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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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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

BBC 6 Music Publicity

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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