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Radio 1 Rock-Quest Show Live From Download

Saturday 13 June

4.00-7.00pm BBC RADIO 1

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BBC Radio 1's rock aficionados Daniel P Carter and Mike Davies present a special three-hour show live from Download Festival 2009.

The UK's largest rock festival, now in its sixth year, is a three-day extravaganza held at Donington Park and showcases the biggest names in rock. Slipknot, Pendulum, Dragonforce, Down, Korn and The Blackout, are just some of the acts featured.

Daniel and Mike take listeners through all the rocking and shenanigans of the festival with a mix of live music, interviews with bands and performers, backstage news and exclusive performances in the Radio 1 tent.

Presenters/Daniel P Carter and Mike Davies, Producer/Joe Harland

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The inimitable Jarvis Cocker, who released his second solo album last month, performs a special acoustic session in Dermot O'Leary's show this week. Dermot also chats to the intrepid explorer, author and former Python, Michael Palin, and there's a chance to hear live music from Australian five-piece, The Panics.

First spotted playing a hotel gig by the Happy Mondays, The Panics subsequently signed to Little Big Man Records (owned by Pete Carroll and Mondays' drummer Gaz Whelan). The Panics are linked to the north west of England through musical influences that include the likes of The La's, Echo And The Bunnymen, Stone Roses and The Smiths. The late Tony Wilson was also a confirmed fan.

Presenter/Dermot O'Leary, Producer/Ben Walker

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Ben Kweller has been called everything from a balladeer to a punk rocker and an anti-folker to an indie-popper.

This week, Bob Harris finds out more about the inimitable 27-year-old Texan, who plays an After Midnight acoustic session for the show. Ben also talks about his new album, Changing Horses, his recent move from New York City to Austin, Texas, and chooses a selection of his favourite musical influences by other artists.

Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson

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Lucy Duran introduces a specially recorded session by Senegalese singer and hoddu player Malick Pathé Sow, in this week's edition of World Routes.

Malick sings and plays the hoddu, a type of African lute, with accompaniment by Mady Kouyate (guitar), Bao Sissoko (kora) and Komlan Octave (percussion).

World Routes also includes an interview with David Harrington, founder and artistic director of the Kronos Quartet. He describes the making of their new album, Floodplain, a set of inventive and elaborate arrangements of music from the Nile Valley to the Caspian Sea.

Presenter/Lucy Duran, Producer/Felix Carey

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Trumpeter Booker Little was one of the brightest hopes of jazz in the Fifties, forging a new compositional and playing style that offered a way forward from bebop that was strikingly original.

Tragically, Booker died in 1961 at the age of 23, but his legacy lives on and, in today's programme, Tom Perchard joins Alyn Shipton to select highlights from Little's impressive recorded catalogue.

Presenter and Producer/Alyn Shipton

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Susan Bullock as Elektra and Johan Reuter as Orest

The eight-week season of recordings taken from the Royal Opera House continues this evening with BBC Radio 3's broadcast of Elektra, Richard Strauss's one-act opera.

Soprano Susan Bullock stars in the title role as Elektra, who swears vengeance for the murder of her father, King Agamemnon, by her mother, Clytemnestra. The opera tells the story of how she eventually achieves this, at the cost of several lives including, finally, her own.

This Royal Opera House production gained soprano Susan Bullock a Royal Philharmonic Society award for her performance. Conductor Mark Elder tackled Strauss's colossal score for the first time and also received critical praise.

Presenter/Andrew McGregor, Producer/Mark Lowther

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2007 winner Elizabeth Watts

BBC Radio 3 presents extensive coverage of one of the world's most prestigious singing competitions, featuring highlights from both the song and opera contests, culminating in the Grand Final, live on Sunday, from Cardiff's St David's Hall.

A competition that opened with more than 600 professional singers entering from 68 countries is now down to the final 25 – the cream of the world's young vocal talent, all competing for a prize of £15,000. A global event, auditions took place in 44 locations as far afield as Sydney, Stockholm, Bucharest and Beijing.

Contestants from nations as diverse as Andorra, Mexico, Japan, Australia, Latvia and Israel performed for a jury including some of the greatest stars of the opera and lieder world, including Kurt Moll, Helmut Deutsch, Ann Murray, Dame Gwyneth Jones and Giacomo Aragall.

Fiona Talkington presents extended coverage of the Song Prize Recitals and Final, with expert commentary from Catherine Bott, showcasing some of the most beautiful solo songs and lieder ever written.

Catherine also reports from the previous evening's round of the Opera competition, featuring the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales and Orchestra Of The Welsh National Opera, conducted by Lawrence Foster and Paul Daniel.

Petroc Trelawny presents Sunday's Grand Final, live from St David's Hall, Cardiff, at 5.30pm on Radio 3.

Presenter/Fiona Talkington, Producer/Steven Rajam

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Paul Gambaccini

Paul Gambaccini delves into one of the country's most extraordinary archives to tell the story of the early music collectors, in particular, the first and greatest of them, Fred Gaisberg.

The Hayes archive, until recently owned by EMI, contains some of the first recorded music including incredible indigenous songs from Persia, Greece, West Africa and China, among other places.

Gaisberg, whose music treasures are in the collection, set up the UK's first record studio. He recorded music hall stars and early classical superstars such as Nellie Melba and Caruso. Yet it was only the beginning of Gaisberg's adventures in music.

Heading east on a kind of musical grand tour, Gaisberg recorded in Russia, Persia, India and Singapore and went on to make more than 300 recordings in China and nearly as many in Japan.

Few other figures could be said to have contributed more to the global spread of recorded music. Gaisberg's early recordings remain cultural time-capsules, uniquely authentic sonic artefacts.

Presenter/Paul Gambaccini, Producers/Susan Marling and Danny Eccelston

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5 Live Sport

Saturday 13 June

12.00noon-8.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Dan Walker presents an afternoon of live sport, starting with live coverage of one of the matches from the "Super Eight" stage of the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, live from The Oval.

At 2pm, there's live commentary of the British And Irish Lions match against Western Province in South Africa, with commentary from Ian Robertson, Alastair Eykyn and former England and Lions player Matt Dawson.

From 4pm, listeners can hear live tennis coverage with the semi-finals of the Queen's Club championship, followed by commentary on the day's second match in the "Super Eight" stage of the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, again, live from The Oval.

Presenter/Dan Walker, Producer/Ben North

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World Twenty20 Cricket

Saturday 13 June

1.10-4.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

BBC 5 Live Sports Extra brings listeners uninterrupted live commentary on a "Super Eight" match, from The Oval, in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, as the teams compete for a place in the semi-finals.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Rugby League

Saturday 13 June

7.55-9.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can hear live, uninterrupted commentary of the rugby league friendly international between France and England, from Stade Jean Bouin, Paris.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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From the roots of black music through to the current club sounds, Craig Charles explores the best in funk and soul, with classic tracks, new releases and sessions.

Craig welcomes internationally acclaimed British soul singer, songwriter and musician, Omar, to his Funk And Soul Show this week. Omar continues to tour as a soul singer, and is due to perform a series of sessions at London's Jazz Café. He is also starring at the Young Vic in Been So Long, a musical comedy about romance, rage, revenge and rare groove.

Omar talks to Craig about his career, which has included collaborations with the likes of Stevie Wonder and Erykah Badu, and what he's up to now.

Presenter/Craig Charles, Producer/Hermeet Chadna

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DJ and George Lamb sidekick Marc Hughes hosts tonight's 6 Mix, playing a selection of old and new tunes, from funky house and disco to old skool hip hop and breaks.

A resident DJ at London's Ministry Of Sound, Marc regularly plays around the world. He's live in the mix for a half-hour tech-house set, showcasing his club tunes.

Listeners can also take a trip into the world of space disco, as 6 Mix takes a 30-minute ride on the disco train.

Presenter/Marc Hughes, Producer/Rowan Collinson

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Pauline Black, lead singer of The Selecter, continues to tell the story of British black music from calypso and the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush from the Caribbean onwards, in a series first broadcast in 1992.

In tonight's second episode, Pauline explores the late Fifties and early Sixties, when shipping ports like Liverpool and Cardiff became focal points for young teenagers to listen to black music being brought back from America by seamen.

Presenter/Pauline Black, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Worldplay is an annual collection of plays from broadcasters around the world all based on one theme. The season includes plays from Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada, Ireland and the UK and the theme this year is science.

Tonight's contribution is by Tim Crouch, winner of a Fringe First Award at the Edinburgh Festival, who is currently touring the world. Tim has written, and performs in, this surprising play about life, art and transplantations.

Two guides within an art exhibition live with the spoils of a comfortable middle-class life in England. But something is wrong. Gradually, it becomes clear that one of them needs a new heart. Can science prevail? And, if it can, what is the personal cost?

Director/Marion Nancarrow

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John McCarthy sits in for Aled Jones this week and says Good Morning Sunday to soul singer and actress Ruby Turner.

John finds out about the inspiration for Ruby's new album of gospel music and also plays tracks from a broad musical spectrum – celebrating both choral traditions and the vibrant world of modern music, as well as spiritually uplifting and reflective music.

The programme also features the week's news from a faith and ethics perspective and the Moment Of Reflection this week comes from Canon Ann Easter.

Presenter/John McCarthy, Producer/Hilary Robinson

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West End star Leanne Jones, currently starring in the hit musical Hairspray, joins Elaine Paige this Sunday afternoon and performs Good Morning Baltimore in the studio, exclusively for the programme.

Elaine also celebrates the best of Broadway, London's West End and the silver screen.

Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince

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Holy Communion is at the heart of Christian worship, commemorating Jesus's final meal with his disciples. On this week's edition of Sunday Half Hour, Brian D'Arcy introduces hymns which celebrate the Eucharist, or Lord's Supper.

This week's featured choir is Beverley Chamber Choir, directed by Mark Pybus, with Jeffery Makinson as the organist. Hymns include God Is Love, Let Heaven Adore Him and Christ Is The Heavenly Food, and there's a chance for listeners to hear BBC Radio 2's Young Choristers Of The Year for 2008 sing Broken For Me.

Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty

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Actress Penelope Wilton shares her Private Passions with Michael Berkeley this afternoon.

Penelope, whose distinguished career encompasses stage plays by Chekhov, Lorca, Ibsen, Pinter and Rattigan, has also had many TV roles, such as Harriet Jones in Doctor Who and Homily in The Borrowers. Her film credits include Clockwise, Calendar Girls, Shaun Of The Dead and Pride And Prejudice.

Her musical passions range from Brahms and Dvořák to Debussy, Prokofiev and Kurt Weill.

Presenter/Michael Berkeley

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BBC Cardiff Singer Of The World 2009 Grand Final

Sunday 14 June

5.30-8.00pm BBC RADIO 3

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Petroc Trelawny brings listeners extensive coverage of the final of one of the world's most prestigious singing competitions, live from Cardiff's St David's Hall, featuring five finalists and the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales, conducted by Lawrence Foster and Paul Daniel.

Since soprano Karita Mattila became the very first Singer Of The World in 1983, the competition has attracted some of the biggest names in the singing world, including Bryn Terfel and Dmitri Hvorostovsky, famous for their "Battle Of The Baritones" in 1989; Lisa Gasteen; Anja Harteros; Andrew Kennedy; Christopher Maltman; Katarina Karnéus; Nicole Cabell; and, in 2007, Shen Yang.

Contestants come from nations as diverse as Andorra, Mexico, Japan, Australia, Latvia and Israel, while the jury includes some of the greatest stars of the opera and lieder world, including Kurt Moll, Helmut Deutsch, Ann Murray, Gwyneth Jones and Giacomo Aragall.

Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Johannah Smith

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Patricia Routledge, Nicholas le Prevost, Sam Crane and Siobhan Hewlett star in this week's Drama On 3 offering, The Gambler.

In 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky was in serious debt, addicted to roulette and rejected by several women, he spun these sad materials into The Gambler, a brilliant tragicomic novella written in a feverish few weeks to stave off ruin.

Set in Roulettenburg, a fictional spa town in the Alps, the story tells how Alexei Ivanovich, servant to a bankrupt family, falls madly in love, twice – first with the lovely unobtainable Polina, then with the forbidden thrill of the casino. As Polina demands ever more slavish and reckless obedience from him, Alexei finds liberation in his enslavement and their relationship starts to mutate into something altogether richer and stranger.

Meanwhile, a cast of villains and victims – Polina's weak, infatuated uncle, "the General", the pretty young gold-digger he falls for and a scheming French aristocrat with designs on Polina – wait to inherit millions from her dying granny, until the old lady herself bursts in, foul-mouthed, furious and up for a good time. Fortunes will rise and fall, love will be won and lost and hopes and dreams go up in flames, before the roulette-wheel comes to a final stop and the little silver ball makes its choice.

Patricia Routledge stars as literature's most outrageous granny (Dame Edith Evans played the part on BBC TV in 1968); Sam Crane takes on the role of the lonely obsessive Alexei; Siobhan Hewlett plays the scornful Polina; and Nicholas le Prevost plays the luckless General.

Contemporary poet Glyn Maxwell (The Nerve, The Sugar Mile, Hide Now) recreates the madness and mayhem of a world enthralled by chance, sex and money, a world without values or foundations, spinning out of control.

The Gambler is Maxwell's third collaboration with director Guy Retallack, following on from the The Lifeblood (British Theatre Guide's Best Play at Edinburgh Fringe 2004, which transferred to Riverside Studios in 2005) and Liberty (Shakespeare's Globe/UK Tour 2008).

Producer/Frank Stirling

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Going to school is a rite of passage we have all shared, but the likelihood is that no two people's experiences are the same. For some it is remembered as the best days of their lives while, for others, it's just something to endure on the road to independence and even a time of fear and physical pain.

Many authors have written on this subject and, in this week's edition of Words And Music, Laurie Lee, Roger McGough, John Peel and the new Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy reflect on their school days, while DH Lawrence, Charles Dickens's Nicholas Nickleby and Muriel Spark's Miss Jean Brodie portray life from the front of the classroom.

Paul Copley and actress Sarah Lancashire are the readers, and the music featured is provided by Malcolm Arnold, Frank Loesser and Alice Cooper.

Readers/Sarah Lancashire and Paul Copley, Producer/Helen Garrison

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Kirsty Young

Life peer and Labour politician Denis Healey shares his musical selections with Kirsty Young on this week's edition of Desert Island Discs.

Elected to the House of Commons as MP for Leeds South East in 1952, Denis went on to serve as Secretary of State for Defence after Labour won the 1964 election. He was appointed Shadow Chancellor in 1972, becoming Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1974 after Labour's General Election victory.

He went on to become Deputy Leader and, later, Shadow Foreign Secretary, a post he held for most of the Eighties. Famous for his bushy eyebrows, Denis talks to Kirsty about his favourite music and describes how he would cope on BBC Radio 4's mythical island.

Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle

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5 Live Sport

Sunday 14 June

12.00noon-8.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Listeners can enjoy an afternoon of live sport today with Eleanor Oldroyd at the Queen's Club and Arlo White at Lord's.

The action begins with live coverage of a match in the "Super Eight" stage of the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, live from Lord's.

At 2pm, there's commentary of the men's tennis final live from Queen's Club followed by the day's second match in the "Super Eight" stage of the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, live from Lord's at 5.30pm.

Presenters/Eleanor Oldroyd and Arlo White, Producer/Adrian Williams

World Twenty20 Cricket

Sunday 14 June

1.15-4.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

BBC 5 Live Sports Extra bring listeners uninterrupted commentary on a "Super Eight" match in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, live from Lord's, as the teams compete for a place in the semi-finals.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Producers Above And Beyond join Dave Pearce this week and pick their Ultimate Dance Anthem. The men behind the Ajunabeats record label and pop trance outfit Oceanlab chat about their worldwide success and how they balance credibility with commercial appeal.

Dave also plays a selection of classic dance tunes from the last 30 years, from hip hop and house to retro electro, and there are listener requests, brand new trance and another unsigned bedroom producer on the phone.

Presenter/Dave Pearce, Producer/Rowan Collinson

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Pauline Black explores the late Sixties and early Seventies when the fast rhythm of ska gave way to the more relaxed style of reggae, as she continues to bring listeners the story of British black music.

In Britain, the mods made way for the original skinheads and records such as Desmond Dekker's Israelites entered the charts.

Presenter/Pauline Black, Producer/Frank Wilson

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BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Bridget Kendall hosts another edition of The Forum, BBC World Service's discussion programme that brings prominent international thinkers together to debate big ideas, providing opportunities for intellectual discourse and debate across national, social and cultural divides.

This week's theme is transformation, and the featured guests include: Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford and author of The Rise And Fall Of Communism; Albie Sachs, one of South Africa's most eminent judges; and Elaine Showalter, American literary critic and Emeritus Professor at Stanford University.

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Daniel P Carter and Mike Davies join forces to bring listeners four hours of the best live music from the main stage at Download, and relive the finest moments from 72 hours of metallic mayhem.

Many thousands of rock fans will have passed through the gates of Donington Park across three music-packed days to see performances from top acts including Faith No More, Def Leppard, Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Whitesnake and Pendulum: Daniel and Mike will be revisiting their favourite performances.

Presenters/Daniel P Carter and Mike Davies, Producer/Joe Harland

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Pioneering UK singer and songwriter Linda Lewis joins Ken Bruce to share her Tracks Of My Years. Her selection includes music by Jimi Hendrix, Manfred Mann, Rolling Stones, Mary Wells, T Rex and Sam Cooke.

There's also the Album Of The Week, the Record Of The Week and The Love Song, and two more contestants go head to head on PopMaster.

Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Gary Bones

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Beverley Knight brings listeners another vibrant half-hour of inspiring spiritual music and is joined this evening by special guest Ann Nesby – former lead singer with Sounds Of Blackness, who is about to unleash her new album, The Lula Lee Project.

Beverley and Ann also record a special duet together.

Presenter/Beverley Knight, Producer/Bernard Achampong

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Composer Of The Week – Music At Versailles Ep 1/5

Monday 15 to Friday 19 June

12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3

There aren't many royal households with a department specifically for fun – but there certainly was in the Court at Versailles. After a visit to the Palace, 17th-century aristocrat Madame de Sévigné enthused: "Its pure enchantment, music and dance are there brought to perfection." She wrote that in 1676, but the sentiment applies to more than 200 years of music-making at the Palace of Versailles.

As you walk around this architectural grand opera, there's hardly a drawing room, gallery or corridor which wasn't at some time turned into a theatre, ballroom or concert hall – even outside in André le Nôtre's magnificent gardens. Music was woven into the daily pattern of life at the court of Versailles during the reigns of Louis XIV, XV and XVI.

Over the course of this week, Donald Macleod tours the Palace in the company of two of France's leading Baroque specialists, the director of Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet, and harpsichordist and musicologist Olivier Baumont. Regular performers at Versailles, they share first-hand experiences as they meander through the many rooms where music was enjoyed – including the Marble Court, where Lully's Alceste took place; The Great Chapel, where grand motets by the likes of deLalande and Campra were played; and the Hall of Mirrors where, at a sumptuous themed costume ball, Madame de Pompadour met Louis XV and one of the most famous affairs in history began.

Each day, Olivier Baumont plays a specially chosen piece of music ranging from Lully to Mozart on the 18th-century Blanchet harpsichord in one of Louis XV's daughters', Madame Adelaide, room.

Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Johannah Smith

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Bach's keyboard masterpiece is performed by one of the great Bach interpreters of our time, renowned Canadian pianist Angela Hewitt, in tonight's edition of Performance On 3.

Whether or not the famous story that Bach wrote the work so it could be played to sooth the troubled nights of an insomniac Russian Count is true, its artistic worth is much greater than the golden cup stuffed with gold coins he was allegedly paid for its composition. Comprised of an achingly beautiful aria and 30 variations based on the bass line and chords that accompany the melody, the work is one of the greatest examples of variation form.

Tonight's broadcast is a recording of the concert given in April by Hewitt at London's Royal Festival Hall, and is followed by music chosen by the Royal Ballet's resident choreographer Wayne McGregor.

Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Brian Jackson

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The Essay – Antony Gormley: Seminal Sculpture Ep 1/5

Monday 15 to Friday 19 June

11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3

In the lead up to Antony Gormley's "living monument", One And Other, the much-publicised fourth plinth project in Trafalgar Square, the artist presents a series of Essays on five sculptures that have influenced him profoundly.

Gormley discusses the power and influence of five individual sculptures that he believes are seminal works of our time, including Epstein's Rock Drill, 1913; Brancusi's Endless Column, 1937; Giacometti's City Square, 1948; Joseph Beuys's Plight, 1985; and a major recent work by Richard Serra.

Presenter/Antony Gormley, Producer/Kate Bland

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Jez Nelson presents an exclusive session by Peter Vermeersch's Belgian anarcho-big band, Flat Earth Society, in tonight's edition of Jazz On 3, and listeners can expect topsy-turvy tunes that combine written-out compositions and vibrant improvisation.

Peter Vermeersch is a reed player, composer and music producer working in improvised and popular music. He formed his first band, X-Legged Sally, in 1988 to perform the soundtracks he wrote for dance productions. In 1997, Vermeersch formed Flat Earth Society and, since then, the band have performed soundtracks to film, dance and opera, collaborated with pianist Uri Caine and have just released their ninth album, Cheer Me, Perverts!

Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Peggy Sutton

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Book Of The Week – Pauline Bonaparte:
Venus Of Empire Ep 1/5

Monday 15 to Friday 19 June

9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4

This new Book Of The Week offering tells the story of Napolean's fiercely loyal sister, Pauline.

Celebrated for her looks and notorious for her passions, Pauline Bonaparte Borghese was considered by many to be the most beautiful woman in Europe. She married twice, lost her only child and was openly faithless with countless lovers – both male and female. She shocked the continent with her opulent wardrobe and jewels and, most famously, her decision to pose nearly nude for Canova's sculpture – which has been replicated in countless ways through the years.

But, just as remarkable as Pauline's private life was her fidelity to her emperor brother. She was witness to Napoleon's great victories in Italy, and she was often with him and her rival for his loyalty, the Empress Josephine, at Malmaison. When he was exiled to Elba, Pauline was the only sibling to follow him there and, after Waterloo, she begged to be allowed to join him at Saint Helena. She died aged 45 – many believe of liver cancer brought on by syphillis.

Producer/Celia de Wolff

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Women’s Hour Drama – Diary Of An On-Call Girl Ep 1/5

Monday 15 to Friday 19 June

10.45-11.00am BBC RADIO 4

Nadine Marshall stars as WPC Ellie Bloggs, the anonymous blogger who also happens to be a serving police officer, in today's Woman's Hour Drama.

Based on Diary Of An On-Call Girl, by WPC EE Bloggs, this drama shows the less-glamorous side of police work as Ellie works shifts in the average British town of Blandmore.

When she's not fighting her way through the idiocies of the computerised Crime Management System, she's dealing with repeat offenders, abandoned cars, domestic disputes, drunks and suicides – all with the same tough, wry humour, and one very un-PC eyebrow engagingly raised.

The author is a serving police officer who remains anonymous and the book has been abridged by Yvonne Antrobus.

Producer/Abigail le Fleming

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The Job Clinic Ep 1/3

Monday 15 June

11.00-11.30am BBC RADIO 4

As the unemployment figures top two million for the first time in 12 years, The Job Clinic follows a group of unemployed men and women as they look for work.

The group of five people are given access to various mentors to help them get back into work. The mentors include business guru and innovative management thinker Charles Handy; Jenny Rogers, a coach and consultant with more than 30 years experience of getting people the jobs they want; and founder of Coffee Republic, Sahar Hashemi.

The mentors cannot find them jobs but they can encourage, support and force them to think in a new way about their future, and how they should direct their search. This three-part series tracks their progress.

Liz Barclay meets the contributors who span the four decades of working lives, and listeners hear from people in their twenties, thirties, forties and fifties and from diverse backgrounds, family set-ups and career paths. The one thing they have in common is that they are looking for work and have been facing a barrage of rejection letters.

They are also dealing with the very real financial hardship that unemployment brings – from a single mother who is worried she will have to leave her home in June, to a married father-of-two who is managing a very frugal existence on his Job Seeker's Allowance.

Producer/Hilary Dunn

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I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue Ep 1/6

Monday 15 June

6.30-7.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Graeme Garden and Barry Cryer tune up for I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue

I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue, BBC Radio 4's legendary antidote to panel games, returns for its 51st series after a year off air following the death of its former chairman, the much-loved Humphrey Lyttelton, in April 2008.

Deputising in the role for this new series are Stephen Fry (in the first episode), Jack Dee and Rob Brydon, at recordings from Her Majesty's Theatre, Haymarket, the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton and the Theatre Royal in Newcastle, respectively.

Guest panellists on the series include old hands Jeremy Hardy and Phill Jupitus, with a first-time guest appearance from Victoria Wood. Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment throughout.

Producer/Jon Naismith

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5 Live Sport

Monday 15 June

6.30-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Vassos Alexander and Arlo White host tonight's edition of 5 Live Sport and bring listeners the latest sports news and live action – beginning with second-half commentary of England versus Finland in the Uefa European Under-21 Championships in Halmstad, Sweden.

From 7.15pm, there's live coverage of a match in the "Super Eight" stage of the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, live from Lord's.

Cornelius Lysaght presents 5 Live Racing at 8.30pm and previews this week's Royal Ascot meeting.

From 9pm, Arlo is joined by special guests from the world of cricket for The Ashes Years and looks back at classic moments from the history of The Ashes.

Presenters/Vassos Alexander and Arlo White, Producer/Louise Sutton

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World Twenty20 Cricket

Monday 15 June

1.15-4.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on a "Super Eight" match in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament comes live from the Oval, as the teams compete for a place in the semi-finals.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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World Twenty20 Cricket

Monday 15 June

5.15-8.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can hear uninterrupted commentary on a "Super Eight" match in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, as the teams compete for a place in the semi-finals, live from the Oval.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Nemone's Video Of The Week comes from Patrick Wolf with his new single, Hard Times, taken from his new album, The Bachelor.

British glam-goth punk Patrick releases his album as part one of his coming-of-age saga. The new album also features a guest appearance from actress Tilda Swinton.

Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

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Live music on Marc Riley's show this week comes courtesy of Glasgow-based Zoey Van Goey.

Zoey Van Goey comprises Matt Brennan, Michael John McCarthy and Kim Moore. Hailing from Canada, Ireland and England respectively, they met in Glasgow, Scotland, and started making music together in 2006. Their new album, The Cage Was Unlocked All Along, was released in May.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

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Gideon Coe features concert sets from the Beta Band at Glastonbury in 2002 and Rage Against The Machine at Reading in 1996, in tonight's show.

There are also session tracks from Sham 69 and Sigur Ròs complete the set of archive goodies.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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6 Music Plays It Again – One Nation Under A Groove Ep 1/2

Monday 15 June

12.00midnight-12.30am BBC 6 MUSIC

There's another chance for listeners to hear BBC 6 Music's Craig Charles tell the remarkable story of George Clinton's career – from Parliament to Funkadelic, P Funk and beyond – in a programme first broadcast in 2005.

The concluding part can be heard tomorrow night.

Presenter/Craig Charles, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Pauline Black, lead singer of The Selecter, continues to tell the story of British black music from calypso and the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush from the Caribbean onwards.

Tonight, Pauline explores the mid-to-late Seventies and early Eighties, as trends turned away from the rough-and-ready early styles of reggae music to the more sophisticated smoother styles of urban America and British soul and jazz funk that divided the younger generation.

This programme was first broadcast in 1992.

Presenter/Pauline Black, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Bibi finds a stash of magazines under Jungli's bed, but he insists they belong to Chunky, in the first visit of the week to Silver Street.

Later, as Chunky trains up his new assistant, Alka, Jungli offers Jas a lift home as Chunky jealously looks on.

Jas, however, hastily jumps out of the car after enduring Jungli's tall tales, but Jungli realises she has dropped something and is intrigued.

Elsewhere, Bibi tackles Chunky about the filthy magazines, but he suggests they actually belong to Jungli – but will she believe him?

Bibi is played by Indira Joshi, Jungli by Adil Ray, Chunky by Shahid Ahmed, Alka by Manjeet Mann and Jas by Hema Mangoo.

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Stand Down Margaret Ep 1/2

Tuesday 16 June

10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2 (Schedule Addition 3 June)

Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher

Marking 30 years since Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister; Jeremy Vine examines pop music's response to Thatcherism.

From the exuberant demands of the Two Tone groups, to the biting criticism of Elvis Costello and The Jam; and from the glamour of the New Romantics, to the Band Aid phenomenon and the birth of club culture.

When Jeremy Vine was a student in Durham in the mid-Eighties he observed: "People were marching against Thatcher every day of the week. I used to think, 'Where does that conviction come from? Can I have some?" No doubt a lot of that enthusiasm came from the tunes they heard in the student union, read about in magazines and heard on national radio.

Buoyed up by infectious rhythms, galvanized by lyrics that expressed their own frustrations those marching students and their unemployed peer group expressed their anger, frustration and desire for change.

Part one hears from key musicians of the time including Billy Bragg; The Specials' Jerry Dammers; Spandau Ballet's Gary Kemp; and Culture Club's Jon Moss. We also hear from Conservative MP Ed Vaisey who tried to square his love of The Jam and The Specials with his young Tory views.

Alongside news archive we hear how key events of that turbulent era galvanized musicians and fans alike and Jeremy Vine asks: Were the Eighties a golden age for protest music? What was it about Margaret Thatcher that gave birth to so much of it? And, did the music make a gnat's worth of difference to the government's policies?

Presenter/Jeremy Vine, Producer/Kath Wilgress

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In the penultimate programme of the series, award-winning composer George Fenton takes a look at those film scores which connect to an actor, or a role, so strongly that they become not only the signature of the character, but can even become defining of the actor themselves.

The musical gems in tonight's programme includes Korngold's writing for Errol Flynn, Bill Conti for the Rocky films, John Williams for Raiders Of The Lost Ark, Henry Mancini for The Pink Panther and, of course, the theme that universally identifies a screen character regardless of several changes of actor in the role – John Barry's music and Monty Norman's theme for 007 himself, James Bond.

Presenter/George Fenton, Producer/Anthony Cherry

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The Philharmonia Orchestra and conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen continue their series Vienna "City Of Dreams", an exploration of the music written in the Austrian capital during the early years of the 20th century.

Alban Berg composed his Three Pieces For Orchestra Op 6 amid the turmoil of the outbreak of the First World War, finishing them shortly before he joined the Austrian army. Berg's piece is a synthesis between the "old" pre-war musical world of Mahler and Debussy and the new music theories of his teacher Schoenberg.

Mahler's Symphony No. 7 follows, a work that was written 10 years earlier during two summers at his holiday home in the Carpathian Mountains.

Music chosen by members of the Royal Ballet concludes the programme with tonight's selection from its director, Monica Mason.

Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Brian Jackson

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For his second Reith Lecture, political philosopher and eminent Harvard University Professor, Michael Sandel, returns to Rhodes House, Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Michael asks what role moral arguments should play in politics. Some say that morality and religious issues should be kept out of politics. Michael says it's time for a more morally engaged public debate, including economic as well as social and cultural issues.

Presenter/Michael Sandel, Producer/Jim Frank

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In the century that has passed since the Venice Biennale was established in 1895, international biennales of contemporary art have proliferated around the world. But Venice remains unique. Perhaps it is because it's the oldest, or because of Italy's artistic heritage – or maybe it's because it takes place in such an extraordinary setting.

At first, the Biennale was a private venture with individual artists begging their national governments for support. But as it has grown in size, governments, realising the propaganda value of the event, have taken a greater interest in the presence of their artists. An event founded to showcase the work of groups of artists and to promote the exchange of ideas, it now more closely resembles a United Nations summit with all the built-in imbalances and political squabbling.

A handful of countries were represented in 1895 but in 2009 more than 70 will be taking part and the number will continue to rise. Countries now compete for space, anxious to present themselves on the world's premier international artistic stage. And as the number of countries taking part grows, so do the political undertones.

Art critic Waldemar Januszczak visits the Venice Biennale and, against the backdrop of the feverish atmosphere of the opening days of the festival, he asks the curators, art critics, the public and the artists themselves about the future for the oldest modern art festival in the world. He also asks how this 19th-century creation will fare in the 21st century and what impact its increasing popularity among governments, keen to use it as a way to promote themselves on a world stage, may have upon the quality of the art on show.

Presenter/Waldemar Januszczak, Producer/Ekene Akalawu

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Poet Michael Rosen goes in search of Bob Weston and Bert Lee – two songwriters who, between them, produced some of the most popular songs ever written in Britain.

Michael was preparing a songbook of popular songs when he noticed the names of Weston and Lee as the songwriters of Knees Up Mother Brown. With a little more research he also found either or both of their names on such all-time favourites as: When Father Papered The Parlour, Goodbye-ee and I'm Henery The Eighth, I Am, to name a few.

Their best-known songs stand at a point between the heyday of the Victorian Music Hall and the arrival of radio, musical comedy and film. With humour and pathos, they capture moments in the lives of people experiencing tough times in the big cities.

Michael pieces together how and where the songs were sung, how Weston and Lee composed the songs, and just who these two men were – although his last question proves to be elusive.

Oh My What A Rotten Song! features contributions from Billy Bragg, radio producer Charles Chilton, Denis Norden and Roy Hudd.

Presenter/Michael Rosen, Producer/Emma Williams

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Afternoon Readings – Empath Man Ep 1/3

Tuesday 16 June

3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4

The Incredible Hulk, Superman and Spiderman were created fit for purpose for the Cold War era, but poet and performer Matt Harvey wonders what their 21st-century counterparts might look like – in the form of Empath Man.

Empath Man is the "Lone Listener", a thin-skinned "new man" whose caring insights send fear into the hearts of malefactors.

It all began when, as a middle manager, he took part in a drugs trial that went horribly wrong. It was an anti-pessimism drug called Optiagra, for middle-aged men who find it difficult to get their hopes up.

In his first exposure to an unsuspecting nation, Empath Man foils and befuddles muggers and bank robbers who lose the will to live, in the face of his compassionate identification with their hapless plight. He later goes undercover as a cult-buster, only to enter the clutches of that dangerous femme fatale, Scorpio Rising.

Producer/Mark Smalley

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5 Live Sport

Tuesday 16 June

1.00-4.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

John Inverdale presents a special edition of 5 Live Sport from the opening day of Royal Ascot.

John is joined by 5 Live racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght, for commentary of all the major races from Luke Harvey and John Hunt while Kevin Day is out and about on the course soaking up the atmosphere.

There is also coverage from the British And Irish Lions tour match against Southern Kings in South Africa, with commentary from Ian Robertson, Alistair Eykyn and Matt Dawson, plus the latest from the "Super Eight" matches in the ICC World Twenty20 cricket.

Presenter/John Inverdale, Producer/Steve Rudge

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5 Live Sport

Tuesday 16 June

7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Vassos Alexander presents the day's sports news and at 7.30pm is joined by Matt Dawson in South Africa for 5 Live Lions, with all the latest news from the British And Irish Lions tour ahead of the first Test match this weekend.

From 8.30pm, 5 Live Golf has Iain Carter and guests previewing the US Open, which starts on Thursday at Bethpage State Park, Farmingdale, New York.

At 9pm The Ashes Years looks back at a great England versus Australia series from the past.

Presenter/Vassos Alexander, Producer/Ben North

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World Twenty20 Cricket

Tuesday 16 June

1.15-4.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

5.15-8.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Live from Trent Bridge, BBC 5 Live Sports Extra presents uninterrupted commentary on a "Super Eight" match in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, as the teams compete for a place in the semi-finals.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Marc Riley welcomes Metronomy in to the studio for a live session and has the pleasure of welcoming their new line-up for the first time on radio.

Metronomy's new album, Nights Out, is their first for new label Because Music, and their first in which founder member Joseph Mount contributes the vocals for most of the tracks. The band recently announced that bass guitarist Gabriel Stebbing had left to concentrate on his own band, Your Twenties.

Their new live line-up is Joseph Mount, vocals and guitar; Oscar Cash, keyboards and sax; Gbenga Adelekan, bass; and Anna Prior on drums. After this session, the band is set to start an extensive European tour.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

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Gideon Coe presents a selection of archive sets from different ends of the Nineties, with live sets from Ride from 1991 and the Afro Celt Sound System in 1999. Session tracks tonight include early Factory signings Section 25 and punk survivors The Vibrators.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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Pauline Black, lead singer of The Selecter, continues the story of British black music from calypso and the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush from the Caribbean.

In the penultimate episode of this series first broadcast in 1992, Pauline explores the mid-Eighties period up to the mid-Nineties, featuring the impact of the sudden emergence of a new and tougher style of black music in America – rap and hip hop.

Presenter/Pauline Black, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Bibi arranges for Jungli to meet her friend's daughter but doesn't mention why as the Midlands-set drama continues. When they arrive, Jungli is bored rigid with Lubna's tales about her success in the financial world, but what does Bibi make of her?

Meanwhile, Chunky teases his brother relentlessly, so Jungli deliberately spills tea on him. Chunky goes upstairs to clean up and gets a pleasant surprise when he bumps into Karim's other daughter Nabila.

Elsewhere, Jas discovers someone has a crush on Chunky.

Bibi is played by Indira Joshi, Jungli by Adil Ray, Lubna by Zolfa Zahedi, Chunky by Shahid Ahmed, Karim by Nicholas Khan, Nabila and Alka by Manjeet Mann and Jas by Hema Mangoo.

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Trevor Nelson's Album Of The Week is Rose Royce II – In Full Bloom, from 1977. As strong as any of the songs featured in their 1976 Car Wash soundtrack, this album allowed them to fully shine in their own right and on their own terms.

Packed with tight funk jams and sweet ballads, the album is a disco-funk masterpiece – a fusion of genres that works better than it has a right to, courtesy of both the band's own confidence and producer Norman Whitfield's artful magic. The wistful and sublime ballad Wishing On A Star opens the set and, surprisingly, only reached No. 52 in the R&B charts on its release.

Trevor examines how Rose Royce shot to stardom with the Car Wash craze and explores the funky tunes and sweet songs from this follow-up album.

Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Dan Cocker

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The London Symphony Orchestra is joined by French conductor Yan Pascal Tortelier in a concert of French classics from the turn of the 20th century, in tonight's Performance On 3, presented by Petroc Trelawny.

Ravel's pen portraits of five fairy-tale characters in his Mother Goose are complemented by another story character in his oriental evocation of the Arabian Nights tale, Scheherazade, with American mezzo Susan Graham. Debussy's mythological Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune has been described as the first piece of modern music, while his impressionist portraits of the shifting moods and light of the sea in La mer were completed while the composer stayed in Eastbourne.

The performance is followed by music chosen by stars of the Royal Ballet – tonight it's the turn of principal dancer Lauren Cuthbertson.

Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Brian Jackson

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For as long as he can remember James Aldred has loved climbing trees.

James first climbed a tree using ropes when he was 16 years old and he climbed a Giant Redwood, or Wellingtonia, affectionately called Goliath. He was absolutely terrified, never got further than the first branch and swore he'd never climb with ropes again. Today, James is a professional tree-climber. As a specialist in access to rainforest canopies, he travels the globe assisting scientists, wildlife camera teams and others into the canopy. Despite his terror during that first climb, he was bitten "by the tree-climbing bug".

Using a climbing helmet which has been specially adapted with microphones, this programme follows James as he returns to the forest to scale Goliath in an entertaining and enlightening journey up through the canopy. On his journey, James hears about the history of the Giant Redwood from one of Britain's leading tree experts, Tony Russell. The largest Giant Redwood grows in the United States but it has also become an icon in the British countryside since its introduction in the 18th century.

The programme features additional sound recordings from Chris Watson.

Presenter/James Aldred, Producer/Sarah Blunt

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Jonathan Overend is joined by special guests from the world of tennis for the Wimbledon Preview Show, recorded before a studio audience, to look ahead to this year's tournament, which begins next week.

Among the topics up for discussion are the guests' tips for this year's big hitters and whether Andy Murray can become the first British male since Fred Perry to collect the men's title.

Presenter/Jonathan Overend, Producer/Patrick Nathanson

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Marc Riley welcomes Race Horses to the studio for a live session. The band used to be called Radio Luxembourg but had to change their name when the station relaunched. The Welsh psychedelic pop group formed in Aberystwyth, Wales, in 2005, and are fronted by bass player Meilyr Jones, with Dylan Hughes on synth, Gwion Llewelyn on drums and Alun Gaffey on guitar. Their first releases were produced by Gorky Zygotic Mynci's frontman Euros Child.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

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A week before Glastonbury 2009, Gideon Coe puts his wellies on and digs deep into the muddied archives for Beth Orton's 2000 performance at the festival, while The Ruts can be heard from the less muddy Paris Theatre in 1979. The Breeders; early Creation signings The Weather Prophets; and the wonderfully named Bourbonese Quark are all in session.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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There's another chance for listeners to hear Paul Sexton present this tribute to the T-Rex singer, early-Seventies pin-up and cultural icon Marc Bolan, who died in 1977, aged 29, in a programme first broadcast in 2007.

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Pauline Black, lead singer with The Selecter, concludes the story of British black music from calypso and the arrival of the SS Empire Windrush from the Caribbean onwards, and tonight takes the story into the Nineties.

This series was first broadcast in 1992.

Presenter/Pauline Walker, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Chunky can't believe his luck when it seems the gorgeous Nabila likes him, as the drama continues. Jungli, meanwhile, takes a shine to Nabila and starts winning her over with his charm, but Chunky is upset when the less attractive Lubna is fobbed off onto him.

Later, Chunky walks in on the two sisters and is devastated to hear what Nabila really thinks of him. Just when he thinks things can't get worse, Jungli reveals exactly what he thinks...

Chunky is played by Shahid Ahmed, Nabila by Manjeet Mann, Jungli by Adil Ray and Lubna by Zolfa Zahedi.

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Pianist Mitsuko Uchida is a renowned performer of the music of the Second Viennese school – Schoenberg, Berg and Webern – whose compositions revolutionised music in the early years of the 20th century. In a concert recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in London in May, Mitsuko performs Mozart's Rondo in A minor K. 511, Webern's Variations Op 27, Beethoven's Sonata in A major Op 101 and Schumann's Fantasy in C Op 17.

The performance is followed by music chosen by Dominic Grier (ballet conductor from the Jette Parker Young Artists programme).

Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Brian Jackson

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Miriam Margolyes profiles the life of the late Bill Mitchell, the gravelly baritone who informed people that the latest blockbusters would be "at cinemas near you from Sunday"; that a certain brand of lager was probably the best in the world; and that a type of aftershave was for men who didn't have to try too hard.

Born in Canada, Mitchell apparently developed his trademark voice either as a result of suffering mumps as a child or by falling from a tree and damaging his windpipe. He admitted that the heavy drinking and smoking which began in his teens helped preserve his voice and drove his excessive lifestyle.

Mitchell's voiceover career began in the late Sixties with a recommendation by Patrick Allen, the then undisputed voiceover king, and a Pan Am advert showcasing Mitchell's Orson Welles impression. This impression ultimately mutated into his trademark sound.

Mitchell died in August 1997 but his name remains ranked as one of the greats within the advertising industry, with his voice still impersonated by other artists today.

The programme features contributions from: musicians Zoot Money and Kenny Clayton; fellow voiceover and creative Chris Sandford; industry moguls Nick Angell and Rob Townsend; and Bill's daughter, Amanda McAllister.

Presenter/Miriam Margolyes, Producer/Paul Hardy

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Desperate Measures, today's Afternoon Play, explores the world of two young and successful entrepreneurs, Paul and Mhairi Blaze.

In public, they're the leading lights of the design and fashion scene in their hometown of Glasgow and beyond. In private, they have a passionate and volatile relationship, creating fireworks as well as humour. And in the current financial climate the Blazes are feeling the pinch, just like everybody else.

Unbeknown to Mhairi, Paul has taken out a hefty loan to cover a business venture that has gone wrong. Up until now he's managed to keep this secret, but it has thrown their business into crisis – the bank is closing in on them and there's no money to cover staff costs.

Luckily for Paul, there's someone in town whose business is going from strength to strength, who makes a proposal which should get the Blazes back on track. But Mhairi is completely against the plan. Sooner or later, Mhairi's going to find out what Paul has done. But Paul will also soon find out what Mhairi has been hiding from him.

The cast features Gabriel Quigley as Mhairi and Neil McKinven as Paul. Daniela Nardini plays Clara; Molly Innes plays Helen; Nicola Jo Cully plays Charli; and Phil McKee plays Harry.

This is the second Afternoon Play following the fortunes of the Blazes.

Producers/David Ian Neville and Kirsty Williams

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5 Live Sport

Thursday 18 June

7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Vassos Alexander and Arlo White present the day's sports news and coverage of the first semi-final in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, live from Trent Bridge.

From 7.45pm there's live commentary of Spain versus England in the Uefa European Under-21 Championships from Halmstad, Sweden.

Presenters/Vassos Alexander and Arlo White, Producer/Adrian Williams

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World Twenty20 Cricket

Thursday 18 June

1.15-4.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

5.15-8.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

BBC 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary of the first women's and men's semi-finals in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, live from Trent Bridge.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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As Blur prepare to get back on the road this summer, Gideon Coe unveils an archive gem in a concert from 1997, performed at London's Brixton Academy. Tracks include Parklife, The Universal, This Is A Low and Theme From Retro.

Liverpool's Icicle Works can also be heard in concert from 1983. Sessions include Ween, Solex, Roayl Trux and The Shop Assistants.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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Bibi and Karim make plans for Jungli and Nabila's engagement, unaware they don't even like each other, as the drama continues. Elsewhere, Chunky is furious when Jungli suggests Chunky could have her instead!

Later, Jungli tells Chunky he has set his sights on Jas and crashes the executive dinner-date event. Jas starts to enjoy Jungli's company but then Chunky barges in and loudly announces exactly how Jungli managed to tick some of the "executive" boxes...

Bibi is played by Indira Joshi, Karim by Nicholas Khan, Jungli by Adil Ray, Nabila by Manjeet Mann, Chunky by Shahid Ahmed and Jas by Hema Mangoo.

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Colour My World Ep 1/3

Friday 19 June

7.00-7.30pm BBC RADIO 2

Bill Kenwright presents the first of three programmes celebrating the life and music of Tony Hatch, the former head chorister who went on to become one of Britain's leading composers, songwriters, arrangers and producers. Downtown, I Couldn't Live Without Your Love and the theme tunes to Neighbours and Crossroads are just a few of Hatch's songs and compositions, and he was hugely instrumental in the careers of both Petula Clark and The Searchers. He celebrates his 70th birthday in June.

In the first programme, Bill traces Tony's early years from the 12-year-old hooked on the light orchestras of Mantovani and Stanley Black to the international success of Downtown. The programme includes an exclusive contribution from Tony himself and hears from some of the people involved in those early years, including Julie Grant, who was one of his earliest signings to Pye. John McNally of The Searchers talks about the moment when Brian Epstein didn't sign the band and they thought they'd missed the boat for the so-called British Invasion, until Tony arrived in Liverpool and signed them immediately. Fellow Searcher Frank Allen talks about the impact that Tony's involvement had on The Searchers' career and Petula Clark recalls the moment she first heard the piano intro to Downtown.

Following Colour My World, listeners have another chance to hear BBC Radio 2's celebration of Tony Hatch's music in an episode of Friday Night Is Music Night, which saw a galaxy of stars take to the stage at London's Mermaid Theatre.

Presenter/Bill Kenwright, Producer/Helen Chetwynd

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Frank Renton talks to composer Rodney Newton about his writing and playing career. Newton's compositions can be found in brass band libraries all over the world, especially his ground-breaking Acid Brass.

Starting his musical career as a tympanist, Rodney then moved on to film composition and is now one of the central characters on the band scene today. He talks to Frank about his work and the future for bands as he sees it.

Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter

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Claudia Winkleman enjoys a foray into the world of "lesbian Victorian romps" in the company of acclaimed author Sarah Waters. Her bodice-ripping novels are best sellers and she shot to fame firstly with Tipping The Velvet, then Fingersmith, which were both turned into BBC TV dramas. Claudia asks Waters if her latest book, The Little Stranger, will continue to thrill.

Also joining Claudia in the studio is hotly tipped London singer VV Brown, who performs live on tonight's programme.

Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Carmela DiClemente

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Performance On 3 – BBC National Orchestra Of Wales

Friday 19 June

7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3

Live from St David's Hall, Cardiff, Thierry Fischer conducts the BBC National Orchestra Of Wales in ballets by Poulenc, Stravinsky and a new work by Michael Berkeley.

Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring is one of the great orchestral showpieces of all time – a searing explosion of energy that evokes the violent arrival of the Russian spring. It closes the Orchestra's present season and is heard next to the frothy fun of Poulenc's early ballet, Les biches, and a new work by one of Britain's leading composers, Michael Berkeley, entitled Gabriel's Lament, which he wrote as a threnody after the death of a friend. This piece receives its world première tonight.

Presenter/Petroc Trelawny, Producer/Brian Jackson

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Baaba Maal's new album, Television, finds him in collaboration with New York-based collective Brazilian Girls – though, as he tells Lopa Kothari, they are not Brazilian, and include only one girl. Baaba Maal talks about how the album reflects his life experiences of combining cultures – African and Western, traditional and modern. He performs some of the tracks on the album – but in contrast to the electro-arrangements of the album, this is a pure acoustic performance with his band, presenting the songs in their traditional forms. He also plays some songs which have never been released on albums outside Africa.

Presenter/Lopa Kothari, Producer/Roger Short

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In January last year, the RSPCA raided a farm in Buckinghamshire and removed more than 100 horses, ponies and donkeys, as well as the carcasses of others. In this programme, Mike Embley follows the court case and looks into what it reveals about the horse trade in this country.

On 8 May this year, James Gray, the owner of Spindles Farm in Hyde Heath, Buckinghamshire, and his son, were found guilty of 11 charges under the Animal Welfare Act 2006. His wife, Julie, and their daughters were each found guilty of two charges.

The case has caused a huge public outcry, but some have argued that the distress it caused possibly stems from the British attitude to horses – and they argue that it is this attitude that is potentially dangerous for the horses.

Many people think of them as pets rather than livestock, and this is reflected in the law. One vet argues that owners should face up to their responsibilities earlier and have their animals humanely destroyed when they reach the end of their useful lives. He believes that it is the oversupply of horses in this country that makes them vulnerable to abuse. The manager of one of the country's horse abattoirs believes it is when owners don't take that decision that horses end up being passed around and the downward spiral of neglect begins.

Over the past year, this programme has followed those closely involved in the court case on both sides. The Horses Of Spindles Farm uncovers another level of the horse trade many don't realise exists.

Presenter/Mike Embley, Producer/Philippa Goodrich

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As part of BBC Radio 5 Live's Long Weekend – a weekend of live sporting events and entertainment – Victoria Derbyshire presents her show live from Silverstone ahead of Sunday's British Grand Prix.

Highlights of 5 Live's Long Weekend include Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode presenting live at the Edinburgh Film Festival, the first British And Irish Lions Test Match in South Africa, the British Grand Prix, the final of cricket's ICC World Twenty20 tournament and the start of Wimbledon on Monday.

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Simon Mayo presents his show from the Edinburgh Film Festival in front of an audience as part of 5 Live's Long Weekend.

Simon is joined by Mark Kermode and special guests for their weekly film review.

Presenter/Simon Mayo, Producer/Robin Bulloch

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Eleanor Oldroyd presents 5 Live Sport from Silverstone previewing this weekend's British Grand Prix, and with updates from the second semi-final in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament, live from the Oval.

At 8pm, Matt Dawson presents 5 Live Lions from South Africa and has all the latest from the British And Irish Lions tour ahead of the first Test Match tomorrow.

From 9pm, in 5 Live Boxing, Mike Costello and Steve Bunce look ahead to David Hayes's world heavyweight title fight against Vladimir Klitschko on Saturday, and preview the rest of the weekend's sporting action, including the US Open golf.

Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Louise Sutton

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Formula 1

Friday 19 June

9.55am-11.35am BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

1.55-3.35pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

BBC 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted commentary on the first and second practice sessions for the British Grand Prix, live from Silverstone.

Producer/Jason Swales

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World Twenty20 Cricket

Friday 19 June

3.35-4.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

5.15-8.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Live from the Oval in London, there is commentary of the closing stages of the second women's semi-final and the second men's semi-final in the ICC World Twenty20 tournament.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Rugby League

Friday 19 June

8.45-9.45pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

BBC 5 Live Sports Extra brings uninterrupted second-half commentary of one of the evening's top matches in the Super League.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Nemone welcomes comedian Des Bishop to her show today. London-born and raised in New York, Des is widely known for the hugely successful RTE television series, Des Bishop Work Experience. He has developed a unique style of observational comedy, mostly critical of his adopted home in Ireland and the America he left behind. He talks to Nemone about his career and his current show at the Soho Theatre.

Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

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Bruce Dickinson is joined on the Rock Show by Mike Portnoy, drummer with progressive metal veterans Dream Theater.

Dream Theater have sold more than 15 million albums and are one of the most technically proficient bands around. Since the mid-Eighties, the band has witnessed changes to their line-up and disputes with record labels, but they remain one of the most popular groups in their field.

Mike talks about Dream Theater's plans to play the Download Festival this year, as well as performing two special gigs in Leeds and Southampton. He also talks about their 10th studio album, Black Clouds & Silver Linings, which is out this month, and why they're teaming up with Opeth to bring their Progressive Nation tour to Europe for the first time this autumn.

Presenter/Bruce Dickinson, Producer/Ian Callaghan

BBC 6 Music Publicity

Jas helps Chunky out of the canal after his fight with Jungli and then realises that Chunky fancies her, as the drama continues. She says he also has a secret admirer – one who is very close to home...

Elsewhere, Jungli tells Bibi that Chunky humiliated him and Bibi then tells Jungli that Chunky admitted to owning the filthy magazines, too. Jungli feels guilty that his brother took the rap for him and heads off to put things right. Is he too late?

Jas is played by Hema Mangoo, Chunky by Shahid Ahmed, Jungli by Adil Ray and Bibi by Indira Joshi.

BBC Asian Network Publicity

Justin Webb's son Sam was recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. In this new documentary, Justin goes on a personal journey of discovery to find out what the future holds for Sam and millions of other children like him.

As a parent struggling to understand the impact that diabetes will have on his son's immediate life and long-term future, Justin explores what options are available to Sam, whether sufficient funding is going into research, where the best research is being conducted and whether there is hope of a cure on the horizon.

At the same time as following Sam's progress, the documentary also questions whether this disease is a western malaise or if it affects the rest of the world on the same scale.

This programme will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 1.30pm on Sunday 21 June.

Presenter/Justin Webb, Producer/Gemma Newby

BBC World Service Publicity