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Il vagabondo delle stelle by Jack London 4. Gli anni fulgenti di Miss Brodie by Muriel Spark 3. He will also be playing some of his music live for Radio 2 listeners. Elaborate choruses, fabulously operatic solo writing - by turns dramatic, expressive and humorous - have made this extraordinary piece one of the icons of the 19th century choral repertoire. Live from the Royal Albert Hall, London. Film directors have reached for these works by Strauss and Holst in their attempts to explain the human condition against the infinite background of space.
The depiction of astrological characters in The Planets - from the cheeky game-play of Mercury to the shattering impact of Mars - could be made for the resonance of the Royal Albert Hall.
London premiere Richard Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra Holst: Colin Matthews's Pluto, the Renewer. Wells was born years ago this year. Although a prolific writer in many genres, he is best known today for his science fiction books, The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine. In the barely-known Governor of Arkansas is beginning to get some traction in the Democratic Presidential Primaries.
Bill Clinton, son of a travelling salesman, wants the nomination to take on incumbent President George H. Bush, popular victor of the first Gulf War. Then the story of Gennifer Flowers surfaces - she claims she had a year affair with Bill. It is dragging down his campaign. In a special interview broadcast straight after the Super Bowl, picking up its audience of million, she puts both their careers on the line.
Fenella Woolgar Bill Clinton Kerry Shale Betsey Wright Laurel Lefkow James Carville Jason Barnett George Stephanopoulos Tolkien, as Oxford academic Dr Stuart Lee, discovers the unheard offcuts from an interview given by the author. Tolkien gave the interview for a BBC film in , but only a tiny part of it was used in the broadcast programme.
It was one of only a handful of recorded interviews he ever gave, and was also to be his last. For the director, Leslie Megahey, only 23 at the time, this was his first film, and the one that launched a prestigious career. The programme reunites him with three others: What emerges is a picture of a playful academic whose fiction was little respected by adults at the time and looked down on as a lesser form of literature. A Woman Of No Importance. This audacious drama of social scandal centres around the revelation of Mrs Arbuthnot's long-concealed secret. Gerald's mother stands in the way of his appointment, but fears to tell him why, for who will believe Lord Illingworth to be a man of no importance?
Jesus Christ Superstar, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Time Rice, began life as a concept album before making its debut on Broadway in and transferring to the West End the following year. Unlike most such works, the musical is sung all the way through, with no spoken dialogue. Containing a couple of compositions that predated the original album release, the story was largely based on the Synoptic Gospels and Fulton J.
To round off, Julian Clary, who plays Herod, chooses two pieces of music significant to his life in Inheritance Tracks Saturday 6th August, Supernatural sleuths the Scarifyers return to stop sinister forces resurrecting Britain's greatest-ever hero in their eighth adventure, The Thirteen Hallows. The trail of inexplicable happenings leads to South Wales, the mysterious Mr Merriman, a boisterous 1,year-old knight and an unlikely plot to find the final resting place of King Arthur. Plus the day's news with Charlie Charlton.
Fighting Talk - Olympic Edition. Mark Pougatch is at Lake Lagoa for the start of the Olympic rowing regatta. Then from 5pm until 10pm Eleanor Oldroyd presents live from the Olympic Park in Rio with continued coverage. Plus more women's rugby sevens action as Great Britain face Japan. Updates from the Olympics continue on the Stephen Nolan show that follows between 10pm and midnight. Live ball-by-ball commentary from the fourth day of the third test between England and Pakistan at Edgbaston.
The Caribbean Musical Melting Pot. Music from all over the Caribbean is gaining international recognition as it increasingly draws on influences from all around the world. Puerto Rico has brought the world Reggaeton - once an edgy underground music movement on a par with the early days of hip-hop. Gemma explores if this new music reflects a changing Caribbean, one that is more outward and proud of its musical tradition and cultural origins, and less preoccupied with the pain of a colonial past.
In this second programme, Gemma reports on attempts to keep musical traditions alive in both Guadeloupe and Puerto Rico. Many young people are rediscovering their Creole music and language as a result. Meanwhile in Puerto Rico, musicians have created their own version of 'soca' - the sound which contributed to the international success of Reggaeton. That success has led to many of the musicians have left to places like Miami to exploit their commercial success.
This concert features Bruch's Violin Concerto No. A violinists' favourite throughout the years since its premiere, Bruch's Violin Concerto seems custom-made for the Taiwan-born virtuoso Ray Chen. Brought up in Australia and schooled in the US, Chen exemplifies a new generation of classical soloists - those who reach their audiences via traditional methods like sell-out concerts, as well as through prolific use of online platforms. Chen has a huge following on social media, writes a blog for a leading Italian newspaper and has fashion houses dress him for the stage.
Inspired by the freedom-loving poetry of Walt Whitman, the work has maintained its visionary appeal in the century that has elapsed since its premiere.
Michael Ball presents his Sunday show featuring great music, special guests and listener interaction. This week, he hosts a live session from Beverley Knight. The multi-award-winning soul singer has just released her new album, Soulsville, and performs two songs live in the studio. It features a number of classic soul covers plus tracks written by Beverley. With The Firebird of , Stravinsky was immediately recognised as the most important musical voice of the new century. His relentless rhythmic drive and hypnotising orchestral colours are heard to full advantage in a performance of the complete ballet under the charismatic Ilan Volkov.
Piano Concerto No 2 in G major Stravinsky: One tale laughs at a case of mistaken identity with Mrs Kukabina; the other describes some rather strange letters, which require even stranger replies. In The Rite of Spring, rhythm was shockingly prioritised over harmony - and pounding, jagged, brutal rhythm at that. Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor original version, Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring. Recorded earlier this evening at Imperial College Union. This series presents three snapshots of Italian life written in the past 15 years.
The first story, Journey In Red Shoes by Simona Vinci, has a dark and troubling undercurrent as a single mother and her three daughters travel back to her family in Bologna. The youngest girl has been crying for days and her two half-sisters are struggling to deal with it. So too is their mother, who cannot fathom why her four year-old is so full of inarticulate despair. Simona Vinci was born in in Milan. She studied and now lives in Bologna and, early in her career, was part of a group of young writers who published the online magazine, Incubatoio She is one of the authors most commonly associated with the Giovani Cannibali Young Cannibals movement.
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- Gli Adelphi.
- Bretts First Day of School (I am a STAR Personalized Book Series 1).
Winner of four Olympic gold medals, six track World Championship gold medals and the first Briton to win the Tour de France, cycling is in his blood. His parents met through the sport - his Australian father was himself a professional and his British mother a keen follower. His father left the family when Bradley was still a toddler and it was his mum Linda who helped him pursue his dreams of being a champion cyclist.
Inspired by Chris Boardman's success at the Barcelona Olympics, by the age of 16 he'd won gold, silver and bronze at the Junior National Track Championships and was called up to the National Squad. He was Junior World Champion at 18 years old. There are also finals for the men's m freestyle, the women's m individual medley and the women's 4 x m freestyle final. Plus women's hockey as Great Britain take on Australia.
Will Gompertz takes a fresh look at this week in the arts, with conversation on the big stories in music, film, fashion, and books, and a look at how culture connects with our everyday lives. Plus judo, women's rugby sevens, and men's hockey coverage as Great Britain face New Zealand.
The programme will include updates from this afternoon's Olympic events and Sheffield Wednesday v Aston Villa in the Championship. The show features Don's selections cross time, space and genre and includes Crucial Vinyl from Us3. Each week, as well as blending key new releases with classics from the UK, USA, Jamaica, Africa and beyond, Don highlights a piece of Crucial Vinyl — a cherished album from his own collection.
He explains why it means so much to him and features three key tracks.
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First hitting screens in , the programme features a diverse mix of music from different regions of the country, including compositions by new musicians and updated versions of well-known Bollywood tracks. Punjabi vocalist Inderjit Nikku joins Dipps in the studio for a chat and producer Tru Skool speaks to Dipps about his latest project. Plus, the Track of the Week, all the latest Bhangra music and more. In this programme for BBC World Service we hear how she is approaching the new world she is learning to negotiate.
As her vision gradually fades, she goes in search of people who may show her new possibilities and new ways of being. She talks to her brother, who lives with the same eye condition; her godson Tiago, who takes her hand in the warm waves on the beaches of Brazil; and the writer and thinker Dr Oliver Sacks, in one of the last interviews before his death. Oliver Sacks was a neurologist who changed the way many people think about so called 'disabilities'. Monica met him in his New York flat where they found themselves discussing ways of approaching the onset of blindness, not only with understanding, but also with humour.
Swimming, he tells Monica, is the one place he feels free and in his own skin and advises her to try and find her own version of swimming. She also hears from academic and writer Professor Georgina Kleege, who has explored the relationship between blindness and social inclusion.
LeAnn rose to fame aged just 13 following the release of the Bill Mack song Blue — becoming the youngest country music star since Tanya Tucker in Throughout August, Nell celebrates the fantastic female artists who've influenced her songwriting and music. In part two tonight, Nell celebrates her angels of rock including music from Chrissie Hynde, Blondie and Garbage. Edinburgh International Festival Neue Liebe, neues Leben Op. Abendlied unterm gestirnten Himmel WoO Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte Op. Live from Cadogan Hall, London.
Adieu Satie - excerpts HK Gruber: The international line-up includes Canadian jazz pianist Ron Davis and his quartet showcasing the classical-jazz fusion of Symphronica; vocalist Daniela Nardi, who gives listeners a flavour of her Italian flavoured Espresso Manifesto; American concert pianist George Li takes to the baby grand in the BBC's Big Blue Tent; and the young British Ferio Saxophone Quartet bring rich harmonies and exuberant playing. Composer Of The Week: Today, an overview of his huge and diverse musical output. Bach was an early and abiding passion, thanks, apparently, to a favourite aunt who played him extracts from The Well-Tempered Clavier.
Yet he ended his days disillusioned with the Brazilian musical scene, he said: The country is dominated by mediocrity; for each mediocre person that dies, five more are born. Music featured in this programme includes: To complete the week, Donald examines how fame and fortune yield a steady stream of commissions.
From hushed strings and woodwind cuckoos, it breaks into a forthright stride towards, eventually, a blazing affirmation of camaraderie and confidence. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the symphony here with his own Philharmonia Orchestra, following meditations on loss from Arnold Schoenberg and centenary composer Henri Dutilleux, whose The Shadows of Time was inspired by the diaries of Anne Frank and written to mark 50 years since the end of World War Two. A Survivor from Warsaw Dutilleux: After Auschwitz In front of a small audience, Eva Schloss, step-sister of Anne Frank, discusses her memoir After Auschwitz, in which she relates the trauma of fleeing her comfortable home in Vienna to escape Nazi persecution, to the relative safety of Amsterdam where she meets, amongst many others, a young, vivacious Anne Frank.
Amsterdam stays safe only until the Nazis invade, at which point her family are forced to go into hiding. Betrayed by Nazi double agents working for the Resistance, Eva and her family are sent in cattle trucks to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where she and her mother are separated from her father and brother. After a gruelling eight months barely surviving the horrors of the concentration camp and where both mother and daughter only narrowly escape being sent to the gas chambers, Eva and her mother are two of the lucky few to still be alive when the Russians come to liberate the camp in January A long, eventful journey home brings them eventually back to Amsterdam where they hope beyond hope to be reunited with the rest of their family.
Eva Schloss carries this work on tirelessly today. After reading several extracts from her memoir, After Auschwitz, Eva responds to audience members questions about what they have heard. Playing The Skyline Series 2. Tim Marlow joins two musicians as they look at how the land meets the air, and imagine it as music. They give their responses, then begin playing the skyline, before creating new pieces. Later, Tim hears how they are getting on and, finally, the musicians, Tim and Radio 4 listeners hear their finished works.
On old nautical charts as well as the bird's eye view, there is often a coastal profile - the outline of the land seen from the point of view of a sailor approaching it. Radio producer Julian May was struck by the musicality of these: Musicians could, he thought, take the line dividing the earth from the air, place it on a stave - literally or imaginatively - and play the skyline. In the first of this new series, Kathryn Tickell and Hannabiell Sanders turn the skyline of Newcastle into music.
At the old Baltic flour mill by the Tyne they look upstream, where the great curves of the Sage concert hall and the bridges meet, to be end-stopped by the square solidity of the castle, from which the city gets its name. How would she describe her music?
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Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt, Graham Green's comic 'entertainment' is set in rural Spain a few years after the death of Franco. In this opening episode, Father Quixote makes a friend of an Italian bishop - with unexpected consequences. Susan Jameson The Italian Bishop The Ideas That Make Us. Bettany Hughes considers changing ideas about character at an ancient Greek palace, on a stage, at a political think-tank, and in a prison kitchen.
Award-winning historian and broadcaster Bettany begins each programme with the first, extant evidence of a single word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels both forwards and backwards in time, investigating how these ideas have been moulded by history and how they've shaped us. In this programme, she explores character with experts from the humanities and sciences, people who see these big philosophical ideas playing out in their own lives, including archaeologist Michael Cosmopoulos, writer and historian Hannah Dawson, and classicist Paul Cartledge.
Bettany travels to a new archaeological excavation in Greece to see where these ideas were born and then explores the street markets, churches, offices and homes where they continue to morph and influence daily lives. Other ideas in this series are harmony, narcissism, technology and hubris. Ideas examined previously include idea, desire, agony, fame, justice, wisdom, comedy, liberty, peace and hospitality, virtue, psyche, charisma, irony and nemesis.
A series in which poets and storytellers respond to stories underneath the world news headlines. It runs through the programme and is interwoven with personal testimonies from those who experienced the crisis in the country first hand. Listeners hear from Ebola survivors, from the leader of a burial team, a nurse who kept a hospital running virtually single-handedly, a woman who took in Ebola orphans, and also from the children caught up in the crisis and now coping with its aftermath.
Nicholas Parsons and guests return for the 76th series of the panel show where participants must try to speak for 60 seconds without hesitation, deviation or repetition. That's no small order after nearly 50 years. Paul Merton - now the second most prolific player of the game after Kenneth Williams - will be joined by guests including series regulars Josie Lawrence, Sheila Hancock, Marcus Brigstocke and Gyles Brandreth. Hayley Sterling blows the whistle.
Written in , Wallace wrote a series of 24 short stories featuring street-wise London police constable PC Lee. Wallace himself features in some, with PC Lee recounting his adventures as a bobby on the beat in and around the district of Notting Dale. In the opening story called Mr Simmons' Profession, there's a mysterious new local resident and PC Lee is asked to keep an eye on him. The local underworld is curious but quite what the stranger does, nobody knows.
At nine days old, he was adopted by a Billingsgate fish porter. Aged 11, he began his working life on Fleet Street selling newspapers at Ludgate Circus. He became a prolific writer of numerous bestselling novels including the Four Just Men and Mr JG Reeder series and many plays, poetry and non-fiction.
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Specialising in the crime genre, PC Lee was his first venture into the world of the short story. Plus the women's m freestyle final, women's m butterfly final, men's 4xm freestyle relay finals, and the latest from tonight's qualifying for the women's artistic gymnastics. British medal hopes this afternoon lie with Ed Ling, who goes in the trap shooting competition.
There's also more rowing coverage from the Olympic rowing regatta at Lake Lagoa. Coverage continues from 4. There's the semi-finals of the women's rugby sevens from 6. Then from 8pm, Great Britain's men look to improve on their London performance in the men's team competition. Plus finals in the men's m freestyle, men's m backstroke, and women's m breaststroke. The Story Of Oasis. Mark Radcliffe takes a look at the trials and tribulations of the Gallagher brothers and one of the biggest British bands of all time — from their beginnings as Rain, to playing stadiums around the world, and the constant rivalry between band members and the brothers.
The programme includes interviews with the band and the man who signed them, Creation Records boss Alan McGee. Episodes two to four air all this week at The Radcliffe And Maconie Show. Wilko is a guitarist and founding member of the band Dr. He first made his name in , when he formed Dr. Feelgood — a British pub rock band from Canvey Island, Essex. Known for their high energy live performances, their breakthrough live album, Stupidity, reached No. By the time Dr. Feelgood released their fourth album, Sneakin' Suspicion , Johnson left the group to pursue a solo career.
By , he joined Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Recently he featured in Julien Temple's full-length feature film documentary about Dr. As the Rio Olympic Games get underway, Kim Chakanetsa brings together two athletes from the UK and Egypt who know what it is like to stand on the start line and have the whole world watching you. Dame Kelly Holmes became the first British female athlete to win a double gold at a Games when she won the m and m in Athens, in Kelly has fought the physical and mental strains of injury to become the best in the world at her sport and since retirement has tried to support other athletes to achieve their dream.
She was the youngest on the Egyptian team and youngest to ever compete in her event, which is made up of fencing, running, swimming, shooting and horse riding. Aya also took part in the Beijing Games and London She is now retired, but has travelled to Rio with the Egyptian team to stand in the IOC Athletes Commission election and mentor some of the young sports stars who are competing at their first Olympics. The symphony's noble main tune appears fragile at first, but when it returns at the end, it's carried home by an ecstatic orchestra filled with a spirit of uplifting optimism.
Israfel London premiere Dutilleux: Harper Scott introduce Elgar's First Symphony. Recorded earlier this evening at the Imperial Collage Union. Ahead of World On 3's Brazil special on 12th August, the pair head off the beaten track to seek out the most interesting musicians making music in the country right now. A new nine-part conspiracy thriller about life, death and the human brain, written by Matthew Broughton. When Dr Helen Ash witnesses the brutal and disturbing crash of the plane that is carrying her father, the incident sets her on an investigation into a dark conspiracy.
Florian Chauvin was flying to Wales to tell his daughter something important, but his plane fell out of the sky. What was he coming to tell Helen? Who was he travelling with? And why did his plane crash? Suzanne Packer The Policeman…. Matthew Gravelle The Pilot….. Richard Nichols Mrs Trewin…. What personal qualities are needed to put up with the constant jokes? Writer James Walton meets people who might be tempted to avoid questions about their work.
From an estate agent who admits that in his younger days he was "a bit of an idiot" to a corporate downsizer who has to strike the balance between empathy and detachment as she fires people on behalf of their bosses. But when the insults take on a racist tone, are they so easy to shut out? What does it feel like to go to a comedy gig and dread the moment when the comedian alights on you in the audience and asks "what's your job"?
Lives In A Landscape. Going back to the opening episode, 4 Extra presents the long-running documentary series which tells original stories about real lives in Britain.