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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

BBC Radio 1 Publicity

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

BBC Radio 2 Publicity

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

BBC Radio 3 Publicity

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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

BBC Radio 3 Publicity

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

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

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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

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

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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

BBC Radio 4 Publicity

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

BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity

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

BBC 6 Music Publicity

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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

BBC 6 Music Publicity

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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