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Network Radio BBC Week 29: 17-23 July
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Network Radio BBC Week 29: Saturday 17 July 2010
BBC RADIO 1 Saturday 17 July 2010
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Jo Whiley presents a special Live Lounge with one of the UK's best male artists, Mark Ronson.
With his band, The Business Intl, the Brit award-winner will be performing his new single, Bang Bang Bang, which is taken from his forthcoming third studio album.
And in the tradition of BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge, Mark and his band will also perform a cover version of a track by another artist.
Presenter/Jo Whiley, Producer/Clare Chadburn
BBC Radio 1 Publicity
BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 17 July 2010
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Jonathan Ross and Andy Davies are joined on their last show by comedian Alan Carr and there's also a special live performance by Sir Tom Jones.
Patrick Kielty will host BBC Radio 2's 10am-1pm show, for the next 10 weeks, before Graham Norton begins his brand new programme on Saturday 2 October.
Alan can also be heard on Radio 2 later tonight presenting Going Out With Alan Carr.
Presenter/Jonathan Ross, Producer/Fiona Day for the BBC
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Dermot O'Leary introduces sessions from Richard Ashcroft and The Magic Numbers.
Former Verve front-man Richard Ashcroft has just released a new album with his new band, The United Nations Of Sound. Recorded in Los Angeles, New York and London, the album was produced by Chicago hip-hop producer No ID (Jay-Z) and engineered by Grammy winning Motown legend Reggie Dozier.
The Magic Numbers, meanwhile, have just released their third album. Entitled The Runaway, it is dedicated to the renowned string arranger Robert Kirby, who worked on several of the songs before he died. Strings are added to the quartet's harmonious mix for this session.
Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker for Labora TV
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
BBC RADIO 2'S COMEDY SEASON
Hot Gossip Ep 1/6
BBC Radio 2's Comedy Season launches with the return of Hot Gossip, the irreverent comedy panel show hosted by Claudia Winkleman.
Hot Gossip unleashes UK comics and commentators into the silicon-filled world of glossy magazines and showbiz columns, for a unique take on the week's most "important" celebrity news.
The first programme of this new six-part series features the acerbic and occasionally brutal wit of Argumental's Rufus Hound; award-winning comedian, and star of Trigger Happy TV, Dom Joly; and the always sharp, pithy and to the point observations of Mock The Week regular Jo Caulfield.
There are no teams, it's everyone for themselves, as the guests unleash a torrent of celebrity fuelled opinion and navigate their way through regular rounds including Three In A Bed and Ask A Stupid Question.
Radio 2's Comedy Season continues with documentaries celebrating the Carry On film franchise, in Carry On Forever, as well as the timeless comedic talents of Tommy Cooper, Peter Sellers, Bob Monkhouse and Dave Allen.
Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Phil Critchlow for TBI media
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 17 July 2010
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Lucie Skeaping presents a profile of Jean-Baptiste Lully's 17th-century operatic masterpiece, Armide, with French conductor Hugo Reyne highlighting some of its qualities and innovations.
Lully almost single-handedly created French opera, and his tragedie-lyrique (tragic opera) Armide, about a sorceress and her love for the valiant hero Renaud, was the culmination of a long and fruitful collaboration with librettist Philippe Quinault.
Armide was instantly recognised as a masterpiece, remarkable not only for its attractive music, and effective dramatic architecture, but for its genius in setting the French language to music, and the psychological depths portrayed by its characters.
As part of the BBC's year-long celebration of opera, and the Early Music Show's monthly profile of important Baroque masterworks, Lucie Skeaping examines Armide with contributions from Lully champion and conductor Hugo Reyne.
Key moments from the opera are performed from CD by Philippe Herreweghe and Collegium Vocale.
Presenter/Lucie Skeaping, Producer/Chris Wines
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
Lucy Duran and Blur's Damon Albarn remember the life of Malian guitarist Lobi Traoré, who died last month. Damon is a big Malian music fan and produced Traoré's self-titled 2005 album.
Lobi Traoré was born on the left bank of the River Niger near Segou in Mali in 1961. His parents were singers, and members of the Komo – the most important of three secret castes in Bambara society, charged with the custodianship of divine knowledge.
Lobi followed in their footsteps, living in a forest inhabited with wild animals and going days without food and water. At the same time he pursued his training as a musician.
Lucy and Damon reminisce and play some of their favourite tracks as well as previewing a posthumous album due out in September.
World Routes also features a session with Senegalese singer, songwriter and percussionist Cheikh Lo, and previews the UK's first Kora festival in Brighton.
Presenter/Lucy Duran, Producer/James Parkin
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC PROMS 2010/OPERA ON THE BBC
Prom 2 – The Mastersingers Of Nuremberg
Suzy Klein introduces Welsh National Opera's new production of Wagner's The Mastersingers Of Nuremberg, live from London's Royal Albert Hall, starring Bryn Terfel.
The celebrated bass-baritone Bryn Terfel makes his debut in the role of Hans Sachs, the shoemaker and poet at the heart of this monumental work – part-comedy, part-love-story, part-meditation on the transformative power of art.
In 16th-century Nuremberg, the Mastersingers are a highly influential guild of singers, who meet for an annual singing competition – a challenge requiring a high level of technical expertise, and rewarded by a coveted prize.
For the forthcoming competition, the goldsmith, Pogner, offers an extra prize – the hand in marriage of his daughter, Eva. Into the town comes a young knight, Walther, with no experience in the craft of singing, but he falls instantly in love with Eva. He performs a song for a chance to enter the competition, but is judged to be unworthy by the pedantic town clerk, Beckmesser, who is also keen to win Eva's hand.
Hans Sachs is the only member of the establishment willing to listen to the newcomer and to give him a chance in his quest.
Hans Sachs is played by Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone); Walther von Stoltzing by Raymond Very (tenor); Eva by Amanda Roocroft (soprano); Beckmesser by Christopher Purves (baritone); David by Andrew Tortise (tenor); Pogner by Brindley Sherratt (bass); Magdalene by Anna Burford (mezzo-soprano); Nightwatchman by David Soar (bass-baritone); Kothner by Simon Thorpe (bass/baritone); Nachtigall by David Stout (baritone); Schwartz by Paul Hodges (baritone); Zorn by Rhys Meirion (tenor); Eisslinger by Andrew Rees (tenor); Moser by Stephen Rooke (tenor); Foltz by Arwel Huw Morgan (bass-baritone); Vogelgesang by Geraint Dodd (tenor); and Ortel by Owen Webb (baritone).
The Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera is conducted by Lothar Koenigs.
This Prom will also be broadcast at 7pm later this evening on BBC Four.
Presenter/Suzy Klein, Producer/Janet Tuppen
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 17 July 2010
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Comedian Ava Vidal examines whether devolution has changed the way people laugh at politicians and travels the UK to discover why Westminster is no longer the source of all political comedy.
Thirty years ago, when alternative comedy first developed as a scene, the target of its anger was clear – Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party. Political comedy was all based around Westminster because the decisions made there affected everyone in the country.
As power has moved from Westminster to Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, Ava explores whether comedy has followed it and whether politicians are viewed differently in each place. And as Westminster adapts to a new government, she asks if the content of political comedy is due for a change there too and if there is still such a thing as national political satire.
Ava talks to comedian Jeremy Hardy; producer Bill Dare, who has been behind some of the biggest topical comedy shows on television and radio; and Tommy Sheppard who was in London for the start of the alternative comedy scene and is now behind the thriving Scottish stand-up scene, managing clubs and comedians.
Presenter/Ava Vidal, Producer/Rachel Hooper for the BBC
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 17 July 2010
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Open Golf
John Inverdale presents live coverage of third day of the 2010 Open Championship from St Andrews.
The commentary team is led by 5 Live's golf correspondent Iain Carter, alongside John Murray, Clare Balding, Alistair Bruce-Ball and Conor McNamara, with expert analysis from Bernard Gallacher, Mark Roe and Jay Townsend. Chris Evans is 5 Live's roving reporter out and about on the course speaking to players and fans.
There are also updates and reports from the Tour de France and the final day of the first Test between Australia and Pakistan from Lord's.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Graham McMillan
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Saturday 17 July 2010
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Cricket
The Test Match Special team is in the commentary box at Lord's to cover, live and uninterrupted, the concluding day of the first Test between Australia and Pakistan.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
BBC 6 MUSIC Saturday 17 July 2010
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Dave Pearce presents a selection from 30 years of classic dance anthems, from techno to trance via electro and house alongside future floorfillers.
There's another Ibiza flashback to the mid-Nineties, plus the latest in Dave's series of featured record labels. The final 30 minutes features a mix by Dave of tunes currently setting clubland alight.
Presenter/Dave Pearce, Producer/Rowan Collinson
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 29: Sunday 18 July 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 18 July 2010
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Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to rocker Alvin Stardust and finds out more about his Christian faith.
Aled is also joined by Father Brian D'Arcy, presenter of BBC Radio 2's Sunday Half Hour which celebrates its 70th anniversary this month. Father Brian provides this week's Moment Of Reflection.
Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson for the BBC
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
BBC Radio 2 presenter Bob Harris is Johnnie Walker's guest on this week's programme as Johnnie continues to celebrate the Seventies, playing classic tracks from both sides of the Atlantic and archive sessions.
Bob, whose Radio 2 shows can be heard on Saturday and Thursday evenings, reminisces about the decade with Johnnie, including his work on the influential BBC television series The Old Grey Whistle Test.
Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Natasha Costa Correa for Wise Buddah
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
Alan Titchmarsh presents Melodies For You, an eclectic mix of tunes from the worlds of classical, opera, operetta, musicals, films, brass and military bands and jazz.
Tonight's programme features music from Offenbach's La vie Parisienne and Saint Saens's Organ Symphony. In addition, Alan's A-Z Of Operetta looks at the life and works of Ivor Novello.
Presenter/Alan Titchmarsh, Producer/Bridget Apps for the BBC
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
On 14 July 1940, the very first edition of Sunday Half Hour was broadcast from St Mary Redcliffe in Bristol.
It was described as a programme of "community hymn singing" and was intended to boost the morale of troops serving abroad during the Second World War. This week, Brian D'Arcy celebrates its 70th anniversary with a special extended programme of celebration recorded in the church of St Martin-in-the-Fields in London last month.
With music from massed choirs and a packed congregation, he introduces some of the listeners' favourite hymns and finds out precisely what it is that has made the programme so long-lived and so well-loved. Hymns include Great Is Thy Faithfulness, Love Divine and How Great Thou Art. The musical director is Andrew Earis and the organist is Martin Ford.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty for the BBC
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 18 July 2010
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BBC PROMS 2010/OPERA ON THE BBC
Prom 3 – Simon Boccanegra
Plácido Domingo adds a new role to his list of well over 100 operatic parts: the title role in Verdi's opera Simon Boccanegra, with Royal Opera House forces under Antonio Pappano, live from London's Royal Albert Hall and introduced by Donald Macleod.
Classic Verdi themes are at the heart of his opera Simon Boccanegra: the clash of love and power, and an intense relationship between Boccanegra and his long-lost daughter, Amelia.
Spanish tenor Plácido Domingo has sung over 130 different operatic roles. However, he had never sung a baritone role until a year ago, when he took on a part he had long wanted to play: Simon Boccanegra, the Doge of Genoa. "Verdi didn't have any children," says Domingo, "and in any opera when you have the parts of father and daughter, he wrote his best music."
The cast also includes soprano Marina Poplavskaya as Amelia Grimaldi (Maria Boccanegra); tenor Joseph Calleja as Gabriele Adorno; bass Ferruccio Furlanetto as Jacopo Fiesco; baritone Jonathan Summers as Paolo Albiani; bass Lukas Jakobski as Pietro; tenor Lee Hickenbottom as the captain; and mezzo-soprano Louise Armit as the maid. Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House.
This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 20 July at 2pm.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/David Gallagher
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
In the 150th anniversary year of Gustav Mahler's birth, Norman Lebrecht travels in the footsteps of the composer in search of those whose lives have been touched and changed by his music.
Beginning with Mahler's early life, Lebrecht talks of a child who's so terrified by what's going on at home that he runs away deep into the woods, where he sits on a log, listening. Something that he heard there became part of him. The noise of the wind blowing through the pines sounds like the note A – the note on which he starts his first symphony not many years later. A long, drawn-out A – the A, Lebrecht says, that has made his Gustav Mahler.
Lebrecht visits not just the places Mahler lived and the music he made, but people alive today who have been touched by his music.
Mahler was born in the tiny village of Kaliště in the Czech Republic – a few houses around a murky pond where his father's distillery is in ruins and is now for sale. There, Jiří Štilec has transformed the house where Mahler was born into a museum. Štilec says that when he had problems with his marriage, he used Mahler's Fourth Symphony as medicine – the long, melancholic melodies of the slow movement gave him hope.
At the Opera House in Vienna, where Mahler was director, the music archivist is Peter Poltun. A former American diplomat to Turkey, Poltun used the Fourth Symphony as an escape from the difficulties he encountered when in negotiations with security officers during the violence that engulfed Turkey in the Seventies.
Renate Stark-Voigt is a musicologist who's spent years working on a complete and final edition of the Second Symphony. She describes hearing the adagietto from the Fifth Symphony for the first time; it had such an affect on her that she had to spend weeks in the public rental library listening to the music again and again on LP. She became a music scholar because she had to understand what was behind Mahler's music and why it affected her so much. Yet there were times, such as when her first child died, that she simply couldn't listen to his music.
Travelling from Kaliště to Jihlava, the town of Mahler's childhood in the Czech Republic, Lebrecht moves on to Vienna and then to Klagenfurt in the south of Austria. There, after three years at the Opera and as a powerful man in the land, Mahler built a composing cabin deep in the woods and it was there that he found the voice he had been looking for ever since he was an infant. In the heart of nature, untroubled by the human conflicts he explores in his symphonies, he composed some of his darkest music.
Presenter/Norman Lebrecht, Producer/Jeremy Evans
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 18 July 2010
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Oscar-winning actor and director Tim Robbins talks to Kirsty Young about his life, his career and his favourite music in Desert Island Discs.
Born 16 October 1958 in West Covina, California, Tim grew up in New York City's Greenwich Village. He has numerous credits as an actor, director, writer and producer of films. These include The Shawshank Redemption, Mystic River, Arlington Road, Jacob's Ladder, Steven Spielberg's War Of The Worlds and Robert Altman's The Player.
Tim has won numerous awards for his acting including an Oscar, a Golden Globe and Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival.
Tim talks to Kirsty about his life and career and describes how he would cope on BBC Radio 4's mythical desert island.
Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle for the BBC
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Classic Serial – The Glass Bead Game Ep 1/2
The Glass Bead Game, starring Derek Jacobi, is a dramatisation of Hermann Hesse's novel set in a futuristic, utopian society.
Joseph Knecht is a rising star in the Castalian Order, a band of elite intellectuals who live a closeted life of study and Glass Bead Game playing.
But Joseph's elevation to one of the highest and most respected ranks of the Order coincides with a crisis of conscience, as his ever-deepening doubts about this idealistic and sanitised society threaten to topple its very foundations.
In the first episode, Joseph is singled out from an early age as one of the Castalian elite. As his education progresses, Joseph quickly proves himself as a gifted Glass Bead Game player and a promising candidate for the higher echelons of the exclusive Castilian Order.
Dramatised by Lavinia Greenlaw, The Glass Bead Game stars Derek Jacobi as the biographer, Tom Ferguson as Joseph and Aidan Parsons as the young Joseph.
Producer/Susan Roberts for the BBC
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 18 July 2010
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Open Golf
John Inverdale presents live coverage of the final day of the 2010 Open Championship from St Andrews.
The commentary team is lead by BBC Radio 5 Live's golf correspondent Iain Carter, alongside John Murray, Clare Balding, Alistair Bruce-Ball and Conor McNamara, with expert analysis from Bernard Gallacher, Mark Roe and Jay Townsend. Chris Evans is 5 Live's roving reporter out and about around the course, speaking to players and fans.
There are also updates and reports from the 14th stage in the Tour de France.
Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Graham McMillan
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
Men's Hour With Tim Samuels Ep 1/6
After 44 years of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, its cheeky younger brother Men's Hour With Tim Samuels makes its debut on BBC Radio 5 Live.
Hosted and created by award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tim Samuels, the six-part series delves into uncharted emotional territory for men – bringing real candour to the challenges of relationships and life, alongside some irreverent manly banter. Less about leering at ladies and more concerned with how to maintain monogamy, this is a men's mag women have been waiting for.
Tim is accompanied by leading males from the world of entertainment, sport, politics and media – as well as an on-hand shrink – as they leave their comfort zones behind; familiar people talking about unfamiliar things. Louie Spence, choreographer and star of Pineapple Dance Studio, also joins Tim as a regular weekly guest.
Each week, the show features guest interviews and regular features such as Questions You Daren't Ask Your Doctor and Midlife Music Crisis.
Presenter/Tim Samuels, Producer/Jon Holmes for Tonic Production
BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity
BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Sunday 18 July 2010
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Tour De France
Cycling fans can enjoy uninterrupted commentary on the 14th stage of the 2010 Tour de France, from Revel to Ax 3 Domaines.
Producer/Jen McAllister
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
5 Live Baseball
Josh Chetwynd and Jonny Gould present the Major League Baseball programme, with a round-up of all the latest news from the week in baseball.
There's also live commentary of the St Louis Cardinals versus LA Dodgers from the Busch Stadium, St Louis, in the National League.
Presenters/Josh Chetwynd and Jonny Gould, Producer/Simon Crosse for USP Content
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity
BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 18 July 2010
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Fun Lovin' Criminal Huey Morgan talks to James Mercer from The Shins and uber-producer and one half of Gnarls Barkley, Danger Mouse, about their collaboration, Broken Bells.
Mutual fans of each other's work and having met in 2004 at a rather messy Roskilde Festival, James Mercer and Danger Mouse got together in 2008 to create Broken Bells, whose spacey and psychedelic melodic rock on their debut self-titled record is a highlight in both of their already impressive careers.
Huey chats to them about making a genuinely collaborative record; Danger Mouse's production work, including the trailblazing Grey Album; and that night in Copenhagen...
Plus this week sees Mark Ronson start his residency in Sharing Is Caring, choosing a rare or special cut from his vast record collection, to share with Huey and listeners, and talking about the influences on his latest album, aptly entitled Record Collection.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Rebecca Maxted for Wise Buddah
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Sunday 18 July 2010
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Weekend Breakfast has the latest on today's Nottingham Mela at the Arboretum Park. BBC Asian Network DJs Murtz, Noreen and DJ Kayper host the main stage, which enjoys performances from Raghav, The Raghu Dixit Project, Rizwan Muazzam Qawaal, Rajhastani Folk Music And Dance, Ash King, Orchestra Music World and many more.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
Today's Bhangra Breakdown celebrates the latest stop on BBC Asian Network's A Summer Of Melas tour, at the Leicester Mela. Later today, visitors can enjoy a colourful mix of live music and entertainment at the Mela and the show has a special guest in to talk about what they can expect.
BBC Asian Network presenters including Sonia Deol, Tommy Sandhu, Dipps and Sonny Ji are co-hosting the stage, introducing live acts including Preeya Kalidas, Rishi Rich Camp, Mumzy Stranger, H Dhami, Jernade Miah and many more.
There is also the best classic and new Bhangra, plus another spin in the Bhangra Time Machine, and a budding artist gets a chance in Break Out.
BBC Asian Network Publicity
Network Radio BBC Week 29: Monday 19 July 2010
BBC RADIO 1 Monday 19 July 2010
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The world's must successful dance music producer, David Guetta, takes time out from creating No. 1 records to have a chat with Rob Da Bank about the tunes that shaped his life.
BBC Radio 1 Stories explore the musical back-stories of listeners' favourite artists, eras, genres and scenes. Previous documentaries in this weekly strand have included Story Of Welsh Valley Rock, Art Of Noise, Life In Jail and Africa Makes Some Noise.
Producer/Louise Katterhorn for BBC Radio 1
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BBC RADIO 2 Monday 19 July 2010
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Three-time Grammy winner, soprano Renee Fleming joins Ken Bruce this week to reveal her Tracks Of My Years and talk about her choices.
There's also a new Album and Record Of The Week and the Love Song at 10.15am.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones for the BBC
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
BBC RADIO 2'S COMEDY SEASON
Carry On Forever! Ep 1/2
Over two laughter-packed programmes, Carry On star Leslie Phillips traces the development of the Carry On comedy series and considers its ongoing legacy.
He hears from surviving cast members, plays classic clips and listens back to Kenneth Williams, Sid James, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques and Joan Sims via the BBC's vast archive.
The genre is said to reflect the changing Britain of the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies and Carry On experts are on hand to analyse what it all meant. They look at how the films would often send up British institutions like the NHS, monarchy and empire, while others would spoof Hollywood blockbusters with a Carry On take on espionage, the Wild West and horror.
Part one looks at the origins of the first Carry On film (Carry On Sergeant) and examines how the second (Carry On Nurse) was such a big hit in America. It also explores how the Carry On franchise worked and the team's approach to the schedule.
Helping Leslie remember the good old days are fellow Carry On actors Anita Harris, Shirley Eaton, Valerie Leon, Liz Fraser, Kenneth Cope and Jacki Piper. The programme also hears from Carry On experts Robert Ross and Steve Gerard as well as writer John Antrobus. And, via archive, from producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas.
There are also regular interruptions from "Kenneth Williams" and "Frankie Howerd", courtesy of Carry On fan and impersonator David Benson.
The second part of Carry On Forever! can be heard at the same time tomorrow night.
Presenter/Leslie Phillips, Producer/Phil Collinge for Made In Manchester
BBC Radio 2 Publicity
BBC RADIO 3 Monday 19 July 2010
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As part of the BBC's focus on opera, Donald Macleod explores the operas of Verdi, beginning at the beginning with his very first operatic effort, Oberto, and contrasting it with a mature masterpiece, Rigoletto.
Both works are tales of honour, family and doomed love – all classic Verdi themes. The excerpt from Rigoletto includes one of the most famous tunes in all opera – La donna e mobile.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Kerry Clark
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC PROMS 2010
BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Catherine Bott introduces tenor Mark Padmore accompanied by pianist Imogen Cooper performing Schubert songs and Schumann's song cycle Dichterliebe, live from Cadogan Hall in London.
Schumann's bicentenary is celebrated in this first Chamber Music Prom of the season with the composer at his most intimate and poignant in the 16 Heine settings of Dichterliebe – A Poet's Love – which trace a poet's increasing dejection as he reflects upon his imagined love.
They are performed by one of Britain's foremost tenors, Mark Padmore, partnered by the pianist Imogen Cooper and their programme also includes a sequence of songs by Schubert and one of his lively piano miniatures.
This BBC Prom will be repeated on Saturday 24 July at 2pm.
Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Brian Jackson
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC PROMS 2010
Performance On 3 – Prom 4
Tom Service presents Vasily Petrenko conducting the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in music by Schumann and Tchaikovsky inspired by Byron's poem Manfred, and Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto with soloist Simon Trpčeski.
Inspired by Lord Byron's dramatic poem, Schumann provided incidental music which captures the story's ghostly, brooding atmosphere, while Tchaikovsky wrote a symphony in the style of tone poem, one of his most highly charged and theatrical orchestral works. Guilt, death, religion and temptation are the Byronic themes depicted by both composers in their works, which arguably gave the moody protagonist much more fame than the original poem would have done alone.
The RLPO is joined by Macedonian pianist and former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist Simon Trpčeski to perform the ever-popular Piano Concerto No. 2 by Rachmaninov. At the helm is Liverpool's own adopted hero Vasily Petrenko.
This Prom will be repeated on Wednesday 21 July at 2pm on BBC Radio 3 and will also be broadcast on BBC Two on Saturday 24 July.
Presenter/Tom Service, Producer/Brian Jackson
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
George Gordon Byron, Sixth Baron Byron, romantic poet and political hero, is discussed by critic Tom Paulin and Nick Dear (writer of the BBC drama Byron) in the opening event of this year's BBC Proms Literary Festival. Night Waves presenter Matthew Sweet hosts the discussion, recorded in front of an audience at the Royal College of Music.
Tom Paul and Nick Dear discuss why Byron's life and work had such an enduring appeal. Is it the story of his reckless love affairs, international political activism and early death after defending Greek liberty – as portrayed in Nick's film, starring Jonny Lee Miller? Or is it actually the power of Byron's writing itself?
Byron's works brought to life some of the most enduring romantic heroes in literature – and they have had a powerful attraction for other artists. The BBC Proms 2010 features several adaptations of Byron's work by composers – and this literary event precedes a concert featuring two settings by Schumann and Tchaikovsky of Byron's metaphysical poem Manfred, about a Swiss noble who seeks forgiveness from spirits for his past actions.
The BBC Proms Literary Festival is now in its third year – tackling some of the literary and cultural dimensions of this year's Proms concerts, in front of an audience right on the doorstep of the Royal Albert Hall at the Royal College of Music and just in advance of the concerts themselves. Speakers taking part in 2010 include Max Hastings, James McMillan, Mary Beard and Jenny Uglow.
Presenter/Matthew Sweet, Producer/Laura Thomas
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
The Essay –
Home Rule For The Soul: Ghandi On Freedom Ep 1/5
Over the course of this week, Professor Sunil Khilnani explores what drove Ghandi to write Hind Swaraj– his first major work and an astonishing critique of modern civilisation – which was banned by the British, who viewed it as a seditious manifesto.
Written after his encounters with those who advocated revolutionary violence and terrorism in the cause of India's freedom, Hind Swaraj argues for force without violence or hatred, and strives to define what self rule, freedom, actually is.
Sunil Khilnani sets out on a journey through the ideas of Hind Swaraj, and asks whether modern India still has a space for such ideas. In tonight's essay, Khilnani argues that the power of Ghandi's Hind Swaraj still speaks both to India's future and the UK's.
Presenter/Sunil Khilnani, Producer/Mark Burman
BBC Radio 3 Publicity
BBC RADIO 4 Monday 19 July 2010
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Alan Johnson – Failed Rock Star Ep 1/5
Ex-Home Secretary Alan Johnson investigates the life he could have had: rock stardom.
In the Sixties Alan Johnson's band, The Area, cut a single but couldn't get it released. He gave up music for a career that took him to the Cabinet. In Alan Johnson – Failed Rock Star, he goes in search of the life he missed.
As it turns out, he became a postman, then union leader and finally ended up in government.
In this series he meets five people who tasted the fame he craved. Each of the interviews reveal something different about life in music and the truth behind the myths.
In the first programme Alan meets The Merseybeats, contemporaries of The Area who achieved everything Alan dreamed of, and, 45 years later, are still touring with the same hits. He finds out if life has become stale and tired or if it really is a career that could have sustained him all that time.
Presenter/Alan Johnson, Producer/Stephanie Power for the BBC
BBC Radio 4 Publicity
Book Of The Week – Red Dust Road Ep 1/5
From a warm and open adoptive family, acclaimed poet Jackie Kay traces her biological parents in a journey from Scotland to Lagos.
It was the imminent birth of her son that prompted Jackie to try and trace the parents who had given her up for adoption in the Sixties.
Her own childhood had been a profoundly happy one with open and loving parents. They had always made it clear to her that she and her elder brother, both mixed race, were special because they had been chosen. But Scotland and indeed Britain was not always an easy place to be, particularly in those early years, if your skin colour happened to be darker than everybody else's.
The casual offensiveness of the oft-phrased question "where are you from?" which looked beyond Jackie's Scottish accent and saw only her non-white skin, provoked a defiant assertion: "Here". School lessons about Africa were always an uncomfortable experience as classmates trotted out hateful clichés.
Eventually, with the solid support of her family and her partner and friends, Jackie decided that she needed to know the story of where she was from, and embarked on the complex emotional and physical journey.
Her mother was a great storyteller and had often shared imaginings of a tragic romance broken off by an arranged betrothal, a princely heritage and a Sidney Poitier-like figure for a father. The truth, as Jackie discovers, never quite matches the fantasies, it sometimes outdoes them. As for the jigsaw puzzle of heritage, family and identity, assembling the pieces doesn't always provide answers.
Read by Jackie herself, Red Dust Road is abridged by Jill Waters.
Reader/Jackie Kay, Producer/Jill Waters for The Waters Partnership
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Doctors are tracking thousands of Bradford babies from birth to better understand illness.
Ten thousand families have been recruited in the biggest health survey of its kind. Winifred Robinson reports on how it is providing insights into a wide range of conditions.
The survey is now reaching a crucial milestone for providing key insights into diabetes, obesity and certain genetic conditions. Bradford has twice the national rate of infant mortality and the highest rate of genetic illness in Britain. Overall 60 per cent of births in the city are to families living among the poorest 20 per cent of those in the UK. Bradford tops the national tables for heart disease, strokes and diabetes.
In Bradford, a proportionally large number of babies are born to Pakistani mothers who are married to first or second cousins, significantly increasing the risk of autosomal recessive (ie. genetic) conditions.
According to the head of the study, Professor John Wright, an epidemiologist based at Bradford Royal Infirmary, the aim is to find out more about the causes of childhood illness in newborns from all cultures and classes: "It's like a medical detective story really – trying to piece together the clues in people's lifestyles, their environments and their genetic make-up, as we try to determine whether someone falls sick or someone doesn't."
The programme features Tahira, who married her first cousin. Tahira has just had her third child, who experienced various complications which she says might be linked to genetic conditions.
According to Ann Barratt, the family liaison officer for the project, the survey hopes to find out why rare conditions seem to be happening in Bradford. One of the reasons Bradford was chosen, she says, is because a few years ago its infant mortality rate was almost double the UK average.
Presenter/Winifred Robinson, Producer/Sue Mitchell for the BBC
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Spring in 2019 is not the riot of colour it used to be. The honeybee is now officially extinct.
Set in the not-too-distant future, farmer Sam Clark struggles to raise a crop worth a damn. But man has adapted. Every spring an army of migrant workers, led by foreman Amra Walczak, descends on Sam's farm to pollinate by hand.
It is a laborious process but it works. This spring, however, science offers a new solution, "honeybots", tiny robots that are effectively crawling bees, and Sam's put his farm forward for a trial.
Once released, thousands of honeybots course through the fields, pollinating the flowers in a fraction of the time it takes Amra and her team. Their job done they return automatically to their hive chest. They are quick and efficient.
That evening, however, dead birds and mice are found in the fields where the honeybots have been working.
Hive Mind, written by Simon Bovey, features Tony Bell as Sam, Ania Sowinski as Amra, Michael Shelford as Jackson, Alison Pettitt as Olivia, David Seddon as Patek and Lloyd Thomas as Jan.
Producer/Marc Beeby for BBC
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Britain On The Bottle – Alcohol And The State Ep 1/10
Mark Whitaker takes a historical look at the relationship between alcohol and the State in this 10-part series.
In the first episode he looks at King James I's campaign against drunkenness.
The early 17th century saw the first moral panic in English history about the social impact of drunkenness. At a time of rapid social change, with increasing religious division and political tension, the ruling classes came to see the ale-houses used by the poor as deeply threatening. In the first three years of his reign James passed acts against the spread of ale-houses but, as there was no police force, the state relied upon the pulpit to put the fear of God into the country's drinkers. "It is no one sin, but all sins" became the message; the drunkard was someone, "wholly at Satan's command."
The second programme explores the 18th-century "Gin Craze" and the response of government. Programme three looks at the thinking behind the Beer Act of 1830.
In the fourth programme, Temperance And The 1872 Licensing Act, Mark looks at how the temperance movement took a grip on British political life. Drink was one of the most divisive issues between the parties at the 1872 General Election.
In the fifth programme, Mark looks at how the "drink question" fascinated 19th-century philosophers and raised dilemmas of liberalism.
Presenter/Mark Whitaker, Producer/Mike Hally for Square Dog Radio Limited
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Despite enormous advances in gay rights in their lifetime, institutional homophobia is making some dread the prospect of old age residential care, as Jane Hill discovers in this documentary.
A generation of gay people have seen the decriminalisation of homosexuality, the lowering of the age of consent and the introduction of civil partnerships. But now many feel they may have to hide their sexuality as they work out their living arrangements as they get older. Jane asks if elderly residential homes are currently an option for someone who's gay.
Age UK has reported that older gay men and lesbians are five times less likely to access services for older people than the general population.
In Glad To Be Grey?, older gay men and women talk about their experiences and concerns about the future, particularly if they have to go into a residential retirement home.
Some say they have experienced outright hostility from staff or fellow residents in residential care or sheltered housing. Others simply don't expect the straight people they're living with to understand the culture that has formed such an important part of their lives.
Presenter/Jane Hill, Producer/Sally Heaven for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 19 July 2010
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Mark Chapman has all the day's sports news and reaction.
From 7.30pm Mark is joined by special guests for The Monday Night Club to discuss the latest football transfer moves and news.
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Ed King
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Monday 19 July 2010
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Tour De France
Uninterrupted commentary on the 15th stage of the 2010 Tour de France, from Pamiers to Bagnères-de-Luchon, is live on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 19 July 2010
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Lauren Laverne welcomes Glastonbury Park Stage headliners Midlake into the BBC 6 Music studios for a live session.
The Texan band released their third album, The Courage Of Others, to great acclaim earlier this year, replacing the Seventies rock influences that were heard throughout their previous work with a pastoral folk sound that could have been recorded in medieval England.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales
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School Of Seven Bells make the journey to Manchester to play a live session for Marc Riley including tracks from new album Disconnect From Desire. The band hails from America and includes members Benjamin Curtis of Secret Machines, together with identical twins Alejandra and Claudia Deheza.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe presents archive sessions from alt-country pioneers Green On Red, Geordie folkstrel Beth Jeans Houghton, all-female punks The Mo-dettes and futuristic pop quintet Saloon.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 19 July 2010
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Tommy Sandhu
The Tommy Sandhu breakfast show is live from Leicester, for the special Morning After The Mela show.
The show features Bhangra star H Dhami, top producer Rishi Rich and up-and-coming R&B sensation Sonna Rele. Listeners can hear all the best bits from the Mela and special live performances in the studio.
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 19 July 2010
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Reporter Michael Robinson, who first documented China's awakening for the BBC almost 20 years ago, returns for this landmark series, to examine what China's seemingly unstoppable economic advancement might now mean for the rest of the world.
He reports on China's huge new infrastructure programme connecting China's centre to the markets of the world and the vast new industrial parks in once inaccessible cities now aiming to capture even bigger chunks of world manufacturing.
The series also examines China's strategy to make the rapid shift from an economy reliant on low-paid sweat and muscle, to one based on world-beating technology and high-value production, and the bitter tensions this policy is generating across the Pacific.
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Outlook – Born A Girl Ep 1/5
Born A Girl – an ongoing BBC World Service project which follows the stories of five young women from India, Ghana, Mexico, Jordan and the USA – returns for its fourth series. The project began in 1995, and has since returned to speak to the women every five years.
Teenagers when first interviewed, the young women are now in their early thirties and the programme explores the significance of gender in different religious, economic and cultural upbringings. Each day this week, the programme features one of the women and contrasts the latest interview with clips from the past 15 years, revealing how gender has affected what they could hope for in life, what their aspirations were as teenagers and whether life is going as they hoped.
The full audio from each of the previous series, along with photos from 1995 to the present day, will be available on bbcworldservice.com.
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Network Radio BBC Week 29: Tuesday 20 July 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 20 July 2010
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Jamie Cullum continues to showcase his love for all types of jazz, and music rooted in jazz, from its heritage to the future.
This week's show features a session with the Grammy award-nominated jazz trumpeter, composer and producer Christian Scott, recorded live at the BBC's Maida Vale Studios.
Scott performs tunes from his new album, Yesterday You Said Tomorrow, including his unique version of Thom Yorke's The Eraser, and he talks about the story behind some of his tunes.
Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Karen Pearson for Folded Wing
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BBC RADIO 2'S COMEDY SEASON
Carry On Forever! Ep 2/2
Oh hello! Leslie Phillips continues his two-part exploration of the world of Carry On, looking at how the films evolved over the years.
In part two, he examines their increasing loss of innocence as more relaxed rules on censorship made the series writers and producers ever bolder. He also looks at the controversy surrounding payments to the Carry On stars and investigates the often-overlooked Carry On TV series and the numerous stage shows the films spurned.
Leslie discovers more about the films that were never made before coming back to the series' last entry, 1992's Carry On Columbus. Julian Clary and others offer their thoughts on why, according to many, the last Carry On just didn't make the grade.
There's also a look at why the franchise remains popular to this day – with products available including stamps, cups, t-shirts and DVDs – as Leslie examines why Britain just seems to want to Carry On Forever.
There are further clips of Sid James, Kenneth Williams, Barbara Windsor, Charles Hawtrey and the gang as well as interviews from the archives with Jim Dale, Bernard Bresslaw and Jack Douglas. Remembering the Seventies Carry On era are Shirley Eaton, Liz Frazer, Kenneth Cope, Anita Harris, Valerie Leon, writer John Antrobus and Carry On experts Robert Ross and Steve Gerard, as well as producer Peter Rogers and director Gerald Thomas via the BBC's archives.
Kenneth Williams and Frankie Howerd continue to interrupt as their voices are brought back to life via impersonator and actor David Benson.
Presenter/Leslie Phillips, Producer/Phil Collinge for Made in Manchester
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Bill Kenwright continues to bring his unending enthusiasm for the pop and rock of the late Fifties and early Sixties to the airwaves in the second part of this new series.
This week there's another 20 Second Number One (a song Bill knew would hit the top spot from the opening 20 seconds) and We Did It Better – Bill's campaign to get British rock 'n' rollers recognised for songs he thinks they sang better than their American peers. Bill also goes back to where it all began for him and celebrates the greatest five words in the English language.
Other music includes If She Should Come To You by Anthony Newley, Hey Baby by Bruce Channel, Shiralee by Tommy Steele and Bobby Darin's I'll Be There.
Presenter/Bill Kenwright, Producer/Day Macaskill for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 20 July 2010
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Twenty Minutes – My Summer Job Ep 1/5
In the first of five talks by writers on the temporary jobs they took before writing full-time, Joe Queenan gives a memorable account of working for a summer in a bubble gum factory in Philadelphia.
Joe worked the graveyard shift at Fleer's Bubble Gum, inventors of the Dubble Bubble, and most of his time was spent compacting trash. He questions whether it was tedium or gave him raw material and asks whether the summer job is an enemy of promise or the best experience for a would-be writer otherwise chained to their desk.
Later in the series Julia Blackburn, AL Kennedy, Claire Messud and Tim Pears recount their respective pre-writing summers as French polishers, incompetent secretaries, manual labourers and catastrophic nannies.
Presenter/Joe Queenan, Producer/Miles Warde
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BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 20 July 2010
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Inside The Ethics Committee Ep 1/4
John has cancer of the voice box. Removing his voice box could save his life but he is refusing to go ahead with the operation. He has schizophrenia and believes it is a conspiracy to kill him.
In the first of a new series of Inside The Ethics Committee, Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the real-life case of John.
Two months ago, John was transferred from prison where he had been refusing psychiatric treatment and was psychotic. In an effort to improve his mental health, John was transferred to the unit so that the forensic psychiatrist there could treat him, without his permission, under the Mental Health Act. Since then, John has received regular injections and his psychotic symptoms have mainly subsided.
With John's mental health improved, his forensic psychiatrist is keen for him to address another health problem – his hoarse voice. John agrees to see an ENT surgeon who, on examining his throat, discovers he has an advanced tumour on his voice box, which is pressing on his airway. Given its advanced state, the best option for John is to remove his voice box and fit a valve in his neck, through which he would be able to draw in air and generate sound for speech. John agrees to the operation and a date is set.
However, a day or so later he changes his mind; he believes the operation is an elaborate conspiracy to kill him. Without surgery, John has only a few weeks to live.
Joan and her panel of experts discuss the complex ethical issues arising from this case.
To partner the new series of Inside The Ethics Committee, the Afternoon Play strand presents two new dramas, the first of which can be heard today, that explore the emotional realities of dealing with ethical dilemmas.
Presenter/Joan Bakewell, Producer/Beth Eastwood for the BBC
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New York City has always drawn composers from the Old World – from Dvořák and Mahler to Kurt Weil, Rachmaninov and Benjamin Britten. All were shaped by the energy of New York, just as the city's musical culture was shaped, in turn, by them.
Filled with the sounds of New York City, British composer and Manhattan resident Tarik O'Regan presents a vivid portrait of the city that electrified these great composers and, through their works composed and premièred in New York, transformed the wider world of classical music.
Presenter/Tarik O'Regan, Producer/Simon Hollis for Brook Lapping Productions Limited
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To partner the new series of Inside The Ethics Committee, the Afternoon Play strand presents two new dramas that explore the emotional realities of dealing with ethical dilemmas.
A father and son are dealt a serious blow in Philip Palmer's tense drama about medical ethics, starring Philip Jackson and Daniela Nardini.
Richard has been on haemodialysis for almost three years as a result of end-stage kidney disease. His son, Martin, has offered to donate his own kidney to help his father but, in the subsequent compatibility tests, it becomes clear that there is no genetic consanguinity between Martin and Richard. In layman's terms, they are not father and son. The medical team has to deal with the repercussions.
Philip Jackson plays Richard, Ashley Kumar plays Martin, Eloise Secker plays Helena, David Seddon plays Jeremy Flynn, Daniela Nardini plays Claire Glover, Alison Pettitt plays Maire Kennedy, Michael Shelford plays David, Tony Bell plays the psychologist, Jude Akuwudike plays the paramedic and Lloyd Thomas plays the scientist.
Next Tuesday's Afternoon Play is Humanly Possible, the second new drama focussing on a dilemma of medical ethics.
Last year's award-winning play, The Understanding, also broadcast to tie in with a series of Inside The Ethics Committee, is repeated on Monday 12 July at 2.15pm before the start of this year's new series.
Producer/Sasha Yevtushenko for the BBC
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Platform 3 Ep 1/3
Platform 3 presents three stories by three writers inspired by railway stations.
The first story is The Homecoming by Olga Grushin. After many years in New York, Gregory returns to Russia to visit his mother. He has a plane to catch – but waiting for the Moscow train is full of surprises. This story is read by Alan Cox.
Wednesday's story is A Good Impression by Morven Crumlish. Ali brings his fiancée, Sophie, from Glasgow to the Highlands to see his eccentric family. Both are anxious about how this first meeting will go – and not without reason. Siobhan Redmond reads the story.
Thursday's story, read by Patrick Kennedy, is Union Station by Gerard Woodward. After a visit to his cousin in the Mid-West, a man sets off for Union Station which, if he can find it, has all the glamour and verve of the American railroad. When the man gets as far as the bus station, the locals find it hard to give him directions.
Readers/Alan Cox, Siobhan Redmond and Patrick Kennedy, Producer/Jeremy Osborne for Sweet Talk Productions Limited
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Word Of Mouth Ep 1/8
Chris Ledgard presents a new series of Word Of Mouth exploring the languages deaf people use to communicate.
Presenter/Chris Ledgard, Producer/Beth O'Dea for the BBC
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Happy Tuesdays – Angelos Epithemiou's Big Issue Ep 1/5
In a new collaboration between BBC Radio and BBC Television, Happy Tuesdays showcases a series of comedy pilots for Tuesday nights on BBC Radio 4. Some of the most exciting comedy talent around will be given the chance to try out new ideas and formats. The most promising pilots could be developed into a series for radio or television.
To kick off the series, Angelos Epithemiou, burger van owner and erstwhile panellist of BBC Two's Shooting Stars, presents his comedy chat show which examines one of the burning issues of the day with the help of two expert guests.
The guests, Kate Schofield from Greenpeace and an environmental activist called Toadstool, help him examine the thorny topic of "the environment".
The cast includes: Renton Skinner, Rufus Jones, Katherine Jakeways, Sanjeev Kohli, Tom Verrall and Katy Wix.
Next week, Happy Tuesdays presents a new sitcom by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser called Everyone Quite Likes Justin.
Producer/Sam Michell for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 20 July 2010
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Russell Fuller has all the day's sports news and reaction to the latest action.
Presenter/Russell Fuller, Producer/Claire Burns
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Tuesday 20 July 2010
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BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary on the 16th stage of the 2010 Tour de France, from Bagnères-de-Luchon to Pau.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 20 July 2010
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While Lauren Laverne unveils the Mercury Music Award shortlist at a glittering event in London's West End, Huey Morgan keeps her seat warm in the studio. BBC 6 Music news supremo Julie Cullen reports in to the show from the awards to update Huey on proceedings and Lauren catches up with Huey after the shortlist is unveiled.
Huey is also joined by the Magic Numbers for a live session in the 6 Music studios. The London band recently released their third album, The Runaway, which features string arrangements by Robert Kirby – the last album he worked on before passing away last year.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Gary Bales
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I Am Kloot join Marc Riley live to play tracks from their new album, Sky At Night. BBC 6 Music's own Guy Garvey produced their debut album and, alongside fellow Elbow band mate Craig Potter, has returned to produce and mix the new one. I Am Kloot is made up of John Bramwell on vocals/guitar, Andrew Hargreaves on drums and Peter Jobson on bass.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe presents classic sessions from Southern Soul icon Anne Peebles from 1974; recently reformed Drugstore playing for John Peel in 1995; plus more recent offerings from Blue Roses and Katell Keinig.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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Network Radio BBC Week 29: Wednesday 21 July 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 21 July 2010
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Comedian Sean Lock looks at the life of a man who is as popular today as he ever was, and who is still finding new fans via the wonders of the internet – Tommy Cooper.
In a magical mix of Tommy from the archives, as well as new interviews, BBC Radio 2 celebrates the career of a unique force in British comedy.
From his early days and the first magic set, to his health problems and fateful last television appearance, Tommy Cooper – Just Like This! looks back at his rollercoaster life. Sean considers how much of the comic's outward persona was a deliberate barricade (some friends have said they never really got to know the real Tommy) and how he found it difficult to be taken seriously because people started to laugh the moment he spoke.
Tommy broke every rule in the comedy book, he told jokes no other comedian would get away with, and he based his act around getting things wrong. In doing so, he secured his place in our hearts forever. Eric Morecambe said he wouldn't go on stage after Cooper; Spike Milligan said his face was a call for help; and Bob Monkhouse called him an aggravated assault on the funny bone.
The programme features a host of new interviews with people who knew and loved him, including Michael Parkinson, Ronnie Corbett, Barry Cryer, Sheila Steafel, Jimmy Cricket, John Miles (the man who looks after Tommy's estate), Royston Mayoh – producer and director, who worked on The Tommy Cooper Hour – and David Ball, from the Magic Circle and Tommy's bank manager!
Presenter/Sean Lock, Producer/Phil Collinge for Made in Manchester
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Trevor Nelson invites listeners to explore the depths of his record collection, presenting an hour of the best in timeless soul, rare funky treats and modern classics.
His Album Of The Week is a 1971 debut from The Undisputed Truth, the brainchild of Motown producer Norman Whitfield.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Dan Cocker for Somethin' Else
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BBC RADIO 3 Wednesday 21 July 2010
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BBC PROMS 2010
Performance On 3 – Prom 6
Katie Derham introduces a Beethoven night at the BBC Proms. Distinguished pianist, Paul Lewis, launches his complete cycle of piano concertos with the exuberant First and the more introspective but still tensely dramatic Fourth.
He is partnered by Jiří Bělohlávek and the BBC Symphony Orchestra, with whom he recently recorded all five concertos. There is more characteristic Beethovenian drama with two heroic overtures – one battling against oppression in the Egmont Overture; and the other recounting the legend of the Creatures Of Prometheus who were created with fire from the gods.
This Prom will be repeated on Friday 23 July at 2pm on BBC Radio 3 and will also be broadcast on BBC Four on Friday 23 July at 7.30pm.
Presenter/Katie Derham, Producer/Ann McKay
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Petroc Trelawny talks to author and broadcaster John Suchet, a passionate devotee of Beethoven.
Over the last 10 years John has written five books about the life and works of, in his view, the greatest composer of them all. His talks about Beethoven, focusing on the man behind the music, how his books have caught the imagination of audiences all over the country and introduced many new fans to Beethoven's music.
John's most recent book, Treasures Of Beethoven, examined letters and documents to and from the composer. Actor Paul Rhys illustrates the talk with readings from these letters.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny
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Portuguese pianist Maria João Pires celebrates the 200th birthday this year of Frédéric Chopin with a selection of the composer's Nocturnes for solo piano in this late-night Prom, broadcast live from London's Royal Albert Hall, and introduced by Tom Service.
For such a huge venue (it holds almost 6,000 people) the Royal Albert Hall can be amazingly intimate when the focus is on a single performer. What better way for the Proms to celebrate Chopin than with a late-night performance of the works for which he is best known today.
Presenter/Tom Service, Producer/David Gallagher
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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 21 July 2010
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Britain has been listening to pirate radio since the Sixties and today it is reported that there are more illegal broadcasters than ever. Former pirate DJ Trevor Nelson investigates the current scene.
According to official Ofcom figures, there are around 150 illegal radio stations in the UK today and 16 per cent of Londoners regularly tune in. The pirates argue they are an integral part of the British music industry and provide a community service that legal stations can't. But Ofcom says the FM dial is full. They claim the pirates are a big problem, interfering with legal stations and emergency service frequencies. More worryingly, Ofcom says there is evidence of links to serious crime such as money laundering, guns and drugs.
Trevor revisits the world of illegal broadcasting to find out the truth behind today's pirate scene. Now a presenter on BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 1Xtra, Trevor began his career in the Eighties on the, then illegal, Kiss FM. He explores how much the scene has changed since he was involved or whether the musical passion and spirit of pirates past are still present today.
Contributors include broadcasters, legal and illegal, a community radio station, fans, musicians, DJs and Ofcom, whose officers are shadowed by the programme on a raid of a pirate station suspected of interfering with BBC Radio 4.
Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/James Hale for the BBC
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Case Notes Ep 1/10
In the first of a new series of Case Notes, Dr Mark Porter reveals the daily business of a GP's surgery and offers tips on how to get the best from a doctor.
He travels to Birmingham to spend the day with Steve Field, GP and chairman of the Royal College of General Practitioners.
Presenter/Dr Mark Porter, Producer/Erika Wright for the BBC
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The Ladies Ep 1/4
The Ladies, written by and starring Emily Watson Howes, returns for a new series.
The cast also stars Kate Donmall, Susanna Hislop and Fran Moulds in stories about a girl who gets wedged in a dress and a desperate wannabe mum, among others.
Producer/Mark Talbot for Hat Trick Television Limited
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 21 July 2010
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Russell Fuller presents all the day's sports news, and is joined at 8.30pm by Phil Tufnell for 5 Live Cricket.
Then at 9.30pm, Mike Costello and Steve Bunce present the latest news from the ring in 5 Live Boxing.
Presenter/Russell Fuller, Producer/Tim Peach
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Wednesday 21 July 2010
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Cricket
The Test Match Special commentary team are at Headingley to present uninterrupted commentary on the first day of the second Test between Pakistan and Australia.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 21 July 2010
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The Handsome Family, Brett and Rennie Sparks, visit Marc Riley to play a long-awaited live session. Their eight album, Honey Moon, was released on the couple's 20th wedding anniversary.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Gideon Coe introduces archive sessions from Canterbury progressive band Hatfield And The North and gritty Scots indie crew Frightened Rabbit.
More live music comes courtesy of Good Shoes and there's Nineties swirly psychedelia from Dr Phibes and the House Of Wax Equations.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
BBC 6 Music Publicity
BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 21 July 2010
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Asian Network Reports begins its coverage from Headingley, reporting live on the second Test match between Pakistan and Australia.
The team provides live updates into programmes and news every 15 minutes from 11am through to 6pm. During weekend shows listeners are updated with live scores every 20 minutes and every hour during Saturday's chart show.
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Network Radio BBC Week 29: Thursday 22 July 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 22 July 2010
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In session for tonight's Bob Harris Country is Californian singer-songwriter Rita Hosking, who plays live songs from her latest album, Come Sunrise.
Raised in the mountains of Northern California, Rita comes from a line of coal miners and loggers and her music takes this rural heritage as its inspiration, blending old-time country, folk and bluegrass sounds.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth for the BBC
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BBC Radio 2 In Concert
Jo Whiley introduces Will Young in concert, recorded earlier this month at Kenwood House in London.
Jo also celebrates the very best live music on BBC Radio 2 over the past week. Her weekly Gig Guide gives listeners all the latest news on who has released tickets for up-and-coming tours, and she reveals which gig she's sent her reviewer to watch this week.
Listeners can contact Jo with stories about the latest gigs by emailing inconcert@bbc.co.uk or texting 88291 during the show.
Presenter/Jo Whiley, Producer/Radio 2 Live Music for the BBC
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Frank Renton presents music specially recorded for the programme from one of the oldest bands in Britain, The Hepworth (Cookson Homes) Band, with conductor Brian Grant.
They are well known for playing entertaining concerts and their programme tonight includes the classic March On The Quarter Deck by Kenneth Alford, who is often referred to as Britain's own Sousa because of the quality of his march writing. Other music includes Gordon Langford's arrangement of All Through The Night, James Curnow's Blenhein Flourishes, Euphonium player Michael Howley plays the Marvin Hamlish tune, Looking Through The Eyes Of Love, and they end with the ever-popular Songs Of The Quay by Goff Richards.
Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter for the BBC
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There's no place like Kansas, as Sir Tim Rice follows his musical road all the way to the "Sunflower State".
Artists featured in tonight's show include Gene Autrey, Wilbert Harrison, Melissa Etheridge, Marvin Rainwater, The Shangri-Las, Charlie Parker, rising-star Janelle Monae and the original cast of Oklahoma!.
Presenter/Sir Tim Rice, Producers/Anthony Cherry and Ruth Beazley for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 22 July 2010
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BBC PROMS 2010
Performance On 3 – Prom 8
Live from London's Royal Albert Hall, Rob Cowan introduces two immensely powerful pieces from the Second World War, which frame this concert given by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales under principal conductor Thierry Fischer.
Shostakovich was in Leningrad when Russia entered the war against Germany in 1941 and where, between July and October, he witnessed, first hand, the Nazi's siege of the city, while he worked on his Seventh Symphony.
As the Nazis invaded, Britten received an anonymous invitation from the Japanese government to write a work commemorating the founding of the Mikado dynasty 2,600 years earlier. He completed his Sinfonia da requiem the following year, but the Japanese government rejected it as inappropriate for their celebrations and too Christian in its nature. The work reflects the composer's feelings about the inhumanity of war and, basing it on the liturgy of the mass of the dead, he dedicated it to the memory of his parents.
Also in tonight's concert is Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 1, with soloist Alexander Toradze. The concerto exploits the percussive potential of the piano, and, in turn, expresses his take on clean neo-classical lines, contrasted with tumbling leaps and richer more romantic textures, indebted to Rachmaninov and Tchaikovsky.
This BBC Prom is repeated on Monday 26 July at 2pm on BBC Radio 3 and is also broadcast live on BBC Four.
Presenter/Rob Cowan, Producer/Tim Thorne
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BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 22 July 2010
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Ben Schott charts the history of the most influential form of mass publication in the 16th and 17th centuries. At their height, apart from the Bible, almanacs were the best-selling books on the market, with over 400,000 sold annually.
Combining the characteristics of calendar, self-help manual and pocket encyclopaedia, almanacs contained utilitarian information on just about everything: feast days; when to sow crops; how to let blood; how to write an IOU; and even advice on amateur surgery. They also included dramatic astrological prophesies about the likelihood of plague, famine and war. Passages were read to boost soldiers' morale in battle and by MPs in the House of Commons.
Behind the scenes at The British Museum, Dr Irving Finkel outlines the almanac tradition – from Babylonian clay tablet to Gutenberg's earliest printed material. And the British Library's Moira Goff lets Ben loose in the archives to peruse The Kalender Of Shepherdes and the oldest Old Moore's Almanack [sic].
Almanacs played a central part in spreading knowledge, literacy, popular journalism and advertising. Ben digs up early adverts for pills, potions and all manner of quackery. But they were also mocked in many ways, as Dr Adam Smyth explains.
The blank pages inserted into almanacs were used for jottings of accounts and personal memos, so they also give a personal written diary.
Presenter/Ben Schott, Producer/Tamsin Hughes for Testbed Productions
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Face The Facts Ep 1/6
In the first of a new series of Face The Facts, John Waite investigates the chaos within the UK's fire safety system.
John discovers how some publicly owned buildings fail to comply with the law on fire safety and how crown immunity means those responsible are safe from prosecution.
This investigation follows the programme's earlier revelations on tower blocks deemed a danger to residents, and the fire fighters' training college, which was reported not to have followed fire safety laws when one of its own buildings burnt down.
Presenter/John Waite, Producer/Jon Douglas for the BBC
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Questions, Questions Ep 1/6
Stewart Henderson presents a new series of the interactive problem-solving programme which offers answers to those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by current events and popular culture.
Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed and inquisitive BBC Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled collective brain to bear on the puzzlers every week.
Questions, Questions has become something of an institution on BBC Radio 4, providing informed and ingenious answers to a variety of questions. How do you know when a volcano is extinct? When was the conventional heart icon first drawn? How do woodpeckers keep their beaks sharp? Why do we put pork with apple, and lamb with mint sauce?
Presenter/Stewart Henderson, Producer/Dilly Barlow for Whistledown Productions
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Recorded For Training Purposes Ep 1/6
Recorded For Training Purposes returns for a fourth series, featuring Rachel Atkins, Dominic Coleman, Lewis Macleod, Julie Mayhew, Ingrid Oliver and Ben Willbond.
This razor-sharp sketch show about modern communication takes aim at such idiocies of modern life as TV talent show formats and disclaimers at the end of emails.
As always, the programme's open-door policy means that anyone could send in their sketches. Some 1,500 were sent in this way, with every single one being read by a script-editor or producer – with the funniest material being recorded in front of a studio audience and broadcast.
The scripts were edited by award-winning writers James Cary, Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris.
As part of BBC Radio Comedy's commitment to discovering and developing new writing talent, some of the new writers, whose material was used in series three, were given one-to-one script-editing notes and feedback from the production team.
Producer/Ed Morrish for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 22 July 2010
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5 Live Sport
Russell Fuller has all the day's sports news.From 8pm, the focus shifts to golf in 5 Live Golf, with Andrew Cotter bringing reaction to the weekend's Open.
At 9pm, Cornelius Lysaght, former Champion jockey Mick Fitzgerald and Clare Balding have the latest racing news in 5 Live Racing.
Presenter/Russell Fuller, Producer/Mark Williams
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Thursday 22 July 2010
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Uninterrupted commentary on the second day of the second Test between Pakistan and Australia comes live from Headingley with the Test Match Special commentary team.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 22 July 2010
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Lauren Laverne is joined by Lucas Renney for a live session in the BBC 6 Music studios.
The former Golden Virgins front-man recorded his debut solo record, Strange Glory, last year, with former Cocteau Twin and head of Bella Union Records Simon Raymonde. The album finds the singer moving into folk territory with great skill and ease.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales
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Curly Hair are in session with Marc Riley, more lovely people from Brighton's Willkommen Collective. The band includes Benjamin, Jessica, Michael, Martha and they're just over a year old.
They've shared stages with the likes of Local Natives, The Leisure Society, Micachu & The Shapes, Peter Broderick, Holly Miranda, Wintersleep, Peggy Sue and toured with Malcolm Middleton. They released their debut EP, Ivy League, through their own Toy Soldier label and their new single, Pumpkin Eye, is released at the beginning of August.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe presents vintage sessions from Eighties rockabilly revivalists Guana Batz and late-era prog-rockers National Health.
More highlights come via Hastings-based singer James Blackshaw and, all the way from Long Beach, California, Avi Buffalo, both for Marc Riley.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon
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Network Radio BBC Week 29: Friday 23 July 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Friday 23 July 2010
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Culled from his record collection of 250,000 titles, Desmond Carrington plays a broad mixture of music from the 20th century, and a little from the 21st, in his weekly Friday night show.
This week Desmond takes the theme of the Thirties – a decade of dance bands and escapism.
Presenter/Desmond Carrington, Producer/Dave Aylott for Foldback Media
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Actress Miranda Raison joins Claudia Winkleman for this week's Arts Show. Miranda – star of BBC One's hit drama Spooks, in which she plays Jo Portman – is currently playing the role of Anne Boleyn at The Globe Theatre in London.
Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Jessica Rickson for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 23 July 2010
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BBC PROMS 2010
Performance On 3 – Prom 9
Petroc Trelawny introduces more coverage of the BBC Proms, live from London's Royal Albert Hall.
Vasily Sinaisky, the BBC Philharmonic's chief guest conductor, is a champion of both Russian and English repertoire, and this Prom draws these two passions together. The evening opens with the first Proms performance of Parry's Symphonic Fantasia, and closes with Tchaikovsky's swansong, his Pathétique Symphony.
At the centre of the BBC Philharmonic's first appearance this season is Scriabin's Piano Concerto, with Argentinean soloist Nelson Goerner, whose performances of the great Romantic concertos are much admired. A relatively early work, the influence of Chopin on Scriabin's music can be clearly detected here.
This Prom will be repeated on Tuesday 27 July at 2pm.
Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Mike George
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Sofia Tolstoy, the wife of Count Leo Tolstoy, kept a diary for most of her life. It offers a fascinating chronicle of her marriage to the great Russian writer, and a vivid account of the trials and tribulations of her daily life.
The selected extract focuses on the summer of 1897, when Sofia and Leo are approaching their 35th wedding anniversary. Turbulence characterises their relationship, and while there are moments of passion and tenderness, tensions are also apparent.
Leo is a demanding and difficult man, and it is Sofia who ensures her husband's needs are met. She also manages the estate where they live, and her responsibilities as mother to nine children place further demands on her time. However, amid the demands of daily life, she finds solace in the beautiful landscape around her, swimming in the nearby river and, more contentiously, her friendship with the composer, Taneyev.
Producer/Elizabeth Allard
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WOMAD 2010
World On 3 – Live At Womad 2010
Andrew McGregor, Lopa Kothari and Lucy Duran present a weekend of broadcasts from the leading festival of world music, Womad, live from Charlton Park in Wiltshire.
Tonight listeners can hear: Congolese award-winners Staff Benda Bilili and roots reggae veteran Horace Andy on the Open Air Stage; Chinagrass ensemble Hanggai from inner Mongolia in the Siam Tent; plus English folk radicals Chumbawamba and Caribbean dance band Ska Cubano on BBC Radio 3's own stage in the Arboretum. There are also interviews and truck sessions, kicking off a weekend of live broadcasting from Womad 2010.
This year BBC Radio 3 marks 10 years at Womad, and the Radio 3 Stage continues the tradition of hosting a unique mix of new and emerging artists.
Presenters/Lucy Duran, Lopa Kothari and Andrew McGregor, Producer/Roger Short
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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 23 July 2010
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Ten years ago, an American Army officer hid some items in a bucket and plotted their location using a Global Positioning System (GPS) for others to find. GPS is now a global phenomenon, and Ian Peacock tracks the rising popularity of geocaching, a technological treasure hunt.
There are now more than a million caches in the world; some travel while others are stationery – there's even one at the bottom of the Antarctic. It's a multi-billion dollar industry that has billions hooked.
Ian begins his quest as a "muggler" – a non-geocacher – so it's with some scepticism that he begins his first hunt for a cache. His geocaching mentors, "The Bloringers", explain to him that it's really more about the journey than the actual prize, and it's not long before Ian begins to get hooked.
As well as embarking on a travel bug race with his producer, Ian meets the internet millionaire who gave up work to pursue geocaching as his full-time hobby and holds the British record for number of caches found; he treks up a mountain with a couple hot on the tail of the record holder; and he speaks to an autistic student who explains why geocaching is so appealing to him.
Ian also sets his very own BBC Radio 4 audio-cache where he hopes that those who find it will leave a short recording about their experience of hunting for it.
However, anti-terrorist squads and environmentalists are less keen on geocaching. The furtive nature of urban geocaching, necessary to avoid vandalism to caches, can arouse suspicion, and people often adopt disguises to go unnoticed.
Ian discovers that geocaching seems to be an unstoppable force.
Presenter/Ian Peacock, Producer/Sarah Langan for the BBC
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David Adams is half-way through a five-year contract as principal conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra when things start to go wrong. A row with the brass section leads to a dressing down by the board. Suddenly David is experiencing a deep crisis of confidence. David wonders how this has happened and whether he will be able to recover his self-belief sufficiently to return to the podium and win the orchestra back.
Improvised drama The Orchestra is based on real-life interviews with orchestral players, conductors and managers about the working life of an orchestra to be as accurate and true to the orchestral experience as possible. The cast stars Colin Metters, head of conducting at the Royal Academy of Music, which helps provide real insight into this very particular world.
Philip Franks plays David Adams, principal conductor; with Christine Kavanagh as Kate Adams, conductor's wife; Julian Rhind-Tutt as Patrick Hardy, leader of the orchestra; Hayley Doherty as Marie Cherrington, principal horn; George Irving as Sean Jackson, second trumpet; Colin Metters as Harry Bennet, conductor's advisor; Rumon Gamba as Marc Altschuler, guest conductor; and Joshua Oates as Leon Adams, conductor's son.
Actuality of rehearsal is provided by the BBC Philharmonic, with conductor Rumon Gamba. The Orchestra is devised, directed and produced by Rosie Boulton.
Producer/Rosie Boulton for the BBC
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 23 July 2010
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George Riley presents all the day's sports news and the Weekend Preview Show, including 5 Live Formula One with David Croft looking ahead to this weekend's German Grand Prix.
Presenter/George Riley, Producer/Danny Garlick
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Friday 23 July 2010
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Cricket
Uninterrupted commentary on the third day of the second Test between Pakistan and Australia comes live from Headingley with the Test Match Special commentary team.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Rugby League
Uninterrupted commentary on Hull FC versus Wigan Warriors comes live from the Kingston Communications Stadium in the Super League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Friday 23 July 2010
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Noreen Khan's show comes from a surprise location in Manchester ahead of the Mela weekend. Noreen is covering everything about Manchester life; its traditions, its football and its cultural iconic areas from Coronation Street to Wilmslow Road.
Asian Network's A Summer Of Melas tour is at the Manchester Mela on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 July.
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