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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 Mayo 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.

Presenter/Mickey Dolenz, Producer/Nick Barraclough

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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.

Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Paul Sheehan

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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.

Presenter/Mike Joyce, Producer/Michelle Choudhry

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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.

Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Mark Sheldon

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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.

Presenter/Michael Robinson, Producer/Neal Razzell

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