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Jo Whiley presents her last weekend afternoon show for BBC Radio 1 before moving to present a new show over on BBC Radio 2.

Having spent 17 years with Radio 1, this will be a special weekend for Jo, with tributes to this incredible lady from many of her friends from the music and entertainment world, including Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl.

Jo joined Radio 1 in spring 1993 and in September of that year she became permanent co-presenter of the seminal radio programme The Evening Session, with Steve Lamacq, until 1997.

Four years later she landed her own daytime show and remained part of Radio 1's weekday line-up until 2009, when she launched a new weekend programme. She is also a regular presenter of the BBC's live events TV coverage, including Glastonbury Festival and Radio 2 Electric Proms coverage for BBC Two.

Jo's weekend slots will be filled by new music champion Huw Stephens, who kicks off his new show on Saturday 2 April.

Presenter/Jo Whiley, Producers/Natasha Lynch and Becky Anderson

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International Radio 1Xtra – DJ Target In Mexico Ep 1/2

Sunday 27 March

9.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 1XTRA

BBC Radio 1Xtra presenter and music producer DJ Target presents this special two-part musical and anthropological exploration of Mexico and its music.

Target meets the Head of EMI Latin America, Camilo Lara, and learns about Tribal Guaranchero, the Mexican equivalent to UK funky, originated by teenage producers in the Monteray region of Mexico. He compares notes between the Mexican Cumbia scene and the UK's grime scene and finds out which UK artists are big in Latin America.

Top promoter Pedro Moctezuma explains why he thinks Mexico City is the second biggest market for live events in the world; and Target delves into the underground hip-hop scene with DJ Aztec, DJ Gros and MC Ximbo.

He also visits the eastern slums and the Faro de Oriente arts centre, which provides free art classes and meals for the poorest people in Mexico City, and drops by the Escuela de Rock to talk to young musicians about the realities of living in Mexico – and why they hate the idea of commercial success.

Presenter/DJ Target, Producer/Julie Shepherd

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Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to Izzeldin Abuelaish, who devotes his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians – work which has earned him a nomination for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Aled's faith guest is Reverend Mark Oakley, Canon Treasurer at St Paul's Cathedral, who looks at the news of the week from a faith perspective and gives the Moment Of Reflection.

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

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Johnnie Walker revisits the Seventies and, this week, Marty Kristian from the New Seekers recalls his favourite memories and music of his decade of pop stardom. The New Seekers were known for their mixed-gender line-up and sold 35 million records, with singles including I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing and Never Ending Song Of Love.

As he releases an album of New Seekers demo recordings, Marty recalls performing for the likes of President Nixon and HM The Queen and gracing teenagers' walls alongside David Cassidy and Donny Osmond. He pays tribute to fellow band member Cathy Logan, who recently passed away.

Also on the show, listeners take a trip back in time to hear an artist or personality of the Seventies wax lyrical on the wireless in Radio Rewind, and Johnnie spins three gems from a classic album from the decade.

Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Natasha Costa Correa for Wise Buddha Creative Limited

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Nicole Krauss, one of America's most distinguished young authors, talks revealingly to Michael Berkeley about the influence of music on her work.

Her first choice is the 1955 recording of Gould playing part of Bach's Goldberg Variations. She has also chosen the final moments of Mahler's Ninth Symphony, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, and Peace Piece by Bill Evans. She refers to the third movement (Molto adagio) of Beethoven's Op 132 String Quartet in her latest book, Great House, and reads the appropriate passage.

Her final two choices are Ry Cooder's Houston In Two Seconds from the soundtrack of Wim Wenders's film Paris, Texas, which she saw at the age of 19, and which influenced the story of her first novel, Man Walks Into A Room; and a song by singer and harpist Joanna Newsom, whose music and lyrics both appeal to her for their baroque strangeness.

Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Martin Cotton

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As part of Books On The BBC 2011, BBC Radio 3 broadcasts a new adaptation by Jonathan Holloway of Emily Brontë's great novel of violent obsession, Wuthering Heights.

Heathcliff and Catherine have entered the world's imagination as great lovers, yet they kiss only once. There is extraordinary cruelty and madness in the story and yet its extremes have gripped the imagination, and each new generation to discover it, since the book was first published in 1847.

Carl Prekopp plays Heathcliff, Natalie Press plays Catherine (and Cathy), Janine Duvitski plays Ellen, Samuel Barnett plays Edgar, David Birrell plays Mr Lockwood, Hayley Doherty plays Isabella and Russell Boulter plays Hindley.

Producer/Tim Dee

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Since Stephen Spender in the Thirties, the finest poets have made versions of Rainer Maria Rilke's poems. Martyn Crucefix, who has translated the Duino Elegies, explores their attraction.

Rilke disliked the English language and thought more of Dante than Shakespeare. But his best-known work, the Duino Elegies – completed in the same year as The Wasteland – had a huge impact on English readers and writers. As early as the Thirties a translation by Stephen Spender appeared and others followed in later years. Rilke fascinates readers, too. You might be hard-pressed to find Thomas Mann in a bookshop these days, but if there is a poetry section Rilke will be there.

In this feature Martyn Crucefix reveals what makes Rilke so engaging and explores his ideas of the role of the imagination, and how he renders the subtlest of experiences in language of great beauty.

Presenter/Martyn Crucefix, Producer/Julian May

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Early rock 'n' roller Tommy Steele

Sue MacGregor reunites five people who took part in the earliest days of rock 'n' roll in the UK, in the last of this current series of The Reunion.

The first stirrings occurred when the film Blackboard Jungle, featuring Bill Haley and The Comets singing Rock Around The Clock, was released in 1955, but when Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley entered the UK charts in May 1956, a passion for rock 'n' roll was ignited among the nation's youth.

Within a matter of months Tommy Steele's Rock With The Caveman, generally considered to be the first rock 'n' roll song to have originated in the UK, had reached No. 13 in the charts.

Tommy Steele was discovered in the 2i's Coffee Bar in Old Compton Street in London's Soho, as was Cliff Richard and The Shadows, Mickie Most, Joe Brown, Vince Taylor and Terry Dene, among many others. The person who discovered him, Larry Parnes, was the UK's first pop manager.

Sue discusses those days with Bruce Welch from The Shadows, Terry Dene, Vince Eager, Marty Wilde and Clem Cattini, who played drums with all of them.

Presenter/Sue MacGregor, Producer/Brian McCluskey for Whistledown Productions

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Profoundly disabled teenager Charlotte White performs Bach

Josie d'Arby tells the remarkable story of Charlotte White's road to musical redemption.

As a teenager, Charlotte performed the opening bars of the prelude to Bach's cello suite. Perhaps not so remarkable until you learn that Charlotte is profoundly disabled and performed the piece using assistive technology, with every crotchet and quaver triggered through the slightest movements of her head and thumbs.

Josie meets this remarkable young woman and discovers how Charlotte was largely written off by mainstream society, enduring cooking classes and music therapy that she describes as "seriously patronising".

Josie finds out about the moment the Drake Music Project entered Charlotte's life, firing up her imagination with music, providing her with the equipment necessary to perform and compose and helping to crack the shell into which she had retreated.

Presenter/Josie d'Arby, Producer/Toby Field for the BBC

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Seema Anand unravels Muhammad Iqbal's epic poem Shikwa, one of the most famous and enduring works of Islamic literature.

The poem is an extended and heartfelt complaint in lyrical Urdu about all the many ways in which God has let down Muslims. When it was first recited by Iqbal at a public gathering in Lahore in 1911, a fatwa was issued by Islamic scholars who were shocked by its seemingly outrageous impudence: here was Man daring to challenge the wisdom of God.

Like many works by Iqbal, the poem is presented as a dialogue between Man and God. Iqbal felt strongly that Islam should be open to reform and many of his ideas are as powerfully relevant today as they were 100 years ago.

Seema Anand, who is not Muslim, is learning to translate the poem with the dream that one day she too will be able to recite it and bring it to new audiences in Britain.

Presenter/Seema Anand, Producer/Mukti Jain Campion for Culturewise

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5 Live Formula 1 – 2011: Australian Grand Prix

Sunday 27 March

6.30-8.45am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

David Croft presents coverage of the Australian Grand Prix live from Melbourne.

Presenter/David Croft, Producer/Jason Swales for USP

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Colin Murray presents the Sunday Review with a look back at the weekend's sport, including the Euro 2012 qualifier between Wales and England, and the Australian Grand Prix. Plus, there's team news ahead of Scotland's friendly against Brazil.

From 2pm the international football coverage includes Scotland versus Brazil, which takes place at the Emirates Stadium in north London.

At 4pm there's more on Sunday afternoon's main sports stories.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Mike Carr

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Cycling

Sunday 27 March

2.20-4.45pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary from the World Track Championship comes live from Apeldoorn, Netherlands.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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This week, DJ, producer and techno music icon Carl Craig takes over the 6 Mix.

Perhaps one of the best-known electronic producers from Detroit in the early Nineties, Carl took his cues from the likes of Derrick May and Jeff Mills, fusing their pioneering sounds with a more experimental, jazzy soundscape.

In 1991 he founded his own label, Planet E Recordings, which has gone on to release records by some of the biggest names in techno, from Moodyman to Kevin Saunderson. As he celebrates 20 years of Planet E, Carl takes over the 6 Mix to play some of his favourite releases from the last two decades, as well as playing and talking about some of the old-school Detroit sounds which inspired him to make music.

Carl discusses the highlights of his remarkable career and where he sees techno music progressing, and also takes to the decks for an hour-long mix of fresh electronic sounds direct from Motor City.

Producer/Rowan Collinson

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