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Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to one half of the How Clean Is Your House? duo, Aggie MacKenzie. As the Christian season of Lent approaches, Aled asks whether "cleanliness is next to godliness".

This week's faith guest is Becky Silver who looks ahead to her Lent series on sacrifice and gives the Moment Of Reflection.

Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson for the BBC

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With the beginning of Lent later in the week, Brian D'Arcy shares some advice on preparing for a season of reflection and introspection. This week's featured choir is the Coventry Singers, directed by Paul Leddington Wright.

The organist is Nigel Spooner and hymns include All For Jesus, How Sweet The Name Of Jesus Sounds and the anthem Lord For Thy Tender Mercy's Sake.

Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty for the BBC

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Michael Berkeley's guest this week is Amanda Vickery, Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary College, University of London, where she lectures on British social, political and cultural history.

She is the author of The Gentleman's Daughter (1998) and Behind Closed Doors – At Home In Georgian England (2009), and writes and presents history documentaries for TV and radio, including A History Of Private Life and Voices From The Old Bailey for BBC Radio 4, and the television series At Home With The Georgians for BBC Two.

Many of her musical choices reflect aspects of everyday life in the 18th century – love and courtship as seen through the Northumbrian folksong O Waly, Waly as well as the duet Bei mannern welche liebe fuhlen from Mozart's opera The Magic Flute.

Further choices include a movement from a Bach solo cello suite, Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks and a Clementi sonata for piano duet. There's also more recent music by Poulenc (Hommage à Edith Piaf), Arvo Pärt (Spiegel im spiegel) and Amy Winehouse, as well as The Housewife's Lament sung by Gwyneth Herbert (from A History Of Private Life).

Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Chris Marshall

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In the second of two programmes, Sara Mohr-Pietsch joins Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music to unpick some of the musical ideas in Bach's Brandenburg Concertos.

Today, Richard and Sara focus on the second, third and fifth concertos, with examples performed by members of the Academy of Ancient Music, and look at how, through the whole set, Bach is exploring and developing the musical possibilities of the concerto form. These concertos feature a remarkable array of instruments, no two concertos are alike, and to good effect. Bach's ear for subtle balance and contrast creates a model of instrumental writing of the Baroque age.

The programmes were recorded before an audience, in the Turner Sims Concert Hall of Southampton University, and feature complete performances as well as the workshop.

Presenter/Sara Mohr-Pietsch, Producer/Chris Wines

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Aled Jones is joined by Paul Hedley from the Three Choirs Festival, to discuss why more ex-cathedral choristers want to keep on singing and how this has helped in the formation of a youth choir specifically designed to answer the needs of younger singers.

A decline in parish church choirs and the paucity of traditional choral music performance in school has meant many young people don't get the chance to sing this kind of music on a regular basis. As a result, the TCF Youth Choir was introduced last year by the Festival's Artistic Director, Adrian Partington, himself a chorister at Worcester in 1969.

The choir aims to give young singers the chance to get together to sing traditional choral music to a high standard, without the commitment needed for an adult choir, and has attracted members from the cathedral's existing youth choir, former choristers from the Three Choirs cathedrals and other young singers located in the areas between Bristol and Birmingham.

Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Johannah Smith

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This radio adaptation of the Royal and Derngate Theatre, Northampton production of Spring Storm is broadcast to mark the centenary of the playwright's birth.

Heavenly Critchfield has almost everything a young woman could desire, but when she's forced to decide between respectable suitor Arthur and handsome, wild lover Dick, her actions cause a chain of consequences that tear their lives apart.

Tennessee Williams was born on 26 March 1911. Spring Storm, one of his first plays, was written in 1937, when he was 26, and didn't receive its first production until 1995 in Berkeley. The European première took place at the Royal and Derngate Theatre, Northampton on 15 October 2009.

The cast features Liz White as Heavenly Critchfield, Michael Malarkey as Arthur Shannon, Michael Thomson as Dick Miles, Anna Tolputt as Hertha Neilson, Jacqueline King as Esmeralda Critchfield, Joanna Bacon as Aunt Lila, Janice McKenzie as Mrs Lamphrey/Birdie Schlagmann, Gavin Harrison as Henry Adams, James Jordan as Oliver Critchfield, Steven France as Ralph and Ailish Symons as Mabel. The music is by Jon Nicholls.

Producer/Jeremy Mortimer

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Historian Tristram Hunt MP explores the surprising tale of a largely forgotten English journalist and economist, John Atkinson Hobson, and the book he wrote which inspired Lenin.

Hobson was a bourgeois liberal – the sort of writer one might think a communist hardliner like Lenin would despise. But, as Tristram discovers, Hobson's attack on the economics of the British Empire caught the exiled Lenin's attention in the first years of the 20th century – and formed a major part of his own attack on imperialism on the eve of his seizure of power in the Russian Revolution.

In the Thirties, as many thought capitalism was entering its death-throes, and as communism and fascism seemed to some to offer a solution, the ideas of Hobson found their way back to Britain – via Lenin. Young communist John Strachey's left-wing ardour led him back to the ideas of his elderly liberal fellow-countryman – even as he was doing his best to preach the last rites for liberal Britain.

Contributors include Vladimir Buldakov, Professor Peter Cain, Dr Shruti Kapila, Professor Anthony Webster, Professor Christoper Read and Professor Noel Thompson.

Presenter/Tristram Hunt MP, Producer/Phil Tinline

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The Reunion Ep 1/4

Sunday 6 March

11.15am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4

BBC Radio 4 presenter Sue MacGregor

In the first of a new series of The Reunion, Sue MacGregor gathers together six people who were closely connected to the humanitarian aid operation in Bosnia during the war from 1992 to 1995.

The Bosnian war was one of the most devastating conflicts in Europe since the Second World War. Atrocity after atrocity stirred public opinion to demand action but this was seen as a civil war to which there was no easy military solution. The most the international community could agree to start with was a mission to deliver humanitarian aid.

The relief organisation which found itself at the centre of the crisis was the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The operation in Bosnia was one of the most complex and risky it had ever undertaken.

More than two million people were displaced during the conflict. Many suffered starvation and rape, and were forced into concentration camps. Others were massacred. Supplies of food, fuel, medicine, clothes and shelter were critical.

The conditions under which aid workers were operating were exceptional. In the long term their experience in Bosnia would have an unprecedented impact on the future of the organisation and its way of working.

Sue is joined around the table by: Tony Land, Chief of Operations for the UN Refugee Agency for much of the war; Larry Hollingworth, a logistics officer with UNHCR; Amira Sadicovic, who worked as UNHCR's external relations officer; Kris Janowski, who became its longest-serving field-worker; Paddy Ashdown, one of the most prominent British politicians to visit Bosnia during that period; and Misha Glenny who reported from Bosnia for the BBC throughout the war.

Presenter/Sue MacGregor, Producers/Sarah Cuddon and David Prest for Whistledown Productions

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Anna Of The Five Towns Ep 1/2

Sunday 6 March

3.00-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Arnold Bennett's powerful story of love, tyranny and rebellion is set against the vitality and harshness of life in the Staffordshire Potteries in the late-19th century.

Brought up in the tradition of Methodism by her miserly father, Anna Tellwright dreams of independence and freedom. On coming of age she learns that she is to inherit a fortune and realises that she is loved by the charismatic Henry Mynors. But with the money comes responsibility and a growing bond with one of her tenants, William Price.

Dramatised by Helen Edmundson, the play stars: Charlotte Riley as Anna; David Schofield as Tellwright; Emilia Harker as Young Agnes; Michael Socha as William Price; James Masters as Titus Price; Lee Williams as Henry Mynors; Rosina Carbone as Beatrice/Older Agnes; Olwen May as Mrs Sutton; Andrew Westfield as Revivalist; and Jacqueline Redgwell as Sarah Vodrey.

Producer/Nadia Molinari for the BBC

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5 Live Sport

Sunday 6 March

12.00noon-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Colin Murray presents all the day's sports news, plus live Premier League football updates from Liverpool versus Manchester United (kick-off 1.30pm) and from St Mirren against Rangers in the Scottish Premier League (kick-off 12.45pm).

There are also reports from England versus South Africa in Chennai and India versus Ireland in Bangalore in the Cricket World Cup, plus rugby union Premiership updates from Exeter against Northampton and tennis updates from the reverse singles rubbers between Great Britain and Tunisia at the Davis Cup in Bolton.

At 2pm Colin Murray presents a feature-length interview with a leading sporting figure in Murray Meets.

From 3pm Mark Chapman has all the build-up to this afternoon's Premier League football, Wolverhampton Wanderers against Tottenham Hotspur, and there's full commentary on the game at Molineux from 4pm. There are also reports from the European Indoor Athletics Championship in Paris and the swimming World Cup trials in Manchester.

Presenters/Colin Murray and Mark Chapman, Producer/Mike Carr

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World Cup Cricket

Sunday 6 March

3.45am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on the group match between England and South Africa at the cricket World Cup comes live from the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Uninterrupted commentary from the World Championship Trials comes live from the Manchester Aquatics Centre.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Indie band Suede record at the BBC Maida Vale studios

Blur and Oasis may have ridden the Britpop zeitgeist to a place in the popular consciousness – but Suede made it possible. Before Suede the UK music scene was largely in the grip of post-grunge Americana – it was Brett Anderson's band who wrestled back dominance and gave people a reason to be proud of their musical heritage – trading freely on the glamour of Bowie, the sexual ambiguity of The Smiths and the passion for pop of both.

In the wake of the band's recent reunion, Matt Everitt speaks to singer Brett Anderson about his childhood, the group's birth, the recording of their stunning debut and their "difficult" second record. He also discusses his incredible fractious relationship with the band's mercurial guitarist Bernard Butler – and the reasons behind their parting – plus his feeling about the Britpop movement which he helped inspire, but which for a while abandoned him. Brett also talks freely and honestly about the drug problems which ran throughout much of the band's career, and also their rebirth and reunion.

Presenter/Matt Everitt, Producer/Henry Lopez Real

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French techno icon and DJ Laurent Garnier steps up to the 6 Mix decks for a journey through his life in dance music. Laurent began clubbing while living in Paris in the late Seventies, but it wasn't until moving to Manchester in the mid-Eighties that he discovered acid house music.

He ended up as a regular DJ at the Hacienda alongside Mike Pickering and Graeme Park, but returned to Paris in the early Nineties to begin a career as a successful producer in his own right. Since then Laurent has DJed all over the world with residencies at clubs including Ministry Of Sound and The End, presented his own weekly radio show and released seminal tunes including Crispy Bacon and The Man With The Red Face on his own label, F Communications.

In his first ever 6 Mix, Laurent plays a selection of the bleeps and beats which inspired him to become a DJ alongside a set of contemporary techno and house music.

Presenter/Laurent Garnier, Producer/Rowan Collinson

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