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BBC Concert Orchestra12. 00 Jeremy Vine
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9 .00 The Country Show with Bob Harris.
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OJ Borg 3. 00 am Pick of the Pops (r)Radio 3
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6 .30am Breakfast
Georgia Mann presents. Including 7 .00, 8. 00
News, 7 .3 0 , 8.3 0 News headlines
9 .00 Essential Classics
Another movement from the BBC archive,
the fourth choice in this week’s Essential
Five and more listeners’ suggestions
inspired by a well-known piece
1 2.00 Composer of the Week:
William Grant Still (1895-1978)
Donald Macleod discusses the composer’s
unhappy experience of working in Hollywood
in 1942 and the writing of his Fourth
Symphony, “Autochthonous””. Still
(A Black Pierrot — Songs of Separationn;
Incantation and Dance, for oboe and piano;
Festive Overture;Bellss; and Symphony
No 4, “Autochthonous”””) (r)
1 .00pm Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
The soprano Siobhan Stagg, the mezzo Ema
Nikolovska and the baritone Julien Van
Mellaerts perform songs at Northern Ireland
Opera’s Festival of Voice 2019. Poulenc
(Fiançailles pour riree;Le Bestiairee; and
Chansons gaillardess); Ravel (Histoires
naturelless); and Messager (J’ai deux
amantss; and Vois-tu, je m’en veuxx) (r)2. 00 Afternoon Concert
Penny Gore presents two major orchestral
works from archive BBC Prom concerts
— From 2008, the BBC National Orchestra of
Wales in Messiaen. From the 2017 Proms,
Mark-Anthony Turnage. Messiaen (La
Transfiguration de Notre Seigneur Jésus-
Christtt); and Mark-Anthony Turnage (Hibikiii)- 00 In Tune
Sean Rafferty is joined by the violinist Rakhi
Singh, the music director of the Manchester
Collective, who have recorded a new take
on Summer from Vivaldi’sFour Seasons.
Including 5. 00 , 6 .00 News - 00 In Tune Mixtape
An eclectic non-stop mix of music, featuring
pieces by Shostakovich, Turnage, Grieg,
Brahms, Couperin, Haydn and Donizetti
7 .3 0 BBC Proms 2 020
Hannah French presents this 1994 Prom
featuring Neville Marriner and his Academy
of St Martin in the Fields, with Adrianne
Pieczonka (soprano), and Mayumi Seiler
(violin). Haydn (Symphony No 96 in D,
“Miracle”””; and Violin Concerto No 1 in C);
and Beethoven (“Ah! Pérfido”””; and
Symphony No 4 in B flat) (r)
10.00 Free Thinking
Matthew Sweet meets members of the BBC
Radiophonic Workshop and hears about their
experiments with the sound world. Also
tonight, Kieron Pepper — the producer and
former drummer with the Prodigy — the
Oscar-winning Gravityy composer Steven
Price, Vile Electrodes and Matt Hodson, on
the influence the Workshop had on them (r)
1 0.45 The Essay: To the Barricades!
The path students took to the events of
1968 was signposted by cultural markers.
There were books to read and films to watch
(often derived from literary sources)
and each anticipated and shaped the
response to political events that would lead
to student explosions in Paris, Prague,
London and New York (r)
1 1. 00 BBC Proms 2 020
Kate Molleson presents a BBC Prom from
July 2018. London Contemporary Orchestra
and Shiva Feshareki perform Daphne Oram’s
Still Pointt, as well as electronic works by
Delia Derbyshire and others. Daphne Oram’s
visionary Still Pointt forms the centrepiece of
a late-night sonic exploration that features
work by Delia Derbyshire — a Radiophonic
Workshop pioneer. Delia Derbyshire (The
Delian Modee); Chaines (Knockturningg); Laurie
Spiegel (Only Night Thoughtss); Suzanne Ciani
(Improvisation on Four Sequencess);
and Daphne Oram (StillPointtt) (r)
12.30am Through the Night (r)
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Including at 10 .45 Drama: Part four of
Bloody Eisteddfodd, by Myfanwy Alexander
1 1.00 Crossing Continents
Lucy Ash explores the effect of Covid-19 in
the Algerian city of Oran (3/9)
1 1.3 0 Tales from the Stave
The handwritten manuscripts of Franz
Schubert’sWinterreisee (2/4)
1 2.01pm (LW) Shipping Forecast
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1 2.18 You and Yours
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1 .45 How They Made Us
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The oil companies’ initial dismissal
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2 .15 Drama: Graveyards in My Closet
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event from 1931 involving the family of the
writer Daf James, prompting him to explore
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Helen Mark finds out how urban weeds
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3.27 Radio 4 Appeal
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6 .00 Six O’Clock News
6 .30 ReincarNathan
Comedy about reincarnation and the
afterlife, starring Daniel Rigby and
Diane Morgan (5/6)
7 .00 The Archers
Brian delivers good news
7 .1 5 Front Row
7 .45 Bloody Eisteddfod (4/5) (r)
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Discussing big issues in the news (7/18)
8 .3 0 In Business
A visit to Crawley, said to be the UK town
worst affected by the lockdown (2/9)
9 .00 BBC Inside Science
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9 .30 The Long View (4/4) (r)
1 0.00 The World Tonight
International news round-up and analysis.
Presented by Shaun Ley
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Smooth Classics 8.00 The Classic FM Concert
with John Suchet. A showcase of great
classical musicians. Bach (Keyboard Concerto
in D minor BWV.1052); Elgar (Variations on
an Original Theme Op 36 ”Enigma”””); Puccini
(“Ah! Mes Amis”” From La fille du régimenttt);
and Vaughan Williams (Symphony No 5 in D)
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Radio 2, 9pmDuring the pandemic, when
so many musicians are
unable to tour, Radio 2’s
Country Show is asking
artists to perform from their
front rooms. So far we’ve
heard from Steve Earle,
Lukas Nelson and Courtney
Marie Andrews, among
others. Tonight it’s the turn
of Brett Eldredge, above, the
American singer-songwriter
who started his career by
touring with Taylor Swift.
From his home in Nashville
he will join Bob Harris to
perform songs from his
latest album, Sunday Drive.
A highly personal work that
takes him back to his roots
in rural Illinois, it did,
Eldredge says, push him
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old on,” you possibly
thought while watching
Harlots. “Bare buttocks
bobbing like a fiddler’s
elbow? Deep, quivering
cleavages in which you could park a
penny farthing? Lines such as ‘I hope
your quim splits’? I remember this!”
And you’d be right because the first
series of this jolly tale of Georgian
prostitutes (Syphilis? What a hoot.
Stillborn babies? We’ll get over it!) was
shown on ITV Encore in 2017.The BBC is now broadcasting it in
full (there are three series in all — two
and three were on Starzplay), which is
good and bad. Good because it is fun
seeing Lesley Manville (as the evil
high-class madam Lydia Quigley) and
Samantha Morton (as the lower-class
madam Margaret Wells) duking it out
with vagina-based insults. And bad
because, well, whither its moral
compass? The opening scene in which
Wells’s working girls squealed over
their reviews in Harris’s List, a sort of
early tarts Trip Advisor, suggested that
they all love their jobs. It is Carry On
Whoring minus Kenneth Williams.
What larks, disgusting rich old men
filling teenage girls with disease
because their alternative is starvation.
But whoops, here’s a fat old geezer in a
wig to slobber over your “heavers”.
ROFL. Wells auctioned off her
daughter Lucy’s virginity to sealed
bids, while reminding her that her own
was sold at the age of ten for a pair of
shoes, a moment imbued with
nowhere near the horror it deserved.
One minute it is sad, the next
slapstick, the next violent, the next
funny with ludicrous dialogue. “Who
dares to interfere with an Englishman’s
right to go whoring?” one punter said,
coitus interrupted. The women don’t
have rotting teeth or depression, and
what have they done with those
bosoms — inflated them with a bicycle
pump? It is very watchable, but thetwo-dimensional characters mean you
can’t take it seriously. It is exploitation
for laughs and a buffet of knockers.
It is not often that you see your
TV presenter’s heart literally stop on
camera. Then, mercifully, start again.
It must be odd for Xand van Tulleken,
whose heart began behaving strangely
as he recovered from Covid-19, to
know that the nation witnessed this
moment while he, unconscious, didn’t.
Xand and his twin, Chris, both
doctors and presenters, could not have
known when they started making
Surviving the Virus: My Brother and
Me that this would happen, but it
made for extraordinary television.
Chris, who had been called back
to the NHS front line at University
College Hospital in London, watched
in tears as his twin took an electric
shock in A&E. Xand shouted “F***!” as
the shock hit — as well he might. As
he came round he asked: “I didn’t say
anything embarrassing, did I?”
It was more interesting than the title
suggested because rather than just
case-studying Covid patients, Xand
was one. It was also terrifying to see
what a vile wrecking ball this virus is,
laying waste to lungs and sometimes
hearts, brains and kidneys. One man
suffered a stroke ten days later. “This
is a horrible virus that can affect every
aspect of your body,” a doctor at the
hospital said. The best documentary
Lesley Manville as the evil high-class madam Lydia Quigley the brothers have done.This buffet of bosoms is exploitation for laughs
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