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Radio 2 In Concert

Thursday 15 April

8.00-10.00pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 2

A concert from "the modfather", Paul Weller, launches this new show celebrating the best live music on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 2

Jo Whiley launches Radio 2 In Concert, a new weekly two-hour programme celebrating the best live music on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 2. This week's show features a concert from Paul Weller, recorded earlier this evening at the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio Theatre in Broadcasting House.

Jo chats to the singer-songwriter and talks to some Radio 2 listeners in the audience about his enduring appeal. The concert, which can be heard in the second hour of the show, features Weller performing some of his greatest hits and tracks from his new album.

Radio 2 In Concert also features a selection of live music tracks, both new and from the archive, as well as a classic live album track. And Jo rounds-up the best live music performed on Radio 2 over the past week and talks about the latest concert news in the weekly Gig Guide.

Presenter/Jo Whiley, Producer/Bequi Sheehan

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Sir Tim Rice continues to celebrate the musical heritage of the United States, reaching Oregon in the Pacific north west. This week's show features music by Johnnie Ray, Tex Ritter, The Simpsons and Tim Hardin.

Tim has long been fascinated by the history and geography of America: "The sheer romanticism of the names of the 50 States is poetry to my ears and 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/Sir Tim Rice, Producer/Anthony Cherry

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Performance On 3

Thursday 15 April

7.00-9.15pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 3

Violist Lawrence Power joins the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish SO to perform Miklós Rózsa's viola concerto

In this live concert from City Halls, Glasgow, Alexander Titov conducts the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra in works from Russia and America, beginning with an introduction and interlude from Rimsky-Korsakov's opera, The Legend Of The Invisible City Of Kitezh, which combines the real and the supernatural, history and myth.

Violist Lawrence Power joins the orchestra to perform Miklós Rózsa's Viola Concerto. Born in Hungary, Miklós Rózsa wrote many classical works but went to Hollywood in 1939 to work on film scores and is probably best known for his blockbusters including Ben-Hur and El Cid. His Viola Concerto is one of his final works, written in 1979 for the young Pinchas Zukerman.

The least well known of Rachmaninov's symphonies, the First – an incredibly powerful work, bursting with youthful energy – ends this evening's concert. Its première, when Rachmaninov was only 24, was famously a disaster and it was never again performed in his lifetime.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Janet Tuppen

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Journalist John Harris investigates the influence of the suburbs and provincial towns on British rock music, from Colchester to Swindon.

Harris argues that much of the best British music has been rooted in the rather staid environs of the UK's suburbs and provincial towns, soundtracking a world of privet hedges, caravans parked on driveways and curtain-twitching intrigue.

In this feature, he travels to the places where the music was born, talks to the people who created it and places them in a tradition that is too-often ignored.

In Swindon, he meets Andy Partridge of the seminal band XTC, who has always insisted on living in a place he knows drives him mad so his creative fires don't go out. In Colchester, he delves into the experiences essayed by Britpop pioneers Blur and hears from Damon Albarn.

In Gants Hill in Essex he meets Louise Wener, former lead singer of Britpop band Sleeper; in Coventry, he considers the music of The Specials; in Woking he considers renowned suburban poet Paul Weller; and, in the unexpected rock hotbed of Bromley, he tells the stories of a handful of local suburban "refuseniks", including David Bowie and Siouxsie Sioux. To show that the tradition is still continuing, he speaks to the band Good Shoes and considers their track about living in Morden.

Along the way, there are flashbacks to non-musical stuff on which some of these songwriters have drawn: John Betjeman's TV documentary Metro-Land, and such poems as Slough and Middlesex; Philip Larkin's I Remember, I Remember, which is set in Coventry; and George Orwell's classic suburban novel Coming Up For Air.

Presenter/John Harris, Producer/Simon Jacobs

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The Disappearance, by Peter Whalley, is a psychological thriller with fraudulent identity at its heart.

Alice moves into a converted Victorian house and rents the top floor. The landlord lives below. Both tenant and landlord are not who they say they are, and as each discovers the truth, it is clear one of them is going to die.

When Alice moves into the property it's fairly obvious that the young landlord fancies her. She quickly befriends him. But her actions seem to over-step the boundary of safe behaviour and, when she tells the landlord that she knows he's not the real owner, he confesses to the secret fraud.

Then a letter of inheritance arrives for the real owner and the tenant and the landlord undertake a heist. But Alice is hiding a bigger secret. She's on a quest for revenge...

The Disappearance features Lee Ingleby as Martin, Joanne Froggatt as Alice and Becky Hindley as Denise.

Producer/Pauline Harris

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Arthur Smith's Balham Bash Ep 1/4

Thursday 15 April

6.30-7.00pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 4

Arthur Smith presents comedy, music and entertainment from his Balham flat.

In the first of the new series his guests are John Hegley, Andrew Lawrence and Scouting For Girls, with a special appearance from Mrs Barbara Nice.

Presenter/Arthur Smith, Producer/Alison Vernon Smith

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Mark Chapman has all the day's sports news and is joined from 8pm by boxing promoter Barry Hearn, chairman of Leyton Orient football club, the Professional Darts Corporation and the World Snooker Association.

Barry takes listeners' calls on the future of snooker, darts, boxing and football.

Presenter/Mark Chapman, Producer/Ed King

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As Thursday is Roundtable day, Steve Lamacq welcomes Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer into the studio to chat about some interesting new releases. Steve also invites listeners to comment on all the tracks by entering the Roundtable Chatroom at bbc.co.uk/6music.

Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Paul Sheehan

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Pete Roe, who is currently touring his EP Animals, features in session on Marc Riley's show tonight.

Pete learned his trade living above one of the oldest music pubs in Bristol. After seven years of hanging around old jazz musicians, drunks, artists and madmen, he packed up his troubles in his old kit bag and headed east.

Three weeks later in London, he found himself touring with Mercury Music Prize nominee Laura Marling, in whose band he has played ever since.

Presenter/Marc Riley, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

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Abba feature in concert in Gideon Coe's show tonight. Dag For Dag can also be heard in session in a repeat broadcast of their February session for Marc Riley.

There's also more cool archive from the former Slit Viv Albertine, Super Furry Animals and the intriguing Trixie's Big Red Motorbike.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Frank Wilson

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Adam And Joe's Dozen Easter Egg Podcasts continue and, tonight, listeners have the chance to catch up on a podcast classic from July 2008, entitled The Return Of Dr Sexy.

This edition will also be available as a podcast after the show.

Presenters/Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish, Producer/James Stirling

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