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Claudia Winkleman meets Sharon Small, star of BBC One's drama Mistresses, who is starring at the National Theatre in the rarely performed Men Should Weep by Ena Lamont Stewart.

Set in the Glasgow tenements in the midst of the depression in the Thirties, Men Should Weep was a forerunner for the kitchen sink dramas and "angry young men" plays of the Fifties.

Also on this week's show is composer Carl Davis, a conductor with the London Philharmonic Orchestra and regular conductor of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. He has written music for more than 100 television programmes, but is best known for creating music to accompany silent films.

The Arts Show also speaks to Denis Blais, the director/designer of The Spaghetti Western Orchestra. Armed with more than 100 instruments, ranging from the conventional to an incredible array of everyday objects, including nail clippers, an asthma inhaler, cornflakes, Tasmanian lottery balls and the orchestral whip, Spaghetti Western Orchestra's five musicians from Australia perform Ennio Morricone's classic scores written for Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western films. Featured soundtracks include the well-known themes for The Good, The Bad And The Ugly, For A Few Dollars More and Once Upon A Time In The West.

Claudia also talks to British horror film director Simeon Halligan, who is the festival director of Grimm Up North – the UK's premier horror and sci-fi film festival, based in Manchester.

And Charles Gant reviews this week's film releases, Ismene Brown has the latest from the world of dance and Brian Sibley meets Paige O'Hara – the voice of Belle in Disney's Beauty And The Beast.

Presenter/Claudia Winkleman, Producer/Jessica Rickson for the BBC

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The BBC Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert takes a trip to the Plush Festival in the heart of Thomas Hardy country, the last in a series of four recitals recorded at the UK's South-West festivals.

American pianist Kit Armstrong leads the way – an 18-year-old already excelling in composition and mathematics, and rapidly establishing a name as one of the gifted musicians of his generation.

Music featured includes: Debussy Préludes (book 1) and Fauré Piano Quartet in G minor, with the Szymanowski Quartet.

Producer/Michael Surcombe

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Performance On 3 – BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

Friday 22 October

7.00-9.15pm BBC RADIO 3

The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra perform live from the Bridgewater Hall in Manchester, with composer/conductor/chansonnier HK Gruber at the helm, offer a compelling concert with ballet at the centre of the first two pieces.

Gottfried Von Einem's Episodes Of Turandot, based on the story that inspired Puccini's opera of the same name and Poulenc's Les Biches, is a fantasy dance world with no scenario and no theme, conceived by an ambitious 25-year-old composer.

HK Gruber brings, perhaps his most famous work, back to life: Frankestein!!, still as fresh as when it was first heard more than 30 years ago. Joining forces for the latter is the Manchester Chamber Choir.

Presenter/Martin Handley, Producer/Juan Carlos Jaramillo

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The Verb

Friday 22 October

9.15-10.00pm BBC RADIO 3

The Verb comes live from the Durham Book Festival, bursting with new writing, poetry and performance, and hosted in front of an audience at Durham's Gala Theatre by poet Ian McMillan.

Ian's cabaret of the spoken word features novelist and poet Jackie Kay, who presents a brand new piece of writing, and Sony Award-winner Peter Blegvad with one of his legendary Eartoons in collaboration with scholar Richard Gameson, who specialises in the history of the book from antiquity to the Rennaisance at Durham University.

The programme also features poems from the award-winning Anne Stevenson and local poet Matthew Caley, who reads some new work.

This live programme from the Verb is one of three events that BBC Radio 3 is staging across the North East in the run-up to its annual Free Thinking festival of ideas at The Sage, Gateshead in early November.

Presenter/Ian McMillan, Producer/Michael Surcombe

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Today is the very last programme in BBC Radio 4's 100-part series in which British Museum director Neil MacGregor tells the history of humanity through the things that time has left behind.

Throughout the series Neil has chosen objects from the British Museum to represent 2 million years of history. Today, in the concluding episode, he unveils the final 100th object.

The complete series is available to download as podcasts via the Radio 4 website.

Presenter/Neil MacGregor, Producers/Anthony Denselow and Paul Kobrak for the BBC

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Yasmeen Khan sets out to discover why British Asians are not breaking through at the professional level of "the beautiful game".

The first comprehensive study of football among Asian communities was undertaken in 1995, when the FA helped to fund a report by the Asian Football Forum wryly entitled "Asians Can't Play Football".

Its main conclusions were that football is extremely popular among young Asians but it also revealed that many people in football viewed Asians as either not interested or unsuitable.

A decade of dialogue and initiatives followed, only for the report's authors to conclude that despite the warm welcome, the Football Association has made too few meaningful attempts to address the recommendations. Yasmeen heads to the FA to ask what they are putting in place to try to change things.

The programme hears from the Asian Football Network, a grassroots initiative that is designed to open pathways for anyone interested in the future of Asians in football. Yasmeen also speaks with the London Tigers, a community project that helps young players with training and leagues, even going so far as to take aspiring players to and from training at academies.

Alongside the community side of the game, Yasmeen visits Crystal Palace FC and Arsenal FC, to learn how the clubs and academies work to make football accessible to all.

Presenter/Yasmeen Khan, Producers/Neil Gardner and Yasmeen Khan for Ladbroke Productions

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Colin Murray presents Kicking Off With Colin Murray, looking ahead to the weekend's sporting action, including Tottenham Hotspur versus Everton, Chelsea versus Wolves and Manchester City versus Arsenal in the Premier League.

Between 8.30pm and 9pm David Croft, Anthony Davidson and Holly Samos present 5 Live Formula 1, taking a look ahead to this weekend's South Korean Grand Prix.

Presenter/Colin Murray, Producer/Mike Carr

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5 Live Formula 1

Friday 22 October

5.55-7.35am BBC RADIO 5 LIVE SPORTS EXTRA

Listeners can enjoy uninterrupted commentary on the second practice session for the Korean Grand Prix at the Korean International Circuit.

Producer/Jason Swales for USP

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The Octopus Project provide Tom Ravenscroft's guest mix this week. The Austin, Texas-based band will be mixing their pop and experimental noises into a beautifully crafted 30-minute mix.

The show also includes a listener charity shop find and a quintessential CD track choice.

Presenter/Tom Ravenscroft, Producer/Adam Hudson

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Award-winning journalist Fergal Keane

In the second of this two-part series, award-winning journalist Fergal Keane takes a journey through the previously unheard personal archives of Nelson Mandela, bequeathed to the Nelson Mandela Foundation last year.

Fergal unearths a treasure trove of letters, notebooks, personal calendars and meditations which offer an extraordinary insight into Mandela's disciplines, life lessons, intimate thoughts and questions, shining a light on the moral and political vision which inspired and continues to inspire so many.

The series offers glimpses into Mandela's upbringing, his early years as an activist with the African National Congress and his personal relationships with friends and family. There are also intimate conversations with close colleagues, letters to his wife Winnie Mandela and his thoughts and strategies for how to become a leader and a revolutionary.

Presenter/Fergal Keane

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