 | | BBC RADIO 2 Monday 1 December 2008 | |
Big Band Special
Monday 1 December
10.00-10.30pm BBC RADIO 2 | | | | |
Clare Teal presents the second part of the BBC Big Band in concert at the Town Hall, Birmingham. Bassist, singer and songwriter Jack Bruce also performs some of his best known compositions from a career which spans almost five decades. Presenter/Clare Teal, Producer/Bob McDowall BBC Radio 2 Publicity Jools Holland
Monday 1 December
10.30-11.30pm BBC RADIO 2 | | | | |
The legendary Tom Jones joins Jools Holland on this week's programme. Tom performs with Jools and his Rhythm Section and plays tracks from his new studio album, 24 Hours. Presenter/Jools Holland, Producer/Sarah Gaston BBC Radio 2 Publicity In Dreams – The Roy Orbison StoryEp 1/4
Monday 1 December
11.30pm-12.00midnight BBC RADIO 2 |  |
 Rock 'n' roll pioneer, The Big O On 6 December 2008 it will be 20 years since the death of Roy Orbison – The Big O. This four-part documentary tells the story of the Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, guitarist and pioneer of rock 'n' roll, whose music career spanned more than four decades and who suffered great heartache in his personal life. Interviewees across the series include David Lynch (whose film Blue Velvet featured Orbison's In Dreams); Don McLean (who covered the song Crying); Roy's widow Barbara Orbison; Joe Melson (the man credited with creating the "Orbison sound" and co-writer of Only The Lonely); Bill Dees (who co-wrote Oh, Pretty Woman); and band member Bob Moore. This first programme looks at Roy Orbison's early days, his signing to Sun Records and how Only The Lonely established the Orbison blueprint. Producer/Anna Harrison BBC Radio 2 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 3 Monday 1 December 2008 | |
Breakfast – Bach Dances
Monday 1 to Friday 5 December
7.00-10.00am BBC RADIO 3 | | | | |
From today, for the month of December, Breakfast plays a Bach dance at 8am each morning. Contrary to the view that the Johann Sebastian Bach is all about dry counterpoint and austere fugues, these lively dances might get listeners dancing round the breakfast table to bourées, allemandes and gigues. Anyone for a minuet with the muesli? Last December, Breakfast featured all the Preludes and Fugues of J.S. Bach's Well Tempered Clavier. This mini-series proved very popular and many e-mailed their view that Bach is the perfect composer for Breakfast – a ray of sunshine on those chilly winter mornings when many people struggle to get out of bed and start the day. Presenter/Rob Cowan, Producer/Clive Portbury BBC Radio 3 Publicity Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert –
Lawrence Power Live From The Wigmore Hall
Monday 1 December
1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3 |  |
 Lawrence Power brings a spell
-binding programme of music to
BBC Radio 3 One of today's foremost viola players, Lawrence Power, brings a spell-binding programme of music to BBC Radio 3's 10th Anniversary Lunchtime Concert series, live from the Wigmore Hall in London. Schumann's Märchenbilder, Op. 113, Fairy Tales, creates a romantic world of fantasy and child-like imagination, and is one of the few 19th-century works specifically written for viola. Shostakovich's Gadfly Suite, taken from his film score of 1955, includes the famous Romance, known to many as the theme to Reilly, Ace Of Spies. Lawrence Power and pianist Simon Crawford-Phillips are also champions of the 20th-century composer York Bowen, known as the "English Rachmaninov". Bowen loved the dark autumnal tone of the viola, preferring it to the violin, and the Sonata No.1 in C minor Op. 18 performed today is richly romantic and rhapsodic. Presenter/Verity Sharp, Producer/Elizabeth Fuming BBC Radio 3 Publicity The Essay – Under The InfluenceEp 1/5
Monday 1 to Friday 5 December
11.00-11.15pm BBC RADIO 3 | | | | |
 Prolific, award-winning poet,
novelist and dramatist
Michael Symmons Roberts Following the success of the first series last year, Under The Influence returns with essays by five leading poets about their relationship with the work and life of a writer who has affected them deeply. They probe the nature of influence and explore how different it is from a simple enjoyment or admiration of another's work. Illustrated by readings, some from the archives, these essays reveal threads and shed new light on the work of both writers. Michael Symmons Roberts is a prolific and award-winning poet, novelist and dramatist. He collaborates with the composer James MacMillan, writing libretti for his operas. His most recent book is The Half-Healed, a collection of brief lyrical poems. But the poet he writes about, proving that influence is not always obvious, is David Jones, author of In Parenthesis, a modernist epic of the First World War, and The Anathemata, hailed by WH Auden as the finest long poems of the 20th century. Presenter/Michael Simmons Roberts, Producer/Julian May BBC Radio 3 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 4 Monday 1 December 2008 | |
Book Of The Week – Medical London:
City Of Diseases, City Of CuresEp 1/5
Monday 1 to Friday 5 December
9.45-10.00am BBC RADIO 4 | |
Presented by Tony Gardner, Medical London charts the many roles that diseases, treatments and cures have played in the city's sprawling story, and reveals how London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine. Blending the territories of Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair and Roy Porter, author Richard Barnett treads his own path, examining the many ways in which aspects of the city have been connected to our drive to stay alive and well. Among these are the wealthy few, attempting to stay healthy and rich, and the elite physicians and the imaginative charlatans who feed off them. Richard Barnett studied medicine in London before becoming a historian. He has taught at the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at UCL, and from September 2008 in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge. Tony Gardner was a practising GP from 1993 to 2000 and is now a full-time screen and radio actor. He was formerly one half of the medical comedy duo Struck Off and Die. Presenter/Tony Gardner, Producer/Jill Waters BBC Radio 4 Publicity Woman's Hour Drama – SnobsEp 1/5
Monday 1 to Friday 5 December
10.45-11.00am BBC RADIO 4 | |
From Julian Fellowes, the writer of Gosford Park, comes this witty satire on English snobbery, adapted from his novel and narrated by Nicholas Farrell. Edith Lavery, the beautiful only child of an accountant, leaves behind her job in an estate agent's and her middle-class life when she marries one of the most eligible bachelors of the day – Earl Charles Broughton. However, life among the aristocracy is not what she expected, as she has to deal with Charles's terrifying mother, who does not approve of her son's choice. When Simon, an actor, comes to make a TV drama series in the family's stately home, Edith decides to leave her husband. But she soon discovers that life with an actor is no more glamorous or meaningful than her life with Charles and, when she finds that she's pregnant, she has to make a choice... Snobs features Nicholas Farrell as the Narrator, Hugh Bonneville as Charles, Celia Imrie as Lady Uckfield, Sophie Thompson as Isabel, Julian Rhind-Tutt as Simon, Rupert Vansittart as David, Caroline Harker as Caroline, Sophie Roberts as Edith, Bernice Stegers as Bella, Richard Mitchley as Lord Uckfield and David Benson as the Drag Artist. Narrator/Nicholas Farrell, Producer/Kate McAll BBC Radio 4 Publicity Afternoon Play – Prayer Mask
Monday 1 December
2.15-3.00pm BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
 Joseph Fiennes plays
19th-century explorer
Richard Burton In a quest for knowledge, truth and understanding, the 19th-century explorer Richard Burton – played here by Joseph Fiennes – disguised himself as a pilgrim and penetrated the very heart of Islam. By 1853, Lieutenant Burton already has a reputation as a man hungry for experience and adventure. Now, disguised as a pilgrim of Afghani descent in homespun robes, he plans a trip from Alexandria to undertake a far more dangerous mission. Equipped with a profound knowledge and understanding of the Koran, a tent and provisions, a compass, a knife, and writing and drawing materials, he begins his journey to Mecca. His mission is to perform the Hajj, the sacred Islamic pilgrimage, and to thereby impress fellow pilgrims and penetrate to the very core of Islam, the Kaaba in Mecca. In the thick of brigand assaults, natural disasters and other setbacks, Burton arouses the suspicions of one of his young guides. Aware that exposure would mean a terrible death, Burton perseveres, and he makes such an impression that he is finally invited inside the Kaaba, a privilege granted to few pilgrims. Characteristically, once inside, he prays, but then secretly sketches the interior. Producer/Peter Kavanagh BBC Radio 4 Publicity John B Keane ReadingsEp 1/5
Monday 1 to Friday 5 December
3.30-3.45pm BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
A week of short stories from writer John B Keane, read by Dermot Crowley, begins this afternoon with Protocol. In this story, Timmy Binn's demeanour reflects that this evening's visit is different from all the others. Tonight, he is on a special mission. John B Keane, who died in 2002, wrote 19 plays and 32 works of prose and poetry, including The Field, which was made into a Hollywood film in 1990, starring Richard Harris as Bull McCabe. Other celebrated works include The Matchmaker, The Chastitute, Sive, The Bodhran Makers and Big Maggie. Dermot Crowley's TV credits include Babel, Bleak House, Dead Gorgeous and Calico. Dermot has an extensive theatre repertoire, especially on Broadway, and has read many books on BBC Radio 4, as well as starring in countless radio plays. Reader/Dermot Crowley, Producer/Gemma McMullan BBC Radio 4 Publicity Street ScienceEp 1/5
Monday 1 December
3.45-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
Five leading scientists are taken out of their comfort zone and on to the streets to meet people who care passionately about a number of issues, but who may see things from a very different perspective. The first programme addresses the concept and research of hybrid human-animal embryos. Professor Stephen Minger's research into human-animal embryos was stopped last year, while MPs and the House of Lords decided whether or not it should be allowed. In this programme, Professor Minger joins the diverse congregation of St Margaret's Church, Manchester, in their Sunday Service and establishes their thoughts and ideas. Later programmes include discussions on issues surrounding the MMR vaccine, genetically modified food and nuclear power. Producer/Anna Buckley BBC Radio 4 Publicity The Things We Forgot To RememberEp 1/4
Monday 1 December
8.00-8.30pm BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
Michael Portillo presents a new series highlighting the exaggeration in the common understanding of key events in our history at the expense of other, often less palatable ones. Each programme has in-depth interviews with leading thinkers, eyewitnesses and a judicial use of archive and primary sources as an illustration of how myths and historiographies have conspired to keep some events in the headlines of history rather than others. This series turns its attention to historical moments including the Jarrow March and the formation of the League of Nations. Presenter/Michael Portillo, Producer/Philip Sellars BBC Radio 4 Publicity Wiring The NHS
Monday 1 December
9.00-9.30pm BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
Sue Nelson continues to investigate the National Programme for IT, which aims to make all NHS computer systems speak to each other and fundamentally change the way the health service runs. In May 2008, Fujitsu's contract to update systems across the south of England was terminated. Gordon Hextall, the Chief Operating Officer for NHS Connecting for Health, explains why. Sue also travels to the British Medical Association's annual general meeting in Edinburgh. Sue has been a science and technology radio and TV reporter for over 15 years. Presenter/Sue Nelson, Producer/Erika Wright BBC Radio 4 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Monday 1 December 2008 | |
5 Live Sport
Monday 1 December
7.00-10.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE | | | | |
Mark Saggers presents all the day's sports news, including reports from today's Rugby World Cup 2011 draw and The Monday Night Club, discussing all the latest football news. From 8pm, there is live Barclays Premier League commentary of Liverpool v West Ham, live from Anfield. (This game may be moved if Liverpool are involved in the fifth round of the Carling Cup.) Presenter/Mark Saggers BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity | | BBC 6 MUSIC Monday 1 December 2008 | |
Steve Lamacq
Monday 1 December
4.00-7.00pm BBC 6 MUSIC | | | | |
Lily Allen drops in to play Steve Lamacq the new single from her hotly anticipated second album. Presenter/Steve Lamacq, Producer/Gary Bales BBC 6 Music Publicity Gideon Coe
Monday 1 December
9.00pm-12.00midnight BBC 6 MUSIC | | | | |
Gideon Coe plays concert highlights from Rocket From The Crypt, captured at their Reading Festival appearance in 1996, as well as a 1976 set from legends The Band. The featured sessions come from Cherry Red Records' Indie cuties, The Marine Girls, recorded for John Peel in 1983, plus The Research in session for Marc Riley in 2008. Presenter/Gideon Coe, Producer/Lisa Kenlock BBC 6 Music Publicity 6 Music Plays It Again –
My Top Ten: Barry WhiteEp 1/2
Monday 1 December
12.00midnight-12.30am BBC 6 MUSIC | | | | |
In a programme first broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1987, Barry White chooses his favourite pieces of music and talks to Andy Peebles about his life and work. Among his musical selections are songs by The Chantels, Diana Ross and The Supremes, The Flamingoes and The Temptations. My Top Ten concludes at the same time tomorrow. Presenter/Andy Peebles, Producer/Frank Wilson BBC 6 Music Publicity | | BBC ASIAN NETWORK Monday 1 December 2008 | |
Kuljit wipes the smirk off Vinnie's face by telling him who's back in town, in the first of this week's visits to Silver Street. Later, Jas gives Greg a tour of Silverhill and it isn't long before they run into Vinnie. How will Jas and Vinnie react to each other after all this time? Mani, meanwhile, wants Kuljit to move back into the house. The problem is that Jodie won't talk about it and Kuljit isn't sure how they feel about each other any more. Kuljit is played by Sartaj Garewal, Vinnie by Saikat Ahamed, Jas by Hema Mangoo, Greg by Allen Lidkey, Mani by Kaleem Janjua and Jodie by Vineeta Rishi. BBC Asian Network Publicity | | BBC WORLD SERVICE Monday 1 December 2008 | |
1968 The Year That Changed The WorldEp 1/4
Monday 1 December
9.05-9.30am BBC WORLD SERVICE | |
Sir John Tusa, using archive and music from the time, traces what made 1968 such a climatic year: student protests, Soviet power, assassinations, war and famine. Although these dramatic events took place more than a generation ago, they seem incredibly immediate and relevant to the world today. If the events of 1968 turned on one focal point it was the American war against the North Vietnamese communists. John describes how the public lost faith in the war effort, President Johnson declared he would not run for a second term and the charismatic young Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. As riots filled the streets of Chicago and the Democratic Party turned itself inside out, Republican Richard Nixon was elected President. Presenter/Sir John Tusa, Producer/Robert Abel BBC World Service Publicity | 
