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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

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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

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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

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BBC RADIO 2'S COMEDY SEASON
Hot Gossip Ep 1/6

Saturday 17 July

10.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 2

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

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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

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Blur's Damon Albarn

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

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BBC PROMS 2010/OPERA ON THE BBC
Prom 2 – The Mastersingers Of Nuremberg

Saturday 17 July

4.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 3

• www.bbc.co.uk/proms
• www.bbc.co.uk/opera
• Press pack (BBC Proms 2010)
• Press pack (Opera On The BBC)

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

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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

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Open Golf

Saturday 17 July

12.00noon-7.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

John Inverdale presents live coverage of the 2010 Open Championship

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

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Cricket

Saturday 17 July

10.00am-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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

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

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