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Jo Whiley. A mix of new music from all
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vintage songs 9. 00 The Jazz Show with
Jamie Cullum. Jamie is joined by Adrian
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6 .30am Breakfast
Georgia Mann presents the classical
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9 .00 Essential Classics
A selection of music and features
1 2.00 Composer of the Week:
Beethoven (1770-1827) —
In His Own Words
Donald Macleod explores Beethoven’s
letters. Read by Adrian Lester, today
Beethoven writes to his friend and patron
Archduke Rudolph on some musical matters
and does his utmost to rope in Nanette
Streicher to help him with a particularly
acrimonious falling-out with his servants.
Beethoven (March for Military Musicc in F
WoO 18 — York Marchh; Piano Trio no 7 in B
flat, op 97 — Archdukee — II; Sonata for cello
and piano no 3 in A, op 69 — III; and
Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat, op 73 —
Emperorr — 3rd movement)1 .00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
Kate Molleson presents string quartets
from the 15th East Neuk Festival, featuring
the violinist Benjamin Baker performing
JS Bach and the Belcea String Quartet
playing Haydn. Haydn (String Quartet Op 33,
No 5); Albeniz (Torre Bermejaa); and
JS Bach (Partita in D minor) (r)
2 .00 Afternoon Concert
Performances from Our Festival in
Järvenpää, Finland, with the Ostrobothnian
Chamber Orchestra playing Scandinavian
contemporary music by Esa-Pekka Salonen
and Andrea Tarrodi. Salonen (Stockholm
Diaryy); Tarrodi (Concerto for 2 Violins &
Strings — Acanthess); Britta Bystrom
(Walking in the shadee); Andris Dzenitis
(Delta Returningg); Chopin (Piano Concerto
No 2 in F minor, op 21); Mozart (Violin
Concerto No 3 in G, K.216; and Symphony No
4 0 in G minor, K.550); Rossini (Una voce poco
faa — Barber of Sevillee); and Gounod (Je veux
vivree — Romeo et Juliettee)
5. 00 In Tune
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vocal music. With a session by Jackie Oates
7.00 In Tune Mixtape
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7 .3 0 BBC Proms 2 020
A performance from the BBC Proms in 2008,
which saw Murray Perahia return following a
gap of 20 years to perform one of Mozart’s
greatest piano concertos. Mozart (Piano
Concerto No 24 in C minor, K491); and
Shostakovich (Symphony No 4 in C minor) (r)
10.00 Free Thinking
Stella Sandford talks to French philosopher
Bernard-Henri Lévy about The Virus in the
Age of Madness, his take on the current
pandemic and what it reveals about society
10.45 The Essay: Dark Blossoms
Delving further into the darker sides of
Japan’s recent history, Christopher Harding
explores two starkly contrasting models of
“family” in turn-of-20th-century Japan.
One was a neo-Victorian idyll, epitomised by
the Emperor serving as the benevolent head
of a national family. The other was
symbolised by a woman who joined a group
of anarchists plotting to assassinate the
Emperor and by feminists who opposed
“the heavy investment of powerful people in
this familial ideal” (r)
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9.30 Behind the Buzzwords
David Cannadine tells the story behind
Fear of Missing Out (4/5)
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9.45 Girl Taken
The story of an Afghan family struggling to
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1 0.45-7.00pm (LW) Test Match Special:
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1 1. 00 The Political School
How the government can become an engine
for social change. Last in the series
1 1.30 Life, Death and the Foghorn
People share their memories of and tributes
to the foghorn. See Radio Choice
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A secret meeting with tobacco industry
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Wright and Tim Anderson (5/6) (r)
3.3 0 James Veitch’s Contractual
Obligation
The comedian tries to read minds (2/3) (r)
4.00 Word of Mouth
A discussion on words about women (3/7)
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6 .00 Six O’Clock News
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Tony makes a nostalgic discovery
7. 1 5 Front Row
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8. 00 The Homeless Hotel
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Separating medical fact from fiction
9 .30 Positive Thinking
Sangita Myska examines solutions to racial
discrimination in recruitment (10/11) (r)
1 0.00 The World Tonight
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1 1.00 The Infinite Monkey Cage
Former astronauts give advice on surviving
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Life, Death and
the Foghorn
Radio 4, 11.30am
Did you know that there
used to be more than 100
foghorns stationed around
the British Isles? Now,
because of maritime GPS
and automation, there are
fewer than 20, with that
figure falling. Inspired by
Foghorn Requiem, a 2013
art performance by Lise
Autogena and Joshua
Portway, this is a eulogy for
the warning device. We
hear tributes from a sea
captain, a recorder player
and an engineer who
restores foghorns in
secret. The programme is
presented by the journalist
Jennifer Lucy Allan, above,
who completed a PhD on
the social and cultural
history of foghorns.
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W
hen he dramatised
events surrounding
the Hillsborough
disaster and the
Liverpool dock strikein the 1990s, Jimmy McGovern
cemented his reputation with his
fearless deployment of first-person
testimony to fashion clear, morally
unambiguous dramas that sought to
change rather than merely reflect his
world. You tend to know who the
goodies and baddies are when
McGovern tackles real-life stories.
And now he has been drawn to the
tragedy of Anthony Walker, a bright
18-year-old murdered by racist thugs
with an ice axe in a Merseyside park.
The senseless killing of this kind,
gentle man who dreamt of becoming
a lawyer is, in perhaps every sense,
a black and white story. But here
McGovern’s genius was to use his skill
for fiction and imagine the future life
Anthony (played by Toheeb Jimoh)
never had — marrying, becoming a
father and being acclaimed for his
kindness to an alcoholic friend he
saved from a life on the streets.
Stories told in reverse are nothing
new, of course. Martin Amis has been
down this road and Alexander Masters
did a similar thing with his book
Stuart: A Life Backwards. However, it
took exceptional creative courage to
remorselessly track a warm fantasy
back to the undeniable horrors of
2005, when Anthony was killed.
The depiction of the murder and
frantic attempts by surgeons to save
Anthony’s life while his mother, Gee
(Rakie Ayola), prayed for her son
outside was unflinching and took you
to some deeply private and harrowing
places. It also said a great deal about
the trust between the writer and
Anthony’s surviving loved ones.
Anthony clearly had a powerful
sense of right and wrong, borne of his
Christian convictions (another good
and rare thing about McGovern is thathe can write about religion without
instinctively criticising it). There was a
saintliness about him that one might
question in other dramas. Here it is
certainly how Anthony is remembered
by those who loved him, and this was
essentially a film about grief and the
gaping holes that bereavement leaves.
Or, as Gee put it, the “girls he would
have loved... the woman he would
have married... the songs he would
have sung”. And in that sense Anthony
was Everyman. It was powerful stuff
and unlike anything I’ve seen before.
The makers of the superb Once
Upon a Time in Iraq also know that
there is no bigger subject than death’s
sudden and cruel extinguishing of
potential. Last night’s episode focused
on the Battle for Fallujah, which
involved the US military’s most savage
close-quarter fighting since Vietnam.
Yet once again it took one death to
tell a bigger story: Lance Corporal
Billy Miller, who was part of a US unit
sent to help the photographer Ashley
Gilbertson to capture a picture of an
insurgent lying dead in a minaret. The
mission was not unimportant — the
aim was to prove that the enemy were
using mosques as cover — but in the
end it was still just a photograph and
it cost Miller his life. “I am here today
because another man died,” Gilbertson
said, and you just had to see his
haunted, exhausted face to know
Toheeb Jimoh and Julia Brown as Anthony and Katherine Walker precisely what that meant.A life not lived reveals the true meaning of loss
BEN BLACKALL/LA PRODUCTIONS/BBCBen
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