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BBC Radio 2 presenter Trevor Nelson

Trevor Nelson invites listeners to explore the depths of his record collection, as he presents an hour of the best in timeless soul, rare funky treats and modern classics.

This week, his Album Of The Week is Bill Withers' 1972 release, Still Bill, which features one of his best-known hits, Lean On Me.

Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Dan Cocker for Somethin' Else

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From the youthful energy of early Schubert to the nostalgic yearning of Rachmaninov's final composition, Semyon Bychkov's fascinating programme charts an emotional journey from elation to despair and salvation.

Detlev Glanert's Brahms orchestration, first performed at the BBC Proms in 2006, illuminates the life-beyond-death world of the Four Serious Songs.

Tonight's Performance On 3 was recorded at the Barbican Hall, London, and features music from Schubert (Symphony No. 2 in B flat major), Brahms-Detlev Glanert (Four Preludes and Serious Songs) and Rachmaninov (Symphonic Dances).

Semyon Bychkov conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra, featuring Johan Reuter on bass-baritone.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Brian Jackson

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BBC Radio 3 presenter Philip Dodd

To mark the 70th anniversary of the death of Virginia Woolf on 28 March, Philip Dodd presents a special landmark edition of Night Waves devoted to one of her most famous novels, Mrs Dalloway.

Written in 1924, Mrs Dalloway is set on a single day in June, as socialite Clarissa Dalloway prepares to host a party.

In the novel, Virginia Woolf experiments with a new style of writing called "stream of consciousness", where the inner lives and thoughts of characters are as important as the stories they act out.

Philip and guests discuss what makes Mrs Dalloway such an intriguing and powerful novel and explore Woolf's position as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the 20th century.

Presenter/Philip Dodd, Producer/Fiona McLean

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The Disappearance Of Jennifer Pope, by Mike Harris, is the extraordinary true story of the disappearance of an English nurse in Ecuador and how her husband and son tracked down her abductor.

Jenny's husband and son, Dave and Stefan Pope, spent a year in a country fraught with poverty and corruption. They could barely speak the language and had next to no money but, with lots of determination and good will from a few key characters, they eventually found justice for Jenny.

This Afternoon Play offering is made in collaboration with Dave Pope.

Kate Layden plays Jenny, Reece Dinsdale plays Dave and Matthew McNulty plays Stefan.

Producer/Pauline Harris for the BBC

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Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, from the Ground Zero Islamic Centre, explores the conflict between faith and national identity, as this series of Lent Talks continues.

Six well-known figures reflect on different elements of conflict found in the story of Jesus' ministry and Passion from the perspective of their own personal and professional experience.

The Christian season of Lent is traditionally a time for self-examination and reflection on universal human conditions such as temptation, betrayal, abandonment, greed, forgiveness and love. The main theme for this year's talks explores conflict in different forms and how it interacts with various aspects of society and culture.

Presenter/Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Producer/Philip Billson for the BBC

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Mark Chapman presents a comprehensive round-up of the day's sports news, in tonight's edition of 5 Live Sport.

At 8pm Spoony presents Total Blackout, which takes a look at why there are so few black managers in both professional and semi-professional football in the UK. Total Blackout is followed by a debate into the issues raised by Spoony's investigation.

From 10pm, listeners can hear more on some of the day's top sports stories.

Presenters/Mark Chapman and Spoony, Producer/Mike Carr

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World Cup Cricket

Wednesday 30 March

9.45am-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can hear uninterrupted commentary on the second semi-final at the Cricket World Cup, live from Mohali.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Atlanta four-piece Deerhunter return to BBC 6 Music once again to perform some more of their beautiful melodies for Marc Riley and listeners.

Stopping off in the middle of their UK tour, Bradford Cox, Lockett Pundt, Joshua Fauver and Moses Archuleta are busy spreading the word about last year's LP, Halcyon Digest.

The Georgia group who, incredibly, recorded their last album in less than two weeks, have always been hard to peg down in relation to genre. They take in everything from noise rock to shoegaze, with punk picked up along the way, and bring it all to the table in their own unique style.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

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