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BBC Radio 2 presenter Claudia Winkleman

This week Claudia Winkleman speaks to American-born artist Kaffe Fassett about his colourful designs in the decorative arts – needlepoint, patchwork, knitting, painting and ceramics.

Also in the programme, performance poet Ian McMillan discusses The Ian McMillan Orchestra's new album and, as the Turner Contemporary in Margate prepares to open its doors to a new gallery on 16 April, the programme heads along for a preview to see if they've succeeded in their mission of making Margate "Kent's new cultural heart".

Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Jessica Rickson for the BBC

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The final concert in this week's all-Mozart Lunchtime Concert series is from the Vienna Piano Trio, who make a welcome return to LSO St Luke's in Old Street, London to perform three piano trios written when Mozart was at the height of his powers. The works are: Trio for piano and strings in G major K564; Trio for piano and strings in E major K542; and Trio for piano and strings in B flat major K502.

Presenter/Katie Derham, Producer/Elizabeth Funning

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Performance On 3

Friday 25 March

7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3

The BBC Singers perform live at the Roundhouse in London as part of the Voices Now festival, together with the Latvian Radio Choir.

In a fascinating cross-cultural musical experience, two of the world's great radio choirs showcase the very different choral traditions of their respective countries and regions for the Voices Now festival, which celebrates the UK's unique vocal heritage and vibrant contemporary singing culture, and brings together singers from all backgrounds and abilities with some of the world's leading choirs.

After exhibiting their own individual talents, the two choirs join forces for the first performance of a piece by BBC Singers Associate Composer Gabriel Jackson, which places them side by side in a bilingual celebration of the two groups' distinctive choral personalities.

Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Janet Tuppen

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Alan Dein presents this feature on the culture of Camden Market.

Thousands of visitors flock to Camden Market in London each weekend. It is one of the capital's most popular visitor attractions. Likewise, the streets of Camden Town vibrate with energy on Fridays and Saturdays, as revellers enjoy the music and nightlife.

Many associate Camden's enduring appeal with the Sixties counter-culture movement. But "rough around the edges" Camden has a rich cultural heritage, as Alan discovers in A Walk Around Camden.

Presenter/Alan Dein, Producer/Claire Burgoyne

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The Verb – Live From The Radio Theatre

Friday 25 March

9.15-10.00pm BBC RADIO 3

Singer-songwriter PJ Harvey

Ian McMillan presents another evening of words with verve live from the Radio Theatre in London. Singer-songwriter PJ Harvey performs material from her new album and explains how war poetry influenced her songs about armed conflicts. Hanif Kureishi reads a new essay and the doyenne of the spoken word scene, Salena Godden, takes to the floor.

Presenter/Ian McMillan, Producers/Erin Riley and Dymphna Flynn

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Alan Dein visits a village in Northamptonshire to hear the midnight silence shattered as residents take to the streets in a bizarre annual ritual.

On the second Sunday in December, every year, the tranquillity of Broughton, a village near Kettering in Northamptonshire, is shattered.

For every year for as long as anyone can remember, the devil is "beaten out" of Broughton by the tin can band – a collection of villagers who patrol the streets after midnight, banging pots and pans, milk churns and hip baths, drums and hammers, colanders and frying pans. Anything that makes a noise, in fact. But no one quite knows why...

Presenter/Alan Dein, Producer/Sara Jane Hall for the BBC

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Aged 31 and faced with the prospect of either settling down to small-town life or pursuing her dreams of a singing career, Ash is struggling, in today's Afternoon Play.

She is still coming to terms with the loss of her mother who died some years before. She hasn't sung since her mother's funeral and Rose, her best friend and work colleague, wants to re-form their band and make a career out of music. Her boyfriend, Vince, is pressuring her to move in with him and say goodbye to any thoughts of a career in favour of a family with him. Her father, Dai, just wants his daughter to be happy.

Then Vince's get-rich scheme goes horribly wrong – one night, he is collecting a drugs drop in the bay when he crashes into Dai's boat. Dai is killed and Ash is distraught. The crisis deepens when Vince is arrested for manslaughter and drugs smuggling.

The cast features Eiry Hughes as Ash, Vivien Care as Rose, William Thomas as Dai, Aled Pugh as Vince, Rhys ap Hywel as Frankie and Rhys ap William as the policeman.

Producer/Polly Thomas for BBC Cymru/Wales

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David Attenborough recalls visiting Australia and using his ears to find the giant earthworm, in this week's episode of Life Stories.

The giant earthworm can grow to more than two metres in length but it never comes to the surface. In this programme, David recalls how he used his ears more than any other sense to find the giant earthworm in Australia.

Presenter/David Attenborough, Producer/Julian Hector for the BBC

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5 Live Sport

Friday 25 March

7.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Colin Murray has the day's sports news and looks ahead to tonight's Euro 2012 football qualifier between Serbia and Northern Ireland in Kicking Off With Colin Murray.

Live commentary of the Group C game can be heard from 7.30pm.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Mike Carr

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David Croft looks ahead to the first Grand Prix of the 2011 season, the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne.

Presenter/David Croft, Producer/Jason Swales

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5 Live Formula 1 – 2011: Australian Grand Prix
Practice Sessions

Friday 25 March

1.25-3.05am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
5.25-7.05am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary on the first and second practice sessions for the Australian Grand Prix.

Producer/Jason Swales for USP

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World Cup Cricket

Friday 25 March

8.15am-4.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on the third quarter-final at the Cricket World Cup comes live from Dhaka, India.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Cycling

Friday 25 March

7.00-9.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary from the World Track Championships in Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Young South African poet Lebogang Mashile features in the second programme in the series in which prominent poets explore and discuss with fellow writers how prose and verse can capture their own country's sense of nationhood, nationalism and patriotism.

This second programme questions whether a poet can be a country's political and humanitarian conscience.

Lebogang's performance poetry is well-established in the oral tradition and fuses music, dance and theatre with her art. This democratisation of her work enables her to reach audiences regardless of their education or status. She meets fellow poets to unravel the nuts and bolts of the craft to reveal its traditions, history and their future hopes.

Presenter/Lebogang Mashile

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