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Network Radio BBC Week 16: Saturday 17 April 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Saturday 17 April 2010
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Ahead of BBC Radio 2's 60s Season at the end of May, the second hour of Sounds Of The 60s marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Eddie Cochran on 17 April 1960.
Eddie died in a car crash at the end of a UK tour which he joined in the beginning of January 1960 and which ran through into April. However, following the last performance in Bristol, Eddie was pronounced dead after a car accident outside Chippenham in Wiltshire. His girlfriend, Sharon Sheeley, and Gene Vincent survived the crash, as did the taxi driver and tour manager.
The tour itself is examined in the second half of this programme.
It was the very first authentic rock tour in the UK and one which changed the sound of British music and the style of stage presentation. Promoted by Larry Parnes, it brought together Eddie and Gene Vincent and had a profound and lasting influence on young British musicians and audiences alike. The first wave of rock 'n' roll had passed and popular music in the UK had subsided into a gentle and genteel beat. A union ban on American musicians meant there had been few previous visitors, so here were two real American rockers travelling around the UK and shocking stagnant theatres into life.
They performed on TV and radio while touring, and included in the programme are rare live performances from Saturday Club and the TV show Boy Meets Girls. Friends and fellow musicians also share memories of backstage excess, teddy boy riots and Eddie's masterful musicianship.
With contributions from Joe Brown, George Harrison, Vince Eager and interviews with backing band members "Big" Jim Sullivan and Brian "Licorice" Locking, Brian Matthew looks at the impact of the tour and remembers a key period in Sixties' musical history.
Presenter/Brian Matthew, Producer/Phil Swern
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Jonathan Ross and Andy Davies introduce live music from English singer-songwriter Fyfe Dangerfield.
Presenters/Jonathan Ross, Producer/Fiona Day
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Dale Winton counts down the charts from this week in 1964 and 1970, with hits from Manfred Mann, Elvis Presley, Doris Day, The Who and Stevie Wonder.
Presenter/Dale Winton, Producer/Phil Swern
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The second comedy in this brand new series for BBC Radio 2 is written by young English comedian Rhys Thomas (Bellamy's People and Star Stories).
Roland Darvelle's Hotel, Pub and Murder Guides are a real must-have for those looking for the perfect weekend break. Most of the hotels, pubs and inns Darvelle visits across the UK are jolly nice ... but others are not. They have toilets that don't flush, beds made of toy bricks and bath towels as rough as crisps. Others hold secrets and lies, intrigue and murder...
The programme stars Rhys Thomas, Michael Kitchen, Miriam Margolyes, Debbie Chazen, Alex Lowe, Lucy Montgomery, Matt Berry and Nigel Hastings, with a special cameo by Richard Madeley.
Radio 2's Comedy Showcase series highlights an array of comic talent, which also includes Simon Nye, Caroline Quentin, Mathew Horne, Kevin Eldon, Stewart Lee, Liza Tarbuck and Tim Minchin.
Producer/Katie Tyrell
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Tonight's session guest, Boo Hewerdine, is an artist with a musical CV of international collaborations and hit songs that stretch over two decades and many genres.
Best remembered for his band The Bible, Boo has also written beautiful film soundtracks for Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch and Shane Meadow's 24 Seven. More recently he has been collaborating with Heidi Talbot and John McCusker.
Boo's new album, God Bless The Pretty Things, is his first band album in almost a decade and was recorded in Glasgow during the spring of 2009. On the album Boo is joined by a wealth of fantastic musicians including: Justin Currie (Del Amitri), Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Gustaf Ljunngren, Ewen Vernal (Deacon Blue and Capercaillie), Roy Dodds, Kevin McGuire and Alan Kelly (all from Eddi Reader's band).
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Mark Simpson
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BBC RADIO 3 Saturday 17 April 2010
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Lucie Skeaping explores the music of 16th-century Flemish composer Jacobus Clemens non Papa. His name is much less well known now, but Clemens non Papa was one of the most frequently published composers of the late 16th Century.
In the hierarchy of the Flemish school, it could be argued that Clemens non Papa was of the fourth generation. He was one of the few successful Flemish musicians not to travel to Italy, but spent his entire life in Flanders, working in towns such as Bruges, Dordrecht and Ypres. Unlike most other composers of that period, Clemens non Papa seems never to have been employed by the church – at least not on a permanent basis.
It's unclear as to how Jacobus Clemens came to adopt the epithet "non Papa" – in fact, it has been the subject of much conjecture. The most widely accepted version is that it meant "not the Pope" Clement – presumably because Pope Clement VII was in the Vatican at the time.
Presenter/Lucie Skeaping, Producer/Les Pratt
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Lopa Kothari and Jameela Siddiqi present highlights from the Darbar Festival of Indian classical music, held earlier this month at King's Place, London. In a focus on South Indian music, veena player Hari Sivanesen is joined by T Pirashanna on mridangam, and celebrated vocalists Ranjani and Gayatri perform carnatic vocal duets.
This is the first of three programmes from this year's Darbar Festival – the second is next week and the third, featuring santoor virtuoso Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, will be broadcast in the autumn.
The Darbar Festival is the biggest event of its kind in Europe: artists from both north and south Indian musical traditions are presented in 14 concerts over the Easter weekend. A special feature of Darbar is that the concerts are presented throughout the day, from morning until night, allowing for the different raags to be heard in their true time context.
Lopa Kothari and Jameela Siddiqi bring their own expertise and insights to these programmes, as well as talking to the performers themselves.
Presenters/Lopa Kothari and Jameela Siddiqi, Producer/Roger Short
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Opera On 3 – Live From The Met: La Traviata
Live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, Angela Gheorghiu sings the role which launched her international career – Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata – with James Valenti as Alfredo and Thomas Hampson as Germont, conducted by Leonard Slatkin.
The courtesan Violetta decides to put her party days behind when she meets Alfredo, but Alfredo's father begs her to leave him for the sake of his family name and she agrees to sacrifice her love. By the time Alfredo discovers the truth behind her departure and hurries back to her, tuberculosis has set in.
Presented by Margaret Juntwait with guest commentator Ira Siff, the two intervals contain live backstage interviews with the cast and the famous Met Quiz.
Presenter/Margaret Juntwait, Producer/Ellie Mant
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In his first feature for radio, film-maker Terence Davies presents a memoir about his mother, his early development as an artist, and a reflection on memory and the passing of time.
A unique insight into the emotional and artistic life of one of Britain's great auteurs, Intensive Care is an intensely personal memoir of Davies's mother, combined with a self-portrait of an artist as a young man.
Davies narrates this autobiographical piece which covers his early years at drama and film school and the making of his first film, Children. Threaded through this narrative, Davies also describes his relationship with his mother, her decline into old age and her eventual death that was to have a devastating impact on him.
As Davies meditates on the passing of time, memory and mortality, he also reads some of the poetry that has touched and inspired him including work by: Auden, Betjeman and Sassoon. He also soundtracks the programme with a personal selection of classical music, including work by Shostakovich, Webern and Debussy.
Presenter/Terence Davies, Producer/Simon Jacobs
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BBC RADIO 4 Saturday 17 April 2010
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Midge Ure returns to The Blitz Club in London where the Eighties' New Romantics came of age.
The club in Covent Garden first opened its doors in 1979 at the height of a recession and Midge explores how the flamboyant Blitz scene offered an escape from the hard economic reality that he and his contemporaries were facing.
Midge remembers how "walking into the Blitz was like stepping out of time, you never knew what period it was set in. It was a total mish-mash of styles, full of blurred genders and make-up for girls and boys". Christened the "New Romantics" Midge explains that the Blitz crowd had a "nostalgia for the future".
The Blitz was a seedbed for creative talent, full of musicians, designers, photographers and stylists. John Galliano first flaunted his ideas there, Spandau Ballet played their early gigs at the venue and a young Boy George took the coats.
A new sound emerged from the club: synthesizer-based electropop, pioneered by Midge in his bands Visage and Ultravox.
Midge meets former Blitz kids including: Gary Kemp (Spandau Ballet), Gary Numan, Robert Elms, Rusty Egan, Steve Strange (Visage), Stephen Jones (milliner) and Dylan Jones, to revisit what was a "golden era" of British pop music.
Presenter/Midge Ure, Producer/Melissa Fitzgerald
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Written and directed by Boz Temple-Morris, in collaboration with investigative journalist Kris Hollington, and recorded on location in Oslo with some of Norway's leading actors, Scream tells the extraordinary true story of the theft of Munch's expressionist masterpiece from an Oslo museum in 2004.
Oslo police are closing in on David Toska, the criminal mastermind behind an audacious cash robbery, when two incompetent thieves burst into the Munch Museum in broad daylight and ask for directions to Norway's most famous painting. Amazingly, they emerge with two priceless paintings, The Scream and The Madonna.
Norway's top detective is pulled off the hunt for Toska and sent after the paintings, setting in motion a high-profile and bizarre game of cat and mouse as police attempt to track down the national treasures and arrest those behind the robbery. But things don't run smoothly for robbers or the police as both begin to adopt increasingly unconventional tactics.
The exact circumstances of the recovery of the paintings have been shrouded in mystery since 2004 though new evidence has now emerged about the dealings between the police and their most wanted man.
The cast includes Christian Rubeck as Kjell, Jørgen Langhelle as Inspector Steinbeck, Mats Eldøen as Thomson, Henrik Horge as Siegried, Stig-Henrik Hoff as Petter, Aksel Hennie as Karl and Ingrid Bolsø Berdal as Elina. Eric Madsen plays both Paal Enger and David Toska.
Other parts are played by Siri Ingul, Catherine Gram, Lars Engebretsen, Endre Haukland, Josefine Coward, Bettina Fleischer and Axel Aubert.
Producer/Boz Temple-Morris
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The Music Group Ep 1/6
Dr Phil Hammond asks Janet Street Porter, saxophonist Soweto Kinch and tech-head Aleks Krotoski to bring their music choices to The Music Group – and they have some explaining to do.
Each week, broadcaster and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks his three guests to play the track of their choice for the delight or disdain of the others. They may have gone for a guilty pleasure, or something they've heard recently and can't get out of their head. It might typify their taste, or it might be a complete aberration. But the choices are subject to the scrutiny of the other guests.
Also in this series listeners can look forward to unexpected choices from actor David Morrissey; novelist Marina Lewycka; The Thick Of It's Rebecca Front; sculptor Grayson Perry; ex-soldier Patrick Hennessey; former NME editor James Brown; comedian Sarah Millican; and madcap inventor Wilf Lunn.
Presenter/Phil Hammond, Producer/Tamsin Hughes
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Veteran political journalist Anthony Howard celebrates 60 years of election results broadcasting on TV with a light-hearted look back at the drama, characters and stories.
Election nights have always been full of high drama but it wasn't until 1950 that voters were able to see exactly what effect their verdict could really have on politicians.
Sixty years ago, the BBC tentatively embarked upon its very first televised coverage of British General Election results. It helped shine a light on the personalities of the powerful and made major stars of some quite unlikely political anoraks, academics and journalists.
Political commentator Anthony Howard reflects on the highs and lows of election nights over the years as he replays some magic moments and finds out what it was like to be at the centre of history in the making from some of the major players.
Archive of legendary presenters including Richard Dimbleby, Robin Day and Alistair Burnett is mixed with classic excerpts of some of the great political characters of election nights past.
A Night To Remember looks at how each election would bring grander and more impressive sets, ever more dramatic theme tunes and increasingly more sophisticated graphics. Peter Snow looks at how the "swingometer" became a regular feature while Sue Lawley reveals how she was once accused of stealing it.
Presenter/Anthony Howard, Producer/Ashley Byrne
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Saturday 17 April 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman presents an afternoon of live sport and news, including reports from this morning's qualifying session at the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai. The live action kicks off with Premier League commentary of the Manchester derby, Manchester City versus Manchester United live from Eastlands at 12.45pm.
There is also coverage of the afternoon's 3pm football kick-offs, including Birmingham versus Hull and Sunderland versus Burnley in the Premier League, with updates from rugby union's Premiership, including Bath versus Sale, and reports from the Scottish Grand National at Ayr.
At 5.30pm, there's more Premier League commentary, with Tottenham Hotspur versus Chelsea live from White Hart Lane.
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Mark Williams
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Saturday 17 April 2010
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5 Live Formula 1
6.55-8.05am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Listeners can hear uninterrupted commentary on the third practice session and the qualifying session (respectively) for the Chinese Grand Prix, live from the Shanghai International Circuit, Shanghai.
Producer/Jason Swales
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5 Live Football League
Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary on a leading game in the Championship, plus reports and goal updates from across the Football League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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Network Radio BBC Week 16: Sunday 18 April 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 18 April 2010
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This week, Sir Terry Wogan is joined by multiple-award-winning comic Ricky Gervais.
There's also live music from American singer-songwriter Don McLean and indie pop trio Scouting For Girls.
Presenter/Sir Terry Wogan, Producer/Alan Boyd
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Alan Titchmarsh's show this week introduces a new feature, The A To Z Of Operetta.
It opens with Lionel Monckton's classic The Arcadians, which premièred in 1909 at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London. The show features tunes such as Arcady Is Ever Young, Down Piccadilly and Charming Weather.
Alan also features music from Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, Lakme by Léo Delibes and Frank Loesser's Guys And Dolls.
Presenter/Alan Titchmarsh, Producer/Bridget Apps
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In the second in his series of programmes looking at the Psalms of David, Brian D'Arcy explores the much-loved Psalm 23. Sometimes referred to as the Shepherd's Hymn, it has been written and arranged by poets and composers for centuries.
This week's hymns include Psalm 23 sung to Crimond, In Heavenly Love Abiding and Father Hear The Prayer We Offer.
The programme features the choir of St Martin In The Fields, directed by Andrew Earis. The organist is Martin Ford.
Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty
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BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 18 April 2010
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Michael Berkeley's guest today is the potter and writer Edmund de Waal, internationally renowned for his beautiful porcelain vessels which can be seen in museums and galleries all over the world.
The son of a Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, he was educated at the King's School, Canterbury, where he was taught pottery by Geoffrey Whiting, a disciple of Bernard Leach. After leaving Cambridge, where he read English at Trinity Hall, he set up a pottery on the Welsh border, making inexpensive domestic pottery in Leach's Anglo-Oriental style, but later began to interpret the Oriental tradition in a different way. Most of his work now consists of cylindrical pots with pale celadon glazes, and he specializes in installations involving groups of pots, such as his recent Signs And Wonders at the Victoria And Albert Museum in London. His exhibition entitled From Zero may currently be seen at the Alan Cristea Gallery in London.
Edmund de Waal has been passionate about music since childhood. Several of his choices – sacred music by Orlando Gibbons, JS Bach and Gesualdo – recall his formative years spent near a great cathedral. There's also music he works to, including John Adams's Shaker Loops, Brian Eno's This and Moby's Porcelain, as well as Alfred Brendel playing a Mozart sonata.
Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Sarah Cropper
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BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 18 April 2010
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Sue MacGregor reunites prisoners, staff and negotiators involved in the Maze Prison hunger strikes of the early Eighties, as the series continues.
From its earliest days, the Maze Prison was like no other penal institution. The prisoners, mainly locked up for their involvement in "The Troubles", saw themselves as prisoners of war rather than criminal offenders, and were given a lot of freedom to run their own lives. However, a change in government policy sought to address this freedom.
The paramilitaries were to be treated like "ordinary decent criminals", wearing prison uniform and conforming to prison rules. The prisoners and their supporters were outraged, launching a campaign that resulted in 10 men starving themselves to death. Many more were to die in riots and revenge attacks outside the prison.
Two former Republican prisoners who survived the hunger strikes, Raymond McCartney and Pat Sheehan, join Loyalist prisoner Billy McQuiston and prison officer Des Waterworth to recall the fight for political status. Also joining Sue round the table is Father Oliver Crilly, who tried to negotiate an end to the protest and whose two cousins died during it, and journalist Chris Ryder.
The hunger strikes are largely regarded as a major turning point in Northern Ireland's political history. The first man to die, Bobby Sands, attracted worldwide attention when he was elected to Westminster from his prison hospital bed. But the wounds of the battle are still raw today with questions remaining over whether more deaths could have been avoided.
Presenter/Sue MacGregor, Producer/Deborah Dudgeon
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Simon Russell Beale stars as George Smiley in the second of a three-part BBC Radio 4 adaptation of John le Carré's Smiley's People.
Intelligence officer George Smiley has glimpsed the possibility of bringing down his life-long Russian adversary, Karla. He turns to former colleagues in the "Circus" for vital information before taking off alone into hostile territory.
First published in 1979, Smiley's People is the third novel of the celebrated Karla Trilogy following Tinker, Tailor, Solder, Spy and The Honourable Schoolboy.
The cast in this dramatisation by Robert Forrest includes: Anna Chancellor as Ann Smiley, Alex Jennings as Oliver Lacon, Lindsay Duncan as Ostrakova, Joanna Monro as Frau Kretzschmar, Maggie Steed as Connie Sachs, Sam Dale as Toby Esterhase, Alison Pettitt as Hilary, Bruce Alexander as Claus Kretzschmar, Nigel Hastings as Walther and Keely Beresford as the girl.
This production continues BBC Radio 4's major undertaking of dramatising all eight novels featuring spymaster George Smiley, played throughout by Simon Russell Beale.
Producer/Patrick Rayner
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 18 April 2010
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5 Live Sport
Colin Murray presents the latest sports news and an afternoon of live sport, including reports from this morning's Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.
From 1.30pm, there's live commentary from the DW Stadium on the Premier League match between Wigan Athletic and Arsenal. There is also news from the Sheffield derby between Wednesday and United in the Championship (kick off 1pm).
From 3pm, reports from rugby union's Premiership include London Irish versus Leeds and news from snooker's World Championship in Sheffield.
From 4pm, there's Premier League commentary on Portsmouth's match against Aston Villa live from Fratton Park.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Patrick Whiteside
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Sunday 18 April 2010
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Football
Live from Hillsborough, BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra presents uninterrupted commentary on the derby between Sheffield Wednesday and Sheffield United in the Championship.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 18 April 2010
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Having previously focused on "Oddens"' and "Toddler Tunes", Adam Buxton's Big Mixtape ploughs on with "Partytime Vol 1".
Adam's friend and one-time cover for Joe Cornish, film director Garth Jennings joins listeners to help Adam compile a tape filled with music for parties and celebrations.
Garth made his name directing videos for Blur, Radiohead, Beck, REM, Supergrass and, more recently, Vampire Weekend. He also directed the film remake of Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy and the critically acclaimed Son Of Rambow.
Presenter/Adam Buxton, Producer/James Stirling
BBC 6 Music Publicity
Fun Lovin' Criminal Huey Morgan meets San Francisco alt and garage rock band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, who recently released their sixth album, Beat The Devil's Tattoo.
Core members Peter Hayes and Robert Levon Been talk to Huey about breaking the floor at Leeds Town Hall, the revolving door of record labels, new drummer Raveonette Leah Shapiro and how, over the last nine years, they've dealt with the mantle as rock music's great hope.
Huey also spins his usual selection of unusual tunes, Latin, soul, hip hop, rap, punk and reggae, that stem from his New York heritage or have inspired him as a musician. In "Vinyl Fetish" he also puts the needle onto a record for a listener's special record request.
Simon Green, British musician and producer known as Bonobo, starts a residency in "Sharing Is Caring". Fresh from releasing his fourth album, the lush Black Sands, Simon raids his personal record collection to share some of the special or rare cuts in his collection.
Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Becky Maxted
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Jarvis Cocker spends the afternoon chatting to Monty Python legend and seasoned traveller Michael Palin.
Presenter/Jarvis Cocker, Producer/Alicia Brown
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In a 6 Mix special, Dave Pearce meets DJ and record label boss Mike Pickering.
Resident DJ at the Nude and Hot nights at Manchester's infamous Hacienda night club, Mike went on to form the Mercury award-winning dance group M People before becoming involved in dance label Deconstruction, which signed Brothers In Rhythm and Way Out West among others.
In this special show, Mike plays Dave some of the records which have inspired his life in dance music, from Hacienda classics through to contemporary acts. He also talks about the history of the Deconstruction label, including signing acts like Sasha and Kylie Minogue. Mike also tells Dave why he's decided to resurrect the label to launch a raft of new dance acts including the hotly tipped Diagrams Of The Heart.
In the last half hour of the show, there's a chance to hear Mike in the mix, recorded at Manchester's Warehouse Project in December last year.
Presenter/Dave Pearce, Producer/Rowan Collinson
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Network Radio BBC Week 16: Monday 19 April 2010
BBC RADIO 1 Monday 19 April 2010
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For a whole week, BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra get to grips with volunteering, with Tim Westwood leading the way.
Tim is going to become a "Local Hero" for the week, taking on a different volunteering challenge each day with the help of his celebrity friends.
Throughout the week, Tim will be popping up in the daytime schedule across both networks. He will be showcasing a variety of volunteering "taster sessions" to show listeners that there are all sorts of different types of volunteering up for grabs and explaining how to get involved.
Local Hero aims to inspire listeners to get involved with volunteering and do something positive in their local communities. The campaign runs across radio and online, with bbc.co.uk/radio1 and bbc.co.uk/1xtra packed with the latest volunteering information and providing links through to opportunities and organisations within listeners' areas.
Previous Radio 1 and 1Xtra social action campaigns include an award-winning anti-bullying initiative called Bullyproof, which focused on the issue of cyber bullying, using a mix of celebrities and social networking to spread an anti-bullying message; and, last month, the stations embarked on a Body Image project, presenting before and after pictures of Radio 1 and 1Xtra talent online, highlighting the extent to which airbrushing can alter an image.
On Sunday 25 April a special edition of The Surgery With Aled, focussing on volunteering, will be simulcast on BBC Radio 1 and BBC 1Xtra.
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Art Of Noise is a two-part documentary following electronic music virgin and prince of Early Breakfast, Dev, as he looks for inspiration and meets some of the most extreme experimental artists and label owners in the electronic music underground. On his journey, Dev picks up key advice necessary for his challenge from BBC Radio 1's queen of experimental music, Mary Anne Hobbs; to produce an experimental electronic track to play out live on her late-night show.
In part two, Dev, whose usual music taste includes R&B and hip-hop with some Barry White thrown in for good measure, explores the outer-fringes of the experimental live music scene, by making a trip to the Mecca of all alternative music festivals – All Tomorrow's Parties.
With his guitar on his back and his music theory revision in his bag, he spends the weekend in a chalet at Butlins in Minehead, in a bid discover what it is about the festival that brings fans from all over the world to a shabby seaside resort to watch extreme noise and weird sound experiments year after year.
As the festival celebrates its 10th anniversary, Dev steps well out of his comfort zone to listen to bands like Porn, Shellac and Modest Mouse, speaks to F**k Buttons and Battles, and tracks down the elusive Nirvana producer Steve Albini by doorstepping him in his chalet. By Sunday, he is learning how to knit with Kelley Deal from The Breeders.
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BBC RADIO 2 Monday 19 April 2010
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This week, Ken Bruce is joined by singer Gabriella Cilmi, who picks her Tracks Of My Years. Gabriella's choices include tracks by Led Zeppelin, Eurythmics, Cat Stevens, Curtis Mayfield, Blondie and Suzi Quatro.
Presenter/Ken Bruce, Producer/Fiona Day
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The Jeremy Vine Show
Ahead of the general election and after last week's outside broadcast from Wrexham, The Jeremy Vine Show is live from Wolverhampton finding out what issues matter to people there.
This broadcast is scheduled for the weeks leading up to the assumed general election date of 6 May.
Presenter/Jeremy Vine, Producer/Phil Jones
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Neil Sedaka –The Music Of My Life:
From Brooklyn To Brill Ep 1/2
In this two-part series, American singer-songwriter Neil Sedaka charts an incredible journey, which began in Brooklyn and is captured in conversation with Johnnie Walker at a piano in the BBC Radio Theatre.
Neil began his successful songwriting career with lyricist Howard Greenfield, and studied at the world-famous Juilliard School in New York. He then signed to Atlantic Records when he was just 16, convincing Connie Francis to record Stupid Cupid after just eight bars.
Neil's rise was stellar and he and lyricist Howard moved to the "Brill Building". It was an amazing centre for musical talent of the day, and the pair worked alongside such legends as Gerry Goffin and Carole King, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman.
Neil listened to many of the hit makers of the time and borrowed their styles, including that of Jerry Lee Lewis for I Go Ape, a hit which Mick Jagger admitted was the first record he bought.
But after 10 Top 10 hits in a row, the British Invasion began, and Neil's home-spun style was on the wane.
Presenter/Johnnie Walker, Producer/Julie Newman
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This week, Jools Holland is joined by English singer-songwriter Steve Harley. Steve joins the band on a live version of Daniel Johnston's True Love Will Find You In The End.
Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston
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BBC RADIO 3 Monday 19 April 2010
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Donald Macleod explores the life and music of the much-loved Austrian composer, Franz Schubert. This prodigiously talented composer led a very full but brief life, dying at the age of just 31, in 1828.
Schubert is probably best known for the vast number of songs he wrote throughout his life – around 600 of them, including the two song cycles Die Schöne Müllerin and Winterreise. He was an intensely prolific composer – in his 18th year alone he produced around 200 works. And in spite of immense mental and physical problems he continued working, writing some of his best-loved music in his final year.
Donald looks at the important role the colourful individuals in Schubert's social circle had on him and his music, and how his decadent lifestyle contributed to his untimely death. Schubert suffered from severe mood swings most of his adult life. When he was in his mid-twenties, they became far more extreme and his friends reported periods of dark despair and violent anger. It's hard to know at this distance, to what extent his decadent lifestyle affected his behaviour but it greatly increased his chances of succumbing to one of the major killers of the time – syphilis. From then on, his fate was sealed – although he had periods of remission, it irreparably damaged his health and if typhoid fever hadn't struck him down first, would undoubtedly have killed him.
In this first programme Donald looks at Schubert's teenage years, when he had already developed a musical maturity well beyond his years, including two of his most popular Goethe settings, a symphony written for his friends and family to play and his first mass, conducted by the composer, at the tender age of 17.
Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Kerry Clark
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Continuing BBC Radio 3's cycle of all Mahler's symphonies performed in Manchester, the BBC Philharmonic give the first performance of Friedrich Cerha's Like A Tragicomedy as a curtain raiser to Mahler's third and longest symphony, which spans one and a half hours in six movements and is the composer's attempt to encompass the whole of creation in symphonic form.
The orchestra is joined by soprano Karen Cargill and the City of Birmingham Symphony Chorus and Youth Chorus and conducted by their chief guest conductor Vassily Sinaisky. However it is the orchestras recently appointed conductor/composer, H Gruber, who opens the concert, conducting a specially commissioned work by 84-year-old Viennese composer Friedrich Cerha, Like A Tragicomedy, written to complement this performance of Mahler's symphony.
Presenter/Ian Skelly, Producer/Janet Tuppen
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Jez Nelson presents the London première of Northumbrian Sketches – a rarely heard work by the late British trumpeter and composer Ian Carr, for jazz ensemble and string orchestra. A year after Carr's death, friends, family and fans come together for a one-off concert at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall to celebrate his life and music.
Conducted by Mike Gibbs, this performance features trumpeter Guy Barker, Tim Whitehead on bass clarinet, Phil Todd on soprano saxophone, Rob Statham on bass guitar and strings led by violinist Sonia Slany.
Ian Carr, who died on 25 February 2009 aged 76, was best known for forming Nucleus, the most celebrated home-grown British jazz-rock band of the Seventies. However this was only small part of his creative output; he was also a prolific composer and a gifted teacher and writer, most famously of Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography.
Presenter/Jez Nelson, Producer/Peggy Sutton
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BBC RADIO 4 Monday 19 April 2010
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Book Of The Week – Manhood For Amateurs Ep 1/5
Manhood For Amateurs is Michael Chabon's moving, warm and witty new memoir about life as a husband, father and son. Read by Jason Butler Harner, the memoir explores what it means to be a man today.
At the centre of a large and complex family, and with four young children, Chabon evokes memories of his childhood, of his parents' marriage and divorce and of moments of painful adolescent comedy.
In the first episode, an encounter in a supermarket leads him to remember his own father and considers the changing nature of fatherhood today. He questions why is it that, even as a father completely involved in the day-to-day lives of his children, so much less seems to be expected of him than of his wife.
Michael Chabon is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of seven novels including The Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay and The Yiddish Policeman's Union.
Reader/Jason Butler Harner, Producer/Jane Greenwood
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Woman's Hour Drama – Writing The Century Ep 1/5
Writing The Century, the series which explores the 20th century through the diaries and correspondence of real people, returns with a touching, coming of age tale: Amanda Whittington's drama, set in 1979, tells the story of Steven, a gay teenager from a Nottinghamshire mining town, and his two flamboyant best friends who live as girls.
Based on the 1979 diary of an 18-year-old miner's son, Once Upon A Time is the story of three teenage boys looking for love and acceptance, each hoping for their own happy ending.
Steven lives with his father, who knows and accepts that his son is gay. The rest of the world isn't quite so accommodating. It's 1 January: Steven feels confused, excited and frightened at what 1979 might bring. His best friends are Chrissy and Gloria, two unemployed boys of the same age, who are living down the road as girls and dreaming of a glamorous new life.
All three live for the weekend, when they go to Nottingham's only gay club in search of adventure. But it has its dark side. What Steven really wants is a loving relationship but, in his world, it seems like an impossible dream.
The cast includes Joe Dempsie as Steven, Karl Davies as Gloria and Joe Doherty as Chrissy, with Nicolai Abrahamsen composing the series theme tune.
BBC Radio 4 has commissioned Writing The Century to bring real people's stories to the air and make history come alive. The letters and diaries come from a broad mix of society – housewives, politicians, council workers, soldiers, lawyers, teenagers, prisoners, entrepreneurs.
The series often uses unpublished material from unknown voices, found through appeals on-air and in the press to the British public and archive collections.
Listners are encouraged to find out more about the series by accessing bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/writing_the_century.shtml or by emailing writingthecentury@bbc.co.uk.
Writing the Century is linked to the Memoryshare website where the public can post diary extracts.
Producer/Gemma Jenkins
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In 1973, John Waite was offered a free trip to America. Being a young student, he leapt at the chance, only later realising his hosts were the group making headlines as The Moonies.
When he and a plane load of other students arrived at a large estate in upstate New York, they discovered that the people footing the bill were the Unification Church, known to tabloid readers across the world as The Moonies.
Over the course of the following days and weeks, John and the students were kept on the estate as the Church tried to win them over, in order that its message might be taken back to Britain with these bright young things.
In Fly Me To The Reverend Moon, John goes back for the first time to tell the story of what happened to him and the rest of the students when they were taken in by one of the most controversial religious groups of the day. He meets up with people who went on the trip with him, as well as former Church members who were active in the organisation at the time – and reflects on how the experience as a young man ready for adventure has shaped him in the ensuing decades.
Presenter/John Waite, Producer/Geoff Bird
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How To Make Your First Billion is a drama documentary following the fortunes of a start-up internet company in Silicon Valley.
Jake is 28, and a serial entrepreneur who has yet to succeed with a start-up company. Subash is 26 and a technical whizz from India with whom Jake studied at college. Combining Subash's ideas and technical know-how with Jake's entrepreneurial flair, the two decide to go into business together with a vision for an internet business, which they believe will change the world.
Fuelled by the track record of other small, home-grown businesses that have made their mark in Silicon Valley and become billion dollar businesses, they believe they can do the same.
The drama follows the pair as they attempt to get the business off the ground, attracting investment and dealing with the trials and tribulations of trying to build a business.
The story echoes many of the real-life stories of entrepreneurs who started out from nothing, to create iconic brands and features real-life entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley, offering advice to the two characters as they try to launch their business, these include: Gideon Yu, previously chief financial officer of Facebook and YouTube; Michael Arrington, founder of Techcrunch, a blog covering Silicon Valley; Jerry Yang, co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo; David Filo, co-founder of Yahoo; Ron Conway, an early stage investor in Google, Ask Jeeves and PayPal; Susan Wojcicki, Google's first marketing manager; Biz Stone, co-founder and creative director of Twitter; David Weekly, founder of PBWorks; and James NcNiven of Bucks Restaurant where the idea for many famous start-ups were born.
Written by Matthew Solon, the cast includes Thomas Lazur, Zafar Karachiwala, Katie Rubin, Jake Armstrong, Subash Chakrabati, Cassidy Brown, Tim Kniffin, Gabriel Marin, Peter Matthews, Ogie Zulueta, Kip Baldwin, Julia Brothers, Brian Rivera, Lindsey Gates, Julia Brothers and Arwen Anderson.
Producer/John Dryden
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In The Footsteps Of Giants Ep 1/5
Scientist Sue Blackmore explores the unique connecting point between herself and LSD pioneer Albert Hofmann.
Having admired Hofmann for decades, she shares her personal audio archive of her meeting with the Swiss scientist and discusses how he influenced her own research into consciousness.
In the series, In The Footsteps Of Giants, today's scientists walk in the footsteps of famous predecessors whose lives have fascinating similarities to their own.
Presenter/Sue Blackmore, Producer/Lucy Adam
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 19 April 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark Chapman has all the day's sports news and is joined by special guests for the Monday Club discussing the latest big issues in football.
From 8pm, there's Premier League commentary of Liverpool versus West Ham United live from Anfield
From 10pm Tim Lovejoy joins Mark for Chapman and Lovejoy's Football Express, a quick-fire football knockabout.
Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Clare Ackling
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Monday 19 April 2010
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Football
Uninterrupted Championship commentary of Plymouth Argyle versus Newcastle United comes live from Home Park.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 19 April 2010
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Steve Mason joins Lauren Laverne for a live session in the BBC 6 Music studios. The former lead singer of the brilliant Beta Band, Steve releases his debut solo album Boys Outside in May. It was produced by Steve himself and Richard X after being written entirely on acoustic guitar.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales
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Manchester lads The Travelling Band are live in session. The band are Adam Gorman, Jo Dudderidge, Steve "Snaf" Ballinger, Steve Mullen, Chris Spencer and Nick Vaal.
The Travelling Band recently featured on the soundtrack to the Ian Dury biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (the only band other than The Blockheads to do so), subsequently finding a fan in director Mat Whitecross and leading to him directing the video for their new single Sundial.
The band's fans now include the likes of Michael Eavis: "The Travelling Band take me back to my musical roots ... marvellous music to savour and enjoy"; Rolf Harris; Mani: "future Manc classics"; and BBC 6 Music's very own Marc Riley: "if you consider the term Mancunian Americana to be an oxymoron, try listening to the Travelling Band... brilliant."
They come in to play their new single Sundial, which is released on 26 April.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Oxford shoe-gaze pioneers Ride are in concert from 1991 along with Derby's Cable at Reading in 1995. Sessions come from reggae band Culture, Pete Wylie's Wah! Heat, That Petrol Emotion and Peggy Sue playing for Marc Riley earlier this year.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 19 April 2010
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The BBC Asian Network publishes the results of one of the biggest surveys of Asian voters ever undertaken in the UK. Recent research shows that Asians could hold the key in many marginal constituencies and this survey attempts to reveal whether it's true that turnout is much higher in Asian communities.
This Asian Network Reports aims to highlight the concerns that are most important to Asians in the upcoming election; whether a new government should be tougher on immigration and which party understands Asian issues best.
The report is repeated at 6pm.
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Gagan Grewal speaks exclusively to iconic and legendary actress Hema Malini – Bollywood's "Dream Girl". Malini is one of Indian cinema's most successful female stars and her latest film, Sadiyaan, is released this month. She talks to Gagan about life, love and what the future holds.
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Network Radio BBC Week 16: Tuesday 20 April 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Tuesday 20 April 2010
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Jamie Cullum continues to showcase his love for all types of jazz, and music rooted in jazz, from its heritage to the future.
This week's show features a session with Grammy and Tony award-winning artist, producer and UN Ambassador Dee Dee Bridgewater, displaying her vocal and piano skills at BBC Maida Vale Studios.
Dee Dee has worked with many of the great names in jazz, including Sonny Rollins, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Max Roach and Roland Kirk. She is currently touring To Billie With Love, her tribute show to Billie Holliday, in which her daughter China Moses also pays tribute to Dinah Washington.
Also on the programme, one of Jamie's favourite artists, American jazz pianist Brad Mehldau, tells the story behind tracks from his new album, Highway Rider, and talks about the experience of recording with producer Jon Brion and a chamber orchestra.
Jamie also features tracks taken from the BBC's jazz session archive.
Presenter/Jamie Cullum, Producer/Karen Pearson
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Tony Bennett continues to guide listeners through his selection of the 40 defining songs from the Great American Songbook in the penultimate episode of this four-part series.
Tony offers his personal thoughts, insights and insider's view on the greatest compositions ever written, while Sir Michael Parkinson makes the introductions to the 10 songs covered each week.
This week's choices include Tenderly by Rosemary Clooney; After You, Who? by Fred Astaire; Lover by Peggy Lee plus a few of Tony's own recordings. The featured instrumental is Just One Of Those by jazz pianist Art Tatum.
Presenter/Tony Bennett, Producer/Phil Critchlow
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BBC RADIO 3 Tuesday 20 April 2010
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The BBC Symphony Orchestra and its chief conductor Jiří Bělohlávek perform Stravinsky's Symphony In Three Movements; Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2, with Barry Douglas as soloist; and Martinů's Symphony No. 3.
In exile in the United States, far from his Czech homeland, composer Bohuslav Martinů became increasingly depressed and exhausted. He sought refuge in reading and exploring New York's second-hand book stores but was unable to shake off uncharacteristic feelings of despair and intense homesickness. These feelings are never far from the surface in his Third Symphony, performed here as part of the BBC Symphony Orchestra's cycle of Martinů's symphonies.
The Symphony In Three Movements was the first work that Stravinsky wrote after he emigrated to America during the early years of the Second World War. The composer himself referred to the work as his "War Symphony", inspired as it was by documentary footage of goose-stepping German soldiers.
There was a near riot at the première of Prokofiev's Second Piano Concerto, as the audience reacted to the wild modernist music. That night the composer was the soloist, a role taken here by Barry Douglas.
Presenter/Ian Skelly, Producer/Brian Jackson
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Anne McElvoy talks to veteran director Frederick Wiseman, whose string of observational films since the early Sixties have made him one of America's best-known documentary makers.
High-schools, racetracks, council chambers, Central Park and housing estates have all been the subject of Wiseman's legendary and unique style of film-making. His documentaries often have no voiceover, no score and no clear protagonists – but they are celebrated for their artistic treatment of real life.
In his new film La danse, Wiseman has turned his gaze to the life of a ballet company Ballet de l'Opera National de Parris. Anne McElvoy talks to him about the film and the work of the company.
Presenter/Anne McElvoy, Producer/Martin Smith
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BBC RADIO 4 Tuesday 20 April 2010
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Child psychologists Laverne Antrobus and Oliver James discuss the challenge of how to raise a happy, well-adjusted child in the penultimate edition of Between Ourselves.
According to sections of the media, the reason that Britain is, allegedly, broken is because of unruly and badly brought up children running wild, ignored by hopeless parents. Laverne and Oliver, both of whom are parents, join Olivia O'Leary to discuss the challenges faced by today's parents.
Presenter/Olivia O'Leary, Producer/Karen Gregor
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Vivienne Parry explores ideas of madness and mental health among heroines of classic fiction.
With the help of psychiatrists and literary critics, Vivienne steers a course through classic fiction's depictions of madness and mental illness, including the first Mrs Rochester in Jane Eyre, Lady Glyde in Wilkie Collins's The Woman In White and Emma Bovary in Madame Bovary.
The programme draws on expertise from the literary and medical worlds to explore the depiction of mental health in classic fiction.
Sigmund Freud once said that wherever his work took him, the great works of literature had got there first. In Jane Eyre, Bertha Rochester's madness is animalistic, violent and feral, the archetypal "madwoman in the attic", whereas The Woman In White evokes the asylum as a sinister place where women could be interred against their will.
Contributors include Adam Phillips, Sandra Gilbert, Professor John Sutherland and Dinesh Bhugra, president of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.
Presenter/Vivienne Parry, Producer/Simon Hollis
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In-Flight Entertainment Ep 1/3
In-Flight Entertainment features three stories taken from Helen Simpson's new collection of the same name.
In the title story, Alan, on a transatlantic flight, is delighted by an unusual upgrade to a first class seat, but is to find his journey disturbed by portents of doom.
In the second story, Squirrel, a family discussion over the fate of a trapped squirrel veers unexpectedly close to revealing a shocking truth.
Homework tells the tale of a boy who contemplates a parallel world, who asks his mother for help with his creative writing homework. But how much is fact and how much is fiction?
Reader/Sian Thomas, Producer/Joanna Green
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BBC disability affairs correspondent Peter White nominates Douglas Jardine, who captained the England cricket team during the bodyline series in the Thirties, in the third episode of Great Lives.
Peter tells presenter Matthew Parris why he believes Jardine is worthy of the nomination.
Presenter/Matthew Parris, Producer/Mark Smalley
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Gerry Northam investigates the reliability of the science behind biometrics and explores how this controversial technology is being deployed in the UK.
Biometrics or bio-identification is the science and technology employed to verify someone's identity using a biological trait that is unique to them, such as their face, iris, fingerprints, signature or even the sound of their voice.
Biometrics lie at the heart of a controversial debate around identity politics in the UK. Increasingly, it seems, biometrics will be the means by which people will identify themselves in the world.
In recent years the issue has been mired in arguments about privacy, data theft and data sharing. The central controversy is the creation of a national identity register containing the fingerprint and detailed biographical information of millions of British citizens. This could ultimately be shared with agencies in the UK and around the world. Lobbyists are unhappy about this, while some scientists believe that the technology being deployed in the UK to underpin this database – fingerprint biometrics – is the wrong choice.
One academic says iris scanning is more reliable and secure, but claims the costs and benefits of the system may have been misrepresented to parliament. Another casts doubt over the effectiveness of the encrypted fingerprint code.
With governments around the world investing billions in these systems, and the UK moving towards more widespread use in the next decade, Gerry Northam investigates the myths and realities around biometrics, where both the science and the policy appear to be experiencing an identity crisis.
Presenter/Gerry Northam, Producer/Rami Tzabar
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Vitamin D keeps our bones healthy, but new studies suggest deficiency may be linked to some cancers, diabetes and multiple sclerosis.
Dr Mark Porter and guests examine the evidence, asks how people can find out if they are deficient and examines whether there might be links between milder deficiency and some cancers, diabetes and MS.
Presenter/Dr Mark Porter, Producers/Andrew Luck Baker, Erika Wright and Deborah Cohen
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Tuesday 20 April 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch presents the day's sports news and, from 7.30pm, live commentary on a Champions League semi-final first leg.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Steve Houghton
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BBC 6 MUSIC Tuesday 20 April 2010
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Canadian electro-math-rock legend Caribou joins Lauren Laverne for a live session in the BBC 6 Music studios.
Caribou's new album Swim, which has been picking up rave reviews all over the blogosphere, is released this month. His previous album Andorra won the Canadian Polaris prize in 2007.
Caribou, whose real name is Daniel Snaith, completed a PhD in Mathematics at Imperial College London in 2005.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales
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Marc Riley's live guests on tonight's show are new boys on the block The Neat.
Fellow BBC 6 Music presenter Steve Lamacq describes the band, which comprises Mez Green on bass/vocals, Laurence Etheridge on guitar, Rich Lorimer on drums and Nick Boden on guitar and vocals, as "a cross between The Fall and XX Teens".
The Hull four-piece perform their new single In Youth Is Pleasure, which will be released on 26 April.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe delves into the BBC archives this evening to find concert tracks from Teardrop Explodes in 1981 and Smashing Pumpkins playing at Reading in 1995.
There's grunge in a 1989 session from Tad and Seventies folk from Anne Briggs, plus Teenage Fanclub in 1991 and an Ajuba session from 1993.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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Network Radio BBC Week 16: Wednesday 21 April 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Wednesday 21 April 2010
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Bob Harris presents another eclectic selection of music from the AOR songbook, playing the biggest hits and the hidden gems from a genre that drove album sales into the triple millions.
This week's featured artists range from Appletree Theater in 1967 through to Porcupine Tree in 2002, via Santana and Jethro Tull.
Powered by the West Coast experimental music scene and the release of The Beatles' Sgt Pepper LP, AOR first burst onto American radio in San Francisco in 1967 and by the mid-Seventies had become the most successful radio format in America.
Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Neil Myners
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BBC RADIO 4 Wednesday 21 April 2010
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Selma Chalabi visits the former penal colony on the Andaman Islands where Indian political prisoners were held in its infamous Cellular Jail.
In the Thirties it was the scene of a rather curious experiment in criminal justice – thieves and murderers were allowed out into the community to work in the houses of British administrators. But the rehabilitation of prisoners was not the original purpose of the penal colony on the Andamans.
In fact, as journalist Selma discovers, it was established in order to dispose of Britain's political enemies on the Indian subcontinent, and, in the words of Andaman's historian Francis Xavier Neelam, to "break the spirit of the freedom fighters. Crossing the black waters was a double penalty – it meant you lost whatever status you enjoyed on the mainland, as well as facing torture and isolation."
Mrs Boomgardt, the daughter of one of the gaolers at Port Blair, still vividly remembers the arrival of freedom fighters, singing songs and being taken by lorry to the jail.
A chance find of some reel-to-reel tapes dictated by Selma's grandfather leads to a journey of discovery to find out more about the exotic palm-fringed islands of which he was the last British governor.
So sensitive is the history of the Cellular Jail that it is now considered a national memorial, and a place of pilgrimage for Indians. But until now, it is not a story that has merited much attention in Britain.
Solitary confinement, bar-fetters – leg irons that restricted movements – and frequent whipping, in addition to extremely hard labour pounding coconut fibres, were some of the torments faced by prisoners.
Selma explores the history of Kala Pani, which in Hindi means "the black water", but came to represent exile, alienation, isolation and oppression.
Presenter/Selma Chalabi, Producer/Geoff Ballinger
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Tom Courtenay stars as a 110-year-old looking for love one last time in Richard Lumsden's play.
As a teacup falls from Billy's hand, he realises he will be dead by the time it hits the floor. But has he time to remember what love feels like one last time before he passes away?
Into his memory come his past loves: Mrs Coggins, the mother of his mate Gilley, who took his virginity; Evie, the love he left and lived to regret; Alice, his wife of 32 years; Vera, who he adored as they worked the buses together during the Blitz; and Dotty, who taught him a new kind of love in his later years.
But some of their memories don't quite tally with his own – or his idea of what love should be. And perhaps his memory isn't quite what it was and he begins to wonder if he really did rescue his mate Gilley from the battlefields of France in a daredevil manner, and did he share secrets with his son?
The Six Loves Of Billy Binns features Alison Pettitt as Evie, Tanya Franks as Alice, Ella Smith as Vera and Joanna Monro as Dotty. Keeley Beresford plays Mrs Coggins, Gbemisola Ikumelo plays Sylvie and Walter Lumsden plays the boy.
Producer/Sally Avens
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Clive Anderson looks at concerns that Britain's libel laws are being abused in order to stifle free speech, as the series in which some of the country's top legal minds discuss legal issues of the day continues.
There is particular concern about "libel tourism" – that wealthy overseas litigants with little connection to this country are using the British courts to sue people they claim have defamed them. It's been suggested that, in relation to libel, Britain has become the legal equivalent of an offshore tax haven.
It's claimed that Britain's libel laws are effectively preventing doctors, scientists and campaigners from speaking out against powerful organisations, for fear of being sued.
Justice secretary Jack Straw has set up a working group of lawyers, academics and newspaper editors to examine various aspects of libel laws, with the particular brief to look at how to prevent libel tourism.
Presenter/Clive Anderson, Producer/Brian King
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Paris suffered one of Europe's worst urban floods in 1910. Tom Heap discovers how the city was almost destroyed by nature and discovers the lessons learned for flood management today, as the environmental series continues.
In 1910 Paris was at the centre of the world's cultural and intellectual life. New metro tunnels and new sewers were making life cleaner and faster for two and a half million Parisians. There was such confidence in the efficiency and modernity of the city that early reports of floodwater tumbling down the River Seine were largely ignored.
Tom chronicles the causes and effects of this enormous urban flood. Assisted by the new tunnels, the waters of a wet winter rose beneath the city, making hundreds of thousands homeless and bringing Parisian life to a complete halt for weeks. To many residents it seemed as if the city was doomed.
Tom tells the story of the extraordinary unity that somehow prevailed in the Parisian community and the great engineering efforts to drain and rebuild the city. He joins modern Parisians to hear how the lessons have been learnt and acted upon. And he asks if the so-called "once in a century" flood could threaten the city again, and what lessons London could learn from the pain of Paris.
Presenter/Tom Heap, Producers/Alasdair Cross and Helen Lennard
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 21 April 2010
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5 Live Sport
Mark Pougatch has all the day's sports news and, from 7.30pm, live Champions League semi-final first-leg commentary, plus updates from Hull City versus Aston Villa in the Premier League.
Presenter/Mark Pougatch, Producer/Claire Burns
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BBC 6 MUSIC Wednesday 21 April 2010
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Marc Riley's live studio guests this evening are Insect Guide.
The band are Su Sutton, Stan Howells and Chris Cooper (ex-Pale Saints). They formed in Leeds in 2005 and released their first album, 6ft In Love, in 2007 on Leeds-based Dead Penny Records. Their new single, Dark Days And Nights, was released on 22 March on the same label and is the title track of their latest album.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe's BBC archive session tracks come from Leeds band The Bridewell Taxis, Slow Club, Status Quo (recorded in January 1968) and Pavement (recorded in 1992). There are also in-concert recordings from Broadcast and The Stranglers recorded at the BBC's Paris Theatre in London in 1977.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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BBC ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 21 April 2010
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Award-winning Bollywood actor Vivek Oberoi speaks to Gagan Grewal about his upcoming Bollywood thriller, Prince, in which he plays the role of a super-slick thief. He also talks about his other film projects, his quest for love and how he feels about acting alongside British-Asian actress Aruna Shields.
Presenter/Gagan Grewal
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 21 April 2010
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Edward Stourton is in Baghdad to tell the story of Iraq's religious minorities, some of whom have endured torture, killings, forced conversions and exile.
In the wake of recent elections and as troops move out of Iraq, Edward speaks to Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Louis Sako, of Kirkuk, who feels that Western military intervention has not helped the plight of the minority groups – 200,000 Christians fleeing Mosul alone, in fear of their lives, and 1,000 murdered, is not much of a basis for pluralism or democracy.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, also speaks to Edward and talks about his fear that Christianity may soon disappear from the region altogether, after centuries of religious co-existence.
Edward hears from people who claim that other minorities, including Mandaeans and Yazidis, are also disappearing and asks why this is happening and what can be done to ease the situation.
Presenter/Edward Stourton, Producer/David Coomes
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Leading Libyan dissident Jaballah Matar disappeared from his home in exile in Cairo 20 years ago. Razia Iqbal meets Jaballah's son, Booker-shortlisted writer Hisham Matar, who is on a mission to discover the truth about his father's disappearance.
Hisham is calling for governments around the world who have bilateral relations with Libya to press for information about the fate of his father. He also hopes to engage with Libya and discuss ways to reform and develop the country.
Presenter/Razia Iqbal
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In a special edition of Discovery, Geoff Watts is joined by some of the world's leading volcano experts to discuss the impact of the eruption of Eyjafjallajoekull in Iceland.
He will be asking the scientists about the difficulties of predicting volcanic eruptions and the problems of assessing the dangers to aircraft. What have volcanologists learnt from previous eruptions in other parts of the world? And what are the long term consequences for flight and for the climate?
Producer/Rami Tzabar
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Network Radio BBC Week 16: Thursday 22 April 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 22 April 2010
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Radio 2 In Concert
Jo Whiley celebrates the best live music on BBC Radio 2, featuring live tracks, both new and from the archive, as well as a headline concert.
This week's concert features the legendary Stevie Wonder performing exclusively for Radio 2 at Abbey Road studios in London in November 2005. Wonder's set features classic tracks plus material from his then latest album, A Time To Love.
Jo also reveals a listener's choice of classic live album track; rounds up the best live music performed on Radio 2 in the last week and is on hand with concert news in her weekly gig guide.
Listeners can contact Jo with stories about the latest gigs they've been to and their reaction to the headline concert by emailing inconcert@bbc.co.uk or texting her during the show on 88291.
Presenter/Jo Whiley, Producer/Bequi Sheehan
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Frank Renton tonight features The President's Own United States Marine Band a band that he has long championed as being one of the finest in the world. Their latest CD is called Feste.
Frank also features a new release by the Eikanger Bjorsvik Band, arguably the best band in Europe.
Philip Cobb, now co-principal trumpet of the London Symphony Orchestra and previously principal cornet of The Hendon Band of the Salvation Army is featured on the CD Cristo Redentor.
Presenter/Frank Renton, Producer/Terry Carter
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Sir Tim Rice reaches California as he continues his journey celebrating the musical heritage of the United States.
This week's programme features West Coast artists including the Beach Boys, Dionne Warwick, Al Jolson, Snoop Dogg, The Doors and No Doubt.
Long fascinated by the history and geography of America, Tim says: "The sheer romanticism of the names of the 50 States is poetry to my ears. The opportunity to explore every State of the union through its music, musicians, composers, lyricists and performers is irresistible for me. I hope each broadcast, through music old and new, familiar and unexpected, proves an enjoyable slice of American Pie, none quite like the 49 others."
Presenter/Tim Rice, Producers/Anthony Cherry and Ruth Beazley
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BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 22 April 2010
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In Here Be Dragons, Janet Ellis explores the appeal of one of the oldest mythological beasts.
Dragons feature in the very earliest stories and continue to hold enormous appeal through the likes of Merlin and Shrek.
Last year Janet examined why mermaids continue to hold such a fascination; now she turns her attention to a figure every bit as resonant with audiences down the generations – the dragon. From the earliest days of storytelling the dragon has appeared across international cultures, occasionally a benign presence, as in the Chinese tradition, though more often a ferocious beast that lays waste to its enemies without a moment's hesitation.
More recently the dragon has become a favourite of children's programmes and books. Its close resemblance to real-life creatures, and formerly dinosaurs, gives it a particularly interesting place among mythological beasts.
Janet hears from poet Simon Armitage, who says that those reading medieval stories including those about dragons would most likely have believed in the real possibility of meeting up with the beasts.
She also speaks to Cressida Cowell, author of the How To Train Your Dragon series of books, as well as the co-creator of BBC One's Merlin, which, thanks to the voice of John Hurt, contains one of the most impressive dragon characters to appear in recent years.
Presenter/Janet Ellis, Producer/Geoff Bird
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Michael Symmons Roberts's new play, A Man In Pieces, looks at the effect of technology on bodies and minds, through the testing of a new sonic medical scanner.
A new medical sonic scanner, The Goldberg Scanner, could revolutionise medical science, but no-one knows what effect it has on human health. Conor volunteers to test the scanner, which records sounds inside the body. An analysis of the patient's health is made from the recording.
Conor finds himself a prisoner in a secure research facility, brought back day after day to spend another hour in this massive, dark, metal tunnel. He gradually realises that he's being mapped and searched so deeply that he feels he's losing his identity.
A Man In Pieces is based on a true story – a death row prisoner was used to test the latest generation of cross-section medical scanners, and his multi-sliced body was digitised and made available to medics across the world.
Graeme Hawley plays Conor, Gillian Kearney is Jen, Clive Russell plays Conor's doppelganger, Sue Jenkins plays Margaret and Malcolm Raeburn is Matthew. The music is composed by John Harle.
Producer/Susan Roberts
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Thursday 22 April 2010
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5 Live Sport
Eleanor Oldroyd presents the day's sports news and, from 8pm, introduces live first-leg commentary on one of the Europa League semi-finals.
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BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 22 April 2010
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The Strange Boys, hailing from the uber-cool city of Austin, Texas, join Lauren Laverne for a live session in the BBC 6 Music studios.
Formed in 2001, the band comprises brothers Ryan and Philip Sambol and five other members. They are currently touring the UK and visit Lauren to perform their latest single Be Brave, a track which recently proved a hit on the 6 Music playlist.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales
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Joining Marc Riley live in Manchester this evening is another band from the melting pot of Portland Oregon. YACHT was formed in 2002 as Y.A.C.H.T., an acronym for "Young Americans Challenging High Technology."
The current incarnation emerged in 2008 and has now reached a point where it bears no resemblance, other than biologically, to the previous incarnations.
Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry
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Gideon Coe presents more eclectic classics and new releases, and, from the BBC's live music archive, session tracks from The Wedding Present, Treebound Story, Heavenly and Woodenbox.
There's also a chance to hear the brilliant reggae of Misty In Roots, recorded live at Glastonbury in 1992, and Grant Lee Buffalo recorded at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire in 1994.
Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson
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Network Radio BBC Week 16: Friday 23 April 2010
BBC RADIO 2 Friday 23 April 2010
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Desmond Carrington sorts through his personal record collection of some 250,000 titles for songs and music related to the theme of Windmills – whether grinding corn, pumping water or making electricity.
Presenter/Desmond Carrington, Producer/Dave Aylott
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Friday Night Is Music Night
Paul Gambaccini presents this week's Friday Night Is Music Night live from LSO St Luke's in London.
Paul introduces special guests Kim Criswell and the London Community Gospel Choir. The BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Mike Reed, provides some fitting music for St George's Day alongside music from the musicals and the popular classics.
Presenter/Paul Gambaccini, Producer/Bridget Apps
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Claudia Winkleman discusses the World Photography Awards, as the arts and culture series continues.
And, on the anniversary of Shakespeare's birth and death, the programme hears from Dominic Dromgoole, the artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe on the South Bank in London.
Presenter/Paul Gambaccini, Producer/Jessica Rickson
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BBC RADIO 3 Friday 23 April 2010
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Performance On 3
Live from the Barbican in London, the BBC Symphony Orchestra and conductor Lawrence Renes perform Jörg Widmann's Lied; Rachmaninov's Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini, with Stephen Hough as piano soloist; and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 8.
Jörg Widmann ranks among the finest composers of his generation and in this revised version of Lied he builds a colossal Mahlerian orchestral work around fleeting traces of Schubert melodies.
Heightened romanticism is also evident in Rachaminov's rhapsody for piano and orchestra based on Paganini's famous 24th Caprice. The concert ends with Shostakovich's wartime Eighth Symphony which, though not the upbeat propaganda work the Soviet authorities had hoped for, is one of the composer's most hard-hitting and monumental.
Presenter/Ian Skelly, Producer/Brian Jackson
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BBC RADIO 4 Friday 23 April 2010
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Tim Samuels is an average, professional, metropolitan, 30-something man and, like so many of his male friends and colleagues, he has found the need to bare his soul to a therapist.
Metrosexual, made-over new man Tim senses that men are finally turning away from squash and beer to relieve the tensions of modern life – and heading for therapy.
Tim explores the different kinds of therapy to which men turn in order to help them cope with the stresses and strains of their lives. He talks to the practitioners and the users, as well as historians and academics about the challenges facing the modern male and looks at the positive and negative effects of therapy for men.
He compares therapy in all its different guises, from brief, function-based Cognitive Behavioural Therapy to long-term analysis and personal and motivational development. He wants to find out why there is still a stigma attached to men being in therapy and whether men are admitting to going to a therapist – especially to each other.
Presenter/Tim Samuels, Producer/Mohini Patel
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Nyama is David Pownall's cautionary tale about a money crazed entrepreneur who transports a pickled whale from the Cape of Good Hope round Southern Africa and makes a fortune.
When a 150-ton female blue whale runs itself aground at high tide in a remote part of the Cape of Good Hope, Hudson is staying in a cottage by the sea, resting up after selling an independent gold mine to a multinational corporation, which has made him immensely wealthy.
With his sidekick, Silas, he watches the whale die, suffocating under its own weight; then sets in motion deals whereby he becomes the owner of the carcass, has it pumped full of formaldehyde, puts it on a low-loader with a specially constructed viewing platform, and exhibits it through the regions of southern and central Africa furthest from the sea.
He starts with the villages and small towns in the deserts, keeping away from the big cities, knowing that word of mouth will always go ahead of him, building up a huge prospective paying audience.
Hudson's former wife, Arlene, recounts his success through droughts, famines and war, all the way up to the Congo border. There he turns south again to exploit the cities.
His business insight is vindicated; millions come to marvel at the whale. But when he hits the mining belt, Hudson's ghosts return to haunt him.
Vincent Ebrahim plays Hudson, Jude Akuwudike plays Silas, Joanna Monro plays Arlene and Joseph Marcell plays the bush hermit. The rest of the cast includes Bruce Alexander, Nigel Hastings, Rufus Wright, Pamela Nomvete, Alison Pettitt, John Biggins, David Seddon, Michael Shelford and Keeley Beresford.
Producer/Peter Kavanagh
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David is at the top of his game, in this horror tale by Skins writer Ed Hime. Head of Axiom Oil, he is opening a new zoo on the Isle of Wight, with his family around him: wife Claire, who will be opening for Rod Stewart at the gala concert, and son Roman, recently back on the rails following an enlightening trip to Bangladesh where he was caught in the flooding.
Axiom has bankrolled this state-of-the-art demonstration of environmental commitment, with a huge new electrified perimeter fence and the Ark, a purpose-built centre for endangered species.
An enormous wind turbine and mobile phone mast bearing the Axiom logo now stands in the centre of the zoo. It's the night of the big opening event and Axiom intends to milk it for all it is worth, the zoo transformed for a gala dinner and reception.
It is, inevitably, the target for dissenters. A small, but vocal, protest is taking place outside the fence, but inside there is a party atmosphere. But two people inside are eco-terrorists, determined to wreck the event at great cost to human life, and allow the world to judge them.
The drama is reconstructed from recordings discovered after the event. It relives the humiliation of a major oil company at the gala opening of their new zoo and, in the subsequent mayhem, different isolated groups are heard fighting for their lives in the various awful locales the zoo has to offer, such as the reptile house, the lion enclosure and even the gift shop.
Kenneth Cranham plays David, Joanna Monro plays Claire and Luke Treadaway plays Roman. The cast also includes Georgia Groome, Vineeta Rishi, Ben Crowe, Caroline Paterson, David Seddon, Sam Dale, Keely Beresford, Nigel Hastings, Alison Pettitt and Michael Shelford.
Producer/Jessica Dromgoole
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Friday 23 April 2010
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Colin Murray presents Kicking Off With Colin Murray, with regular guests Pat Nevin and Perry Groves taking a look ahead to the weekend's football action. Key Premier League games this week include Arsenal versus Manchester City, Manchester United versus Tottenham and the derby between Aston Villa and Birmingham City.
Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Louise Sutton
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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA
Friday 23 April 2010
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Rugby League
Rugby league fans can hear uninterrupted live commentary on one of the night's top matches in the Super League.
Producer/Jen McAllister
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BBC 6 MUSIC Friday 23 April 2010
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Wigan's finest, Stuart Maconie, author and purveyor of fine music on BBC Radio 2, stands in for Shaun Keaveny to host a special St George's Day edition of BBC 6 Music Breakfast. Stuart fills three hours with an entirely English playlist, from The Smiths to The Futureheads and Laura Marling to Liam Frost, and discusses all thing English with his special guests.
Presenter/Stuart Maconie, Producer/Nic Philps
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Frankie & The Heartstrings join Lauren Laverne for a live session in the BBC 6 Music studios. The Sunderland band release their second single, Tender, in April and support fellow Wearsiders. The Futureheads on their UK tour in May.
Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales
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Top Gear petrolhead and classical music fan James May presents this week's Rock Show and surprises BBC 6 Music listeners with a deep love and knowledge of classic rock.
James says: "I’ve never had a whole radio show to myself and I’m very much looking forward to inflicting the soundtrack of my youth on the nation."
Artists that James features include the likes of AC/DC, King Crimson, Jethro Tull and The Stooges.
Presenter/James May, Producer/Mike Hanson
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BBC WORLD SERVICE Friday 23 April 2010
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Global Perspective – At The Edge In Soweto Ep 1/5
Documentary makers from around the world have each produced a programme based on the theme At The Edge as part of the new series of Global Perspective. Each documentary provides a very different, local perspective on the theme.
In the opening programme, Anza Dali returns to South Africa, to investigate unemployment Soweto.
Soweto is a densely populated group of townships on the south-western edge of Johannesburg. Unemployment is more than 30 per cent (according to an interview with Mduduzi Biyase, University of Johannesburg) – well above the national average – the rate highest among young people.
Anza, who is herself looking for work, talks to Freddy and Sibusiso, two local young men who are also seeking employment. She finds out how the pair are coping with long-term unemployment and talks to them about the daily temptations to make money via less-honest means.
Presenter/Anza Dali, Producer/Kate Howells
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