 | | BBC RADIO 2 Sunday 30 November 2008 | |
Sunday Half Hour – Advent Wreath: God's Promises
Sunday 30 November
8.30-9.00pm BBC RADIO 2 |
For this year's Advent series, Sunday Half Hour takes the theme of the Advent Wreath, using the symbolism of this traditional evergreen to reflect the spiritual preparations for Christmas. This evening, Brian D'Arcy lights the first candle on this year's Advent wreath with a selection of music to celebrate the first Sunday in the Church's year. Hymns include People Look East, Tell Out My Soul and E'en So Lord Quickly Come. The featured choir is from St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow, directed by Frikki Walker. The organist is Christopher Nickol. Presenter/Brian D'Arcy, Producer/Janet McLarty BBC Radio 2 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 3 Sunday 30 November 2008 | |
Private Passions – Paul Rhys
Sunday 30 November
12.00noon-1.00pm BBC RADIO 3 | | | | |
 Actor Paul Rhys shares his
Private Passions with BBC
Radio 3 Michael Berkeley's guest today is the Welsh actor Paul Rhys, whose long list of TV credits range from period dramas, Dance To The Music Of Time and My Family And Other Animals, to the current series of Spooks. On stage, his Shakespearian roles include Hamlet, Edgar in King Lear, Angelo in Measure For Measure and Brutus in Julius Caesar. His film credits include the role of Theo in Robert Altman's Vincent And Theo. Paul's family was not particularly musical but, as a Catholic, he attended High Mass and finds much religious music very emotional. Some of his choices for today's programme are related to roles he has played, these choices include Ravel's Piano Trio in A minor, which he got to know while filming Vincent And Theo. Paul loves the voice of Kathleen Ferrier, especially in her late recording of Mahler's Das lied von der erde. Although he disliked the sound of Welsh working men's choirs as a child, he now finds them very humbling and moving. David Bowie's Life On Mars reminds him of his childhood and his final choice is the last chorus from Bach's St Matthew Passion. Presenter/Michael Berkeley, Producer/Chris Marshall BBC Radio 3 Publicity The Early Music Show – Vivaldi's Hidden Gems
Sunday 30 November
1.00-2.00pm BBC RADIO 3 | |
Catherine Bott talks to Adrian Chandler, violinist and director of the ensemble La Serenissima, about his recordings of some of Antonio Vivaldi's lesser-known concertos. Vivaldi wrote over 500 concertos, including many for his own instrument, the violin, along with some for larger and grander ensembles. Adrian Chandler has long been a champion of Vivaldi as a composer, and is keen to demonstrate some of his less popular works in the concerto idiom. The programme includes complete performances of the concerto for violin, two oboes, bassoon, two horns and timpani, RV562a, and the violin concerto in F major, RV292. Presenter/Catherine Bott, Producer/Les Pratt BBC Radio 3 Publicity Sunday Feature – Yiddish: A Struggle For Survival
Sunday 30 November
9.30-10.15pm BBC RADIO 3 | |
Yiddish was the language of diaspora – the language of a people on the move across Europe – a mixture of Hebrew and Middle German, spiced with Aramaic, Greek, Latin, old French and old Italian. At its height, it is estimated to have been spoken or understood by more than 10 million people – nearly two thirds of the world's entire Jewish population – and was known as the "mame loshn" or mother tongue. But Yiddish has suffered a dramatic decline over the last century. Assimilation dealt the first blow, as many Jews migrated to the USA and adopted English, then came the Holocaust, in which millions of Yiddish-speaking Jews were annihilated. The third blow came when Israel decided to adopt Hebrew, rather than Yiddish, as its official language. In Yiddish: A Struggle For Survival, Dennis Marks travels to New York to discover what has become of the Yiddish and how much of the language survives. He begins on the Lower East Side, where many Jewish migrants first came to live, and explores the musical and theatrical traditions which once supported a dozen Yiddish theatres on Second Avenue. He hears from the publisher of "The Forward", once the world's most popular Yiddish newspaper, now in seemingly terminal decline. And he explores the enormous influence of Yiddish culture on American life, its literature and its comedic tradition. The programme has contributions from the cast of the Folksbiene Theatre in New York, novelists Dara Horn and Cynthia Ozick, comedian Freddie Roman and Klezmer musician Alicia Svigals. Presenter/Dennis Marks, Producer/Mark Savage BBC Radio 3 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 4 Sunday 30 November 2008 | |
Desert Island Discs
Sunday 30 November
11.15am-12.00noon BBC RADIO 4 | | | | |
This week, Kirsty Young's guest is English dairy farmer and founder of the Glastonbury Festival, Michael Eavis. Educated at Wells Cathedral School, followed by the Thames Nautical Training College, Eavis joined the Union-Castle Line as part of the British Merchant Navy with the plan to spend 20 years at sea, returning with a pension to subsidise his income as a farmer. After his father died in 1958, Eavis returned to inherit the family farm of 150 acres and 60 cows, aged 19. In 1969 Eavis and his second wife, Jean Hayball, visited the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music and, inspired by seeing the performance of Led Zeppelin, they hosted a free festival the following year. This developed into the Glastonbury Festival, as it is known today, aiming to encourage and stimulate youth culture from around the world in all forms of music.The Glastonbury Festival has grown significantly since the first one held in 1970 and this year alone sold 134,000 tickets for the duration of the weekend. In November 2006, Eavis was appointed as the President of the Somerset Chamber of Commerce and Industry. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Bath (Doctor of Arts honoris causa, 2004) and the University of Bristol (Master of Arts honoris causa, 2006). He was also awarded a CBE in Her Majesty the Queen's 2007 Birthday Honours list. Presenter/Kirsty Young, Producer/Leanne Buckle BBC Radio 4 Publicity The Hunchback Of Notre DameEp 1/2
Sunday 30 November
3.00-4.00pm BBC RADIO 4 | | | |  |
Victor Hugo's classic tale of love, betrayal and bravery is retold, in a unique collaboration between the dynamic, disabled-led theatre company, Graeae, and BBC Radio Drama. The drama stars deaf actor David Bower (artistic director, Signdance Collective) as Quasimodo and Candis Nergaard (up and coming Romany actress and writer) as Esmeralda. Quasimodo is a disabled bell ringer, physically misshapen, partially sighted and deaf. Hidden away in the bell tower of Notre Dame, he is ashamed of his looks and seemingly without friends aside from his supposedly genial benefactor, Frollo. When the bewitching gypsy, Esmeralda, arrives in Paris and dazzles the city with her looks and dancing, Quasimodo falls madly in love with her from afar. Phoebus, a strutting soldier, is equally smitten, but less scrupulous in his attentions, pursuing Esmeralda with enthusiasm. Frollo is determined she shall have no other lover than him. Esmeralda is betrayed by those she loves most and her life is in danger when Phoebus is murdered by the jealous Frollo. It is Quasimodo who summons up the courage to save her from Frollo and his henchmen and she seeks sanctuary in the church. But love is, inevitably, Esmeralda's undoing, and the story ends tragically with her death and Quasimodo turning on his erstwhile friend, Frollo. Producers/Susan Roberts and Polly Thomas
BBC Radio 4 Publicity | | BBC RADIO 5 LIVE Sunday 30 November 2008 | |
5 Live Sport
Sunday 30 November
12.00noon-6.00pm BBC RADIO 5 LIVE | | | |  |
Eleanor Oldroyd presents an afternoon of live football. From 12.15pm, there's second-half commentary of the Coca Cola Championship clash between Swansea City and Cardiff, live, from the Liberty Stadium. At 1.30pm, there's live commentary of the Manchester derby, as City take on United at the City Of Manchester Stadium. There are also regular updates from Portsmouth versus Blackburn and Tottenham versus Everton from 3pm. From 4pm, there's live commentary from Stamford Bridge of Chelsea versus Arsenal. Presenter/Eleanor Oldroyd, Producer/Graham McMillan BBC Radio 5 Live Publicity | | BBC 6 MUSIC Sunday 30 November 2008 | |
Theme Time Radio Hour With Bob Dylan
Sunday 30 November
12.00midnight-1.00am BBC 6 MUSIC | | | | |
Bob Dylan takes Women's Names as his theme this week. Choices include Mandy Is Two by Billie Holiday, Roy Orbison's Claudette, Louise by Howlin' Wolf and Mona by Bo Diddley. Presenter/Bob Dylan, Producer/Frank Wilson BBC 6 Music Publicity Stephen Merchant
Sunday 30 November
3.30-5.30pm BBC 6 Music | | | | |
The award-winning Stephen Merchant brings his humour and love of music to BBC 6 Music on Sunday afternoons. This week, we welcome Ben Folds. Having just released his new album, Way To Normal, Ben joins Stephen to talk about his third album as a solo artist since the break up of the Ben Folds Five in 2000. There's also the usual mixture of laughs and great music as Stephen reviews the weeks' notable new releases with his regular team of contributors, Rufus, Sammy and Harry. Presenter/Stephen Merchant, Producer/James Stirling BBC 6 Music Publicity | | BBC WORLD SERVICE Sunday 30 November 2008 | |
Heart And Soul – President Lugo
Sunday 30 November
10.30- 11.00am BBC WORLD SERVICE | | | | |
Heart And Soul visits San Pedro where President Lugo spent many years as a Bishop, and finds out why the man dubbed the "Bishop of the Poor" decided to defy the Vatican and run for office. "With the hand of God he will rule. Lugo has a heart." The lyrics of President Lugo's campaign song sum up voters' high expectations. President Lugo's image in Paraguay is one of an almost Messianic figure, who has ousted one of the longest-ruling, most corrupt governments in South America. But how will the former Bishop cope in the grubby world of politics and can he really turn around one of the continent's poorest countries? Producer/Jane Chambers BBC World Service Publicity | 
