 | | BBC RADIO 2 Thursday 29 May 2008 | |
Bob Harris Country
Thursday 29 May
7.00-8.00pm BBC RADIO 2 | | | | |
Bob Harris's guest this week is singer-songwriter Eilen Jewell. Citing her main influences as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan, Eilen creates a timeless sound, merging folk, blues, jazz and traditional country. Eilen grew up in Boise, Idaho, where her first love was the rock 'n' roll of the Fifties and Sixties, which she heard on local "oldie" radio stations. She began performing at farmers' markets and local bars in Santa Fe, as a college student, before moving to Los Angeles, where she became a fixture in the Venice Beach street circuit. Summer 2007 brought Jewell's first national release, Letters From Sinners & Strangers, which reached the Top 10 on the Americana weekly radio chart in addition to being listed on many "best of" lists for 2007. Presenter/Bob Harris, Producer/Al Booth BBC Radio 2 Publicity Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Thursday 29 May
11.00pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2 | | | | |
There's hell to pay in this week's Theme Time Radio Hour as Bob Dylan talks about The Devil and all his aliases. Music featured includes: Me And The Devil Blues by Robert Johnson; Satan Is Real by The Louvin Brothers; Devil In Disguise by Elvis Presley; The Devil In Disguise by The Flying Burrito Brothers; Suzanne Beware Of The Devil by Dandy Livingston; Devil's Haircut by Beck; Race With The Devil by Gene Vincent; and Way Down In The Hole by Tom Waits. Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/Phil Hughes BBC Radio 2 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 3 Thursday 29 May 2008 | |
Composer Of The Week – Delius Ep 4/5
Bank Holiday Monday 26 to Friday 30 May
12.00-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3 | | | | |
Donald Macleod explores the relationship between Frederick Delius and Thomas Beecham, as he continues to chart the life and music of the uncompromising composer. Given Delius's dim view of culture in the country of his birth, it's ironic that perhaps his most valued supporter was the quintessentially English conductor Sir Thomas Beecham, who is the subject of this fourth programme. Listeners can hear Beecham, thanks to a BBC interview, pronouncing on what he perceived to be the "abysmal depth of ineptitude" in Delius's own conducting, but also the enormous respect he had for the man and his music. The programme opens with one of the numerous landmark recordings which Beecham made of the composer's recordings, and which Delius would play endlessly, for comfort, during his final illness. Presenter/Donald Macleod, Producer/Michael Surcombe BBC Radio 3 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 4 Thursday 29 May 2008 | |
Off The Page – Luvvies
Thursday 29 May
11.30am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
A special recording, in which Dominic Arkwright invites his panel to write about and argue over "luvvies", comes from the Hay Festival of creative writing. The word "luvvies" has captured and divided opinion right from its first verifiable public usage – in a 1988 Guardian newspaper article about Stephen Fry. Off The Page explores the question of whether "luvvies" are to be loved or loathed. As the word breaks free of its theatrical roots – with the birth of media "luvvies", Labour "luvvies" and literary "luvvies" – Dominic asks his panel what the symptoms are and whether "luvvies" can be sincere. Exploring the truth behind luvviedom are: Peggy Reynolds, presenter of Adventures In Poetry; and Roger Lewis, author of sharp-tongued biographies of Laurence Olivier and Peter Sellers. Producer/Miles Warde BBC Radio 4 Publicity | | BBC 6 MUSIC Thursday 29 May 2008 | |
George Lamb
Thursday 29 May
10.00am-1.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC | | | | |
George Lamb welcomes Minneapolis-based, indie-rock band Tapes 'n' Tapes into the 6 Music hub to perform live. Presenter/George Lamb, Producer/Mike Hanson BBC 6 Music Publicity Gideon Coe
Thursday 29 May
10.00pm-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC | | | | |
Gideon Coe's archive gems this evening include highlights from Hawkwind, recorded in 1972, and Dogs Die In Hot Cars at Summer Sundae in 2004, plus John Peel session tracks from 23 Skidoo. Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock BBC 6 Music Publicity | | BBC ASIAN NETWORK Thursday 29 May 2008 | |
Arun's job at Saffron Rays goes from bad to worse, in today's visit to Silver Street. Vinnie is bossing him around and then Arun mistakes flower foliage for herbs. A big booking brings the promise of tips but whether any of them will end up in Arun's pocket remains to be seen. Elsewhere, Kuljit teases Krishan about roping Jodie into helping him with a school project. Later, Krishan's questions seem more personal than businesslike. Arun is played by Naithan Ariane, Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed, Kuljit by Sartaj Garewal, Krishan by Rahual Das and Jodie by Vineeta Rishi.
BBC Asian Network Publicity | | BBC WORLD SERVICE Thursday 29 May 2008 | |
Assignment
Thursday 29 May
10.05-10.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE | | | | |
When President Sarkozy of France negotiated the release of six Bulgarian medics from prison in Libya last summer, it opened the way for a series of multi-billion dollar business deals between Libya and Europe. The six medics – falsely accused of infecting Libyan children with HIV – had been brutally tortured and then sentenced to death by a court in Tripoli. Their release freed European politicians and companies to pursue massive oil and gas contracts with Libya's Colonel Gaddafi. Lucy Ash takes a closer look at the deal which set the Bulgarians free and clinched massive contracts for French companies. And, five years after Gaddafi's historic decision to abandon the development of nuclear weapons, the programme asks whether new trade deals and diplomatic contacts are encouraging Libya to abandon torture and oppression for political reform and human rights improvements. Presenter/Lucy Ash, Producer/Andy Denwood BBC World Service Publicity One Planet – Lake Kivu
Thursday 29 May
10.30-11.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE | | | | |
English For Africa producer Kevin Mwachiro explores Rwanda's plans to become the region's main energy producer – selling power to neighbouring countries. Lake Kivu lies across geological and political fault lines bordering Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The area is currently a route for arms smugglers and the lake is notorious as the graveyard of many victims of the 1994 genocide. Now the government of Rwanda wants to harness methane, oozing out below the lake, for electricity production. The programme is part of BBC World Service's annual Documentary Bursary Scheme, which gives BBC language service staff the opportunity to make programmes for broadcast on the English network. Presenter/Kevin Mwachiro, Producer/Julian Siddle BBC World Service Publicity | 
