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BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 22 March 2009

Good Morning Sunday

Sunday 22 March
7.00-9.00am BBC RADIO 2

On Mothering Sunday, Aled Jones says Good Morning to Camila Batmanghelidjh and talks to her about her work which involves providing practical, emotional and educational support to vulnerable, inner-city children and young people.

Joan Bakewell discusses her new novel, which juxtaposes the Second World War and the recent war in Iraq.

Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Hilary Robinson

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Elaine Paige On Sunday

Sunday 22 March
1.00-2.30pm BBC RADIO 2

Elaine Paige is back, celebrating the best of Broadway, Hollywood and the West End.

This week, Elaine has three exclusive "in studio" performances by the cast of the world's longest-running musical: Les Miserables.

Jon Robyns, who is currently playing Marius in the West End production, performs the song Empty Chairs At Empty Tables; Earl Carpenter, who plays Javert, sings Stars; and Nancy Sullivan, who takes the part of Eponine, performs Elaine's favourite song from the musical, On My Own.

Presenter/Elaine Paige, Producer/Malcolm Prince

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Sunday Half Hour

Sunday 22 March
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2

For the fourth of his programmes on the religious vows, Brian D'Arcy looks at the vow of stability and celebrates Mothering Sunday with some appropriate music.

Hymns include: Tell Out My Soul; God Moves In A Mysterious Way; and How Sweet The Name Of Jesus Sounds.

Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty

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BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 22 March 2009

COMPOSER OF THE YEAR 2009 – PURCELL
Iain Burnside – Purcell Weekend

Sunday 22 March
10.00am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 3

Playing his own distinctive part in BBC Radio 3's Purcell celebrations this weekend, Iain Burnside digs out some of his favourite Purcell recordings, along with music by composers with links to Purcell.

Works include: Croft's Jubilate In D Major; and Britten's Young Person's Guide To The Orchestra And Purcell, arranged and performed by the David Rees-Williams Trio.

Iain is also joined by Julian Philips, who offers his own composer's perspective on why Purcell's contribution to the canon was so great.

Presenter/Iain Burnside, Producer/Lyndon Jones

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Private Passions

Sunday 22 March
12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3

Michael Berkeley's guest today is screenwriter and film director Terence Davies. Davies overcame a difficult childhood, as one of 10 children born to working-class, Catholic parents in Liverpool, to achieve critical acclaim as a writer and director.

He left school at just 16 and worked as a clerk for 10 years before applying to the National Film School, where he completed an autobiographical trilogy of short films. He has since released feature films including: Distant Voices, Still Lives; and The Long Day Closes, both set in post-war Liverpool; and adaptations of the novels The Neon Bible and The House Of Mirth. His most recently released work, the documentary Of Time And The City, is a moving and poetic portrait of Liverpool.

Music has always played a crucial part in Terence Davies's life, and arouses enormous enthusiasm in him. He sees music very much from the filmmaker's point of view, in visual terms, and vividly describes his reaction to Bernard Herrmann's masterly score for Hitchcock's Psycho.

He has always loved the escapism of musicals, and his choices include songs from Singin' In The Rain; Gypsy; and Love Me Or Leave Me. The voice of Kathleen Ferrier takes him back to his childhood, whereas he came to orchestral music (represented with symphonies by Sibelius, Shostakovich and Bruckner) later in life.

Presenter/Michael Berkeley

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COMPOSER OF THE YEAR 2009 – PURCELL
The Early Music Show – Purcell Weekend

Sunday 22 March
1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3
BBC Radio 3 celebrates famed composer Purcell
BBC Radio 3 celebrates famed composer Purcell

Continuing BBC Radio 3's celebration of Purcell, Catherine Bott is joined by writer Jonathan Keates to discuss some of the texts that Purcell set. The music in the programme illustrates Purcell's versatility as a composer for poets, and includes examples of settings of non-biblical religious texts, the poetry of the odes and some individual art songs.

Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Rebecca Bean

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COMPOSER OF THE YEAR 2009 – PURCELL
Discovering Music – Dido And Aeneas

Sunday 22 March
5.00-6.30pm BBC RADIO 3

Stephen Johnson and Nicholas Kraemer examine Purcell's Dido And Aeneas – arguably the first truly great opera in the English language. Along with members of the Manchester Camerata, and before an audience at the RNCM in Manchester, they examine Purcell's masterpiece in the light of its time and look at some of the musical devices that Purcell employs to create a tightly knit narrative and evoke tragic human emotions.

The programme includes a complete performance of Dido And Aeneas, featuring Carolina Krogius as Dido, Philip Smith as Aeneas and Fleur Bray as Belinda. Performers also include Hanna-Liisa Midwood Kirchin, Katie Lowe, Elise Dye, Soraya Mafi, David Shaw and Jenny France, with the RNCM Chorus and Manchester Camerata directed by Nicholas Kraemer.

Presenter/Stephen Johnson, Producer/Chris Wines

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COMPOSER OF THE YEAR 2009 – PURCELL
The Choir – Purcell Weekend

Sunday 22 March
6.30-8.00pm BBC RADIO 3

As part of BBC Radio 3's Purcell celebrations, Aled Jones is joined on the streets of Westminster by music historian Bruce Wood to recreate a choral "day in the life" of the composer, with music for voices from the Chapel Royal, Westminster Abbey, the theatre and the ale house.

Listeners can also hear how three modern composers have responded to Purcell's tantalisingly incomplete masterpiece, Hear My Prayer, now thought to have been intended as a funeral anthem for King Charles II.

Presenter/Aled Jones, Producer/Michael Surcombe

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Drama On 3 – Alone Together

Sunday 22 March
8.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 3

Ronald Stuart Thomas was heralded in his lifetime as one of the greatest poets writing in the English language. He spent a lifetime trying, and never quite managing, to turn his back on England and the English. When he first bumped into his future wife, Elsi Eldridge, he was an unpublished poet and she had just won the Royal College of Art's Prix de Rome scholarship and sold three paintings at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition.

She left all this behind to join Thomas in his remote Welsh parishes. The couple ended up on the western-most tip of North Wales, living in a tiny cottage that resembled a cave, and working in their overcoats as water streamed down the walls.

In this biographical drama, the couple's son, Gwydion, seeks to find out more about his parents, while Thomas tells his own version of events through his curiously impersonal autobiography, Neb, meaning "no-one" in Welsh.

Inspired by Byron Roger's acclaimed biography, The Man Who Went Into The West, Alone Together is written by award-winning television dramatist Neil McKay.

Jonathan Pryce plays RS Thomas with Kate Fahy as Elsi and Ian Puleston-Davies as Gwydion. Music is by cellist Peter Gregson, from his innovative and acclaimed recording SPEM.

Director and Producer/Melanie Harris

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Sunday Feature – Sorochintsy Fair

Sunday 22 March
9.30-10.15pm BBC RADIO 3

Hardeep Singh Kohli visits the Ukraine's Sorochintsy Fair
Hardeep Singh Kohli visits the Ukraine's Sorochintsy Fair

Sorochintsy Fair was the opening story of Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol's first collection of folk tales. The fair, which still happens annually, is the starting point for writer and broadcaster Hardeep Singh Kohli's journey into the life and work of Gogol. BBC Radio 3 also marks the 200th anniversary of the writer's birth with a new production of Gogol's play, The Government Inspector, which can be heard on Drama On 3 on Sunday 29 March.

Gogol's writing, bursting with detail and comedy, mercilessly exposed man's frailty, vanity and hypocrisy. His one full-length play, The Government Inspector is generally considered to be a comic masterpiece. And his single completed novel, Dead Souls, is thought by many to be a turning-point in novel writing, opening the way to successive Russian writers and inspiring Kafka and other major 20th-century authors. Gogol died at the age of 43, when his belief in God became a religious mania, and illness overtook him. In despair at his lost genius, he burnt the second volume of his planned trilogy a few weeks before he died.

On his Gogolian journey, Hardeep meets writer Alistair Beaton; Ukrainian author Yuri Andrukhovych; Gogol aficionado Professor Robin Milner-Gulland; and, in the Ukraine, the Deputy Director of the Gogol House and Museum and the Professor of Russian literature at Poltava University.

Presenter/Hardeep Singh Kohli, Producer/Richard Bannerman

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COMPOSER OF THE YEAR 2009 – PURCELL
Words And Music – Purcell Weekend

Sunday 22 March
10.15-11.30pm BBC RADIO 3

Actress Juliet Stevenson
Actress Juliet Stevenson

Juliet Stevenson and Kenneth Cranham read prose and poetry describing the momentous times in which composer Henry Purcell would have lived.

Born at the time of the Restoration of Charles II to the throne, Purcell was a boy during the time of the Plague and the Great Fire Of London. In adulthood he would have witnessed the accession of James II and his forced abdication in the "Glorious Revolution" in 1688 and the coronation of James's daughter Mary and her husband William Of Orange. It was an age of music, art and literature, and of the flowering of Science as Isaac Newton grappled with the theories of Gravity, Calculus and Optics.

Readings include excerpts from Samuel Pepys, John Evelyn, John Dryden, Aphra Behn and Daniel Defoe, and there's music by Purcell and his contemporaries, with a splash of the 20th century added to the mix as well.

Producer/Elizabeth Funning

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BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 22 March 2009

Desert Island Discs

Sunday 22 March
11.15am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4

Kirsty Young's guest this week is the distinguished British physicist Athene Donald, Professor Of Experimental Physics at Cambridge University.

Athene tells Kirsty about her life, her favourite music and discusses how she thinks she would cope on BBC Radio 4's mythical island.

Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle

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Ankle High History Ep 1/4

New programme
Sunday 22 March
2.45-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Any journey through Scotland's countryside will reveal the remains of villages and farms – the remnants of what was once a massive rural population.

In this four-part series, Mark Stephen looks at the efforts being made to uncover the stories these buildings can reveal about ordinary people before they fade from the landscape altogether.

Mapmakers traditionally ignore buildings, the ruins of which are less than 12" high – and many of Scotland's rural buildings have been ignored because they fall within this low-lying, ankle-high category.

But the Royal Commission For Ancient And Historic Monuments Of Scotland has launched an ambitious project, Scotland's Rural Past, which aims to locate and record as many of these rural settlements as possible before the buildings vanish for good. Turning to local knowledge, the scheme is setting up groups across the country to uncover Scotland's rural history.

In the first programme, Mark visits the Balmoral Estate where he meets a ranger who is stunned to discover that what he thought was just a pile of stones is actually the remains of a once thriving farming community.

Mark also follows a drover's road into another township in Glen Cova in an attempt to imagine the now empty landscape teeming with people. He later discovers how widespread and important whisky smuggling was in rural Scotland, hears the tale of a chapel discovered by accident and learns of the gradual abandonment of a way of life.

Presenter/Mark Stephen, Producer/Monise Durrani

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Lost Voices Ep 1/4

New programme
Sunday 22 March
4.30-5.00pm BBC RADIO 4

Contemporary poet Brian Patten
Contemporary poet Brian Patten

Through his personal reminiscences, interviews with people who knew them and their own unique poetry, contemporary poet Brian Patten brings four lost poetic voices back to life in this new series.

In the first programme, Brian explores the life and work of Harry Fainlight, who was found dead in a field in Wales in 1982. Harry had lived in constant near-poverty, endured electric shock treatment in asylums and published only a handful of poems in his short life, but this wonderfully gifted poet was regarded by the late Poet Laureate Ted Hughes as a mystic. Brian talks to Harry's sister, the poet Ruth Fainlight, and to some of the people who knew him well, and presents a selection of the poetry Harry left, which Brian regards as some of the finest lyrical work to emerge from the Sixties and Seventies.

The series will continue with, Brian exploring the lives and works of Rosemary Tonks, Dom Moraes and William Henry Davies.

In the Seventies, Rosemary Tonks, the writer of erotic poetry about chance encounters and murky hotel rooms, vanished without trace. Having claimed she'd seen the ghost of 19th-century poet, Charles Baudelaire, and invented a camera with the images of her childhood friends already developed inside it, she was no stranger to invention.

In the late Fifties the beautiful young Indian poet Dom Moraes was married to Henrietta Moraes, cat-burglar, ex-junkie and favourite model of Francis Bacon. It was a wild, volatile marriage. One day Dom went out for a packet of cigarettes and never returned. He went to India; gave up poetry for 20 years; married a film star; met the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa; and became a war correspondent.

Brian also presents an appreciation of William Henry Davies, who set out to prospect for gold; lost his leg under the wheel of a freight train; begged in the streets of London; married a prostitute three decades his junior; and, while living in a doss house, wrote one of the most anthologised and loved poems in the English language.

Presenter/Brian Patten, Producer/Christine Hall

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BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 22 March 2009

Every Slumdog Has Its Day

New programme
Sunday 22 March
12.00noon-12.30pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE

Colin Paterson presents the story of Slumdog Millionaire, one of the most successful British film in years. Danny Boyle's rags-to-riches film cleaned up at the Oscars, winning eight awards including the highly coveted best picture and best director prizes.

Colin talks to those behind the film's success, including the cast, Danny Boyle and the critics who said the film would never make it.

Every Slumdog Has Its Day will be repeated at 9.30pm.

Presenter/Colin Paterson, Producer/Robin Bullochv

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5 Live Sport

Live event/outside broadcast
Sunday 22 March
12.30-6.00pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORT

Eleanor Oldroyd presents an afternoon of live sport, kicking off with commentary of the Barclays Premier League clash between Wigan and Hull City, live from the JJB Stadium at 1.30pm. There are regular updates from the Guinness Premiership rugby union match between Harlequins and Sale, reports from the second One Day Cricket International between the West Indies and England in Guyana and news from the final of the Tennis Masters Series in Indian Wells, California.

At 4pm there's more live Premier League commentary as Liverpool face Aston Villa at Anfield.

Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Richard Burgess

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BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA Sunday 22 March 2009

Cricket

Live event/outside broadcast
Sunday 22 March
1.15-9.30pm BBC 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

BBC 5 Live Sports Extra presents uninterrupted commentary of the second One Day International between the West Indies and England, live from the Providence Stadium, Guyana. Commentary comes from Simon Mann, Simon Hughes, Tony Cozier, Sir Viv Richards and Colin Croft.

Producer/Jen McAllister

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BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 22 March 2009

Huey Morgan

Sunday 22 March
2.00-3.30pm BBC 6 MUSIC

Huey Morgan chats to Marianne Faithfull about life as a Sixties icon. Marianne also talks about working with Cat Power, Rufus Wainwright and Nick Cave on her new album Easy Come, Easy Go.

Presenter/Huey Morgan, Producer/Simon Barnard

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Bob Dylan's Theme Time Radio Hour

Sunday 22 March
12.00midnight-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC

This week's theme is "cats" and Bob Dylan's picks include: Three Cool Cats by The Coasters; Leave My Kitten Alone by Little Willie John; The Cat's Got The Measles, The Dog's Got The Whooping Cough by Walter "Kid" Smith and Norman Woodlief; and My Woman Has A Black Cat Bone by Hop Wilson And His Buddies.

Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/Frank Wilson

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BBC WORLD SERVICE Sunday 22 March 2009

The Forum

Sunday 22 March
9.05-9.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE

BBC Diplomatic Correspondent Bridget Kendall is the host of The Forum, BBC World Service's discussion programme about ideas.

This week's programme features Bangladeshi writer and novelist Tahmima Anam; developmental biologist, author and broadcaster Lewis Wolpert; and British politician, international diplomat and former leader of the Liberal Democrats Lord Paddy Ashdown.

The Forum explores thoughts, theories, opinions and beliefs from around the world; providing opportunities for intellectual discourse and debate across national, social and cultural divides.

Presenter/Bridget Kendall

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Heart And Soul – Zoroastrianism

Sunday 22 March
10.30-11.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE

Heart And Soul uncovers the secrets of one of the world's most ancient religions, Zoroastrianism. Listeners are invited to eavesdrop on the New Year ceremony of Noruz at the Zoroastrian Centre in London. Access was permitted to record the fire ceremonies in the prayer room that is usually exclusively reserved for Zorostrians.

Producer/Kate Howells

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