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Wednesday 18 June 2008

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ RADIO 2 Wednesday 18 June 2008

Mike Harding features an interview with folk star and multiple ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 2 Folk Award-winner Eliza Carthy.

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During a 15-year career, Eliza has become one of the most recognised folk musicians of her generation. She divides her time between touring and recording with her legendary parents, Martin Carthy and Norma Waterson, and numerous solo and band projects including The Imagined Village.

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Her new album, Dreams Of Breathing Underwater, is released on 23 June.

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Presenter/Mike Harding, Producer/Kellie While

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US soul star Eric Roberson joins Trevor Nelson on the show this evening.

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Trevor also revisits classic soul with Mary J Blige's 1992 debut offering, What's The 411?, while other music comes from Vicky Anderson, Bill Withers and The Supremes.

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Presenter/Trevor Nelson, Producer/Ollie Embden

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ RADIO 3 Wednesday 18 June 2008

Donald Macleod continues to chart the lives of Cécile Chaminade and Augusta Holmès, two composers who were born a mere decade apart in Paris and yet whose music and lives were polar opposites.

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In an age when opera was the medium most composers aspired to, Donald and guests look at Chaminade and Holmès's dramatic ambitions. Although Holmès wrote four operas, none of them have ever been recorded so one has to rely on her orchestral music and songs to find her dramatic voice. One could imagine a very different path for Chaminade, as she had an early success with the ballet Callirhoë. Yet she never appears to have wanted to take up the challenge – despite two attempts at writing an opera she never completed one. To find her potential, one has to look to her substantial song catalogue, which reflects many of the operatic techniques of the day.

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Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Johannah Smith

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 Publicity

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Throughout the week on Afternoon On 3, Penny Gore introduces music with an Alpine connection including recordings by Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and choral music by the Swiss composer Frank Martin.

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The sequence begins today with a performance by the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra of Bartók's Divertimento, a piece commissioned and premièred by Paul Sacher for the Basle Chamber Orchestra in 1939.

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The third in this week's series of choral works by Frank Martin is the cantata Et la vie l'emporta, his very last work, completed 10 days before his death in 1974. The Alpine theme concludes the programme with Richard Strauss's one-movement Alpine Symphony – his last tone poem which vividly depicts the scenery and weather on a walking expedition in the Bavarian Alps.

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Presenter/Penny Gore, Producer/Felix Carey

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Paul Lewis demonstrates the versatility of the piano with music by Mozart, Ligeti and Schubert, recorded last week at London's Wigmore Hall, in tonight's Performance On 3.

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Ligeti's early minimalist Musica Ricercata was an attempt to construct a new music from nothing. The first of the 12 movements uses just one note of the scale, with another added at the very end – each subsequent movement adds a note until all 12 are in use.

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At the other end of the scale is Schubert's G major Piano Sonata. This was written just before the famous final three 1828 piano sonatas and, although less well known than those sonatas, Schumann wrote that it was his most perfect in form and spirit. In between these are works written when the pianoforte was a new instrument – a Fantasia and Rondo by Mozart.

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Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Ellie Mant

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 Publicity

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Isabel Hilton reports from Beijing on the state of the media in modern China, and talks to journalists, editors, academics, lawyers and commentators about the health and stability of the industry.

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The Chinese media has changed beyond recognition over the past 20 years. Where once there were only three national daily newspapers and a handful of magazines, all faithfully following the party line, now every news stand displays a dazzling array of consumer magazines, business journals and newspapers. Television channels, too, have proliferated. For the internet generation, online media and the blogosphere offer an increasingly rich ecology of information.

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Isabel explores how freely, in this vibrant media scene, the media can operate – what sort of stories it can easily report on and what others remain problematic. She asks whether the government still pulls the strings and how China's increasingly professional journalists work within the system. Considering what the main stimulants are for change in the media, she discovers, as an example of how well a story is reported, how the recent earthquake was treated by the Chinese press.

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Presenter/Isabel Hilton, Producer/Anthony Denselow

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 Publicity

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Cultural and political writer Patrick Wright continues this series of four essays that invert the predominant contemporary take on China and Britain, examining four historical episodes of Chinese engagement in Britain and interpreting their significance for mutual understanding – and misunderstanding.

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Today's essay continues the theme of inversion – this time in literature – with Chiang Yee's The Silent Traveller. By the Thirties, Western books about China were common but a Chinese book about the West, and particularly about London and the English lakes, was a rarity. Chiang's The Silent Traveller was a travel book that depicted London as exotic and its people as an alien culture. As an enforced exile, he tried to make sense of British society, partly through comparing it with his native land. His parallels and contrasts point towards the imaginative disjunctions between the East and West that were to characterise the later 20th century.

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Presenter/Patrick Wright, Producer/Simon Coates

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ RADIO 4 Wednesday 18 June 2008

In Living Memory Ep 1/4 Wednesday 18 June 11.00-11.30am ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ RADIO 4

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4's oral history series returns with four stories of major events that caused a big stir in their day, but are now largely forgotten.

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In today's opener, Jolyon Jenkins revisits an obscenity case from the Seventies – the trial of the Little Red Schoolbook, a manual for children on how to assert their rights in school.

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The book was declared both obscene and subversive by the court of appeal. Government papers now released by the National Archives show how a determined effort by the establishment, from Education Secretary Margaret Thatcher downwards, united to outlaw this small paperback.

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Morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse and the newly-formed "Responsible Society" helped find prosecution witnesses for the Crown.

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Concerns did not just centre around the book's advice on sex, but there were also worries about its anti-authoritarian tone.

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The programme features interviews with those closely involved, including the publisher and author of the book, the government lawyer who handled the prosecution and ex-members of the Schools Action Union who bought the book in bulk and distributed it outside schools – to the fury of head teachers and the alarm of the police.

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Other programmes in the series look at the wave of protests across Britain against exports of live veal calves in 1995; the banning of trade unions at Government Communications Headquarters in 1984; and the original outbreak of Legionnaire's Disease in Philadelphia in 1976.

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Presenter and Producer/Jolyon Jenkins

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In today's Afternoon Play, Listen To The Words, Tim has a problem with empathy, and justifies tapping the phone of fellow student Sophie as the only way to understand her.

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When it all goes horribly wrong, Tim books the media room of the secure unit where he is held, and creates a broadcast for his college radio station. Armed with one 1991 compilation album, several illicit recordings and a script he has redrafted 43 times, he sets about telling his story.

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Written by Ed Hime, Listen To The Words stars Joe Dempsie as Tim, with Lizzy Watts as Sophie and Sam Crane as Damon.

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Producer/Jessica Dromgoole

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ RADIO 5 LIVE Wednesday 18 June 2008

Simon Mayo's programme this afternoon includes racing coverage from the second day at Royal Ascot, with Cornelius Lysaght, John Hunt, Luke Harvey, former jockey Kevin Darley and comedian Kevin Day, and features live commentary from the three big races of the day.

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Presenter/Simon Mayo, Producers/Robin Bulloch (studio) and Jonathan Wall (Ascot)

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John Murray presents all the build-up and commentary on the final matches in Group D at Euro 2008, featuring Spain against the holders, Greece, and Russia v Sweden. Kick-off is at 7.45pm.

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Listeners can also hear all the news from the second day of Royal Ascot, and all the other top sports stories of the day.

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Please note: One of the Euro 2008 games will be aired on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 5 Live, featuring updates from the second. The other commentary can be heard in full on 5 Live Sports Extra. Details will be announced closer to broadcast.

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Presenter/John Murray, Producer/Adrian Williams

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Wednesday 18 June 2008

Jonathan Agnew and the team bring listeners uninterrupted commentary on the second One Day International between England and New Zealand, live from Edgbaston in Birmingham.

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Producer/Adam Mountford

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 5 Live Sports Extra Publicity

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Listeners can hear uninterrupted commentary on one of the final round of matches in Group D at Euro 2008, with the other game available on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 5 Live.

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Producer/Jen McAllister

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 6 MUSIC Wednesday 18 June 2008

Much lauded new indie band Florida's Black Kids take a break from their UK tour to chat to Nemone this afternoon.

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Presenter/Nemone, Producer/Jax Coombes

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 6 Music Publicity

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ ASIAN NETWORK Wednesday 18 June 2008

Zak finally agrees to go to Pakistan with his parents, in this midweek offering of the Asian drama. Pervaiz is overjoyed when Zak offers to go and buy the plane tickets there and then.

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Simran, meanwhile, is depressed about her parents taking over the wedding arrangements, but Jodie advises her to stand up to them or she'll regret it for ever.

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Elsewhere, Zak returns with Sean in tow. Pervaiz is puzzled to see there are only two plane tickets, but then Zak makes a shock announcement...

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Zak is played by Jetinder Summan, Pervaiz by Shajait Khan, Simran by Balvinder Sopal, Jodie by Vineeta Rishi and Sean by Lloyd Thomas.

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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ WORLD SERVICE Wednesday 18 June 2008

Award-winning journalist Peter Taylor continues to explore four significant militant attacks of the last 30 years in these special radio adaptations of his acclaimed recent ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Two series.

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Combining interviews with the people involved and archive material, each programme analyses an event which has influenced politics, psychology and culture.

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An Air France plane was hijacked in Algiers by an Islamist extremist group in 1994. In a chilling precursor to 9/11, the plan was to divert the plane and use it as a weapon to destroy the heart of Paris. Peter Taylor finds out how a Holy War threatened to spread in all directions across the globe.

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Presenter/Peter Taylor, Producer/Neal Razzell

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