planning a one-night stand at a business conference.

However, the new "sat nav" he has bought turns out to be of a feminist persuasion and sets out to frustrate his lascivious plans.

Producer/Peter Kavanagh

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Colin Murray is joined by regular guests Pat Nevin and Perry Groves for Kicking Off With Colin Murray, taking a look ahead to the weekend's sporting action, including Chelsea versus West Ham United, Manchester United versus Fulham and Hull versus Arsenal.

Also, on the eve of the start of the 2010-11 Formula 1 season, the 5 Live F1 team, David Croft, Anthony Davidson and Holly Samos, return for 5 Live Formula 1 and preview the forthcoming season and the opening Grand Prix in Bahrain on Sunday.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Graham McMillan

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Test Match Special

Friday 12 March

3.15-11.00am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can hear uninterrupted commentary on the opening day of the first Test between Bangladesh and England, live from Chittagong, with the Test Match Special commentary team.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Rugby League

Friday 12 March

7.55-9.45pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on Hull KR versus Wakefield, in the Super League, can be heard this evening.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Scottish hard rockers Nazareth join Bruce Dickinson on his Friday Rock Show this week.

Formed back in 1968, the guys took their name from the first line of The Band's classic album, The Weight... "I pulled into Nazareth, was feeling about half past dead..." They went on to record Love Hurts, with the album selling more than a million copies in the US.

Bruce asks Dan and Pete from the band about their decision to release re-mastered and reissued versions of their extensive catalogue. They also share their excitement about the current European tour and reveal how Joni Mitchell responded to their cover of This Flight Tonight.

Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan

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It's Mother's Day, in today's final visit of the week to Silver Street, and Simran is frustrated when Rozena cancels her home facial session, as she could have done with the extra money. Jaggy, however, finds the perfect way to cheer Simran up.

Rozena, meanwhile, meets Kenny at Rangers and agrees that a new strategy is needed. She then promptly sacks him and rubs salt in his wounds by telling him what his wife is up to.

Elsewhere, Imran has just given his mum the perfect present when Rozena turns up and dampens his mood.

Simran is played by Balvinder Sopal, Rozena by Pooja Ghai, Jaggy by Jay Kiyani, Kenny by Brian Croucher and Imran by Narinder Samra.

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