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Network Radio BBC Week 14: 3-9 April
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Network Radio BBC Week 14: Saturday 3 April 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 3 April 2010
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Liza Tarbuck and Adam Buxton sit in for Jonathan Ross for the next two weeks.
Adam previews his new show for BBC 6 Music, Adam Buxton's Big Mix Tape, which begins tomorrow at midday, with special guest Julian Barrett.
Presenters/Liza Tarbuck and Adam Buxton, Producer/Fiona Day
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This week, Dermot O'Leary's live session guests are Doves and Phoenix.
Jimi Goodwin and twin brothers Jez and Andy Williams have known each other since they were 15. They first recorded as Sub Sub and, as Doves, they released the Mercury-nominated Lost Souls in 2000.
Following the release of a third album in 2005, Doves spent two years holed up in a makeshift studio on a Cheshire farm, working on new material. The end result, Kingdom Of Rust, was released last April. They headlined the BBC Electric Proms in October, performing with the London Bulgarian Choir. Doves release a best-of collection next week and are marking the occasion with some live dates in April and May.
Phoenix are a Parisian quartet whose 10-year, four-album career received a boost when Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix won a Grammy Award for best alternative album earlier this year. They have just finished recording the soundtrack to Sofia Coppola's new film, Somewhere.
Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Bad Company, who recently reformed with original members Paul Rodgers, Mick Ralphs and Simon Kirke, perform a special concert for BBC Radio 2.
Introduced by Johnnie Walker, the concert includes hits from Rodgers's long career, including the 1968-1973 era of Free and the 1973-1982 era of Bad Company. It was recorded at the end of March in the BBC Radio Theatre, London.
Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Paul Long
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Indiana-born, Nashville-based rising Americana star Stephanie Lambring makes a welcome return to the Bob Harris show tonight, playing acoustically After Midnight.
Stephanie, 23, cites Patty Griffin as her inspiration and has recently released her debut album, Lonely To Alone.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson
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BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 3 April 2010
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Mark Tully surveys the career of Ravi Shankar, who celebrates his 90th birthday on 7 April. Mark looks back on an interview recorded with Ravi for World Routes 10 years ago, and introduces some of his classic recordings.
In this archive interview, Ravi recalls his early life performing in Paris; his collaborations with Yehudi Menuhin and George Harrison; and talks about his eventful love life. Mark also drops in on a lesson with Ravi's daughter, Anoushka.
Mark Tully is a writer and broadcaster, and was, for many years, the BBC's Delhi correspondent.
Presenter/Mark Tully, Producer/Roger Short
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Opera On 3 – Live From The Met: Aida
Verdi's Aida comes live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York, conducted by Marco Armiliato. Chinese soprano Hui He takes the title role and internationally renowned Italian tenor, Salvatore Licitra, is her lover.
Set in the ancient Egypt of the pharaohs, Aida tells the story of an Ethiopian slave girl who finds that her lover and her father are on opposite sides of two warring nations. A love rival to her Princess employer, she chooses to be buried alive with her lover, Radames, rather than endure life without him.
Commissioned for the opening of the Suez Canal, Verdi's Aida has been a staple of the repertory ever since its Egyptian première in 1871.
Margaret Juntwait presents with guest commentator Ira Siff, and there are live backstage interviews and the Met Quiz during the two intervals.
Aida features the Chorus and Orchestra of The Metropolitan Opera.
Presenter/Margaret Juntwait, Producer/David Papp
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BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 3 April 2010
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Presenter Katie Derham discovers what it is like for an artist to perform for a leading VIP in a private performance.
Command Performance explores prestigious concerts held in unique places under special circumstances. The command performance is a royal prerogative and, among those describing their experiences in the programme are singer Katherine Jenkins, who discusses her recent performance for Her Majesty The Queen at Balmoral.
Jazz musician Yolanda Brown was invited to perform for Russian President Medvedev at the Winter Palace in St Petersburg. Jools Holland describes his command performance when he played for then Prime Minister Tony Blair at the G8 summit and why US President Bill Clinton had difficulty leaving the event.
For many artists, a performance for his Holiness the Pope is a command performance to be embraced with relish. Composer Simon Wills performed for the Pope on two occasions and reveals what happens behind the walls of the Vatican, what the changing facilities are like and how the Pope responds to a performance.
For many artists, the after-dinner speech or corporate gig is the most common private performance where lucrative money can be made. Comedian Barry Cryer gives tips on the best way to approach these unique events and veteran Roy Hudd also suggests how to make the most of these performance opportunities without losing your nerve.
The programme concludes that anyone can purchase their own command performance and music promoter Hugh Phillimore can help. He has secured Kylie Minogue, Whitney Houston and Rod Stewart for weddings and parties and reveals it's not that difficult to get your favourite star to perform ... providing the price is right.
Presenter/Katie Derham, Producer/John Sugar
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Toby Stephens returns as 007 in the radio première of Ian Fleming's Goldfinger.
Directed by Martin Jarvis, a stellar cast is led by Ian McKellen in the title role, with John Standing as "M", Rosamund Pike as Pussy Galore, Lisa Dillon as Tilly Masterton and Martin Jarvis as the voice of Fleming. Alistair McGowan plays the canny gold caddie, Hawker, and the play also features cameos by Henry Goodman, Ian Ogilvy and Lloyd Owen. Jon David Yu throws his bowler hat with deadly effect as Oddjob.
Auric Goldfinger is not only a cheat at canasta and golf, he's also an international criminal on a massive scale. And his obsession is gold. James Bond is charged by the Bank Of England and MI5 to discover what Goldfinger is actually doing with his vast hoards of gold.
When 007 becomes an undercover member of Goldfinger's team, he learns that the madman's plans are more grandiose than even "M" could possibly have imagined. Amazingly, robbing Fort Knox is on the agenda, as well as mass murder.
This dramatisation, by Archie Scottney, remains faithful to Fleming's book. Music is composed by Mark Holden and Sam Barbour.
Producer/Rosalind Ayres
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Paul Gambaccini hosts a special celebrity Easter edition of the wide-ranging music programme.
Soprano and BBC Radio 3 presenter Catherine Bott, comedian and writer Kit Hesketh Harvey and pianist and comedian Rainer Hersch join Paul for questions and games based on musical extracts. Playing in all the musical clues, live in the studio, is the BBC Philharmonic, conducted by Clark Rundell.
Presenter/Paul Gambaccini, Producer/Paul Bajoria
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 3 April 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch has all the day's sports news, including a look back at this morning's Malaysian Grand Prix qualifying session and a preview of this afternoon's Boat Race.
From 12.45pm there's live commentary of a match which could go on to determine the destination of the Premier League title as Manchester United take on Chelsea at Old Trafford.
There's also coverage of the afternoon's 3pm football kick-offs including Arsenal versus Wolves and Portsmouth versus Blackburn in the Premier League and Rangers versus Hamilton in the Scottish Premier League. From 4.30pm there's coverage of the annual University Boat Race between Oxford and Cambridge.
At 5.30pm there's live commentary as Burnley face Manchester City at Turf Moor in the Premier League.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mark Williams
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Saturday 3 April 2010
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5 Live Formula 1
8.55-10.05am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary on the third practice session and the qualifying session repectively for the Malaysian Grand Prix, from the Sepang Circuit, Kuala Lumpur.
Producer/Jason Swales
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Rowing
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted live commentary of the 156th University Boat Race as Oxford and Cambridge race between Putney and Mortlake on the River Thames.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Football
Uninterrupted commentary of the South Wales derby between Cardiff City and Swansea City comes live from Cardiff City Stadium.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Saturday 3 April 2010
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Underbelly play in session on tonight's Funk And Soul Show.
Underbelly are a six-piece, up-tempo funk band, playing a mixture of original tunes and rare funk classics. Comprising drums, bass, guitar and a three-piece horn section, members of the band have played high-profile gigs nationally and internationally, including Ronnie Scott's, The Jazz Cafe, the Jazz World stage, bandstand and parties at Glastonbury, the Eden Project and Rio Carnival.
Craig Charles first played their music more than a year ago when they were still unsigned. They now have a deal with Record Kicks so it seemed only right they come and perform tracks from their new album on the show. Underbelly also perform a track from Off The Wall, as they "re-soul" a classic album.
Presenter/Craig Charles, Producer/Hermeet Chadha
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Saturday 3 April 2010
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BBC Asian Network is hosting the main stage at the "Asian Mela", held at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London. The Asian Network team introduces the best of British Asian Musical talent, including Imran Khan, AG Dhollar and Metz n Tricks, among other great artists.
The Asian Network stage aims to give a voice to home-grown British Asian talent, providing a variety of entertaining visitors throughout the Mela.
The Mela brings together all the best elements of Asian life in the UK, including the fashion and travel industry and the worlds of catering, weddings and music.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Saturday 3 April 2010
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Presenter Harriet Gilbert talks to French Nobel Laureate JMG LeClezio about his recently translated work, Desert.
Contrasting the beauty of a lost culture in the North African desert with a depiction of Europe seen through the eyes of unwanted immigrants, Desert is a rich, poetic and provocative epic about colonisation and its legacy, which is still painfully relevant after 30 years.
Presenter/Harriet Gilbert, Producer/Karen Holden
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Network Radio BBC Week 14: Sunday 4 April 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Easter Sunday 4 April 2010
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On Easter Sunday, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd and Rt Hon Rowan Williams, discusses the news of the week from a faith perspective, and gives a special Easter Moment Of Reflection.
Aled Jones also says Good Morning Sunday to Katrina Leskanich, best known as lead singer of Katrina and the Waves. Their song, Love Shine A Light, won the Eurovision Song Contest in 1997, the last time UK took the prize.
Katrina looks forward to this year's competition and reflects on the 25 years since the band first entered the UK Top 10 with Walking On Sunshine.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson
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Jack O'Brien joins Elaine Paige in the studio for this week's show. A renowned theatre director, O'Brien is in charge of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom sequel Love Never Dies.
Plus there's also the Disney Double, more listeners' Break-A-Leg messages and the latest Broadway news.
Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince
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Alan Titchmarsh presents another hour of an eclectic mix of music from the worlds of classical, opera, operetta, musicals, films, brass and military bands and jazz.
This week's show includes music from Utopia Ltd, Cavalleria Rusticana and Chicken Run.
Presenter/Alan Titchmarsh, Producer/Bridget Apps
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Brian D'Arcy celebrates Easter with a programme of music, prayers and reflections from Manchester Cathedral.
He is joined by the choir of Manchester Cathedral, Manchester Camerata and the BBC Radio 2 Young Choristers of the Year 2009, Laurence Kilsby and Jacquelyne Hill. The musical director is Christopher Stokes and the organist is Jeffrey Makinson.
The story of that first Easter morning is told through Bible readings and poetry. The choirs and congregation join together to sing hymns including Jesus Christ Is Risen Today, The Strife Is O'er and Thine Be The Glory.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer, Janet McLarty
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BBC RADIO 3 Easter Sunday 4 April 2010
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In this Easter Sunday edition of Private Passions, Michael Berkeley meets the newly appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham, Bernard Longley, to discuss his musical choices including works by Verdi, Borodin, Poulenc, Messiaen and Elgar.
Bernard studied singing at the Royal Northern College of Music and at New College Oxford, and music has always been a great passion in his life. His choices include the famous Notturno movement from Borodin's Second String Quartet – a piece associated with the musical Kismet which his mother particularly loved – and the harrowing ending of Poulenc's opera Dialogues des Carmelites, which Bernard greatly admires as bearing witness to the courage and sacrifice of the Carmelite nuns during the French Revolution.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Chris Marshall
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BBC RADIO 4 Easter Sunday 4 April 2010
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Bishop Nigel McCulloch, National Chaplain to the Royal British Legion, leads a meditation to mark the dawning of Easter Day from the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, a haven of peace, contemplation and hope for the future.
The programme features the Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir directed by Martyn Rawles.
Producer/Stephen Shipley
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Archbishop Vincent Nichols is the celebrant and preacher at this special mass which comes live from Westminster Cathedral.
The renowned cathedral choir, directed by master of music Martin Baker, sings from the Church's heritage of Easter music, including works by Taverner and Palestrina, as well as the hymns Jesus Christ Is Risen Today and Thine Be The Glory. The organist is Matthew Martin.
Producer/Philip Billson
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
The Reunion Ep 1/5
In the first of a new series of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor revisits the first London Marathon in 1981.
She speaks to five people who were involved in the creation of the biggest one-day charity event in the world and the foundation of one of the most important events in the British sporting calendar.
Sue is joined by: David Bedford, current race director and former 10,000m world-record holder; John Disley, an original founder and bronze-medal Olympic steeplechase winner; John Bryant, journalist and marathon historian; Hugh Jones, course measurer and the first British man to win the London Marathon in 1982; and Veronique Marot, the second British woman to win, setting a British women's record in 1989.
Before the London Marathon, long-distance running in Britain was the exclusive domain of elite athletes. Two former British Olympic athletes, Chris Brasher and John Disley, were inspired by the New York Marathon and the jogging boom of the Seventies, and decided to set about organising a marathon through the streets of London. With almost 7,000 runners participating in the first race, marathon running was suddenly on the map.
More than 36,000 participants are confirmed for 2010. Though not the original intention of the founders, the London Marathon went on to become the largest one-day fundraising event in the world. By 2010, the marathon will have raised over a half a billion pounds for charity.
Presenter/Sue McGregor, Producer/David Prest
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's
Escape To The Country Ep 1/10
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen explores the ideas of the countryside with leading historians and geographers, writers and journalists.
This series is an account of how, through history, people have moved from the town to the country and taken with them powerful ideas about what the countryside should be. Each age tends to invent a countryside that chimes with the pre-occupations of the day.
The last two centuries have seen the countryside shaped for personal aggrandisement, for moral improvement, for the reflection of a new industrial wealth, as the creation of an ideal landscape, as a place of health and healing and as a refuge from, and comment on, the pace, nature and stress of contemporary urban life.
The first programme features the story of Humphrey Repton who was effectively a makeover artist, bringing the unruly, macho countryside into check. He created attractive views over the landscape, cut gentle, serpentine paths and added terraces to residences so that one could stroll and admire nature as it delicately progressed to the horizon. And he was the first landscape designer who had to reconcile the countryside with the city, the pastoral with an industrial landscape.
His predecessor Capability Brown had worked for the aristocracy, landscaping their parks to express their wealth and status, while a generation later, Repton set out to redefine this profession, working more modestly and for a range of clients including dukes, lawyers, bankers and manufacturers.
Other programmes in the series feature William Wordsworth; recreation and social aspiration in the 19th-century countryside; Feargus O'Connor and the Chartist Land Movement; Octavia Hill and the beginning of conservation; Leslie Paul; the suburban countryside; and self-sufficiency.
Presenter/Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, Producer/Kate Bland
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Simon Warner celebrates British beat poet, performer and provocateur Michael Horovitz, who is 75 this month, and has been a significant figure in the counterculture for well over 50 years.
Music lecturer and writer Simon Warner makes the case that no one has had a greater influence on the development of British poetry over the last five decades.
Horovitz spent years publishing and promoting the verse of the English underground, often at his own expense and in the face of establishment indifference.
His notion that poetry should be seen and heard, often with music, has been shared and developed in collaboration with notable musicians from Stan Tracy to Damon Albarn, as well as a couple of generations of poetry performers, including Adrian Mitchell, John Cooper Clarke, Jean "Binta" Breeze, John Hegley, Patience Agbabi and Francesca Beard.
His influence on publishing has been as significant as his impact on performance. In 1959 he launched New Departures, which first published works by Beckett, Burroughs, Ginsberg and others in the UK. The magazine grew into a famously anarchic and energetic touring show, Live New Departures, which brought poetry, music, visual art and performance to venues all over Britain during the counterculture explosion of the Sixties. He played a key part in the 1965 International Poetry Incarnation at London's Royal Albert Hall and, since 1980, he has organised a number of Poetry Olympics events that have showcased inventive and inspiring collaborations between poets and musicians, and continue to do so.
Simon also talks to those who have worked with Horovitz, supported him and been supported by him over the years, including poets Pete Brown, Roger McGough, John Hegley, Valerie Bloom and Libby Houston, musicians Laurie Morgan and Damon Albarn, and writer Barry Miles.
Presenter/Simon Warner, Producer/Sara Davies
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Easter Sunday 4 April 2010
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5 Live Sport
Colin Murray presents the latest sports news and an afternoon of live sport. From 1.15pm there's Scottish Premier League commentary of Hibernian versus Celtic live from Easter Road, with reports from Wasps versus London Irish in rugby union's Premiership, plus a look back at this morning's Malaysian Grand Prix in Kuala Lumpur.
There are also reports from the tennis Masters event in Miami ahead of today's final and golf updates from the final day of the Estoril Open in Portugal.
From 4pm there's live Premier League commentary of Everton versus West Ham United at Goodison Park.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Patrick Whiteside
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Broadcasting legend and BBC Radio 5 Live football reporter Stuart Hall delves in to the BBC Sport Archives to choose some of his favourite football interviews from over the years.
Stuart picks two of his own classic interviews, plus other memorable football interviews from sports programmes down the years, including some from the world's longest-running sports radio show – Sports Report.
Presenter/Stuart Hall, Producer/Phil Brown
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BBC 6 MUSIC Easter Sunday 4 April 2010
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Cerys Matthews takes up her new position on Sundays and eases listeners into a day of musical pleasure.
Cerys says: "I had a great time with the audience every afternoon on BBC 6 Music; I'm now excited to be slipping into my brand-new Sunday morning slot, bringing my own particular choice of tasty tunes from the right side of rock 'n' roll. There'll be more live music, virtual radio road trips, guests, requests, texts, twitters and purely great music from the past, present and beyond."
Presenter/Cerys Matthews, Producer/Henry Lopez-Real
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Sunday lunchtimes on BBC 6 Music see one half of the award-winning Adam And Joe going solo on radio for the first time. With the help of the listeners, Adam Buxton's Big Mix Tape will take a weekly topic or theme and make a compilation tape for all to share. The first Mix Tape is called Øddens and is based around weird yet accessible music – created by both well-known and less-well-known artists.
Adam's first guest is a man who also made his name as part of a successful double act – Julian Barratt from The Mighty Boosh. Adam says: "Julian is not only one of my favourite actor/comedians but is a big music fan himself and likes weird music almost as much as he loves jazz."
A wonderfully eclectic musical selection includes Radiohead, Can, Vangelis, Kate Bush, Silver Apples, Scott Walker, Grace Jones, Captain Beefheart and, of course, David Bowie.
Presenter/Adam Buxton, Producer/James Stirling
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Fun Lovin' Criminal Huey Morgan celebrates the launch of his extended two-hour show with his usual selection of unusual tunes – from Latin to soul, hip hop, rap, punk and reggae that stem from his New York heritage or have inspired him as a musician.
He meets the one-man blues machine Son Of Dave who has just released his fourth album Shake A Bone, recorded in just two weeks in Chicago with uber producer/audio engineer and musician Steve Albini.
Son Of Dave is notorious for his live shows where he entertains crowds with his one-man virtuoso displays of toe-tapping, beat-boxing and harmonica-playing all looped under witty and often growling lyrics that build to a crescendo of genre-clashing funk, hip hop, electronica and New Orleans rhythm and blues.
Born Benjamin Darvill in Winnipeg, Canada, Son Of Dave was part of the Crash Test Dummies in a previous incarnation, but has lived in London for 10 years now, performing under the Son Of Dave moniker. Huey gets a demonstration of his celebrated performing technique while chatting about Son Of Dave's exile in London, second career in music journalism (he writes for Stool Pigeon) and, of course, the blues.
Regular features Sharing Is Caring and Vinyl Fetish also get a special extended airing.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Becky Maxted
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Listeners are invited to jump aboard the disco train as DJ and George Lamb sidekick Marc Hughes returns for the latest edition of his 6 Mix residency.
Marc – a Ministry Of Sound resident who has recently DJed as far afield as Russia and China – plays the best in old-skool house from the last 30 years, from Todd Terry and Masters At Work to obscure gems from the Chicago underground.
There's also another 40-minute trip on the Disco Express, featuring a selection of uplifting nuggets from the late Seventies and early Eighties. Finally, in the last half hour, Marc gets into the mix to play a selection of upfront minimal techno tunes setting dancefloors on fire in club land.
Presenter/Marc Hughes, Producer/Rowan Collinson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Easter Sunday 4 April 2010
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BBC Asian Network is hosting the main stage at the first ever Asian Mela, being held at the Business Design Centre in Islington, London.
The Asian Network team will be introducing the best of British Asian musical talent; Imran Khan, AG Dhollar, and Metz n Tricks, among other great artists.
The Asian Network stage aims to give a voice to home-grown British Asian talent, providing a variety of talent and entertaining visitors throughout the Mela. The Asian Mela brings together all the best elements of Asian life in the UK, the fashion and travel industries, catering, weddings and music to name but a few.
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Legendary singer Shabbir Kumar will be chatting to Raj and Pablo, live from the BBC's Mumbai studio. He talks about his song in the forthcoming film Housefull and what he's been doing for the past 16 years.
His son Dilshaad is also on hand to chat about his new career as a singer and his work singing the theme song for Blue. This programme is a must-listen for fans of veternary Shabbir who rarely speaks to the media.
Presenters/Raj and Pablo
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Network Radio BBC Week 14: Monday 5 April 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Easter Monday 5 April 2010
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Patrick Kielty reveals the artists and bands that have provided the soundtrack to the century so far in this three-hour countdown for Easter Monday.
The People's Artist Chart is the third in a popular series of exclusive chart programmes for BBC Radio 2, revealing the most-heard music and artists as compiled by licensing body PPL (Phonographic Performance Ltd). "Most-heard" refers not just to radio airplay, but references everywhere that recorded music is played in public, from shops and restaurants to clubs and airport lounges.
This afternoon Kielty focuses on artists, with all their collective play across the UK over the past decade. He counts up the top 50 acts of the past 10 years, announcing a chart that provides a cross-section of the nation's tastes, with artists dating from the Fifties to the present day. Just before 4pm, the programme reveals which performer has secured the prestigious No. 1 position.
Along the way, the programme hears not just from some of the artists who are in the "Grand 50," as one of them describes it, but from a host of other stars talking about their favourites in the chart and choosing a track to play. There's a rare radio appearance by one of Britain's top songwriters, Cathy Dennis, who talks about co-creating Kylie Minogue's greatest hit and playing basketball with Britney Spears; Sharleen Spiteri reveals her undying love for the Bee Gees; and two Motown legends are also on hand, Otis Williams of The Temptations and Duke Fakir of the Four Tops.
Katie Melua introduces an early classic by one of the biggest names in pop history; Judie Tzuke remembers Elton John the record label executive; and Carly Simon raves about one of the biggest-selling groups and albums of the Seventies.
Last Easter, in the original People's Chart show, Rob Brydon announced that Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade Of Pale was the most-played-in-public recording of PPL's 75-year history. At Christmas, in The People's Classical Chart, Bill Bailey unveiled Carl Orff's O Fortuna as the classical recording that had been most-played in the same time-frame.
Presenter/Patrick Kielty, Producer/Paul Sexton
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Richard Madeley sits in all week on the Drivetime show.
Along with travel, sport and money reports, Richard launches his daily search for those random acts of kindness that really can make your day. He invites any listeners who have met a good Samaritan who helped them along their way, or just been boosted by a smile, to share their magic moment with Drivetime listeners.
Presenter/Richard Madeley
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Carly Simon plays her first-ever concert in the UK, exclusively for BBC Radio 2.
One of the greatest songwriters and singers of the past four decades, Simon performed for Radio 2 in March at BBC's Maida Vale Studios.
Presented by Paul Gambaccini, the show features acoustic arrangements of her greatest hits including Coming Around Again, Never Been Gone and Let The River Run.
Carly chats to Paul about the stories behind the songs and the continued speculation about the subject of her hit You're So Vain, which she also performs. She talks about why she's released her new album, Never Been Gone, which was recorded at her home in the US on the island of Martha's Vineyard.
Carly's son Ben Taylor, the youngest child from her marriage to James Taylor, also performs a couple of songs. Carly also shares her Tracks Of My Years with Zoe Ball, each day this week as Zoe sits in for Ken Bruce.
Presenter/Paul Gambaccini, Producer/Helen Reed
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In the next instalment of the occasional series The Record Producers, Richard Allinson and Steve Levine look at the work of former Suede guitarist, Bernard Butler.
Bernard talks about his early days with Suede, along with his production credits for Duffy, Kate Nash, Fyfe Dangerfield and others, and the programme includes rare access to demo recordings from both Suede and Duffy. David McAlmont talks about his collaborations with Butler and the lead singer with Texas, Sharleen Spiteri, comments on Bernard's work on her 2008 debut solo album Melody.
Steve Levine analyses the original multi-track recording of one of McAlmont And Butler's biggest hits. He also talks with Fyfe Dangerfield about the construction of his recent BBC Radio 2 airplay hit She Needs Me, which features production work and guest guitar by Butler.
Presenters/Richard Allinson and Steve Levine, Producer/Neil Myners
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BBC RADIO 3 Easter Monday 5 April 2010
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Richard Strauss lived one of the longest lives of any composer. He was born in 1864 when the American Civil War was raging. By the time he died in 1949, two global conflicts had been fought and the world had changed entirely.
Throughout this week, Donald Macleod explores the music and stories from five distinct years of Strauss's life. He travels in time from the 19-year-old Strauss's first forays as a professional composer, to the final works of an old man, exploring his personal and professional relationships along the way.
In the first programme, Donald looks at the year 1883 in which there was a changing of the guard in German music – Richard Wagner died and Richard Strauss had his first professional success.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Kerry Clark
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Louise Fryer presents the beginning of a week of performances for Afternoon On 3 from the 2009 Lucerne Festival.
In 2003, the veteran Italian conductor Claudio Abbado took over the Lucerne Festival and founded the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Each year since then, reports of extraordinary music-making have been emerging from the Swiss city. Abbado hand-picked his players from the great orchestras and ensembles of Europe and together, over the last decade, they have been performing a cycle of Mahler Symphonies.
This afternoon's programme features the Lucerne Festival Orchestra in two Mahler performances – the Rückert Lieder and Fourth Symphony – and they are joined in both by the Czech mezzo Magdalena Kožená.
The programme also features the Lucerne Festival's other Abbado creation – the Gustav Mahler Chamber Orchestra. British composer George Benjamin conducts them in his own music and in Wagner's Siegfried-Idyll (first performed in Wagner's villa on the banks of Lake Lucerne) and Schumann's Second Symphony.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/David Papp
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The first of a major series of concerts for the next 10 weeks on Monday evenings, features a full cycle of Mahler's Symphonies performed by Manchester's orchestras at the Bridgewater Hall, to celebrate 150 years since Mahler's birth.
Tonight the BBC Philharmonic conducted by Gianandrea Noseda performs Mahler Symphony No. 1.
At his meeting with Sibelius in 1907, Mahler declared "the symphony must be like the world: It must embrace everything." Growing up in the Moravian countryside instilled in him a lifelong love of nature, while other influences included dance bands and military music from the local barracks.
Julian Johnson joins Petroc Trelawny for a discussion around the recurring themes of joy, fear, love and death.
The concert opens with the première of Kurt Schwertsik's Nachtmusiken.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Philip Tagney
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BBC RADIO 4 Easter Monday 5 April 2010
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Book Of The Week – Parisians Ep 1/5
A city's famous dwellers and visitors are brought to life in the new book by Graham Robb, about the man who fixed the gaping holes of Rue d'Enfer in the 18th century, narrated by Stephen Boxer.
Author Robb says of his book, Parisians: "The idea was to create a kind of mini-human comedy of Paris, in which the history of the city would be illumined by the real experiences of its inhabitants."
Parisians begins with the French Revolution and ends in more current times. The inhabitants are natives and visitors, and it is the likes of Charles Axel Guillaumot, Marie Antoinette, Alexandrine Zola, Adolf Hitler and Charles de Gaulle who lighten and darken the city's streets in five episodes for Book Of The Week.
In this first episode, the city is saved from sinking in 1776 by a mysterious individual called Charles Axel Guillaumot.
The series is abridged by Katrin Williams.
Reader/Stephen Boxer, Producer/Duncan Minshull
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Woman's Hour Drama – A Small Town Murder Ep 1/5
Meera Syal and Niamh Cusack star in this new Woman's Hour Drama by Katie Hims.
While DC Jackie Hartwell helps a wife though the pain of her husband's apparent violent suicide, she slowly begins to suspect foul play.
It leaves Family Liaison Officer Jackie, played by Meera Syal, once again facing the painful dilemma of having to gather evidence against a family which needs her and has given her its trust.
Jackie begins to question if maverick political activist Richard Barnes really threw himself in front of a train or if he was pushed. Suspicions start going though Jackie's mind and she wonders if the long-suffering wife was interested in an insurance payday or if his son had his own reason to commit murder...
Jackie picks away at the truth with her usual good-natured warmth and determination and all is revealed in a heart-breaking final twist which forces a distressed Jackie to disclose a surprising and agonising secret of her own.
Niamh Cusack plays Gillian, Mathew Marsh is Peter and Ollie Barbieri plays Michael.
Producer/Clive Brill
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Food writer Stefan Gates investigates what was on the menu at The Last Supper, looking at a new theory that Leonardo Da Vinci thought it was grilled eels and sliced oranges.
The controversial restoration of Leonardo's masterpiece in 1997 has raised the possibility of identifying the food on the table in the painting. Stefan journeys to Milan to find the reasons Leonardo chose to paint what he did. Along the way he uncovers a long tradition of depictions of The Last Supper, giving an insight into the way Christian attitudes to food have changed.
Though Leonardo's version is the most famous, other paintings of The Last Supper have offered unusual answers to the question "what would Jesus eat?", including crayfish, roast pork and even guinea pig, all decidedly un-kosher for what is commonly understood to have been a Passover meal. Other paintings of the subject, like that of Paolo Veronese, attracted the attention of The Inquisition for the inclusion of "dwarves and drunkards'".
Stefan talks to historians of art and food and visits The Last Supper in Milan to find out more about what paintings can tell us about our relationship with food and dining.
Presenter/Stefan Gates, Producer/Russell Finch
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Thinking Of Leaving Your Husband? Ep 1/4
Thinking Of Leaving Your Husband? is a four-part comedy drama by Charlotte Cory that explores a middle-aged divorcee's attempts to find herself a new romantic interest by joining an internet dating site.
Lia Williams, plays the heroine Sarah, with Henry Goodman as, not only Sarah's ex-husband Malcolm, but every one of her would-be lovers.
In the first episode, Sarah is deeply dissatisfied with her lot. Her marriage to the kindly but deeply boring Malcolm has long since failed to bring any spark to her life, and a brief relationship with a man called David, while ultimately unfulfilling, at least proves to her that she is not so unattractive that she cannot find happiness elsewhere.
So she leaves Malcolm and a chance encounter with an old school friend, Tania, leads her to move in with her friend and join the internet dating site Find-the-perfect-partner-4-u-dot-com. But her first experience of internet dating proves to be hugely embarrassing.
Producer/Gordon House
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Afternoon Play –
The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes Ep 1/2
Clive Merrison stars as the great detective, with Andrew Sachs as Dr John Watson and James Laurenson as Mycroft Holmes, in The Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes.
In The Marlbourne Point Mystery, a disused lighthouse on a remote stretch of the Kent coast is the scene of a bizarre double death.
In his accounts of the career of his friend Sherlock Holmes, Dr Watson often makes passing reference to a mystery which his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, never wrote about in full.
In The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Bert Coules, the chief writer behind BBC Radio 4's celebrated dramatisations of the complete Sherlock Holmes canon of 56 short stories and four novels, once again takes up the pen where Sir Arthur left off.
Other members of the cast are: Piers Wehner as Constable Powell; Nigel Hastings as Sir Charles Steele; Pik-Sen Lim as Mrs Chang; Joseph Cohen-Cole as Harold Jefferstone; Bruce Alexander as Mr Jefferstone; Richard Dillane as Mr Lade; and Tessa Nicholson as Elizabeth.
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Anatomy Of ... Redundancy Ep 1/3
Anatomy of ... Redundancy is the first in a new three-part series which forensically examines everyday, but life-changing dramas.
The first programme hears from people involved in the closing down of a 106-year-old family business. The sales have stalled, the phones have stopped ringing and desperate suppliers are at the door chasing payment.
Managing Director Dani Saveker recalls the lonely experience of being the boss when the only remaining option is to call in the administrators and relinquish control of the family business. The official administrator traces the tough process of preparing the business for sale and choosing the employees who are to be made redundant. And long-term employees recount their shock at the announcement that they would very soon be clocking off for the last time.
The programme traces their unsuccessful search for new work, the financial strain of losing an income and the emotional fallout which follows when a business goes under.
Anatomy Of ... is from the makers of the Sony award-winning programme, Anatomy Of A Car Crash, which was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.
Producer/Laurence Grissell
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Easter Monday 5 April 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman has all the day's sports news and live football action on Easter Monday.
Mark is also joined by Steve Claridge and John Motson to discuss the latest big topics in football. From 1.45pm there's live second-half commentary of Yeovil Town versus Leeds in League One.
There's also coverage of all the day's 3pm kick-off's in the Championship and Leagues One and Two, including Derby versus Ipswich and Watford versus West Bromwich Albion in the Championship, and Norwich versus Stockport in League One.
At 5pm there's live Championship commentary of Nottingham Forest versus Cardiff City at the City Ground.
At 7pm Mark has a round-up of the day's action followed by commentary of Newcastle United versus Sheffield United live from St James Park at 7.45pm.
From 10pm Mark is joined by Mark Clemmit for all the news and reaction from the Championship and Leagues One and Two in 5 Live Football League.
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Francesca Bent
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Easter Monday 5 April 2010
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Rugby League
Uninterrupted Super League commentary on Castleford Tigers versus St Helens comes live from The Jungle.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Easter Monday 5 April 2010
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Andrew Collins plays a selection of tracks chosen by American singer-songwriter Laura Veirs for Lunchtime playlist. Her choice of tracks includes a selection from Fleetwood Mac, Fleet Foxes, Mirah and The Shins
Presenter/Andrew Collins, Producer/Jax Coombes
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Electronic music enthusiast and Wall Of Sound label boss Mark Jones hosts a special bank holiday edition of Back To The Phuture, celebrating the new romantic sounds from the Eighties to the present day.
Alongside classic tunes from Ultravox and the Human League and new music from Hurts and Ali Love, Mark talks to Visage front-man and club promoter Steve Strange about the part he played in the movement. Best known for their hit single Fade To Grey, Visage has been celebrating their 30th anniversary with a brand new Best Of compilation and series of new cutting-edge club mixes.
In this in-depth interview, Steve tells Mark about founding of the infamous Blitz club, appearing in David Bowie's video for Ashes To Ashes and putting on gigs by Depeche Mode and Spandau Ballet at the Camden Palace, as well as picking tracks which inspired him from T Rex, Grace Jones and Roxy Music. In the final hour of the show, there's a guest mix from Steve's former partner in Visage and Blitz club DJ Rusty Egan including music from Gary Numan, Kraftwerk and Duran Duran.
Presenter/Mark Jones, Producer/Rowan Collinson
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Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish give listeners another chance to catch up on the Adam And Joe Podcast from March 2008 titled Minor Surgeries. This is also available as a podcast to download after the show.
Presenter/Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, Producer/James Stirling
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Easter Monday 5 April 2010
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Listeners can re-live Raj and Pablo's recent In Conversation With... with Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol Devgen and Karan Johar.
It's a must-listen to as three of Bollywood's biggest stars reveal all, and they're all together! Listeners can relax, and unwind as they listen to the living legends' thoughts and feelings about the film My Name Is Khan, love, life and the Bollywood industry.
Presenters/Raj and Pablo
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Network Radio BBC Week 14: Tuesday 6 April 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 6 April 2010
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Jamie Cullum
Jamie Cullum, the UK's biggest-selling jazz artist of all time, showcases his love for all types of jazz and music rooted in jazz, from its heritage to the future, in a new weekly programme for BBC Radio 2.
The series features live sessions and guests from around the world, as well as tracks from the BBC's jazz session archive.
Jamie says: "It's an extraordinary privilege to be able to present an hour of jazz and jazz-related music at such a civilised hour. We're going to present a show that will excite people's ears and bring them into a scene they may not know about."
This week's show features an interview with Ramsey Lewis, one of Jamie's favourite jazz pianists of all time. There is also a live session from Polar Bear, which was recorded at the BBC's Maida Vale studios, featuring tracks from their new album, Peepers.
Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Karen Pearson
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Tony Bennett Presents
The Great American Songbook Ep 1/4
Tony Bennett, a legend from the American swing era, guides the BBC Radio 2 audience through his selection of the 40 defining songs from the Great American Songbook in this new four-part series.
Tony has lived the songs, sung the songs and now, in his 60th year as a performer, he offers his personal thoughts, insights and an insider's view on the greatest compositions ever written. Sir Michael Parkinson leads the way through the 10 songs covered each week, as each programme features Tony's anecdotes about the people who created them, the pantheon of singers who have interpreted them and his views about what makes each one special.
The Great American Songbook is an informal phrase, originally coined by Tony himself, which describes the interrelated music of Broadway musical theatre, the Hollywood musical and Tin Pan Alley, in a period that begins in the Twenties. Aside from the enduring popularity of this music in its original context, it also became the central repertoire for jazz musicians.
In the first episode, Tony illustrates the musical and lyrical sophistication in a line-up that includes Billie Holiday's Autumn In New York, Nat King Cole's It's Only A Paper Moon and Judy Garland's Over The Rainbow.
Tony says: "No one will ever sound as good as Judy Garland as far as I am concerned. Just listen to The Man That Got Away that she made for A Star Is Born and you'll believe it."
Presenter/Sir Michael Parkinson, Producer/Phil Critchlow
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BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 6 April 2010
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Philip Pullman's name often appears whenever anyone is compiling a list of the best writers in Britain. It also tends to appear whenever there's a reckoning of authors sceptical about organised religion. Even an endorsement a few years ago from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, of Pullman's most famous work, His Dark Materials, did little to dispel this notion.
Pullman's new book, The Good Man Jesus And The Scoundrel Christ, is a retelling of the Bible story and fulfils a promise Pullman made to the Archbishop to write about Jesus and his place in Christian worship. Pullman uses it to examine the way in which the Christian Church formulated its beliefs and established a canon of scripture and at the same time explores his long-standing fascination with the figure of Christ himself.
Philip Dodd meets Pullman at his home in Oxfordshire for an extended conversation, ranging from religion and literature to contemporary politics and civic duty.
Presenter/Philip Dodd, Producer/Zahid Warley
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BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 6 April 2010
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Olivia O'Leary is joined in conversation by two coroners, Peter Dean and Christopher Dorries, as the series bringing together people who have had profound and similar experiences continues.
Their job is commonly misunderstood; they do not conduct post-mortems or attend crime scenes. Their role, if a death is sudden or unexplained, is to investigate the cause of death.
Together they discuss what their jobs entail. Olivia asks them how continually dealing with death and bereavement affects them. They also discuss whether the new Coroners And Justice Act coming into force is bringing greater pressure to conduct sensitive inquests in secret.
Currently coroners can have a medical or a legal background, but the new act means that only lawyers will be able to become coroners. This is something that concerns Peter Dean, whose background is in medicine.
Olivia O'Leary gets the inside track on the unique role of the coroner.
Presenter/Olivia O'Leary, Producer/Karen Gregor
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Saving Species Ep 1/17
Saving Species is a landmark series, led by the BBC's Natural History Unit, broadcasting about the current state of various species, live from around the world.
More people around the globe are recognising and acknowledging that the relationship between human beings and the natural world is changing as the loss of species becomes increasingly apparent.
This season of programmes aims to bring audiences closer to species in the wild and the biologists who study them. Listeners will be also invited to contribute in a special online project where they can upload images and ask questions.
Through the seasons of the year and the seasons of the Earth, the series follows the life histories of chosen species and reports on how wildlife conservation works in the modern era.
The ambitious season of programming has a live studio, based in Bristol, and is working with collaborators in the UK and across the world to take listeners out to where the story is happening.
Saving Species reports on the great and the small, the well known and the totally new and explains why people should care about a cricket as much as an elephant.
Forty programmes will be broadcast in two tranches – from April until July and then from the end of August until February 2011.
The series includes reports on African elephants, Purple Emperor butterflies, African lions, British seabirds, the koala, Australia's Barrier Reef, the South American rainforest, vultures, short-haired bumble bees and wandering albatrosses.
Through the Open University, listeners can communicate with an online project, Ispot, where they can upload their own images and questions about biodiversity.
Saving Species is a collaboration between BBC Radio 4, the BBC Natural History Unit and the Open University. The series will also be working with BBC Two's Springwatch and Autumnwatch.
Presenter/Brett Westwood, Producers/Mary Colwell, Sheena Duncan and Kirsty Henderson
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Miles Jupp investigates the fictional evil mastermind Fu Manchu's connection to the Scottish capital.
Yellow Peril, Celestial One and Devil Doctor were some of the many aliases under which Dr Fu Manchu traded. Miles sets out to find out exactly from where he received his doctorate.
According to his boast in The Mask Of Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer's evil genius was an alumnus of three world-famous universities. From the novels it seems as if Fu Manchu must have studied in Edinburgh in the early 1870s.
The 1870s were an interesting time to be in town. Conan Doyle was registered at the University Medical School, studying at the feet of Joseph Bell, the inspiration for Sherlock Holmes. Thomas De Quincey, the "English Opium Eater", had died in the city a few years before but the network by which he sourced his laudanum was still intact, brought by Chinese coolies from the Port of Leith to the drawing rooms of the New Town. There were Chinese students registered on the matriculation rolls of the university, some of them refugees from the Boxer rebellion, and the seamen's missions and city police reports make it clear that there was a thriving Chinese criminal network in Scotland's capital.
Miles investigates the hidden Edinburgh years of the criminal mastermind who fought a war against Western imperialism after learning his trade in one of the West's most esteemed universities.
Presenter/Miles Jupp, Producer/David Stenhouse
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EM Forster Short Stories Ep 1/3
In The Story Of The Siren – the first of this three-part series of short fiction by EM Forster – a young woman enjoying Italy's beauty is unsettled by a tale about the fate of a young Sicilian. The reader is Susannah Harker.
In Wednesday's story, The Road From Colonus, read by Andrew Sachs, misunderstandings thwart plans for a sojourn in the idyllic Greek countryside.
The final story, The Obelisk, read on Thursday by Ruth Wilson, tells of how a chance encounter leads an unhappily married couple to find solace in forbidden ways.
Though best known for 20th-century classic novels including A Passage To India, Where Angels Fear To Tread and Howard's End, EM Forster was also a prolific writer of short stories. In them he explored many of the themes central to his novels, including the morals and mores of the middle classes in the early 20th century and his fascination with the Mediterranean.
Readers/Susannah Harker, Andrew Sachs and Ruth Wilson, Producer/Elizabeth Allard
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Great Lives Ep 1/8
Matthew Parris features the life of German writer Bertolt Brecht as he returns with a new series of Great Lives.
Playwright John Godber joins Matthew to discuss the life of Brecht, with the help of drama specialist Professor Michael Patterson.
Bertolt Brecht is the hero and inspiration of John Godber. Both writers have in common an instinct and desire for truly popular theatre which has the power to change fundamentally the perspective of its audiences.
Brecht's own productions were immensely lively and popular and his theatrical legacy, although eschewed by Hollywood devotees of naturalism, stands firm in the work of many of today's greatest writers.
Presenter/Matthew Parris, Producer/Mary Ward Lowery
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Iraq's Forgotten Conflict is the story of Iraq's religious minorities, which are facing extinction from targeted killings and forced exile.
Since the invasion of 2003, a thousand Christians have been killed, 200,000 have fled, and murder, torture, kidnappings and forced conversions are everyday occurrences.
Edward Stourton reports from Baghdad and surrounding areas, talking to refugees who will never go back there; to Anglican and Catholic leaders who believe life is getting worse every month; and to priests who believe they may be called to be martyrs. He sees for himself evidence of Iraq's Forgotten Conflict.
Presenter/Edward Stourton, Producer/David Coomes
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Case Notes Ep 1/7
Dr Mark Porter looks at what people do and don't know about the dangers of recreational drugs, as the medical programme returns for a new series.
In little more than a year, mephedrone, also known as miaow miaow, bubble and M-Cat, has become one of the most popular party drugs in the UK. Dr Mark Porter looks at what people know about its potential dangers.
Many young people are using it every week. Health professionals are not sure how harmful to health this new drug is, though anecdotal reports give them cause for considerable concern.
It is the latest so-called "legal high." Currently in mainland Britain, it is legal to import, sell and possess mephedrone. Dr Mark Porter talks to experts about what is known and unknown about the risks from its use.
Mark also looks at what science is saying about the adverse health effects of cocaine and cannabis.
Presenter/Dr Mark Porter, Producers/Andrew Luck Baker, Erika Wright and Deborah Cohen
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 6 April 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch has all the day's sports news and, from 7.45pm, live Uefa Champions League quarter-final second-leg coverage.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Patrick Whiteside
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BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 6 April 2010
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As an extension to the station's Album Of The Day concept, where a different album, old or new, is played throughout the day, BBC 6 Music's Album Of The Day + aims to exclusively showcase a soon-to-be-released album by a key 6 Music artist. Albums previously showcased include Massive Attack's Heligoland and Gorillaz's Plastic Beach.
This month 6 Music presents the second album by Grammy nominated Brooklyn duo MGMT. Tracks from the hotly anticipated album Congratulations play in each show through the day and the band are in conversation with Steve Lamacq from 4pm.
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Lauren Laverne is joined by photographer Liam Bailey. Liam's new Glastonbury exhibition, Glastonbury – 40 Years, opens in April at a London gallery. It documents in photo form how the UK's biggest festival has evolved over the past 40 years.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales
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Andrew Collins is joined by Brighton indie-folkers Peggy Sue ahead of the release of their debut album, Fossils And Other Phantoms, which comes out on Wichita Records in April. This is the band's first full album, after almost four years of single and EP releases.
Presenter/Andrew Collins, Producer/Jax Coombes
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As part of Album Of The Day + Steve Lamacq interviews MGMT ahead of the release of their second album, Congratulations. The duo, Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden, talk to Steve about the making of their new album and how the success of their debut album, Oracular Spectacular, changed their lives.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Paul Sheehan
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Gideon Coe's archive gems come from Lisa Hannigan's 2009 set at the Latitude Festival, along with Gorky's Zygotic Mynci in session in 2003. Further treats from the archive are promised via Fairport Convention with their first BBC session; some drone rock from Bastro, who evolved into Tortoise; and an early start for Spiritualized, whose 2003 session can be heard tonight.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish offer another chance to catch up on their podcast from April 2008 entitled Challenges. This will also be available to download as a podcast after the show.
Presenters/Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, Producer/James Stirling
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Network Radio BBC Week 14: Wednesday 7 April 2010
BBC Radio 1Xtra Wednesday 7 April 2010
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BBC Radio 1Xtra meets young people who cannot read, write or add up, in two special reports on today's show, at 1.45pm and at 2.25pm.
The CBI (Confederation of British Industry) says millions of school leavers are unfit for working life because they lack basic literacy and numeracy skills.
Leon, 22, left school with no qualifications. He says his illiteracy made it easier for him to fall in with a bad crowd and he nearly got arrested. That's why he's now decided to do something about it and is improving his English and maths skills so he can start a course in graphic design.
Presenter/Max, Producer/Debbie Ramsay
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BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 7 April 2010
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The A-Z Of AOR Ep 1/6
Bob Harris presents the ultimate rock radio playlist, The A-Z Of AOR, a new series featuring great rock tracks, power ballads, million-selling songs and album gems.
Powered by the West Coast experimental music scene and the release of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper LP, album orientated rock (AOR) first burst onto American radio in San Francisco in 1967. It was a revelation, a tour de force of creative programming which empowered its DJs and provided an antidote to the Top 40 hit radio that just wasn't "hip" anymore. By the mid-Seventies, AOR had become the most successful radio format in America.
From Pink Floyd, Boston, Journey and Apple Tree Theatre to Spirit, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen and Santana, The A-Z Of AOR plays the biggest hits and the hidden gems from a genre that drove album sales into the triple millions.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Neil Myners
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BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 7 April 2010
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The BBC Symphony Orchestra and soloists give the UK première of Hungarian composer Peter Eötvös's powerful operatic version of Tony Kushner's play about Aids, Angels In America, recorded at the Barbican Hall in London.
The subject is America's late 20th-century nightmare: Aids. Its admission, its concealment and its destructive power is told through a web of dreams and memories which is touched by reality as the lives of two troubled New York couples – Louis Ironson and his lover Prior Walter, and Mormon lawyer Joe Pitt and his wife Harper – become intertwined.
The focus is on passionate relationships and dramatic suspense. Eötvös's wry, dramatic music expresses tenderness and pain through contrasted short scenes of gentle parlando, operatic declamation and American mimicry. Eötvös has created a vibrant, urban sound-world of breathtaking instrumental effects and powerful vocal lines.
David Adam Moore (baritone) is Prior Walter; Scott Scully (tenor) is Louis Ironson; Omar Ebrahim (baritone) is Joseph Pitt; and Julia Migenes (soprano) is Harper Pitt.
The BBC Symphony Orchestra and soloists are conducted by David Robertson.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Philip Tagney
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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 7 April 2010
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Twenty five years ago serious plans were made to simulate a Mars colony on the South Bank of the River Thames.
Such an outrageous idea would be dismissed outright if it hadn't been dreamt up by one of Britain's greatest social reformers, Michael Young.
Lord Young of Dartington, who died in 2002, was committed to building institutions dedicated to social improvement. He played a major role in creating the Consumers' Association and the Open University.
In 1984 he launched the Argo Venture, a collective of Britain's finest scientists, thinkers and space experts who were calling for the planting of human colonies in space. His son, author and journalist Toby Young, asks if the Argo Venture was an idea too far.
Dismayed by President Reagan's militarisation of space, Lord Young called for a European initiative in the peaceful exploration of space. He wished to inspire people to think of space as a place for peace and so he set his sights on establishing a human colony in space.
His cast of volunteers included scientist James Lovelock; astronomer and this year's Reith Lecturer Lord Martin Rees; and science writer Nigel Calder. He made plans for a landmark building on London's South Bank equipped with an anti-gravity ride and exhibits dedicated to space exploration.
Toby Young talks to Lord Martin Rees and Professor Colin Pillinger and hears from passionate advocates of Martian colonisation about what his father was looking for in space.
Presenter/Toby Young, Producer/Barney Rowntree
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The idea that modernity leads to a lessening religious belief is being abandoned by theorists in American and Europe.
Figures such as Richard Dawkins and AC Grayling argue that, increasingly, religion seeks to impinge on science, and now the first systematic study of European cultural groups predicts that fundamentalists of all religions are out-breeding moderates and atheists, and will eclipse them quite soon.
In Israel the ultra orthodox will form the majority as soon as 2050. Since the birth rate of secular people in the West is way below the replacement level of 2.1, and the birth rate of religious fundamentalists of practically any stripe is far above, roughly between 5 and 7.7 children per mother, through the sheer force of demography Eric Kauffman argues that they will become a much bigger force in the Western world.
Laurie Taylor discusses the anxieties of atheists and the predictions of demography with three theorists of different perspectives: Professor of Contemporary Islamic Studies, Tariq Ramadan of Oxford University; Eric Kauffman, Reader in Politics at Birkbeck College and author of Shall The Religious Inherit The Earth?; and Rebecca Goldstein, philosopher and author of 36 Arguments For The Existence Of God: A Work Of Fiction.
Presenter/Laurie Taylor, Producer/Charlie Taylor
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Mark Steel's In Town Ep 1/6
Comedian Mark Steel visits six more UK towns to discover what makes them and their inhabitants distinctive.
In the first of this new series, Mark visits Dartford in Kent to find out what gives this town its character.
He creates a bespoke stand-up show for each town and performs the show in front of a local audience. In this first episode Mark talks about the peasants' revolt, gypsy tart, Mick Jagger and what one resident calls the Road To Hell.
As well as shedding light on the less-visited areas of Britain, Mark uncovers stories and experiences that reflect the quirkiness of the British way of life.
During the series Mark also visits Wilmslow and Alderley Edge in Cheshire, Dumfries in the Borders, Penzance in Cornwall, Gateshead in Tyne and Wear and Kirkwall in the Orkneys.
Presenter/Mark Steel, Producer/Julia McKenzie
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Unreliable Evidence Ep 1/4
Clive Anderson brings together some of the country's top judges and lawyers to discuss the legal issues of the day.
The first programme explores the often controversial interface between English law and religious belief.
Disputes in which articles of faith clash with the law of the land have arisen over the carrying of sacred knives, employment law, adoption, gay rights and cremation.
One of the first acts of the new Supreme Court was to rule that one of Britain's most successful faith schools had racially discriminated against a 12-year-old boy who was refused admission because the school did not recognise him as Jewish.
And the Government's attempts to strengthen the country's equalities legislation provoked the Pope to call on bishops to fight measures which could force churches to hire homosexual and transgender employees.
The programme investigates what kind of oversight the secular courts of the United Kingdom should exercise when individuals choose to have their disputes resolved in religious courts, such as Sharia or Beth Din.
Presenter/Clive Anderson, Producer/Brian King
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Costing The Earth Ep 1/8
Tom Heap finds out if it's really possible, or desirable, to put a price on nature and if by doing so, policy makers, businesses and individuals would take it more seriously, as the environmental series returns.
Alkborough Flats on the Humber Estuary is a haven for birdlife but has also provided £400,000 worth of flood protection a year. The carbon storage in its sediment is valued at a further £14,500, plus there's additional revenue from recreation and tourism.
Bees are another example. Their services to farming are estimated at £200m a year with the retail value of what they pollinate closer to £1bn.
Upland farming is already heavily subsidised but there's an argument that these farmers should be paid not to farm, but instead to maintain water quality, guard against flooding and maintain wildlife habitats.
What was a theoretical issue is becoming reality. Right now the National Ecosystem Assessment is taking place. Government-sponsored inspectors are actually pricing up the services provided by the environment with a view to embedding them in policy.
Tom Heap meets the economists and leading figures from the world of banking and accounting who could be the unlikely answer to safeguarding biodiversity.
Presenter/Tom Heap, Producers/Alasdair Cross and Helen Lennard
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 7 April 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch has all the day's sports news and, from 7.45pm, live Champions League quarter-final second-leg coverage.
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BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 7 April 2010
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Lauren Laverne is joined by Lou Rhodes for a live session in the BBC 6 Music studios.
The singer of the recently reformed Lamb released her new solo record One Good Thing in March and joins Lauren in the studio to perform some songs from the album.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales
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Gideon Coe presents Prefab Sprout live in Reading from 1985, and Suede at London's Royal Festival Hall in 2002. His session foursome includes Elvis Costello and The Attractions from 1978, Spooky Tooth a decade earlier, a more recent vintage provided by Silver Jews from 2005 and a rare 1990 session from New York art-grunge trio Barkmarket.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish offer listeners another chance to catch up on The Wall, a podcast of theirs from April 2008. This will also be available to download as a podcast after the show.
Presenters/Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, Producer/James Stirling
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 7 April 2010
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Heart And Soul – Ganga Ma: Voices Of The River Ep 1/2
In 2008, the Ganges was named India's national river. It is also known as the Hindu mother goddess, Ganga, who gives life and salvation.
From January to April 2010, the Ganges plays host to the world's largest gathering of people, who congregate at the city of Haridwar – the point at which the river descends from the Himalayan plains – for the Hindu festival of Maha Kumbh Mela.
The first programme of this new series focuses on Haridwar, collecting sounds and stories from some of the people who live and work on the river Ganges, day in, day out.
Exploring why so many are drawn to the waters during the Maha Kumbh Mela the programme hears stories from a priest at Har Ki Pauri Ghat (the main bathing area in the city), a Saddhu of the Juna Akhara (a holy man of the religious order) and from individual pilgrims and tourists who have travelled thousands of kilometres to be there.
Producer/Katie Burningham
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Living With Tourists Ep 1/2
Ros Atkins sets out to explore how attitudes to tourism can vary across the globe.
The tourism industry is the largest in the world, with some predicting that it could be worth $15 trillion by the end of this decade. Few countries can afford to ignore it, yet reactions to hosting tourists vary enormously from place to place.
Ros has personally observed a spectrum of such attitudes in the handful of countries in which he has lived: he perceived a lingering resentment towards outsiders in his native Cornwall and a hunger for visitors in the Bahamas. Trinidad, between the two, seemed more ambivalent.
He embarks upon a journey back to these places, where he lived as a child with his itinerant fisherman father and the rest of his family. Along the way, he talks to top politicians, industry leaders and tourists themselves, looking to discover why tourism's effects can be so disparate and what wider lessons might be drawn from these countries' experiences.
Presenter/Ros Atkins, Producer/Michael Gallagher
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Network Radio BBC Week 14: Thursday 8 April 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 8 April 2010
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Listen To The Band moves to Thursday evening and visits the Festival Of Brass at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester for the first time.
Frank Renton introduces exclusive BBC recordings from this year's Festival Of Brass and features David Childs and the Cory Band in the English première of Karl Jenkins's Euphonium Concerto and the world première of Brass Triumphant by Gareth Wood.
The programme also features David and Gareth talking about the music.
Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter
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Sir Tim Rice has always been fascinated by the history and geography of the United States, even before he became obsessed with its music.
"The sheer romanticism of the names of the 50 States is poetry to my ears," he says, "and the opportunity to explore every State of the union through its music, musicians, composers, lyricists and performers is irresistible for me."
Each week, Tim looks at the music and musicians of one of the 50 States in the Union. Some, like New York and Tennessee, have a well-known musical history and heritage; others, like Alaska and Delaware, do not have instantly recognisable musical traditions or narrative. But every one of the States has a wonderful and individual tale to tell through its songs, tunes, words, music, performers and writers.
Sir Tim begins his trek in the top-left-hand corner of the US map, in Washington State, and features artists including Jimi Hendrix, Kenny Loggins, Bing Crosby, Nirvana, Fleet Foxes and Oleta Adams.
He progresses snake-like, up and down the mighty nation from the Pacific to the Atlantic, taking a break from the 48 mainland States somewhere along the way to touch down in Alaska and Hawaii.
"I hope each broadcast, through music old and new, familiar and unexpected, proves an enjoyable slice of American Pie, none quite like the 49 others," he enthuses.
Presenter/Sir Tim Rice, Producer/Anthony Cherry
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BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 8 April 2010
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Over two nights in Performance On 3, young violinist Julia Fischer performs JS Bach's complete works for unaccompanied solo violin in two concerts recorded earlier this year at London's Wigmore Hall.
Tonight's programme features Bach's Sonatas 1-3, while tomorrow evening's performance concludes with his three Partitas.
Although still in her mid-twenties, Julia is recognised around the world as an exceptionally gifted performer, reflected in the many awards she has received, including Artist Of The Year at the Gramophone Awards in 2007.
Bach's three sonatas and three partitas for solo violin occupy the summit of the violin repertoire. Poetic expression and technical virtuosity are allied to structural discipline, raising the music to an exalted plane.
Bach uses the baroque dance forms of his time – the stately sarabande, the sprightly jig – but these are just a starting point for his exhilarating inventions played on the fragile yet agile, profoundly expressive solo violin.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Philip Tagney
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BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 8 April 2010
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Nina Conti attends the third annual London Improvathon, a 50-hour marathon of improvisation.
She meets the Improvathon's creator, Dana Anderson, and watches 50 hours of improvisation in which the actors meet their "lizard brains".
It was Ken Campbell who first brought the idea of the Improvathon – a marathon of improvised drama and comedy – to Britain from Canada, where he'd been inspired by Dana Anderson and his Die-Nasty company at Edmonton's Varscona Theatre.
Twenty-five actors gathered for the 6pm start on a Friday, and most of them were still there when it ended at 9pm on Sunday. The theme was loosely Victorian and on stage at various times were Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Jane Austen and many fictional characters.
Once the actors have been improvising for 30 hours they experience what Dana calls "Stargate" and find themselves "being" rather than acting. They no longer have to think about what to do or say on stage – it just happens. They define this as being in touch with their "lizard" or instinctual brain.
Dr Mark Lythgoe, Director of The Centre For Advanced Biomedical Imaging at University College London attributes the experience to a combination of sleep deprivation and a creative high which leads to "dis-inhibition".
For actors and audience, the Improvathon proves an extraordinary and compelling experience. Nina is most struck by the sense of community and support it engenders, as the actors pull together to keep each other going and, by saying "yes" to every new idea, take themselves and the production to new levels.
Presenter/Nina Conti, Producer/Marya Burgess
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 8 April 2010
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Richard Bacon – 5 Live In Liverpool
Richard Bacon introduces his programme live from Aintree on the opening day of the Grand National meet, part of 5 Live In Liverpool. Richard will be joined by special guests as he introduces live coverage of the day's racing action.
To celebrate this year's Grand National, BBC Radio 5 Live is broadcasting live from Liverpool John Moores University in front of local audiences, as well as hosting off-air events in the city between Thursday 8 and Saturday 10 April.
Other programmes featured include Tony Livesey, Fighting Talk and Kicking Off With Colin Murray on 5 Live Sport, plus all the action from Aintree. For full details visit bbc.co.uk/5live.
Presenter/Richard Bacon, Producer/Robin Bulloch
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5 Live Sport
Eleanor Oldroyd introduces all the day's sports news and reports from the first day of golf's US Masters in Augusta, Georgia.
From 8pm there's live coverage of one of this evening's Europa League quarter-finals.
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Tony Livesey – 5 Live In Liverpool
Tony Livesey hosts his late-night show live from John Moores University, as part of 5 Live In Liverpool.
Tony will be joined by special guests for his usual mix of topical chat on some of the big issues of the day.
Presenter/Tony Livesey, Producer/Jonathan Aspinwall
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Thursday 8 April 2010
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Golf
Listeners can enjoy live uninterrupted commentary of the first round of The Masters 2010, live from Augusta, Georgia.
BBC Radio 5 Live's golf correspondent Iain Carter leads the commentary team accompanied by Andrew Cotter, John Murray and Alistair Bruce Ball. Expert analysis comes from former European and PGA player Jay Townsend and former PGA tour winner Andrew Magee, who has played in seven Masters.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 8 April 2010
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Thursday is Roundtable day and Steve Lamacq welcomes actor and comedian Mat Horne and two other guests into the studio to chat about the pick of the week's most interesting releases.
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BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe's archive selection this evening includes live highlights from The Cure's 1985 outing at the Camden Palace. Depeche Mode are in session from 1981 with further archive from Kristin Hersh, American shoegazers Smashing Orange and melodic Sixties-tinged Rhode Island trio Velvet Crush.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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6 Music Plays It Again offers another chance to catch up on the Adam And Joe Podcasts from April 2008. This evening's offering is entitled "Stephen", which will also be available to download as a podcast after the show.
Presenters/Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, Producer/James Stirling
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 8 April 2010
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Nihal presents his show from the Southbank Centre in London, home to the Alchemy Festival, a five-day event celebrating Indian culture in the UK.
This one-off show features a cook-off between Anirudh Arora, head chef of London restaurant Moti Mohal, and Sarbjit Grewal from Channel 4's reality TV show The Family. The battle is on to see if good old home cooking can better Indian fine dining.
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Network Radio BBC Week 14: Friday 9 April 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Friday 9 April 2010
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Desmond Carrington moves to Friday nights, launching BBC Radio 2's new Friday evening schedule which sees Friday Night Is Music Night extended to two hours.
Desmond introduces a selection of records from his collection of some 250,000 titles. This week's theme is Up, Up And Away, the title of the Johnny Mann Singers' record with which he launched his All Time Greats show, back on 4 October 1981.
Presenter/Desmond Carrington, Producer/Dave Aylott
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In this first Friday Night Is Music Night in its new extended time slot, Clare Teal presents a programme recorded last month at LSO St Luke's in London.
Tonight's guests include young Welsh soprano Gwawr Edwards, tenor Bonaventura Bottone and guest instrumentalists Simon Mayor and The Mandolinquents.
The concert includes Suppe's Overture Beautiful Galatea; Robert Farnon's Westminster Waltz and Johann Strauss II's Tales From The Vienna Woods.
Presenter/Clare Teal, Producer/Bridget Apps
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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 9 April 2010
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In today's Lunchtime concert, French pianist Jacques Loussier performs his own unique versions of JS Bach and other composers, now classic works themselves, to a packed City Halls audience in Glasgow.
Loussier and his trio are world-renowned for their amalgam of classical works with brilliant jazz improvisations. His original Play Bach Trio, first created in 1959, was a resounding success resulting in 15 years of tours, six million records sold and several gold disc awards.
Loussier himself has composed more than 100 scores for film and television. His most famous recording is the version of Air On A G String that was used for the Hamlet cigar advertisements in the UK for more than 35 years.
Presenter/Louise Fryer, Producer/Lindsay Pell
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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 9 April 2010
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The British are mad about curry or, as it is known in Cockney rhyming slang, Ruby Murray. Alkarim Jivani investigates how curry came to be so intimately linked with the British sense of identity.
Historically, the English have been seen as distrustful of foreigners and wary of foreign food. So the nation's long love affair with curry is a surprising one. Even more curious is how this passion for curry is now recognised as part of the British identity.
Vindaloo was the unofficial song of England's 1998 World Cup team – an unlikely battle cry for English football fans. In April 2001, the then Foreign Secretary, Robin Cook, announced that "chicken tikka masala is now a true British national dish...". In fact, chicken tikka masala is even included by the Ministry of Defence in its operational ration packs to give troops some home comfort.
Alkarim Jivani speaks to curry lovers north and south of the border – historians, restaurant owners, chefs, and consumers – to find out why the British are so mad about curry.
Contributors include Madhur Jaffrey, whose enormously popular 1982 BBC series, Madhur's Jaffrey's Indian Cookery, revolutionised British Indian cuisine; Michelin-starred chef, Atul Kochhar; Namita Panjabi, Group Director of Masala World; and Neil Hind from Defence Food Services, Defence Equipment and Support, Ministry of Defence.
Presenter/Alkarim Jivani
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Joe, who has been deaf since he was born, works in an ordinary council office. Every day he makes the same journey to work on the bus, seeing the same people. Then one day a young girl signs her name to him, A-N-G-E-L.
Joe has been working in the council's housing office for 17 years. Apart from one small promotion he has remained in the same job surrounded by the same people. Vernon has been there for the same amount of time. He eats Joe's food and talks too fast in the pub but Joe goes along with it.
Into their world comes new office recruit Shelly who begins to fall for Joe. Until Joe realises that she is having a relationship with Richard Humble, the leader of the council
At the end of Shelly's first week there is a huge fire in a nearby block of flats and Joe discovers, through the news, that the name of one of the people who has died is called Angel. He embarks on a quest to find out what has happened.
Written by Katie Hims, A Small Piece Of Silence stars David Bower as Joe, Maxine Peake as Shelly, Ralph Ineson as Vernon, Deborah McAndrew as Brigitta, Ruth Alexander-Rubin as Marion and Terence Mann as Richard and the bus driver.
Katie wrote the play especially for David Bower after his striking performance as Quasimodo in BBC Radio 4's production of The Hunchback Of Notredame.
Liran Donin provides specially composed music and a soundscape that illustrates Joe's view of the world. Joe suffers from tinitus and Liarin underscores this condition in sound.
For the first time ever, the broadcast will be accompanied by a signtheatre film of the play, available online, with David Bower and Isolte Avila.
The script will also be available online to allow hearing-impaired audiences to access the play more fully. Signtheatre language is a mix of Sign Supported English (SSE), British Sign Language (BSL) and international sign. The film can be accessed via bbc.co.uk/radio4/afternoonplay.
Producer/Susan Roberts
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 9 April 2010
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5 Live Sport – 5 Live In Liverpool
In front of a live audience at Liverpool John Moores University, Colin Murray presents a special edition of Kicking Off With Colin Murray.
Colin is joined by two racing legends, former Gold Cup and Grand National-winning jockey Mick Fitzgerald, and, 14-times champion jockey Tony McCoy to look ahead to tomorrow's Grand National at Aintree.
Regular guests Pat Nevin and Perry Groves will be on hand to preview the weekend's football action, including Hull versus Burnley, Blackburn Rovers versus Manchester United and Liverpool against Fulham in the Premier League and Saturday's FA Cup semi-final between Aston Villa and Chelsea.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Louise Sutton
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Friday 9 April 2010
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Golf
Uninterrupted commentary of the second round of The Masters 2010 continues on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra.
Live from Augusta, Georgia, the commentary team is led by 5 Live's golf correspondent Iain Carter, alongside Andrew Cotter, John Murray and Alistair Bruce Ball. Jay Townsend and Andrew Magee contribute the expert analysis.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 9 April 2010
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In a packed edition, Steve Lamacq runs through the results of BBC 6 Music's Axe Factor Poll.
Forty years on from their heyday, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton continue to top the best guitarist polls. But what about Jonny Greenwood or Slash? Surely John Squire and Johnny Marr are every bit as influential as the greats from the Sixties and Seventies?
Contemporary fret wizards are often over-looked, so 6 Music, with the help of its trusted listeners, has endeavoured to find the best guitarists of the last 30 years. Steve unveils their ultimate guitarist at the end of the show.
Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Paul Sheehan
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Bruce Dickinson is joined on the Rock Show tonight by Ian Hill and KK Downing from Judas Priest.
Formed in Birmingham in the early Seventies, Judas Priest is one of the most influential and successful rock groups in the world. Having just won a Grammy award, MTV selected them as their second Greatest Metal Band of all-time, sandwiched between winners Black Sabbath and Metallica who came third.
Ian and KK tell Bruce about their celebrations for the 30th anniversary of their massively significant British Steel album and the fun they had putting it together.
Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan
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