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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.

Presenter/Penny Smith, Producer/Jodie Keane

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³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ PROMS 2010
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.

Presenter/Penny Gore, Producer/Janet Tuppen

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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.

Presenter/Sara Mohr-Pietsch

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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.

Presenter/George Riley, Producer/Mark Williams

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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.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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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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