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Brian Matthew is on hand with more stories behind the music, facts and figures, hits, rarities and requests in this week's Sounds Of The 60s.

The A-Z of The Beatles mops up the final few tracks issued by the Fab Four. This week, it's George's song, All Things Must Pass, recorded during the Get Back sessions. Listeners can discover when George's birthday actually was and why he was confused.

Other tracks in this week's programme come from the Kinks, Martha Reeves And The Vandellas, Mark Wynter, Gene Pitney, Dion, The Brook Brothers, Del Shannon, Pinkerton's Assorted Colours and bass player John Gustafson.

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Dermot O'Leary is joined by Parisian quartet Phoenix, whose last release, Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix, picked up the Grammy for Best Alternative Album. The band are going from strength to strength, having recorded the soundtrack to Sofia Coppola's forthcoming film, Somewhere, and confirming a Madison Square Gardens concert later this year in New York City.

Dermot also has Grafitti6 in session, a duo comprising singer-songwriter Jamie Scott and producer TommyD – who has worked with Jay-Z, Kylie and produced Right Said Fred's 1992 hit, I'm Too Sexy. Their self-described "party music" combines a range of influences, from melodious pop, to vintage soul, Hendrix, folk, funk, house and hip-hop beats.

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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ PROMS 2010
Prom 19 – Sondheim At 80

Saturday 31 July

7.30-9.45pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 3

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Bryn Terfel sings Sweeney Todd

A star-studded cast and the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra, conducted by David Charles Abell, celebrate the 80th birthday of Broadway legend Stephen Sondheim, with songs from some of his best-loved shows.

Bryn Terfel is the demon barber of Fleet Street and he's joined by Maria Friedman, Simon Russell Beale, Julian Ovenden, Caroline O'Connor, Daniel Evans and Jenna Russell, with a special guest appearance from Dame Judi Dench.

Petroc Trelawny presents as David Charles Abell conducts the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra, aspiring young performers supported by the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Performing Arts Fund, and a specially formed ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms Sondheim Ensemble.

This Prom is also broadcast on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Two at 9pm.

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Writing On Wigan Pier explores George Orwell's visit to Wigan during the early months of 1936 to carry out research for a book. Orwell embarked on a visit to Wigan, a typical coal-mining town in industrial Lancashire, in order to write a book about the people, their experiences and their struggle to cope with the effects of the Depression.

Determined not to be dismissed as a dispassionate observer, he resolved to spend time living with and among the people. However, he brought with him his guilt, his obsession with the English class system, his fiercely held preconceptions of the working class and his remarkable cut-glass voice, of which he was all too painfully aware.

Orwell stayed in an appalling doss-house above a tripe shop, tried to work down a pit, stayed with a family, made a pass at the wife, upset the local Women's Institute and met a priest escaping from fascism in Spain. While most who met him took him for what he is, for Orwell the experience developed into a journey of self-discovery.

David Pownall's play stars Adrian Scarborough as Orwell, Thelma Barlow as Mrs Brooker and the country lady and Bernard Cribbins as Grandad. The cast also includes Karl Davies as Neil, Helen Longworth as Helen, Keith Drinkel as Gollancz, Anthony Glennon as Arnold and Tom Bevan as both Meade and Ignatius.

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As the last blast furnace on Teesside is mothballed, Felicity Finch returns to her home-town of Redcar to mark the end of 170 years of steelmaking.

Iron and steel from Teesside helped build the world and the name is stamped on structures ranging from Sydney Harbour Bridge to Canary Wharf. At one time, there were more than a hundred blast furnaces lining the River Tees from Stockton to Redcar.

Now, the decommissioning of Redcar's Corus plant spells the end of an industry which defined the region and its people. It also means a bleak future for jobs on Teesside.

It was the discovery of huge deposits of iron ore under the Cleveland Hills in the 1840s which brought migrant workers from across the country and the continent to dig for "rusty gold", as it was known.

Communities virtually sprang up overnight and Middlesbrough became known as "Ironopolis".

The deposits of iron ore ran out in the middle of the 20th century. However, by then, the steel-making industry was well established. The last of the Cleveland iron miners were recorded for posterity, 20 years ago, by local film-maker Craig Hornby, who was curious to know more about his own history and heritage.

The men – then in their eighties and nineties – told stories of life underground in an industry which had been overshadowed by coal mining. Hornby released a film about their lives and the way that they had helped to build Teesside.

Felicity – who spent her childhood years in Redcar – revisits the region to see how much it has changed. She climbs Eston Nab with Craig Hornby, visits the iron-rush settlement of California – named after the gold-rush state – and goes underground to see the old iron workings. She hears from workers at Corus who started and finished their careers at the Redcar blast furnace; and discovers how much identity is tied up with heavy industry in Teesside.

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5 Live Sport

Saturday 31 July

12.00noon-9.00pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 5 LIVE

Jonathan Overend is live from Trent Bridge with coverage of the third day of the first Test between England and Pakistan.

At 1pm, there's live coverage of the qualifying session of the Hungarian Grand Prix with David Croft, Holly Samos and Anthony Davidson. From 2.30pm, there's horse racing coverage from the final day of Glorious Goodwood.

At 5pm, there's live coverage of the penultimate day of the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona, with Mike Costello, Vassos Alexander, Allison Curbishley, Steve Backley and Darren Campbell.

Presenter/Jonathan Overend, Producers/Ed King and Steve Houghton

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Test Match Special

Saturday 31 July

10.45am-6.30pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on the third day of the first Test between England and Pakistan comes, live, from Trent Bridge, with the Test Match Special commentary team.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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Raj Dhanda and Pablo Sat-Bhambra speak to the stars of new Bollywood movie Once Upon A Time In Mumbai.

The film is directed by Milan Luthria and stars Ajay Devgan, Emraan Hashmi, Prachi Desai and Kangana Ranaut. Seen through the eyes of a police officer, Once Upon A Time In Mumbai traces the changing face of the Mumbai underworld.

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Aled Jones says Good Morning Sunday to Blue singer Simon Webbe, who chats about his current role in the West End's production of Sister Act.

This week's faith guest is former Communards and Bronski Beat star-turned-priest, Rev Richard Coles, who also provides the Moment Of Reflection.

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Johnnie Walker continues to celebrate the Seventies this week with classic tracks from both sides of the Atlantic, as well as archive sessions, and is joined by Midge Ure.

Midge reminisces about his memories from the Seventies, which included stints playing with Glen Matlock in The Rich Kids and Steve Strange in Visage.

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Brian D'Arcy celebrates the feast of the Transfiguration of Jesus with hymns, prayer and reflection, in this week's Sunday Half Hour.

The Transfiguration marks the culmination of Jesus's life on Earth when he revealed his divinity to his chosen disciples.

Hymns featured include Christ Whose Glory Fills The Skies, Thy Kingdom Come, O God and At The Name Of Jesus.

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Stand-up comedian and actor Russell Kane, who is currently touring his new show, Smokescreens And Castles, around the UK, shares his Private Passions with Michael Berkeley this week.

Nothing if not erudite, Russell cites Anthony Trollope among his favourite writers and Paula Rego as a favourite artist. His musical private passions begin with the third movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, which he cites as a musical metaphor for the way his brain works when he is on stage.

Bartók's Rhapsody No. 1 for violin and piano makes him feel rustic and gleeful, while he fell in love with Chopin's Nocturne No. 2 in E flat after watching Roman Polanski's film, The Pianist.

Finally, there's Schubert's Quartettsatz – he says he owes his love of Schubert to the impeccable taste of Woody Allen.

Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Sarah Cropper

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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ PROMS 2010
Prom 21

Sunday 1 August

6.30-8.45pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 3

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Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Sir Simon Rattle evokes two iconic pairs of lovers in Berlioz's response to Shakespeare's Romeo And Juliet – his love scene – and Wagner's re-working of a medieval Celtic legend of Tristan And Isolde, with distinguished soloists Violetta Urman and Ben Heppner in the title roles, accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment in a concert performance of Act 2.

Berlioz first discovered Shakespeare through performances of Hamlet and Romeo And Juliet with his future wife, Harriet Smithson, in the cast, and these had a deep influence on his work.

In his dramatic symphony based on the star-crossed lovers' tale, he pays homage to Beethoven and, in later life, he looked upon this love scene as one of his greatest achievements.

Wagner became intrigued with the medieval romantic legend at a time when he was enthralled with Matilde von Wesendonck and he poured some of his most heartfelt passion into the opera. Act 2 is laden with the erotically charged symbolism of night and day, with the lovers constrained by propriety in the day, only able to freely express their desires in the night.

This Prom will be repeated on Thursday 5 August at 2pm.

Soprano Violeta Urmana sings the role of Isolde; tenor Ben Heppner the role of Tristan; bass Franz-Josef Selig the role of King Mark; mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly the role of Brangäne; tenor Timothy Robinson the role of Melot; and baritone Henk Neven the role of Kurwenal.

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment is conducted by Sir Simon Rattle.

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Novelist Howard Jacobson and classics scholar Mary Beard chart the inspirational influence of famous love affairs, from Tristan and Isolde to Romeo and Juliet, in this Twenty Minutes offering.

One is held up as the archetypal story of doomed lovers, while the other is a timeless tragic love-triangle. Romeo and Juliet and Tristan and Isolde have bequeathed powerful ideas about the course of true love. In fact, medieval and early modern storylines have proved remarkably robust in shaping the way people think about love. But can the components of the great romances of myth and literature be traced?

And how do some of the other great historical figures add to this understanding – for instance, Anthony and Cleopatra or Dido and Aeneas?

Howard and Mary join presenter Rana Mitter and an audience at the Royal College of Music to discuss what they believe to be the great examples of the love affair and choose their favourite readings to illustrate how language evokes their power.

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Tonight's edition of Words And Music is dedicated to poems and music by prodigies and the early, sometimes very early, work of great artists, and features readings by actors Jack Laskey and Ellie Kendrick – who recently won praise for her portrayal of Anne Frank on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ television.

The poetry comes from the young John Keats, who dedicated his ode to beauty – Endymion – to Thomas Chatterton, whose early death was immortalised in pre-Raphaelite art; and from Rimbaud, Byron and Robert Graves, whose teenage poems are in the programme.

Listeners can also hear Daisy Ashford's The Young Visiters, written when she was barely nine years of age, and a satire on class that became a publishing phenomenon in 1919.

Music includes early masterpieces by Mendelssohn and Paganini and performances from more recent musical prodigies such as the young Daniel Barenboim and violinist Hilary Hahn.

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Producer and presenter Jimmy Mulville joins Kirsty Young this week to chat about his life and career and describe how he would cope on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4's mythical desert island.

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Classic Serial – The Wings Of The Dove Ep 1/3

Sunday 1 August

3.00-4.00pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 4

The Wings Of The Dove is Henry James's story of love, passion and money, dramatised by Linda Marshall Griffiths.

Kate Croy is in love with Merton Densher, a poor writer. However, her rich aunt Maud, with whom she has lived since her mother's death, disapproves.

Maud has offered Kate a wealthy existence but if Kate chooses to marry Merton she risks losing it all. Maud desires marriage for Kate and the suitor is Lord Mark.

Merton cannot offer money or status; he cannot compete, so Kate must reconcile these two worlds to find happiness. Merton takes a journalistic posting in New York but, before leaving, Kate and Merton become secretly engaged. Kate is determined that she will find a way to have everything and when American heiress Milly Theale steps into her London society, Kate sees a possible way out.

The cast features Lyndsey Marshal as Kate, Blake Ritson as Merton, Clare Higgins as Maud, Toby Jones as Lord Mark, Anna Maxwell Martin as Milly, Barbara Barnes as Susie, Jonathan Keeble as Croy and Deborah McAndrew as Marian.

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Richard Bacon and guests chart more Top 10 news, sport and entertainment stories of the past week.

A week is a long time in politics – it's also a long time in sport, entertainment and music. Richard is joined by three special guests to recap the Top 10 biggest moments of last week.

Counting down from 10 to 1, the hottest topical moments of the last seven days are debated, analysed and scrutinised by the panel before being given that all-important chart position.

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5 Live Sport

Sunday 1 August

12.00noon-9.00pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 5 LIVE

Jonathan Overend is live from Trent Bridge with coverage of the fourth day of the first Test between England and Pakistan. From 1pm, David Croft, Anthony Davidson and Holly Samos bring listeners live commentary of the Hungarian Grand Prix while, from 3pm, there's live rugby league action from the Super League.

At 6.30pm, there's live coverage of the final day of the European Athletics Championships in Barcelona, with Mike Costello, Vassos Alexander, Allison Curbishley, Steve Backley and Darren Campbell.

Presenter/Jonathan Overend, Producers/Adrian Williams and Steve Houghton

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Tim Samuels hosts more men's talk

Award-winning journalist and broadcaster Tim Samuels hosts the third in the series of Men's Hour.

Tim is accompanied by leading males from the worlds of entertainment, sport, politics and media, with an on-hand shrink as they leave their comfort zones behind – familiar people talking about unfamiliar things.

Choreographer and star of Pineapple Dance Studio, Louie Spence, also joins Tim as a regular weekly guest.

Presenter/Tim Samuels, Producer/Jon Holmes for Tonic Production

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Test Match Special

Sunday 1 August

10.45am-6.30pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on the fourth day of the first Test between England and Pakistan comes live from Trent Bridge, courtesy of the Test Match Special commentary team.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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5 Live Baseball

Sunday 1 August

7.00-11.00pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Josh Chetwynd and Nat Coombs present ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 5 Live Sports Extra's Major League Baseball programme, with a round-up of all the latest news from the week in baseball.

There's also live commentary of St Louis Cardinals versus Pittsburgh Pirates, from the Busch Stadium in the National League Central.

Producer/Simon Crosse for USP Content

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Fun Lovin' Criminal Huey Morgan talks to Warp's experimental hip-hop head, yoga dude and sonic sound-bender Gonjasufi.

Gonjasufi is Sumach Ecks. He hails from San Diego and is the creator of one of the most innovative albums of 2010, A Sufi And A Killer. Produced by some of the finest contemporary beat-makers, including Flying Lotus, Mainframe and old school friend Gaslamp Killer, the album stitches together psychedelic soul, contemporary hip hop and echoes of Screamin' Jay Hawkins to create something utterly haunting and unique.

Huey meets Gonjasufi to talk about yoga, faith, Miles Davis and the creative process. DJ and remix-artist, the microphone-shy Jaguar Skills, finishes his excellent residency in Sharing Is Caring, bringing rare grooves from his crates via the medium of his Fifties voiceover guy.

Huey has another New York Minute with DJ Uncle Mike, dialling into the Big Apple to reminisce about a classic NY night club, and puts the needle on the record for a listener in Vinyl Fetish. All this is tied together in a big bow by Huey's finest eclectic record selection, from A Tribe Called Quest to Duke Ellington via Jimmy Cliff, The Clash, Tina Turner and The Ramones.

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Radio Clubfoot, the winners of the 2009 Student Radio Awards prize for Best Specialist Music Programme, take over the 6 Mix this evening for a special show.

Hosted by Will Gilgrass and Ashley Sykes, from Nottingham University, where it was broadcast on student radio station URN, Radio Clubfoot fought off tough competition to triumph at the Student Radio Awards last November – judged by a prestigious industry voting panel including ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 6 Music's Steve Lamacq.

On their first outing on national radio, the Clubfoot team play a mix of upfront new dance music, from house to dubstep via jump-up electro and new techno. There is also an upfront guest mix and a selection of the Clubfoot team's biggest tunes from their run on student radio.

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Weekend Breakfast brings listeners the latest on today's East London Mela, which is taking place at Barking Park.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Asian Network's Sonia Deol hosts the event, alongside DJ Kapyer on the decks. Imran Khan is headlining and Mela-goers can also experience performances from Raghav, H Dhami, Pria Khalidas, Mumzy, Taj–E, AG Dolar and Abbas Hassam, among others.

Listeners are reminded that they can hear the Mela highlights throughout the week on Tommy Sandhu's Breakfast Show and Noreen Khan's Drive Time show and they can see photos from the event online.

The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Asian Network's Summer Of Melas programme is available on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Red Button from Monday 16 August.

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On today's Bhangra Breakdown, listeners can hear news of the Leeds Asian Mela, which is happening later today at Roundhay Park.

East London Mela is also taking place at Barking Park, the latest stop on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Asian Network's A Summer Of Melas. Highlights from the Leeds Asian Mela can also be heard throughout the week on the Asian Network and listeners can also check out the photos from the event online.

The Bhangra Time Machine will be up and running on the show and a talented budding artist also gets a chance in Break Out.

The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Asian Network's Summer Of Melas programme is available on the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Red Button from Monday 16 August.

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Arcade Fire are that rarest of things – a popular, critically acclaimed, Canadian band. Ahead of their first UK festival headline slot at the Reading and Leeds festival, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 1 spends time with Win Butler and his troupe of multi-instrumentalists to draw out their story.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 1 Stories explores the musical back-stories of listeners' favourite artists, eras, genres and scenes. Previous episodes of the series have included International Radio 1, Art Of Noise, Life In Jail and Africa Makes Some Noise.

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Zoe Ball sits in for Ken Bruce each morning this week.

Grammy Award-winning singer Billy Ocean is the Tracks Of My Years guest, revealing his favourite music as he picks two tracks a day and talks about the reasons behind his choices.

There's also a Love Song, the Record and Album Of The Week, and another round of Popmaster, which fans can also play at bbc.co.uk/radio2.

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The Hoosiers play live on Drivetime

Liza Tarbuck sits in for Simon May on Drivetime and welcomes The Hoosiers to the studio for a live session for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 2's Great British Songbook – the network's celebration of the work of British songwriters featuring today's artists performing classic British songs.

The band – Irwin Sparkes, Martin Skarendahl and Alfonso Sharland – have chosen to cover Rod Stewart's Young Turks.

Following the No. 1 success of their debut album, The Trick To Life, in 2007, the band release their second album, The Illusion Of Safety, later in August, with the single Choices due out today (2 August.)

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Sandie Shaw is Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie's guest on tonight's show.

Sandie talks about her forthcoming appearance at the Vintage at Goodwood, a festival celebrating the best of British culture from the Forties to the Eighties.

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Laurel Canyon – The Garden Of Allah Ep 1/2

Monday 2 August

10.00-11.00pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 2

Former Monkee Mickey Dolenz tells the story of a Los Angeles neighbourhood which became home to a diverse mix of musical stars – including himself.

Laurel Canyon was just a bunch of heavily wooded, rocky outcrops situated a few minutes from West Hollywood and Sunset Boulevard – but it became the garden where the stars of jazz, folk, rock and pop played.

These included the jazzers such as Barney Kessel and the bohemians who settled there in the Forties and Fifties; the folk singers like the Byrds, who sought the laid-back alternative to the hurly-burly of LA; Frank Zappa, who took over the log cabin of cowboy star Tom Mix; the Doors, whose Jim Morrison brooded in the hills; The Mamas And The Papas – Cass Elliot's home always open to all-comers; David Crosby, Graham Nash and Neil Young; and the new and powerful women of rock, Joni Mitchell and Carole King.

The opening programme sows the seeds of hedonism for the Canyon as jazz and folk form its rock. The Byrds, the Doors and the Monkees settle in, and so do the groupies. It's a story of great music and stellar collaborations, overflowing with youthful idealism; but it is tempered with the exploitation of young women, reckless drug use, and the day when they all locked their doors as a result of the Sharon Tate killings.

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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ PROMS 2010
Performance On 3 – Prom 22

Monday 2 August

7.30-9.45pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 3

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Jonathan Nott conducts the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard in music by Mozart, Ligeti, Benjamin and Ravel.

Penny Gore presents the concert as the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Symphony Orchestra and Jonathan Nott perform a typically wide-ranging programme, placing contemporary works alongside classics of the repertoire and ending with three glittering showpieces by Ravel.

Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays an adventurous solo piece, Musica ricercata No. 2 by Ligeti, preceded by Mozart 's Piano Concerto No. 27, and also gives the London première of George Benjamin's piano concerto, Duet – an exploration of the contrasting and complementary sounds that the piano and orchestra can make.

This Prom will be repeated on Friday 6 August at 2pm.

Presenter/Penny Gore, Producer/Emma Bloxham

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Book Of The Week – Walking ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Ep 1/5

Monday 2 to Friday 6 August

9.45-10.00am ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 4

A man hoping to make sense of his own mortality, the loss of friends and a failing marriage, sets off into the Alaskan wilderness in this autobiographical narrative by Lynn Schooler.

Lynn is exhausted from attempting to self-build a house: a project he hopes may help revive his fading marriage. In recent times, people he has known have died and his closest friend, Luisa, is dying of cancer. He is 51 years old and concludes that time is short.

In an attempt to make sense of things, he abandons his house project and prepares to journey solo into the Alaskan wilderness to try to circumnavigate Mount Fairweather by boat and foot.

Lynn Schooler is the author of The Blue Bear and The Last Shot. He has lived in Alaska for almost 40 years, working as a commercial fisherman, shipwright, wilderness guide and an award-winning wildlife photographer. Walking ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ is read by Colin Stinton.

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Woman's Hour Drama – The Shooting Party Ep 1/5

Monday 2 to Friday 6 August

10.45-11.00am ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 4

Set in autumn 1913, Isabel Colegate's novel puts English society under a microscope – a society about to be destroyed in the trenches of the Western Front.

Sir Randolph Nettleby has invited guests to the biggest shoot of the season on his Oxfordshire country estate. The drama follows the action from one evening to the next: a dinner, a morning's shoot, a lunch – and then a fatal afternoon, and the ensuing fallout.

An army of servants and gamekeepers have rehearsed the intricate, age-old ritual of the hunt. Everything about it would seem a perfect affirmation of the certainties of Edwardian country life. Yet the social and moral code is under siege from within and without.

Competition beyond the bounds of sportsmanship, revulsion at the slaughter of animals, anger at the inequities of class – these and other forces are about to rise up and challenge the social order, an order that can last only a while longer.

Dramatised by DJ Britton, The Shooting Party features Olivia Colman as narrator Isabel Colegate, Ellie Kendrick as Cicely Nettleby, Sam Dale as Sir Randolph Nettleby, Jaimi Barbakoff as Olivia Lilburn, Michael Shelford as Lionel Stephens, Christine Kavanagh as Minnie Nettleby, Joshua Swinney as Osbert Nettleby, Sean Baker as Lord Gilbert Hartlip and Sally Orrock as Aline Hartlip.

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Round Britain Quiz Ep 1/12

Monday 2 August

1.30-2.00pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 4

Tom Sutcliffe returns with a new series of the perennial cryptic panel quiz, which has been running on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ radio since 1947. Six teams from around the UK compete to unravel the programme's trademark convoluted questions.

Literature, history, nostalgia, music, entertainment, etymology and the natural world are among the topics routinely encompassed by Round Britain Quiz questions.

The teams need to draw on the widest possible range of knowledge and employ all their powers of lateral thinking. As ever, the series title will be awarded to the team who score the most victories from the four contests in which they appear.

In the first programme the South of England team, regulars Fred Housego and Marcel Berlins, play the Midlands team of writer Rosalind Miles and Stephen Maddock, chief executive of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Last year's series win for the Welsh was a fitting swan-song for the late Patrick Hannan and his team-mate, Peter Stead. This year Wales is represented by former Mastermind champion and Who Wants To Be A Millionare winner, David Edwards, partnering satirist and playwright Myfanwy Alexander.

Northern Ireland fields writer Polly Devlin and journalist and historian Brian Feeney. The North of England team pairs writer and publisher Michael Schmidt with novelist Adele Geras, and the regular team members for Scotland are writer and critic Michael Alexander and journalist Alan Taylor.

As ever, many of the questions in the series have been suggested by listeners. Each programme closes with a "cliff-hanger" question, also available on the show's website, to which Tom will reveal the answer the following week.

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Generation Gap Ep 1/10

Monday 2 August

3.45-4.00pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 4

Two people from different generations who have experience of the health industry discuss how technology has changed society's approach to health.

The series takes a look at a broad spectrum of the health professions from surgeons to nurses, dentists to birthing specialists, and looks at how technology has changed during the course of their working lives.

The series begins with two dentists. Alistair McClean, now retired, worked in Perth as a dentist for 40 years, qualifying in 1964. Elaine Halley also works in Perth but qualified in 1992. They compare notes on the vast change in dental techniques and social changes such as the NHS, fluoride in water and views on cosmetic dentistry.

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Just A Minute Ep 1/8

Monday 2 August

6.30-7.00pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 4

Hats off to Nicolas Parsons and Paul Merton as the panel show returns

Just A Minute returns to the airwaves for a brand new series.

Chaired by Nicholas Parsons, Paul Merton and fellow witty and loquacious panellists try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation.

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Ian Payne has all the day's sports news and reaction.

Ian is joined by special guests for The Monday Night Club to discuss the latest football transfer moves and news. From 9.30pm, How To Be A Champion explores what it takes to make it to the top in sport.

Presenter/Ian Payne, Producer/Graham McMillan

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Test Match Special

Monday 2 August

10.45am-6.30pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Uninterrupted commentary on the fifth and final day of the first Test between England and Pakistan comes live from Trent Bridge with the Test Match Special commentary team.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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To celebrate this year's Edinburgh Festival, Steve Lamacq chats with festival performers as part of Good Day, Bad Day all week.

First to take the Good Day, Bad Day challenge – where a listener chooses a track they would play if it's been a good day and if it's been a bad day, and the appropriate track is played dependent on the day they've had – is Kerry Gilbert, comedian, writer and Fringe newcomer, who brings her show, Kerry Gilbert Gives Love A Bad Name, to the festival for the first time.

Plus there's the boy Lamacq's usual selection of amazing new music and classic session tracks.

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While Marc Riley continues his holiday, his old friend, fellow Mancunian and drummer with The Smiths, Mike Joyce, takes the hot seat to entertain listeners for a week.

Mike not only has an amazing musical history, having been a member of The Smiths throughout their existence (1982-87), but he's also an experienced DJ – he has presented on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 6 Music in the past and now presents his own radio show in Manchester, so listeners should be in for an aural treat.

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Gideon Coe's archive concert treat comes from The Charlatans, recorded live at Birmingham Academy in 2001. Archive sessions include The Bhundu Boys and Scottish ambient veterans Boards Of Canada, along with genuine Canadians The New Pornographers and enigmatic Yorkshireman Bill Nelson's Red Noise.

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Michael Robinson asks if the political system which has brought such amazing growth to China over the past 30 years will continue to bring growth in the next 30 years, as the series examining China's seemingly unstoppable economic advancement concludes.

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This month, thousands of students across the country are receiving their exam results. Whether it's Highers, Standards, A Levels or GCSEs, ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 2's Student Essentials is on hand to help both students and parents.

Listeners can phone the National Exam Results Helpline on 0808 100 8000 (calls are free from most landlines; some networks and mobile operators will charge for these calls) or put a question to advisors via the Student Essentials messageboard on bbc.co.uk/radio2.

There's also the latest financial information online about tuition fees, loans and grants.

Plus there are old school photos of presenters including Jeremy Vine, Ken Bruce and David Jacobs, and audio of them talking about their school days and receiving those dreaded exam results in a special online audio gallery – Radio 2's School Of 2010.

Radio 2's Student Essentials runs throughout August and Drivetime will mark all the big results days over the month. Tomorrow (Wednesday 4 August) some students across Scotland will receive their Higher and Standard exam results by text and email. As part of Radio 2's Student Essentials, Drivetime's business guru, Pauline McCole, takes a look at this and other examples of how modern technology is being used to give people important information.

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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.

New York based pianist and composer Vijay Iyer performs live in a session recorded at the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Maida Vale studios. He plays tracks from his new album, Solo, and talks about the difference between working alone and composing orchestral works, as well as his wide range of influences including the Indian classical and religious music of his youth.

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Arthur Smith investigates, and rehabilitates, the ancient aspect of vocal gymnastics – yodelling.

Despite its reputation of being somewhat naff, people love the yodel. There's usually a current song that features one; for example, Waka Waka, Shakira's official football World Cup song, begins with a rousing yodel.

Arthur finds out that, as well as in the Alps, there are yodelling traditions in Africa – among pygmies, for instance – and that they love to yodel in Korea. Dutch DJ Bart Plantenga, who has written a guide to the secret history of yodelling around the world, recounts how the yodel reached America, becoming essential not just to country music but jazz (even Satchmo yodelled) and rock, and made its way back to Africa, where the Kipisa tribe sing the praises of rhythmic country yodeller Jimmie Rodgers, whom they revere.

Arthur discovers the connection between yodelling and dub reggae – it's all in the echo. Maria Schneider, an Australian operatic soprano, speaks about yodelling the classics and Frank Ifield reveals how he became a yodeller by Royal Appointment. British yodel aficionado Paul Hazell traces the development of speed yodelling as a competitive sport. And let's not forget avant-garde jazz yodeller Phil Minton, who has a novel idea about the origin of the yodel, involving the way people speak in Devon.

On the way Arthur talks to Jean Abithol, a leading French speech therapist who has observed what happens when people yodel by inserting miniature cameras through their noses. Jean gives Arthur a yodelling lesson – and Arthur tries yodelling to the crowd in the cabaret tent at the Glastonbury festival.

Like rhinestones glinting on the shirt of Yodelling Kenny Roberts – from whom Arthur also hears – the programme is decorated with bizarre and beautiful yodel facts: how a yodeller lost his radio show in the war because the authorities thought he was sending messages to the Nazis; how yodelling was once banned because it caused Swiss soldiers, far from home, to expire of nostalgia; and how Tarzan's yodel saved Johnny Weissmuller from Cuban revolutionaries.

And through it all Arthur plays a huge range of extraordinary and beautiful yodel music.

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Bill Kenwright brings more pop and rock of the late Fifties and early Sixties to the airwaves.

This week there's another 20-Second No. 1, We Did It Better and a favourite B-Side, Devoted To You from the harmonious Everly Brothers.

Plus there's another Mystery Record from producer Day Macaskill for Bill to enjoy – or not – and a new feature of Elvis Movie Songs, kicking off with Wild In The Country in which the King (who plays Glenn Tyler) gets into a fight with his drunken brother, then marries the girl next door.

Other tracks include Petula Clark's With All My Heart, Hushabye from The Mystics and Raindrops from Dee Clark.

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Performance On 3 – Prom 23

Tuesday 3 August

7.30-10.15pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 3

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Violinist Nicola Benedetti performs The Lark Ascending

Donald Runnicles makes his first ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms appearance as Chief Conductor of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra in an all-British programme, presented by Katie Derham. Former ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Young Musician of the Year, violinist Nicola Benedetti, also features in her ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Prom debut performing one of Vaughan Williams's most celebrated works, The Lark Ascending.

Before that, listeners can hear Vaughan Williams's choral masterpiece Serenade To Music, written for 16 solo singers and orchestra as a tribute to Proms founder Henry Wood, who gave the piece its world première in 1938. Tonight's performance showcases singers from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.

The concert comes to a powerful conclusion with Elgar's Symphony No. 1.

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Journalist and author Max Hastings and historian Jenny Uglow join presenter Ian McMillan for performed extracts and discussion to mark 350 years since Samuel Pepys started the most influential diary in British history.

It's one of the most important sources for the English Restoration period, providing, from 1660 onwards, eyewitness accounts of great events such as the Plague of London, the Great Fire of London and the second Anglo-Dutch War.

Max, Jenny and Ian discuss why Pepys's work still connects across three-and-a-half centuries, whether because of the intimate confessions of his sexual misdemeanours, including being caught in flagrante by his wife; the frustrated insecurity about his career and need to work harder; or the fascinating timeless window on one man's inner self.

Jenny Uglow's recently published biography of Charles II's reign draws heavily on Pepys for the set-pieces of the age. Max Hastings has recommended reading Pepys at bedtime as a corrective to any ideas that our own age faces unprecedented disorder. They bring their own perspectives on Pepys to an audience at the Royal College of Music as part of the Proms Literary Festival, with The Verb's Ian McMillan as host.

Presenter/Ian McMillan, Producer/Zahid Warley

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Joan Bakewell is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the complex ethical issues around whether the NHS should pick up the pieces when private treatment goes wrong.

An NHS surgeon runs a busy service offering weight-loss surgery to obese patients. The NHS funds 200 procedures a year, but this doesn't meet the soaring demand. Patients are rigorously assessed so that the surgeon can select those most likely to benefit from surgery and lose weight.

Many obese people believe they don't stand a chance of an operation on the NHS. Desperate to lose weight, some spend thousands of pounds on weight-loss surgery at private clinics. Many have a gastric band fitted as it's the simplest and cheapest operation. But it doesn't suit everyone and, without adequate follow-up and support, bands can fail and patients can gain weight.

Over the past few years, the NHS surgeon has become concerned by the increasing number of patients he is being asked to see needing treatment after private surgery. They've often gone to great lengths to pay for their operation, and now can't afford any more care. Most weren't properly assessed beforehand and are now living with a weight-loss procedure that doesn't suit them.

When patients arrive at A&E with a serious complaint the surgeon treats them. But he's increasingly being asked by GPs to see patients with non-urgent problems. Each time he treats one, he denies another on the NHS waiting list. Given the rising obesity epidemic and the paucity of obesity surgery currently available on the NHS, he knows his dilemma is only going to become more acute.

Presenter/Joan Bakewell, Producer/Beth Eastwood for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ

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In Living Memory Ep 1/4

Tuesday 3 August

11.00-11.30am ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 4 (Schedule change 21 July)

In a new series of In Living Memory, Chris Ledgard recalls the first papal tour of Britain.

The visit by Pope John Paul II to England, Scotland and Wales in 1982 was a momentous occasion for British Catholics. This was the first time a Pope had set foot in Britain.

But the visit was very nearly cancelled at the last minute. As the Pope's arrival day in May 1982 drew closer, the crisis in the Falklands deepened. Many commentators suggested it would be impossible for the Pope to visit a nation at war with Argentina, a Catholic country. Argentine and British bishops flocked to Rome to press their case. In Liverpool, Bishop Vincent Malone was in the final planning meetings for the northern leg of the tour. As he waited for a call from his Archbishop in Rome, he firmly expected bad news. But when the phone went, the late Archbishop Derek Worlock confirmed that Pope John Paul II had defied the doubters and the trip was on.

In this programme, Chris speaks to Bishop Malone, other officials and people who were part of the huge crowds and congregations. The main organiser, Monsignor Ralph Brown, explains how he dealt with companies wanting to cash in on the souvenir trade by bringing in one of the world's biggest sports management companies, IMG to lead the church through the commercial side of the tour.

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Professor Robert Winston continues his exploration into the relationship between the music and the medical conditions of composers who suffered mental and physical illness.

Beethoven famously lost his hearing while still a young man, becoming profoundly deaf by the time he composed his late masterpieces. However, he was also plagued by a catalogue of other chronic illnesses – stomach problems, asthma and pancreatitis made his life a misery.

Professor Winston investigates, with John Suchet, Stephen Johnson and Dr Francois Mai, how these daily torments may have been key to the transcendent spirit of Beethoven's music.

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Lost In The Lanes Ep 1/3

Tuesday 3 to Thursday 5 August

3.30-3.45pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 4

Lost In The Lanes are three stories from new writers to radio set in the Lanes of Brighton, and beyond.

Tuesday's tale, Absent Without Eve by Lizzie Enfield and read by Jan Ravens, tells the story of Eve, who imagined a new life after her children had left home. She thought she and her husband, David, would be free to spend Saturday mornings wandering the North Laine together, sipping leisurely cappuccinos and browsing second-hand bookshops. But David has other plans for himself and his recently acquired motorbike – plans that don't seem to include Eve.

In Wednesday's story, Calling by Emma Darwin, read by Philip Voss, Tom goes on a mysterious journey of discovery. Twelve-year-old Tom and his sister first came to Brighton after they lost their father in the great storm of 1883. They left their mother at her new job in the big house, and walked to their lodgings in the Lanes. But when Tom hears their mother calling for them and tries to find her, he finds his own future.

In Thursday's story, Lost And Found, written by Graham Jameson and read by Sam Dale, Joseph has a much better day than he anticipated when he gets lost on a school trip to the seaside. Finding himself in a fascinating hidden world, he makes an exciting discovery and meets a glamorous look-a-like.

Readers/Jan Ravens, Philip Voss and Sam Dale, Producer/Celia de Wolff for Pier Productions

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Great Lives Ep 1/9

Tuesday 3 August

4.30-5.00pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 4

Matthew Parris returns with the biographical series

Cultural commentator John Harris nominates John Lennon as his Great Life, as the biographical series returns. Matthew Parris asks what Lennon's legacy is 30 years after his death.

Journalist John Harris, author of books on music, politics and popular culture, was born just as The Beatles were splitting up, and was only 11 when John Lennon died. Yet Lennon's mischievous anti-establishment position, and the richness of his lyrics and music, makes him Harris's nomination for a Great Life.

Matthew tries to define what it is that makes this enigmatic, often difficult figure an inspiring subject for reflection. The expert witness is Barry Miles, in whose London gallery John first met Yoko Ono in the mid-Sixties.

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The ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ's security correspondent, Gordon Corera, uncovers the truth behind Israel's secret service.

The Mossad, or Institute of Special Tasks, is one of the most feared and fabled security services in the world. It has been lauded for daring operations and accused of cold-blooded murder. The Mossad is widely thought to have been behind the assassination of a leading member of the group Hamas earlier this year. Mahmoud al-Mabhouh's body was found in his luxury hotel room in Dubai. The room was locked on the inside and had a Do Not Disturb sign on the outside. First indications were that he had died from natural causes.

In this documentary, Gordon Corera talks to key figures from The Mossad, which was founded after the Arab-Israeli war in 1948. Their testimony is both revealing and intriguing: "They teach you how to steal and they teach you how to sometime kill and they teach you to do things which normal people don't do," says one.

"You follow people against their will, you open their mail against their will, you listen to them against their will," adds another.

"The reputation of The Mossad, no matter how high it is, doesn't compare to how good it really is," one contributor tells Gordon.

The programme includes interviews with Ephraim Halevy (former head of The Mossad and confidant of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak and Ariel Sharon) as well as Rafi Eitan (leader of the team which captured Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in the Sixties). Other former Mossad members talk about their recruitment and training as well as some of their covert operations in the Middle East. They maintain that their methods conform to a strict ethical code but are questioned by others (including Mabhouh's lawyer) who ask whether they are in breach of international law.

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Will Smith wrote and performs in Mr And Mrs Smith

After a disastrous weekend away to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, Annabelle has signed up her and husband Will for a course of marriage guidance.

In a new collaboration between ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio and Television, Happy Tuesdays showcases a series of new comedy pilots for Tuesday nights on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4, with some of the most exciting comedy talent around given the chance to try out new ideas and formats. Mr And Mrs Smith is written by comedian Will Smith.

A year into married life and already things are a little creaky for Will and Annabelle. So, following Will's unimaginative anniversary present, they embark on some marriage counselling.

The episode begins with Will and Annabelle talking to their counsellor, Guy. They discuss their disastrous weekend in a boutique hotel to celebrate their anniversary. The comedy butts back and forth between the counselling session, where Guy mediates the dispute, and the anniversary weekend itself, where both sides of the argument are heard – usually leaning more towards Annabelle's point of view.

In contrast to Will's uptight control-freakery, Guy is laconic and urbane – and clearly irritating to Will.

Will Smith plays Will; Sarah Hadland plays Annabelle; Paterson Joseph plays Guy, Darrell and the restaurant manager; Morwenna Banks plays Sally, the receptionist and the waitress; and Geoffrey Whitehead plays both John and the TV repairman.

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Ian Payne has all the day's sports news and reaction and, from 7.30pm, is joined by special guests for the Football League Show, looking ahead to the start of the season this weekend.

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Lauren Laverne is joined by the great hopes of Californian indie rock, Best Coast, for a live session in the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 6 Music studios.

The band is fronted by singer Bethany Cosentino, an LA native who, after moving to the hipster NYC borough of Brooklyn to find her creative muse, swiftly turned back and headed home as she missed "the beach" – a subject that features prominently on the band's forthcoming debut album, Crazy For You.

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Tonight's live archive comes from MGMT from South By South West in Austin, Texas, a couple of years ago; while Gideon Coe's archive session tracks are provided by the Beta Band, Alternative TV, Fuzz Against Junk and American-born, UK-based Piney Gir and her Country Road Show.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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Mike Harding presents highlights from the Cambridge Folk Festival

Mike Harding, Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie join forces to present a three-hour music extravaganza featuring highlights of this year's Cambridge Folk Festival.

Now in its 46th year, the festival, held in the grounds of Cherry Hinton Hall, is one of the longest running folk festivals in the world and has a reputation for being one of Europe's premier music events.

Featuring an eclectic mix of music, this year's festival – which runs from 29 July to 1 August – sees performances from the likes of Kris Kristofferson, Seasick Steve, Seth Lakeman, Natalie Merchant, The Imagined Village, The Ukelele Orchestra Of Great Britain, The Wonder Stuff, Show Of Hands, Gretchen Peters, The Unthanks and Stornoway.

Presenters/Mike Harding, Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie, Producer/Kellie While for Smooth Operations

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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ PROMS 2010
Performance On 3 – Prom 24

Wednesday 4 August

7.00-9.00pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 3

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Donald Runnicles conducts the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra

Chief conductor Donald Runnicles conducts the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Scottish mezzo Karen Cargill in Mahler's epic Symphony No. 3 in D minor, in tonight's Prom, presented by Donald Macleod. The composer himself wrote: "My symphony will be something such as the world has not had before! The whole of nature finds a voice."

The Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus is joined by the ladies of the Edinburgh Festival chorus to create the sound world of bells and an angelic choir before the symphony reaches its radiant conclusion.

This Prom will be broadcast on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Four on Thursday 5 August at 7.30pm, and is repeated on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 on Wednesday 15 September at 2pm.

Presenter/Donald MacLeod, Producer/Lindsay Pell

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Rukhsana is a successful lawyer in her late twenties who lives in London, where she shares a house with Arif who, like her, is British Bengali.

When her mother has a heart attack, Rukshana returns to Dhaka to be with her family. Then she calls Arif. Her parents have taken her mobile and her passport and they won't let her leave the house. She's very scared.

Arif flies out to Dhaka, the city where he was born, to see if he can find her. With the help of James at the British High Commission, he embarks on a search which forces him to examine his own past.

Rescue Me, by Tanika Gupta, stars Nisha Nayar as Rukhsana, Richard Sumitro as Arif, Tony Bell as James, Nina Wadia as Munera, Shiv Grewal as Shaqueeb, Shobu Kapur as the mother/nurse and Bhasker Patel as the cabbie/priest.

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Ian Payne has all the day's sports news and reaction.

At 8pm, in the Phil Tufnell Cricket Show, Phil looks ahead to the second Test between England and Pakistan, which starts on Friday at Edgbaston.

From 9.30pm 5 Live Swimming previews the European Swimming Championships in Budapest, which starts this week.

Presenter/Ian Payne, Producer/Danny Garlick

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Gideon Coe introduces Donovan captured live at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 1981 and Misty in Roots at Glastonbury 1992. Tonight's featured sessions include The Faces, Woodpidgeon and Regular Fries.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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Useful Idiots Ep 1/2

Wednesday 4 August

8.00-8.30pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ WORLD SERVICE

Useful idiots is a description (often ascribed to Lenin) of men and women, mostly intellectuals, who are so easily persuaded by flattery from people in power of the truth of a cause that they give their blessing to dictators and tyrannies.

In this two-part series, John Sweeney looks at stories of human rights abuses across the world, including Russia, China, Iraq and Iran, and from the mid-20th century to the present day. He reveals how intellectual curiosity can become active promotion of a dangerous lie, and just why there have been so many "useful idiots".

The first programme looks at Stalin's Russia. Many millions died, yet intellectuals including Doris Lessing, George Bernard Shaw, HG Wells and Sidney and Beatrice Webb, aided by the Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Walter Duranty, visited Russia, saw what the authorities wanted them to see and recommended to the West what was, in fact, a tyranny. Other journalists discovered and reported the truth, only to be vilified.

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Doris Lessing admits to having been a "useful idiot" for Stalin and tells Sweeney how and why she was so gullible.

Presenter/John Sweeney, Producer/David Coomes for CTVC Productions

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Nashville songwriter-turned-solo-artist Kim Richey is in session for Bob Harris this evening.

A Music Row songwriter in the early Nineties, Kim has written hit songs for Trisha Yearwood, Radney Foster and the Dixie Chicks and, as a recording artist, has just released her sixth solo album, Wreck Your Wheels.

Though music had always been a passion, Kim trained and worked as a teacher and was 39 when she recorded her debut country album. Her follow-up pop album, Bitter Sweet, was released in 1997, followed by Glimmer two years later and Rise in 2002.

In 2007, Kim worked with London-based producer Giles Martin (son of Sir George Martin) on her acclaimed Chinese Boxes album. She now splits her time between Nashville and London and has built up a loyal fan base across Europe. She talks to Bob about her career and performs live songs from her new album.

Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth for the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ

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Celebrated composer and arranger Gordon Langford talks to Frank Renton about his influential album, Traditionally British, in this week's edition of Listen To The Band.

He recalls his earliest days as a student and army bandsman and listeners can hear just a handful of his many arrangements that created a new and original style of light music for the brass band.

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Tim Rice continues his American tour and reaches Texas, the Lone Star State, in this week's American Pie.

Featured artists include Horace Heidt and His Musical Knights, Ann Miller, Janis Joplin, Glen Campbell, Roy Orbison, Beyonce, Johnny Mathis, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson and the Dixie Chicks.

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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ PROMS 2010
Performance On 3 – Prom 26

Thursday 5 August

7.30-10.15pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 3

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Valery Gergiev conducts the World Orchestra for Peace

Andrew McGregor introduces the first of Valery Gergiev's two ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms appearances this season. Live from London's Royal Albert Hall in London, Gergiev conducts the World Orchestra for Peace – an ensemble of first-rate players from around the world – in two symphonies by Mahler, continuing the Proms Mahler cycle to commemorate 150 years since the composer's birth.

The often child-like innocence of his Symphony No. 4 is followed by the funereal, stormy and ultimately life-affirming Symphony No. 5.

This Prom will be broadcast on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Two on 7 August and is repeated on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 on Tuesday 10 August at 2pm.

Presenter/Andrew McGregor, Producer/Clive Portbury

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Some people bury them in their back gardens, while others build elaborate crypts and one man is even sending his into space. Ian Peacock explores what time capsules say about their creators and the secrets of filling the perfect time capsule.

Among the capsules Ian encounters is the mighty Crypt of Civilisation in Atlanta. Sealed in 1940, this vast chamber attempts to communicate all the greatest achievements of humanity to the people who will open it in the year 8113 AD. But this is far from the norm.

In London, Ian meets Brian Durrans, a self-confessed capsule junkie and founder member of the International Time Capsule Society. Its purpose is to chart the locations of as many time capsules as possible, and probe the motivations of those who bury them.

As Ian discovers in the society's archives, there are no rules when it comes to time capsules – the burial of a pair of leggings in an official City of Norwich capsule attests to that.

And, at a primary school in Lincolnshire, Ian discovers the joys and heartbreaks of time capsules. Map in hand, a persistent Ian goes hunting for a canister buried in the Sixties. It becomes an increasingly desperate search as hole after hole yields nothing but rusty nails and coins – but, when all hope seems lost, there's a breakthrough. Ian discovers what the pupils of the past have to say to their modern counterparts when a dirty, sodden cassette peaks out of the leaky canister.

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Issachar has been given an ultimatum by his wife, Yvonne – either the dreadlocks go or she does. But the veteran barber he visits has other ideas, in Marcia Layne's The Barber And The Ark – today's Afternoon Play offering.

Over a bottle of his "special ingredient roots tonic", the barber shares his dream of discovering the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia. It's a dream that will change Issachar's life.

Everal A Walsh stars as Issachar, Ram John Holder as Errol, Kay Purcell as Yvonne, Tachia Newall as Malachi and Faz Singhateh as Abdullah.

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When he was 14, wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson read about a bird that sings at night. Now, some years later, he tries to get close to a nightingale to record its song.

The location is Rutland Water. There are two areas here which are regularly frequented by nightingales – the Lyndon Reserve on the south shore and Hambleton Wood on a peninsula extending out into the reservoir.

Having been guided by the wardens from the Nature Reserve to the areas of scrub where nightingales have been heard singing, Chris is able to rig up microphones near potential song posts. Over the course of several nights, and using different microphone techniques, Chris is able to get closer and closer to a singing male bird – and, on one occasion, gets even more than he bargained for when two males begin a vocal sparring match on adjacent territories.

The result, after several sleepless nights and a battle with brambles and nettles, is the most astonishing clear and beautiful recording of a nightingale.

Chris's quest to find and record a nightingale also features commentary from Rob Thomas of Cardiff University and Rob Fuller from the British Trust for Ornithology, about the song of the nightingale, its composition and function.

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Jonathan Overend has all the day's sports news and, from 7.30pm, is joined by special guests for 5 Live Cricket, for a look ahead to the second Test between England and Pakistan, which starts at Edgbaston tomorrow.

From 9.30pm, 5 Live Golf brings listeners the latest from the golfing world.

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Steve Lamacq welcomes Romeo from the Magic Numbers and Get Cape Wear Cape to this week's Roundtable to discuss some new releases.

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Gideon Coe's chosen concert tracks this evening include a set from Jonathan Richman, from 1988, and Nineties New Yorkers Luscious Jackson.

Sessions featured come courtesy of Chicago grungers Royal Trux, gothy Leeds trio Red Lorry, Yellow Lorry and there's a 1994 Evening Session from the evergreen Wedding Present.

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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 1's Ibiza Weekend

Friday 6 August

7.00pm-5.00am ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 1

Annie Mac hosts the dance party from Ibiza Rocks

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 1 is back in Ibiza for the annual dance marathon, bringing the hottest DJ sets and biggest club nights from the party island.

The weekend kicks off on Friday at 7pm as Annie Mac and Pete Tong broadcast live from Ibiza Rocks hotel for a huge outdoor free party, with some big name guests including Swedish House Mafia and Aeroplane.

The party then continues for listeners from 11pm with some exclusive recorded mixes from Grandmaster Flash, Mark Ronson and Zane Lowe from Come Together, Space's Thursday night special which is one of the freshest nights for 2010.

After Kutski's usual Friday night hard dance and hardcore from 1am, the night is rounded off in style from 3am with a special extended Essential Mix from Cocoon at Amnesia DJs Andre Galluzzi and Sven Vath, recorded the previous Monday (2 August).

The Ibiza weekend keeps on going on Saturday with a spectacular night of sets from 7pm-5am.

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Judges Robin Stapleton, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and Anne Howells at a ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 2 Kiri Prize masterclass

Fifteen talented singers have been selected to go through to the semi-finals of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 2 Kiri Prize, a nationwide search with Dame Kiri Te Kanawa to find an opera star of the future.

This second semi-final programme, introduced by Penny Smith, sees soprano Lucy Hall, mezzo-soprano Kathryn Rudge and tenor Alexander Grove singing for a place in the final. They are joined by flautist Emma Halnan, finalist of the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Young Musician of The Year.

This initiative, which further demonstrates Radio 2's commitment to supporting talent across a wide range of genres, was launched in January 2010. Following regional auditions, 40 singers were invited to attend masterclasses in London with Dame Kiri, mezzo-soprano Anne Howells and renowned conductor Robin Stapleton.

The semi-finalists are accompanied by the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Concert Orchestra and their performances are judged by Dame Kiri, Anne Howells, Robin Stapleton and director John Cox. Five singers will go through to the final to be broadcast on Radio 2 on Friday 3 September.

The winner will then perform with Dame Kiri at ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms In The Park in London's Hyde Park on Saturday 11 September and will be given the opportunity to attend a three-week residential course at the Solti Te Kanawa Accademia in Italy.

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Performance On 3 – Prom 27

Friday 6 August

7.00-9.15pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 3

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Pianist Paul Lewis pays his third visit to London's Royal Albert Hall this season for the next concerto in his Beethoven concerto cycle, this time with the Hallé and its music director, Sir Mark Elder.

Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor is more turbulent than those that precede it, and shows a more experimental side to Beethoven's musical language.

The concert opens with music by John Foulds, who had a varied life as a musician – as a cellist with the Hallé, as a conductor, a cinema pianist and a composer of both serious and light music. He had a fascination for Indian music and mysticism, and this had an impact on his work. In this symphonic poem, April – England, he evokes a spring day.

In the final work Strauss places himself at the forefront of his epic tone poem, Ein heldenleben, casting himself as the central heroic figure and portraying his own life as a struggle against adversity.

This Prom is also broadcast on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Four at 7.30pm, and will be repeated on ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3 on Wednesday 11 August at 2pm.

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Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the winning entries from this year's competition for young composers. Members of the Aurora Orchestra are conducted by Nicholas Collon.

Each year the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Proms holds a competition for young composers. Entries are received from all over the UK and judged by a distinguished panel of composers. The winners have their entries played in a special concert at the Royal College of Music given by the Aurora Orchestra and conducted by Nicholas Collon.

The young composers also receive a commission to write a new work to be performed at the Royal Albert Hall later in the year. Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces the concert, meets some of the composers and finds out a little of what goes on behind the scenes.

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Ahead of Monday night's World Routes Academy Prom, Mary Ann Kennedy introduces a programme devoted to Iraqi music, with some of the latest releases chosen by World Routes Academy protégé, Khyam Allami, and specially recorded concert performances by Ilham al-Madfai, and the mother of Maqam, Farida Mohammad Ali.

Iraqi guitarist, singer and composer Ilham al-Madfai pioneered Arabic world music cross-over, modernising traditional and folkloric Arabic songs, and blending modern instruments with more traditional counterparts to create new arrangements of classical Arabic songs. Ilham al-Madfai has worked as mentor to Khyam Allami throughout the inaugural year of ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 3's World Routes Academy scheme.

Born in the southern Iraqi town of Karbala, Farida Mohammad Ali is unique in having mastered what is still essentially a musical genre dominated by male voices. Known affectionately as Mother Maqam, and now living in exile in the Netherlands, Farida is one of only a handful of artists who have mastered the complex melodies, scales, scriptures and the entire philosophy behind the discipline of Maqam.

Now resident in Utrecht, Farida works with other modern masters, Hussein al-A'dhami and Hamid al-Saadi, on the Iraqi Maqam Foundation, a project she initiated in 1997 with husband Mohammad Gomar, whose mission is to ensure that the Maqam repertoire, which now exists only in exile, survives for future generations.

Presenter/Mary Ann Kennedy, Producer/James Parkin

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Tetherdown, a play by Scott Cherry and Gregory Evans, casts a 21st-century eye over the 1896 Muswell Hill Murder, a crime that captured the appalled attention of the world.

In 1896 in the well-heeled London suburb of Muswell Hill, Henry Smith, a retired engineer, is found tied-up and beaten to death in his own home. Scotland Yard detectives are on the scene within the hour but their investigations are hampered by judges and politicians who refuse to recognise the latest breakthrough in forensic science – fingerprints. "The British policeman," says a high court judge, "must depend on his customary tenacity and ingenuity."

As the detectives identify suspects and launch a nationwide manhunt, news of the crime goes global with reports in newspapers as far away as the US and New Zealand.

Tetherdown – the name of the road where the murder took place – is a fast-moving play which views these tragic events of more than a century ago through the prism of 2010. Every character is based on a real person connected to the case.

The cast stars Nicholas Woodeson (Great Expectations; Conspiracy; Red Riding) as Detective Constable Burrell, Sean Baker as Inspector Marshall, Ben Crowe as Nutkins, Alison Pettitt as Emily, Tony Bell as Milsom, Jude Akuwudike as Fowler and Ian Masters as the judge.

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George Riley presents a round-up of all the day's sports news and the Weekend Preview Show, looking ahead to this weekend's sporting action, including the start of the Championship and Football League season and Sunday's Charity Shield.

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Test Match Special

Friday 6 August

10.45am-6.30pm ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

The Test Match Special commentary team present uninterrupted commentary on the opening day of the second Test between England and Pakistan, live from Edgbaston.

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Lauren Laverne is joined by the Dandy Warhols for a live session in the ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ 6 Music studios.

The Portland, Oregon legends, best known for their Top 5 single Bohemian Like You, have been playing together for 17 years and released The Capitol Years: 1995-2007, a collection of the band's singles with that label, in July.

Presenter/Lauren Laverne, Producer/Gary Bales

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Every year, around 1,000 South Korean children are given up for adoption in western countries.

The overseas adoption programme began in the Fifties, when masses of children found themselves orphaned after the Korean War. Approximately 200,000 Korean children have been adopted overseas during the past 60 years. About 300 of them have since returned to live in Korea – and many are now involved in trying to change the adoption laws.

³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ journalist Ellen Otzen meets Jane Trenka and Suki Leith, both of whom were adopted by American families, to explore the impact that foreign adoption has had on them.

South Korea is now one of the world's most developed countries, and has one of the lowest birth rates globally. Successive governments have pledged to end the practice of international adoption. Ellen investigates why Korean children are still being sent overseas.

Presenter/Ellen Otzen, Producer/Penny Dale

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