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While Chris Moyles is on holiday for two weeks, Scott Mills sits in to entertain the nation at breakfast with his irreverent mix of music, celebrities and witty banter.

In turn, Nick Grimshaw takes over Scott's 4-7pm show for the period.

Chris Moyles returns to the breakfast show on Monday 4 April.

Presenter/Scott Mills, Producers/Aled Haydn Jones and Samantha Moy for the BBC

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While Scott Mills sits in for Chris Moyles for a fortnight, Nick Grimshaw takes the reins of the 4-7pm drivetime show with music, celebrity guests and more.

Annie Mac takes over Nick's 10pm-12midnight show for the period.

Scott Mills returns to the drivetime show on Monday 4 April.

Presenter/Nick Grimshaw, Producer/Emlyn Dodd for the BBC

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Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie are live from Manchester with a session from John Grant, formerly front man of The Czars.

The American singer-songwriter launched his solo career last year with Queen Of Denmark, a debut which featured Midlake on backing vocals and was named Mojo's Album Of The Year.

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

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Jools Holland is joined by former Blow Monkeys front man Dr Robert.

Dr Robert joins Jools and the band on an impromptu version of Everybody's Talking, and also chooses influential songs from Curtis Mayfield and T-Rex.

Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston for the BBC

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In a brand-new feature for BBC Radio 3's Breakfast programme, well-known personalities from the world of comedy join presenters Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Rob Cowan to pick a few of their favourite pieces of classical music. After the guest's live appearance in the studio between 9-10am each Monday, throughout the week listeners can hear a selection of five pieces chosen by the celebrity.

Rory Bremner is the first guest, with his musical choices played during Breakfast across the week. Alongside Rory's choice of pieces, Breakfast will continue to play a wide variety of repertoire including Bach's Double Violin Concerto in D Minor and the Overture to Mozart's Magic Flute.

Guests in the coming weeks include Maureen Lipman, Tony Hawks (Have I Got News For You) and Rebecca Front (The Thick Of It).

Presenters/Sara Mohr-Pietsch and Rob Cowan, Producer/Helen Garrison

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Today's Lunchtime Concert features the Kopelman Quartet in the Russian repertoire for which they're best known. The Quartet members graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire during its Golden Age in the Seventies, when the teachers included composers such as Dmitri Shostakovich. They perform his Fourth Quartet, alongside Prokofiev's Second Quartet.

Presenter/Fiona Talkington, Producer/Ellie Mant

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The BBC Philharmonic travels to Japan for a series of concerts with conductor Yutaka Sado, including this performance recorded in Yokohama with gifted young pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii, joint winner of the first prize at the Van Cliburn Piano Competition in 2009.

The light and airy Overture To A Midsummer Night's Dream by a precocious 17-year-old Mendelssohn opens the programme, skilfully depicting the characters in Shakespeare's comedy. This is followed by Rachmaninov's most well-known piano concerto, No. 2 – also his most romantic, and the work which set him back on track as a composer. To end, the ultimate programmatic symphony: Berlioz wrote the programme notes himself to accompany his Symphonie fantastique, which depicts scenes from the life of an artist.

The concert is followed by music from members of the Arcanto Quartet in their careers as soloists, including viola player Tabea Zimmermann with Schumann's Marchenbilder Op 113.

Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Janet Tuppen

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Jez Nelson presents a concert by the Samuel Blaser Quartet.

Swiss-born Blaser has developed his own vocal-like phraseology on the trombone and describes his music as exploring the fertile ground between hard bop and free jazz. New York Downtown guitarist Marc Ducret joins him, adding a fusion element to the sound. The band is completed by a transatlantic rhythm section of bassist Banz Oester and drummer Gerald Cleaver.

Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Russell Finch

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Book Of The Week – The Popes Ep 1/5

Monday 21 to Friday 25 March

9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4

John Julius Norwich turns his attention to what is considered to be the oldest continuing institution in the world, tracing the papal line down the centuries from St Peter himself, traditionally the first pope, to the present Benedict XVI.

The book explores the myth and reality of the only female pope; the first and only time an Englishman was elected pope; Alexander VI, who fathered eight children before he became pope and owed his office to vast numbers of bribes he paid out as Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia; Pius VI, who loved being pope, and served for 25 years; and how when John XXIII became pope in 1958 he was expected to have a short reign as little more than a caretaker pope, however, his pontificate shook the world.

Reader/John Julius Norwich, Producer/David Roper for Heavy Entertainment Limited

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Woman's Hour Drama – Cottonopolis Ep 1/5

Monday 21 to Friday 25 March

9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4

When women go missing from the streets and homes of Manchester, the media goes into overdrive. These five linked stories explore what happens when fear changes people's behaviour.

The cast features Judith Barker as Maggie; Chris Hannon as Dave and a newsreader; Verity Henry as a newsreader and a paramedic; and Chris Jack as Henri.

Listeners can hear the accompanying Afternoon Play – Cottonopolis on Monday 28 March on BBC Radio 4.

Producer/Justine Potter for Red Production Company Limited

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When Megan first tells Anton that she's afraid something's wrong, he brushes her fears away. Later, when they're sitting in the waiting room at the Oncology Department, he still refuses to believe that Megan is ill. Even when the diagnosis of cervical cancer is given, he struggles to accept it. He hopes against hope for a miracle. But in this story there is no miracle.

Meic Povey's play traces the journey of a man faced with losing the woman he loves. It's a searingly honest account, based on his own experience, of facing up to the reality of a partner's terminal illness.

It stars Eiry Thomas as Megan and Steffan Rhodri as Anton.

Producer/Kate McAll for BBC Cymru Wales

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Historian Sir David Cannadine explores Winston Churchill's other lives outside politics.

The series explores Churchill's love affair with film, his struggle with his finances, his artistic side, his love of horses and his relationship with religion. The series features Roger Allam as Winston Churchill.

Presenter/Sir David Cannadine, Producer/Melissa Fitzgerald for Blakeway Productions

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Book At Bedtime – Mathilda Ep 1/5

Monday 21 to Friday 25 March

10.45-11.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Following the National Theatre's new production of Frankenstein, directed by Danny Boyle, BBC Radio 4 presents a reading by Emilia Fox of the only other finished work of fiction by its celebrated author, Mary Shelley.

With its shocking theme of father-daughter incest, the novel was called "disgusting and detestable" by Mary Shelley's father, a publisher known for his own subversive books. He not only refused to publish Mathilda when she sent it to him early in 1820, but he also refused to return her only copy of the manuscript. The work was never published in her lifetime and was only brought to light in the early Fifties when it was unearthed in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Yet despite characters clearly based on Mary Shelley, her father and her husband, the narrator lifts the story beyond autobiographical resonance into something more transcendent: a passionate tale of a brave woman's search for love, atonement and redemption.

Mathilda is abridged by Eileen Horne.

Reader/Emilia Fox, Producer/Clive Brill for Pacificus Productions

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Psychologist Dr Oliver James presents his favourite prose and poetry in With Great Pleasure.

Dr James's first choice is one of the best-known examples in literature of very strong language, This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin. The programme also includes extracts from Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding, The Importance Of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, some TS Eliot and RD Laing.

The readers are Susan Jameson and William Chubb.

Presenter/Oliver James, Producer/Christine Hall for the BBC

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Mark Chapman presents a comprehensive round-up of the day's sports news and views, plus expert analysis of the weekend's football in The Monday Night Club.

At 9pm, Mark Clemmit rounds up the weekend's football in 5 Live Football League.

Mark Chapman brings listeners up to date on the latest football action in Football Express from 9.30pm.

At 10pm there's more on one of the evening's big sport stories.

Presenters/Mark Chapman and Mark Clemmit, Producer/Mike Carr

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Manchester's folk troubadour John Stammers returns to the Riley studio tonight for the first time in over two years.

A staple on the Manchester scene for quite some time, John is finally releasing his debut self-titled LP, to much BBC 6 Music anticipation. With his soul-filled style and trademark blues riffs, the LP has gone back to analogue roots; it was mixed to tape and even the masters were run through an old Motown cutting lathe.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

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Alan Sparhawk from US band Low is Gideon Coe's guest for the first hour of the show. His featured archive concerts are from St Etienne performing in 1998 and, from Kidderminster, the Jess Roden Band. Sessions include the Four Brothers, The Sugarhill Gang, the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and Adam And The Ants playing for John Peel in 1978.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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