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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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