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This week, Jamie Cullum selects an archive session track from the Stan Sulzmann Quartet, which was recorded for Jazz In Britain back in 1978.

The Quartet featured Stan Sulzmann on flutes, Gordon Beck on piano, Ron Mathewson on bass and the late Tony Levin on drums.

Tonight's programme also features music from a Kit Downes Trio session recorded at Maida Vale last year. Jamie plays one of the tunes the trio previewed from their new album, Quiet Tiger.

Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Karen Pearson for Folded Wing

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In tonight's programme, Human League chat to Mark Radcliffe about their new album, Credo, which is released this month.

Presenters/Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producer/Lizzie Hoskin for Smooth Operations

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Twenties US bandleader Carroll Gibbons

Brian Matthew continues to celebrate the golden age of British dance bands. In this second programme, he looks at bandleaders Carroll Gibbons and Ray Noble.

Gibbons was American and came to Britain in the Twenties. He made his life here as leader of London's Savoy Hotel Orpheans. Noble was a talented band leader and composer who, after success in British recording studios, crossed the Atlantic. He forged a new career in New York and Hollywood, on radio with George Burns and on film with Fred Astaire.

Both men were considered elegant sophisticates. Both led HMV's New Mayfair Dance Orchestra, and both composed successfully. Brian tells their sometimes intertwined stories with the help of music, the archive words of Noble and others, and observations from Michael Law, the leader of today's Piccadilly Dance Orchestra, which continues to keep the music of Gibbons and Noble alive.

Presenter/Brian Matthew, Producer/Roy Oakshott for Wise Buddah Creative Limited

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Recorded at the Hackney Empire in London, the BBC Concert Orchestra and the Grand Union Orchestra join forces to bring a timeless journey across shifting sands and turbulent seas as Trading Roots explores a tapestry of sounds drawn from China to Africa, tracing the path of traders and travellers along the ancient Spice Route.

This concert features well-known jazz soloists, singers and leading musicians from all over the world. It also includes a special performance from the BBC CO Fusion Group, an extraordinary multicultural collection of young musicians from London. Tony Haynes's new work, The Golden Road, The Unforgiving Sea, commissioned by BBC Radio 3, ties the concert together.

This is followed by another instalment of a recital given by soprano Amanda Roocroft, accompanied by pianist Malcolm Martineau, as part of the Wigmore Hall's 100 Years of German Song series. Liszt, Cornelius, Jensen, Bruch and Brahms are the composers featured throughout the week as the cycle reaches the 1860-1870 decade.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Joan Carlos Jaramillo

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Finnish accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen features in a new release with the Kronos Quartet. Also in tonight's programme, Samuli Kosminen, Albert Khuvezin and Yat-Kha combine throat singing with Japanese poetry; there's music from the Kit Downes Trio's CD Quiet Tiger; and a new release from singers Trio Medieval.

Presenter/Fiona Talkington, Producer/Olwen Fisher

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From spaghettification to uncertainty, Lynne Truss unpicks puzzling scientific terms.

Some suggest scientists use language to give authority to their practice. Lynne asks if this helps to convince or alienate people. For example, cosmetic advertisements use "derma" instead of skin and "clinically proven" to give their products scientific clout. But Lynne discovers that scientists cannot "prove" – they can only "disprove".

Lynne puts her skills to the test at the Science Museum in London to demonstrate "the conservation of angular momentum", otherwise known as "move your bum in and out and go round in circles".

Presenter/Lynne Truss, Producer/Erika Wright for the BBC

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Val McDermid charts the recent rise of crime fiction on both sides of the Irish border.

Peace in Northern Ireland and the economic boom and bust in Southern Ireland have led to a recent rise in crime fiction.

Val looks at the way real-life violence has been dealt with in the work of authors including Tana French, Eoin McNamee, Ruth Dudley Edwards, Stuart Neville and Declan Hughes. She meets David Torrans, whose bookstore in Belfast has been fictionalised in Colin Bateman's series of crime novels.

Declan Burke, author of the blog Crime Always Pays, takes listeners on a tour of Dublin locations featured in crime novels, from the modern Docklands offices which inspired Alan Glynn's novel Winterland to the hotels and shops of Fifties Dublin featured in the crime fiction of Booker-winner John Banville, who writes under the name Benjamin Black.

Val hears how writers are trying to find new villains in a place where violence has – until recently – been part of everyday life.

Presenter/Val McDermid, Producer/Robyn Read for the BBC

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In Clara Glynn's drama a children's hearing must decide if Nicole, 13, and Scott, four, should be taken into care or allowed to return to live with their mother.

Michelle has been in drug rehab for the last few months, dad has disappeared and the kids have been under a supervision order. But now Michelle is coming out of rehab – clean and determined to make a fresh start. The three members of the children's hearing panel have to decide what is best for the children.

Scotland's Children's Hearing system, initiated by The Social Work Act 1968 and the Children (Scotland) Act 1995, led to changes in how children and young people in trouble or at risk are dealt with.

In this fictional drama, the panel, all trained volunteers, are faced with difficult choices. As the panel hears reports from experts and from the family, its perception of what should happen to the children is constantly challenged.

The cast includes Iain Agnew as panel chairman Edward, Carol Ann Crawford as Fiona Henson, Kim Gerard as Mary Branwich, Natasha Watson as Nicole, Lisa Nicoll as Michele, Anne Downie as Gran, Colin McCredie as Charlie Fleming and John Kielty as Mr McEwan.

Producer/David Ian Neville for the BBC

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Good Show Clarissa Ep 1/3

Tuesday 8 to Thursday 10 March

3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4

Academy Award-winning actress Helen Mirren

Martin Jarvis directs Dame Helen Mirren, Joanna Lumley and Lisa Dillon in Good Show Clarissa, a series of three "jolly hockey stick" stories.

On Tuesday, Helen Mirren reads Angela Brazil's A Midnight Revel. The boarders at Hardwick High are prevented by the rainy weather from playing a hockey match. Bored at such inactivity, they decide to think of an adventurous alternative entertainment. But will the girls' daring midnight spree go according to plan, and what if the headmistress finds out?

On Wednesday, in Jemima Gets Them Guessing by Hilda Richards, Lisa Dillon brings to life the entire Fourth Form of Cliff House, led by eccentric Jemima Carstairs. To save a chum from disgrace, Jemima concocts a canny plan. But will it work?

On Thursday, Joanna Lumley reads Enid Blyton's The Cheat. Susan is less fortunate than most of the other girls and certainly not from their well-heeled backgrounds, so she must win the scholarship in order to continue her education. Then an opportunity occurs for her to cheat in the exam...

Readers/Helen Mirren, Lisa Dillon and Joanna Lumley, Producer/Martin Jarvis for Jarvis and Ayres Productions

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5 Live Sport

Tuesday 8 March

7.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Mark Pougatch has the day's sports news and looks ahead to the evening's football which sees Arsenal face Barcelona at the Nou Camp in their Champions League round of 16 second-leg tie.

Live commentary can be heard from 7.45pm, and at 9.30pm there's post-match reaction in The Final Whistle.

Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Mike Carr

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World Cup Cricket

Tuesday 8 March

8.45am-5.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary on the group match between Pakistan and New Zealand at the cricket World Cup, live from the Pallekele International Stadium.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Swimming

Tuesday 8 March

5.45-7.40pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

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

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Football

Tuesday 8 March

7.40-9.45pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary on one of the night's top matches in the Championship.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Lauren Laverne is joined by Iron & Wine for a live session in the BBC 6 Music studios. Iron & Wine consists of acclaimed singer-songwriter Sam Beam, who has just released his fourth album, Kiss Yourself Clean, on 4AD records.

The album is his biggest to date, entering the US Billboard chart at No. 2 and the UK Top 40 for the first time for Sam.

Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales

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Gideon Coe introduces sessions from the BBC's vaults including Ash, Free, Mad Professor and Viva Voce. The programme also features Suzanne Vega in concert from 1990 and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club at Glastonbury in 2004.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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