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Schedule for Tuesday 25th of November 2008Saturday : Sunday : Monday : Tuesday : Wednesday : Thursday : Friday |
BBC Radio One
1000
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Sara Cox
Great new music and guests, plus the latest entertainment news and live music from Radio 1's Live Lounge.
1245
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Newsbeat
All the news you need to know from the UK and around the world, brought to you by Radio 1's dedicated team of journalists.
1745
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Newsbeat
All the news you need to know from the UK and around the world, brought to you by Radio 1's dedicated team of journalists.
1900
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Zane Lowe
Two hours of the best new and cutting-edge music. It's all about gigs - catching up with bands on the road and all the latest live music news.
2100
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International Radio 1
Mary Anne Hobbs takes us on a guided tour of the musical sights and sounds of Malawi.
2200
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Huw Stephens
Huw sits in for Colin Murray with new music, alternative classics and The Black Hole - filled solely with download-only exclusives, rarities and musical specials.
0200
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Mary Anne Hobbs
Radio 1's experimental music show - uncompromising electronic beats from the darker side of the club. |
BBC Radio Two
0600
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Sarah Kennedy
News, views and music, plus a review of the morning's papers. Including Pause for Thought at 6.20am.
0730
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Wake Up to Wogan
Ease into the day with Terry Wogan's award winning breakfast show. Including Pause for Thought at 9.15am.
1705
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Richard Allinson
Richard sits in for Chris Evans for a show packed full of music and features.
1900
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The Music Goes Round
Desmond Carrington plays old favourites, classic songs and new tunes from across a broad musical spectrum. This week his theme is Lucky Number Seven: Lucky for Some - Track 7.
2230
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Bob Dylan's Big Freeze
During the freezing winter of 1962-'63, Bob Dylan made his first trip to London. Bob Harris tells the story of his stay, with contributions from some of the people who met him.
2330
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Long Players
David Quantick tells the story of the LP, sixty years after its introduction. 2/4: A look at the arrival of rock'n'roll and some of the artistic triumphs and excesses of the LP.
0000
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Janice Long
Proving there's life after midnight, with the best live performances. Including Pause for Thought at 1.30am.
0300
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Alex Lester
With his mix of music and banter, Alex Lester makes weekday mornings the best time of the day. Including Pause for Thought at 3.30am. |
BBC Radio Three
0700
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Breakfast
With Rob Cowan.The selection features Cziffra playing Liszt's Polonaise No 2 and Charles Grove conducting Elgar's Coronation March, plus works by Beethoven, Haydn and Vincent d'Indy.
1200
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Composer of the Week
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)2/5. Donald Macleod follows Pachelbel's swift progression to the city of Vienna, where Italian music was all the rage at the imperial court. Then it was on to his first professional appointments in provincial central Germany, where he was constantly striving for greater recognition.
1400
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Afternoon on 3
Penny Gore presents a celebration of the musical life of Norway and Sweden, in a programme that includes Daniel Harding conducting his Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in Berlioz - with noted Swedish mezzo-soprano Malena Ernman - and the premiere of a new four-movement version of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony.
1900
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Performance on 3
Martin Handley presents a concert given at London's Wigmore Hall. Soprano Dorothea Roschmann sings songs from her native Germany, including Mahler's collection of songs based on German folk poetry, Des Knaben Wunderhorn, as well as Brahms's gypsy songs, Zigeunerlieder.
2115
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Night Waves
Philip Dodd explores what makes certain people successful with Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point. Gladwell's new book Outliers: The Story of Success explores the difference between high achievers and ordinary people, asking what connects Bill Gates, The Beatles and Mozart.
2200
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Composer of the Week
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)2/5. Donald Macleod follows Pachelbel's swift progression to the city of Vienna, where Italian music was all the rage at the imperial court. Then it was on to his first professional appointments in provincial central Germany, where he was constantly striving for greater recognition.
2315
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Late Junction
Verity Sharp's varied musical selection includes sounds of 1970s Brazil with Alceu Valenca, vocal music by Gavin Bryars inspired by medieval laude, a set of tunes from Scotland's Blazin' Fiddles and an improvisation on pipe organ by Keith Jarrett. |
BBC Radio Four
0600
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Today
With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am; Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am.
0900
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The Long View
Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the past behind the present. He explores the parallels and differences between the stock market crash of 1929 and the current credit crunch.
0930
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Bad Habits
Comedian and writer Richard Herring explores some of the bad habits and personal failings which directly or indirectly affect all of us in our daily working lives.
0945
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Book of the Week
Henry Goodman reads from Christopher Bigsby's biography of the prominent American playwright.
1100
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World on the Move
Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood present the series following the movement and migration of animals across the planet, from the European eel to the African white-eared kob antelope. A team of wildlife specialists are joined by zoologists and conservationists around the world to present regular reports.
1130
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Happy Feet
Deborah Bull meets Australian tap dancer Nada Karsakov and travels with her to Lancashire to find out whether some of her dance steps may have originated from the Lancashire Clog Dance. They meet dance historians and enthusiasts to explore the way in which dance steps have been borrowed, improved and taught around the western world for the past 300 years.
1200
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Call You and Yours
Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. Call 03700 100 444 [calls cost no more than to 01, 02 landline numbers].
1330
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Paying the Piper
John Florance investigates two unsung heroes of British cultural history: the hosiery manufacturer William Gardiner, who introduced the unknown Beethoven to England, and the coal merchant Thomas Britton, whose musical gatherings above his coal store in Clerkenwell attracted some of the greatest musicians of the late 17th and early 18th century and an audience that bridged the social divide.
1500
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Making History
Vanessa Collingridge investigates the story of a 19th-century attempt at a new European order in Sheffield and finds out whether the city's steel industry provided the answer to an age-old navigational problem for Britain's sailors.
1530
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Points of Entry
Series of readings that reflect the experience of immigrants to the UK over the past 60 years.
1600
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Word of Mouth
Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of words, language and the way we speak. He is joined by Leonard, an African Grey parrot, to talk about animal communication.
1630
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A Good Read
Former footballer Graeme Le Saux and BBC arts correspondent Rebecca Jones join Sue McGregor to discuss their favourite books.
1800
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Six O'Clock News
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by Weather.
1830
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Listen Against
Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back over the past week of radio.
1945
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Aubrey's Brief Lives
By Nick Warburton. Collection of anecdotes by genial eccentric John Aubrey about the great and good of the 16th and 17th centuries, set against the story of his friendship with Oxford antiquarian Anthony Wood.
2000
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File on 4
Michael Robinson investigates whether the Prime Minister's instruction to banks to keep funds flowing will halt the rise in evictions and unemployment as repossession rates rocket due to the credit crunch.
2100
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All in the Mind
Claudia Hammond explores how treatment for eating disorders can be a postcode lottery.
2130
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The Long View
Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the past behind the present. He explores the parallels and differences between the stock market crash of 1929 and the current credit crunch.
2245
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Book at Bedtime
Amanda Root reads from Gillian Slovo's love story, set in 1950s Ceylon and London.
2300
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Danny Robins Music Therapy
Danny Robins harnesses the power of music to improve the world and solve listeners' problems.
2330
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Today in Parliament
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with Susan Hulme.
0000
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News and Weather
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.
0030
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Book of the Week
Henry Goodman reads from Christopher Bigsby's biography of the prominent American playwright. |
BBC 6 Music
1000
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George Lamb
Sony Award-winning mayhem with George, featuring Phillipe de Barnsley reviewing the latest DVDs in his own unique way, plus Put You on It and Don of the Day.
1600
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Steve Lamacq
Steve has another Good Day Bad Day, a new Rebel Playlist winner and a musical look at the day's weird news stories in the National Anthem.
1900
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Marc Riley
Marc plays classic tracks and cutting-edge music, featuring Texan band White Denim.
2100
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Gideon Coe
Gideon presents concert highlights from The Young Knives recorded in 2006, a Peel session from Luna recorded in 1999, The Soup Dragons recorded in 1986 and a set from Of Montreal.
0000
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6 Music Plays It Again
2/2. Peter Gabriel picks his favourite pieces of music and talks to Andy Peebles about his life and work. |